Monday, August 25, 2014

Cordes sweeps weekend, tops Modified wins list in Vinton

The memorable season for Troy Cordes continued Sunday night.

The IMCA Modified driver earned his sixth win of the season at Benton County Speedway to extend his points lead. In the process, Cordes became the all-time leading feature winner in division history in Vinton. (complete results follow)

Ty Glass held the early lead while Patrick Flannagan ran the high side into contention. Flannagan powered around Glass on the fourth circuit to assume command while Cordes worked through the pack from a fifth row starting spot.

After being mired in traffic, Cordes raced the low groove into the top three on lap seven and then set his sights on the front-runners, who had built a half-straightaway lead.

Cordes reeled in the leaders just past the midway point of the 20-lapper and powered beneath them to assume command on lap 11. He drove away to score his 16th sanctioned win of the season and the 96th IMCA Modified win of his career.

Of those 96 wins, 45 have come in weekly racing in Vinton, making him the all-time wins leader in the division on the Vinton oval. Nine of his 45 Vinton wins have come in the month of August.

Entering Sunday night, Cordes was tied with Scott Hogan for the most Vinton Modified wins. He was also tied atop the wins list with Hogan for 224 calendar days from September 2009 to May 2010. This marks the first time in his career that Cordes has had sole possession of the wins lead. Only Cordes and Arlo Becker have had multiple stints as the Modified wins leader at the speedway.

Cordes, also the winner in Independence Saturday night, has swept feature wins over the same weekend five times in his career. That ties Jack Mitchell for the most Modified sweeps in history between the two tracks. Modified sweeps at Independence and Vinton have occurred 25 times. The last time Cordes did it was July 21-22, 2007.

Scott Pippert won a thrilling battle with Curtis Roster to earn his second IMCA Stock Car win of the season.

Roster took control on lap three with Pippert in tow. The top two broke away from the pack with Roster running the high side and Pippert down low.

Pippert was able to keep pace with Roster in turns three and four, but fought a push in turns one and two each time around the fast, smooth quarter-mile.

Pippert pulled alongside Roster over the final circuit and surged ahead at the line to score the victory.

With five Stock Car wins in weekly racing history in Vinton, Pippert moved into 10th on the all-time list. He, Damon Murty and Norman Chesmore are the only Stock Car drivers with multiple wins in each of the last two seasons.

National points contender Clint Luellen made the pull from to Vinton from Minburn Sunday night since his normal Sunday venue, Stuart Speedway, was not scheduled to race. Luellen made it worth the trip as he earned his first win in Vinton.

Kyle Olson took the lead at the drop of the green and quickly pulled away from the field while Luellen raced from a fifth row starting spot.

Luellen worked into a side-by-side battle with Dave Burrell for second when Olson bobbled in turns three and four on lap seven. Luellen made his way around Olson en route to the victory.

Luellen became the 51st different SportMod winner in weekly racing history in Vinton. The seven first-time SportMod winners this season ranks as second most in track history (2005).

When front-runners Justin Wacha and Benji Irvine bobbled in turn three with just a couple laps remaining, the door opened for Jacob Keiser to drive to his first win of the season in the 15-lap IMCA Hobby Stock feature.

The win was Keiser's eighth in weekly racing history at the speedway and moved him into a tie with Jerry Dedrick for 18th on the all-time list. Three of his eight wins have come in the month of August.

Keiser has now won at least one Hobby Stock feature in each of the last six years at the speedway. That is the longest active streak in the division.

Darren Ackerman held off Todd Cooney in the final appearance of the IMCA Late Model Sunday Series.

Cooney took the lead early from a second row starting spot while Ackerman made his way through traffic from a fifth row start. He was running fifth following a lap six yellow.

Two laps after the restart, Ackerman raced the low groove into the runner-up spot and then made his way past Cooney just prior to a lap 11 yellow.

Ackerman denied late pressure from Cooney to take his first win of the season in the 20-lap event.

Don Erger led all 10 laps to earn his second straight win in the BCS Micro Mod division. Erger held off pressure from Buster Pate and Chuck Ihde to drive to victory,  his second straight.

Adam Gates earned his third straight win in the IMCA Sport Compact 10-lapper. He led the entire event to beat points leader Bill Whalen Jr. to the checkers.

With four wins on the season, Gates has five for his career in Vinton. He is now tied with Doug Laughridge for eighth on the division's wins list.

Gates is the sixth Sport Compact driver in track history to string together at least three straight wins. A win next week would join him with Nathan Chandler and Bill Whalen Jr. as the only drivers to win four straight.

For those who read my blog for Vinton results, I will not be at Benton County Speedway next Sunday. I am heading to Marshalltown Speedway Friday night and will head to Boone immediately following the races to set up my camper in anticipation of next week's IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey's.

I'll stick around Boone Saturday night for the season championship program and then hang out Sunday as folks from all over the country make their way to Boone before we kick off America's Racin' Vacation Monday.

I'll still keeps the stats and update the numbers at a later date and will return to Vinton for the season championship program September 14.

Have a great week and I'll see you in Boone!

