Lee County Speedway Car Show

The Lee County Speedway held its annual preseason car show and kickoff party on Main Street in Donnellson Saturday. A nice group of cars and race fans were on hand enjoying free hot dogs and Pepsi products.

And when it started to rain this pop-up was one of several shelters to be filled with people!

Lee County Speedway opens its 2009 season this Friday night April 24th. Click the ad on the front page of http://www.positivelyracing.com/ for details.

Jeremy Townsend's IMCA Modified

Michael Browning's IMCA Modified

A Storybook Night at 34 Raceway

You couldn’t have scripted it any better.

Friday night’s action at 34 Raceway near Burlington was night number one of two for the Sebastian Sandblasting Sprint Nationals with two divisions of Sprint Cars on the card. The Ideal Ready Mix Sprint Invaders were the headliners for the weekend, but on Friday night the 305 c.i. division that competes at the track on a weekly basis was featured in a bittersweet manner. The 2008 track champion Brian Hetrick tragically lost his life in a motorcycle accident just a couple weeks prior from putting the closing touches on that championship and on this night his family and friends would pay tribute to him by raising the purse money for the Brian Hetrick Memorial.

Brian and his younger brother Kevin grew up in a sprint car racing family as both their father and their uncle drove the open wheelers at 34 Raceway and, when Brian started racing, it was in a 360 c.i. sprint car. He wasn’t an instant winner in the division, but as his experience grew the wins started coming and before his untimely death last August he had established himself as one of the men to beat on a weekly basis at 34. Kevin started his racing career in the two-driver "thunder car" division and when that class went by the wayside he transitioned to a Hobby Stock. When the track near Burlington brought sprint cars back as a weekly division with the 305 c.i. motors under the hood, Kevin upheld the family tradition by ditching the stock cars and taking the wheel of a winged sprint car. Coming into Friday night Kevin was still looking for his first sprint car victory, but keep in mind that in most of his sprint car races so far one of the drivers that he had to beat was his brother Brian. On this night though, they would work together.

Kevin started third in tonight’s main event, the race in memory of his brother, and the first two attempts at a start resulted in caution flags for incidents in turns one and two. With the drivers involved having to restart at the rear Hetrick now found himself starting next to Bobby Mincer on row two. Mincer, who was the winner on opening night two weeks ago, took the original green from the tenth starting spot and used his good fortune to take the lead from Ryan Jamison on lap number two. The red flag appeared moments later when Jarrod Schneiderman climbed the retaining wall coming off of turn four launching him into a wild series of flips including some significant airtime. Thankfully Schneiderman quickly crawled out of his destroyed racecar uninjured.

With Mincer set to restart out front, past experience would have lead fans to believe that the race would now be for second, especially with top contender Donnie Steward still deep in the field after being involved in one of the cautions at the start. Kevin Hetrick had another scenario in mind. After watching the Sprint Invader feature earlier in the night Hetrick knew that the high line was fast in three and four while the low groove was the place to be in turns one and two, so he went to work on the leader. On lap six Hetrick drove to the outside of Mincer in turn four and had just enough room to stay off of the wall and take the lead down the front straightaway. I could hear the crowd over the roaring engines as I watched from the infield and it was obvious that something special was to happen tonight.

Mincer stayed within striking distance and the laps seemed to take forever to click away. On lap thirteen David Saffell spun in turn two, right in front of Hetrick and Kevin calmly made the move to narrowly avoid him as the caution waved. With just seven laps remaining the crowd was electric on the restart and Hetrick was not to be denied. This did not look like a driver who was headed for his first win, a win in a race that is dedicated to the big brother that meant so much to him. You would have expected a tense moment or two over those final seven laps, perhaps a slip out of the preferred groove or a bobble that would have given Mincer an opportunity to make one last bid for the lead. No, Kevin drove those final seven laps just like a seasoned veteran would have, like a driver who had visited victory lane many times, like a driver who had won track championships. Kevin Hetrick drove those last seven laps just like Brian would have, and you can bet that this first win will not be his last.

