Boone Speedway Avoids the Rain

This past Saturday, with rain all around, it was questionable if Boone would race. However, we should have known better. We have seen time after time when the rain will magically miss Boone Speedway, just like the hole in a donut or as if it has a glass dome over the track. According to the radar we saw, there was rain on three sides of the track but there was never more than a light sprinkle that fell at anytime during the show. The magic of Boone? As we left the track, we ran into rain just 2 miles east and then drove in it all the way home.

The Dwarf/Mod Lites were the first to run their feature with 20 cars; the largest car count yet for them this season. Sixth place starter, Joel Huggins, made quick work of putting his X50 car to the front as he took the lead on lap three. Matthew Goodin fell back a couple of positions after Huggins took the point position away from him. Father-son duo, James and Josh May tried to catch the leader but at the conclusion of the race, they had to settle for second and third respectively, as Huggins took the win. Matthew Goodin held on for fourth place and Mike Kennedy rounded out the top five.

The IMCA SportMods had to run a B feature to complete their 24 car starting field. Transferring from the B were Geoff Olson, Nick Roberts, Josh Lopshire, a visitor from Pulaski, which is located in the far southern part of the state near Bloomfield, and Jared Timmerman.
Pole sitter, Dan Wetzel would lead the race through lap twelve, but Scott Davis had his eye set on the win, and overtook Wetzel for the lead. Davis kept that top spot and came home to the checkers first. Tim Love slipped by Wetzel for runner-up place, leaving Wetzel to garner third. Fourth went to another southern Iowa driver, young Cayden Carter, and fifth was Jerry Hinton.

During the modified feature, sprinkles began to fall, but they were so light they did not cause problems with racing or even much bother the fans. Richie Gustin and Joel Bushore sat on the front row and as the green fell, Gustin jumped to the lead with Bushore in pursuit. An incident with just four laps down, involved some cars that were making good headway, including Todd Shute, Denny Pittman and Jimmy Gustin. It would end Pittman's and Gustin's run for the night. When racing resumed, Adam Larson made his way into third as he chased Richie Gustin and Bushore. At the end of the twenty lap feature, it was Richie Gustin for the win, Larson made the pass on Bushore for second as Bushore took third for his best finish of the year. Fourth went to Cale Sponsler for his best run of the year also, and fifth was Luke Wanninger.

The stock car feature had to have it's final three starters determined by a B Main. Those transferring were Cory Bushnell, Ryan Rose in his first appearance of the year, and Butch Bass.
Jerry Gifford and brother Wayne Gifford challenged each other for the lead much of the race. Fighting behind them were Ty Hill, Donavon Smith, and Mike VanGenderen. VanGenderen was lucky to hold on and only drop a spot or two, as contact was made when Dustin Smith made the pass low in turns one and two. As the laps wound down, it became a brother chasing brother race to the finish. Wayne Gifford took the win, Jerry Gifford was second, Donovan Smith captured third and fourth went to brother Dustin Smith. Ty Hill came home in fifth and VanGenderen was sixth.

Two A mains were run by the IMCA hobby stocks. Tyer Pickett led the first race from his outside front row starting spot until Cody Gustoff over took him. The race would end with Gustoff taking the win and Pickett in second. Aaron Rudolph came home in third from his 8th starting spot, John Watson in fourth from 10th spot, and fifth went to Brandon Pruitt who came from starting 11th. In the second feature, disaster was avoided on the start. As the cars took the green flag and they became bottled up going into the first corner. It was one of those, "whew, that could have been bad" moments, that didn't turn out to be bad, as everyone regained control. Eric Stanton started back in twelfth position and was able to come through the pack incredibly fast and was leading by lap five. Equally impressive, was the move of Pat Mather who came from 15th starting position and take the second spot. As the final checkers of the night flew, it was Stanton keeping the lead for the win, Mather was second, third went to Tony Cox. fourth to veteran driver Randy Embrey, and fifth was Jesse Hopkins.

The racing action ended right at 10:45 p.m. , with a chilly and brisk wind blowing, but still only a few sprinkles falling. For more information and results, you can check the Boone Speedway website at http://www.raceboone.com/. Racing action will continue next week with another points event in all divisions. Hot laps are scheduled for 6:45 with racing at 7:30. More complete results are listed below. Happy racing!

Boone - 4/24/10

Unofficial results:

145 cars

Modified - 27 cars

Heat 1 - 19G Richie Gustin
Heat 2 - 87 Joel Bushore - 1st win in an A Mod
Heat 3 - 19 Jimmy Gustin

Feature

1. 19G Richie Gustin
2. 2L Adam Larson
3. 87 Joel Bushore
4. 93 Cale Sponsler
5. 20 Luke Wanninger
6. 18 Jake Durbin
7. 3 Mike Albersten
8. 83G Josh Gilman
9. 7C Nate Caruth
10. 15X Scott Baker
11. 3Z Randy Havlik
12. 5 Todd Shute
13. 22D Daniel Hilsabeck
14. 28R Russ Dickerson
15. 27 Kelly Lyons
16. 94 Fred Schimmels
17. 77C Craig Carlson
18. 12C Kent Croskey
19. 34 Scott Strauss - Cedar Rapids
20. 69X Jon Snyder
21. 49T Tim Stevens
22. 12 Stacy Warren
23. 1 Bill Davis, Jr.
24. 58 Denny Pittman
25. 19 Jimmy Gustin
26. K1 Kyle Krampe
27. 10K Ronn Lauritzen

SportMod - 31 cars

Heat 1 - 81D Scott Davis
Heat 2 - 5M Matthew Meinecke
Heat 3 - 57 Lynn Brockett
Heat 4 - 13X Brett Moffitt

