Hot Night at the Hot Marshalltown Speedway
by: By Denny Grabenbauer

MARSHALLTOWN, IA. (July 28, 2006) - It was a very hot summer night, as the racing month of July came to an end this past Friday night at the Marshalltown Speedway. The annual Hy-Vee Night roared to life in front of eager and enthusiastic race fans, and a pit area full of race teams. The hot weather also made for some hot battles on the race track as again this week promoter Toby Kruse would have the high banked quarter mile raceway groomed for two and three wide racing. “You can’t believe the amount of water that we had to put on this track to make it the way we wanted it to be,” said Kruse. “I think the end result was pretty good. It was wide, fast and very racy.”

What had been in the making for many weeks finally became realality for one driver, as Kyle Krampe’s dream finally would come true, his first feature win. Krampe would lead the opening lap of the I.M.C.A. Stock Car feature, like he has done on many occasions, but unlike weeks prior, for the first time in his young career he would finish on top as this week’s winner. Krampe related to the late former I.M.C.A. Champion Eddie Anderson, would hold off two to three different drivers right till the checkered flag would fly bringing an end to the long awaited victory. “I never really gave up trying,” said a happy Krampe in victory lane. “Dad just kept telling me to do what I have been doing, and pretty soon it would happen and tonight it did.” The youngster has lead in most of the early laps of every feature this year, but bad luck would change his outcome every night. “I knew that Shawn was there at the end, but I didn’t change my line, I just kept making the guys behind me change there’s, and it worked.” Shawn Hoskins would finish a very close second behind Krampe followed by point leader and last weeks feature winner Tracy Gienger in third and Dave Atcher forth. “They say the first one’s the hardest to get, now were going to see if that is true or not”.

Mike O’Lear would make it eight weeks between victory’s as he would jump into the lead on the opening lap and hold onto the lead through many yellow flags to score his second win of the year. Through the first five laps more yellow flags would be shown until the eighteen car starting field would get into there racing rhythm. By lap fifteen, O’Lear would have a sizable lead built up for himself, but lap traffic and a hard charging Verne Jackson would make the final two laps exciting for the cheering fans in the stands. “I knew where Vern and Jimmy were and I could see us closing in on the lap traffic, luckily, they stayed up high and I went low and got around them,” said O’Lear in his post race interview. Jackson, Jimmy Gustin and Scott Simatovich would round out the top four.

Chris Mosher would lead the opening three laps of the I.M.C.A. Sport Mod feature until Brett Ladehoff would take the lead coming off of turn two. Ladehoff would be untouchable through out the remaining of the fifteen-lap feature until the last lap when he over drove turn four almost spinning himself out. “I just went in the corner two hard, and just about lost it, thank goodness I didn’t and was able to save the car for the win,” said Brett in victory lane. With Ladehoff’s win, it would be his fifth of the season. Jason Mallicoat would finish second followed by Austin Kaplan and Mosher.

Donovan Smith would win his twelfth feature of the season and his fifth in a row in the I.M.C.A. Hobby Stock division. Smith would take the lead from Dustin Elliott on lap seven and then drive off from the rest of the field. Jamie Schirm would finish second for the second week in a row followed by Kevin Sather in third and Joe Bown in forth.

Next Friday night the final full month of the season begins with the Hogeland Auto Plaza Kids Night at the Speedway. Many gifts and prizes will be handed out to the youngsters in attendance. Hot laps will begin at 6:45 and the first race of the night will get underway starting at 7:30.

MARSHALLTOWN SPEEDWAY FRIDAY July 28, 2006


I.M.C.A. MODIFIED:

HEAT 1: Jimmy Gustin-M’town—Vern Jackson-Waterloo—Mike O’Lear-M’town

HEAT 2: Mike Reichart-Des Moines—Don Portwine-Ames—Todd Luther-Laurel

FEATURE: Mike O’Lear—Vern Jackson—Jimmy Gustin—Scott Simatovich—Todd Conrad—David Brown—Heath Kusel—Rex Parkinson—Don Portwine—Marv Halverson—Mike Reichart—Jim Hibner—Jeff Schroyer—Rick Speck—Jim Schaefer—J J Scott—Tom Rawlins



I.M.C.A SPORT MOD:

HEAT 1: Brett Ladehoff-M’town—Jason Mallicoat-Boone—Austin Kaplan-Ankeny

HEAT 2: Chris Mosher-Melbourne—Danny Dvorak-Vinton—Tony Olson-Cedar Rapids

FEATURE: Brett Ladehoff—Jason Mallicoat—Austin Kaplan—Chris Mosher—Tony Olson—Scott Jorpeland—J D Albright—Shawn Ritter—Danny Dvorak—Mark McNeece—John Dumer—Kyle Brown—Damon Murty—Don Boucher



I.M.C.A. STOCK CAR:

HEAT 1: Shawn Hoskins-M’town—Dave Atcher-M’town—Rob Schneider-M’town

HEAT 2: Andy Bryant-Clemens—Rick Brown-Kellogg—Kyle Krampe-Baxter

FEATURE: Kyle Krampe—Shawn Hoskins—Tracy Gienger—Dave Atcher—Jeff Wollam—Luke Veren—Jay Schmidt—Scooter Dulin—Andy Bryant—Damon Murty—Steve Meyer—Tommy Thompson—Richard VonKrog—Rick Brown—Robert Engelkes—Aaron Wendel—Stacy Clark—Chris Wilson—Wendy Reisinger—Rob Schneider



I.M.C.A HOBBY STOCK:

HEAT 1: Dustin Elliott-M’town—Dustin Filloon-Tama—Jamie Schirm-Dexter

HEAT 2: Joe Bown-M’town—Zach Rawlins-Kellogg—Bo Hunter-Nevada

HEAT 3: Chad Witte-M’town—Mike Zeman-Tama—Kevin Sather-Ankeny

FEATURE: Donovan Smith—Jamie Schirm—Kevin Sather—Joe Bown—Neil Follett—Brad Bartling—Adam Rickett—Josh Saunders—Mark Lamer—Bo Hunter—Zach Rawlins—Dustin Filloon—Josh Bly—Dustin Elliott—Eric Knutson—Shawn Simatovich—Michael Smith—Larry Fricke—Mike Zeman—Jerry Gifford—Chad Witte