By Rob Hinckley for Local 4 News

EAST MOLINE, Ill. (July 10) – The infectious smile in the winners circle told another story as Gary Webb climbed from his mount Sunday evening at East Moline Speedway.

The 73-year old Hall of Famer moved quickly from his P6 start to the front of the Eriksen Chevrolet IMCA Late Model pack. He cruised to the 25-lap win in front of a very appreciative crowd.

“This never gets old, but I’m getting old,” Webb said and laughed. “This was win 523 and they’re coming a lot more slowly nowadays, but this was a good run.”

The 17-time track champion was really never challenged even after an early caution. His Kryptonite Chassis showed great acceleration off the turns as he extended the advantage.

“We had great forward bite in that feature,” Webb said. “(Track Promoter Jeff Peterson) had the track nicely done, we had the engine rebuilt a couple weeks ago so we had great power and I thank the fans here for watching.”

The 523 wins have come at 65 different tracks, but a bulk of them at EMS, which he considers his home track.

Matt Ryan, coming off a win at another track the night before, started tenth and moved by national point leader Dustin Schram about halfway through to take second. Joe Beal, Schram and Jacob Waterman rounded out the top five. Waterman’s EMS win streak was stopped at three.

Defending national champion Jeff Larson visited EMS again and won the J&J Camper Sales IMCA Modified 20 lapper for the second straight week. Brandon Durbin, Travis Denning, Donovan Lodge and B.J. Jackson followed in a very competitive event throughout the field. There were three leaders and four other drivers ran in the top five during the caution-free race.

Logan Veloz chalked up win number four in the Legacy Corporation IMCA SportMods beating hard running Erick Turner, T.J. Patz, Chuck Fox and David Engelkens in the 15-lap run.

Rob Henry used both the top and bottom grooves to move from his seventh starting spot en route to his second Dynamic Power Street Stock 15-lap victory. Rob Nylin, Joe Bonney, Alex Pappas and Jeff Walker followed. Multiple incidents cut the field in half by the end. Track champion Jesse Owen took a hard hit coming off of turn four resulting in a red flag. He eventually climbed from his car.

Brandon Freeburg dominated the County Waste Systems IMCA Mod Lites night, taking the 15-lap finale. Mike Zemo, Jon Padilla, R.J. Gonzales and early leader Mike Morrow were next. Michael Dominguez rolled his ride during his heat race, but returned to take eighth in the feature.

Randy Lamar copped the 12-lap Rudy’s Tacos IMCA Hobby Stock ender, beating Logan Gustaf, Brandon Schneider, Michale Putt and Josh Lane.

Track champ Cyle Hawkins made a last lap pass to take the 12-lap Riverbend Pizza Place Sport Compacts feature over Michael Snyder, Drew Wise, Nolan Morrow and Tommy Staggs.

The American Iron Racing Series made its second 2022 EMS stop. Jake Hayes wheeled his 1957 Packard-bodied machine to the 12-lap win with Bruce Yoerger, Terry Mattly, Bart Miller and Dennis Etten following.

A total of 98 cars were in the pits and the final checkered flag fell about 9:45 p.m.

The 2022 season continues this Sunday July 17 with the return of the Sprint Invaders. Modifieds, Street Stocks and Sport Compacts also are in action. Then Wednesday July 20 will be the annual Rock Island County Fair Championships featuring the Late Models in the Ron Gustaf Tribute. Extra money will be up for grabs. Also hitting the dirt will be SportMods, Mod Lites, Sport Compacts, Nostalgia Stock Car Racing Club and Kids Mods.

For more information, log on to the East Moline Speedway Facebook page or call 563-343-8250.

Following are the UNOFFICIAL RESULTS of stock car racing Sunday evening at East Moline Speedway, East Moline, Ill., listed with finishing position, car number, driver and starting position.

Eriksen Chevrolet IMCA Late Models

Feature (25 laps) – 1. W56-Gary Webb[6]; 2. 07-Matt Ryan[10]; 3. 77-Joe Beal[5]; 4. 92-Dustin Schram[8]; 5. 10-Jacob Waterman[9]; 6. 65-Chuck Hanna[7]; 7. 96-Jacob Beal[2]; 8. 53-LeRoy Brenner[1]; 9. 1H-Mike Haines[3]; 10. 70-Mack Mulvany[4]

1st Heat (10 laps) – 1. Jo. Beal 2. Waterman 3. Hanna 4. Brenner

2nd Heat (10 laps) – 1. Ryan 2. Schram 3. Ja. Beal 4. Mulvany

J&J Camper Sales IMCA Modifieds

Feature (20 laps) – 1. B1-Jeff Larson[10]; 2. 15D-Brandon Durbin[6]; 3. 56D-Travis Denning[11]; 4. 1A-Donovan Lodge[1]; 5. 56B-BJ Jackson[5]; 6. 99-Charlie Mohr[2]; 7. 8-Jaden Fryer[9]; 8. 85-Mike Zemo Jr[7]; 9. 9G-Anthony Guss[3]; 10. 19C-Alex VerVynck[13]; 11. 20-Jake Whittington[8]; 12. G1-Mike Garland[4]; DNS – C9-Brandt Cole