Mincer is a competitor who hates to lose, but on this night he was satisfied with second. Matt Krieger drove a solid race to finish third followed by Jayson Ditsworth and Donnie Steward.

Kevin Hetrick addresses the crowd after his emotional victory as announcer Jeff Broeg (left) and promoter Jeff Laue look on - Photo courtesy of Dewain Hulett at http://www.tristatespeedreview.com/

The Sprint Invaders put on a quite a show themselves on this first warm night for racing as the format consisting of qualifying and fully inverted heat races produced three and four wide racing all evening. Rookie-of-the-Year contender Ben Wagoner started from the pole of the twenty-lap main event and paced the field for the first circuit. Veteran driver Ryan Jamison dispatched the rookie on lap two, but the man to watch was Matt Rogerson. Starting twelfth, Rogerson was hooked up and hauling on the hub of the 3/8-mile oval and moved to third by driving past Brian Brown on lap number five. The caution appeared for a spin on lap six and the break seemed to take away Rogerson’s rhythm, but it was eaxactly the opportunity that Kaley Gharst was looking for. On the restart Gharst, driving the Plath Motoorsports #14P, went to work on Jamison and two laps later he flew around the leader on the outside of turn four. Jamsion tried to maintain the pace and challenged a couple of times over the next few laps, but there was no stopping the 2007 Sprint Invaders champion Gharst as he cruised to victory.

Jamison posted a strong runner-up finish with Rogerson not far behind in third, Brown settled for a fourth-place finish and defending series champion John Schulz completed the top five.

The Hobby Stock division provided some entertaining support class action tonight and it was Doug Fenton who picked up a win that he dedicated to his father Donald who passed away earlier this year. Dan Wenig was the early leader before mechanical issues put him on the sidelines handing the lead over to young Derek St. Clair. It was a battle between the youngster and the veteran mid-race and the veteran prevailed as Fenton picked up the lead on lap eight. Dean Kratzer, who ran the majority of the race with a damaged right front suspension, passed St. Clair late for second with Brandon Symmonds and Blaine Dopler completing the top five.

34 Raceway Notes…….Bobby Mincer was one of five drivers doing double duty tonight and his Sprint Invader effort got off to a rough start when he suffered a flat tire in his qualifying heat. Mincer came back to win the B-Main to start sixteenth in the feature and he put forth a solid effort to finish seventh…..Jerrod Hull was a double duty driver who had a tough night in both sprint divisions. Hull has the most wins in Invader history, but he dropped from his heat and scratched for the remainder of the evening. In the 305’s after being unable to make a qualifying run, Hull was able to get things together and run second in his heat race and in the feature he quickly moved from eleventh up to third. But the gremlins reappeared and he pulled to the infield mid-race to end a forgettable evening…...Kansas driver Pete Crall was leading the Sprint Invader B-Main coming to the white flag before tagging the frontstretch retaining wall and fading to sixth, one spot out of a qualifying spot. His luck turned though on a another driver’s misfortune as Russ Hall later scratched from the A-Main allowing Crall to start twentieth as an alternate……John Oliver Jr. started in the fourth row of the Hobby Stock feature and was up to second with two laps to go before his engine sputtered and he pulled to the pits.

Payne and Clark Take Checkers at MLRA/Lucas Oil Speedway Opener

After persistent rain for the two days prior, it took some extra time to get the 3/8th-mile oval at the Lucas Oil Speedway to pack in Saturday night for the track’s 2009 season opener that included the lid lifter for the O’Reilly Auto Parts MLRA Late Models. It was worth the wait though as the result was a track that yielded racing grooves from top to bottom for the 101 cars that showed up in two divisions. And for the second year in a row it was the young native Arizonan who now calls Springfield Missouri home, Jeremy Payne, walking away with the top prize.

