The weather was great, the crowd was good, and it was lights out racing--in more ways than one-- at the Boone Speedway on Saturday night. Only one driver repeated a win on the racey track, and the fans were treated to exciting racing in all classes.
The MADCRA Mod Lite feature kicked feature racing off. Cory Dennis led the charge early on until James May took over the helm at lap six. May held off his competition the remaining laps, and scored his first victory of the season at Boone. Charlie Brown finished as the runner up, holding off twelfth place starter, Bryan Zehm, who was scored third. Cory Dennis hung tough at the front of the pack, finishing fourth and Andy Hennigar finished in fifth.
Chad Ryerson was in charge of the 18-lap SportMod feature through lap fourteen, however, Taylor Musselman had been hounding him for several laps. Musselman took over the top spot as they raced down the backstretch, and was the leader as lap sixteen was scored. Meanwhile, Randy Roberts has moved up from starting tenth, and was soon to take second away from Ryerson as well. Roberts hounded Musselman the rest of the way to the checkers, but could only manage a second place finish behind winner, Musselman. Doug Smith made a run, and also got around Ryerson in the closing laps, as they finished third and fourth. Jerry Hinton, who had started eleventh and experienced issues in his heat race, completed the top five. This was Musselman's first victory at the track in 2014.
The track followed last week's running order, placing the Hobby Stocks on the track for their A main next. Shane Butler kept command of this one through lap six, when a yellow caution flag flew. He had real company behind him for the restart, as Eric Stanton, Matt Hudspeth and John Watson had been chasing him down. As the race restarted, Stanton made the pass for the lead on the backstretch and would never relinquish it. Stanton took the comfortable win over runner up, John Watson. It was a close finish for third and fourth, Shannon Anderson just nipping out Tyler Pickett, and Matt Hudspeth took the fifth spot. Stanton scored the win for the first time in the 2014 season. Shannon Anderson continues to lead points in the class by a slim one point margin over John Watson.
It was an exciting 20-lap feature for the IMCA Modifieds. Lights out racing was a true fact. Pole sitter, Joel Bushore was leading the field for much of the race, as the Flying Dutchman, Mike VanGenderen pursued him. Those two were flying around the topside but then all eyes noticed a car doing diligent work by running the bottom. Kyle Brown had chose to see if things would work for him down low, and it was paying off. Brown battled with VanGenderen, finally making the pass into second after lap ten was scored, and had his sites set on leader Bushore. Brown continued his run on the bottom of the track, and once again, made it work, taking the lead at lap seventeen. A lap later, a yellow came out when a lap car lost the handle, sitting sideways between corners three and four....which resulted in Bushore being unable to avoid the stalled car, along with a couple of other cars that had been running toward the front---Russ Dickerson and Jon Snyder. Just as the yellow was displayed, the lights went out---leaving the track in darkness! As the track sat in darkness awaiting the power to return and the lighting to cycle back up, it was a relief to see that all cars had come to a safe halt when things went black. The delay, an estimated 20 minutes or so, the race was restarted with Brown leading and VanGenderen sitting in second. VanGenderen tried low and high, but Brown held steadfast in the lead, and took the victory. Josh Truman, last week's winner came from starting sixteenth, to finish third behind VanGenderen, the runner up. Randy Havlik started in twenty-third position...dead last...and maneuvered through the field to nip out David Brown at the finish, as they took fourth and fifth.Kyle Brown took his first win of the year at the track. Brown tightened the point lead, now seven points behind leader Jimmy Gustin.
If anyone left before the Stock Car feature, they missed a good one. Point leader Jay Schmidt started eleventh on the field and caught and passed then leader Larry Crocheck at lap six. There was a good battle going on behind him, as he contentedly distanced himself from them. Crocheck, Josh Daniels, Jerry Gifford and last week's winner, Donavon Smith were duking it out. As the 18-laps wound down, lap traffic became a factor, but Schmidt had no issues in working his way past, and took another victory, his second of the year. Donavon Smith worked his usual magic, and finished second. Josh Daniels crossed the line in third, but was penalized for jumping two spots on a restart, giving third to Jerry Gifford. Craig Carlson finished fourth and Corey Bushnell came from twelfth starting spot, to complete the top five positions. Schmidt cushioned his point's lead in the Stock Car class.
The next action at the Boone Speedway will be the annual Memorial Day Deery Brother's Late Model show on Monday. The Stock Cars, SportMods, Hobby Stocks and Mod Lites will also be action as they run for track points. The Modifieds will not be running, as there is a Hawkeye Dirt Tour series race being run that date in Mason City.
Thanks for reading, and happy racing!
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