1st Heat (8 laps) – 1. Larson 2. Durbin 3. Lodge 4. Guss

2nd Heat (8 laps) – 1. Garland 2. Mohr 3. Jackson 4. Fryer

Legacy Corporation IMCA SportMods

Feature (15 laps) – 1. 43LV-Logan Veloz[11]; 2. 10-Erick Turner[4]; 3. 89-TJ Patz[5]; 4. 76-Chuck Fox[9]; 5. 65-David Engelkens[12]; 6. 34-Josh Marth[3]; 7. 18C-Dakota Cole[13]; 8. 2JR-Jesse Bodin[6]; 9. 88-Trey Grimm[8]; 10. 81-Adam Parker[2]; 11. 57-Jeff Schoonover[14]; 12. 02W-Trevor White[16]; 13. 08-Tyler Carrol[17]; 14. 19H-Brandon Comins[1]; 15. 77JR-Rayce Mullen[10]; 16. 33X-Jeff Waterfall[15]; 17. 90-Keith Wiersema[7]

1st Heat (8 laps) – 1. Marth 2. Mullen 3. Wiersema 4. Engelkens

2nd Heat (8 laps) – 1. Turner 2. Veloz 3. Parker 4. Grimm

3rd Heat (8 laps) – 1. Patz 2. Bodin 3. Schoonover 4. Fox

Dymanic Power Street Stocks

Feature (15 laps) – 1. 00-Rob Henry[7]; 2. 1-Rob Nylin[6]; 3. 70-Joe Bonney[9]; 4. 3P-Alex Pappas[4]; 5. 66W-Jeff Walker[12]; 6. 78-Nick Lawrence[3]; 7. 8H-Kyler Hickenbottom[5]; 8. 83-Jim Rutsaert[2]; 9. 61S-Jeff Streitmatter[1]; 10. 16-Kody Johnson[11]; 11. 55X-Brett Maasdam[10]; 12. 95-Jesse Owen[8]; 13. 19-Blake Beachler[13]

1st Heat (8 laps) – 1. Owen 2. Hickenbottom 3. Nylin 4. Lawrence

2nd Heat (8 laps) – 1. Henry 2. Pappas 3. Bonney 4. Rutsaert

County Waste Systems IMCA Mod Lites

Feature (15 laps) – 1. 171-Brandon Freeburg[9]; 2. Z-Mike Zemo Jr[8]; 3. 11P-Jon Padilla[10]; 4. 18G-RJ Gonzales[13]; 5. 17M-Mike Morrow[1]; 6. 16G-Blake Gonzales[6]; 7. 9G-Anthony Guss[14]; 8. 5-Michael Dominguez[11]; 9. 131-Bryan Wonick[3]; 10. 16P-Mike Pershing[5]; 11. 00B-Brittani Dominguez[12]; 12. 301-Michael Mann[4]; 13. 54-Zach Holerud[2]; 14. 23-Tiffani Dominguez[15]; 15. 70-Alex Eischeid[7]

1st Heat (8 laps) – 1. Freeburg 2. Pershing 3. Eischeid 4. Holerud

2nd Heat (8 laps) – 1. Zemo 2. Morrow 3. Padilla 4. Mann

Rudy’s Tacos IMCA Hobby Stocks

Feature (12 laps) – 1. 4R-Randy LaMar[5]; 2. 86-Logan Gustaf[4]; 3. 92-Brandon Schneider[2]; 4. 79-Michale Putt[3]; 5. 513-Josh Lane[1]; 6. 2-Nathan Smith[7]; 7. 15-Donald Cole[6]

1st Heat (6 laps) – 1. Lamar 2. Gustaf 3. Schneider 4. Lane

Riverbend Pizza Place Sport Compacts

Feature (12 laps) – 1. 28-Cyle Hawkins[5]; 2. 58T-Michael Snyder[2]; 3. 14-Drew Wise[3]; 4. 25M-Nolan Morrow[1]; 5. 33-Tommy Staggs[4]; 6. 27-Michael Lundeen[8]; 7. 514-Jason Rhoads[7]; 8. 630-Dustin Munn[6] DNS – 29-Roy Schmidt

1st Heat (6 laps) – 1. Hawkins 2. Staggs 3. Snyder 4. Wise

American Iron Racing Series

Feature (12 laps) – 1. 11-Jake Hayes[1]; 2. 42-Bruce Yoerger[2]; 3. 50-Terry Mattly[5]; 4. 501-Bart Miller[6]; 5. 23-Dennis Etten[7]; 6. 77J-Jeff Durst[10]; 7. 5-Brian Gade[8]; 8. 44-RJ Lank[9]; 9. 29-Owen Hayes[12]; 10. 727-Justin Stock[11]; 11. 15-David Bielenberg[3]; 12. 18-Jeff Hollenbeck[14]; 13. 68-Travis Heier[4]; 14. 17SR-Ron Cook[13]

1st Heat (6 laps) – 1. Mattly 2. Lank 3. Etten 4. Durst

2nd Heat (6 laps) – 1. J. Hayes 2. Gade 3. Yoerger 4. Miller

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