RESULTS
IMCA MODIFIED
Feature: 1. 71 Troy Cordes, Dunkerton; 2. 00 J. D. Auringer, Waterloo; 3. F7 Patrick Flannagan, Cedar Rapids; 4. 12D Joe Docekal, Dysart; 5. 20L Zach Less, Hopkinton; 6. 80 Jerry Dedrick, Vinton; 7. 12T Ty Glass, Cedar Rapids; 8. 4 Ryan Maitland, Waterloo; 9. 57B Dennis Betzer, Central City; 10. 17J Jason Seegmiller, Dubuque; 11. 63 Kelly Pestka, Preston; DNS 7 Todd Jensen, Waterloo.
Heat one: 1. Glass; 2. Maitland; 3. Less; 4. Cordes; 5. Docekal; 6. Seegmiller.
Heat two: 1. Auringer; 2. Flannagan; 3. Betzer; 4. Dedrick; 5. Pestka; DNS Jensen.

IMCA LATE MODEL
Feature: 1. 53 Darren Ackerman, Readlyn; 2. 30 Todd Cooney, Des Moines; 3. 70 Jerry King, Waterloo; 4. 45 Curt Martin, Independence; 5. 22 Charlie McKenna, Clear Lake; 6. 12 Don Pataska, Miles; 7. 60 Ben Seemann, Waterloo; 8. 99D Darrel DeFrance, Marshalltown; 9. 77 Dirk Hamilton, Jesup; 10. 05 Paul Nagle, Nevada; 11. 23 Paul Conrad, Colo; 12. 5 Scott Welsh, Cedar Rapids; 13. 99 Luke Pestka, Robins.
Heat one: 1. King; 2. Pataska; 3. Cooney; 4. Hamilton; 5. Ackerman; 6. DeFrance; 7. Welsh.
Heat two: 1. McKenna; 2. Martin; 3. Conrad; 4. Pestka; 5. Wagner; 6. Nagle.

IMCA STOCK CAR
Feature: 1. 47 Scott Pippert, Elberon; 2. 8 Curtis Roster, Vinton; 3. 67 Justin Stander, Shellsburg; 4. 15 Norman Chesmore, Rowley; 5. 76 Mike Galli, Urbana; 6. 3J Jarod Weepie, Dunkerton; 7. 74C Cole Mather, Dundee; 8. 1X Michael Peterson, Montezuma; 9. 62G Adam Gebel, Cedar Falls; 10. 8B Scott Beauregard, Brandon.
Heat one: 1. Stander; 2. Weepie; 3. Beauregard; 4. Peterson; 5. Galli.
Heat two: 1. Roster; 2. Pippert; 3. Gebel; 4. Chesmore; 5. Mather.

IMCA NORTHERN SPORTMOD
Feature: 1. 3L Clint Luellen, Minburn; 2. 3K Kyle Olson, Cedar Rapids; 4. T23 Tony Olson, Cedar Rapids; 4. 199 Dave Burrell, Dysart; 5. 22 Matt Petrzelka, Norway; 6. 00 Jim Buhlman, Cedar Falls; 7. MR09 Kurt Hogan, Vinton; 8. 22H Curt Hilmer, Dysart; 9. 72 Brett Lowry, Montezuma; 10. J2 Dave Schulze, Keystone; 11. 17 Dawn Krall, Evansdale; 12. 10S John Schaefer, La Porte City; 13. 95 Mike McDonald, Cedar Rapids; 14. 3R Danny Dvorak, Vinton; 15. 55V Jared VanDerWal, LeGrand; DNS/16. 19 Nate Smith, Cedar Falls.
Heat one: 1. T. Olson; 2. Burrell; 3. Buhlman; 4. Petrzelka; 5. K. Olson; 6. Dvorak; 7. Schaefer; 8. Smith.
Heat two: 1. Luellen; 2. Schulze; 3. McDonald; 4. Hilmer; 5. Lowry; 6. Hogan; 7. Krall; 8. VanDerWal.

IMCA HOBBY STOCK
Feature: 1. 07 Jacob Keiser, Marengo; 2. 46 Brian Happel, Vinton; 3. 17K Kyle Parizek, Belle Plaine; 4. 79 Benji Irvine, Stanley; 5. 4P Matt Pohlman, Keystone; 6. 5 Marcus Wayne, Independence; 7. 78 Matt Brown, Dysart; 8. M35 Chad Mannion, Waterloo; 9. 7M Matt Tiernan, Stuart; 10. 7B Jim Ball, Independence; DQ 45 Justin Wacha, Vinton.
Heat one: 1. Brown; 2. Keiser; 3. Irvine; 4. Wayne; 5. Tiernan; 6. Mannion.
Heat two: 1. Wacha; 2. Happel; 3. Parizek; 4. Pohlman; 5. Ball.

IMCA SPORT COMPACT
Feature:
1. 007 Adam Gates, Marion; 2. 00W Bill Whalen Jr., Riverside; 3. 36DD Gary Peiffer, Troy Mills; 4. 3S Craig Streeter, Vinton.
Heat: 1. Gates; 2. Peiffer; 3. Streeter; 4. Whalen.

BCS MICRO MOD
Feature: 1. 6E Don Erger, Brandon; 2. 111 Buster Pate, Hiawatha; 3. 1 Chuck Ihde, Decorah; 4. 2 Brandon Maitland, Waterloo; 5. 5 John Hershberger, Rochester, Minn.; 6. 00 Brody Willett, Alburnett; 7. 71 Tristan Cordes, Dunkerton; 8. 7 Adam Rogich, Mabel, Minn.; 9. 75 Cole McNeal, Dysart; 10. 18 Jeff Davis, La Porte City.
Heat one: 1. Pate; 2. Maitland; 3. Davis; 4. Rogich; DNS Cordes.
Heat two: 1. Willett; 2. Hershberger; 3. Erger; 4. Ihde; 5. McNeal.

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