B Feature - 4 transfer to A

1. 2G Geoff Olson
2. 23JR Nick Roberts
3. 312 Josh Lopshire - Pulaski, IA
4. 7+ Jared Timmerman
5. 17 Jamie Ganoe
6. 6 Darren Huntley
7. 72 Rick Ringgenberg
8. 66 Cody Hennings
9. 28 James Reichart
10. B00K - Dylan Book
DNS: 41 Jeremy Embrey

Feature

1. 81D Scott Davis
2. 27 Tim Love
3. 13D Dan Wetzel
4. 10 Cayden Carter
5. 34J Jerry Hinton
6. 3R Randy Roberts
7. 5M Matthew Meinecke
8. 2G Geoff Olson
9. 3L Clint Luellen
10. 22J Jeff Blume
11. 80 Steve Reetz
12. 7 Carter VandenBerg
13. 23JR Nick Roberts
14. 32L Ty Luellen
15. 59 Tara Longnecker
16. 3 Stacey Clark
17. 312 Josh Lopshire
18. 13X Brett Moffitt
19. 9E Eric Elliott
20. 24 Brian Miller
21. 57 Lynn Brockett
22. X4 Jason Purvis
23. 7+ Jared Timmerman
24. 84 Brandon Morris

Stock Car - 28 cars

Heat 1- 22 Wayne Gifford
Heat 2 - 85 Dustin Smith
Heat 3 - 23HR Rod Richards

B Main - 3 transfer to A Main

1. 55 Cory Bushnell
2. 12+ Ryan Rose
3. 26K Butch Bass
4. 60 Clay Deppe
5. 76 Norm Belew
6. 2L Jon Lang
7. 27M Mike Munson

Feature

1. 22 Wayne Gifford
2. 9 Jerry Gifford
3. 35 Donavon Smith
4. 85 Dustin Smith
5. 3H Ty Hill
6. 57V Mike VanGenderen
7. 45 Larry Crocheck
8. 25 Trent Murphy
9. 77 Andy Bryant
10. 17X Kenny Hansen
11. 556 Terry Cornelison
12. 12+ Ryan Rose
13. 19A Alan VanGorp
14. 26 Bill Reetz
15. 24K Kevin Shaw
16. 2J Steve Jackson
17. 33 Matt Gray
18. 26K Butch Bass
19. 12 Bryan Trogdon
20. 55 Cory Bushnell
21. 5 Keith Miner
22. 27D Brad Dutton
23. 22X Josh Brauckman
24. 23HR Rod Richards

Hobby Stock - 39 cars

Heat 1- 4W John Watson
Heat 2 - 5A Tyler Pickett
Heat 3 - 40 Randy Embrey
Heat 4 - 293 Jake Wirtz

Feature #1

1. 23 Cody Gustoff
2. 5A Tyler Pickett
3. 38R Aaron Rudolph
4. 4W John Watson
5. 10B Brandon Pruitt
6. 83S Scott Lograsso
7. 293 Jake Wirtz
8. 43 Nic Shearer
9. 9R Matt Hudspeth
10. 20 Donnie Gustoff
11. T15 Jacob Thompson
12. 33X Max Leonard
13. 07 Jacob Keiser
14. 911 Darin Rothfus
15. 67 Ed Mahlstedt
16. 05 Jake Comer
17. 0F Jeff Fink
DNS: 10 Travis Fenton
11B Solomon Bennett

Feature #2

1. 7B Eric Stanton
2. m15 Pat Mather
3. 1BC Tony Cox
4. 40 Randy Embrey
5. 46J Jesse Hopkins
6. T10 Tim Barber
7. 24B Brandon Brinton
8. 14 Matt Wahlert
9. 51D Dustin Filloon
10. 3A Austin Luellen
11. 20T Richard Yaw II
12. 16B Jay Arends
13. 66 Andy Mahlstedt
14. 27R Clint Rothfus
15. 8B Bobby Smith
16. 83 Chris Hupp
17. 25M Michael Murphy
18. 9 Andrew Arends
DNS: T71 Marcus Kyle

Dwarf/Mod Lite - 20 cars

Heat 1 - 95 Mike Kennedy
Heat 2 - 99 Josh May

Feature

1. x50 Joel Huggins
2. 88 Jimmy May
3. 99 Josh May
4. 5X Matthew Goodin
5. 95 Mike Kennedy
6. 20 Jeff Stensland
7. 01 David Schmalzried
8. 66F Eric Hendrickson
9. 4 Cliff Barber
10. 76M Angelo Montgomery
11. 37 Mike Thomas
12. 46 Kevin Grisham
13. 4L Larry Sorenson
14. 97 Brian Summers
15. 76 Terry Sorenson
16. 03 Rick Dennis
17. 3 Cory Dennis
18. 0B Colby Oberembt
19. 89 Travis Stensland
DNS: 64 Randy Bryan

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Larson and Lucas take Modified Division Wins at Boone

The Boone Speedway was our regular Saturday night stop for racing action this past weekend. It was a bit more comfortable weather wise for spectators, but the wrap was still on a section of front stretch bleachers, and the heaters were beneath to provide some warmth for the fans. A nice field of 128 cars was on hand for the night's program.

The first feature of the evening was the Dwarf/Mod-Lites. It was appearing that Dusty Masolini might take his second win of the weekend, as he had won at the Marshalltown Speedway the previous night. However, Josh May, who has been on a streak lately, had other ideas. May would come from starting sixth to over take second place runner, Randy Bryan and then passed Masolini for the lead. I believe this was Josh May's fourth victory of this early season. Masolini had to settle for the runner-up position, Bryan was third, fourth was Coby Oberembt in his best finish of the year, and fifth went to James May.

The IMCA SportMod feature was whittled down to 24 after the final four starters transferred from a B-Main. It was noted that two cars were unable to make that start, thus only 22 drivers took the green. Early leader Randy Roberts would get shuffled back as Austin Lucas and Geoff Olson made their way forward. Lucas pretty much had it his way when he made the pass for the lead and went home to the win. Coming home in second was Matthew Meinecke, third went to Jared Timmerman who came from starting eleventh, fourth was Mike Pruitt and fifth was Eric Elliott.

