Fans at the Boone Speedway Saturday night, got to witness another driver get his first ever career win---the second driver to do so in as many weeks. The Karl Chevrolet Dirt Trucks were an addition to the regular program, bringing the total to 142 racing machines filling the pits. It was KCWI-TV Channel 23 night at the races, with some of the crew from the morning "Great Day" show on hand. They greeted fans as they entered the grandstand area where a couple of the Dirt Trucks were on display.
Mod Lites ran their feature first. It didn't get off to a good start. While a tire was rolling in corner one from a disabled car, corner four found Duane Coffman sitting on his lid, prompting the yellow flag to then go red. Coffman was ok. When the track was cleared and racing did get back underway, Eric Hendrickson took the lead, soon to have eighth place starter Terry Brown on his tail. Before lap five was scored, Brown made the pass on the backstretch for the lead. From there on, he drove at the front of the field the rest of the way to the checkers, untouched. He maneuvered through lap traffic flawlessly and took the checkers and the win by a lengthy margin over Hendrickson in second. David Schmalzried took third, Randy Bryan moved from starting tenth, to finish fourth and James May came from eleventh to finish fifth. This was Brown's third win in a row, and his fourth for the year.
The SportMod A main was one for the record books. Johnathon Logue, Jr. has had that elusive first win slip away from him several times, but not Saturday night. Logue, the son veteran racer John Logue, slipped by then leader Doug Smith on a restart at lap fourteen and motored home to the win. Logue, in his excitement, stopped at the flagstand and asked flagman Nick Breucklander for the checkered flag, taking a brief moment to take a "Polish Victory Lap" in celebration and to the cheers of the large crowd on hand. Point leader Ben Kates....sporting a new car, or at least a new look, came from eleventh starting spot, to finish second. Brian Eppert, who just recently came back on the racing scene, crossed in third, but a post race weigh in, found him light and he was DQ'd. Tim Love was then awarded third place. Last week's winner, and who also got his first career win, was Jake McBirnie. Jerry Hinton rounded out the top five.
Logue had to work his way from starting tenth for the win.
The Karl Chevrolet Dirt Trucks were an added attraction to the program last night. They ran a 12-lap A main event. Bret Moyer was holding down the lead at lap five when a yellow flew. Right behind him riding in second place was the #3 Truck usually driven by Carl Moyer, but on this night, it was veteran Modified racer Randy Havlik behind the wheel. Moyer held the lead on the restart until drifting high in turn four as lap six was about to be scored, allowing Havlik to slip under him and into the lead. Havlik held that lead to the checkers and the win. Bret Moyer finished second, and Pat Gordin was third. KCWI personality, Lou Sipolt, who races Trucks regularly as a "weekend warrior", placed fourth and AJ Nelson took fifth.
The Hobby Stock 12-lap feature didn't end up as most had foreseen it playing out. Much of the race saw a couple of #78 cars battling back and forth for the lead. Andrew Burg in the 78B held first at lap nine, the 78XX of David Rieks scored in first on lap ten. It was going to be a battle to the finish! That is until a lap car changed that up. After the white flag was thrown, the two lead cars entering turn one came upon the lap car, Rieks ending up colliding with him. Burg avoided the mess and raced home to the checkers first. Rieks car sat on the infield disabled with much damage after the race. John Watson avoided the incident the final lap, and scored the runner up spot. Dustin Graham finished third, Tyler Pickett was fourth and Eric Stanton was fifth. This was Burg's first win at Boone this year.
The Modifieds came to the track next---20-laps lying ahead of them. Twenty-seven cars were on hand and all but two were able to start the feature. Joel Bushore took advantage of his pole starting spot, flying to the lead as the green fell. Josh Truman tucked into second place and Robert Avery into third. Bushore looked destined to visit victory lane again, keeping command even after a restart at the halfway mark. Bushore had been riding the high line of the track comfortably until lap fourteen. That was when he slipped off of the top of turn two, and came to a stop. This brought out the yellow, and handed first over to Truman. By this time, Kyle Brown was right behind Truman after having started in eleventh place. The final handful of laps saw another guy making a bid for a top spot. Jimmy Gustin had been flying and was in third place. At the checkers though, it was Truman keeping the lead, and taking the win. Kyle Brown finished in second with Jimmy Gustin breathing down his tailpipes in third. Fourth went to Robert Avery and Matthew Meinecke rounded out the top five. Truman scored his second win of the year.
The 18-lap Stock Car feature ended the night's racing. As always, there was close racing through out the pack of cars. Larry Crocheck led the first couple of laps, only to have Craig Carlson put his #77C to the point by lap three. Meanwhile, Wayne Gifford had moved to the top of the track, and after starting eighth, had all eyes on him as he passed car after car. By lap four, he was leading! No one was going to touch Gifford from there on. He held the lead the remaining caution free distance to the win. Carlson held on to second place. The winner's brother, Jerry Gifford moved from starting eleventh, to finish third, Mike Goldsberry got around Bob Daniels in the closing laps, as they went fourth and fifth in that order. This was Wayne Giffords second win of the season.
Several Modified and SportMod drivers stuck around the area after their run at the Harris Clash in Knoxville on Thursday. In the SportMod class, Chad Shaw from Trimble, Missouri, and Arron Duvall from Trenton, Missouri opted to run at Boone. In the Modified's, it was Josh Blumer out of Kansas....in his "Sponge Bob"
car, Clint Homan from Bellevue, Nebraska, and Bill Pittaway's #137 car from Corpus Christi, Texas ran, but was piloted by local racer Brian Efkamp.
We are taking a night or two off from racing after doing nine nights out of eleven. Our next race looks to be back at the Southern Iowa Speedway for our usual Wednesday night fix of racing. Thanks for reading and happy racing!
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