Just a few years back the future of the MLRA, one of the longest running regional Late Model series in the country, looked a bit uncertain, but with fifty-one cars on hand tonight including drivers from a wide geographical area it is obvious that this series is set for a standout 2009 season. The driver roster tonight included hometowns stretching from Wichita to Omaha to east central Iowa to Quincy through southeast Missouri down to Texarkana and back to southwest Missouri. The fact that there are at least five drivers running for rookie of the year honors also confirms the strength of the series.

Tonight’s thirty-lap feature had Corning, Iowa, driver Bryant Goldsmith on the pole with Will Vaught on the outside. Vaught set a quick early pace as he, Goldsmith and the third starting Jeremy Payne began to separate themselves from the rest of the pack. Earlier in the night Payne had shown his strength by steadily working his way to the front to win the fourth heat race, and that same sense of dominance was evident again here in the feature. Jeremy drove past Goldsmith on lap four and he then went to work on Vaught making the pass for the lead on lap nine. The next lap Vaught tried to pull a slider on Payne in turns three and four, but the new leader didn’t flinch, held his line and maintained his advantage down the front stretch.

With Payne pulling away through lapped traffic, there were two great battles for the fans to focus on. Jack Sullivan had closed in on Vaught and they jockeyed back and forth for the remainder of the race for the second spot while a full straightaway behind them you had a multi car battle that included Alan Vaughn, Eric Turner, Al Purkey and Goldsmith. Plus in the final laps you could add Chad Simpson, Duke Whisenant and Terry Phillips to that mix. This pack was running high, low and in between proving that sometimes the battle for fourth is every bit worth the price of admission. At the finish it was Payne by a half a lap over Sullivan and Vaught. Eric Turner prevailed in the race for fourth while Purkey completed the top five.

The fifty-car Modified field had their issues tonight, but when the green flag could stay on display their racing was frantic as well. It took until the fourth try to get the first lap in on the scheduled twenty-lap feature and even on that one the whole field did not make it back to the green as four of the cars at the back skirmished in turn three. Gary Clark, who was missing most of his driver side body work after contact with pole sitter Jeff Cutshaw who spun in turn two on the first attempt at a start, took the lead on that first completed lap and then held it for the other nine green flag laps that were scored before the time limit expired. Johnny Fennewald was second and commented during the post-race interviews that the race was too short for him to make a run at Clark. Eric Turner started tenth and finished third, David Hendrix was fourth and defending track champion Jamie Ragland finished fifth.

While Fennewald had the chance to say it, the one driver who really had to hate seeing the event shortened was 2008 All Missouri Points champion Tim Setzer. Setzer had a bad draw at the gate and started in the back row of his heat race. He was able to race his way up to fifth putting him near the front of the second B-Main that he then won with ease. This put him eighteenth on the starting grid for the feature race and, when the field was under green, he was the one driver who had something working on the very bottom groove. When the checkers flew on lap ten Setzer was all the way up to sixth and was closing fast on Jamie Ragland.

(Note: When the official results came out on Sunday, Hendrix had been relegated to 24th in the feature rundown moving Ragland to fourth and Setzer to fifth)

