CJ Speedway to host 2023 awards banquet 

By Jerry Mackey  COLUMBUS JUNCTION, Iowa (April 23) – Night number two of the racing season at the CJ Speedway was held Friday with another great field of competitors on hand for an exciting night of racing which featured several close finishes.   The headliner of the night was the IMCA Sunoco Stock Car feature. The 20-lap feature was paced early by pole sitter John Hemsted, who was hounded by several of the best in the division. Hometowner Rod Staats broke out of the pack and took over the top spot as the race passed the midway point.  Staats went on to score the hard fought victory ahead of ninth starting David Brandies. Opening night winner Jason See advanced from 12th to take third ahead of the hard charger of the race Nathan Wood who battled to a fourth place finish after starting 21st. Staats was elated to finally score a win at his hometown track as the win broke a dry spell of at least five years.  Derrick Stewart scored his second consecutive feature win in [Read More]

COLUMBUS JUNCTION, Iowa (June 24, 2022) – Jared Miller has seen his motor luck go from bad to worse so far this season, but still had a good feeling going into his IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stock main event Friday night at CJ Speedway. Those positive vibes became reality after the West Branch driver drew the pole start and held off heavy hitters Randy LaMar and John Irwin following a late restart for the checkers. The win was his career second in the IMCA class and first since 2010 at then-hometown Marshalltown Speedway. “We’ve blown up four engines so far this year, including one leading the feature here at Columbus Junction a couple weeks ago,” said Miller. “But I had a good feeling about tonight. I thought if I made it through the heat race and everything stayed together I had a good chance to win.” He had started the night by winning his heat, then went to the top side, held his line and outran all challengers following that late yellow. “The caution came out [Read More]

By Jerry Mackey  COLUMBUS JUNCTION, Iowa (May 13, 2022) – Beautiful weather conditions greeted fans and drivers for the second night of racing at the CJ Speedway on Friday night. A swift racing program was run with the final checkered flag waving at 9:30 p.m.   Jarrett Brown had his Bill Falyer-owned Modified dialed in and scored the Friesen Performance IMCA Modified feature win. Brown stated in victory lane “We have had terrible luck so far this season with having lost two engines in the first three races that we have entered.” Brown found the right combination on Friday night and scored a convincing feature win over last week’s feature winner Troy Cordes. Maguire DeJong, in his rookie Modified campaign, ran a very strong third.   Dustin Vis has served notice to the IMCA Sunoco Stock Car drivers at the CJ Speedway that they are going to have to beat a very strong 20V car if they are going to get to victory lane. Vis chased down race leader and CJ veteran Kirk Kinsley and made the [Read More]