Chelf Scores First Ever IMCA Stock Car Win At His Home Track

 

By: Jerry Mackey

Maquoketa, Iowa: (June 28, 2025) – Racing went on as scheduled on a very warm night at the Maquoketa Speedway on Timber City night presented by Oly’s Garage. Nearly 120 race cars packed the infield for another action packed night of racing on the Quick ¼ mile located on the Jackson County Fairgrounds.

Andrew Chelf of nearby Lost Nation has won many Hobby Stock races at his home track but Saturday night was his first ever win in the very tough QCJeeps.com IMCA Stock Cars. Chelf drove the bottom side of the track to perfection on Saturday night in holding off a host of challengers. Maquoketa Speedway veteran, Jerry Miles drove the top side and was in contention late in the race but settled for second behind the smooth running Chelf. Gage Neal, back in his familiar 12N closed in on the leaders in the late stage of the main and settled for third at the checkers.

The INEX Legends ran a special Midwest Dirt Legends Series Race on Saturday night and 32 competitors from several states were on hand to race for the expanded purse. The 20 lap feature saw the lead position dominated by North Dakota driver Preston Martin. Unfortunately Martin slipped off the track as the field came to the white and slipped well back in the finishing order. Beaver Dam, Wisconsin driver Hayden Schmuhl was able to hold the bottom line and race to a very close win ahead of Maquoketa Speedway regular Michael Weber. Ryan Sullivan came under the checkers in third.

The Kinion Auto Sales IMCA Late Models brought the night to an end with a great 25 lap feature. Jake Morris drove his number 86 Late Model to a hard fought win holding off the many challenges by Bryce Garnhart. Morris held the bottom line and Garnhart drove the treacherous top side as the two raced side by side for the win. Morris took the win by less than a car length. Dave Hammond drove a great race in following Garnhart across the stripe in third.

The Eastern Iowa Overhead Door IMCA Modifieds started off the feature portion of the program with a very clean caution free 20 lap main event. Jaden Fryer worked to the front from his 9th position start and was able to get by race long leader Austin Stamm with less than five laps to go. Stamm in his rookie IMCA Modified season settled for second ahead of Mitch Way.

The Amhof Trucking IMCA Modified feature went to home towner Jarett Franzen. Franzen used a late race restart to move past race leader Nathan Silaggi, and went on to score the win, Franzen was very fortunate the race was not one lap longer as he broke a suspension part after taking the checkers and his machine had to be wreckered to the pit area. Josh Starr was able to make a late race charge and nipped Silaggi for second at the finish line.

The Not Quite Done Yet BBQ IMCA Hobby Stocks entertained the fans with another main event that saw plenty of lead changes and cars battling in packs and racing three and four wide throughout the main event. When the checkers flew it was Jordan Miles making his way to Oly’s Garage victory lane after holding off Carson Butt for the win. Lane Vohringer drove his Mopar to a third place finish.

The McMahon Salvage 4 stock win went to Travis Hawkins on Saturday night. Hawkins drove his sharp looking number 8 to the win ahead of Zach Pappas and Jacob Welter.

The Maquoketa Speedway will remain silent the next two Saturday’s as no racing will be held July 5th or 12th. The next event will be Christmas in July on Saturday the 19th with a full program of racing action, hot laps will take to the ¼ mile at 5:45pm with racing to follow.

Maquoketa Speedway Saturday, June 28
Timber City/Oly’s Garage Night

12 entries
IMCA Late Models – Kinion Auto Sales
A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 86-Jake Morris[7]; 2. 3-Bryce Garnhart[8]; 3. 72-Dave Hammond[3]; 4. 93-Chase Brunscheen[9]; 5. 11JC-Carter Johnson[4]; 6. 60-Dalton Simonsen[2]; 7. 77J-Steve Johnson[6]; 8. 63-Scott Olson[1]; 9. 89-Tom Pestka[11]; 10. 12-Don Pataska[12]; 11. 15-Ethan Pickard[5]; 12. 16-Dave Wadsager[10]

Heat 1 – Top 5 Make Invert (8 Laps): 1. 3-Bryce Garnhart[5]; 2. 63-Scott Olson[1]; 3. 77J-Steve Johnson[4]; 4. 93-Chase Brunscheen[6]; 5. 72-Dave Hammond[2]; 6. 89-Tom Pestka[3]

Heat 2 – Top 5 Make Invert (8 Laps): 1. 60-Dalton Simonsen[1]; 2. 11JC-Carter Johnson[2]; 3. 86-Jake Morris[4]; 4. 15-Ethan Pickard[3]; 5. 16-Dave Wadsager[6]; 6. 12-Don Pataska[5]

12 entries
IMCA Modifieds – Eastern Iowa Overhead Door
A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 8-Jaden Fryer[9]; 2. 12T-Austin Stamm[4]; 3. 01M-Mitch Way[5]; 4. 17C-Shane Paris[6]; 5. 29-Spencer Diercks[7]; 6. 8T-Griffin Taylor[1]; 7. 93-Matt Werner[10]; 8. 99M-Charlie Mohr[8]; 9. 14S-Mike Schmuhl[2]; 10. 5B-Tim Bader[11]; 11. 21T-Mark Mikos JR[12]; 12. (DNS) 99-Brandon Jewell