Lucas Oil Notes…..The Late Model feature went thirty laps green to checkers although a caution would have been needed if it were to go one lap further. Bryant Goldsmith had a left rear tire cut down during some three-wide action with four laps to go and valiantly tried to preserve a top ten finish. On the final lap the tire shredded down the back stretch and he coasted to the high side of turn three as the rest of the field took the checkers…..Eric Turner started sixteenth in the Late Model main and proved what I have said a few times already this season. He will be one to watch in his Late Model rookie campaign around the Ozark region…..Purkey who has teamed up with Omaha driver Bill Koons was equally impressive as his fifth place finish started from the seventh row……Terry Phillips spun on the opening lap of his heat race and had to win the second B-Main to start eighteenth in the feature where he raced his way up to ninth (saw later that Phillips was DQ'd for a physical altercation in the pits after the race)……Chad Simpson, who won the WDRL opener last week in Davenport, started fifteenth and finished seventh. His brother Chris came from twentieth to tenth…..Duke Whisenant who finished eighth in the feature had a little run in with Tony Jackson Jr. in the second heat race. Race officials stopped both drivers on the frontstretch after the race to calm the situation…..Vaught used a slide job in turn four on the final lap to edge out Aaron Seabaugh in heat race number three. The two drivers thrilled the crowd by racing side by side nearly the entire ten lap distance……Rookie-of-the-Year candidates had a wide range of success on the night. Rylan Long and Jeremy Kelley both finished second in their respective heats with Long finishing twelfth and Kelley 19th. On the other end of the spectrum Zach Goulden suffered damage in an incident during hot laps that apparently affected his handling for the rest of the night as he spun out four times, including once under caution…..The Modifieds made it through their heat races in fine fashion, but things went downhill beginning with the two B-Mains. After spending my last two race nights at tracks that use the “one spin and your in” rule during heats and B-Mains I couldn’t help but think that this is something that the Lucas Oil Speedway should consider. On at least four occasions tonight drivers would either get sideways or get too high in turns one and two where there is no retaining wall and they would obviously just shut the car down to pull a caution. Why wouldn’t a driver do this? After all, on the restart they are allowed to start right on the back bumper of the next to last car. If they would have kept their car running, and recovered from their own miscue they might be a full straightaway behind that car. So, in essence, they are rewarded for causing a caution, a caution that delays the show and likely interrupts a pretty good battle somewhere near the front of the track. Can you tell that I think that all tracks should use the “spin you’re in” rule?…..There were eight caution flags over the first six laps of the Modified feature. The final four laps were run under the green and as luck would have it the field looked like they had gained a rhythm and may have been able to make it to twenty laps. Nobody could argue with the early appearance of the checkers though…..The Modified division always draws a stout field to Lucas Oil and you can bet that they will be back on their game when the regular season gets underway here on April 25th.

Duke Whisenant had a top ten finish, but also had run ins with both Tony Jackson Jr. and Terry Phillips.

Rylan Long was the top finishing MLRA Rookie-of-the Year contenders.

A special thanks to the staff and management at Lucas Oil Speedway for some of the best hospitality that we come across anywhere on our racing travels. Make sure that you mark your schedule for Friday and Saturday May 8th and 9th for the Super Clean Diamond Nationals featuring the cars and stars of the Lucas Oil Late Model Series. You can check out their entire schedule that is dotted with several exciting special events at http://www.lucasoilspeedway.com/.

This weekend we will look to pull of our first “triple” of 2009 as on Friday and Saturday we’ll be at 34 Raceway near Burlington for the Sebastian Sandblasting Sprint Nationals, then on Sunday night we’ll head south to the Quincy Raceway to catch the Deery Brothers Summer Series for IMCA Late Models. Hope to see you on the Back Stretch!

No Frost, But Plenty of Wind at 34 Raceway

With temperatures approaching sixty degrees under bright sunshine one would have thought that it would have been a perfect night for the 1st Annual Frostbuster at 34 Raceway near Burlington. Just one problem though and that was the twenty-five to thirty mile per hour sustained wind that had quite a chill to it, especially when that sun went down. Lucky for the fans in the stands that wind was at their backs allowing them to enjoy a dust free night of action as the track opened its 2009 season. Those in the pit area were not so lucky!

A solid field of twenty-three IMCA Modifieds were on hand and their feature race was first on the docket. Pole-sitter Kevin Goben paced the first lap before yielding to Josh Foster on lap two. Lonne Heap, who made the trip down to West Plains a couple of weeks ago to compete in the three day Justin Stanfill Memorial, looked as if he had a few nights under his belt already as he drove past Foster for the top spot on lap five. The early laps of this race were littered with cautions and when the field finally settled into some green flag action Foster was able to drive past Heap once again on lap seven. With the laps winding down Heap was still within striking distance, but he now had to deal with a hard charging Scott Hogan who had raced his way forward from a sixth row starting spot. Hogan passed Heap coming to the white flag, but he was now too far back to pressure the leader as Foster cruised in for the opening night victory. Hogan and Heap were next in line with Dusty Kraklio and Adam Birck completing the top five.

