Deering, Jones on top at Upper Iowa Speedway

  • May 6, 2006
  • by Dwight Jones

DECORAH, Iowa -- Following a week two rain-out, it was back to racing under picture perfect skies this past Saturday night at Decorah's Upper Iowa Speedway. A nice crowd was on hand as a few more new cars took to the track as the young season gets rolling. Who gave the thrills and who gave the spills? Let's check it out –

Sim's TV USRA B-Mods – Eric Verthein, who ran for several years with a buddy by his side in a Cruiser division car is apparently getting use to life on his own.

He led much of the B-Mod feature, with veteran dirt tracker's Jimmy Broszeit and Junior Boyer doing all they could to run him down.

Meanwhile, from the very back of the pack came Koal Deering, who also changed classes this year – running his first night in a B-Mod after a couple of seasons in Pure Stock.

Well, let's just say he's catching on as well.

Deering stormed through the field, bypassing Verthein on the high side with three laps to go to take his first ever B-Mod feature win.

Bill's Auto Repair USRA Stock Cars – Dean Vrba grabbed the lead on lap one in the Stock Car feature, with Bryan Webb and Dan Jones fighting it out for second.

Vrba was hugging the bottom, so Webb and Jones tried a higher line to see what, if anything, they could do with the leader.

With Webb up high, Jones dove low hard to grab second.

A caution for a backstretch spin by Shawn Bangs slowed things just a bit, but shortly following the re-start, Jones took advantage of a wiggle by Vrba coming out of corner four to take the lead.

Jones then reverted to a blast from his past – running high in corners one and two, low in corners three and four.

And the rest, as they say, was history as Jones cruised to his second feature win in as many attempts this year, finishing ahead of Vrba, Shay Curtin and Jeff Krambeer.