Elijah Zevenbergen won the American Racer USRA Stock Car feature.

It was a night of specials and extra money Friday night at the Rapid Speedway. The make-up Summit Shootout for Stock Cars brought a great field of cars to the raceway.

The Cook Racing Supplies USRA Hobby Stocks found a new winner in Eric Gaul. Gaul normally a stock car competitor, but some unfortunate luck caused him to switch to his Hobby Stock and it seemed to work. Gaul would take his front row starting spot and open up a big lead early in the race with great action behind him until a caution at the halfway point would bunch up the field. Gaul would once again use the high line and pull away from the field and go onto his first win of the season. Cory Kelderman would garner his best finish of the year as well in the runner-up spot ahead of Dylan Fitzpatrick, Dawson Deboer, and Brady Klaassen. “I bent up my stock car a few weeks ago and we had this sitting around and thought we’d bring it out,” said the driver from Rushmore, Minn. Alex Wiertzma would win the B feature while Tyler Schlumbohm, Jaime Songer, and Fitzpatrick would win the heat races.

Eric Gaul won the Cook Racing Supplies USRA Hobby Stock feature.

Brock Hess has had a great season at Rapid Speedway and Friday night was no different. Hess would take advantage of the pole position draw and runaway to a half straight away lead and his 5th Out-Pace USRA B-Mod win of 2019 at the track. “I can’t thank the track guys enough for all their hard work getting this track ready, I love being to come out and do this with my family,” said Hess. Derek VanVeldhuizen would grab second ahead of Kevin Joachim, Lyndon Johnson, and Tyler Johnson. Heat wins went to Jackson Mulder, Tyler Johnson, and Joachim.

Brock Hess won the Out-Pace USRA B-Mod feature.

The featured class of the night saw 25 American Racer USRA Stock Cars check in for action with $1,150 going to winner. Rushmore, Minn. driver Jim Larson grabbed the early lead in the race, but it wasn’t long before Elijah Zevenbergen would start to challenge and take the lead away on lap 3. After a restart Larson and Zevenbergen would go at it side by side with Larson low and Zevenbergen high. Finally the 66z would clear himself and set sail on the field. Using all lanes of the race track to work through traffic Zevenbergen would show why he is one of the best stock car drivers around and take the big win. “It’s been a little over a year since I’ve been here and I’m glad to be back.” Larson would hang on for second followed by Colby Klaassen in third. Chad Overgaard would charge from 11th to 4th and Roger Verdoorn rounded out the top 5. The heat wins went to Zevenbergen, Overgaard, Josh Kelderman, and Colton Arends.

Next week the United States Modified Touring Series (USMTS) will join the field with the Arnold Motor Supply Iron Man Challenge featuring American Racer USRA Stock Cars and Out-Pace USRA B-Mods.

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OFFICIAL RESULTS
United States Racing Association
Summit USRA Weekly Racing Series
Rapid Speedway, Rock Rapids, Iowa
Friday, Aug. 16, 2019

OUT-PACE USRA B-MODS

Heat 1 (8 laps): 1. 4-Jackson Mulder, 02:34.948[2]; 2. 20-Derek Vanveldhuzien, 02:36.055[1]; 3. 22T-Tyler Tesch, 02:37.041[4]; 4. 21-Eric Faber, 02:40.641[3]; 5. 21T-Trevor Tesch, 02:41.309[5]; 6. 21B-Josh Van Westen, 02:49.660[6].

Heat 2 (8 laps): 1. 91-Tyler Johnson, 02:33.587[1]; 2. 16-Brock Hess, 02:33.895[6]; 3. 11L-Lyndon Johnson, 02:37.353[4]; 4. 13N-Nick Schmidt, 02:38.791[2]; 5. 21K-Dave Kennedy, 02:39.490[5]; 6. 66-Jeff Wittrock, 02:47.274[3].

Heat 3 (8 laps): 1. 27-Kevin Joachim, 04:48.326[2]; 2. 97-Damien Vandenberg, 04:49.961[5]; 3. 66R-Randy Vanveldhuizen, 04:50.227[3]; 4. 8M-Andrew Hoyme, 04:53.813[4]; 5. (DNF) 40-Tim Dann, 01:59.939[6]; 6. (DNF) 63-Chris Huisman, 00:42.816[1].

