Maquoketa Speedway Hosts 143 Race Teams on A Wild Night At The Races

 

By Jerry Mackey

 

Maquoketa, Iowa (August 2, 2025) –  It was Bridget Miller & Associates Farm Bureau Financial Services Night at the races on Saturday night and the fans were treated to a night packed with great racing, close finishes, a hard roll over and a disqualification following a pit altercation. The 143 drivers put on a very entertaining show with the final checkered flag waving at 10 pm.

The Kinion Auto Sales IMCA Late Models saw front row starter Doug Nigh and 10th starting Evan Miller swap the lead several times throughout the 25 lap feature. As the laps wound down and the two still battling for the lead a late race caution set up a three lap dash to the finish. The lead pack behind Nigh was scrambled and the 43LV of Logan Veloz made a late race charge to finish right on the heels of Nigh. Evan Miller held on for third ahead of Bryce Garnhart. Nigh stated in victory lane, “ this is my first win in about ten years and it feels good to finally get one here at home.” Following the Late Model race, the driver of the 11C Ryan Clayes instigated an altercation in the pit area which involved punches being thrown causing Clayes to be disqualified and sent home with no money or points for the night.

The Eastern Iowa Overhead Door IMCA Modifieds saw a strong field of 18 drivers take the green flag for their 20 lap feature. Jason Schueller took the green from the pole and led the main event flag to flag. Schueller’s win was far from easy as he was pressured early by fellow front row starter Brandon Jewell and late in the race Shane Paris was able to close on Schueller but settled for second at the finish line ahead of Jed Freiburger who ran in the lead pack the entire race.

A very strong field of 26 drivers took the initial green flag in the QCJeeps.com IMCA Stock Cars. David Brandies took the starters green flag on the pole and never relinquished the top spot but several drivers took their turns challenging the quick running 71 car. Gage Neal advanced from the sixth row and pressured Brandies late in the race but settled for a close second ahead of Kodey Miles.

The Amhof Trucking IMCA Sportmods saw a stellar field of 28 drivers take the green in their 15 lap feature. Tyler Soppe led early as Jacob Arp ran a strong second. While the leaders were racing side by side the 33 car of Jarrett Franzen was making his way to the front from a tenth position start. Franzen took the lead as the race crossed midway and Franzen went on to score the win and strengthen his point lead in the Sportmod class. Soppe crossed the line in second ahead of Arp.

The Not Quite Done Yet BBQ IMCA Hobby Stocks took the green with a field of 25 drivers making the initial start. Brandon White was recorded lap one leader before a caution flew. On the restart a front runner blew his engine sending cars spinning in the fluid and White got turned and sent off the back chute into a violent series of rollovers. White immediately jumped out of his car uninjured but the car was extensively damaged. The main event restarted and several drivers took their turns at the point position but the night belonged to hometown driver Kile Vohringer, who drove his Mopar to the feature win ahead of Karter Miles and Daniel Wauters.

The McMahon Salvage 4 Stock main event was action packed as several incidents took place in the 12 lap feature. The lead was being hotly contested and the two drivers racing for the lead, Aaron Swearingen and Jacob Welter made contact resulting in both being sent to the tail. Following a lap five restart Dustin Forbes took command and went on to score the race win over a fast closing Welter.

The AIRS cars made their third visit of the 25 season to Maquoketa on Saturday night and a nice field of 18 all American made classic race cars put on a nice race. Doug Burkhead drove his 1969 Ford Falcon to the feature win ahead of Doug Yates in his 1968 Ford Torino.

The stage is now set for the Dynamic Tube Season Championship races which will also be Back To School Night with lots of School Supplies available for the youngsters on Saturday, August 9th. All of the point championships will be decided as the regular season will come to a close setting up a busy Special Events schedule. The first Special will be the Hawkeye 100 featuring the invasion of the World of Outlaws Late Model on Friday and Saturday, August 15 & 16.

18 entries
IMCA Late Models – Kinion Auto Sales
A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 6D-Doug Nigh[1]; 2. 43LV-Logan Veloz[12]; 3. 88-Evan Miller[10]; 4. 3-Bryce Garnhart[8]; 5. 77J-Steve Johnson[17]; 6. 70-Mitch Morris[11]; 7. 60S-Dakota Simonsen[2]; 8. 16C-Cruz Birkhofer[3]; 9. 72-Dave Hammond[15]; 10. 18-Ty Webster[13]; 11. 15-Ethan Pickard[5]; 12. 12-Don Pataska[6]; 13. 6-Broderick Prescott[18]; 14. 86-Jake Morris[9]; 15. 89-Tom Pestka[4]; 16. 11JC-Carter Johnson[16]; 17. (DNS) 5-Chuck Hanna; 18. (DQ) 11C-Ryan Claeys[7]

