The Boone Speedway held their annual Little League Night at the races on Saturday night. There was a batting contest in the infield before racing even started for the evening. Not only that, but because kids are out of school for the summer, all students under nineteen were admitted free. The batting contest did delay the start of the races, but when the heats started, all fifteen heats plus one b-main, were run through with only one yellow flag! New faces and repeat winners found victory lane on a beautiful Saturday night at the races.
The Mod Lite's ran their 15-lap feature flag-to-flag. Joel Huggins and Travis Stensland battled for the lead in the early going. At lap eight, Stensland took command of the helm with Huggins trying to regain the top spot and the leader's father, Jeff Stensland, running in third. On the final lap, Huggins would suddenly pull into the infield, off the pace. Travis Stensland went on to the win, and dad, Jeff, inherited the runner up spot. Point leader Josh May finished in third, fourth went to Charlie Brown, and James May was fifth.
Twenty-five of the twenty-seven Northern SportMods started their 18-lap feature event. Brian Miller snatched the lead from Stacey Clark a bit after the halfway mark and was looking to be taking the checkers first. A caution flag would fly with just two laps remaining, which bunched the field and put point leader Scott Davis on Miller's bumper at the restart. Coming to the checkers, Davis would power his way
past Miller by inches, and take his first win of the season at Boone. Consistant finishes have paid off for Davis, and the win padded his point lead even more. Miller finished a no doubt, disappointing second, third was Nick Roberts, fourth went to Stacey Clark, and Tara Longnecker rounded out the top five.
The IMCA modified 20-lap feature was dominated by Jake Durbin, who took his first win of the 2011 season at the track. Even with a restart situation bunching the field with just three laps to go, Durbin sped off to win in comfortable fashion. Josh Gilman took second after slipping by Craig Carlson who finished third. Fourth went to Cale Sponsler and Randy Havlik finished in fifth.
The stock cars at Boone this year have had some amazingly close racing. They lived up to that again last night. They passed the flagstand in such close packs of four and five cars, it was virtually unable to see who was running in which position. Eric Brown led the early laps in comfortable form until a rollover on the backstretch stopped the action at lap nine. Terry Cornelison, in the 556 car, rolled his car and ended up with the bottom side against the back cement wall. Thankfully, he was not injured. On the restart, with cars bunched, the chase was on to catch Brown and the remaining laps were a blur of cars passing the flagstand. When those final few laps were completed, it was last week's winner, Jerry Gifford, taking the win for the second consecutive week. Rod Richards took the runner up position and Eric Brown fell back to take third. Fourth went to point leader, Donavon Smith and Trent Murphy rounded out the top five.
The hobby stock feature closed out the evenings racing. Brandon Brinton led early until point leader Michael Murphy came calling and made the pass on Brinton and into the lead at lap eight. A spectacular incident concluded the race after the white flag had flown, when Eric Stanton rolled in corner one. He was not injured, but the car was observed hanging between two wreckers. The race ended under yellow/checkered, and sealed the deal on yet another win for Murphy, his sixth of the year at Boone. Brandon Brinton took second, third went to John Watson, fourth to Austin Luellen, and fifth to Danny Watson. A little action took place after the race in the infield and we learned that the 26T car of Jeremy Tilley, claimed the carburetor of Murphy.
Next week will be mid-season championships for all classes. Check out www.raceboone.com for information on the track as well as results and point standings. Until next time, happy racing!
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