Davis of Des Moines led all but one
lap of the 14-lap feature, shortened one circuit because of a spin by point
leader Rick Merryfield in the first turn of the fifteenth and final lap.
Merryfield was awarded fourth place.
Larry Embrey of Grimes challenged Davis the entire race,
leading the fourth lap, but eventually finished second with Dave Farren of Des Moines third.
Merryfield’s spin proved beneficial
to Davis , whose
1970 Camaro’s radiator was boiling over as he received the first-place trophy
to the cheers of the 8,425 fans.
“I lost the fan belt on the last
restart (on the eleventh lap),” explained Davis, who won $305 for the feature
and first heat triumphs. “I don’t know how much farther it might have run.”
The final restart was the result of
Jerry Campbell’s collision with the front straightaway wall when he tried to
pass Farren. “I guess there just wasn’t enough room to pass,” said Campbell of the accident
which badly damaged the front end of his 1970 Camaro.
“We changed the car around a
little,’ Davis
said, “And it just keeps getting better and better every race.”
Hoffman is another driver with a new
car, and he’s also made several changes on his 1970 Pizza Hut Nova before finding the winning combination for the
first time this season at the Fairgrounds’ one-half-mile dirt oval.
“We’ve had our problems,” Hoffman
said, “We’ve been experimenting with different stuff so we knew it would be
slow coming along.”
Hoffman’s crew apparently has found
a near-perfect setup because he led all 25 laps and had a full straightaway
lead at the finish ahead of second-place George Barton of Ankeny . Ken Davidson of Indianola was third, followed
by Dave Chase of Council Bluffs
and Karl Sanger of Waterloo .
It was Hoffman’s fourth feature
victory this year and second this week - he won at Oskaloosa Wednesday night.
“The car is just now starting to
come around,” Hoffman added. “We figured if we got the engine working,
everything else would work itself out.”
The feature and first heat
victories were worth $610 to the Des
Moines driver.
It took six restarts before the
sportsman 12-lap consolation race got underway. Half of the 16-car starting
field was eliminated by spins and collisions in the dry, slick turns.
But Rex Carter of Adel outlasted them
all to take the victory with Cal Swanson of Reinbeck second and Steve Osborn of
Des Moines
third.
The 6-lap late-model consolation went
to Lefty Robinson, who was followed by Jim Wilson and Fred Knapp, all of Des Moines .
Results -
Sportman –
1.
Bill
Davis
2.
Larry
Embrey
3.
Dave
Farren
4.
Rick
Merryfield
5.
Glen
Woodard
6.
Del
McDowall
7.
Virgil
Webb
8.
Cal
Swanson
9.
Denny
Rosenberg
10.
Howard
Smidt
Late Model -
1.
Don
Hoffman
2.
George
Barton
3.
Ken
Davidson
4.
Dave
Chase
5.
Ed
Sanger
6.
Bill
Rice
7.
Joe
Merryfield
8.
Galen
Schaefer
9.
Bill
Beckman
10.
Mike
Dibben
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