It was hot temps and hot racing action this past Saturday night at the Boone Speedway. A few "dips" would appear in the corners, causing incidents that would halt the racing more than once. A first time winner got to victory lane in the modified division and Scott Davis would make it back-to-back wins in the SportMod class.
Mike Kennedy was the winner in the Dwarf/Mod Lite A main. He was the leader at the white flag lap even though racing was red-flagged before the checkers flew. Father-son duo James and Josh May were involved in a corner-two wheel-hop mishap which resulted in son Josh taking a roll. May was okay and the race ended under yellow-checkered. Charlie Brown finished in second place, third would go to Tim Hennigar, fourth to Mike Morrill and fifth was Travis Stensland.
The IMCA Northern SportMods also had their feature end with a yellow-checkers situation. This would be after a second try at a green-white-checkered finish. Scott Davis slipped by leader Bill Wears after taking the white flag and with an incident occurring on the track causing another yellow, the race was called complete. Davis stretched his point lead and repeated his win from last week. Bill Wears was scored in second, third went to Darren Huntley, fourth to Matthew Meinecke and Eric Elliott came home in fifth place. One incident in the feature was rather alarming when a car spun out on the top of turn three, and in an attempt to rejoin the field, wound up driving around the top, facing traffic. With no yellow being thrown, thankfully, nothing happened.
Nate Caruth made his visit to the Boone Speedway pay off by winning the IMCA Modified main event. He found the higher side of the track to his liking as he motored easily to take the win over regular competitor Russ Dickerson. Third went to Kelly Lyons, while point leader Cale Sponsler took fourth and Jake Durbin, racing a new car, was scored in fifth. As a note, young Joel Bushore had his night end when mechanical problems led him to spin out at the top of turn three as smoke poured from the car. It appeared he was having difficulty walking after emerging from his car and second hand information told us he had a very swollen knee after apparently taking a blow from an object coming into the cockpit.
Veteran driver Robert Stofer scored his second win of the year in winning the IMCA Stock Car feature, leading all but the first couple of laps. Point leader Donavon Smith was closing in on Stofer during the waning laps, but had to be content with a second place finish. Jerry Gifford was third, fourth went to Jay Schmidt from starting twelveth on the field, and rounding out the top five was last week's winner Cory Bushnell.
The final feature was the IMCA Hobby Stocks. This race saw really tight racing up front as Austin Luellen, Aaron Rudolph, Tyler Pickett and Randy Embrey dueled it out for the top spots.
Coming out on top as the checkers flew was Aaron Rudolph, Randy Embrey in second and coming from mid-pack, Austin Luellen was third, Michael Murphy in fourth, and Scott Lograsso in fifth. Murphy would be claimed after actually crossing the line not in the top four. It was our understanding that the 5A of Tyler Pickett crossed the line in fourth, but was penalized several positions for what we assume to be jumping a restart. This moved Murphy up in his finishing order, making him eligible for a claim. This was still being debated when we left the track.
Next week at the Boone Speedway, the youngsters can enjoy a money toss along with watching all of the regular classes in competition. Hot laps are 6:45 p.m. with racing at 7:30. Check http://www.raceboone.com/ for complete results, points and all information pertaining to the Boone Speedway. Happy racing!
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