By Jerry Mackey
OSKALOOSA — The Musco Lighting Fall Challenge presented by Middlekoop Seed and Dickey Transport brought the 2025 racing season to a close in Spectacular fashion over the weekend. The racing action saw two complete nights of racing Friday and Saturday, October 10th and 11th with great racing in front of big crowds on two back to back nights of beautiful weather in Southern Iowa. The Mahaska County Monster ½ mile saw a great field of cars race for the expanded purse at the Southern Iowa Speedway.
The Southern Iowa Fairboard and the race committee would like to thank all the competitors and the especially the fans for making the 2025 season a very successful one at the race track. Lots of planning is already in the works for the 2026 season and it promises to be a spectacular season as the Southern Iowa Speedway will provide our great fans with a variety of shows including some very big specials. Watch the Southern Iowa Fair website and Facebook page for announcements regarding the schedule for 2026 in the coming weeks.
Following are the race results for the Musco Lighting Fall Challenge, the top five in all main events are listed.
Friday, October 10
Mid States Machine Stock Cars
- 10G Dustin Griffiths-Hedrick
- 30Z Tripp Gaylord-Lakewood, CO
- 14 Derrick Agee-Huntsville, MO
- 1X Cayden Carter-Oskaloosa
- 85 Mike Hughes-What Cheer
Oskaloosa Quality Rentals Sportmods
- 30M Tripp Gaylord-Lakewood, CO
- 01 Brayton Carter-Oskaloosa
- 15K Kyle Harwood-New Sharon
- A5 Austin Paul-Newton
- 29 Colton Livezey-New Sharon
Parker Tree Service Hobby Stocks
- 10G Dustin Griffiths-Hedrick
- 52B Brayden Wood-Sigourney
- 2G Bradley Graham-Victor
- 1K Tom Killen Jr.-Des Moines
- 55X Brad Stephens-Bussey
Stout Trucking Sport Compacts
- 41 Nathan Moody-Oskaloosa
- 65 Seth Meinders-Ottumwa
- 2K Katelyn Watts-Oskaloosa
- 2H James Haring-Oskaloosa
- 48C Chuck Fullenkamp-West Point
NAPA Stores of Albia Non-Wing Sprints
- 93 AJ Johnson-Moravia
- 11B Ben Woods-Newton
- 7J Nathan James-Russell
- T4 Tyler Graves-Chariton
- 2 Terry Doud-Batavia
Saturday, October 11
Mid States Machine Stock Cars
- 1X Cayden Carter-Oskaloosa
- 30Z Tripp Gaylord-Lakewood, CO
- 14 Derrick Agee-Huntsville, MO
- 52 Nathan Wood-Sigourney
- 10G Dustin Griffiths-Hedrick
Oskaloosa Quality Rentals Sportmods
- 01 Brayton Carter-Oskaloosa
- 30M Tripp Gaylord-Lakewood, CO
- 15K Kyle Harwood-New Sharon
- 29 Colton Livezey-New Sharon
- A5 Autin Paul-Newton
Parker Tree Service Hobby Stocks
- 10G Dustin Griffiths-Hedrick
- 52B Brayden Wood-Sigourney
- 1K Tom Killen Jr.-Des Moines
- 55 Brad Stephens-Bussey
- 7H Adam Hensel-Atlantic
Stout Trucking Sport Compacts
- 46 Michael Gardner-Des Moines
- 2K Katelyn Watts-Oskaloosa
- 14B Bob (Gabby) Hayes-New Sharon
- 2H James Haring-Oskaloosa
- 11 Caleb Hildebrand-Oskaloosa
Vintage Late Models
- 9 Bert McDaniel-Eldon
- 20 Dino Rodish-Des Moines
- 17 Steve Byers-Indianola
- 77 Bill VanHauen-Nora Springs
- 73 Carl Yaw-Pleasant Hill
