Logue takes 4th of July SportMod feature at Boone

Along with the Eve of Destruction festivities at the Boone Speedway on Monday evening, which drew a huge crowd, the IMCA SportMods were in competition.  They were running for track, as well as state, regional and national points, and $500 to win, in a draw/redraw show.

Twenty SportMods ran a 20-lap feature.  By luck of the redraw, it was Adam Shelman and Jonathon Logue sitting on the front row.  Logue immediately snatched the lead and was still in command when a yellow flew at lap thirteen.  By this time, Randy Roberts had made his way into the runner up spot from starting sixth, and no doubt welcomed the caution.  It was no detriment to Logue however, as he maintained his lead, keeping it to the checkers and the win.  Roberts held on to second, third went to seventh place starter Daniel Tasler, and a close fourth was Jake McBirnie who had started tenth on the field.  Rounding out the top five was twelfth place starter, Cory Rose.  Logue, who is the point leader in the class, won for the fourth time this season.

There were a lot of other things going on at the Speedway last evening. There were bounce houses and face painting for the youngsters and the "League of Heroes" were on hand.   The outhouse races were quite entertaining.  They "raced" under about the same rules that are in place at the Iowa State Fair.  There are four "pushers" and one "rider" (the "sitter" in the outhouse).  The outhouse is in competition with one other and they are timed.  The procedure is to push the outhouse across a designated line, the sitter gets out, wipes a toilet seat with their bottom (the top is smeared with chocolate syrup), change the roll of toilet paper, and then search through a tank of a yucky concoction in a tank, until they find one of the two corncobs.  Then they jump back into the outhouse, and it is pushed back to the starting line.  The outhouses were very colorful.  One was all pink with a flamingo atop, another was black and white with a bovine head.  There was also a trailer race, with about seventeen entrance.  Needless to say, there was trash all over the track at the end.  The night's antics on the track ended with a roll over contest and a motor home jumped over cars.  The motor home sadly failed for much of a spectacular end, as it was so heavy.  It tipped over the top of the ramp and came down on it's nose at about the second car.  After all of the on track antics were concluded, the lights were turned off, and fireworks were displayed in celebration of Independence Day!

Hopefully, you all had a fun and safe 4th of July weekend, enjoying and remembering what and why we were celebrating.