Entering Sunday night, Jacob Salisbury had been behind the wheel of a race car only 11 nights. In those 11 nights, his best finish was a ninth place run May 24 at Independence Motor Speedway - the only top-10 finish of his young career. Sunday night at Benton County Speedway, the rookie led all 15 laps of the IMCA Northern SportMod feature to earn his first win. (complete results below)
Salisbury took the lead at the drop of the green with Dakoda Sellers in pursuit. The lead pair quickly pulled away from the field until the caution flag waved with seven laps scored complete.
On the restart, Salisbury again took charge while Colby Heishman and Brett Lowry made their way into contention. Heishman reeled in the leader and was pressuring Salisbury when the caution flag waved again with three laps to go.
When racing resumed, Salisbury quickly pulled away from traffic, leaving Lowry to battle Heishman for the runner-up spot. Although Lowry worked the low side past Heishman for second as the white flag waved, Salisbury raced away to victory.
With the victory, Salisbury became the 48th different Northern SportMod feature winner in weekly racing history in Vinton and the fourth first-time winner through the first six weeks of the season.
Six different SportMod drivers have reached victory lane to start the season, which ties the record that was established to start the 2007 season. Of the six different drivers with SportMod wins so far this year, none of them have earned more than two career wins at the speedway.
In IMCA Modified action, Troy Cordes started in the fifth row of that 20-lap feature, but the time he spent that deep in the field was short-lived.
Exiting turn two on the first lap, Cordes ran the low groove into the top five by the middle of the back stretch. He made his way into second place two laps later.
Cordes quickly reeled in Patrick Flannagan and worked the low groove to pull even with the leader as they exited turn two on lap four. He took the lead at the flagstand and pulled away from the field to drive to victory and take over the points lead.
Also last week's Modified winner, Cordes has now won back-to-back features in the division eight separate times in his career on the Vinton oval. That leads all drivers. He has never won three straight features at the speedway.
Next week, Cordes will look to become the ninth driver in track history to win three straight Modified features in weekly racing. Any guesses on the eight who have done it? If so, comment on the link to this blog on my facebook page and I will let you know if you're right. Should all eight drivers not be correctly guessed, I'll let you know who they are next week... if Cordes wins.
So far this season, Cordes has earned three wins (all in the last four weeks), the most since his five-win season in 2009. All-time, Cordes owns 42 Modified wins in weekly racing history in Vinton, just two shy of Scott Hogan at the top of the list.
In his third appearance of the season, Justin Temeyer raced to his first win of the year in the IMCA Stock Car division. From a fourth row start, Temeyer worked through traffic while Scott Pippert challenged Adam Gebel out front.
Gebel held the early lead until Pippert worked the low side into the lead on lap three. Temeyer made his way through the pack and past Gebel just prior to the race's only caution after nine laps.
On the restart, Temeyer worked the low side of Pippert and took the top spot as the leaders exited turn two on the 11th circuit. He led the remainder of the 15-lapper to score the win.
Temeyer has now won at least one Stock Car feature in 12 of the 14 seasons the division has been part of the weekly program in Vinton. His 39 wins in Vinton place him second to Damon Murty on the division's all-time list at the speedway. Nine of those wins have come in the month of June.
Benji Irvine drove to his third win of the year in the 15-lap IMCA Hobby Stock feature. Irvine worked the low groove through traffic and settled into second just prior to a caution on lap three. Irvine made his way around Justin Wacha for the lead shortly after racing resumed to drive away to victory.
With three career Hobby Stock wins in weekly racing history in Vinton, Irvine now sits tied for 34th on the all-time list with Cliff Tharp, Forrest Frost, Kris Walker and Rod Grother. Irvine has earned one win each during the months of April, May and June this season.
Bill Whalen Jr. drove to his fourth straight win and fifth victory in six weeks in the IMCA Sport Compact division. Whalen took the lead on the first lap and never looked back to drive away to victory.
Whalen's four consecutive wins tie the track record set by Nathan Chandler in 2012. Chandler matched his own mark again last season. A win for Whalen next week would establish a new Sport Compact record for consecutive wins in Vinton.
Whalen remains third on the track's all-time wins list for Sport Compacts with 16 trips to victory lane.
Buster Pate earned his second straight points win and third win of the season in the BCS Micro Mods. After chasing Brandon Maitland for the first four circuits, Pate worked the low side into the lead on the fifth lap of that 10-lapper. He ran unchallenged over the final half of the event to earn the win.
Tuesday night, I plan to attend the Deery Brothers Summer Series for IMCA Late Models/XSAN Hawkeye Dirt Tour for IMCA Modifieds double-dip at Cedar County Raceway in Tipton. I'll call the action on XSAN for those who are unable to attend. The twinbill special in Tipton is always a fantastic show, so if you can make it to Tipton Tuesday night, you'll definitely want to make plans to be there.
Have a great week!
