There was hoola hoops spinning as well as many race cars this past Saturday night at the Boone Speedway. A hoola hoop contest was held during the farming session as the drivers awaited the time for their feature events. This weekend of racing we saw more cars on spin cycle than normal and some of the action was more like bumper cars than racing! The night did not lack for excitement.
There were 25 of the Dwarf/Mod Lites checked into the pits, with only one car unable to make the call for the feature. Kevin Grisham led the pack for nearly all of their 15-lap race, but would have traded any of those other laps to still have it as the checkers flew. It was Colby Oberembt who spoiled the thrill of a win for Grisham when he grab the lead away on that final lap. Oberembt took the win with Grisham getting a disappointing second place finish. Third went to Tim Hennigar who had started 11th, fourth was Jeff Stensland and fifth was Angelo Montgomery.
The IMCA Northern SportMods took to the track next and in the end, it was Boone's own Scott Davis seeing the checkers first. Davis had dueled many of the final laps with Randy Roberts, but it would be Davis winning the battle and taking the win. With Roberts taking the bridesmaid spot, third would go to David Schlicht, fourth to Jason Purvis - a contender throughout the race - and fifth went to Eric Elliott. Davis has now taken over the point lead from Geoff Olson who finished well back in the field.
The IMCA modifieds were up next to run their 20-lap feature. Jimmy Gustin made a statement in taking his second feature win during the regular season (he also won the Frostbuster) as he diced through the pack quickly from starting in 10th, to take the lead with 10 laps down. He pulled away from second place Joel Bushore to win by a comfortable margin. Cale Sponsler had a nice run to finish third, fourth went to Mike Molle, and rounding out the top five was Jon Snyder. As mentioned last week, there seemed to be some question about last week's finishing place for Jimmy Gustin. An added insert in this week's program indicated Jimmy Gustin did not finish in second and did not receive any points, thus dropping him in the points from first place to fourth.
Unofficially by our calculations, it is now Cale Sponsler in first by six points over Jake Durbin.
A new name was added to the winners list this year in the IMCA Stock Car class. Cory Bushnell won but had to ward off the advances of several cars chasing him. Bushnell won the war to take his first win of the year at Boone. He held off Alan VanGorp in second, Josh Brauckman in third, Rod Richards in fourth, and point leader Donavon Smith in fifth.
Ending the night's racing events was the Hobby Stockers. Chris Hupp seems to like winning so much, he repeated his win from last week. Randy Embrey had to come from qualifying through the B to even run the feature, but put forth a great effort to get second. Third went to Scott Lograsso, back in his old ride, fourth to Michael Murphy and fifth to Mark Hidlebaugh.
Check out http://www.raceboone.com/ for results, points, and all information about the Boone Speedway. It will be another great night of regular points racing next week with hot laps at 6:45 and racing at 7:30. Happy racing!
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