The IMCA modified class was up next for their feature. Adam Larson and Craig Carlson sat on the front row and would lead the field through the half-way point. Jake Durbin made the pass around Carlson for second place. The race ended with Larson maintaining the point position and taking the win, Durbin was second, Carlson had a good run to take third, fourth went to Jon Snyder in his sharp looking 69X ride, and fifth went to always hard-charging Jimmy Gustin.

The competitive IMCA stock car feature was completed flag to flag. Wayne Gifford paced the field early but "the Smith Brothers" were coming through the pack, picking off cars as they are known to do. Donovan Smith was able to make the move around Gifford and brother Dustin tailed Gifford in third. The race ended just that way, with Donovan Smith the winner, Wayne Gifford in second, Dustin Smith taking third, fourth to rookie Kenny Hansen, moving up from the hobby stock ranks, and fifth to last week's winner, "Hot" Rod Richards.

There was only one feature for the IMCA hobby stocks as the 31 cars had to run a B-Main.
Travis Fenton in his #10 ride, led the race past the half-way point and was looking good for taking a win. An unfortunate incident right before the white flag, put Cody Gustoff in the backstretch wall with Pat Mather also involved. This would set up a green-white-checkered finish. The restart put Michael Murphy on the back bumper of Fenton and Murphy wasted no time in making the pass for the lead. Murphy took the win, Fenton was in second, third went to Chris Hupp who came from way back in 15th starting spot, fourth to Tony Cox, a name we recall from more than a few years back, and fifth to veteran driver Randy Embrey who made his first appearance of the year.

Racing action was completed at 10:30 which allowed us to get home at the bewitching hour. Racing action will continue at the Boone Speedway next week with hot laps at 6:45 and racing at 7:30. More information can be found at www.raceboone.com. Happy racing!

More complete results are listed below.

Boone - 4-17-10

Unofficial results:

Modified - 21 cars

Heat 1 - 2L Adam Larson
Heat 2 - 28R Russ Dickerson
Heat 3 - 18 Jake Durbin

Feature

1. 2L Adam Larson
2. 18 Jake Durbin
3. 77C Craig Carlson
4. 69X Jon Snyder
5. 19 Jimmy Gustin
6. 28R Russ Dickerson
7. 15X Scott Baker
8. 27 Kelly Lyons
9. 3 Stacy Warren
10. 5 Todd Shute
11. 3Z Randy Havlik
12. 93 Cale Sponsler
13. 22D Daniel Hilsabeck
14. 20 Luke Wanninger
15. 94 Fred Schimmels
16. 49T Tim Stevens
17. 58 Denny Pittman
18. K1 Kyle Krampe
19. 87 Joel Bushore
20. 83G Josh Gilman
DNS: 12 Stacy Warren


SportMod - 34 cars

Heat 1 - 3R Randy Roberts
Heat 2 - 9X Austin Lucas
Heat 3 - 92 Mike Pruitt
Heat 4 - 2G Geoff Olson

B-Main - top 4 to the A

1. 321 Andy Tiernan
2. 20K Lauren Vis
3. 12 Creston Williams
4. 28 James Reichart
5. 59 Tara Longnecker
6. 3 Stacey Clark
7. 17 Jamie Ganoe
8. 27 Tim Love
9. 63 Daniel Tasler
10. 52 Ryan Engelkes
11. 32L Ty Luellen
DNS: 35 Bruce Egeland
23JR Nick Roberts
1C Cody Warrick

Feature

1. 9X Austin Lucas
2. 5M Matthew Meinecke
3. 7+ Jared Timmerman
4. 92 Mike Pruitt
5. 9E Eric Elliott
6. 81D Scott Davis
7. 13X Brett Moffitt
8. 2G Geoff Olson
9. 3R Randy Roberts
10. 3L Clint Luellen
11. 66 Cody Hennings
12. 57 Lynn Brockett
13. 6 Darren Huntley
14. 34J Jerry Hinton
15. 13D Dab Wetzel
16. 20L Lauren Vis
17. 12 Creston Williams
18. 72 Rick Ringgenberg
19. 41 Jeremy Embrey
20. 24 Brian Miller
21. X4 Jason Purvis
22. 28 James Reichart
DNS: 23 Jaren Hansen
321 Andy Tiernan

Stock Car - 25 cars

Heat 1 - 23HR Hot Rod Richards
Heat 2 - 22 Wayne Gifford
Heat 3 - 35 Donavon Smith

Feature

1. 35 Donavon Smith
2. 22 Wayne Gifford - carb claimed by 3S Bryan Snell- exchanged
3. 85 Dustin Smith
4. 17X Kenny Hansen
5. 23HR Rod Richards
6. 25 Trent Murphy
7. 57V Mike VanGenderen
8. 12 Bryan Trogdon
9. 45 Larry Crocheck
10. 18 Jeff Harkrider
11. 26 Bill Reetz
12. 19A Alan VanGorp
13. 55 Cory Bushnell
14. 26K Butch Bass
15. 556 Terry Cornelison
16. 76 Norm Belew
17. 18 Bryan Snell
18. 24K Kevin Shaw
19. 27D Brad Dutton
20. 2L Jon Lang
21. 3H Ty Hill
22. 9 Jerry Gifford
23. 33 Matt Gray
24. 22S Toby Smith
25. 22X Josh Brauckman

Hobby Stock - total of 31 cars - only 1 feature

Heat 1 - 23 Cody Gustoff
Heat 2 - 25M Micheal Murphy
Heat 3 - 1BC Tony Cox
Heat 4 - 12M Matt McDonald

