Sunday night at the Quad City Speedway in addition to the six divisions in action the highly anticipated box cars were in action. Several age groups competed, including two heats in the ultra competitive five year old division. Kyle Hines made his long awaited racing debut in the five year olds heat one in his brand new RGB (Roberts/Guss/Beuseling) Super Box Late Model. Kyle's box car was half red with a 58 like the Roberts/Guss IMCA Late Model and half black with a 46 like Nate Beuseling's IMCA Late Model. The flagman gave the instruction and after a countdown from five the green waved and apparently none of the kids listened to those instruction and instead rounding one of the helpers and coming back they started running the entire front stretch, almost getting to turn one before they stopped and began to sprint all the way back. Kyle would cross the line forth. Kyle ran a strong race and with a better set up from his crew chief, he will be back and better then ever next time.
As for the big cars, some familiar faces returned to victory lane, getting the monkeys off their backs. In the IMCA Late Models it was Todd Malmstrom returning his 75M machine to victory lane for the second time in 2015, after holding off a very strong Matt Ryan. Ryan has been on a tear lately and he tried several times coming out of turn four to get by Malmstrom on the very bottom but Malmstrom would not be denied. Travis Denning had an excellent run finishing third followed by Gary Webb and Mike Garland.
In the IMCA Modifieds, Matt Werner finally parked his Meier Construction #93 in the winner's circle. In 2015, Werner and his team have had there ups and downs and looked like the car beat to on many nights at Davenport and QCS but couldn't seem to get that elusive "W". Sunday night was a different story as Werner dominated final 10 laps of the 20 lap and picked up the win. Colona's Chris Lawrence had a solid run finishing second followed Jason Pershy, who started 11th, Greg Durbin, who started 15th, and Terry Rentfro.
Controversy surrounded the Street Stocks Sunday night. Korey Peterson appeared to make a triumphant return to the Street Stock, after a brief run in the IMCA Late Models, leading all 15 laps of the feature but unfortunately his 6K machine did not pass the post race inspection so Rock Island's Rick Schriner was awarded the victory and Jarett Franzen, who Schriner battled with throughout the feature, took second. Rob Henry finished behind Franzen but his car was also disqualified in the post race inspection so Randy Lamar was awarded third.
The IMCA Sport Mods put on probably the best race of the night with Austin Moyer and Bryce Garnhart battling it out lap after lap. Garnhart wasted little bolting to the front and grabbing the lead while Moyer, who was making his QCS debut, charged through the field from his 10th starting spot. Before long Garnhart and Moyer were all over each fighting for the lead. Moyer would get by Garnhart and put #2X Gade Race Engines car in victory lane. Garnhart finished second followed by Jarett Franzen, John Irwin, and Joe Grant.
Shon Sanders won again in the Mod Lites but it wasn't a walk in the park like the last couple Sundays. Clinton's Mike Morrow looked like he had the feature win locked up after leading the first 10 laps but on lap 11 Sanders would get by Morrow and go on to win. Morrow would take second followed by Brian Schnell, Erik Close, and Brad Lucy.
In the 4-Cylinders an orange car won again, shocking right? This time it was Zach Dahl piloting the D23 car from the 8th spot, through the field, and into the winner's circle. The top five cars were neck and neck for the first six laps but after a caution on lap six the field got spread out with Dahl winning followed by Dustin Forbes, Ken Stogdell, Cody Brewster, and Brandt Cole.
Thanks again to the K&S Promotions and the Quad City Speedway for allowing Kyle and myself to cover the races at QCS.
This coming weekend is a huge weekend for the IMCA Modifieds in the Quad City area. Friday night the Davenport Speedway is hosting their annual $2,000 to win Modified Madness special. Saturday night Darkside Promotions at the Jackson County Speedway in Maquoketa, Iowa, are running $2,000 to win IMCA Modifieds. Then Sunday night is the Gary Reinhart Memorial at the Quad City Speedway paying $1,000 to win for the IMCA Modifieds. Kyle and I will be watching some racing this weekend we just don't know where yet. More then likely we will be doing the Friday and Sunday thing since Mom will be out of town Saturday so Kyle and I will be on Bennett (future box car racer in the Hines family) duty.
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