The temperatures were hovering around 90 degrees as we arrived at the Boone Speedway on Saturday night. There proved to be hot racing action on the track too. It brought a repeat winner in the SportMod class, and a first time winner in the hobby stock division and the kids would enjoy a candy toss.
The Dwarf/Mod Lites were first on the program for their feature event. Seeing the bright yellow X50 of Joel Huggins sitting on the front row, we anticipated that he would be keeping it out front, and that is just what he did. He took the lead at the onset of the race and maintained that spot the entire race to add another victory to his list. Eric Hendrickson, who ran second for most of the race, claimed the runner-up position. Mike Kennedy came from starting 10th to claim third, Duane Coffman was fourth, and visiting driver, Jason Masengarb from Calona, Illinois, was fifth. Huggins had won the previous night at Marshalltown Speedway and has been having a great run as of late.
Thirty-five Northern SportMods signed in and they had to whittle the starting feature field to twenty-four by running a B-Main. There were several new drivers on hand..mostly from the Sioux City area. One of those drivers, the 9N of Kyle Nordquist of Beresford, South Dakota claimed the consy win. Randy Roberts, last week's winner, got his machine to the number one spot around mid-point of the race, from starting sixth. Joel Bushore, who had started in the row right behind Roberts, followed him into second position. Though Bushore tried to close the gap and catch Roberts, he was not successful as Roberts went home to the win for the second week in a row, and Bushore had to settle for the runner-up spot. Two fifth row starters, Matthew Meinecke and Jeremy Embrey finished third and fourth respectfully. Point leader Scott Davis, finished in fifth. It was a quickly run race, as it was run flag to flag.
Like the SportMods, the IMCA modifieds would also run their feature caution free. Kelly Lyons put his flashy green and white car to the front immediately as Skeeter Paris and Rod Scheueremann were tagging right behind him. Scheueremann made the pass on Paris to take over second spot and he would begin the task of closing the gap on Lyons. "Toddzilla" Todd Shute was making his way to the front as well as he fought with Jake "The Snake" Durbin, as they attempted to catch the leaders. Scheueremann would get inside Lyons and make a great try at getting the lead, but Lyons got a great run off of turn two each time. As they crossed the finish line, Lyons got his first win of the year, with Scheuermann settling for runner-up. Third went to Skeeter Paris as he held off Todd Shute in fourth and Jake Durbin in fifth.
Next up, was the IMCA Stock Cars. Josh Brauckman and Larry Crocheck sat on the front row and they took the one-two spots at the the flag with Brauckman leading. Sixth starter, Larry Portis, from Nora Springs, Iowa quickly got to third and then passed Crocheck for second. Point leader, Trent Murphy threw his hat into the ring, as he caught the leaders and made the pass into second. Cautions would fly, shuffling cars on the restarts. Murphy took advantage of one of those restarts, to get around Brauckmann and into the lead. Trent Murphy went on to take the checkers again, Brauckmann held on to second, Larry Crocheck was third, fourth went to Bill Reetz and rounding out the top five, was Wayne Gifford.
A first time winner in the first of two hobby stock features was Kris Law. Law kept his 7X car to the point and led the entire race. Cody Gustoff was second, third went to Alan VanGorp who had started back in 10th spot, fourth to Scott Lograsso, and fifth to Richard Yaw II who had started shotgun on the field. Congratulations to first time winner, Kris Law.
The final race of the night was the second feature for the IMCA hobby stockers. A few incidents during the contest, left sheetmetal hanging from more than one car. They have been dubbed "The Wild Things", and "happenings" on the track are quite the norm. Point leader, Michael Murphy didn't let anything hamper him though. He reeled in early leader Jesse McCollaugh and fended off last week's winner Matt McDonald, to find himself in Victory Lane. McDonald ended up in second, Rob Allison came from 12th to get third place, fourth went to Chris Hupp, and fifth to Pat Mather.
Next week at the Boone Speedway will be a regular points night of racing and fans can vote for their favorite driver. Make plans to attend another exciting race night and cheer on your favorites. Happy racing!
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