Heat 1 – Top 4 Make Invert (8 Laps): 1. 16C-Cruz Birkhofer[2]; 2. 12-Don Pataska[3]; 3. 88-Evan Miller[5]; 4. 43LV-Logan Veloz[6]; 5. 18-Ty Webster[1]; 6. 11JC-Carter Johnson[4]

Heat 2 – Top 4 Make Invert (8 Laps): 1. 3-Bryce Garnhart[4]; 2. 6D-Doug Nigh[1]; 3. 89-Tom Pestka[2]; 4. 11C-Ryan Claeys[3]; 5. 5-Chuck Hanna[6]; 6. 77J-Steve Johnson[5]

Heat 3 – Top 4 Make Invert (8 Laps): 1. 60S-Dakota Simonsen[1]; 2. 70-Mitch Morris[5]; 3. 86-Jake Morris[4]; 4. 15-Ethan Pickard[2]; 5. 72-Dave Hammond[3]; 6. 6-Broderick Prescott[6]

18 entries
IMCA Modifieds – Eastern Iowa Overhead Door
A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 3-Jason Schueller[1]; 2. 17C-Shane Paris[6]; 3. 6-Jed Freiburger[4]; 4. 12T-Austin Stamm[7]; 5. 29-Spencer Diercks[9]; 6. 43LV-Logan Veloz[3]; 7. 01M-Mitch Way[5]; 8. 99M-Charlie Mohr[10]; 9. 12TC-Ryan Duhme[11]; 10. 8-Jaden Fryer[12]; 11. G1-Gage Neal[15]; 12. 21T-Mark Mikos JR[17]; 13. 1JR-Ben Chapman[8]; 14. 99-Brandon Jewell[2]; 15. 88-Tony Von Dresky[14]; 16. 7M-Matt Short[16]; 17. 32-Scotte Lemke[13]; 18. (DNS) 5D-Bob Dominacki

Heat 1 – Top 4 Make Invert (8 Laps): 1. 3-Jason Schueller[1]; 2. 1JR-Ben Chapman[4]; 3. 01M-Mitch Way[3]; 4. 12TC-Ryan Duhme[5]; 5. 32-Scotte Lemke[2]; 6. 7M-Matt Short[6]

Heat 2 – Top 4 Make Invert (8 Laps): 1. 8-Jaden Fryer[5]; 2. 29-Spencer Diercks[4]; 3. 17C-Shane Paris[3]; 4. 43LV-Logan Veloz[2]; 5. 88-Tony Von Dresky[6]; 6. 21T-Mark Mikos JR[1]

Heat 3 – Top 4 Make Invert (8 Laps): 1. 6-Jed Freiburger[2]; 2. 99M-Charlie Mohr[4]; 3. 12T-Austin Stamm[3]; 4. 99-Brandon Jewell[1]; 5. G1-Gage Neal[5]; 6. (DNS) 5D-Bob Dominacki

26 entries
IMCA Stock Cars – QC Jeeps
A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 71-David Brandies[1]; 2. 12N-Gage Neal[12]; 3. 4K-Kodey Miles[11]; 4. 20T-Timmy Current[4]; 5. 4-Jerry Miles[7]; 6. 28-Greg Gill[6]; 7. 8K-Reegan Merkes[5]; 8. 23W-Keegan Wells[15]; 9. 70-Joe Bonney[3]; 10. 17-Andrew Chelf[13]; 11. A78-Austin Vorbeck[2]; 12. 77W-Andrew Burk[9]; 13. M80-Mitch Morris[22]; 14. 55-Cody Staley[21]; 15. 7Z-Clay Hockaday[16]; 16. 7-Jack Hockaday[17]; 17. 23-Brendan Driscoll[18]; 18. 81-KC Ansel[25]; 19. 25-Adam Kinion[20]; 20. 41F-Zane Fellman[14]; 21. 3P-Alex Pappas[24]; 22. 23K-Kade Wells[23]; 23. 16S-Casey Shelliam[8]; 24. 105-Sheldon Oberle[10]; 25. (DNS) 77-Thomas Wood; 26. (DNS) 18Z-Chase Zaruba

Heat 1 – Top 4 Make Invert (8 Laps): 1. 71-David Brandies[1]; 2. 4-Jerry Miles[5]; 3. 20T-Timmy Current[2]; 4. 105-Sheldon Oberle[6]; 5. 17-Andrew Chelf[3]; 6. 7Z-Clay Hockaday[4]; 7. 77-Thomas Wood[8]; 8. M80-Mitch Morris[7]; 9. 81-KC Ansel[9]