B-Main - Top 4 to the A

1. 38R Aaron Rudolph
2. 20 Donnie Gustoff
3. T10 Tim Barber
4. 43 Nic Shearer
5. 16B Jay Arends
6. 11B Solomon Bennett
7. 293 Jake Wirtz
8. 26T Jeremy Tilley
9. 5A Tyler Pickett
DNS: 46J Jesse Hopkins
66 Andy Mahlstedt

Feature

1. 25M Michael Murphy
2. 10 Travis Fenton
3. 83 Chris Hupp
4. 1BC Tony Cox
5. 40 Randy Embrey
6. 12 Steve Roberts
7. 14 Matt Wahlert
8. 20 Donnie Gustoff
9. 38R Aaron Rudolph
10. 43 Nic Shearer
11. 83S Scogtt Lograsso
12. 24B Brandon Brinton
13. 12M Matt McDonald
14. 8B Bobby Smith
15. 63 Cory Tasler
16. T10 Tim Barber
17. 9 Andrew Arends
18. 23 Cory Gustoff
19. m15 Pat Mather
20. 74J Dean Hartwig
21. 9R Matt Hudspeth
22. 26 Kyle Habrich
23. 911 Darin Rothfus
24. T15 Jacob Thompson

Dwarf/Mod-Lite - 17 cars

Heat 1 - 99 Josh May
Heat 2 - 88 Jimmy May

1. 99 Josh May
2. 8 Dusty Masolini
3. 64 Randy Bryan
4. 0B Colby Oberembt
5. 88 Jimmy May
6. 95 Mike Kennedy
7. 37 Mike Thomas
8. 5X Matthew Goodin
9. 01 David Schmalzried
10. 4 Cliff Barber
11. 46 Kevin Grisham
12. 97 Brian Summers
13. 76 Terry Sorenson
14. 9 Rick Taylor
15. 4L Larry Sorenson
16. 00 Phillip Reeves
17. 76M Angelo Montgomery

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"Insane" Finish in the "Class too Tough to Tame" at the Marshalltown Speedway

With a brisk northwest wind and chilly temps, it was a cold night at the Marshalltown Speedway on Friday night, but the racing action was hot and furious. Young announcer, Blake Anderson, did an excellent job of keeping the crowd informed about the racing and about the drivers.

The first feature was the Dwarf/Mod-Lite class. Dusty Masolini would lead the race from flag to flag as he got his first feature win at the Marshalltown Speedway. A big battle was going on behind him as Mike Morrill, Josh May, James May, Randy Bryan, Eric Hendrickson, and Tim Hennigar were all fighting for positions. Josh May had his night end when he slipped off the backside of turn two, leaving the others to continue their tight racing. Following Masolini across the line at the end, was Mike Morrill for second, Eric Hendrickson in third, fourth was Tim Hennigar, and fifth went to Randy Bryan.

As always, a strong field of 39 IMCA SportMods were on hand. A B-Main would whittle the starting feature event to the 24 car field. Young Cayden Carter from Oskaloosa, would lead the way around the quarter-mile track for 14 of the 15 laps. Carter, unfortunately, would slip off of the turn two topside after taking the white flag, giving the lead over to Brett Moffitt. Moffitt then went on to take the win. Second went to Scott Davis, third to Jake Strayer, fourth to Eric Elliott and fifth to Chad Louk. It has been nice to see some Southern Iowa drivers making their way to our area for some IMCA racing. Both Cayden Carter, and cousin Carter VandenBerg, grandsons of Jimmy Carter, plan to be regulars this season at Marshalltown. They will also be racing at the Southern Iowa Speedway where they will compete in the USRA B-mod division, with different cars. We also noticed Jayme Duinink who is a regular at the Oskaloosa, Iowa track as well, in the #777 SportMod.

Wow! What a finish to the IMCA Stock Car feature! Certainly showed why they are called "The Class too Tough to Tame". By halfway, the leader was Lake City's Dustin Smith as he was able to pass Clay Deppe, the early race leader. Smith had started around the 8th position and following him up to the top postions to throw their hat in the ring, was Trent Murphy and visitor from the Independence area, and a two-time Super Nationals champion, Brian Irvine. The racing between those three drivers was absolutely amazing! With one lap to go, Irvine had the advantage with Smith trailing him and Murphy in third. As the three cars exited turn four, they were three-wide and third place car Murphy, swung to the outside and gained the momentum to propel him across the line first. It was, as promoter Toby Kruse exclaimed, "insane"! Second went to Dustin Smith, third to Irvine and fourth to Steve Meyer. I believe Clay Deppe was scored in fifth. Be sure and check http://www.marshalltownspeedway.com/ for all the official results.

Twenty-three IMCA A modifieds were in competion on this night. Mike O'Lear and Adam Larson sat on the front row with Richie Gustin right behind them. You just knew it was going to be an exciting race. Richie Gustin has been a hard charger as of late, but having mechanical problems end his night. Tonight, that didn't happen, and Gustin took the win. Adam Larson came home the runner-up with Mike O'Lear taking third after having had his night end in disaster on the frontstretch last week. Fourth went to Jon Snyder, who came from well back in the pack and rounding out the top five was Vern Jackson.

The final feature of the night, was the IMCA hobby stocks. After having to run a B-Main to pare their starting feature to 24 cars, I only counted nineteen cars taking the track for their feature race. Pistol Pete Hutzel would then drop out before taking the green flag. With just two laps down, Nick Murty would put his 99JR car to the point and he would maintain the top spot and take the win. Following him to take second, was Dustin Elliott, on this the "Elliott Racing Night" at the speedway. Third went to rookie driver out of Newton, Calvin Dhondt, fourth to Eric Knutson, and fifth to Devin Smith.