RESULTS
IMCA MODIFIED
Feature: 1. 71 Troy Cordes, Dunkerton; 2. 20L Zach Less, Hopkinton; 3. 33D Scott Hogan, Vinton; 4. F7 Patrick Flannagan, Cedar Rapids; 5. 10K Ronn Lauritzen, Jesup; 6. 57B Dennis Betzer, Central City; 7. 7 Todd Jensen, Waterloo; 8. 14 Tom Hanson, Vinton; 9. 80 Jerry Dedrick, Vinton; 10. 12D Joe Docekal, Dysart; 11/DNS. 7S Robbie Schmuecker, Vinton; 12/DNS. 415 Josh Barta, Cedar Falls; 13/DNS. 00 J.D. Auringer, Waterloo.
Heat one: 1. Cordes; 2. Flannagan; 3. Lauritzen; 4. Schmuecker; 5. Hanson; 6. Auringer; DNS Dedrick.
Heat two: 1. Less; 2. Docekal; 3. Hogan; 4. Betzer; 5. Barta; 6. Jensen.
IMCA STOCK CAR
Feature: 1. 56T Justin Temeyer, Independence; 2. 47 Scott Pippert, Elberon; 3. 15 Norman Chesmore, Rowley; 4. 67 Justin Stander, Shellsburg; 5. 8 Curtis Roster, Vinton; 6. 31S Paul Shepherd, Marengo; 7. 12 Duayne Herb, Cedar Rapids; 8. 8B Scott Beauregard, Brandon; 9. 62G Adam Gebel, Cedar Falls; 10. 38 Matt Brown, Marion; 11. 171 Buck Swanson, Waterloo; 12. 4JR Russell Damme Jr., Waterloo; 13. 76 Mike Galli, Urbana.
Heat one: 1. Herb; 2. Pippert; 3. Shepherd; 4. Swanson; 5. Brown; 6. Beauregard; 7. Galli.
Heat two: 1. Temeyer; 2. Chesmore; 3. Gebel; 4. Damme; 5. Stander; 6. Roster.
IMCA NORTHERN SPORTMOD
Feature: 1. 36 Jacob Salisbury, Dunkerton; 2. 72 Brett Lowry, Montezuma; 3. CH19 Colby Heishman, Brooklyn; 4. 34Z Cory Van Zante, Sully; 5. J2 Dave Schulze, Keystone; 6. 22H Curt Hilmer, Dysart; 7. 22 Matt Petrzelka, Norway; 8. 7D Dakoda Sellers, Vinton; 9. 00 Jim Buhlman, Cedar Falls; 10. 4 Ryan Maitland, Waterloo; 11. 57R Ryan King, Montour; 12. 7SR Shawn Ritter, Keystone; 13. 95 Mike McDonald, Cedar Rapids; 14. 10S John Schaefer, La Porte City; 15. 199 Dave Burrell, Dysart; 16. 16K Brandon Morris, Cedar Rapids; 17. 42L Lonnie Mercer, Urbana; 18. 198 Sam Wieben, Dysart; 19. 3B Brian Anderson, Garrison; 20. 3R Danny Dvorak, Vinton.
Heat one: 1. Schulze; 2. Hilmer; 3. Sellers; 4. Salisbury; 5. McDonald; 6. Dvorak; 7. Morris.
Heat two: 1. Heishman; 2. Maitland; 3. Van Zante; 4. Wieben; 5. King; 6. Schaefer; 7. Mercer.
Heat three: 1. Lowry; 2. Petrzelka; 3. Ritter; 4. Buhlman; 5. Burrell; 6. Anderson.
IMCA HOBBY STOCK
Feature: 1. 79 Benji Irvine, Stanley; 2. 07 Jacob Keiser, Marengo; 3. 17K Kyle Parizek, Belle Plaine; 4. 45 Justin Wacha, Vinton; 5. 46 Brian Happel, Vinton; 6. 4P Matt Pohlman, Keystone; 7. 29 Nathan Ballard, Marengo; 8. 357 Brett Vanous, Quasqueton; 9/DNS. 78 Matt Brown, Dysart.
Heat: 1. Keiser; 2. Wacha; 3. Parizek; 4. Ballard; 5. Irvine; 6. Pohlman; 7. Happel; 8. Vanous; 9. Brown.
IMCA SPORT COMPACT
Feature: 1. 00W Bill Whalen Jr., Riverside; 2. 02 John Gill, Marshalltown; 3. 3S Craig Streeter, Vinton; 4. 99J Jeremy Lerch, Vinton; 5. 4 Mike Tedesco, Jesup; 6. 73B Andrew Bieber, Independence.
Heat: 1. Gill; 2. Whalen; 3. Lerch; 4. Streeter; 5. Bieber; 6. Tedesco.
BCS MICRO MOD
Feature: 1. 111 Buster Pate, Hiawatha; 2. 2 Brandon Maitland, Waterloo; 3. 00 Brody Willett, Cedar Rapids; 4. 71 Tristan Cordes, Dunkerton; 5. 111A A.J. Witten, Cedar Rapids.
Heat: 1. Pate; 2. Maitland; 3. Willett; 4. Cordes; 5. Witten.
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