The Boys of Summer, the IMCA Deery Brothers Late Models came to town for their annual Memorial Day run at the Boone Speedway. Twenty-eight of the wide bodies checked into the pits for a day of fun and in the end, it was a veteran racer taking home the victory. Also running for national, regional, state, and track points were the IMCA Stock Cars, IMCA Northern SportMods, and the IMCA Hobby Stocks. The Deery Brothers ran their 48th race at the Speedway which began back in 1988.
Veteran racer, and two-time IMCA Deery Brothers series champion, Curt Martin, took home the hardware and $2,000 in the 40-lap headliner feature. Martin got the lucky pole starting position and led all but one lap when Jeremiah Hurst briefly slipped by him on lap four. He quickly regained the lead and kept it the remaining way to the checkers and the win. Hurst held the runner up spot, and Ryan Dolan started seventh, and finished in third. Justin Kay, the driver who has been on fire, ending last year with a Deery win, and then winning the three series races so far this year, was going for a record five in a row, fell a bit short and finished in fourth place. Joe Zrostlik rounded out the top five. Yellows at lap ten and again at lap twenty-two, nor lap traffic hindered Martin's run to victory lane. Martin captured his win #27 in the IMCA Deery Brothers series, now tied with Justin Kay. Kay remains as one of four other drivers who hold a 4 in a row Deery win....Gary Webb (1994), Rob Toland (2004) and Brian Harris (2013).
Thomas Egenberger has been close to seeing the checkers in the IMCA Northern SportMod class, but on Monday, he finally got that first career win under his belt. He was leading on Saturday night, when a yellow flag with one lap to go proved to be his nemisis. The ensuing restart cost him that win. Egenberger led the entire 20-laps on his way to the win, holding off Cory Rose who chased him the whole race. Dustin Masolini wins the hard charger award, coming from seventeenth starting spot, to finish third. Tyler Inman started eleventh, and finished fourth and Cory Pestotnik rallied from a mid-race incident to get a top five finish.
Troy Jerovetz made it to victory lane for the first time in the IMCA Stock Car class. Jerovetz, who is a transplanted Wisconsinite, now residing in Webster City, Iowa, passed opening lap leader Wayne Gifford on lap two, and held off all challengers in the caution free 20-lap A main. Donavon Smith closed in on the leader at times, but could muster no more than a second place finish. Jay Schmidt worked through the field from starting eighth, to take third place, fourth went to Trent Murphy, who had started twelfth, and early leader Wayne Gifford was fifth.
Andrew Burg scored his second victory of the year at the speedway in the 15-lap finale feature. Solomon Bennett threw several challenges at the leader, but had to settle for the runner up spot. John Watson, who had just won on Saturday night, took third place after starting tenth. Eleventh place starter Chanse Hollatz was fourth and pole sitter Derek Hodges completed the top five.
The weather forecasters "no chance of rain" was looking completely wrong as we headed toward Boone yesterday. A check of radar showed cells popping up everywhere, like popcorn. The sky grew darker and then we hit rain a few miles east of the track. As often is the case though, the raindrops ceased right before we got to the track, and no rain had fallen. It still wasn't looking good though, as it was very black, especially so to the southeast. Somehow, the angry sky eluded the track, and not a drop of rain fell. Racing began right at 5 p.m. and the last checkered flag fell at 7:50 p.m.
Next up for the IMCA Deery Brothers Late Models will be on Tuesday, June 5 at the Marshalltown Speedway with $2,000 to win. Also on tap are the IMCA Modifieds running for National, Regional and State points, and also paying $2,000 to win and $1,000 for second. The STARS Mod Lites are also running. Grandstands open at 5, Hot laps are 7 with racing to follow. Should be a great show on the High Banks. Hope to see some of you there!
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