By Jerry Mackey
OSKALOOSA — The 2024 racing season came to an end over the weekend at the Southern Iowa Speedway on the Mahaska County Fairgrounds in Oskaloosa. Great weather and large fields of race cars made for a great show for the large crowds in attendance both nights. Two complete nights of racing were held for the annual Musco Lighting fall Challenge.
The Mid States Machine Stock Cars provided great racing with 27 cars taking the green flag Friday and 24 cars on Saturday night. Cayden Carter took advantage of a front row start on Friday night and drove to the win on Friday night. Saturday night it was Moberly, Missouri driver Derrick Agee scoring a hard fought win by holding off Carter for the prestigious win.
The Oskaloosa Quality Rentals Sportmods saw Noway, Iowa driver Tim Plummer score a clean sweep of the weekend. Plummer’s win on Friday night was much easier than Saturday nights dramatic win. Plummer was running second to Brayton Carter before Carter’s motor went sour late in the race allowing Plummer and Logan Anderson to set up a last turn charge to the checkers. The two touched slightly coming to the finish line and Plummer took the win by a matter of ½ a car length.
Dustin Griffiths finished a dream season in style by scoring the feature wins both nights in the Parker Tree Service Hobby Stock Class. Friday night Griffiths advanced from a second row start and Saturday night a 4th row start proved to be no problem as the 10G of Griffiths shot into the lead on lap number two on his way to scoring back to back wins.
The Dirt N Asphalt Sport Compacts provided great racing both nights. Friday night Brandon Pickney was the class of 19 car starting field in scoring the win. Saturday night it was Barry Taft scoring a close finish win ahead of Nathan Moody.
Friday night Ben Woods scored the win in the final NAPA Auto Parts of Albia win in the Non-Wing Sprint car class. Woods took the win ahead of Dustin Clark. Saturday night the Nostalgia cars saw Ray Guss Jr. of Milan, Illinois take the win in his Chevelle ahead of Bert McDaniel in the Curt Hansen tribute Chevy Camaro.
With the 2024 season coming to a close the Southern Iowa Fiarboard and the Race committee would like to thank all Fans, Drivers, Crews and officials for making the 24 season another successful one and we look forward to another action packed season in 2025 starting late in April.
Musco Lighting Fall Challenge Southern Iowa Speedway
Feature Results (top 5)
Friday, October 11 Saturday, October 12
Mid States Machine Stock Cars
- 1X Cayden Carter-Oskalooa 1. 14 Agee
- 30M Maguire DeJong-Montezuma 2. 1X Carter
- 00 Johnny Spaw-Cedar Rapids 3. 00 Spaw
- 14 Derrick Agee-Moberly, MO 4. 10G Dustin Griffiths-Hedrick
- 48J Jacob Murray-Hartford 5. 79S Jason See-Albia
Oskaloosa Quality Rentals Sportmods
- 66 Tim Plummer-Norway 1. 66 Plummer
- 53 Logan Anderson-Eddyville 2. 53 Anderson
- 1V Curtis VanDerWal-Osky 3. 01 Brayton Carter-Osky
- 01 Brayton Carter 4. 1V VanDerWal
- 30M Maguire DeJong-Montezuma 5. 84B Carter VanDenberg-New Sharon
Parker tree Service Hobby Stocks
- 10G Dustin Griffiths-Hedrick 1. 10G Griffiths
- 623 Peyton Stephens-Bussey 2. 9 Kolby Sabin-Des Moines
- 9 Sabin 3. 623 Stephens
- 7B Eric Stanton-Indianola 4. 1K Tom Killen-Des Moines
- 73 Aaron Martin-Delta 5. 4C Curt Reed-Des Moines
Dirt N Asphalt Sport Compacts
- 7 Brandon Pickney-Ottumwa 1. 57 Barry Taft-Argyle
- 41 Nathan Moody-Osky 2. 41 Moody
- 57 Taft 3. 2M Matt Moore-Ottumwa
- 2K Katelynn Watts-Osky 4. 23h Alex Hayes-Iowa City
- 33K David Kimmel-New Virginia 5. 1Z Colton Zaputil-Agency
NAPA of Albia Non Wing Sprints Vintage Cars
- 11b Ben Woods-Newton 1. 38 Ray Guss Jr.-Milan, IL
- 16 Dustin Clark-Agency 2. 9 Bert McDaniel-Eldon
- 4 Mike Mayberry-Fremont 3. 50 Terry Mattly-East Moline, IL
- 8W Tyler Groenendyk-Osky 4. 96F Brady Fenton-Ottumwa
- 12 Doug Sylvester-Ottumwa 5. 25 Bobby VanBuskirk-Hedrick
