7/25/25
Hamilton County Speedway
Webster City, IA
Malvern Bank 360’s Plus 305’s
15 360’s
6 305’s
360’s
Heat one (started): 1. 1TAZ-Tasker Phillips (1); 2. 5A-Alex Vande Voort (4); 3. 55-Chase Brown (6); 4. 14-Joey Danley (2); 5. 59-Evan Semerad (5); 6. 47-Russ Hall (7); 7. 77-John Klabunde (3); 8. 1A-John Anderson (8)
8-lap heats used the passing points system. Heat winners and the top four in passing points made the Dash. Tasker led early over Vande Voort, Danley, Brown and Hall early on. On lap two, Danley got by Vande Voort for second, while Semerad passed Hall for fifth. On lap three, Vande Voort got back by Danley for second, with Brown in tow.
Heat two (started): 1. 13V-Seth Brahmer (1); 2. 24-Terry McCarl (4); 3. 3P-Sawyer Phillips (5); 4. 11D-Dominic White (2); 5. 3Z-Cole Vanderheiden (3); 6. 44-Chris Martin (7); 7. 74N-Luke Nellis (6)
Brahmer led wire to wire. White, McCarl, Sawyer and Vanderheiden trailed early. McCarl shot by White on lap two for second. On lap four, Sawyer used the low side to move by White into third. On lap six, Martin moved into the top five. Vanderheiden came late, however, in a good battle and reclaimed the spot coming for the white flag.
Dash (started): 1. 3P-Sawyer Phillips (1); 2. 55-Chase Brown (6); 3. 24-Terry McCarl (2); 4. 5A-Alex Vande Voort (4); 5. 13V-Seth Brahmer (3); 6. 1TAZ-Tasker Phillips (5)
The 6-lap Dash set up the first three rows of the feature. Sawyer grabbed the lead from the outset and won going away. Brown did well to move from sixth to third on the first lap and then after dogging McCarl, he passed him in the final corner for second and a front row starting spot. Sawyer turned down the offer to start sixth and gain a $3,600 bonus, leaving that for Tasker, who would start in that spot.
A main (started): 1. 3P-Sawyer Phillips (1); 2. 55-Chase Brown (2); 3. 44-Chris Martin (12); 4. 1TAZ-Tasker Phillips (6); 5. 24-Terry McCarl (3); 6. 14-Joey Danley (7); 7. 3Z-Cole Vanderheiden (10); 8. 5A-Alex Vande Voort (4); 9. 11D-Dominic White (8); 10. 74N-Luke Nellis (13); 11. 59-Evan Semerad (9); 12. 1A-John Anderson (15); 13. 13V-Seth Brahmer (5); 14. 77-John Klabunde (14); 15. 47-Russ Hall (11)
The 25-lap feature paid $4,000 to win and saw Klabunde spin one lap in. Sawyer led Brown, McCarl, Vande Voort and Tasker early. Tasker would hit the cushion to fly around Vande Voort for fourth on lap three. Five laps in, Anderson would spin, bringing caution. Sawyer led Brown, McCarl, Tasker and Vande Voort back to green. Martin, who started 12th, moved into the top five on the restart. Tasker continued his charge, getting by McCarl for third on lap seven. Martin followed him into fourth on the next lap. Sawyer entered lapped traffic on lap 11. With nine to go, Brahmer got over the top of turn two, bringing the final yellow. Sawyer led Brown, Tasker, Martin and McCarl back to green. Sawyer cruised to victory and the cash, ahead of Brown and Martin, who passed Tasker for third with three to go. Martin was the hard-charger.
305’s
Heat one (started): 1. 42J-Evan Jones (2); 2. 7G-Jackson Gray (5); 3. 77-Bret Klabunde (3); 4. 41-Jeff Wilke (4); 5. 12K-Koddy Hildreth (6); 6. 55KC-Bob Hildreth (1)
A power outage made things dark in turn three and down the backstretch, but the 6-lapper green-lighted anyway. Jones led throughout. The fifth starting Gray gained second on the low side from Klabunde on lap two.
A main (started): 1. 7G-Jackson Gray (1); 2. 12K-Koddy Hildreth (5); 3. 77-Bret Klabunde (3); 4. 41-Jeff Wilke (4); 5. 55KC-Bob Hildreth (6); 6. (DNF) 42J-Evan Jones (2)
The 14-lapper saw Jones trying to battle with Gray for the lead before a lap could be completed. Jones would spin and retire. Gray would lead from the outset, while K Hildreth moved into third, getting by Wilke on lap three, and into second on the low side on lap six, in a pass of Klabunde. Gray’s domination saw him win by over 12 seconds for the sixteen year old’s first sprint car win.