The night was a windy one, with the dust flying at us, and more than a little chilly. However, the racing was great. We will be back at the Marshalltown Speedway next Friday for more racing action. For more complete results, check the speedway website and check out fellow Positively Racing blogger, Tapfan's take on the races at http://www.positivelyracing.com/.

Happy racing!

First Points Racing at Marshalltown and Boone

Marshalltown Speedway got their season points racing action underway on Friday night, April 9th, after having their Frostbuster rained out the previous Friday night. The pits and stands were filled, with 137 cars competing for the opening points night. An unfortunate "lights out" in the infield occurred at the beginning of the action when a transformer blew, leaving the infield without power. While it did not halt the first six heat races, the PA system did not work. We have been to several tracks where the power has gone out, but it certainly brought back memories of Eldora, Iowa where it happened often especially during their fair races. Fellow Positively Racing blogger Tapfan, was quick to mention that recollection! Shortly after 8 p.m., heat racing was stopped, when the visibility was just too dark to be safe. Promoter Toby Kruse was having portable rented lighting brought in, but just after the first one was up in turn two, Alliant Energy was able to restore power. Downtime was about an hour and fifteen minutes. New announcer this year is young Blake Anderson, who also helps announce at the Knoxville Raceway on Saturday nights. He takes long-time announcer, Denny Grabenbauer's place on the PA. Welcome aboard Blake. Taking to the flag stand this year is Jerry VanSickle who takes the place of Ryan Bergeson. Ryan, a new father last November, is sticking closer to home and will be waving the flags at the Donnellson Speedway on Friday nights.

The first feature was the Dwarf/Mod Lites. The race was red flagged when Kevin Grisham rolled his ride in turn one. He was not injured. Tim Hennigar led much of the race as Josh May and Mike Morrill pursued him. It was back and forth between May and Hennigar until Morrill made his move past Hennigar to challenge for the lead. The final few laps was another back and forth battle between Morrill and May with May getting the advantage out of turn four, to take the first checkers of the year and I believe his first win at the Marshalltown Speedway.

The SportMod class had to whittle their feature down to 24 cars by running two B mains. Young Geoff Olson looked impressive by taking the feature win over Eric Elliott, Eric Flander (who moved from the stock car class) Brad Iverson and Roland's Matt Lettow.

Stock Cars had a good field of 23 cars on hand. Damon Murty took command of the race early and never looked back, to take home the feature win. Dustin Smith started in the back after suffering a flat in his heat race, to take second, third was Steve Meyer, fourth went to Michael Jaennette, and fifth was Trent Murphy.

Modified action was exciting with rookie to the division, Luke Wanninger, and Richie Gustin putting on a battle up front. An unfortunate incident with lap traffic would put both of them out of action when they wound up together on the frontstretch. Scott Simatovich inherited the lead then and he would maintain that point postion to take the win. Jon Snyder came home second, third went to a hard charging Vern Jackson, fourth was Jimmy Gustin and rounding out the top five, was Todd Conrad.

The final feature was the hobby stocks. Nick Murty led the race until he suddenly exited from the track during a yellow. Josh Irvine took the lead then and would come home the winner, followed by Todd Reitzler, Michael Murphy, Devin Smith and Dustin Elliott. The racing was done shortly before midnight.

Boone Speedway - April 10th

Saturday, April 10th, we ventured to the Boone Speedway for their season opener. We had learned that the front stretch bleachers were going to be heated and were curious to see how that was going to be done. The first section to the west had the back and sides beneath it, wrapped in heavy plastic and they had two large heaters blowing warm air up under the stands. That was quite the crowded section! Unfortunately, the breeze was blowing toward the stands and probably did not give a good indication as to how well the setup really worked.

I counted 131 cars competing on the night. The first feature was the Dwarf/Mod Lites which surprisingly seems to be dropping in numbers. Only thirteen cars were on hand. The top two spots went to father and son, Josh and James May, with son beating out his dad. This was the third straight win for young Josh as he took the checkers at Burlington last weekend, Marshalltown Speedway the previous night, and the win at Boone. Third place finisher was Joel Huggins, fourth went to Dusty Masolini and fifth to Randy Bryan.

The SportMod class still continues to grow. Their feature was pared down to 24 starters by running two B mains. Young, talented Brett Moffitt didn't have much trouble in taking the checkers for the win in this contest. Moffitt, who has been signed with the Joe Gibbs racing team, will be competing in the Nascar Pro Series East division later. Quite the accomplishment for one so young. Following him across the line to take second, was Jared Timmerman who looks to be a challenger this year. Third went to another driver who had an impressive run, Eric Elliott, followed by Brian Miller in fourth and Scott Davis rounded out the top five.

The IMCA modified feature found Richie Gustin leading the race until he threw a driveshaft with 14 or 15 laps down in the 20 lap feature. Rookie Luke Wanninger took over the point spot until he slid high, allowing Scott Baker to slip under him for the lead. Todd Shute passed Wanninger and was pedaling fast trying to catch Baker, but time ran out for him with Baker taking the win and Shute having to settle for second place. Third went to Wanninger, fourth to rookie in the division, Daniel Hilsabeck, and fifth to Josh "Happy" Gilman.

Twenty-five of the the twenty-seven stock cars, started the A Main. Fifth place starter, "Hot" Rod Richards led from nearly the beginning, never relinquishing his top spot. He took the win over Bill Reetz, Bryan Trogdon, Trent Murphy and Nathan Wood.

Two A features were run for the IMCA hobby stocks. Feature one was taken by Chris Hupp from his outside front row starting position. Second was Brandon Pruitt, third was John Watson, fourth went to Steve Roberts, and fifth to Aaron Rudolph. A feature number two, concluded the evenings races with Matt Wahlert taking advantage of his pole starting spot, to come home the winner. Veteran racer, Donnie Gustoff was second, third went to Dean Hartwig, fourth to Matt Hudspeth and fifth to Nyle Godwin.

