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Leasing the CCS The Crawford County Fair Board recently leased the Crawford County Speedway to the Crawford County Racing Association.

At left, Lloyd Carlson (fair board president, front third from right) hands the contract to Randy Kuhlmann of the racing association.

Other fair board members present are Doris Jepsen, secretary; Justin Bromert, Denny Kline, Leonard Lingle, vicepresident; and Keith Crawford. Joining Kuhlmann as members of the racing association present are Junior Reetz, Delores Kuhlmann, John Scott and Randy Tiffey. Missing are Joe Miller and Chris Ullrich.

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Looking to make more memories

Ray looks to keep show rolling T.J. Ray of Schleswig has a lot of good memories in his 20-plus years as a racing flagman, but the 48-yearold married father of two daughters is looking to create even more when racing returns full-throttle to the Crawford County Speedway in Denison on Friday, May 11.

“It’s just awesome,” said Ray, when asked of his feelings about the return of a weekly racing schedule at the CCS. “I’ve flagged at tracks in Allison, Harlan, Webster City and even Jefferson City, South Dakota, but none of them bring back the memories that I’ve had working at the Denison track,” stated Ray, who currently is in his third year at the Mr. Tire Service Center in Ida Grove.

“The racing association has done a tremendous job in every aspect. Getting sponsors is never easy. They deserve a lot of credit,” Ray said. So what does a flagman do? “The flagman starts races and tries to keep an eyes on all of the cars, checking for unnecessary driving and just making sure there’s not a lot of havoc on the track,” said Ray, who pointed out that a good flagman’s job is to keep the show rolling and just get the night in with as few problems as possible.

Ray also said that a trait of a good flagman is to keep your temper at home and not play favorites. “Over the years, I’ve probably lost my temper too much, but that’s in the past now. You have to be consistent with your calls, and that’s the number one thing I’ve learned over the years,” Ray said.

Memories?

“I’ve had opportunities over the years to flag for some outstanding drivers, including Billy Moyer and Scott Bloomquist at Denison,” Ray said.

“My fondest memory from flagging in Denison, though, was probably the night that Denny Hovinga retired from racing. I’ll never forget being a part of that,” remarked Ray, whose wife, Diana, works at CDS in Harlan.

Ray and Diana have two daughters: 28-year-old Katie Jo Carlson of Norwalk, and 19-year-old Samantha, who attends Xenon International School of Hair Design in Omaha, Nebraska. Katie Jo is married to Chris Carlson and works at Principal Financial in Des Moines. Chris and Katie Jo are the parents of one boy, two-year-old Maverick.

With opening night just a week away, Ray is anticipating a great season ahead for all involved at Denison.

“Hopefully, we get good car counts and a lot of people in the stands,” Ray said.

“I’ll say it again, the racing association has done a tremendous job in setting the stage.” “The admission prices are competitive. Every class has a sponsor. The payouts are better at Denison than at a lot of the other tracks. Really, Denison has everything working in its favor. I hope the people get out and support their favorite drivers,” Ray said.

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Excited Reetz set to promote CCS Racing is back at the Crawford County Speedway in Denison. A full 13-week schedule will kick off Friday, May 11, with Joe’s Karting Night at the Races Tribute to Mothers.

Action will continue each Friday after that with the season championships scheduled for the final night of competition on Aug. 3.

“It’s a very exciting time for area racing fans,” said Junior Reetz, the new race director of the Crawford County Speedway.

“I had a guy come to me and ask if I wanted to be the race director, and I told him I could give it a try,” said Reetz, an avid race car driver for years with several relatives in the sport, including brother Craig of Dunlap and cousins Bill Reetz of Carroll and Steve Reetz of Arcadia.

Craig runs Modifieds, while Bill runs Stock Cars and Steve Sport Mods.

“I’ve been involved with racing for about 50 years,” said the 52-yearold Ullrich Farms employee. “My dad started racing when I was just a little boy. After high school, I got into figure-eight racing and took part in some demolition derbys.”

According to Reetz, fans will notice right away the improvements made to the 4/10th-mile dirt track and facility that will hopefully host large cheering crowds when the racing season begins in just a week.

“We’ve shortened the track quite a bit, probably 300 feet or so. We had a practice day back in October and the drivers really seemed to like it, so we decided to make a go of it and now we’ll see if we can bring some business to Denison,” Reetz added.

