OSKALOOSA — Wednesday, May 10th provided perfect weather for night number four of weekly racing at the Southern Iowa Speedway in Oskaloosa. It was Hall of Fame voting night which featured the opportunity for fans and drivers the opportunity to cast a ballot for those individuals that will be inducted into the Southern Iowa Speedway Hall of Fame on Wednesday, June 28th.
Maguire DeJong is a senior at Montezuma High School and Wednesday will go down as day that he will remember for a lifetime. The day started with DeJong golfing in a Regional meet where he shot a 75 and was awarded medalist honors. His day continued at the Senior night awards program where he received several awards plus was inducted into the National Honor Society. Following the awards program DeJong hustled down to the Southern Iowa Speedway arriving at the track ten minutes before the Oskaloosa Quality Rentals Sportmod main was called to the track. DeJong started shotgun on the field and quickly raced into the lead and went to score an impressive feature win ahead of Curtis VanDerWal. The day of honors for DeJong was capped off with a celebration in victory lane for the High School Senior who will attend Iowa State University in the fall with a major in Industrial Technology.
Nathan Wood made a return visit to victory lane following the Mid State Machine Stock main event on Wednesday night. Wood led the main flag to flag holding off current point leader Todd Reitzler for the hard fought win. Jason McDaniel followed Reitzler across the finish line recording a third place finish.
Dustin Griffiths races two classes every Wednesday night and the Hedrick driver recorded two top fives on Wednesday night. The night ended with Griffiths accepting the trophy after topping the Parker Tree Service Hobby Stock main event. Griffiths led the race flag to flag but was pressured late in the race by point leader, Aaron Martin. The 73 of Martin advanced from a fourth row start to take second ahead of Eric Stanton.
The Dirt N Asphalt Sport Compact main event win set up a big celebration in victory lane as hometowner James Haring scored his first win of the year at his hometown track.Haring was pressured late in the race by Garrett Porter who settled for second ahead of Brandon Pickney.
Recording your first ever feature win is always very special and that was the case on Wednesday night as young Tyler Graves took the Clow Valve Company Non-Wing Sprint Car feature win. Graves scored a clean sweep in taking wins in both the qualifier and the feature. The feature victory saw Graves hold off veteran Ben Woods for the win.
Wednesday, May 17th will be Copeland Auto Body First Responders Night at the races as all first responders will be admitted free to the races. Hot laps will get underway at 7:15 pm with racing to follow.
Southern Iowa Speedway Wednesday, May 10 Feature Results (top Five)
Oskaloosa Quality Rentals Sportmods
- 30M Maguire DeJong-Montezuma
- 1V Curtis VanDerWal-Oskaloosa
- 42 Tyler Heckart-Ottumwa
- 55R Steven Berry-Ottumwa
- 29 Colton Livezey-New Sharon
Mid States Machine Stock Cars
- 52 Nathan Wood-Sigourney
- 22R Todd Reitzler-Grinnell
- 85 Jason McDaniel-Eldon
- 10G Dustin Griffiths-Hedrick
- 17 Steve Byers- Indianola
Parker Tree Service Hobby Stocks
1. 10G Dustin Griffith-Hedrick
2. 73 Aaron Martin-Delta
3. 7B Eric Stanton-Carlisle
4. 55 Brad Stephens-Bussey
- 01 Austin Barnes-Des Moines
Dirt N Asphalt Sport Compacts
- 2H James Haring-Oskaloosa
- 746 Garrett Porter-Libertyville
- 7 Brandon Pickney-Ottumwa
- 2M Matt Moore-Ottumwa
- 0 Bob Hayes- New Sharon
Clow Valve Company Non Wing Sprint Cars
- T4 Tyler Graves-Chariton
- 11B Ben Woods-Newton
- 12 Doug Sylvester-Ottumwa
- 7J Nathan James-Russell
- 3T Tim Folkerts-Albia