Feature (15 laps): 1. 16-Brock Hess, 10:23.523[1]; 2. 20-Derek Vanveldhuzien, 10:26.137[5]; 3. 27-Kevin Joachim, 10:27.619[2]; 4. 11L-Lyndon Johnson, 10:28.644[7]; 5. 91-Tyler Johnson, 10:29.045[9]; 6. 63-Chris Huisman, 10:29.762[16]; 7. 22T-Tyler Tesch, 10:30.270[8]; 8. 21T-Trevor Tesch, 10:30.953[12]; 9. 21-Eric Faber, 10:31.746[10]; 10. 4-Jackson Mulder, 10:31.980[11]; 11. 21K-Dave Kennedy, 10:32.419[13]; 12. 13N-Nick Schmidt, 10:34.820[6]; 13. 97-Damien Vandenberg, 10:35.675[3]; 14. 66R-Randy Vanveldhuizen, 10:38.322[4]; 15. 21B-Josh Van Westen, 10:39.329[14]; 16. 66-Jeff Wittrock, 10:40.267[15]; 17. 8M-Andrew Hoyme, 10:24.284[17]; (DNS) 40-Tim Dann, 10:24.284.

COOK RACING SUPPIES USRA HOBBY STOCKS

Heat 1 (6 laps): 1. X-Tyler Schlumbohm, 02:10.492[3]; 2. 14K-Bryant Klaassen, 02:14.518[1]; 3. 22W-Michael Weidert, 02:15.143[4]; 4. 4D-Cory Kelderman, 02:15.359[5]; 5. 38SS-Colter Deutsch, 02:32.289[7]; 6. 13X-Alex Wiertzma, 02:15.682[8]; 7. 81VT-Dylan Vandentop, 02:15.901[6]; 8. S2H-Scotty DeJong, 02:32.289[2].

Heat 2 (6 laps): 1. 85-Jamie Songer, 02:09.266[2]; 2. 31-Dawson Deboer, 02:10.573[1]; 3. 11-Nick Janssen, 02:12.034[5]; 4. 77-Max Skattum, 02:19.761[7]; 5. 8-Levi Vander Weide, 02:35.517[8]; 6. 15X-Katie Kracht, 02:12.588[4]; 7. (DNF) 52-Trevor Kracht, 02:12.588[3]; (DNS) 86-Tracy Halouska, 02:12.588.

Heat 3 (6 laps): 1. 20-Dylan Fitzpatrick, 04:57.037[1]; 2. 22E-Eric Gaul, 04:57.432[2]; 3. 6-Dustin Gulbrandson, 04:57.625[3]; 4. 35K-Brady Klaassen, 04:58.239[5]; 5. 61N-Nick Brady, 04:58.553[6]; 6. 14S-Aaron Stettnichs, 04:59.794[7]; 7. (DNF) L82-Logan Fitzpatrick, 01:08.391[4].

B Feature (6 laps): 1. 13X-Alex Wiertzma, 02:10.766[1]; 2. 81VT-Dylan Vandentop, 02:11.764[4]; 3. 86-Tracy Halouska, 02:12.106[8]; 4. 14S-Aaron Stettnichs, 02:17.365[3]; 5. S2H-Scotty DeJong, 02:18.409[5]; 6. (DNF) 15X-Katie Kracht, 00:53.742[2]; 7. (DNF) 52-Trevor Kracht, 00:30.769[6]; 8. (DNF) L82-Logan Fitzpatrick, 00:30.769[7].

