OSBORN, Mo – The first race night of the IMCA Missouri Nationals at US 36 Raceway provided for some fireworks as ten cars into each class locked into the Saturday Main Events.
In the IMCA Modifieds, Steven Bowers Jr. took the early lead and renewed a season long battle with US 36 points champion Chad Andersen. Bowers never had more than a few car lengths lead over Andersen. With a few laps to go, mechanical failure with Bowers left Andersen out front to pick up the win. Mark Schafman, Blake Peeler, Danny Holt and Curtis Dreasher completed the top five.
The IMCA Sprint Cars changed the lead several times during the course of the night. After several back and forth battled, Trevor Grossenbacher had the car out front, holding off a challenge from Toby Chapman to take a trip to Westfall GMC Victory Lane. Chapman finished second with, Stuart Snyder third, JR Topper fourth and Jesse Lindberg in fifth.
The IMCA Stock Cars had a great battle between JJ Baumli, Mike Nichols and Chad Clancy for the top spot. Baumli led early and battled side-by-side with Nichols for several laps before Nichols dominated the rest of the feature, earning a qualifying feature win. Baumli finished second with Clancy third. Connor Masoner and Blake Peeler completed the top five.
Austin Charles had the dominate IMCA Sport Mod for most of the race, before mechanical failure put him pit side. Steven Clancy inherited the lead and drove away for the qualifying night feature win. Derek Hall finished second. Dakota Girard, Adam Vrbka and Chad Shaw completed the top five.
The top ten from each qualifier lock into the pole dash redraw and are guaranteed a top 10 starting position in the final race day, Saturday, October 10.
US 36 Raceway Results 10-9-2020
IMCA Modified
Main Event Qualifier
- 8C-Chad Andersen[5]; 2. 34-Mark Schafman[8]; 3. 52M-Blake Peeler[10]; 4. 7D-Danny Holt[2]; 5. C4-Curtis Dreasher[11]; 6. 48X-Jim Masoner Jr[3]; 7. 49D-Josh Adkins[15]; 8. 91J-Jaylen Wettengel[13]; 9. 007-Zach Nitsch[16]; 10. 19X-Josh Munsen[18]; 11. 04-Brody Sim[14]; 12. 14C-Bill Carter[9]; 13. (DNF) 77-Steven Bowers Jr[1]; 14. (DNF) 42RH-Ronnie Hults[12]; 15. (DNF) 11-Scott Brown[6]; 16. (DNF) 51D-Benjie Douglas[7]; 17. (DNF) 4G-Randy Herrmann[19]; 18. (DNS) 02-Greg Querry; 19. (DQ) 33-Nicholas Carpenter[4]
IMCA Sprint Cars
Main Event Qualifier
- 35-Trevor Grossenbacher[8]; 2. 7-Toby Chapman[4]; 3. 5-Stuart Snyder[9]; 4. 92J-JR Topper[2]; 5. 7L-Jesse Lindberg[6]; 6. 55-Kenny Potter[5]; 7. 15-Jack Potter[12]; 8. 38-Chris Couch[11]; 9. 12P-Ryan Navratil[3]; 10. 33-Monty Cook[15]; 11. (DNF) 76-Jay Russell[10]; 12. (DNF) 43-Jake Greenwood[14]; 13. (DNF) 3TJ-Joel Thorpe[7]; 14. (DNS) 20P-Shon Pointer; 15. (DQ) 36JR-Camdin Couch[13]; 16. (DQ) 12-Tyler Drueke[1]
IMCA Stock Car
Main Event Qualifier
- 63-Mike Nichols[3]; 2. 46-JJ Baumli[2]; 3. 21C-Chad Clancy[1]; 4. 47X-Connor Masoner[5]; 5. 292-Blake Peeler[9]; 6. 72X-Nate Barnes[4]; 7. 34X-Mich Ross[10]; 8. 75X-Randy Smith Jr[7]; 9. 99X-Brian Labonte[12]; 10. 74-Matt Smith[14]; 11. 26-Anthony Whitham[6]; 12. 54-Eddie Ingram[21]; 13. 11-Christine Holt[11]; 14. 6B-Melvin Bailey[24]; 15. 227-Joe Abrams[19]; 16. (DNF) 110W-Gerald Wahwahsuck[16]; 17. (DNF) 20X-Carson Masoner[17]; 18. (DNF) 91J-Jaylen Wettengel[8]; 19. (DNF) 53-Ricky Bobby[15]; 20. (DNF) 99-Jesse Perez[22]; 21. (DNS) 163-Scott Brown; 22. (DNS) 91T-CJ Turner; 23. (DNS) X9-Brad Whitney; 24. (DQ) 91-Brad labonte[13]
IMCA Sport Mod
Main Event Qualifier
- 12X-Steven Clancy[3]; 2. 44D-Derek Hall[1]; 3. 0-Dakota Girard[10]; 4. 7V-Adam Vrbka[6]; 5. 93X-Chad Shaw[11]; 6. 25-Travis Peterson[13]; 7. 73-Truman Asher[12]; 8. 27SN-Brad Whitney[5]; 9. 74-Justin Asher[8]; 10. 83K-Coleman Browning[15]; 11. 33S-Ben Stockton[4]; 12. 15-Kyle Russell[14]; 13. 66X-Chris Wright[7]; 14. 81X-Tom Charles[9]; 15. 55-Mike Nichols[19]; 16. 2X-Ricky Bobby[16]; 17. 50Z-Trevor Dunn[20]; 18. 9X-Josh Boyd[18]; 19. 42C-Clayton Stutesmun[17]; 20. 55M-Ryan Medeiros[22]; 21. 46-Jena Baumli[21]; 22. (DNF) 81-Austin Charles[2]