Fans were thankful for less heat and humidity on Saturday night at the Boone Speedway. It was Boone's 14th night of racing for the regular season and throw in the Frostbuster that kicked of the 2011 season and the Deery Brothers for the annual Memorial Day race, that makes 16 shows straight, quite unbelievable for the rainy weather Iowa has had to put up with. Saturday night had an added contest to go along with the five weekly classes when a King of the Hill, pitting five Harris chassis drivers against each other, fought for the "King" title. The youngsters also enjoyed racing their "hot rod" bicycles right before features began.
The King of the Hill challenge had five Harris Chassis drivers---Jimmy Gustin, Mike VanGenderen, Jake Durbin, Craig Carlson and Joel Bushore. Jimmy Gustin eliminated Mike VanGenderen in the first round in the closest contest. Jake Durbin next eliminated Craig Carlson, and Joel Bushore who drew a bye, was out when Jimmy Gustin won again. The final two standing were Gustin and Durbin and it was Gustin taking the win and title for the night of "King of the Hill". We have heard talk that there will be an on going challenge with Victory Chassis cars coming up as well. Stay tuned.
The Mod-Lite feature saw a new winner visit victory lane. Jeff Stensland grabbed the lead by lap two and never looked back, fending off a last lap challenge by Mike Kennedy. Stensland took the win and Kennedy was second. Josh May started back in twelfth and managed a third place finish, padding his point's lead. Colby Oberembt finished in fourth and Bryan Zehm took fifth.
The IMCA Northern SportMods had to run a B main to whittle their starting field to the 24-car feature. First timer at the track, Eric Flander from Barnes City, won that consolation race. Ty Luellen grabbed the lead by lap eleven of the 18-lap affair and held off the challenges of Randy Roberts to take his first win at Boone this season. Following Luellen and Roberts to take third place was veteran Rick Rinngenberg, Jason Purvis took fourth and Cody Hennings rounded out the top five. Last week's winner Racer Hulin, finished in sixth.
There were eighteen IMCA modifieds on hand. Matthew Meineke was the pole sitter along side Mike VanGenderen. VanGenderen shot to the lead and pulled away. Yellow flags flew early, bunching the field, but VanGenderen retained his lead as Jake Durbin drew closer. But in the end, the "Flyin' Dutchman" took his third win of the year at the track by a comfortable distance, Durbin taking the runner up position. Josh "Happy" Gilman finished a distance behind Durbin to capture third, Cale Sponsler was fourth and fifth went to Joel Bushore.
Wow! The IMCA stock cars put on a show again! Once again they were racing in bunches up front, a thriller for the fans for sure. Eric Brown took charge early from his pole starting spot but it was a mad scramble amongst cars behind him for positions 2-5. Those cars caught Brown and the last couple of laps it was 3-wide across the finish line. On lap 19 of the 20-lapper, Andy Bryant was "boosted" to the front with a tap from behind, and found himself in the lead. That was deemed to be a very rewarding tap, as Bryant kept the lead to the checkers and took his first win at the Boone Speedway this season. It was a fight to the finish behind him, with Trent Murphy grabbing a second place finish, and leader of most of the race, Eric Brown, falling to third. Fourth went to Wayne Gifford and Robert Stofer was scored in fifth.
The IMCA hobby stocks was the finale for the evening. The winner, John Watson took his third regular season win of the year, in a borrowed car. Watson was also the winner of the Frostbuster, making it four times to see the checkers at the track in 2011. Watson came from starting back in row five to take the lead by lap three. Eric Stanton followed Watson by coming from row six, to second place by lap five. The checkers went to Watson and Stanton finished a distant second. Aaron Rudolph was also a distance behind to take third, fourth went to Jesse Hopkins and fifth was Curt Reed.
This ended our fifth straight night of racing, and we welcomed a less hot and humid night. It looks like Tuesday night, July 5th for the Harris Clash in Knoxville will be our next race on the calendar. This is always a "must see" for us and we always look forward to the show. Check out www.harrisclash.com for information on the upcoming event. For information on the Boone Speedway, check www.raceboone.com where you can check out the point standings, etc. Until next time, happy racing!
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