We headed off to the Boone Speedway on Saturday afternoon, but the sky in our area was not looking good! By the time we had reached LeGrand it was raining so hard you could barely see.....so we joined a couple of other cars waiting it out under an overpass! We soon continued on and though we drove through several other downpours, the closer we got to Boone, it was getting brighter and brighter. Out came the sun and upon arriving at the track, we discovered they had not had any rain....nor was there any all night long. Boone's bubble holds true again! It's was the ninth night in a row of regular season racing with just one early rain out back on April 18th. Throw in the Frostbuster special and the Deery Brothers Late Model Memorial Day race, and that makes twelve shows held at the track this year.
The Mod Lites kicked off the feature racing. It was led through lap seven by Cory Dennis. At lap eight, it was Joe Glick, who had been trailing Dennis the entire time, taking command. Glick would go on to take the win, his first at the track this year. Dennis had his motor let go coming out of corner four, belching forth a cloud of smoke, as he looked at the checkers in the distance. That incident found Randy Bryan the recipient of the runner up spot. Third went to Cory Sauerman, Bryan Zehm was fourth and Charlie Brown was fifth.
A regular driver in the Mod Lite class was absent last night. Unfortunately, Jimmy May ended up in the hospital after taking a wild ride at the Marshalltown Speedway the previous night. We understand that he has a broken neck....but not paralyzed, and rib injuries. We wish Jimmy all the best for a quick and complete recovery.
Two rookies sat on the front row for the 18-lap IMCA Northern SportMod feature.....Cory Pestotnik and Jeramy McNace. Pestotnik took the immediate lead but seventh place starter Brandon Williams was quickly on his tail. When a yellow flew at lap five, Williams had taken over the top spot, and by then tenth place starter Jake McBirnie had made it to the runner up spot, also getting around Pestotnik. The restart of the race was not good, as cars stacked up both on the backstretch and in corner four. This would eliminate or send cars to the rear when the race did get back underway. The remainder of the race was between leader Williams and McBirnie. The two would race side by side, lap after lap. McBirnie finally took the lead on the white flag lap, but Williams still had something left in his bag of tricks. However, his slide job out of corner four as the checkers were being displayed, did not work, and McBirnie beat him to the finish line and the win. Doug Smith came from starting fifteenth to finish third. Fourth went to veteran racer Rick Ringgenberg and Randy Roberts finished in fifth. This was McBirnie's third win at Boone this season.
Tyson Overton went home with the win in the 12-lap IMCA Hobby Stock feature. Overton led all laps in securing his second win of the year. Tim Barber chased the leader the entire 12-laps to take the runner up spot. Third went to Curt Reed, Dustin Graham was fourth and Aaron Rudolph came from ninth starting spot, to finish fifth.
Tony Cox was captain of the ship through lap seventeen of the 20-lap IMCA Modified feature. but Jon Snyder ran him down. Snyder took the lead at lap eighteen and held it to the finish line and the win. Josh Truman took second place, getting past Cox out of corner four as they approached the checkers. Russ Dickerson was fourth and pole sitter Cole Ferguson rounded out the top five. Snyder won for the second time in 2015.
The finale of the night was the 18-lap IMCA Stock Car A main. It was appearing as if Todd Fisher, who was making just his second trip to Boone, was going to take home the win. Fisher started on the pole and jumped to the lead as the race went green. Don Vis tucked in behind him. A yellow flew at lap eleven, and for the restart it was still Fisher leading the pack, Vis ran second and veteran racer from Dexter, Terry Pruitt was now sitting in third place. Just a couple of laps later, the yellow flew again, and this time it was for Vis, who sat dead in the water at the top of turn four. Fisher still held the lead for the restart, Pruitt was now in second and waiting in the wings were Robert Stofer, Jay Schmidt and Donavon Smith. Pruitt tried a slide job the next lap, but was not able to pull it off, but was able to make the pass for the lead at lap fifteen. From there on he held down the top spot and motored home to the win. Donavon Smith got to the runner up spot with two laps remaining, tried to nose under Pruitt but fell short and had to be content with the runner up spot. Third was tenth place starter and point leader Jay Schmidt, fourth went earlier leader Todd Fisher and Robert Stofer was fifth.
Several tracks around the state were washed out on Saturday night. Independence got hit with heavy rain earlier in the day, and we saw pictures of West Liberty's track with their front stretch covered by water. Some places also had hail. We always count ourselves lucky when storms skirt around us when sitting at a track as they did last evening. We also did not have any rain here in Grinnell.
The busy race season continues with specials dotting the calendar. Check the schedule at Positively Racing and find a race you may wish to attend. Keep supporting dirt track racing!
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