Heat 2 – Top 4 Make Invert (8 Laps): 1. 4K-Kodey Miles[6]; 2. 8K-Reegan Merkes[3]; 3. 16S-Casey Shelliam[5]; 4. A78-Austin Vorbeck[1]; 5. 41F-Zane Fellman[9]; 6. 7-Jack Hockaday[7]; 7. 25-Adam Kinion[4]; 8. 23K-Kade Wells[8]; 9. 18Z-Chase Zaruba[2]

Heat 3 – Top 4 Make Invert (8 Laps): 1. 12N-Gage Neal[6]; 2. 70-Joe Bonney[1]; 3. 28-Greg Gill[4]; 4. 77W-Andrew Burk[5]; 5. 23W-Keegan Wells[8]; 6. 23-Brendan Driscoll[3]; 7. 55-Cody Staley[7]; 8. 3P-Alex Pappas[2]

28 entries
IMCA SportMods – Amhof Trucking
A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 33-Jarett Franzen[10]; 2. 3T-Tyler Soppe[1]; 3. 10A-Jacob Arp[4]; 4. 18-Nathan Silaggi[8]; 5. 75-Bob Silaggi[7]; 6. 444-Patric Conner[5]; 7. 9H-Levi Heath[9]; 8. 39-Perry Gellerstedt[11]; 9. 10L-Levi Laymon[16]; 10. 2-Nick Hixson[12]; 11. 11J-Trey Jacobs[14]; 12. 55C-Jacob Copley[18]; 13. 36N-Joe Nemitz[20]; 14. 11-Jake Hayes[22]; 15. 86-Logan Gustaf[28]; 16. X14-Randy Farrell[19]; 17. 39R-Rance Powell[13]; 18. 69ER-Ryan Reed[15]; 19. 28-Bobby Taggart[3]; 20. 68B-Raiff Cauwels[17]; 21. 54N-Nick Shrope[25]; 22. 3-Will Emerick Jr[26]; 23. N7-Cade Nichols[27]; 24. 2K-Tony Kraklio[23]; 25. 9-Scott Williams[2]; 26. 35-Pat Emerick[21]; 27. 06G-Finn Oppenheimer[24]; 28. (DNS) 47-Corey Kuntzelman

Heat 1 – Top 3 Make Invert (8 Laps): 1. 3T-Tyler Soppe[1]; 2. 444-Patric Conner[4]; 3. 18-Nathan Silaggi[5]; 4. 39R-Rance Powell[3]; 5. 68B-Raiff Cauwels[2]; 6. 35-Pat Emerick[7]; 7. (DNS) 86-Logan Gustaf

Heat 2 – Top 3 Make invert (8 Laps): 1. 9-Scott Williams[1]; 2. 9H-Levi Heath[5]; 3. 47-Corey Kuntzelman[4]; 4. 11J-Trey Jacobs[3]; 5. 55C-Jacob Copley[6]; 6. 11-Jake Hayes[2]; 7. 54N-Nick Shrope[7]

Heat 3 – Top 3 Make Invert (8 Laps): 1. 28-Bobby Taggart[2]; 2. 75-Bob Silaggi[4]; 3. 39-Perry Gellerstedt[6]; 4. 69ER-Ryan Reed[5]; 5. X14-Randy Farrell[3]; 6. 2K-Tony Kraklio[1]; 7. 3-Will Emerick Jr[7]

Heat 4 – Top 3 Make Invert (8 Laps): 1. 33-Jarett Franzen[5]; 2. 10A-Jacob Arp[3]; 3. 2-Nick Hixson[6]; 4. 10L-Levi Laymon[4]; 5. 36N-Joe Nemitz[7]; 6. 06G-Finn Oppenheimer[2]; 7. N7-Cade Nichols[1]

25 entries
IMCA Hobby Stocks – Not Quite Done Yet BBQ
A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 1X-Kile Vohringer[12]; 2. 4K-Karter Miles[9]; 3. H2O-Daniel Wauters[8]; 4. 5-Kaden Staley[1]; 5. 8-Lukas Short[11]; 6. 78-Steven Shady[5]; 7. 4-Jordan Miles[13]; 8. 10X-Dan Mohr[7]; 9. 4R-Randy LaMar[10]; 10. 1-Lane Vohringer[19]; 11. 3F-Dakotah Schilling[14]; 12. 11K-Levi Paris[25]; 13. 28-Sheldon Hunter[15]; 14. 101-Brycen Wilson[16]; 15. 12-Dylan Said[18]; 16. 14-Brett Hahlen[17]; 17. 22K-Kythin Buck[21]; 18. 2S-Ashden Schilling[23]; 19. 14B-Brayden Beauregard[20]; 20. 04-Dylan Ackerman[22]; 21. 10B-Carson Butt[6]; 22. 26-Ellie Schueller[24]; 23. 21K-Dan Klatt[3]; 24. 3B-Brandon White[4]; 25. 8B-Jacob Floyd[2]

