While heading toward Boone Speedway on Saturday afternoon, we were watching the sky and checking radar. A big "blob" of green, yellow and red in southwest Iowa looked to be blowing up and moving to the northeast. Not a good sign. However, Mother Nature was once again kind to Boone! A few sprinkles caused a few minutes delay right before the running of the feature event for the Dwarf/Mod Lites. We saw a good light show all around, but nothing close enough to cause a problem. That makes thirteen straight weeks of racing, including the Frostbuster, at the Boone Speedway! Pretty unbelievable considering the weather we have had in Iowa.
The Dwarf/Mod Lites feature had just pulled onto the track when they were ushered off when a few sprinkles began to fall. The familiar tractors used for "farming" the track made quick work of getting the track back to racing condition with just a very short delay. Mike Morrill put his red #6 to the lead quickly and was looking good. A caution with eleven laps down, bunched the field and put last week's winner, Ed Zehm, on Morrill's tail. Those two dueled it out for several laps and at fourteen down, crossed the finish line in a virtual dead heat. But it was lap fifteen that really counted and Ed Zehm made it to the line first. That gave Zehm the repeat win and Morrill was a very close second. Third went to Matthew Goodin who came from starting eighth, fourth was Josh May who started twelfth, and fifth was Joel Huggins in his bright yellow ride.
The IMCA Northern SportMods filled out the 24-car starting field by running a B-Main. Ty Luellen took advantage of his outside front row starting spot and led the pack for nearly all of the laps. However, that proved to be not quite enough. Luellen still led when the white flag flew. Brian Miller had made his way from eighth, into the runner up spot and continued his quest to catch the leader. Looking at the checkers starting to unfurl ahead, Miller nosed ahead by a bumper, to take the win over Ty Luellen. Third was Clint Luellen, fourth went to Lynn Brockett, and fifth to Jeremy Embrey who started back in fifteenth place.
Next up was the IMCA modified A main. Luke Wanninger led from the pole position until lap 15 when Richie Gustin made the pass in turn one to take over the lead. Gustin took the win over Wanninger and Jon Snyder, Cale Sponsler, and Adam Larson finished 3rd, 4th, and 5th in that order. That was Gustin's third feature win at the track this year and a repeat win from last week.
Twenty-three stock cars took to the track for their main event with Robert Stofer sitting on the pole. This race proved to be all his as he led the entire contest. Stofer had just made his return appearance two weeks prior. He had undergone open heart surgery early this Spring, so this was surely a very satisfying win for the veteran driver. Mike Munson trailed Stofer for second, third went to point leader Donavon Smith, fourth was Gary Bass and fifth went to Wayne Gifford who had started the feature at the very tail.
There were thirty-nine hobby stocks checked in for the evening, making for two A mains. Hobby feature number one saw Cory Tasler lead the first few laps until Aaron Rudolph took over. Rudolph kept his #38R out front to see the checkers first. Veteran Randy Embrey came from starting eleventh to take the runner up position. Tasler hung on to third, fourth was Donnie Gustoff and fifth was Dean Hartwig. Gustoff then had his motor claimed by Jacob Thompson.
The hobby stock main number two would then conclude the night's racing, while the lightning to the north provided the grandstand with a light show. Michael Murphy came from starting tenth, to take the lead by lap five as he powered by Brandon Brinton. Murphy went on to an easy win over Brinton. Third went to Ames driver, Mark Hidlebaugh, fourth to point leader Pat Mather, and fifth to Cody Gustoff.
It was one of those nights when you kept wondering just when the rain would come, but once again, Boone Speedway had the luck on it's side. Next Saturday night will be another weekly point event along with bike races that were postponed from this week due to the weather conditions. Why not make plans to come and see some great racing action at the home of the IMCA Supernationals? For complete results and more information concerning the track, check out http://www.raceboone.com/. Happy racing!
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