Dake, who won the 25-lap event for the
first time, survived a head-on collision with Dave Chase of Council Bluffs and
also had the advantage of early leader Butch Householder of Algona falling out.
The Dake-Chase encounter came during the
sixteenth lap as they raced down the backstretch.
Chase, running second at the time, got
crossed up in front of Dake's 1970 Ford Torino - third then - and he had no
place to go.
“There wasn’t anything I could do,” Dake
said. “I just hung onto the steering wheel and hoped I wouldn’t start
spinning.”
He didn’t and the episode didn't even slow
down the race. Stan Stover of Reinbeck finished second in a 1970 Nova and point
leader John Connolly of Delhi was third in a ‘69 Mercury.
Householder took the initial lead in the
race and led through lap 18, when he was sidelined with mechanical problems. At
one point he had nearly one-third lap edge.
There were several other heartbreaks
during the night and Don Davidson of Des Moines was a victim of some wild
driving by Dan Dickey of Packwood.
Davidson had been runner-up to Householder
for the first eight laps and Dickey was running third. On the ninth lap,
Davidson spun - his crew claimed Dickey was the cause and he appeared to be –
and Dickey slammed into him.
Both cars were able to continue the race,
but they had to take positions back in the pack.
Bob Hilmer of Dysart also was involved in
a scrape in the feature and he was sidelined for a couple of laps, long enough
to keep him out of the money.
Don Hoffman of Des Moines, who had won
last week's feature, was involved in a collision with Bill Green of Des Moines
in the semi-main and did not compete in the main.
Dick Gustin of Des Moines was back in the
winner's circle for the second consecutive week in the 15-lap sportsman
feature.
He had been sidelined twice in preliminary
events but won the main by nearly one-half lap over Billy Geil, also of Des
Moines. Gustin was in a 1965 Chevelle and Geil drove a 1957 Chevy.
Joe Merryfield of Des Moines, victim of a
first-heat crash when he was leading coming out of the fourth turn on the last
lap and some mechanical problems in the semi-main, was third.
George Barton of Ankeny drove Matt Moro’s
1957 Chevy - Moro was out of town – and finished fourth.
Late Model:
1.
Darrell Dake, Cedar Rapids
2.
Stan Stover, Reinbeck
3.
John Connolly, Delhi
4.
Ed Sanger, Waterloo
5.
Larry Embrey, Grimes
6.
Dan Dickey, Packwood
7.
Bob Helm, Andalusia, Ill.
8.
Ken Davidson, Des Moines
9.
John Meyers, Brooklyn
10. Don Davidson, Des Moines
Sportsman:
1.
Dick Gustin, Des Moines
2.
Billy Geil, Des Moines
3.
Joe Merryfield, Des Moines
4.
George Barton, Ankeny
5.
Phil Reece, Des Moines
6.
Chuck Berg, Des Moines
7.
Bill Holder, Ames
8.
John Hutchinson, Des Moines
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