Leading the drive to get racing back in Denison was a group of 25 investors, including several area businessmen, farmers and race enthusiasts who cooperated their efforts to make sure the dream of many become a reality.

“There also was a lot of interest among the small towns in the area.

A lot of them bought billboards at the speedway,” remarked Reetz, who said that there should be 50-plus billboards ready to greet The last time the CCS hosted a full schedule of racing was in 2003.

“For some reason, I just think there’s a lot more interest than there was before. People are really talking about it,” said Reetz, who said another benefit is a shortened season. “We’re going from May to August

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Crawford County Speedway Racing Divisions Modifieds The IMCA Modifieds have become the calling card of the IMCA. The high-flying, open-wheel stock cars push limits of power and excitement on short tracks from coast to coast. Modifieds have gained a reputation for fierce competitiveness that is as unique as the car itself.

Late Models Late Models are the epitome of full-bodied stock car racing. They feature many of IMCA’s top drivers competing weekly at premier racing facilities.

Late Models are increasing in popularity because of the simple economics of the spec engine and tire rule.

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Stock Cars One of IKMA’s most popular classes. Stock Cars are synonymous with fast-paced excitement and known for their identifiable, full-bodied appearance. They offer fender-banging thrills and chills that keep fans coming back for more.

Hobby Stocks IMCA also features an entry-level division of full-sized cars, the IMCA Hobby Stocks. The division gives competitors the chance to experiment with the sport at the lowest possible cost, while still experiencing the rush that only IMCA racing can provide.

Sprint Cars The IMCA Sprint Car boasts its own special appeal for racing enthusiasts. The Sprint Car features the traditional non-winged, as well as winged machines with open wheels and an open cockpit. The cars have entertained race fans across the country with their own brand of raw power and high speed.

Sport Mods An entry-level division. Sport Mods gives new competitors the chance to experiment with modified racing at the lowest possible cost.

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Sport Compacts A true entry-level divison. Sport Compacts are not race cars, they are cars that race. They can purchased off the street or at a salvage yard. The division is for younger drivers, not those that want to get out of late models or modifieds.

There is a minimum age of 14. No one in this division can be licensed to compete in any other IMCA division.

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Crawford County Speedway Racing Timeline

By Steve Speake • 1908. The famed New York-to-Paris Automobile Race passes through town to the delight of thousands who lined the bottom road to catch a glimpse of the new contraptions. Plans for the Lincoln Highway are still five years away.

• 1949. A new covered grandstand is built at the new fairgrounds just west of town. On August 10, a crowd of 10,000 packed the grounds for a picnic, games and the featured entertainment: Jalopy Races.

• Circa 1949-1954. The (Highway) 59-30 Speedway operates in a natural bowl just south of the present-day Cinema Four Theatre, filling a need for circle-track auto racing since the fairgrounds track was exclusively for horses. Hall-of-Fame racers Johnny Beauchamp and Tiny Lund would take on the local drivers like Wally Auen and others.

• Fair Time, 1950. The Crawford County Fair stages its first race card and the Chitwood Thrill Show • 1950-1964. These years saw IMCA Stock and Big Car (open wheeled) racing each year and attracted the likes of Ramo Stott, Ernie Derr, Pete Folse and Jan Opperman.

• 1962. A young Johnny Rutherford edges Folse for the Big Car win in the annual County Fair Feature. Rutherford would go on to win the Indianapolis 500 three times.

• 1966. A new dawning at the fairgrounds was about to happen as a weekly racing card began on June 11 with twenty-one race cars and 3,284 excited fans.

• 1967. New wooden bleachers were inaugurated on opening night and attendance the next two years would routinely surpass the population of Denison (4,980) and the car count would reach over 100.

• June 8, 1968. John Keating of Charter Oak is killed after rolling his stock car.

• 1972. Blindsided by the Mideast oil crisis and other factors, no races were held in 1972—not even during the County Fair—for the only time in the last 62 years.

• 1989. A re-birth of weekly racing sees the Stock Cars joined by the eras new and more powerful cousin: the Modified.

• 1996. NASCAR debuts with its Weekly Racing Series and its premier dirt traveling series: The Busch All-Star Tour. The Jim Dandy 50 season opener is won by Willy Kraft of Northfield, MN. Mark Wyman of Papillion, NE is the NASCAR WRS champion.

• 1999. A new catch wall, new scoreboard and other improvements are made.

