Results from Buena Vista Raceway Wed April 19
By Denny Grabenbauer

BUENA VISTA, Ia. (April 19, 2006) - After a beautiful opening night, the weather took a wild turn this past Wednesday at the Buena Vista Raceway where shirt sleeve’s from one prior week went to as many cloths as possible for “Speeds Golf Cart” Night and week number two. A strong southern breeze would blow directly into the grandstands as many people decided not to get dressed up for winter night, but to wait for warmer nights ahead. “When promoting weekly race events in Iowa, or any place as far as that goes, you have to take the good with the bad,” said promoter Lee Meyer. “Last week was the good, and this week was the bad, and next week who knows.” One race fan that was not stopped by the winter like weather was Kayla Stubbe who was celebrating her 16TH birthday. “Now that I can drive there is only one place that I wanted to be and that was at the races where I can watch other people drive, because maybe someday I might be driving on the race track.”

After the National Anthem at 7:30 it was business as usual for the eighty race teams that would make there way to the raceway. Just as things were off and running, it didn’t take long for the night to be slowed as rookie driver Chris Duitsman would find the hard way to end his night as he rolled his car off of turn three during the second race of the night. He climbed from the car unhurt, but badly damaging his racecar.

All of the heat races were run in record time as the feature events began to pull out onto the raceway. Jess Bieret, a rookie driver in the Rasmussen Ford Bomber division would take the lead in their ten-lap event. His lead would be short lived because Devin Smith would take the top spot and go on to win the green to checkered event. Last week’s winner with the clean car, Adam Hicks would finish second followed by Eric Puhrman and Tim Hansen.

Donovan Smith would lead from start to finish in the Storm Lake Truck & Trailer I.M.C.A. Hobby Stock feature. Smith would erase his last place finish from one week earlier to post the victory. Luke Wanninger would put the pressure on Smith through the entire event to finish, and would finish second. Tony Pogeler and Matt Mahoney would round out the top four.

Jake Simpson would make in two wins in two weeks in the Storm Lake Honda Artic Cat 360 B-Mods. Simpson would battle Doug Barglof and Brandon Lucas through out the event and would not take the lead until the final lap to score the win. On the final lap the top four would change and at the end it would be Dan Hanselman second followed by Harvey VanDeWeerd and last year’s track champion Mark White.

It would be three wide from the drop of the green flag for the Scooters Bar & Grill I.M.C.A. Stock Cars as Bud Mattson would take the lead from the drop of the green flag. Rookie Randy Lawrey would give Mattson the early challenge but it would be Brian Blessington who would put the pressure on Mattson and take the lead on lap six and would go on to score the victory. Brian Mattson and Dave Smith would finish second and third with Bud Matson coming home forth.

The final event of the night would be the Fitzpatrick Auto Center I.M.C.A. Modified 20-lap feature. For the second week in a row, many yellow flags and one red flag would mar the event. Jeff Stephens would flip wildly done the back straight a way on lap two, bringing out the red flag. Stephens car would have to be removed from the track by two wreckers, Jeff climbed from the car unhurt. Leon Reuter would lead the first part of the race before Ricky Stephen would take the top spot. Mechanical trouble would send Stephen to the pits, but it would be Jay Noteboom who would charge from the back of the pack after spinning on lap five to take the lead and go on to score the win. Mike Hansen, Clay Christensen and Reuter would follow Noteboom across the finish line to end the racing action on a very cold night at the raceway.

Week number three will roar to life next Wednesday night with KPTH Fox 44 night at the races. Hot laps begin at 6:45 and the first race of the night will get underway at 7:30.


FITZPATRICK AUTO CENTER I.M.C.A. MODIFIED:

HEAT 1: Clay Christensen-Spencer—Jason Briese-Cleghorn—Loren Reuter-Allen Neb.
HEAT 2: Brian Schmidt-Wall Lake—Jeff Stephens-Dow City—Mike Hansen-Alton
HEAT 3: Brad Williams-Lytton—Ricky Stephan-S.Sioux City Neb—Jeff Anderson-Atlantic

FEATURE: Jay Noteboom—Mike Hansen—Clay Christensen—Loren Reuter—Rod Scheuermann—Jeff Anderson—Jim Thies—Justin Sackett—Randy Brands—Brian Schmidt—Ricky Stephan—Mike Albertson—Brad Williams—Derek Smith—Bruce Bonnesen—Jason Briese—Jeff Stephens—Joel Ziegmann



SCOOTERS BAR & GRILL I.M.C.A. STOCK CAR:

HEAT 1: Bud Mattson-Alta—Mark Stanley-Storm Lake—Randy Andreason-Fonda
HEAT 2: Brian Blessington-Breda—David Smith-Lake City—Randy Lawrey-Marcus

FEATURE: Brian Blessington—Brian Mattson—David Smith—Bud Mattson—Jason Mickelson—Bill Reetz—Roger Tripp—Dale Woodard—Tom Sierck—Randy Lawrey—Randy Andreason—Josh Suhr—Mark Stanley—Mike Scharn—Jeff Segebart—Jay Brannon



STORM LAKE TRUCK & TRAILER I.M.C.A HOBBY STOCK:

HEAT 1: Donovan Smith-Lake City—Dustin Smith-Lake City—Tony Pogeler-Storm Lake
HEAT 2: Matt Mahoney-Pierson—Paul Toms-Lytton—Josh Bieret-Wall Lake
HEAT 3: Trent Murphy-Jefferson—Luke Wanninger-Jefferson—Andy Boeckman-Wall Lake

FEATURE: Donovan Smith—Luke Wanninger—Tony Pogeler—Matt Mahoney—Andy Boeckman—Matt Schmillen—Kyle Robinson—Mark Hill—Ross DeWall—Cody Lucas—Derrick Barglof—Paul Toms—Merle Bass—Dustin Smith—Josh Bieret—Galen Freese—Drew Barglof—Pat Cross—Kyle Timmerman



RASMUSSENS FORD BVR BOMBERS:

HEAT 1: Devin Smith-Lake City—Shawn Halder-Spencer—Tim Hansen-Newell
HEAT 2: Jess Bieret-Wall Lake—Adam Hicks-Lake City—Nick Smith-Storm Lake
FEATURE: Devin Smith—Adam Hicks—Nick Smith—Eric Puhrman—Shawn Halder—Ramon Luna—Thomas Haukap



STORM LAKE HONDA ARTIC CAT BVR 360 B-Mods:

HEAT 1: Doug Barglof-Sioux Rapids—Harvey VanDeWeerd-Granville—Brandon Lucas-Cherokee
HEAT 2: Matt Sangwin-Aurelia—Jake Simpson-Algona—Mark White-Spencer

FEATURE: Jake Simpson—Dan Hanselman—Harvey VanDeWeerd—Mark White—Casey Friedrichsen—Greg Hammon—Mike Bailey—Doug Ockerman—Austin Lucas—Ronnie Fogelman—Tony Ross—Chris Grothe—Travis Schueller—Matt Sangwin—Brand Lucas