Heat 1 – Top 5 Make Invert (8 Laps): 1. 01M-Mitch Way[4]; 2. 29-Spencer Diercks[5]; 3. 8-Jaden Fryer[6]; 4. 8T-Griffin Taylor[1]; 5. 99-Brandon Jewell[3]; 6. 5B-Tim Bader[2]

Heat 2 – Top 5 Make Invert (8 Laps): 1. 12T-Austin Stamm[3]; 2. 93-Matt Werner[6]; 3. 14S-Mike Schmuhl[2]; 4. 99M-Charlie Mohr[5]; 5. 17C-Shane Paris[4]; 6. 21T-Mark Mikos JR[1]

17 entries
IMCA Stock Cars – QC Jeeps
A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 17-Andrew Chelf[1]; 2. 4-Jerry Miles[6]; 3. 12N-Gage Neal[10]; 4. 4K-Kodey Miles[7]; 5. 16S-Casey Shelliam[11]; 6. 77W-Andrew Burk[9]; 7. 105-Sheldon Oberle[8]; 8. 23-Brendan Driscoll[2]; 9. 3T-Terry Dulin[4]; 10. 25-Adam Kinion[13]; 11. 7Z-Clay Hockaday[16]; 12. 12T-Eric McDonough[12]; 13. A78-Austin Vorbeck[17]; 14. 16-Dakota O’Connor[14]; 15. 77C-Mitch Current[15]; 16. 72-Jacob Ellithorpe[5]; 17. B78-Brandon Vorbeck[3]

Heat 1 – Top 5 Make Invert (8 Laps): 1. 17-Andrew Chelf[1]; 2. 12N-Gage Neal[8]; 3. 105-Sheldon Oberle[7]; 4. 3T-Terry Dulin[4]; 5. 72-Jacob Ellithorpe[5]; 6. 16S-Casey Shelliam[6]; 7. 25-Adam Kinion[9]; 8. 77C-Mitch Current[3]; 9. A78-Austin Vorbeck[2]

Heat 2 – Top 5 Make Invert (8 Laps): 1. 4K-Kodey Miles[6]; 2. 77W-Andrew Burk[7]; 3. 23-Brendan Driscoll[2]; 4. 4-Jerry Miles[5]; 5. B78-Brandon Vorbeck[3]; 6. 12T-Eric McDonough[8]; 7. 16-Dakota O’Connor[1]; 8. 7Z-Clay Hockaday[4]

18 entries
IMCA SportMods – Amhof Trucking
A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 33-Jarett Franzen[10]; 2. 8S-Josh Starr[9]; 3. 18-Nathan Silaggi[6]; 4. 69ER-Ryan Reed[5]; 5. 47-Corey Kuntzelman[7]; 6. 9H-Levi Heath[11]; 7. 75-Bob Silaggi[8]; 8. 21J-Jaron Groshans[1]; 9. 41-Ed Mills[2]; 10. 11J-Trey Jacobs[4]; 11. 444-Patric Conner[14]; 12. X14-Randy Farrell[12]; 13. 11-Jake Hayes[13]; 14. 39R-Rance Powell[3]; 15. 68B-Raiff Cauwels[15]; 16. N7-Cade Nichols[17]; 17. C6-Colin Conner[16]; 18. O15-Eric Offenheiser[18]

Heat 1 – Top 5 Make Invert (8 Laps): 1. 41-Ed Mills[2]; 2. 11J-Trey Jacobs[4]; 3. 47-Corey Kuntzelman[6]; 4. 8S-Josh Starr[7]; 5. 69ER-Ryan Reed[5]; 6. 9H-Levi Heath[8]; 7. 11-Jake Hayes[1]; 8. 68B-Raiff Cauwels[3]; 9. N7-Cade Nichols[9]

Heat 2 – Top 5 Make Invert (8 Laps): 1. 33-Jarett Franzen[8]; 2. 21J-Jaron Groshans[1]; 3. 75-Bob Silaggi[6]; 4. 18-Nathan Silaggi[5]; 5. 39R-Rance Powell[3]; 6. X14-Randy Farrell[4]; 7. 444-Patric Conner[7]; 8. C6-Colin Conner[2]; 9. O15-Eric Offenheiser[9]

