IMCA Modifieds Foreshadow An Exciting 2015 Season at QCS

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If Sunday night's IMCA Modified feature at the Quad City Speedway is any indication of things to come in 2015 in that division then you're not going to want to miss a Sunday there. After winning his heat race, Matt Werner drew the 4th starting spot for the feature and wasted little time moving to first. By lap three Werner had control of the race and began pulling away but cautions kept bunching the field back up. While Werner had control at the point, three former track champions, Doug Crampton, Milo Veloz Jr., and Greg Durbin, were charging to the front. M. Veloz reached Werner first and ran side by side for several laps and then M. Veloz put a slide job on Werner to take over the lead. Werner wouldn't go away though and continued to battle M. Veloz in each turn on each lap. While this battle was waging on, the #8 machine of Greg Durbin patiently ran the bottom, lap in and lap out, and on the white flag G. Durbin was scored the leader and he would hold off both M. Veloz and Werner to take home the victory in his first night out in 2015. M. Veloz would take second followed Werner, Brandon Durbin, and Doug Crampton. Heat race winners were B. Durbin and Werner.

 

In the IMCA SportMods, Bryan Brinker and Phil Anderson battled for the entire feature but the #1 of Brinker would lead every lap en route to what seemed to be his first career IMCA SportMod feature win. Unfortunately for Brinker, he did not pass the post race tech inspection and was disqualified so the feature win was awarded to Phil Anderson, who Friday night won the Street Stock feature at the Davenport Speedway. Ryan Reed would be given second followed by Brandon Jewell, Joe Grant, and Ben Hamburg. Heat race winners were Grant and Hamburg.

 

Mike Pershing went two for two this season in the Mod Lite division. A lap one caution, that sent Shon Sanders and Erik Close to the back of the pack, set the table for Pershing to dominate again. Sanders and Close did manage to navigate their way back to the front but Pershing was too strong and parked his #16P machine in victory lane. The 69H of Jimmy Halcomb took second followed by Close, Sanders, and Dan Guss. The heat race winners were Brad Lucy and D. Guss.

 

The Street Stocks, much like Friday night at the Davenport Speedway, had the smallest car count but one of the most exciting feature finishes. This time though Keith Blum was on the other end of a last lap pass for the win. Friday night Blum lost to Phil Anderson on the final lap coming to checkered flag but Sunday night Blum did it to Perry Gellerstedt. With five laps to go Blum was all over Gellerstedt's bumper and on the final lap, in turns 3 & 4, Blum got under Gellerstedt and beat him to flagstand for the win. Following Gellerstedt for the remaining top five were Jeremy Gustaf, Casey Wages, and Rick Schriner. The heat race winner was Blum.

 

In the IMCA Late Model feature, Mike Garland was in the right place at the right time during their 25 lapper. Muscatine's Jon Brauns had control of the race early on with former track champion, Todd Malmstrom, inching closer and closer each lap. Lapped traffic slowed Brauns just enough to allow Malmstrom to get right on the rear of Brauns' #22B car. Malmstrom tried a slide job in turns 1 & 2 but couldn't get it to stick and he collected himself and Brauns in the process that brought out the yellow and sent both cars to rear. Shawn Mulvany and Garland, who were running third and fourth, formed the first row on the restart and it was Garland that grabbed the lead and went on to score the win. Mulvany was second followed by LeRoy Brenner, Chuck Hanna, and Eric Sanders. Heat race winner was Garland.

 

The 4-Cylinder feature was as exciting as ever and the top four were slicing and dicing each and every lap. Some paint was traded coming to the checkered flag with Brandon Dahl picking up another feature win this season followed by Brandon Setser, Cameron Poci, Zach Dahl, and Steven Spiker. Heat race winners were Z. Dahl and Setser.

 

It was a very exciting Sunday night at the Quad City Speedway as usual and I was able to get nacho supreme so I consider the night a success. Kyle had a blast and informed me that he'll be driving a  green, blue, and black #81 late model when he's older and I can come over to his house and help work on it and come to the pits when he races and change tires.

 

I also want to thank the entire K&S Promotions staff for their hospitality.

 

Kyle and I will be back at it again this coming Friday and Sunday as the Corn Belt Clash vs. the MARS Series invades both the Davenport Speedway and Quad City Speedway.