OSKALOOSA — Wednesday night was DeJong Manufacturing Free Popcorn night at the races as night number three of the 23 season was contested at the Mahaska County Monster ½ mile dirt track on the Southern Iowa Fairgrounds in Oskaloosa.
The first two nights of the season have not produced the results that hometown favorite Curtis VanDerWal is used to having in the Oskaloosa Quality Rentals Sportmod division. Wednesday night belonged to the number 1V of VanDerWal as the green flag dropped for their main event and it was the 1V leading all 16 laps on the way to an impressive win. Maguire DeJong provided an early challenge before VanDerWal sped off to a comfortable win. Brayton Carter followed DeJong under the checkers in third.
Todd Reitzler continued his mastery of the Mahaska County Monster in scoring his second MidState Machine Stock Car win of the young season. Reitzler held back the constant challenges of Nathan Wood on Wednesday night to score the win. Jason McDaniel turned in a strong run in taking third.
A strong field of 22 Parker Tree Service Hobby Stocks took the green for their 14 lap feature event. Kale Hemsley led early while 10th starting Christian Huffman was steadily making his way to the front. Huffman was able to secure the lead as the feature race passed the midway point, but Huffman was forced to fight off a late race charge by Tyson Overton. In victory lane Huffman was informed that the feature payoff was nearly doubled as race enthusiast David Weeks added a sweet sum of $320 to the win making Huffman’s payday $720.
Shane Barnes scored his second win of 23 at SIS by topping the Dirt N Asphalt Sport Compact main event. Barnes took the lead early and went on score an impressive win over Garett Porter and Brandon Pickney.
Ben Woods added another trophy to his collection by topping the ten lap Clow Valve Company Non-Wing Sprint Car feature on Wednesday night. Woods took the win ahead of Nathan James and Doug Sylvester.
Wednesday, May 10th will be the 2023 Hall Of Fame Induction nomination voting night. All fans, drivers and crews will have an opportunity to vote for the Induction class of 23 for the Southern Iowa Speedway Hall of Fame. The new class of Inductees will be honored on June 28th.
Southern Iowa Speedway May 3 Feature Results (top 5)
Oskaloosa Quality Rentals Sportmods
- 1V Curtis VanDerWal-Oskaloosa
- 30M Maguire DeJong-Montezuma
- 01 Brayton Carter-Oskaloosa
- 8T Tony Johnson-Oskaloosa
- 29 Colton Livezey-New Sharon
Mid State Machine Stock Car
- 22R Todd Reitzler-Grinnell
- 52 Nathan Wood-Sigourney
- 85 Jason McDaniel-Eldon
- B17 Steve Byers-Indianola
- 10G Dustin Griffiths-Hedrick
Parker Tree Service Hobby Stocks
- 14 Christian Huffman-New Sharon
- 42T Tyson Overton-Carlisle
- 44p Peyton Stephens-Bussey
- 73 Aaron Martin-Delta
- 01 Austin Barnes-Des Moines
Dirt N Asphalt Sport Compacts
- 26B Shane Barnes-Washington
- 746 Garrett Porter-Libertyville
- 7 Brandon Pickney-Ottumwa
- 0 Bob (Gabby) Hayes-New Sharon
- 11 Caleb Hildebrand-Oskaloosa
Clow Valve Company Non-Wing Sprint Cars
- 11B Ben Woods-Newton
- 7J Nathan James-Russell
- 12 Doug Sylvester-Ottumwa
- T4 Tyler Graves-Chariton
- 3 Tim Folkerts-Albia
