May Day Brings Large Car Count for Boone

This past Saturday night, May 1st, Boone Speedway saw 154 cars check into the pits. With most tracks having rain outs on Friday night, it appeared that the drivers from other areas were anxious to get in some weekend racing.

The first feature to hit the track after the usual farming session, was the Dwarf/Mod Lites. There were 21 cars on hand, their best car count of the season. Third place starter, Colby Oberembt, jumped to the lead. I believe this is just his second year of racing and this young driver has certainly shown a marked improvement. Cory Dennis would chase him the entire race, but was unable to catch him. Oberembt came home to the checkers flying, for his first ever feature win. As Dennis took the runner up spot, it was Eric Hendrickson following him across the line for third. Fourth went to Mike Kennedy and fifth to Joel Huggins.

The largest car count of the year with 45 cars, the IMCA Northern SportMods had to have their starting field cut to 24 cars by running two B mains. Clint Luellen was the winner of the first consy race, and Lynn Brockett took the second B main. Andy Tiernan led the first few laps until Jeremy Embrey made the pass into first place. Embrey pulled away but during the last few circuits, Tiernan was slowly reeling him in, but to no avail. Embrey took the feature win with Tiernan in second place. Brian Miller came home in third, fourth went to Matthew Mienecke and fifth was Eric Elliott.

A nice field of 24 IMCA modifieds put on a good show for the fans. Twenty-three cars started the feature with Billy Davis missing the call. Jon Snyder had the field covered from the get go, running a smooth and consistent line the entire race. Even with several yellow flags resulting in restarts, Snyder would power away from the field. Jockeying for positions behind him, several cars would swap places during the course of the event, including Kyle Krampe, Craig Carlson and Fred Schimmels. Snyder took the win easily over Krampe and in the last few laps after a restart, former Super Nationals winner, Todd Shute made a great surge to come home in third place. Fourth went to the #18 of Jake Durbin, and fifth was Craig Carlson.

The IMCA stock cars began their feature with 24 cars on the track. Two cars were unable to make the starting call. Kellogg, Iowa's Clayton Deppe led the field during the early laps until veteran Steve Jackson made the pass into first after a restart situation. Eighth place starter, "Hot" Rod Richards, winner of the season opener, made his way into the runner-up spot at ten laps down in the 18 lap event. Quite the contest would ensue as the laps wound down, when Jackson, Richards, Andy Bryant and 10th place starter, Donovan Smith all were racing hard and tight for position. Smith made the pass around Jackson on the white flag lap and came home for his second win of the season at the Boone Speedway. Jackson had to settle for second, third went to Rod Richards, fourth to Andy Bryant and fifth to Trent Murphy. This class always seems to provide the fans with an exiting race as it did again tonight.

Thirty-eight IMCA hobby stocks were split into two feature events. Feature one saw Richard Yaw lead the race early and then have his night come to an end when he lost an axle. Cody Gustoff put himself in the point position then and would lead the rest of the way to take the checkered flag. Following Gustoff across the line was Brandon Pruitt, Michael Murphy, longtime racer Randy Embrey, and Dean Hartwig. Gustoff was a repeat winner from last Saturday's show.

Hobby stock feature number two, which closed out the program's events, had Travis Fenton lead the early laps. It wasn't long until the m15 of Pat Mather took the lead as he sailed home to the feature win. Ninth place starter Aaron Rudolph came home the runner up in the contest, followed by Matt Hudspeth, Donnie Gustoff and Travis Fenton.

It was after 11:30 when the program was completed. Next Saturday night at the Boone Speedway will be another regular weekly point's night. Heat racing is scheduled to begin at 7:30. If it is a lot of racing action you are looking for, Boone Speedway is the place to be. Be sure and check www.raceboone.com for more details. Happy racing!

More complete results are listed below.

