It was a beautiful week for number twelve on Wednesday night during a KCHE night at the Buena Vista Raceway
By Denny Grabenbauer

BUENA VISTA, IA. (June 28, 2006) - It was a beautiful week for number twelve on Wednesday night during a KCHE night at the Buena Vista Raceway. Eighty-three race teams and crews filled the pit area as race fans from as far away as Alaska and Hawaii were on hand to cheer on their favorite drivers.

Many new drivers would find there way to victory lane in the heat race action as the night would turn out to be somewhat of a first timers night in the heat races, then turn into a veterans night for the features. First time heat race winners would be Merle Bass, Kyle Robinson and Cody Lucas in the Hobby Stock Class, Tony Ross and Brett Meyer in the B-Mods, Mike Scharn and Roger Tripp in the Stock Car division and James Slawson in the Modifieds. “I guess that shows us the type of competition that we have each Wednesday night,” committed promoter Lee Meyer. “When you have any driver in a field that can win, whether it be a heat or feature it means that your giving you fans the best show that you can, and that is what we have here in Alta, good competitive racing.”

First time heat race winners would all take a back seat to the multiple feature winners in the feature events pulled out onto the speedway. For the second week in a row, yellow flags would not be dominate through out the night of very good and close racing.

Jess Bieret who won his first career feature one week ago would appear to be on his way for another win in the Rasmussen Ford BVR Bomber division, as he pulled away from the field right from the start, but in post race inspection was found to have an illegal part on his car and was disqualified handing the win over to the second place finisher, Devin Smith.

The same fate would affect Jason Grage, as he would lead early and through out the Storm Lake Artic Cat 360 B-Mod class only to find his win taken away because of a post race inspection. Matt Sangwin would cross the line in second and would be declared the winner, posting his third win of the year.

Kyle Robinson who was celebrating his wedding annivsary would dodge three yellow flags in the opening lap of racing in the Storm Lake Truck & Trailer I.M.C.A. Hobby Stock feature and would hold the top spot until lap six at the half way point of the race. Past lap seven, Dustin Smith would move to the out side of Robinson and make the pass for the lead, and would go on to score his third win of the year. Donovan Smith, fresh off of his Shoot-Out win at Marshalltown the night before would finish second followed by Robinson.

The red flag would come out before one lap would be completed in the Scooters Bar & Grill I.M.C.A. Stock Car feature when Brian Blessington and Chris Ullrich would make contact, knocking off a fuel line, which resulted in a blast of fire coming from the race cars, sitting in turn four. Both drivers were unhurt but were out of contention for the remainder of the race. Mark Stanley would take the lead on the restart and lead until lap four when points leader David Smith would again flex his mussel to make the pass for the lead and go on to score his fifth win of the season. Jason Mickelson, Brian Mattson and Randy Lawrey would finish in the top four.

Three drivers would share and battle for the lead in the Fitzpatrick Auto Center I.M.C.A. Modified feature before one driver would again emerge as the evenings feature winner. James Slawson, Brad Williams and Joel Ziegmann would all challenged for the top position in the early going. Yellow flags on laps eight, thirteen and seventeen would slow the twenty-lap event as Ziegmann and Williams would take a share of the lead during almost every lap. With two laps to go, the pair would be side by side with Williams working the low side and Ziegmann staying up high. It would stay a two-car battle until the checkered flag with Ziegmann going on to score his third feature win of the season. Williams would finish a close second followed by Jeff Stephens and Brian Schmidt.

Next Wednesday night, will the forth of July special night along with the Kyle Sutter Memorial event. Many special events are planned such as a Stock Car King of the Hill race, a Military Flyover, a giant fireworks display and much much more. The racing will begin with hot laps at 6:45 and the first green flag of the evening will be waved at 7:30.


Wednesday Race Results:

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

HEAT 1: Joel Ziegmann-Odebolt—Mike Albertson-Audubon—Jim Thies-Mapleton

HEAT 2: James Slawson-Spencer—Brian Schmitt-Wall Lake—Jeff Stephens-Dow City

FEATURE: Joel Ziegmann—Brad Williams—Jeff Stephens—Brian Schmitt—James Slawson—Mike Hansen—Bill Osbahr—Loren Reuter—Ricky Stephan—Jim Thies—Roger VanBeek—Mike Albertson—Jay Noteboom



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

HEAT 1: Mike Scharn-Sac City—Chris Ullrich-Kiron—Roger Verdoorn-Sibley

HEAT 2: Roger Tripp-Marathon—Jason Mickelson-Storm Lake—Mark Stanley-Storm Lake

HEAT 3: David Smith-Lake City—Randy Lawrey-Marcus—Bill Reetz-Carroll

FEATURE: David Smith—Jason Mickelson—Brian Mattson—Randy Lawrey—Roger Tripp—Dale Woodard—Mark Stanley—Roger Verdoorn—Josh Suhr—Tom Sierck—Mike Scharn—James Millard—Matt Hagedorn—Robbie Rosselli—Troy Jerovetz—Bill Reetz[[Chris Ullrich—Brian Blessington—Bud Mattson—Stefan Sebesma—Randy Andreason



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

HEAT 1: Merle Bass-Varina—Jarred Timmerman-Lake City—Matt Schmillen-Marcus

HEAT 2: Kyle Robinson-Cherokee—Dustin Smith-Lake City—Paul Toms-Lytton

HEAT 3: Cody Lucas-Cherokee—Pat Cross-Boone—Josh Bieret-Wall Lake

FEATURE: Dustin Smith—Donovan Smith—Kyle Robinson—Tony Pogeler—Paul Toms—Michael Loutsch—Bill Woodcock—Galen Freese—Ross DeWall—Merle Bass—Matt Mahoney—Kyle Timmerman—Pat Cross—Cody Lucas—Richard Sorenson—Josh Bieret—Matt Schmillen—Jimmy Johnson—Doug Smith—Kenny Hansen



RASMUSSENS FORD BVR BOMBERS:

HEAT 1: Jess Bieret-Wall Lake—Justin Nehring-Newell—Shawn Halder-Spencer

HEAT 2: Adam Hicks-Lake City—Devin Smith-Lake City—Colby Winter-Lake City

FEATURE: Devin Smith—Adam Hicks—Eric Puhrman—Colby Winter—Gary Duitsman—Justin Nehring—Nick Smith—Ramon Luna—Tim Hanson—Shawn Halder—Thomas Haukap



STORM LAKE HONDA ARTIC CAT BVR 360 B-Mods:

HEAT 1: Tony Ross-Marcus—Brandon Lucas-Cherokee—Casey Friedrichsen-Arthur

HEAT 2: Brett Meyer-Ames—Mark White Spencer—Jason Grage-Remsen

FEATURE: Matt Sangwin—Mike Bailey—Brandon Lucas—Dan Hanselman—Mark White—Austin Lucas—Brett Meyer—Tony Ross—Jake Simpson—Casey Friedrichsen—Travis Schueller—Harvey VanDeWeerd—Chris Grothe