A familiar face visits victory lane

 Story by Josh Reynolds

     Stuart, IA (August 29) - The racing gods smiled on Stuart Speedway once again as Jeff Anderson, Beau Kaplan, Randy Havlik, John Watson, David Archibald and Jeff Kruse snagged the feature wins on a beautiful Sunday evening. Havlik racked up his seventh win, Kruse, Watson and Archibald their fifth while Anderson and Kaplan got their first wins of the season.

     The IMCA Stock Cars were up first with Michael "Wombat" Walrod and 5 time IMCA National Champion Jeff Anderson leading the pack to the green flag. Anderson spent a few years in the IMCA Modified ranks and this year decided to move back to the class that he enjoyed so much success. Anderson is IMCA's all-time wins leader in the Stock Cars with somewhere in the neighborhood of 230 wins. He would add to that total on this night, leading the race flag to flag to nab the feature win. Marcus Fagan followed to take second while Kenny Hansen, Steve Campbell and Brian Blessington rounded out the top five. Blessington lost two points to Hansen but maintains a thirteen point lead going into the final night of the year. Anderson and Jeremy Gettler won the heat races.

     Ty Luellen and Jamie Schirm brought the IMCA Northern Sport Mods up to speed for their fifteen lap feature. Schirm led the first seven laps before Luellen pulled into the lead. Ankeny driver Beau Kaplan swept into the lead four laps later and held on to take home the win. Schirm would get back around Luellen to take second with Luellen in third. Ty's brother, Clinton Luellen, raced from eighth starting spot to finish in fourth and David Schlicht crossed in fifth. C. Luellen stretched his point lead to eighteen after Jeremy Embrey broke early on and finished in last place. The Luellen brothers got the heat race wins and C. Luellen also won the trophy dash for the night.

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