We were wondering if Mother Nature was going to allow for racing at Boone on Saturday night but racing went on as scheduled. We understand the rain ended about noon in Boone, and work began on the track soon after. The track held up well and the night provided two and three wide racing all night long.
The Dwarf/Mod Lite class ran their feature first and it went flag to flag. Ed Zehm quickly came to the front from his 11th starting position and he went on to take the win. Crossing in second was Charlie Brown who started 9th, third was 12th place starter and current point leader Andy Hennigar, fourth was Cory Dennis and rounding out the top five was James May.
There was another good field of SportMods on hand with 27 cars signed in. The feature would see 25 of them start. It was front row starter Lynn Brockett jumping out to a good lead at the drop of the green. He held the lead comfortably until a yellow bunched up the field with a few laps to go. It would then see veteran Rick Ringgenberg on Brockett's tail with 11th place starter Scott Davis in third. At the finish it would be Brockett maintaining his top position, taking the win. Scott Davis would slip by Ringgenberg to take second. Fourth went to Eric Elliott and fifth would be his father, Craig Elliott. Congratulations to Lynn Brockett on a fine run and his first ever SportMod win.
A full field of 24 IMCA modifieds took to the track for their main event. It was the front row starters of Skeeter Paris and Adam Larson leaping to the lead and a good race between the two began. Larson lead with Paris close behind until an unfortunate contact incident in turn four, resulted in what appeared to be a flat for Larson. The 2L of Larson would have to exit the track while Paris continued on. In the meantime, it was the 24 of Robert Avery taking the lead position with a hard charging crowd favorite, Todd Shute right behind. Shute would then have to leave after getting a flat tire from some racing contact with Avery. As the race wound down, it would be Avery keeping his top spot and go home for his first win of the year. Paris would take the runner up spot, Randy Havlik came home third, Mike Molle in fourth and Josh Gilman was fifth.
The IMCA stock car feature had 25 cars out of the 28 on hand, start their A main. From his front row starting position, the GT1 of veteran racer Brian Efkamp, was off to the lead. Another veteran driver, Robert Stofer, would be right behind Efkamp and in the end, that is the way they crossed the finish line. I'm sure it was a very happy Efkamp taking the win in his Ford powered machine, as it has been sometime since he last visited Victory Lane. Coming home in third was Wayne Gifford, fourth Donovan Smith from starting 14th, and fifth was Terry Cornelison.
The last feature of the evening was ONE A main for the IMCA hobby stocks. We cannot remember a time in recent memory, that only one hobby stock main was run at Boone other than for a special event. A B main was held earlier to trim the feature to 24 cars out of the 36 on hand. It looked to be another new face getting a win as Dylan Book in his #B00K car led the race by a good length over Matt Wahlert early and then familiar #25M, Michael Murphy took over the second spot. Book still maintained a good lead, until a yellow flag flew with only 4 laps to go. After the restart, Murphy would overtake Book for the lead and several other cars slipped by him as well. Murphy went home to the checkers flying first. Following him across the line in second was Cody Gustoff, Justin Hopkins in third, Devin Smith for fourth and Dylan Book held on for a good fifth place finish.
The night's events were completed at 10:05 allowing us an earlier return home than usual, which was nice. This would complete a 4 night straight run of racing for us as we'd attended Oskaloosa on Wednesday, traveled to Alta on Thursday, spent Friday at our "home" track in Marshalltown, and our traditional Saturday night at Boone. We are so lucky to be able to have so many choices here in the state of Iowa and now with special events season starting, there are even more races to choose from even during the week. Hope you will be able to catch a race at one of those many tracks. Happy racing!
Full results are posted below.
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