Josh Foster preps the #77 for a winning night at 34 Raceway

Scott Hogan started twelfth and finished second Saturday at 34 Raceway

The IMCA Stock Cars were up next and they put on quite a show with more side-by-side action and fewer cautions than the race before them. This turned out to be a two-car battle for the win as John Oliver Jr. led the first half of the event before giving way to Jason Cook. With Cook hugging the bottom and Oliver running the middle groove the two drivers crossed the line twice late in the race in a virtual dead heat. With two laps remaining Cook hit his marks perfectly and established enough of a lead to take the checkers by just over a car length in front of Oliver. Abe Huls was right there behind them in third waiting for the leaders to make a mistake, while Jim Redman finished fourth and Darin Thye passed Jeff Mueller on the final circuit to take fifth.

Jason Cook (27J) picked up the IMCA Stock Car win while teammate Nick Fenton (17N) had a tough night.



When pole-sitter Marty Stephenson charged into turn one too hard and went over the top of the bank, Bobby Mincer went from third to first on lap one on his way to a flag-to-flag victory in the 305 Sprint Car division. Josh Schneiderman chased Mincer throughout the twenty lap distance and finished second with Rob Kubli, Donnie Steward and Jayson Dittsworth completing the top five.

Dean Kratzer and Tanner Thomann both have nice shiny Hobby Stocks with bodies that are yet to have a dent on them and despite a side-by-side battle for the lead over the final laps, both cars still look "showroom new". At the drop of the green Kratzer watched the front two rows drift high in turns one and two allowing Dean to go from the fifth starting place to the point down the backstretch. Thomann kept pace with Kratzer and on the final three laps Tanner decided to give the top groove a try. It nearly paid off as he was able to pull even with Kratzer on two occasions, but could not complete the pass as Kratzer pulled out the exciting victory. Young Derek St. Clair was a consistent third followed by Doug Fenton and Tony Witte.

The third place car of Derek St. Clair

With raindrops starting to fall the Four-Cylinders hit the track and put on a good race to close out the evening. Travis Yakle passed race-long leader Bill Whalen Jr. with four laps to go and then fought off a late bid by Whalen to earn the victory. Chuck Fullenkamp followed Whalen Jr. in for third with Geoffrey Theobald and Jeremy Sloan next in line.

The high winds and cool temps made this a tough night at the races and with two big special events coming up at 34 Raceway the next two weeks here's hoping that the weather turns for the better soon. This Saturday, April 11th, the Deery Brothers Summer Series for IMCA Late Models will kick off their 2009 campaign here with the Slocum 50 in memory of the late Brent Slocum. Then, on Friday & Saturday April 17th and 18th, 34 Raceway will host the Sebastian Sandblasting Sprint Nationals featuring the 360 c.i. sprints of the Ideal Ready Mix Sprint Invaders as well as the track's 305 c.i. Sprint Car division. The Brian Hetrick Memorial will be part of this big two-day event that should draw a solid field of sprint cars in each division.

Check back mid-week for the first set of the All Iowa Points found on the "Points" tab at www.PositivelyRacing .com. Thanks for stopping by and checking us out. We'll see you on the Back Stretch.

Over 200 Cars Bust the Frost In An Exciting Fashion at Marshalltown

The 2009 racing season in the state of Iowa got underway Friday night as just over 200 racecars in five classes overflowed the pits at Marshalltown Speedway for the annual "Frostbuster" event. Yes, it was a bit chilly, but the temperatures were right around normal for this time of year as it was 55 degrees when I pulled into the parking lot at 6 p.m. and 39 degrees when the final checkered flag waved at just a few minutes past midnight. If you were bundled up, as the majority of the packed house was, then the weather was not a factor, but I did see at least five or six teenagers there prowling behind the grandstands wearing shorts and a hooded sweatshirt. Ah, today's youth.....you just gotta love their individualism!