• September 30, 2000. An exciting Busch Tour night turns somber as investment advisor Dwight Wrich of Kennard, NE. is fatally burned in a grand national late model mishap. Days later, Wrich’s eleven-year-old daughter plays the piano at her fathers funeral as hundreds of race fans mourn.

• July 9, 2001. Billy Moyer of Batesville, AR., wins the Graham Trailers 40 UMP Late Model Feature and pockets $10,000, the largest payout in CCS history.

Scott Bloomquist of Moorseville, TN., is clocked at 129 mph on the tracks radar gun.

• 2002. The season opens with a shiny, new grandstand but with no sanction as the NASCAR banner is dropped • June 25, 2002. This Tuesday night UDTRA Late Model event is recorded and televised nationally by The Speed Channel. It remains the only nationally televised event to originate in Denison • 2003 to Present. Special County Fair races and Figure 8 races dot the summer calender • 2012. The return of weekly racing looms. The .625 mile track is shortened in an attempt to be more “racer friendly”.

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Clegg enjoyed time promoting track in Denison A full schedule of racing at the Crawford County Speedway in Denison will begin in early May and run through early August. The interest to see racing return to the CCS has been widespread. Among them anxiously awaiting the first night of action on Friday, May 11, is 79-year-old Bill Clegg of Algona, one of six men who promoted the track in the mid-1960s.

Clegg will turn 80 in October. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had a good thing back then. We had a great crew and we all worked very well together,â&#x20AC;? said Clegg in a recent interview with the Denison Bulletin and Review from his home in Algona. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Walter Jaacks was president of the fair board at the time, and we had a great working relationship,â&#x20AC;? added Clegg, who also promoted a very successful track at Alta during the same time period.

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Clegg promoted the CCC along with Dick Simpson, Jim Stangel, Jim Modrell, Larry Cook and Jim Pingel. Simpson, according to Clegg, passed away nearly 25 years ago due to a heart problem. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The others are all doing well,â&#x20AC;? Clegg said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We made a lot of improvements and the track made money. We had great crowds, and I think people appreciated the fact that we took the time and effort to make sure a good product was offered every week,â&#x20AC;? Clegg said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have a lot of good memories.

From what I can remember, everyone worked really well together. We had a lot of good relationships,â&#x20AC;? he added. Racing, as everyone knows, though, can have its not-so-good moments.

Clegg had one of those during his time at Denison. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A truck driver from Charter Oak lost his live during a race. That bothered everyone. It was a tragedy. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something you never want to see as a promoter,â&#x20AC;? noted Clegg, who stressed the importance of safety with each of his racers before every event. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We checked the cars over with a fine-toothed comb. If we found anything that we thought was a safety hazard, we didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let them race,â&#x20AC;? Clegg said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That was a big part of our job. It was a safety issue and all of the drivers understood that. We told them what needed to be fixed, and a week later they were back at the track ready to race. There were no hard feelings,â&#x20AC;? added Clegg. The CCS on race nights (Saturday) back then hosted anywhere from 60 to 80 cars, according to Clegg. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We had a few nights with 100 cars. We ran a good program. It was great to see everyone working together,â&#x20AC;? Clegg said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We also had a great fan base. The fans really came out week after week and supported not only their favorite drivers, but all of the racers. The racers, I think, appreciated that, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what kept them coming back week after week.â&#x20AC;?

Clegg said that a couple of favorite drivers at the time were Butch Householder and Denny Hovinga. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think Hovinga is still racing today,â&#x20AC;? Clegg remarked. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Another popular driver was Mike Chapman of Harlan. He was always a strong runner and finished among the top two or three every week it seemed like.â&#x20AC;?

According to Clegg, the cost of racing has probably been the biggest difference over the years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Things were a lot simpler and obviously less expensive back then, but it still wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cheap to run a race car. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nothing like today, though, where you need resources to keep driving,â&#x20AC;? Clegg said.

Clegg remarked that his time spent at the CCS will always be remembered as some of the best years of his life. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just the people and all of the friendships that developed.

I built a lot of relationships that still exist today. And a lot of good memories,â&#x20AC;? Clegg stated. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I had a lot of help as well. Lamont Wellendorf partnered with me, and he had ran successful racing programs in Algona and Mason City. He brought a lot to the table in Denison. He was on the judging stand every night with me,â&#x20AC;? Clegg noted.