Heat 1 – Top 4 Make Invert (6 Laps): 1. 10B-Carson Butt[5]; 2. 4K-Karter Miles[7]; 3. 5-Kaden Staley[2]; 4. 21K-Dan Klatt[4]; 5. 4-Jordan Miles[8]; 6. 101-Brycen Wilson[9]; 7. 1-Lane Vohringer[6]; 8. 04-Dylan Ackerman[1]; 9. 11K-Levi Paris[3]

Heat 2 – Top 4 Make Invert (6 Laps): 1. 1X-Kile Vohringer[8]; 2. 8B-Jacob Floyd[2]; 3. 4R-Randy LaMar[7]; 4. 3B-Brandon White[4]; 5. 3F-Dakotah Schilling[6]; 6. 14-Brett Hahlen[5]; 7. 14B-Brayden Beauregard[1]; 8. 2S-Ashden Schilling[3]

Heat 3 – Top 4 Make Invert (6 Laps): 1. H2O-Daniel Wauters[6]; 2. 8-Lukas Short[7]; 3. 78-Steven Shady[4]; 4. 10X-Dan Mohr[5]; 5. 28-Sheldon Hunter[3]; 6. 12-Dylan Said[1]; 7. 22K-Kythin Buck[2]; 8. 26-Ellie Schueller[8]

10 entries
4-Stocks – McMahon Salvage
A Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 815-Dustin Forbes[3]; 2. 49-Jacob Welter[5]; 3. K55-Brendon Koch[7]; 4. 45K-Sam King[9]; 5. 21T-Evie Mikos[10]; 6. 13Z-Zachary Pappas[4]; 7. 77-Jaxon Irwin[6]; 8. 58-Aaron Swearingen[2]; 9. 25-Dalton Said[8]; 10. (DNS) 7C-Ross Crist

Heat 1 – Top 5 Make Invert (6 Laps): 1. 815-Dustin Forbes[6]; 2. 49-Jacob Welter[10]; 3. 7C-Ross Crist[4]; 4. 58-Aaron Swearingen[5]; 5. 13Z-Zachary Pappas[9]; 6. 77-Jaxon Irwin[1]; 7. K55-Brendon Koch[8]; 8. 25-Dalton Said[2]; 9. 45K-Sam King[7]; 10. 21T-Evie Mikos[3]

18 entries
American Iron Racing Series
A Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 74-Doug Burkhead[4]; 2. 72-Doug Yates[11]; 3. 42-Bruce Yoerger[5]; 4. 11-Jake Hayes[12]; 5. 32-Dennis Etten[6]; 6. 5-Bart Miller[9]; 7. B07-Brian Stock[1]; 8. 10-Jayson Blunt[3]; 9. 29-Owen Hayes[7]; 10. 16-Robin Atkins[8]; 11. 63-Steve Olson[14]; 12. 86-Dan Jordan[16]; 13. 2-Nate Palmer[18]; 14. 67-Bruce Ferguson[15]; 15. 68-Travis Heier[2]; 16. 20-Blake Chapman[13]; 17. P51-David Bielenberg[10]; 18. 727-Justin Stock[17]

Heat 1 – Top 4 Redraw (6 Laps): 1. 42-Bruce Yoerger[2]; 2. 5-Bart Miller[3]; 3. 32-Dennis Etten[5]; 4. 11-Jake Hayes[4]; 5. 63-Steve Olson[1]; 6. 2-Nate Palmer[6]

Heat 2 – Top 4 Redraw (6 Laps): 1. 74-Doug Burkhead[1]; 2. 10-Jayson Blunt[5]; 3. P51-David Bielenberg[3]; 4. 16-Robin Atkins[4]; 5. 67-Bruce Ferguson[6]; 6. 20-Blake Chapman[2]

Heat 3 – Top 4 Redraw (6 Laps): 1. 72-Doug Yates[4]; 2. 29-Owen Hayes[1]; 3. 68-Travis Heier[6]; 4. B07-Brian Stock[5]; 5. 86-Dan Jordan[3]; 6. 727-Justin Stock[2]

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