Boone Speedway saw a nice crowd on hand for their weekly show on Saturday night. There were 121 cars with 23 or 25 cars in each of the five divisions, providing some great racing action. Mike VanGenderen matched his win from last week in the Modifieds, Donavon Smith returned to the winner's circle in the Class too Tough to Tame, the IMCA Stock Cars, Jake McBirnie got his second feature in the SportMods as did Cory Dennis in the Mod Lites. A first time winner came from the Hobby Stocks, as Korbin Nourse found his way to the checkers.
Cory Dennis led all 15 laps of the Mod Lite feature as he raced to victory for the second time. He outran second place finisher Bryan Zehm, who had started tenth, third place went to Joe Glick, fourth to Joel Keenan, and Josh May started twelfth, and finished in fifth. Joel Huggins' night ended on a sour note when he went up in a cloud of smoke. He was just one more Mod Lite that we have seen suffer the same fate this season---something seldom seen in years past.
Last week's winner, Daniel Tasler, led the troops in the opening laps of the 18-lap IMCA Northern SportMod main event. However, it didn't take long for eighth place starter Jake McBirnie to run him down, and take command at lap six. From there on, McBirnie kept hold of that top spot, all the way to the checkers and the win. Jonathan Logue came from ninth starting spot, had to wrestle it out with Tasler, to finish as the runner up. Daniel Tasler finished third, Cory Pestotnik was fourth, and Andy Tiernan completed the top five. The win was McBirnie's second of the regular season.
The IMCA Hobby Stock 12-lap feature found a first time winner emerge. Korbin Nourse grabbed the lead from the outside front row as soon as the green flag dropped, and threw off the challenges of any competitors on his way to victory. Jordan Peters took second place, Dustin Graham third and Eric Stanton pushed Graham across the finish line, to take fourth. Solomon Bennett came from fifteenth to take a top five finish. This was Korbin Nourse's first ever win at the Boone Speedway, and perhaps his first career win.
It was an excellent 20-lap IMCA Modified feature with the winner determined at the finish line. The early portion of the race was led by Bob Daniels. Daniels was having his hands full holding back Josh Truman when a caution flew at lap eight. When action got back underway, it was Mike VanGenderen, who had started twelfth, getting the jump on Truman, and taking over second place---his sights now set on leader Daniels. Just past the halfway mark of the 20-lapper, VanGenderen surged past Daniels to take over the top spot, and Truman and eleventh place starter Jimmy Gustin also followed him to run second and third. A yellow flew with four laps remaining, setting up a real shoot out.
The final laps of the feature event was a constant battle between VanGenderen, Jimmy Gustin and Josh Truman. Gustin slipped into second place with just a handful of laps remaining and continued to torment VanGenderen. Gustin searched for a way around the leader, gave it a last second push as the two came out of corner four looking at the checkers, but was unable to make the pass. VanGenderen took the win over Gustin, who had to settle for the runner up spot. Truman held on for a third place finish, Tony Cox was fourth and John Logue came from starting fifteenth to finish fifth. and sixth went to Kyle Brown who started sixteenth. VanGenderen, who had also won last week, scored his fourth win this year at Boone.
The always exciting IMCA Stock Cars put on their usual entertaining 18-lap event. Last week's winner, Tyler Pickett, took the lead at lap four, and was no doubt, looking to match last week's visit to victory lane. Meanwhile, point leader Donavon Smith had begun his methodical march to the front, and slipped into second by lap eight. Pickett held off Smith's advances until lap twelve when Smith edged under him in turn two, to be scored the leader at lap twelve. From there on, Smith kept the lead to the finish, scoring his fifth win of the regular season. Josh Daniels finished second, third went to Jay Schmidt, who both got under fourth place Pickett when he pushed up the track on the final lap, and Ben Walding was fifth.
Monday, July 4 will be the Eve of Destruction at the Boone Speedway. There will be trailer races, rollover contests, outhouse races, and even more craziness, along with the IMCA SportMod's racing for track points. Fireworks will end the evenings activities. The Eve of Destruction begins at 7:30 with grandstands opening at 5 for activities for the youngsters prior to the action beginning on the track. Then next Saturday night, July 9 will be another regular night of racing for all five divisions. Hot laps are 6:45 and racing at 7:30.
Enjoy the remainder of your 4th of July holiday, and be safe as we celebrate this great nation.
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