We made our first trip in several years up to the Buena Vista Raceway in Alta for last night's USMTS race. It's right at a 200 mile trip for us, but we certainly enjoyed some great racing! We enjoyed meeting promoter Jeff Herrig -- introduced to us by fellow Positively Racing member, Tapfan -- and then had a pleasant evening sharing the night's racing activities with him and other racing family. It's always more fun when we can swap racing info with fellow enthusiasts!
Since Alta did not hold their regular Wednesday night of racing, they ran their regular classes as well. The first feature of the evening was the IMCA Sport Compact class. We seldom see these 4-cylinder cars run. Taking the feature was the 75 car of Corey Flannigan.
Next up on the track was the IMCA hobby stockers. A driver that has really been hot this year, Shannon Anderson, took home yet another win. He put his #78 car up front and stayed there to take the checkers first. Coming home in second was #45B Craig Brotherton, third #81 Devin Smith, fourth #62B Andy Boeckman, and fifth #32 Kyle Robinson.
The IMCA SportMod feature would see the #12 of Doug Smith win, followed in second by Brett Meyer. Meyer was not racing his usual #1M machine, but instead, was in a familiar looking black #22 car. He was paying tribute to long time racing supporter, Charlie Clark who recently passed. Clark had Nebraskan Steve Kosiski piloting the original car in years past. Taking third would be #9 Tony Pogeler, fourth #90 Chris Grothe and fifth #60 Tanner Powers.
One of our favorite classes, the IMCA stock cars, ran their feature next. When there are Smith brothers on the track, you know they are always going to be up front and tonight was no different. Trent Murphy in his #25 machine, jumped to the early lead from his pole position and was in command for a while. It wasn't long however, until Dustin Smith was reeling him in with brother Donavon right behind. Dustin caught and passed Murphy as did Donovan, so it was a Smith brother shootout at the end. The #85 of Dustin kept the #35 of Donovan at bay, and they came home one-two. Murphy in#25, finished a close third, fourth was #01U of Chris Ullrich and rounding out the top five was yet another Smith brother, David in his #8 machine.
The final event of the evening was the USMTS feature brought to the track by the series promoter, Todd Staley. Jumping to an early lead was Waterloo driver, Corey Dripps in his #31 car. It wasn't long until defending race winner, Kelly Shryock was riding in second place trying to reel Dripps in. However, the class act of the night, Al "A Train" Hejna was hot on their heels. He soon passed them both for the lead and after that, had a pretty comfortable race to the finish line. Hejna took that checkered flag first followed by Shryock in second and Corey Dripps in third. Taking fourth with an impressive run was #65 Tommy Myer and fifth was the Watertown, South Dakota driver, #14 Jon Tesch. Tesch has been having a very successful run of late with the series.
Even with arriving back home after 3 a.m., we were glad we made the trip up to Alta. Thanks to track promoter Jeff Herrig and USMTS series promoter Todd Staley for giving us fans a great night of entertainment. Of course, thanks also goes to all of the drivers for their most important part.
Make sure you check out Tapfan's Tours blog for a much in depth take of the races. Happy racing everyone!
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