WILLETT, MCCALLA
AMONG FRIDAY NIGHT WINNERS AT HAWKEYE DOWNS
By Brad Grupe
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Willett held off defending champion Tim
Plummer over the last several laps as Plummer tried both high and low moves but
ran out of laps trying to wrestle away the lead. Willett took the checkers by
the slimmest of margins, finishing a scant .211 seconds ahead of Plummer.
Willett, who started 6th, took the lead on lap 10 while Plummer
started 10th and moved through the pack to mount a serious challenge for the win with five laps to go.
Arlo Becker finished third while Rodney
Rocarek finished fourth and Larry Clausen fifth.
In other half-mile action on Altorfer
CAT Night at ASA-Sanctioned Hawkeye Downs
McCalla started in fifth , secured the
point on the tenth circuit and then appeared to have the race well in hand as a
trio of cars battled for the second slot. With five laps remaining, McCalla
suddenly found a mirror full of Mel Schappert, Bob Ahrendsen, and Brian Franks
as the handling on the leaders car appeared to be going away.
McCalla had just enough left to take his
third win of the season with Schappert finishing .327 seconds off the pace. Bob
Ahrendsen, Brian Franks, and Andy Duggan also finished in the top five of the
25-lap feature.
In the Barron Motor Supply IMCA Stock
Car feature,
Greg Hentrich finished second while Brad
Daugherty, Doug Otto, and Randy Filling were next to collect the checkers from
Flagman John Huff.
Tim Dains of Marion took top honors in
the other Barron Motor Supply sponsored division, the IMCA Hobby Stocks. The
action came fast and furious in the early going with a different leader every
lap for the first handful of laps around the quarter-mile.
Tim Dains secured the lead from Dennis
Klinsky with thirteen of the scheduled twenty laps recorded and then survived
three caution flags in the last trio of laps as the end of the race started
resembling a demo derby rather than a race.
When the smoke, dust, and debris was
cleared Dains was the winner with Klinsky second, Deb Mefford third, Scott
Benesh fourth, and Gary Pfantz fifth. The win was the first of the season for
Dains.
Brian Beaty of Palo snared his third win of the 2007
campaign in the Sunline Hornets feature on Friday night. Beaty started outside
the front row, quickly took the lead, survived a lap three restart, and never
surrendered control during the fifteen lap feature. Shawn Myers, another driver
at the top of the points chart finished second and Jason Fawcett finished
third. Brad Chandler was fourth and Jim Williams fifth.
Tony Olson made his second trip of the
season to
Two divisions of Go-Karts were also on
hand Friday night with Corey Kemp of Garrison again taking the winners trophy
in the senior division and Tanner Allen picking up the hardware in the Junior
division. The Go-Karts normally run a full program on Sundays but have been
running exhibition races as part of the regular Friday racing program this
season.
Racing returns next Friday night, June
15 with seven divisions in action on the same night for the 100.7/The Fox Free
Race. Performance Concepts Late Models, Budweiser Sportsmen, Miller Time
Modifieds, Barron Motor Supply IMCA Stock Cars, Barron Motor Supply IMCA Hobby
Stocks, Sunline Hornets, and IMCA Sportmods will all be on hand.
JUNE 8 FEATURE RESULTS
BUDWEISER SPORTSMEN
Feature (25 laps)1. Dave McCalla,
MILLER TIME MODIFIEDS
Feature (25 laps)1.
BARRON MOTOR SUPPLY IMCA STOCK CARS
Feature (20 laps)1. Kurt Bohnsack,
BARRON MOTOR SUPPLY IMCA HOBBY STOCKS
Feature (20 laps)1. Tim Dains,
SUNLINE HORNETS
Feature (15 laps)1. Brian Beaty,
IMCA SPORTMODS
Feature (15 laps)1. Tony Olson,