Early in this racing season, we have noticed vast improvements in some drivers, many drivers changing classes, and some drivers missing in action. Congratulations to all the winners over this past weekend. Thanks to all the drivers for putting on a show for us fans. We look forward to many more exciting nights of racing ahead. Get out and support this great sport of dirt track racing.

More complete results are listed below for Boone Speedway.

Happy Racing!

Boone - 4-10-10

Unofficial results: 131 cars

Modified - 24 cars

Heat 1 - 19 Jimmy Gustin
Heat 2 - 20 Luke Wanninger
Heat 3 - 18 Jake Durbin

Modified Feature

1. 15X Scott Baker
2. 5 Todd Shute
3. 20 Luke Wanninger
4. 22D Daniel Hilsabeck
5. 83G Josh Gilman
6. 19 Jimmy Gustin
7. 33M Mike Molle
8. 58 Denny Pittman
9. 27 Kelly Lyons
10. 94 Fred Schimmels
11. 3Z Randy Havlik
12. 93 Cale Sponsler
13. 87 Joel Bushore
14. 12C Kent Croskey
15. 28R Russ Dickerson
16. 3 Mike Albertsen
17. 19G Richie Gustin
18. 18 Jake Durbin
19. 69X Jon Snyder
20. 49T Tim Stevens
21. 12 Stacy Warren
22. 77C Craig Carlson
23. 2L Adam Larson
DNS: 1 Bill Davis, Jr.

SportMod - 32 cars

Heat 1 - 7+ Jared Timmerman
Heat 2 - 9X Austin Lucas
Heat 3 - 13X Brett Moffitt
Heat 4 - Jeremy Embrey

B Main - top 4 transfer

1. 321 Andy Tiernan
2. 3S Adam Shelman
3. 23JR Nick Roberts
4. 32L Ty Luellen
5. 63 Daniel Tasler
6. 28 James Reichart
7. 19G Gatlin Leytham
8. 59 Tara Longnecker
9. 17 Jamie Ganoe
10. 13D Dan Wetzel
DNS: 19 David Schlicht
80 Steve Reetz

SportMod Feature

1. 13X Brett Moffitt
2. 7+ Jared Timmerman
3. 9E Eric Elliott
4. 24 Brian Miller
5. 81D Scott Davis
6. 57 Lynn Brockett
7. 5M Matthew Meinecke
8. 27 Tim Love
9. 2G Geoff Olson
10. 41 Jeremy Embrey
11. 72 Rick Ringgenberg
12. 3L Clint Luellen
13. 66 Cody Hennings
14. 3S Adam Shelman
15. 92 Mike Pruitt
16. 20L Lauren Vis
17. 32L Ty Luellen
18. 321 Andy Tiernan
19. 6 Darren Huntley
20. 9X Austin Lucas
21. 3R Randy Roberts
22. 34J Jerry Hinton
23. 23JR Nick Roberts
24. 3 Stacy Clark

Stock Car - 27 cars

Heat 1 - 12 Bryan Trogdon
Heat 2 - 52 Nathan Wood
Heat 3 - 19A Alan VanGorp

Stock Car Feature

1. 23HR Rod Richards
2. 26 Bill Reetz
3. 12 Bryan Trogdon
4. 25 Trent Murphy
5. 52 Nathan Wood
6. 55 Cory Bushnell
7. 57V Mike VanGenderen
8. 19A Alan VanGorp
9. 35 Donavon Smith
10. 85 Dustin Smith
11. 9 Jerry Gifford
12. 45 Larry Crocheck
13. 27D Brad Dutton
14. 17X Kenny Hansen
15. 18 Jeff Harkrider
16. 24K Kevin Shaw
17. 77 Andy Bryant
18. 66 Jeff Joldersma
19. R31 Ryan Leeman
20. 33 Matt Gray
21. 3S Bryan Snell
22. 3H Ty Hill
23. 556 Terry Cornelison
24. 2L Jon Lang
25. 5 Keith Miner
DNS: 22 Wayne Gifford
22X Josh Brauckman

Hobby Stock - 37 cars

Heat 1 - 12 Steve Roberts
Heat 2 - 3A Austin Luellen
Heat 3 - 14 Matt Wahlert
Heat 4 - 24B Brandon Brighton


Hobby Stock Feature #1

1. 83 Chris Hupp
2. 10B Brandon Pruitt - claimed by 20T Richard Yaw
3. 4W John Watson
4. 12 Steve Roberts
5. 38R Aaron Rudolph
6. 83S Scott Lograsso
7. m15 Pat Mather
8. 12M Matt McDonald
9. 20T Richard Yaw
10. 25M Michael Murphy
11. 3A Austin Luellen
12. 1BC Tony Cox
13. 23 Cody Gustoff
14. T10 Tim Barber
15. 9 Andrew Arends
16. 05 Jake Comer
17. 64 Casey Greubel
DNS: 26 Kyle Habrich

Hobby Stock Feature #2

1. 14 Matt Wahlert
2. 20 Donnie Gustoff (may have been claimed)
3. 74J Dean Hartwig
4. 9R Matt Hudspeth
5. 11G Nyle Godwin
6. 24B Brandon Brighton
7. 46J Jesse Hopkins
8. 5A Tyler Pickett
9. 8B Bobby Smith
10. 293 Shawn Wirtz
11. 67 Ed Mahlstedt
12. 63 Cory Tasler
13. T15 Jacob Thompson
14. 66 Andy Mahlstedt
15. 16B Jay Arends
16. 26T Jeremy Tilley
DNS: 10 Travis Fenton
911 Darin Rothfus
5X Joey Edler

Dwarf/Mod Lite - 13 cars

Heat 1 - X50 Joel Huggins
Heat 2 - 88 James May

Feature

1. 99 Josh May
2. 88 James May
3. X50 Joel Huggins
4. 8 Dusty Masolini
5. 64 Randy Bryan
6. 37 Mike Thomas
7. 89 Travis Stensland
8. 4 Cliff Barber
9. 76M Angelo Montgomery
10. 4L Larry Sorensen
11. 76 Terry Sorensen
12. 9 Rick Taylor
13. 00 Philip Reeves

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Jimmy Gustin wins Boone Frostbuster

After enduring a terribly long winter, we were glad to get our first race of the season in at the Boone Frostbuster on Saturday. A good car count was on hand as I counted 165 running in the heats. No doubt the drivers were as anxious for racing season to get underway as us fans.

