We were greeted with beautiful weather for a night of racing at the Boone Speedway. The action was fast, furious, and 3 and 4 wide racing. Bill Davis, Jr. would visit Victory Lane for the third time this year in the modified division, Trent Murphy would see the familiar checkers fly for him as well, and Troy Hudson would get back in his groove with a win in the Dwarf/Mod Lite class.
After a fun hoola hoop contest during the usual farming session, the mighty little Dwarf/Mod Lites took to the track for their feature race. The bright neon orange #5 of Troy Hudson sat on the front row and he wasted no time in showing his dominance from previous years. He would lead the entire race, coming home to the checkered flag first. Trying to reel him in for most of the race, was Andy Hennigar who would have to settle for the runner-up position. Third went to Ed Zehm, fourth to Eric Hendrickson and fifth to James May.
It's not too often that we don't see a B Main for the Northern SportMods, but on this evening, there was no consy race and 25 of the 26 cars on hand started the feature. Zach Rawlins, who we have noticed is running quite well as of late, took advantage of his pole-position and led from the get go. Rawlins would stretch his lead until a yellow flag with about three laps to go, bunched up the field, putting the 41 of Jeremy Embrey on his tail. The yellow was no doubt a mixed reaction for those two drivers and when the green flew, Embrey would make the pass on Rawlins who would see his hopes of the win fade. As the checkers flew, Embrey took the win, Rawlins settled for second, third went to Scott Davis who advanced from 12th starting spot, fourth to Mike Munson, and fifth to Matthew Meinecke.
Scott Hogan and Jake Durbin sat on the front row for the IMCA modified A Main. Those two would put on a good battle as Hogan led with Durbin close behind. Rod Scheueremann would throw himself into the mix but it was Bill Davis, Jr. who would make his move to the front past Durbin and then Hogan, to take over the lead spot. Veteran John Logue then put himself in contention toward the front but as he battled with Scheueremann, there was an incident which resulted in Logue pulling into the infield, done for the night. Scheueremann would recover and keep going, but Hogan and Durbin slipped by to advance in position. At the finish line, Bill Davis, Jr. would take his third win at the track this year, second to Vinton's Scott Hogan, third to Jake Durbin, fourth to Scheueremann, and fifth to point leader Cale Sponsler. Early in the race at about lap five, a multi-car tangle in turn three, resulted in the 49T of Tim Steven's being launched up and over the banking. It appeared the car rolled, and the race was red flagged. It was certainly good to see Stevens walking back to the pits, apparently unscathed.
With the success that Trent Murphy has had at the Speedway, it was not a huge surprise to see him visiting Victory Lane again--even having to come from starting 10th. Murphy is the stock car point leader at the track. The race began with front row sitters Josh Brauckman and Jeff Harkrider, both from Carroll, Iowa, lead the race at halfway. With just a couple of laps remaining and a yellow flying, Murphy would see his chance on the restart, make the pass for first and even with the 50 of Robert Stofer trying to overtake him, it would be Murphy with yet another win at the Boone Speedway. Stofer took second, Donavon Smith was third, Jeff Harkrider was fourth, and Bryan Trogdon came on strong to round out the top five.
It was another rare night with the hobby stockers running only one A Main with 34 cars on hand. They would run a B Main to whittle the feature to 24 cars. However, the feature would see only 22 of those cars make the starting call, as Cody Gustoff and Travis Fenton were not able to start. The final feature of the night found Chris Hupp taking home the win, Daniel Hilsabeck was second, Pat Mather in third, 18 year old Michael Murphy in fourth, and Lake City's Devin Smith rounded out the top five. Hilsabeck and Smith came from well back in the starting pack for impressive advancements. Sixth went to the B00K car of Dylan Book who started far in the back, driving what appeared to be a new car.
Next week at the Boone Speedway is scheduled another regular night of racing with hot laps at 6:45 and racing to begin at 7:30. Try to make it for a great night of racing entertainment. Still more specials in the area as well. Our racing season will be over before we know it, so get out and enjoy. Happy racing!
Full results are listed below.
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