A hot, muggy night awaited us at the Boone Speedway this past Saturday night...to say nothing about the swarm of mosquitoes that attacked in the latter part of the evening! We heard comments like, "they are as huge as sparrows", and fans were sharing their supply of spray to help dispense the little buggers. They didn't put much of a damper on the racing though as drivers added to their wins this year and in the hobby stocks, two new winners emerged.
Troy Hudson put it back in Victory Lane after his first win last week. He had the 4+1 Mod Lite humming, as he zoomed from starting fifth, to leading by lap two. Charlie Brown wasn't able to catch Hudson and had to settle for the runner up spot followed by Dusty Masolini in third, Josh May in fourth, and fifth went to Randy Bryan.
As usual, a large car count was on hand for the IMCA Northern SportMods resulting in two B mains. Those were won by Eric Elliott in the 9E and Jeremy Embrey in the 41 car. Several yellows would plague the feature and shake up the field. Clint Luellen led at lap nine and was fighting off the challenges of Nick Roberts and Daniel Tasler. Meanwhile, point leader, Scott Davis was making his move and moving up well as he positioned himself in the fourth spot behind veteran Rick Ringgenberg. Things would get changed up a bit as the cars charged to the checkers when Roberts would spin low in turn four, ruining his top finish. Clint Luellen took the checkers for the second time this year, Davis finished as the runner up, third went to Ringgenberg, fourth to Randy Roberts, and visitor Tim Wilcox from Ida Grove, and who came from qualifying through a B main, was scored in fifth.
The IMCA Modifieds saw all twenty-one cars start their feature. Young Joel Bushore once again showed his composure in scoring his third win of the season at Boone. A lap car nearly caused a big problem for Bushore on the white flag lap, but he was able to gather the car under him and take the win. Jimmy Gustin (we noted with a new body on his car) was in his usual fast mode, and finished in second from having started back in 16th spot. Randy Havlik, last year's Super National champion, finished in third, fourth went to Russ Dickerson, and fifth was Jake Durbin.
We have been noticing large fields of IMCA Stock Cars as of late, and tonight was no exception as there were 34 of them on hand. This would call for a B main to qualify the final four cars in the feature event, and it was won by the 19J of Jay Schmidt. The 83E car of Thomas Thompson from Hopkinton, Iowa led the opening laps from his pole starting position. Not surprisingly, point leader Donavon Smith charged to the lead by lap eight and from there on, never looked back. We count this as win #5 on the season at the Boone Speedway for Smith. Robert Stofer finished in second, third went to Wayne Gifford, Jay Schmidt; after qualifying through the B, finished in fourth, and fifth went to Thomas Thompson.
There were two A mains for the IMCA Hobby Stocks. Feature #1 brought a new winner as the 4W of John Watson took the checkers first. A tire going down, ended leader Austin Luellen's chances for a win in the closing lap of the race. When that incident happened, Watson shot around second place runner, Tony Cox and into the lead. Watson took his first win of the year, Cox was scored in second, and Luellen hung on to finish in third. Fourth would go to Justin Maschke in the 4JW car and fifth was Jesse Hopkins.
The second A main for the IMCA Hobby Stocks closed out the night's action. It too would have a first time winner in veteran Donnie Gustoff. Gustoff took the lead over Cory Tasler with just two laps to go to take that win. Tasler held on for the runner up spot, third went to another veteran driver, Randy Embrey, fourth was Cody Gustoff, and fifth to the 9R of Matt Hudspeth.
The regular racing season is quickly winding down with only two more races on tap at Boone before the 29th running of the IMCA Super Nationals September 6-11th. Don't forget to bring your bug spray! Check out http://www.raceboone.com/ for information about the track as well as details about the Super Nationals. Until next time, happy racing!
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