(Cedar Rapids, IA) – Cedar Rapids has produced a bevy of top-notch Iowa race car drivers through the years and one of the best was certainly the late Darrell Dake. Dake, who began racing in the 1950’s became a top IMCA Stock Car driver in the 1950’s, finishing among the point leaders numerous times. He won a 200-lap IMCA race in 1959 at Cedar Rapids, also winning that year at Knoxville and in the prestigious “Hawkeye 300” at the Iowa State Fairgrounds, driving a 1957 Chevrolet Convertible.