A Feature (12 laps): 1. 22E-Eric Gaul, 08:40.168[2]; 2. 4D-Cory Kelderman, 08:41.004[4]; 3. 20-Dylan Fitzpatrick, 08:41.287[9]; 4. 31-Dawson Deboer, 08:41.674[5]; 5. 35K-Brady Klaassen, 08:42.036[7]; 6. X-Tyler Schlumbohm, 08:42.171[10]; 7. 85-Jamie Songer, 08:42.521[12]; 8. 6-Dustin Gulbrandson, 08:42.533[11]; 9. 38SS-Colter Deutsch, 08:48.332[13]; 10. 8-Levi Vander Weide, 08:43.121[14]; 11. 61N-Nick Brady, 08:44.165[15]; 12. 81VT-Dylan Vandentop, 08:44.472[17]; 13. 13X-Alex Wiertzma, 08:45.188[16]; 14. 14K-Bryant Klaassen, 08:45.888[8]; 15. 86-Tracy Halouska, 08:46.162[18]; 16. 77-Max Skattum, 08:48.332[3]; 17. (DNF) 22W-Michael Weidert, 08:48.332[1]; 18. (DNF) 11-Nick Janssen, 08:48.332[6].

AMERICAN RACER USRA STOCK CARS

Heat 1 (8 laps): 1. 66Z-Elijah Zevenbergen, 05:24.865[1]; 2. 40-Scott Overgaard, 05:26.501[6]; 3. 34K-Colby Klaassen, 05:28.684[5]; 4. 84L-Alan Lange, 05:29.340[2]; 5. 20K-Spenser Kalass, 05:29.834[3]; 6. 17-Austin Brands, 05:34.863[7]; 7. 32-Justin Regnerus, 05:09.977[4].

Heat 2 (8 laps): 1. 43K-Josh Kelderman, 02:42.343[1]; 2. 6L-Jim Larson, 02:43.304[3]; 3. 11K-Darrin Korthals, 02:43.663[4]; 4. 84-Matt Lange, 02:45.364[2]; 5. 117L-Chad Lonneman, 02:45.520[6]; 6. 35-Curt Vanbeek, 02:45.991[5].

Heat 3 (8 laps): 1. 46-Colton Arends, 05:44.544[3]; 2. 81-Travis Vanden Top, 05:45.471[1]; 3. 04-Roger Verdoorn, 05:46.207[2]; 4. 32X-Rich Gregoire, 05:47.387[5]; 5. 71-Zach Olivier, 05:48.182[6]; 6. (DNF) 15-Brandon Ferguson, 00:47.440[4].

Heat 4 (8 laps): 1. 42-Chad Overgaard, 02:42.782[4]; 2. 15X-Thomas Kracht, 02:44.982[2]; 3. 16J-Jon DeBoer, 02:45.237[1]; 4. 51-Mark Sanow, 02:50.677[3]; 5. 36-Glenn Wynia, 02:51.101[5]; 6. (DNF) 81X-Mark Vanden Top, 00:30.269[6]

Feature (18 laps): 1. 66Z-Elijah Zevenbergen, 16:30.643[3]; 2. 6L-Jim Larson, 16:36.285[2]; 3. 34K-Colby Klaassen, 16:37.751[5]; 4. 42-Chad Overgaard, 16:40.555[11]; 5. 04-Roger Verdoorn, 16:40.885[4]; 6. 40-Scott Overgaard, 16:41.851[6]; 7. 81-Travis Vanden Top, 16:42.918[9]; 8. 11K-Darrin Korthals, 16:43.595[12]; 9. 20K-Spenser Kalass, 16:43.866[17]; 10. 46-Colton Arends, 16:43.964[8]; 11. 32X-Rich Gregoire, 16:44.580[15]; 12. 32-Justin Regnerus, 16:48.654[25]; 13. 15X-Thomas Kracht, 16:49.615[1]; 14. 84-Matt Lange, 16:53.959[14]; 15. 36-Glenn Wynia, 16:30.984[20]; 16. 43K-Josh Kelderman, 16:31.705[10]; 17. 17-Austin Brands, 16:36.548[21]; 18. (DNF) 16J-Jon DeBoer, 15:41.325[7]; 19. (DNF) 84L-Alan Lange, 15:36.576[13]; 20. (DNF) 51-Mark Sanow, 15:38.752[16]; 21. (DNF) 117L-Chad Lonneman, 15:26.930[18]; 22. (DNF) 71-Zach Olivier, 12:43.932[19]; 23. (DNF) 81X-Mark Vanden Top, 12:50.681[24]; 24. (DNF) 35-Curt Vanbeek, 12:50.681[22]; (DNS) 15-Brandon Ferguson, 12:50.681.