Aarons Fair Night at the Marshalltown Speedway!
By Denny Grabenbauer

MARSHALLTOWN, IA (July 13) - After a beautiful, mild and just a great week for the Central Iowa Fair, the roar of motors and the Aarons Night at the Fair took place this past Friday night. An infield area with over one hundred race teams greeted the capacity crowd and temperature in the low eighty’s, as drivers and fans were ready for the competition of the night. “This has been a tough week on our guys that work on the track. With all that has been going on they have had to reach back and put out extra in getting things ready for tonight”, said promoter Toby Kruse. “Normally we are putting water on the track all week long, but with the activities we just had to work extra long on Thursday night into Friday, and we just did what we could do. We had more dust tonight than I really like, but there were two to three lanes on the track, and our drivers did a great job of adjusting”.

All classes would see repeat winners on the evening except ironically, the Aarons I.M.C.A. Stock Car class. Mike VanGenderen would score his first Stock Car feature win on Friday night after battling to the end, by running a high side line, working through lap traffic and taking the lead with only two laps to go in the green-to-checkered eighteen lap feature event. Kyle Krampe would lead the opening lap before giving up the lead to Luke Veren on lap four. Veren would lead the next twelve laps while running on the low side of the track as VanGenderen was making his charge to the front. Mike would stay high, Veren low as the two battle side by side. That ‘s how it would end with VanGenderen the winner, Veren second followed by Tracy Gienger and Steve Meyer.

Vern Jackson continued his winning ways in the I.M.C.A. Modified division. Jackson’s win would keep the Waterloo veteran on his toes through out the race. Jackson would take the lead from Dain Sires on lap four. It looked like Jackson would have things his way, but J.D. Auringer was thinking about another win for himself. Through out the next ten laps the two drivers would exchange the lead on almost every lap. Four lap cars with five laps to go would have the pair carefully picking there spots on the track before Jackson would pull away and go on to score his forth win of the season. Finish second was point leader Jimmy Gustin followed by Auringer and Brett Ladehoff.

Yellow flags and a red flag would slow the I.M.C.A. Sport Mods in their fifteen-lap feature event. The most serious incident of the evening came when Zach Rawlins found himself flipping off turn one. Rawlins exited the car unhurt, but the badly damaged car was done for the night. Brett Meyer who had trouble in his heat race would start dead last in the feature take the lead by lap seven and go on to score his second feature win of the season. Jason Mallicoat, Kevin Sather and Danny Dvorak would round out the top four.

Opening night feature winner Trent Murphy would again find his way to victory in the I.M.C.A. Hobby Stock class. Murphy would take the lead at the half waypoint to score his second feature of the season. Luke Wanninger would finish second followed by Beau Kaplan and Dustin Elliott.

Mike Morrill would work his way up front in the Dwarf Car feature to pick up his second win of the year. Point lead Andy Hennigar would finish second with Mike Kennedy third and Ed Zehm forth.

The season continues next Friday night with the gates opening at 5:30, hot laps to follow at 6:45 and the first race of the night will begin at 7:30.

MARSHALLTOWN SPEEDWAY FRIDAY July 13, 2007


“Aarons” I.M.C.A. STOCK CAR:

HEAT 1: Kyle Krampe-Baxter—Mike VanGenderen-Newton—Don Vis=-M’town

HEAT 2: Luke Veren-Laurel—Clay Deppe-Kellogg—Pete Hutzel-Clemens

HEAT 3: Rob Schneider-M’town—Andy Bryant-Clemens—Jarred Daggett-Maxwell

FEATURE: Mike VanGenderen—Luke Veren—Tracy Gienger—Steve Meyer—Rob Schneider—Kyle Krampe—Jeff Wollam—Clay Deppe—Don Vis—Dusty Vis—Joe Luethje—Aaron Wendell—Jeff Adams—Wendy Reisinger—Jarred Daggett—Scooter Dulin—Pete Hutzel—Donovan Smith—Andy Bryant



I.M.C.A. MODIFIED:

HEAT 1: Vern Jackson-Waterloo—Brett Ladehoff-M’town—Dain Sires-Cedar Falls

HEAT 2: Todd Conrad-Waterloo—Brett Hamilton-Walkerton-Virginia—Jimmy Gustin-M’town

HEAT 3: J.D. Auringer-Evansdale—David Brown-Kellogg—Marv Halverson-M’town

FEATURE: Vern Jackson—Jimmy Gustin—J.D. Auringer—Brett Ladehoff—Rich Smith—Jay Schmidt—David Brown—Scott Simatovich—Heath Kusel—Mike Weikert—Todd Conrad—Brett Hamilton—Dan Arp—Rick Huff—Marv Halverson—Kelly Pestka –Dain Sires—Tom Rawlins



I.M.C.A SPORT MOD:

HEAT 1: Jason Mallicoat-Boone—Mark McNeece-Albion—Austin Kaplan-Ankeny

HEAT 2: Dustin Filloon-Tama—Danny Dvorak-Cedar Rapids—Zach Rawlins-Kellogg

HEAT 3: Neil Follett-Conrad—Kevin Sather-Ankeny—Dude Thompson-Des Moines

FEATURE: Brett Meyer—Jason Mallicoat—Kevin Sather—Danny Dvorak—Austin Kaplan—Ryan Engelkes—Eric Becker—Mark McNeece—Dude Thompson—Dustin Filloon—Neil Follett—Joel Bushore—Shawn Simatovich—Zach Rawlins



I.M.C.A HOBBY STOCK:

HEAT 1: Trent Murphy-Jefferson—Beau Kaplan-Ankeny—Todd Reitzler-Grinnell

HEAT 2: Dustin Elliott-M’town—Brad Bartling-Tama—Donny Fitzgerald-Newton

FEATURE: Trent Murphy—Luke Wanninger—Beau Kaplan-Dustin Elliott—Bo Hunter—Jamie Schirm—Eric Knutson—Todd Reitzler—Brad Bartling—Jennifer Hulin—Adam Rickett—Donny Fitzgerald—Josh Bly—Josh Saunders



DWARF CARS:

HEAT 1: Mike Morrill-Altoona—Mike Kennedy-Boone—Jeff Stensland-Nevada

HEAT 2: Ed Zehm-Ames—Mike Thomas-Des Moines—Tim Hennigar-Clarion

HEAT 3: Dusty Massolini-Des Moines—Andy Hennigar-Ankeny—Joel Huggins-Pleasant Hill

FEATURE: Mike Morrill—Andy Hennigar—Mike Kennedy—Ed Zehm—Tim Hennigar—Brent Detrick—Mike Thomas—Dusty Massolini—Duane Coffman—Randy Bryan—Craig Schrader—Joel Huggins—Terry Brown—Jeff Stensland—Ron Bergmann—Jason Whitehead—Nathan Hovick—David Schmalzried