John Moss won the Iowa State Super Stock Championships at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines. - Scott Hawbaker Collection
Des Moines, Iowa (August 24, 1972) - Starting on the outside of the front row, John Moss of Iowa City threw his weight around in the super stock feature at the Iowa State Fair on Thursday afternoon to run away from the field.
The 300-pound driver took over the lead early in the race arid stayed there, although several yellow flags allowed the field of cars to pull up behind him.
Two drivers charged that another driver had moved up illegally under a yellow flag (no passing is allowed under the yellow flag) but race officials shrugged off the protest.
John Babb of Ottumwa and Bill Ludington of Carlisle, along with other personnel from those cars, went to the officials of National Speedways Inc. - the promoter of the race - to charge Darrell Dake of Cedar Rapids had passed both of them and Stan Stover of Reinbeck under the yellow flag.
After being ignored by the National Speedways personnel for about 15 minutes, the two drivers attempted to make their complaint to the flagman Woody Brinkman, Lincoln, Neb., but as they started explaining the matter Brinkman walked away from them without answering and the drivers gave up.
In the official standings, Dake finished fourth, with Stover fifth, Babb sixth and Ludington seventh. Fourth place paid $175, the fifth place prize money was $125, $75 went to the sixth place car and $60 was paid to seventh. Moss picked up $500 for the feature win and another $30 for winning the heat race.
Bob Bonzer of Liscomb, driving a 1969 Chevelle owned by Hap’s Auto Supply, Ames, captured the first heat, with another Ames car - owned by Charles Sampson and Robert Baughman and driven by Gary Lindgren of Ogden - finishing second behind Bonzer.
Earl Tice of Ames was fifth in the first heat and Curt Houge, also of Ames, was seventh in that race. Joel Rasmussen of Ames was second in the fourth heat Curt Houge of Ames was eighth in the feature and Rasmussen finished 14th.
Bonzer, who started on the pole in the feature and led the race for a short time, was 18th in the final standings after being forced out of the race with mechanical problems Del Stokke of Ames ran seventh in the B-Main, the consolation event for the cars which did not qualify in the heat races for the feature
The yellow flags were brought out by the frequent spinouts on the dry slick track. Many of the drivers - who normally run high banked short tracks at night when the surface stays tacky – found their usual driving skills on the fairground semi-banked half-mile track left them going in very short circles in one spot, generally with more cars slamming into them while they were spinning.
In one instance, however, a car was left setting on the straightaway in front of the flagman’s stand after a spinout and Brinkman kept the green flag out. The car was finally pushed off by a push truck while the race continued.
Results -
1. John Moss, Iowa City
2. Dan Dickey, Packwood
3. George Barton, Ankeny
4. Darrell Dake, Cedar Rapids
5. Stan Stover, Reinbeck
6. Johnny Babb, Ottumwa
7. Bill Ludington, Carlisle
8. Curt Houge, Ames
9. Larry Embrey, Grimes
10. Denny Hovinga, Laurens
11. Darreld Bunkofske, Algona
12. Arnie Braland, Boone
13. Chuck Berg, Des Moines
14. Joel Rasmussen, Ames
15. Mike Pinckney, Des Moines
16. Roy Peltz, Humboldt
17. Ed Sanger, Waterloo
18. Bob Bonzer, Liscomb
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