Rains through the week left the quarter-mile oval a bit on the soft side Sunday night at the Quincy Raceways, but four drivers found the track conditions to be just right for them as Justin Reed, Michael Long, Kevin Tomlinson and Bobby Anders visited victory lane on a beautiful evening.
Nick Ingalls took off from the front row and opened a solid lead early in the thirty-lap eighteen-car IMCA Late Model main event. Behind him through the action was furious as drivers ran two and three wide looking for the line that worked the best for their setup. A caution on lap seven bunched the field up again and Lonnie Bailey applied the pressure to Ingalls on the restart. Justin Reed had started tenth and was coming to the front using the high line around the speedway, soon making it a three car battle for the lead. As the crossed flags appeared marking the mid-point of the race Reed drove around both Bailey and Ingalls to grab the lead and while Bailey stayed close for the next several laps there would be no catching the young driver from Quincy as Reed picked up the victory. Bailey ran a strong second, Denny Wood worth started eighth and finished third, Ingalls faded to fourth and last week’s winner Jason Perry came from row six to finish fifth.
The twenty-four-car UMP Modified field had a tough time getting things started for their twenty-five lap finale. On the first attempt at a start the second row of Steven DeLonjay and Wyatt Lantz tangled coming to the green sending Lantz hard into the front stretch retaining wall. While Lantz was towed to the pits, DeLonjay was sent to the rear for the second attempt at a start. That one was negated when Jerry Lierly spun in turn three before a lap could be scored. The third try saw the field complete lap one, but barely as front runner Ryan Meyer slowed in turn one and as the back of the field crossed the stripe the cars of Lierly and Joe Kindhart got together with Kindhart ending up on his roof. Once the track was cleared the race was restarted only to see the caution wave again two laps later when Bill Parks popped a tire and slid off the top of turn two. After that the field settled down and went to racing with pole-sitter Michael Long being chased by fellow front row starter Jared Schlipman. As the two started working traffic Schlipman, who had won the last two Modified features here at Quincy, was able to pull up to Long’s back bumper once before Michael was able to pull away. One last caution waved on lap sixteen and on the restart David Wietholder got the jump on Schlipman to take over second. As Long drove on to victory the race to watch was for second as Schlipman regained the spot two laps later and held it at the checkers. Wietholder would wind up third, Reed doing double-duty raced his way up to fourth while Troy, Missouri, driver Terry Cox completed the top five.
Ten IMCA Stock Cars raced twenty-laps for the feature purse and it was pole-sitter Kevin Tmlinson who lead all the way from start-to-finish for the win. Abe Huls applied some pressure mid-race and then had to hold off a late charge from Steve Steinkuhler to finish second. Terry Houston was fourth and Jim Redmann made the one hundred mile drive down from Lockridge, Iowa, to complete the top five.
The Hobby Stock feature was a good one as Steve Carlin passed Nathan Anders for the lead with eight laps remaining, but Carlin could not fight off the challenge from Bobby Anders who took the lead with four laps to go for the victory. Carlin, Nathan Anders, Jake Powers and Larry Powell completed the top five.
QR Notes……The Late Model first heat ended in spectacular fashion as Dustin Griffin and Justin Jennings exited turn four side-by-side coming to the checkers. Jennings got sideways on the high side, bounced off Griffin and then went nose first into the wall just past the flagstand tearing the front end off of his car. The second-place finish in the heat actually earned the youngster from Hannibal the pole position for the Late Model feature, but with the damage he elected to start from the back instead and only make a couple of laps before pulling to the infield. Jennings won his first feature event this past Friday night driving his ASA Late Model on the pavement at Hawkeye Downs in Cedar Rapids…..Keith Pratt was running strong third and looking for more before something broke on his #33 with ten laps remaining in the Late Model feature…..Nine cars finished with seven on the lead lap……Steven DeLonjay was putting on a show after being sent to the back of the field in the Modified feature. The second-generation shoe was all the way up to seventh before a puff of smoke billowed from his #35 sending him pitside on lap eight…..Aaron Brocksieck was looking good running in the top five in the Stock Car main event before the drive train let go leaving the driveshaft in two pieces on the front stretch……The show started at 6:08, track work after the preliminaries took fifty minutes and the final checkers still waved just before 9:30 p.m……. Titan Wheel and Tire sponsors the appearance of the Deery Brothers Summer Series for IMCA Late Models next Sunday night June 13th at Quincy Raceways. The "Boys of Summer" will be racing for a little more than usual that night with $3,000 going to the winner and $300 just to start the main event. Modifieds, Stock Cars and Hobby Stocks will also be in action.
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