After the sweltering heat and humidity of the past week, it was a relief to have a more pleasant weather night at the Boone Speedway. There would be a three-in-a-row winner, many dnfs for the night, and multi-groove racing to entertain the fans.
The first feature to make it's way on the freshly farmed track, would be the mighty little Dwarf/Mod Lite cars. Former sprint car driver Mike Thomas would take the lead initially from his front row starting position with Dusty Masolini right behind. Thomas would lose the lead to Masolini after a restart. Masolini would eventually stretch out his lead and go on to his third victory in as many weeks. Following him across the line would be Jeff Stensland, Mike Kennedy, Andy Hennigar, and Ed Zehm.
Due to the attrition in the SportMod heats, the scheduled B Main saw so few cars take to the track, it was decided to checker the consy and let all able cars start the A Main. Pole sitter Zach Rawlins would be the leader of the pack early on, but after some on the track incidents that reduced the field, it would be Iowa State student, Geoff Olson taking over the top spot. Coming on strong to take over third would be Jeremy Embrey who evidently arrived at the track late and had to tag his heat. Embrey would pass Olson to take the lead and at the finish line it would be Embrey, Olson, Scott Davis, Joel Bushore and Kyle Brown.
Twenty-five of the IMCA modifieds were on hand for the evening, but only twenty-one of those were able to make the feature call. J. J. Scott made the charge at the beginning of the race but Adam Larson would quickly move up to second position from starting eighth, with just a handful of laps down. It was a good race between those two front runners, until a contact incident between the two in turn four right after Larson had passed Scott, caused a momentary "blip" for the two, though they both recovered and continued on. Seizing his opportunity when that happened, was none other than local favorite John Logue, who passed both Scott and Larson as well as Molle who was caught up in the Scott/Larson incident, and came to a rest causing the yellow flag to fly. This was a race that saw many dnfs as only nine cars were left running at the checkered flag. Taking the win was Logue and Adam Larson having to settle for second. Third would go to J. J. Scott, fourth to Scott Baker and fifth to Josh "Happy" Gilman. The remaining cars running were Cale Sponsler (6th), Randy Havlik (7th), Todd Shute (8th) and Russ Dickerson (9th). It's always unfortunate to see so many track incidents causing the cars to exit the track, and this was certainly one of those nights.
Seventeen of the nineteen stock cars would make their feature. The two front row starters, Larry Crocheck and Josh Brauckman led the green flag lap. Moving up to take second from Brauckman would be Wayne Gifford who was then pressuring Crocheck for the lead and managed to do so. Later, contact was made between those two front runners and it appeared that Crocheck was asked to leave the contest due to the contact. Gifford would go to the pits for a tire change and tag the field which put Lake City's Donavon Smith out front on the restart. From there on, it was Smith maintaining the number one position and he went home to another win. Second was Bryan Trogdon, third to Chris Webb, fourth to Trent Murphy and rounding out the top five was Rick Speck.
With 38 cars checked in for the hobby stocks, there were two features on the docket tonight.
The first feature saw a good battle up front between Scott Lograsso, Beau Kaplan and Michael Murphy. That would be the way they would eventually cross the finish line with Aaron Rudolph and Dean Hartwig rounding out the top five. The 44J of Justin Hopkins would claim the 38R of Rudolph.
Dylan Book in his #B00K car looked to possibly be attaining his first feature win as he led the second hobby stock feature. But it wasn't to be on this night, as he eventually lost that lead to Chris Hupp who went to Victory Lane. Devin Smith would also pass Book to take second, Book got third, Pat Mather fourth and Alan VanGorp was fifth.
We enjoyed visiting with Paul Vetter, IMCA Western Region Director and Vicki Johnson. They have been back this past week on one their many "Race Tours de Iowa". We caught up with them at several races during their time back here and always enjoy their knowledgeable take on racing.
Next Saturday at the Boone Speedway will be the added attraction of a rollover contest and a huge fireworks display after the regular night of racing. There are many other special racing programs in our area this coming week as well. Try to get out and attend at least one of those dirt track shows. Happy racing!
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