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Race promoters at the Crawford County Speedway during the 1960s were, left to right: Dick Simpson, Jim Stangel, Jim Modrell, Larry Cook, Bill Clegg and Jim Pingel.

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Sport modifieds for Scott brothers Twin brothers Keagan and Logan Scott of Odebolt are anxiously awaiting the opening night of racing at the Crawford County Speedway in Denison. Keagan and Logan, both 17 and juniors at Odebolt-Arthur/Battle Creek-Ida Grove High School, will be driving Sport Modifieds when the new CCS season kicks off on Friday, May 11.

It will be the second year of competition in the Sport Modifieds class for both drivers after the two got their feet wet a year ago racing at tracks in Wisconsin, Illinois and Missouri.

“We’ve been involved in racing since we were six or seven. Heck, I think we were like three or four when dad got us started driving go-carts in the backyard,” said Keagan. “We literally grew up at the Crawford County Speedway. We’re here every Friday night. I can’t remember the last time we missed a race,” remarked Logan.

Keagan and Logan are the sons of John and Linda Scott. John farms with his brother, Jeff, and is a member of the Crawford County Fair Board. Linda operates a hair salon in Wall Lake.

Both brothers said it’s the thrill of racing that keeps them going. “It’s just an adren-

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aline rush. It’s a lot of fun being able to drive 90-plus miles per hour into the curves,” said Keagan. “It would be nice someday to race in the sprint cup. Right now, we’re working up to driving late models,” noted Logan. Both also sport competitive natures. “Yeah, we both like to compete. On the track we get after it pretty good, but at the same time, we look out for each other and know that we have each other’s back,” remarked Keagn.

Besides racing at the CCS on Friday nights, the two brothers will also race at the Buena Vista Raceway in Alta on Wednesday nights and the Shelby County Speedway in Harlan on Saturday nights.

With opening night only a week away, the two brothers are anxiously optimistic in looking ahead to a successful 2012 season. “I have a good feeling about this season.

I learned a lot a year ago, so I’m a lot more confident going into this year. I’m ready to let it loose,” said Keagan.

“I also feel pretty good about the new season. I’m looking forward to making a run at the track championship,” Logan said.

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Reetz anticipates exciting nights at speedway REETZ, from Page 6

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when usually the season goes from April to September, so we’re wating until after school is out and we’ll quit racing before school begins next fall,” Reetz said. Friday night racing. Is it the best night? “I think so,” Reetz stated.

“The closest they race on Friday nights is Des Moines and Omaha, so there really shouldn’t be a lot of competition for us in getting drivers to come to Denison. “They run NASCAR in Omaha. Des Moines will be IMCA, but that shouldn’t affect us here. Fort Dodge will race on Friday nights, but they’re not IMCA-sanctioned.”

“Alta races on Wednesday nights, so hopefully we’ll be able to bring in cars from there. Harlan is only 25 miles away and they race on Saturday nights, so I’m pretty optimistic that we’re going to have good numbers on Friday nights,” Reetz stated.

Speaking of numbers, Reetz said he’s hoping to have in the neighborhood of 90-plus cars race at the CCS each week.

“I would be very happy with that. Our payouts are probably $100 more than a lot of tracks, so we’re paying very well. That should attact a lot of drivers every week,” Reetz noted.

The CCS will enforce IMCA rules.

So what can fans expect when they head to the CCS for the first time on May 11? “Hopefully, they see a lot of cars and a lot of action. The shortening of the track and taking some of the bank away will put the racers a lot closer to the grandstands. We should be able go three-wide with our cars, which will make it very exciting for them and the fans,” Reetz said.

And the price of admission can’t be beat, according to Reetz. “The prices are the same as they were 10 years ago. With what we’re charging, I see no reason why we shouldn’t be able to fill at least half of the grandstands if not more. It’s really a great bargain for families on a Friday night,” Reetz said. “The anticipation for opening night is very high,” according to Reetz. “I’m ready. I wish we could start tomorrow.

I work for Ullrich farms, so I really need to thank Chris (Ullrich) and his family for giving me time off to get work done at the track,” Reetz said.

“Like I mentioned before, I’m excited. I think a lot of people are excited and anxious to get the season going. It’s going to be a good thing for Denison,” Reetz noted.

Reeetz also wanted to thank the Denison Bulletin and Review, Krohnke Construction for building the track, Denison Municipal Utilities for putting up the lights, and everyone that purchased billboards and helping with the track.

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