With eventual winner Tom Darbyshire slipping inside of polesitter Brian Harris for a salute to the fans, the IMCA Deery Brothers Summer Series prepares to take the green at the Iowa State Fairgrounds Speedway. (Jim Zimmerline) IMCA Deery Brothers: Darbyshire is Iowa State Fair Deery winner,
Guss gains top spot in Points DES MOINES, Ia. – Aug. 15. Tom Darbyshire was in victory lane while Ray Guss, Jr. was back in the driver’s seat following Monday’s Deery Brothers Summer Series feature at the Iowa State Fairgrounds Speedway. Darbyshire took advantage when pole starter Brian Harris got too high and found the wall, taking over the lead on the 11th circuit and running in front to the finish of the IMCA Late Model 35-lapper on the Des Moines ½-mile.
Tom Darbyshire leads Terry Neal at the Iowa State Fairgrounds. Darbyshire stayed up front for the win, while Neal faded to sixth. (Jim Zimmerline)
Nate Beuseling a Deery winner in the previous two races at Cedar County and Knoxville Raceways, could only muster a 15th place showing at Iowa State Fairgrounds. (Jim Zimmerline) Todd Cooney gave chase but couldn’t catch Darbyshire in the race to the checkers. Harris, Jeff Aikey and Colby Springsteen completed the state fair show top five. The $2,000 win was Darbyshire’s Deery career third and his first on the tour since May of 2008. Guss, meanwhile, took over the top spot in the point standings with his ninth place finish. Andy Eckrich was the leader at the start of the night but was saddled by motor problems in both his heat race and the feature. After borrowing Ryan Griffith’s car and starting last in the field of 24, Eckrich was the cause of a lap 31 caution and was scored 20th. With 13 events in the record book, defending series champion Guss has a seven point advantage over Eckrich and Terry Neal, who ran sixth at Des Moines.
Tom Darbyshire after his third career Deery Brothers win. (Jim Zimmerline) Nate Beuseling had come to town with a streak of two Deery wins and finished 15th in his first career first Iowa State Fairgrounds outing. He also pocketed the $250 Sunoco Race Fuels feature qualifier drawing prize. Next on the silver anniversary series schedule is the $10,000 to win Pepsi USA Nationals on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 2-3 at 34 Raceway in West Burlington. Fifteen drivers with perfect attendance through the first 13 events of the tour will take the green flag in the Ironman Challenge race on opening night of the Pepsi. That race pays $750 to win.
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Scott James battles #13 Barry Doss in heat race action at Florence (Ky.) Speedway, but in the $2,000-to-win feature, the only thing anyone saw was the tail end of James' #81 car. (Roy Walker)
After plenty of trash-talking via the electronic media between Jeff Matthews and Ivedent Lloyd last week, it was #21 Lloyd who got the final word as he reeled in #33 Matthews to win Friday's LM feature at Oclala, Fla.'s Bubba Raceway Park. (R.E. Wing)
Fans at Markleysburg, Pa.'s Roaring Knob Motorsports Comlex were treated to dual LM features Saturday - one a makeup from a May 5th rainout. (Above) Tim Senic challenges eventual regular feature winner Chuck Harper, while Jared Hawkins (below) claimed the makeup race. (Tommy Micheals)
Henley, Missouri's Jason Russell leads the way to Victory Lane in the ULMS Late Model feature at Lucas Oil Speedway Saturday. (Chris Bork)
Some fierce racing action at Lucas Oil speedway. (Chris Bork)
Dalton, Ga.'s Craig Reece returned to Dixie Speedway Saturday and led all the way to win the Crate LM victory. (Steve Hixson)
Ray Guss Jr. races last week's Quad City Speedway winner, Mike Murphy, Jr. This time, it was advantage Guss. (Chris Damitz)
With a strong motor back into his mount, Veteran Lamar Scoggins claimed last Friday's Crate LM victory at Boyd's Speedway. (Steve Hixson)
Veteran racer Lance Matthees navigates Spring Lake, Minnesota's Deer Creek Speedway before taking Saturday's WISSOTA Late Model checkers. (Jason Durst)
Racing hard at mid-pack, it's the dueling 55s of Cory Mahder (inside) and Greg Nippoldt at Deer Creek. (Jason Durst)
Ryan King (above and below) swept both the Ltd. Late Model and Crate Late Model features Saturday at 411 Motor Speedway in Seymour, Tenn. (Chad Wells)
Still riding his wave in Iowa, Mike Murphy, Jr. in early action before taking the main event win at Davenport last Friday. (Chris Damitz)
Jason Jameson ran a gauntlet to finally capture another win Friday night at Moler
Raceway Park (see main page). (Roy
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After holding back a charge from Alex Ferree, Chub Frank drove home with a Friday night win at Lernerville Speedway in Sarver, Pa. (John Stivason)
Bobby Pierce, Brett Sievert, and Mike Glynn race in a tight pack in Kankakee (Ill.) Speedway's "Crosstown Cup", but (below) it was ultimately Shawn Toczek (42) here racing the high side of Mike Provenzano, who sailed to the win. (Dan Simpson)
NALMS Suspends Remaining Season
In a statement released to the racing media Monday, Northern All All Stars Late Model Series (NALMS) owners Shawn Hall and Bob Mooney relased the following statement:
To all NALMS drivers and fans,
Northern Allstars Late Model Series regrets to inform all of our drivers and fans that as of today (May 14, 2012) we will suspend all series races for the remaining 2012 season. The primary reason for the decision to discontinue the series was mainly economics. Tracks, teams and fans are having a hard time these days with the cost of living in general. With the cost of fuel, parts, tires, tickets and lodging, many people just cannot afford to travel to our shows, so we feel it's best to stop for now and try to regroup for the 2013 season.
Our series needs to be able to have at least 18 to 20 shows to cover our cost of putting on these shows and our drivers point funds. With many tracks cutting back on their special events and other tracks just choosing not to have specials at all, it's has really cut our options for race tracks down to a very few unless you are willing to travel several hours away from the Central Illinois area, and that is not cost effective for the racing teams or fans.
In closing we would like to thank all of the drivers and fans whom have supported the series over the years and we hope to be able to come back with a bigger and better season for everyone in 2013.
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