Grabouski, Balthazor, Frye and Normandin second night
winners at Stockton.
By Mike Hughes
STOCKTON, KS (August
12) - Mother Nature did all it could to prevent racing action from taking
place Thursday night, August 12, at Rooks County Speedway in Stockton, KS,
during the Rooks County Fair. But promoter Rod Bencken waited it out after
an hour and a half rain delay to run the show through quickly before more
storms moved into the area.
The ‘Bad Boy from
Beatrice’ Jordan Grabouski led all 20 laps of the IMCA Modified feature.
Darrick Klima and current national point leader David Murray Jr. chased
Grabouski the entire distance but could not catch him and had to settle for
second and third, followed by Jerry Teel and Corey Lagroon. Grabouski and
Murray won the two heat races.
Dustin McClurg took
the lead at the drop of the green in the IMCA Stock Car 20-lap feature, and
continued to lead the field at the halfway mark. Then on lap 15, Adam
Balthazor took over the top spot and held it to the checkers for the win at
his hometown track. Heat race winners McClurg and Terry Cunningham, and Pat
Bedore ran close to Balthazor the last few laps but finished in that order,
with Bob Arnold rounding out the top five.
The 15-lap IMCA
Northern Sport Mod feature got off to a good start, with Kaid Calhoon taking
the early lead, but Belleville’s Tyler Frye passed Calhoon in turn 4 on lap
9 to take command. Caution flags on laps 10, 12 and 13 kept the field
bunched late in the race but Frye held on for a trip to victory lane.
Calhoon settled for second, followed by state point leader Mathew Crowell,
heat one winner Tyler Sutton, and Ryan Goheen. Troy Attwood won the other
heat race.
Mark Normandin of
Salina led from green to checkered in the 15-lap IMCA Hobby Stock feature.
One lonely caution did not give the field a chance to catch Normandin. G.W.
‘Cheeseburger’ Fuller, Rhett ‘The Rocket’ Kingsbury, Cody Graham and heat
one victor Kelly Karnopp would complete the top five. ‘Luscious’ Leon
Pfannenstiel was victorious in the other heat race.
Dean Kester of
Prowler Chassis of Stockton sponsored trophies for the fair champions in the
four divisions, accumulating points for both nights. Fair champions in
their respective divisions were David Murray, Adam Balthazor, Tyler Frye and
G.W. Fuller.
RESULTS
IMCA Hobby Stocks
Heat 1: 1. Kelly
Karnopp, 2. Cody Graham, 3. G.W. Fuller, 4. Mark Normandin.
Heat 2: 1. Leon
Pfannenstiel, 2. Jeromy Wagner, 3. Jerry Hudson, 4. Dalton Dolan.
Feature: 1.
Normandin, 2. Fuller, 3. Rhett Kingsbury, 4. Graham, 5. Karnopp, 6. Dolan,
7. Hudson, 8. Ron Rouse, 9. Pfannenstiel, 10. Blaine Buchholz, 11. Jason
McIntyre, 12. Wagner, 13. Jay Hrabe (DNF), 14. Michael Smith (DNF).
IMCA Northern Sport
Mods
Heat 1: 1. Tyler
Sutton, 2. Ryan Goheen, 3. Mathew Crowell, 4. Tyler Frye.
Heat 2: 1. Troy
Attwood, 2. Tanner Portenier, 3. Joe Couse, 4. Kaid Calhoon.
Feature: 1. Frye, 2.
Calhoon, 3. Crowell, 4. Sutton, 5. Goheen, 6. Tyler Watts, 7. Couse, 8.
Portenier, 9. Kenny Schmidt, 10. John LaShell, 11. Cody Williams, 12. Atwood
(DNF).
IMCA Stock Cars
Heat 1: 1. Dustin
McClurg, 2. Jason Davis, 3. Adam Balthazor, 4. Bob Arnold.
Heat 2: 1. Terry
Cunningham, 2. Pat Bedore, 3. Jay Schmidt, 4. Keith Riley.
Feature: 1.
Balthazor, 2. McClurg, 3. Cunningham, 4. Bedore, 5. Arnold, 6. Davis, 7.
Riley, 8. Jay Hachmeister, 9. Travis Hahn, 10. Michael Zajic, 11. Schmidt (DNF),
12. Bob Rutherford (DNF), 13. Eric Bowersox (DNF).
IMCA Modifieds
Heat 1: 1. Jordan
Grabouski, 2. Jerry Teel, 3. Tim Watts, 4. Tyler Hahn.
Heat 2: 1. David
Murray Jr., 2. Darrick Klima, 3. Corey Lagroon, 4. Mark Zorn.
Feature: 1.
Grabouski, 2. Klima, 3. Murray, 4. Teel, 5. Lagroon, 6. Geoff Jermark, 7.
Watts, 8. Zorn, 9. William Miller, 10. Hahn (DNF), 11. Brian Calhoon (DNS),
12. Cody Gearhart (DNS).
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