After a week long drought from racing....how odd to say that when it was actually a week of rain outs....we were glad to finally get back to racing on Saturday night. The Boone Speedway was primed and ready for their weekly races. All but one class found new winners stepping into Victory Lane; one for the first time ever at the track.
The Mod Lites hit the track first for their feature event. Charlie Brown got to the lead from his fifth place starting spot by lap five and held it the remaining distance to the checkers. He was challenged the entire way by Bryan Zehm. A yellow at lap thirteen was just what Zehm was looking for. This would set up a green-white-checkered finish and a shoot out to the finish. Brown threw off Zehm's attempts however, and motored home to the win. Zehm had to be content with second place. Third went to Travis Stensland, fourth was Randy Bryan and Joel Keenan rounded out the top five. Brown, who had numerous wins at the track last year, won for the first time in 2015.
A driver in the SportMod 18-lap A main got back to his winning ways, grabbing a win after a dry spell since back in May. Sam Wieben, the young gun out of Dysart, Iowa, started ninth and fought past Cory Rose with ten laps in the books, and held on the rest of the way in taking the win. Jonathan Logue started eighth and took the runner up spot after getting by third place finisher Jake McBirnie late in the race. Fourth went to Brandon Williams and Cory Rose was fifth. Wieben, who had won three in a row back in May, scored his fourth win at Boone this season.
A hometown Boone driver snatched up his first ever win at Boone in the IMCA 12-lap Hobby Stock feature. Dustin Graham led from start to finish, survived a yellow and subsequent restart at lap six, and took the comfortable win. Eighth place starter, Andrew Burg fought his way to a runner up placing, third was Bryan Keeney in one of his best performances of the year, fourth went to last week's winner Tyson Overton and Matt McDonald rounded out the top five.
A California driver, Ethan Dotson, has been racing in Iowa recently, and took a liking to his pole starting spot in the 20-lap IMCA Modified feature. He jumped to the lead and was scored the leader at lap one. Cole Ferguson had started alongside Dotson, and took over the following lap. By lap three, the exchanges kept going, as Eric Elliott took command of the ship. By lap eight, Richie Gustin had gotten to Elliott's bumper and then the battle between the two began. A yellow came out at lap eleven when Mike VanGenderen had a motor let go, spewing oil down the front shoot. A lengthy caution was required to spread dirt and pack the oil-slicked track in. When things got back underway, Elliott continued to hold the upper hand, but Gustin was peeking under him at every opportunity. Gustin got the advantage, being scored the leader on lap nineteen, but Elliott didn't give up. The two crossed the finish line nearly in unison coming to the checkers, but the transponders showed Elliott crossed the line first, scoring the win, Gustin scored in second. Third went to tenth place starter, veteran John Logue, Russ Dickerson was fourth and point leader and ninth place starter, Jimmy Gustin, was fifth. Elliott took his first win at Boone since June of last year.
The night ended with the 18-lap IMCA Stock Cars.....the Class too Tough to Tame. Pole sitter, Andrew Knode from Adel held the lead at lap three when a yellow flew. By that time, eighth place starter "Hot" Rod Richards had gotten to Knode's tail, and when the race restarted, he took over the lead when lap four was scored. He would then hold that top spot to the checkers and the win. Trent Murphy started tenth and took second place. Third was eleventh place starter Donavon Smith, fourth went to Butch Bass and Robert Stofer was fifth. This was Richard's first win at Boone this year.
It was Casey's night at the Speedway....doughnut eating contests and all. I grimaced when some of the young participants pulled their doughnut from the dangling string, and snarfed it up from the ground!
Next Saturday will be the 4th of July and the track is expanding it's regular racing program to include a "Duke's of Boone" night....roll over contests, etc. along with a fireworks display. Hot laps are 6:45 and racing is to begin at 7:30.
This is a busy racing week coming up. Hopefully Mother Nature cooperates. We hope to make the Hawkeye Dirt Tour for IMCA Modifieds at the the Hancock County Speedway up in Britt on Tuesday, then Wednesday and Thursday, we are looking forward to the 20th Annual IMCA Great American Stock Car Shootout at the Southern Iowa Speedway in Oskaloosa. Then we go right into our regular Friday night races at the Marshalltown Speedway and the Boone Speedway on Saturday night. Pray for a dry spell!
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