The popular IMCA SportMod class found Wisconsin driver Troy Jerovetz take the win over Boone regulars, Geoff Olson and Scott Davis. Cody Hennings held on for fourth place after starting from the pole, and rounding out the top five, was Jared Timmerman.

A large field of IMCA modifieds put a great show on for the fans. Mingled amongst many local drivers, was a good number of Wisconsin cars, anxious to get some racing in under their belts before their season starts. Starting from the pole position was one of those Wisconsin drivers, Dan "The Frog Station Flash" Ratajczak. He is also known as "Flipper" as many recall his spectacular flip across the finish line at the Supernationals a couple of years ago. Ratajczak maintained the top spot past the halfway point, but coming on strong from starting back in 12th spot, was local favorite Jimmy Gustin. Gustin took over the lead with just a handful of laps remaining. Following Gustin to the front was 13th starter, Josh "Happy" Gilman, and 16th starter, Jeff Stephens from Arion, Iowa. Gustin took the win, followed by Gilman, Stephens, Jon Snyder and Ratajczak held on for fifth. It was Gustin's second win already in this early race season as he had recently traveled to Texas and took top honors there.

The IMCA stock cars, the class called "Too Tough to Tame" were running for $500 to win and drew 37 competitors. A familiar name was back in Victory Lane as the #25 of Trent Murphy had little trouble in taking the win. Mike VanGenderen "The Flying Dutchman" ran a high line in turns three and four, and ran low in one and two, but try as he might, he was not able to make much of a threat to Murphy. Coming from back in 7th starting spot, was Damon Murty, who tried to make the opposite moves from VanGenderen and see if he could make a pass, but that didn't work, and he had to settle for third place at the finish line. Two brothers, Dustin and Donavon Smith finished fourth and fifth on the slick, dry track.

The final event of the night, was the feature for the IMCA hobby stocks. The JR99 car of Nick Murty started on the outside pole and pretty much dominated the entire race. Boone regular, Chris Hupp chased Murty the entire race, but had to settle for the runner-up spot. Nyle Godwin came from well back in the pack to take third, fourth went to John Watson and fifth to veteran driver, Donnie Gustoff.

As a note, there were drivers that we noticed changed classes this year. Clint Luellen ran hobby stock last year and was in both hobby and SportMod. Darren Huntley went from A mod to a SportMod, and Cody Cleghorn ran both hobby and SportMod. Joel Bushore jumped up a class from SportMod, into the A mod class, as did Fred Schimmel and Luke Wanninger. Daniel Hilsabeck went from hobby stock into the A mod class and it was nice to see young Dylan Book in a SportMod. Book had a successful season in the hobby stock class in 2009 and was the IMCA Rookie of the Year. He suffered pretty severe injuries over the winter when a tire or rim exploded. Alan VanGorp went from hobby stock into the stock car class, as did Kenny Hansen, and Keith Miner. Eric Flander who has been racing in the stock car class, was in a SportMod. I am sure there were probably others that we missed, but those are some that came to mind. Always fun to see how those changes work out.

We hope the weather will be cooperating now, as many tracks are scheduled to begin their regular season of racing this coming weekend. Get out and attend a race near you. Happy racing!

Complete results are posted below.

Boone Frostbuster - 4-3-10

Unofficial results:

Modified - 44 cars

Heat 1 - 3C Max Corporon
Heat 2 - 73 Dan Ratajczak
Heat 3 - 71W Jeff Waterman
Heat 4 - 33D Scott Hogan
Heat 5 - 58 Denny Pittman

B Features - Top 3 qualified

#1

1. 15X Scott Baker
2. 5* Todd Shute
3. 28R Russ Dickerson
4. 8 Rich Smith
5. 20P Prochaska
6. 49T Tim Stevens
7. 43S Scott Simatovich
8. 12C Kent Croskey
9. 27 Kyle Lenz ? - Wisc.
10. 10K Ron Lauritzen
11. 87 Joel Bushore
12. 27L Kelly Lyons
13. 18L Jerry Lulloff
14. 15 ?

#2

1. 94 Fred Schimmels
2. 15M Jacob Murray
3. 37 Sean Jerovetz
4. 22D Daniel Hilsabeck
5. 19J Jay Schmidt
6. 20 Luke Wanninger
7. 4 Jerry Muenster - Wisc.
8. 32 Rich Speck
9. 93 Cale Sponsler
10. 12 Stacey Warren
11. 71 Troy Cordes
12. 49 Mike Manson




Feature

1. 19 Jimmy Gustin
2. 83G Josh Gilman
3. 92 Jeff Stephens
4. 69X Jon Snyder
5. 73 Dan Ratajczak - Wisc.
6. 28R Russ Dickerson
7. 3 Mike Albertsen
8. 15M Jacob Murray
9. 15X Scott Baker
10. 3C Max Corporon
11. 26S Steve Glenn - Missouri
12. 94 Fred Schimmels
13. 77C Craig Carlson
14. 37 Sean Jerovetz - Wisc.
15. 75 Lance Arneson -Wisc.
16. 18 Jake Durbin
17. 2L Adam Larson
18. 5* Todd Shute
19. 19G Richie Gustin
20. 33D Scott Hogan
21. 3Z Randy Havlik
22. 5 Eddie Muenster - Wisc.
23. 58 Denny Pittman
24. 71W Jeff Waterman - Illinois