Even they were probably warmed up by the racing action tonight as it was evident that promoter Toby Kruse and his crew have worked very hard on this racing surface over the past few weeks. Racing grooves could be found from top to bottom and I never did see a rut or ripple causing cars to jump around all night. Sixty-six IMCA Modifieds including one from California, one from Saskatchewan and a bunch from Wisconsin were on hand and the field was stacked from top to bottom, so just making the twenty-four car feature field tonight was an accomplishment. Chris Abelson started outside of row one in the twenty-five lap finale and snared the early lead while the field raced three and four wide behind him. On lap six The Sioux City hotshoe pushed the cushion just a little too hard and slipped off the topside of turn two fading several spots and turning the lead over to a fifth starting Jordan Grabouski. With Troy Cordes in pursuit "Grabo" maintained about a four car-length advantage over the next several laps and was able to set that advantage once again after a pair of restarts. With laps winding down the lead pair closed in on lapped traffic and that is when things started to heat up. Cordes closed in on the leader and as the two worked lapped traffic Jay Noteboom, who had started tenth, looked to make it a three car battle for the top.

Cordes made a run at Grabouski on the low side of three and four with two laps to go, but could not make it stick so he regrouped and gave it one last shot on the final lap. With a pair of lapped cars just ahead running in his high groove Grabouski held his line as Cordes drove hard to the bottom of turn three. Cordes nosed ahead momentarily in the apex of the turn while Noteboom looked to slingshot off the bottom of four to beat them both. The crowd rose to their feet as Cordes and Grabouski exited turn four wheel-to-wheel and it was the momentum off the high side that allowed Jordan Grabouski to nose ahead at the stripe for the victory. Noteboom was a close third while Jimmy Gustin, who started next to Noteboom in row five finished fourth and Ryan Ruter who appeared to be an early contender settled for fifth.

The IMCA Stock Cars always put on a show and at Marshalltown this night we saw them go five-wide on a couple of occasions. Sean Johnson of Independence paced the first two laps of the main event, but on a lap three single file restart Dustin Smith charged from third to first off of turn two. Smith, the defending All Iowa Points champion and the defending champion of this event, looked like he might walk away with this one until the closing laps when Ryan Gustin and Damon Murty made their charge. Gustin, driving John Hunnell's #62 that his father Rick has wheeled for the past few seasons, was driving like a teenager wearing shorts on a cold April night trying to get to somewhere warm working his way up from twelfth to second and closing quickly on Smith. Damon Murty sprung to life as well in the final laps to make it a three car battle and when Gustin made a slight bobble with two to go, Murty was able to take over the runner-up spot and take one last shot at the lead. There was no getting by Dustin Smith though as he held his line and cruised to victory ahead of Murty and Gustin. Dusty Vis who challenged Smith early in the race finished in the fourth spot while Michael Jeannette was impressive in fifth.

The cream definitely rose to the top in the Sport Mod division as Kevin Sather and Luke Wanninger finished one-two in the main event. Sather can win from anywhere, but on this night he drew the pole position for his heat race and then again drew the pole for the main event as he was never headed on the night. Wanninger had to work a bit harder for his runner-up spot as he started seventh and prevailed in a tight battle with Nate Chodur who finished third. Kyle Brown and Scott Davis had quite a battle of their own going back and forth before Brown prevailed for fourth with Davis settling for fifth.

Devin Smith controlled the Hobby Stock division going flag to flag for the victory and reminding everybody that once again the Lake City Iowa Smith brothers are going to be a force to reckon with again in 2009. Terry Shaffar held off Todd Reitzler to finish second with Brandon Pruitt fourth and Adam Armstrong made a pass of Steve Jones off turn four to finish fifth.