32 entries
INEX Legends – Legends.Direct
A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 59S-Hayden Schmuhl[14]; 2. 8-Michael Weber[10]; 3. 95-Ryan Sullivan[11]; 4. 7T-Ty Olson[6]; 5. 14T-Talyn Neuman[15]; 6. 88-Cohen Henze[5]; 7. 25-Cole O’Brien[19]; 8. 117-Adam Zellmer[16]; 9. 14-Dylan Manning[7]; 10. 5-Dave Eberle[22]; 11. 1OZ-Glenn Mitchell[9]; 12. 77-Preston Martin[4]; 13. 19-Jeff Schmidt[8]; 14. 78-Carson Grob[23]; 15. 54-Nate Werner[17]; 16. 4C-Connor Carey[18]; 17. 7-Lilly Fassbender[1]; 18. N8-Nate Wolbers[24]; 19. 19X-Cal Swenson[21]; 20. 2-Keith Moline[12]; 21. 02W-Brycen Wilson[2]; 22. 533-Cody Moline[20]; 23. 53-Keith Meyer[13]; 24. 99-Rob Maule[3]

B Feature 1 (10 Laps): 1. 19X-Cal Swenson[3]; 2. 5-Dave Eberle[11]; 3. 78-Carson Grob[5]; 4. N8-Nate Wolbers[4]; 5. 33S-Mike Swenson[1]; 6. 51F-Tim Franz[10]; 7. 83Z-Makenna Zachman[8]; 8. 9D9-Mackenzie Maule[12]; 9. 5K-Keith Carey[6]; 10. 57-Cade Reisdorf[7]; 11. 111C-Colton Irving[2]; 12. 62-Jason Lamm[9]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 7T-Ty Olson[6]; 2. 02W-Brycen Wilson[3]; 3. 7-Lilly Fassbender[5]; 4. 53-Keith Meyer[1]; 5. 54-Nate Werner[2]; 6. 33S-Mike Swenson[4]; 7. 9D9-Mackenzie Maule[8]; 8. 83Z-Makenna Zachman[7]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 77-Preston Martin[6]; 2. 88-Cohen Henze[2]; 3. 95-Ryan Sullivan[8]; 4. 59S-Hayden Schmuhl[7]; 5. 4C-Connor Carey[1]; 6. 111C-Colton Irving[3]; 7. 78-Carson Grob[5]; 8. 62-Jason Lamm[4]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 19-Jeff Schmidt[2]; 2. 14-Dylan Manning[3]; 3. 2-Keith Moline[1]; 4. 14T-Talyn Neuman[6]; 5. 25-Cole O’Brien[5]; 6. 19X-Cal Swenson[7]; 7. 5K-Keith Carey[4]; 8. 51F-Tim Franz[8]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 1OZ-Glenn Mitchell[3]; 2. 8-Michael Weber[2]; 3. 99-Rob Maule[1]; 4. 117-Adam Zellmer[8]; 5. 533-Cody Moline[5]; 6. N8-Nate Wolbers[4]; 7. 57-Cade Reisdorf[7]; 8. 5-Dave Eberle[6]

14 entries
IMCA Hobby Stocks – Not Quite Done Yet BBQ
A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 4-Jordan Miles[9]; 2. 10B-Carson Butt[2]; 3. 1-Lane Vohringer[5]; 4. H2O-Daniel Wauters[6]; 5. 8-Lukas Short[7]; 6. 3F-Dakotah Schilling[4]; 7. 1X-Kile Vohringer[10]; 8. 58-Corey Cullen[13]; 9. 14-Brett Hahlen[3]; 10. 3A-Ashden Schilling[14]; 11. 3B-Brandon White[11]; 12. 22K-Kythin Buck[1]; 13. 4K-Karter Miles[8]; 14. 7-Dustin Forbes[12]

Heat 1 – Top 5 Make Invert (6 Laps): 1. 10B-Carson Butt[2]; 2. 4K-Karter Miles[6]; 3. H2O-Daniel Wauters[5]; 4. 1X-Kile Vohringer[7]; 5. 22K-Kythin Buck[1]; 6. 3B-Brandon White[4]; 7. 58-Corey Cullen[3]

Heat 2 – Top 5 Make Invert (6 Laps): 1. 4-Jordan Miles[6]; 2. 8-Lukas Short[5]; 3. 1-Lane Vohringer[4]; 4. 3F-Dakotah Schilling[3]; 5. 14-Brett Hahlen[2]; 6. 7-Dustin Forbes[7]; 7. 3A-Ashden Schilling[1]

10 entries
4-Stocks – McMahon Salvage
A Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 8-Travis Hawkins[4]; 2. 13Z-Zachary Pappas[2]; 3. 49-Jacob Welter[3]; 4. 00-Cameron Maty[6]; 5. 11H-Brendon Koch[10]; 6. 45K-Sam King[8]; 7. 28-Carson Mosley[9]; 8. 24-Korey Lana[5]; 9. 21T-Evie Mikos[7]; 10. 58-Aaron Swearingen[1]

Heat 1 – Top 5 Make Invert (6 Laps): 1. 8-Travis Hawkins[7]; 2. 49-Jacob Welter[6]; 3. 58-Aaron Swearingen[2]; 4. 13Z-Zachary Pappas[5]; 5. 24-Korey Lana[10]; 6. 00-Cameron Maty[8]; 7. 11H-Brendon Koch[3]; 8. 21T-Evie Mikos[1]; 9. 45K-Sam King[4]; 10. 28-Carson Mosley[9]

Category: Iowa