Mark Dobmeier and the Jimco Motorsports #13 team had a solid weekend that saw a pair of charges and a third place finish at the Folkens Bros. Trucking Spring Nationals at Jackson Speedway in Minnesota on Friday. On Saturday, the Grand Forks, North Dakota driver surged from 18th to a top ten finish at Knoxville Raceway. After being rained out with the FVP National Sprint League at Huset’s Speedway on Sunday, he tagged the back of a NOSA feature in Glyndon, Minnesota charging from 27th to a fourth place finish. The team has four races on the schedule this week, starting on Thursday at the Saint Francois County Raceway in Farmington, Missouri with the NSL. The NSL moves on to the Randolph County Raceway near Moberly, Missouri on Friday, and the team will hit weekly shows at Knoxville and Huset’s Saturday and Sunday.
Jackson Speedway has been renovated and was a new surface for everyone. Mark was ninth quick before running third in his heat. “The track was amazing with all the improvements and things they’ve done,” he says. “I expected big holes and all kinds of stuff, but the track was ready and everything was organized. I don’t think you could ask for a much better racetrack. Turns one and two especially, guys could run the bottom and the top. It was racy.”
He would qualify for the Dash redraw. “I have to thank my little buddy that drew the pole of the Dash for me,” says Mark. “He’s drawn for me at Huset’s before too. He’s there every Sunday night. He’s a good race fan. I let Terry (McCarl) get the jump on me a little bit and I missed it by half a car length. It was a good race.”
A third place finish in the Dash saw Mark start in that spot for the 25-lap main event. “Tim Kaeding and I had a good clean, hard battle there at the beginning the first few laps,” he says. “About every restart, we were going at it in turn one. It was a lot of fun. At the end of the day, we brought it home in one piece with a good third place finish.”
Saturday at Knoxville began with a 22nd quick qualifying effort. “It was a very poor qualifying effort on my part,” says Mark. “I did my usual deal where I’m working myself out of a hole all night long.”
After winning his heat from the pole, Mark would start 18th and charge to tenth in the feature. “We had a good car in the feature, we just started way too far back,” he says. “That qualifying effort just killed us there. There aren’t any slow cars around anymore.”
Sunday night’s NOSA run at Buffalo River Race Park came after a NSL rainout at Huset’s. “We called them earlier in the day figuring there was no way we were getting Huset’s in,” says Mark. “They said there would be no problem in us tagging the back of the B. When we got there the heats were over, and there were 26 cars there. The promoter decided to start everyone, so we tagged the tail. It was a nice little bullring…smaller than Grand Forks even.”
Without having ever raced in Glyndon, Mark took to the track quickly. “It was fun,” he says. “We ended up starting 27th, and worked our way up to fourth by the end of it. At that point, the rubber laid down. I did have one shot at them with about six laps to go. I had just caught the leaders in lapped traffic and they looked stuck. Unfortunately, the yellow came out and the rubber was pretty much down.”
Jimco Motorsports would like to thank Senske & Son Transfer, Big Trucks by Jimco, Right Choice Electric, Acme Tools, X-treme Polishing, Interstate Towing & Recovery, B/L Strong Box, Steffes, Dahlstrom Motors, GLB Transport, Tireboss, Forx Radiator, Anderson Auto Body, Gary Gruhot Farms, Willow Ridge, Rose Creek, Great Plains Plumbing & Heating, Ironman Welding, DAV, Rendezvous Region Construction, High Mark Snowmobile Rentals, Boss Signs & Graphics and Dobmeier Bonding for all their help!
Photo: Mark races with Tim Kaeding at Jackson (Rob Kocak Photo)
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- administrator on May 28, 2015
- Article Date: 5/25/2015 by Bill Wright