Random Notes

The count I had based upon drivers that were given in the heat race lineups were 66 Modifieds, 49 Sport Mods, 35 each in the Stock Cars and the Hobby Stocks and 18 Mod-Lites for a total of 203 although they announced that 205 were on hand. Either way it was a fantastic field of cars on what turned out to be a pretty nice night for racing.....Randy Brown of Chowchilla CA finished third in the fifth Modified heat and made the feature. The driver from Saskatchewan Devin Hummel (sp?) was very fast and was running fourth in his heat before he spun out on the final lap. That fourth position would have put him on the pole of a B-Main later in the evening. He also spun in the B-Main ending his night.....Two cars got upside down on the night the worst being a Modified B-Main crash where Erc Van Iten of Green Bay WI got into the frontstretch wall and rolled hard before being hit by Kyle Krampe who had nowhere to go. Van Iten crawled out uninjured but his used up racecar was dragged to the infield for pickup after the races. In the Stock Car B-Main Don Vis was part of a thrilling battle that saw drivers running five-wide for two laps until a skirmish on the back stretch left Vis upside down......Two drivers in that five-car Stock Car tussle were contenders Mike VanGenderen and Jeff Mueller. Van Genderen actually finished fourth in his heat race and would have been qualified for the A-Main except for the fact that he ran the final five laps on a flat left rear tire. Rules state that if you have a flat tire you will be black flagged, and he was for at least three laps, so his finish did not count. Mueller, who made the trip up from New London, started ninth in his heat and charged up to second only to be disqualified in tech for an illegal carburetor. Both drivers would be caught up in the Vis accident and have to retire to the pits with damage on the front end of VanGenderen's car and a flat tire for Mueller.....Back to the Smith brothers for a moment. Last year Dustin was the All Iowa Points Stock Car champion while Donavon finished third and in the final All Iowa Hobby Stock points Doug and Devin were second and third respectively behind Shannon Anderson, and Daniel Smith finished 18th in a list 339 Four-Cylinder drivers. Could they win three All Iowa titles in 2009? Doug is helping their chances of doing just that as he has moved to the Sport Mod division this season winning heat race number four tonight before struggling a bit in the main event.....2007 All Iowa Points Limited Modified champion Brett Moffitt brought out the first caution in the Sport Mod main spinning to the infield on lap two......Steve Meyer won the Stock Car B-Main to start twenty-first on the grid for the feature and moved quickly up to fifth before his motor let go mid-race.....Promoter Toby Kruse noted that since he doesn't have any commitments now on Saturdays he would auction off his services in order to raise money to build new bleachers for the "east siders" to match what has already been completed on the west side. For the high bidder Kruse said that he would come to their house, mow their lawn and then provide the food for a backyard barbecue that he would prepare. Last I heard the bid was over $200, but I'm not sure that they ever closed it out. If not Toby, I have over an acre for you to mow and two hungry college boys who will be back in June. I'm sure that I'll get my two hundred dollars worth!......The Frostbuster for tonight (Saturday the 4th) at Webster City was cancelled early in the day on Friday due to track conditions and an unfavorable forecast. The IMCA travelers have two events to choose from tonight (Saturday the 4th) as the SuperNationals Shakedown is scheduled for the Boone Speedway and 34 Raceway near Burlington hosts a Frostbuster of its own with IMCA sanctioned Modifieds and Stock Cars along with 305 Sprints, Hobby Stocks and Four-Cylinders......The Frostbuster at Vinton for Sunday night is still on if the weathermen have totally missed this one! The opening night for Quincy Raceway has already been postponed from Sunday April 5th to Sunday April 12th due to the forecast.

Look for additional reports from Marshalltown on the 4D Fan Report and TapFan's Tours at http://www.positivelyracing.com/. See you in Burlington tonight!