SportMod - 42 cars

Heat 1 - 66 Cody Hennings
Heat 2 - 23 Jaren Hansen
Heat 3 - 2G Geoff Olson
Heat 4 - 01 Troy Jerovetz
Heat 5 - 30 Tracy Wassenberg
Heat 6 - 7+ Jared Timmerman

B Features - 3 qualified

#1

1. 56 Lonnie Hodges
2. 26J Joel Rust
3. 3S Adam Shelman
4. 20 Brad Theyes ?
5. 19G Leytham
6. 80 Steve Reetz
7. 20L Luke Wanninger
8. 8 Rob Charapata - Wisc.
9. 24R Kyle Robinson
10. 8X Brad Iverson
11. 28 James Reichart ?
12. 3 Stacy Clark

#2

1. 34J Jerry Hinton
2. 92T Tyler Droste
3. 19 Scott Boulanger - Wisc.
4. B00K Dylan Book
5. 3X Scott Durlin
6. 13D ?
7. 12 Eric Flander
8. 17 Jamie Ganoe ?
9. 21CZ Cody Cleghorn
10. 32L Austin Luellen ?
11. 24 Brian Miller
12. 6 Darren Huntley

Feature

1. 01 Troy Jerovetz - Wisc.
2. 2G Geoff Olson
3. 81D Scott Davis
4. 66 Cody Hennings
5. 7+ Jared Timmerman
6. 5M Matthew Meinecke
7. 3L Clint Luellen
8. 77 R J Merchant
9. 08 Johnny Whitman - Wisc.
10. 92 Mike Pruitt
11. 34J Jerry Hinton
12. 26J Joel Rust
13. 321 Andy Tiernan
14. 9E Eric Elliott
15. 20X Chad Louk
16. 92T Tyler Droste
17. 52E Ryan Engelkes
18. 3S Adam Shelman
19. 19 Scott Boulanger - Wisc.
20. 23 Jaren Hansen
21. 56 Lonnie Hodges
22. 41 Jeremy Embrey
23. X4 Jason Purvis
24. 30 Tracy Wassenberg - Wisc.

Stock Car - 37 cars

Heat 1 - 12 Bryan Trogdon
Heat 2 - X6 Bob Ahrendson
Heat 3 - 25 Trent Murphy
Heat 4 - 57V Mike VanGenderen

B Feature - 4 transferred

1. 22 Wayne Gifford
2. 77 Andy Bryant
3. 9 Jerry Gifford
4. 60 Clay Deppe
5. 21Z Shane Manson
6. 94 Steve Meyer
7. 84 Eric Mahlfroid - Wisc.
others in B but do not know how they finished:
33 ?
556 Terry Cornelison
39X ?
17 Kenny Hansen
2L Jon Lang
5 Keith Miner
2 Mike Hillson ?
54 ?
43 ?
26K Butch Bass

Feature

1. 25 Trent Murphy
2. 57V Mike VanGenderen
3. 99D Damon Murty
4. 85 Dustin Smith
5. 35 Donavon Smith
6. 57 John Heinz
7. 93 Michael Jaennette
8. 12 Bryan Trogdon
9. 22 Wayne Gifford
10. 99X Jeremy Christians
11. 19A Alan VanGorp
12. 26 Bill Reetz
13. 77 Andy Bryant
14. 30 Travis Barker
15. X6 Bob Ahrendson
16. 1F Marcus Fagen
17. 3H Ty Hill
18. 9 Jerry Gifford
19. 23HR Rod Richards
20. 3S Bryan Snell
21. 60 Clay Deppe
22. 66 Jeff Joldersma
23. 55 Cory Bushnell
24. 14J Michael Johnston


Hobby Stock - 42 cars

Heat 1 - 84 Josh Rushmann
Heat 2 - 10B Brandon Pruitt
Heat 3 - 20 Donnie Gustoff
Heat 4 - 83 Chris Hupp
Heat 5 - 4W John Watson
Heat 6 - JR99 Nick Murty

B Features - 3 transferred

#1

1. 38R Aaron Rudolph
2. 83S Scott Lograsso
3. 5A Tyler Pickett
4. 1BC Tony Cox
5. 67 Ed Mahlstedt
6. 59G Gyles
7. 29 Jake Nelson
8. 66 Andy Mahlstedt
9. 22R Todd Reitzler
10. 4X Gary Pfantz
11. T71 Kyle Marcus
12. 12J Kenny Johnson


#2

1. 12 Steve Roberts
2. 19 August Bach
3. 21CZ Cody Cleghorn
4. 1 Blake Miller
5. 14 Matt Wahlert
6. 69 Calvin Dhondt
7. 293 Shawn Wirtz
8. 20T Richard Yaw
9. 81B Baker
10. 3A Austin Luellen?
11. 24B Brandon Brittain
12. T10 Tim Barber

Feature

1. 99JR Nick Murty
2. 83 Chris Hupp
3. 11G Nyles Godwin - claimed by 93 Randy Anderson
4. 4W John Watson
5. 20 Donnie Gustoff
6. 38R Aaron Rudolph
7. 64 Casey Gruebel
8. 12M Matt McDonald
9. 83S Scott Lograsso
10. 19 August Bach
11. 9R Matt Hudspeth
12. 25 Michael Murphy
13. 93 Randy Anderson
14. 21CZ Cody Cleghorn
15. 84 Josh Rushmann
16. 74J Dean Hartwig
17. 23 Cody Gustoff
18. 1A Steve Anderson
19. 12 Steve Roberts
20. 26 Kyle Habrich
21. 29 Clint Nelson
22. 10B Brandon Pruitt
23. 7B Eric Stanton
24. 5A Tyler Pickett

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