Boone Speedway was blessed with beautiful weather and a packed pit area this past Saturday night with 168 cars checking in. Every class had a repeat winner from this season, and a father-son matched wins. We noted some visiting drivers testing the waters at Boone...no doubt in anticipation of the upcoming Super Nationals.
The Dwarf/Mod Lite feature was led early on by the 76M of Angelo Montgomery but by lap five, a familiar name was ahead of the field. Troy Hudson in his 4+1 ride (which equals 5...the number he has driven in the past) made it three in a row by reaching the checkers first. Charlie Brown tallied a second place finish, Dusty Masolini, Davide Schmalzried and Angelo Montgomery finished third through fifth place in that order.
The SportMods took to the track next for their feature run. Adam Shelman held a substantial lead through lap fourteen when a yellow flag flew. On the restart, Shelman would get jostled around a bit and loose many positions. Jeremy Embrey was the leader now and with just a few laps remaining, took another win at the Boone Speedway--his fourth on the year. Geoff Olson took the runner-up spot, followed by Jake Strayer in third, the #2 of Bill Wears in fourth, and rounding out the top five spots, was Cayden Carter. Sixth place went to Randy Roberts..minus much sheet metal, and Shelman recovered nicely from his shuffle backwards, to grab seventh. There will be much sheet metal being replaced this week as several cars were minus whole sides of their car.
The IMCA Modifieds put on quite the show as the fast track provided multi-grooves and much action. Mike Molle was fast from the get go from his pole starting spot. Luke Wanninger made the challenge on Molle by taking the low road as Molle motored away on the topside. Wanninger nabbed the lead with five laps to go in the 20-lap feature, but here comes Jimmy Gustin! Gustin made the pass into second and rode the very rim of the track. He would take the lead with one lap to go and take the checkers first. It was Gustin's fourth regular season win but he had also won the Frostbuster making it five victories at the track this year. Gustin puts on a show for the fans for sure, and we always say if he'd learn to push his car to the limit, he would REALLY be good! Ha, ha.....as if he doesn't do that already...and makes it work!
The IMCA Stock Cars brought their A main to the track next. It turned into a five or six car breakaway with Cory Bushnell leading the pack. Bushnell put distance between his competitors fighting for position behind him, taking the win for the second time this year. Travis Shipman finished in second with Alan VanGorp, Wayne Gifford and point leader Donavon Smith finishing closely behind for third through fifth positions respectively.
The first of two A mains for the IMCA Hobby Stocks found John Watson in his #4W repeating his win from last week. He had a good battle going with Kevin Fee who took second place at the checkers, third went to Scott Lograsso, fourth to Cory Tasler and fifth was Aaron Rudolph.
The second feature in the IMCA Hobby Stocks saw Tyler Pickett lead the charge for much of the race. That is until Randy Embrey came calling with two laps to go...overtaking Pickett for the lead. Embrey took the win, his second of the year, and matched the win earlier by his son Jeremy, in the SportMod class. Pickett had to settle for second place followed by Kenny Loftus in third, Pat Mather in fourth and Nyle Godwin in fifth.
The final week of regular season racing at Boone will be next Saturday night, September 4th, with Season Championship night. Of course, there will still be a lot of racing to come at the track when the 29th running of the IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals come to town for their September 6-11 run. We have attended every year since 1988 and we plan to be there for the duration once again. It's the highlight of our racing year. We always look forward to great racing, and seeing racing friends we have met through the years, drivers and fans alike. For more information and complete results, check out http://www.raceboone.com/ and http://www.imca.com/. There is much info at these sites for questions concerning the upcoming "Racin' Vacation". Happy racing!
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