Spaw Celebrates Birthday With Win, Banks Scores Big Win At CJ Opener
Columbus Junction, Iowa (May 3, 2024) – : The 2024 Season got underway on Friday night at the CJ Speedway on a nice night for racing.
The headliner of the night was the Mincer Ford IMCA Stock Car main event with a stellar field of drivers set for the 16 lap feature. Kirk Kinsley led in the early going before 6th starting Johnny Spaw was able to put his 00 out front. With Spaw out front Corey Strothman and Dustin Griffiths joined in a three car break away battling for the lead. With Spaw leading Griffiths and Strothman battled for second. Spaw took the win and Strothman crossed under the checkers in second but failed post race inspection giving second to Griffiths. John Oliver came on strong in the late going to take third.
The Stewart & Sons Fuel IMCA Modified feature saw Washington driver Brandon Banks score the win. Banks shot into the lead from the outside front row start but was quickly challenged by CJ Speedway hot shoes, Kurt Kile and Jarrett Brown. The three put on quite a race for the lead but as the laps wound down it was Banks holding off a late race charge by Brown to score the win. Jadin Fuller was able to just get by Kile in taking third at the checkers.
The Huston Ag IMCA Sportmods main event was another good race to the finish in the A Main as Shaun Slaughter was able to out duel Colton Livezey for the win. Livezey led early before Slaughter was able to take the point. Slaughter went on to record the opening night Sportmod win ahead of Livezey and Dylan VanWyk.
The CJ Auto Parts/NAPA Stores IMCA Hobby Stock feature took the green with Jason Schutterle leading lap number one before a caution for the car of Ryan Havel who had come to a stop on the back chute. On the restart 3rd starting Luke Phillips took over the lead and went on to record the win despite a late race charge by Preston McDonald who turned in a great opening night run in taking second ahead of Shane Richardson.
Racing will continue at the CJ Speedway on Friday, May 8th with Superior Steering Wheels and Graphics night at the races. Hot laps will get underway at 7 pm with racing to follow.
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STEWART & SONS FUEL IMCA MODIFIEDS
A Feature 1 (16 Laps): 1. 22-Brandon Banks[2]; 2. 88-Jarrett Brown[6]; 3. 26J-Jadin Fuller[5]; 4. 77-Kurt Kile[3]; 5. 40-Dakota Simmons[8]; 6. 72-Kolton Osborn[10]; 7. 20F-John Fellman[9]; 8. 96-Matt Lundry[4]; 9. 26-Scott Brau[11]; 10. 21B-Barry Dugan[1]; 11. 32-Kyle Madden[7]
Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 88-Jarrett Brown[5]; 2. 77-Kurt Kile[3]; 3. 21B-Barry Dugan[4]; 4. 20F-John Fellman[6]; 5. 26-Scott Brau[2]; 6. (DQ) 72-Kolton Osborn[1]
Heat 2 (6 Laps): 1. 26J-Jadin Fuller[1]; 2. 32-Kyle Madden[5]; 3. 40-Dakota Simmons[2]; 4. 22-Brandon Banks[4]; 5. 96-Matt Lundry[3]
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MINCER FORD IMCA STOCK CARS
A Feature 1 (16 Laps): 1. 00-Johnny Spaw[6]; 2. 10G-Dustin Griffiths[10]; 3. 05-John Oliver Jr[9]; 4. 21M-Kirk Kinsley[2]; 5. 71X-Casen Keller[1]; 6. 12-Chad Krogmeier[8]; 7. 56-Kenny O’Donnell[12]; 8. 23W-Keegan Wells[4]; 9. 27-Matt Picray[14]; 10. 56A-Austin O’Donnell[11]; 11. 746-Garrett Porter[15]; 12. 75OZ-Austin Kemper[7]; 13. 28-Chase Wheeler[13]; 14. 30-Dan Brockert[5]; 15. 35LJ-Leremy Jackson[17]; 16. 62-Norman Bean[16]; 17. (DQ) C4-Corey Strothman[3]
Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 10G-Dustin Griffiths[3]; 2. 00-Johnny Spaw[6]; 3. 21M-Kirk Kinsley[5]; 4. C4-Corey Strothman[7]; 5. 75OZ-Austin Kemper[2]; 6. 56A-Austin O’Donnell[8]; 7. 28-Chase Wheeler[9]; 8. (DNS) 62-Norman Bean; 9. (DNS) 35LJ-Leremy Jackson
Heat 2 (6 Laps): 1. 05-John Oliver Jr[4]; 2. 12-Chad Krogmeier[1]; 3. 30-Dan Brockert[2]; 4. 71X-Casen Keller[5]; 5. 23W-Keegan Wells[3]; 6. 56-Kenny O’Donnell[7]; 7. 27-Matt Picray[6]; 8. 746-Garrett Porter[8]
12 entries
HUSTON BROS TRUCKING IMCA SPORTMODS
A Feature 1 (16 Laps): 1. 00-Shaun Slaughter[3]; 2. 29-Colton Livezey[2]; 3. 117-Dylan VanWyk[4]; 4. 55-John Oliver Jr[6]; 5. 5A-Nick Aupperle[1]; 6. 44G-Levi Gaunt[7]; 7. 21-Todd Hansen[12]; 8. 16-Joel Payne[9]; 9. 3Z-Jason Van Zomeren[8]; 10. 33T-Trevor Tanner[5]; 11. 9-Shane Wright[10]; 12. 42-Tyler Heckart[11]
Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 29-Colton Livezey[1]; 2. 117-Dylan VanWyk[6]; 3. 00-Shaun Slaughter[4]; 4. 33T-Trevor Tanner[3]; 5. 9-Shane Wright[2]; 6. (DQ) 42-Tyler Heckart[5]
Heat 2 (6 Laps): 1. 55-John Oliver Jr[2]; 2. 44G-Levi Gaunt[4]; 3. 16-Joel Payne[1]; 4. 5A-Nick Aupperle[3]; 5. 3Z-Jason Van Zomeren[6]; 6. (DNS) 21-Todd Hansen
10 entries
CJ AUTO PARTS – NAPA IMCA HOBBY STOCKS
A Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 33-Luke Phillips[3]; 2. 6XP-Preston McDonald[4]; 3. IB25-Shane Richardson[6]; 4. 1K-Tom Killen Jr[7]; 5. 12-Austin Stalder[8]; 6. 88-Jason Schutterle[1]; 7. 91-Jeremy Dooley[5]; 8. 26X-Shane Barnes[10]; 9. 3A-Patrick Boone[9]; 10. 0-Ryan Havel[2]
Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 0-Ryan Havel[3]; 2. 88-Jason Schutterle[2]; 3. 12-Austin Stalder[4]; 4. 91-Jeremy Dooley[1]; 5. 3A-Patrick Boone[5]
Heat 2 (6 Laps): 1. IB25-Shane Richardson[2]; 2. 1K-Tom Killen Jr[1]; 3. 6XP-Preston McDonald[4]; 4. 33-Luke Phillips[3]; 5. 26X-Shane Barnes[5]
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