Boone - 5/1/10

Unofficial results: 154 cars

Modified - 24 cars

Heat 1 - 69X Jon Snyder
Heat 2 - 3Z Randy Havlik
Heat 3 - K1 Kyle Krampe

Feature

1. 69X Jon Snyder
2. K1 Kyle Krampe
3. 5 Todd Shute
4. 18 Jake Durbin
5. 77C Craig Carlson
6. 83G Josh Gilman
7. 94 Fred Schimmels
8. 15X Scott Baker
9. 2L Adam Larson
10. 19 Jimmy Gustin
11. 58 Denny Pittman
12. 93 Cale Sponsler
13. 87 Joel Bushore
14. 12E Mark Elliott
15. 12C Kent Croskey
16. 12 Stacy Warren
17. 36 Jeff Conner
18. 28R Russ Dickerson
19. 27 Kelly Lyons
20. 3Z Randy Havlik
21. 49T Tim Stevens
22. 22D Daniel Hilsabeck
23. 33M Mike Molle
DNS: 1 Billy Davis

SportMod - 45 cars

Heat 1 - 24 Brian Miller
Heat 2 - 35 Bruce Egeland
Heat 3 - 10 Cayden Carter
Heat 4 - 9E Eric Elliott
Heat 5 - 41 Jeremy Embrey
Heat 6 - 2G Geoff Olson

B Main #1 - top to transfer

1. 3L Clint Luellen
2. 7+ Jared Timmerman
3. 72 Rick Ringgenberg
4. 41L Bobby Lynch - Ottumwa, IA
5. 28 James Reichart
6. 13D Dan Wetzel
7. 8J AJ Johnson - Oskaloosa, IA
8. 59 Tara Longnecker
9. 11C Justine Campbell
10. 17 Jamie Ganoe
DNS: 56 Lonnie Hodges
46 Trevor Oberholz
3R Randy Roberts
19F Fred Leytham

B Main #2 - top 2 transer

1. 57 Lynn Brockett
2. 34J Jerry Hinton
3. 63 Daniel Tasler
4. 23JR Nick Roberts
5. 84 Brandon Morris
6. 12X Matt Moore - Ottumwa, IA
7. 3 Stacey Clark
8. 36 Matt Pittman - Jefferson, IA
9. 20L Lauren Vis
10. 2 Bill Wears
11.32L Ty Luellen
12. 312 Josh Lopshire
DNS: 22S Rick Reiter

Feature

1. 41 Jeremy Embrey
2. 321 Andy Tiernan
3. 24 Brian Miller
4. 5M Matthew Meinecke
5. 9E Eric Elliott
6. 35 Bruce Egeland
7. 10 Cayden Carter
8. 19G Gaitlin Leytham
9. 13X Brett Moffitt
10. 7 Carter VandenBerg
11. 22J Jeff Blume
12. 27 Tim Love
13. 81D Scott Davis
14. 72 Rick Ringgenberg
15. 34J Jerry Hinton
16. 3L Clint Luellen
17. 66 Cody Hennings
18. B00K Dylan Book
19. 2G Geoff Olson
20. 56 Lynn Brockett
21. 63 Daniel Tasler
22. 6 Darrin Huntley
23. 7+ Jared Timmerman
DNS: 1C Cody Warrick

Stock Car - 26 cars

Heat 1 - 23HR Rod Richards
Heat 2 - 60 Clay Deppe
Heat 3 - 35 Donavon Smith

Feature

1. 35 Donavon Smith
2. 2J Steve Jackson
3. 23HR Rod Richards
4. 77 Andy Bryant
5. 25 Trent Murphy
6. 57V Mike VanGenderen
7. 19A Alan VanGorp
8. 26K Butch Bass
9. 27 Gary Bass
10. 60 Clay Deppe
11. 22 Wayne Gifford
12. 12 Bryan Trogdon
13. 93 Michael Jaennette
14. 12+ Ryan Rose
15. 45 Larry Crocheck
16. 24K Kevin Shaw
17. 9 Jerry Gifford
18. 556 Terry Cornelison
19. 17AJ Joe Leuthje
20. 33 Matt Gray
21. 5 Keith Miner
22. 3H Ty Hill
23. 27M Mike Munson
24. 1F Marcus Fagen
DNS: 35B Don Boucher
76 Norm Belew

Hobby Stock - 38 cars

Heat 1 - 38R Aaron Rudolph
Heat 2 - 3A Austin Luellen
Heat 3 - 20T Richard Yaw
Heat 4 - m15 Pat Mather
Heat 5 - 25M Michael Murphy
Heat 6 - 43 Nic Shearer

Feature #1

1. 23 Cody Gustoff
2. 10B Brandon Pruitt
3. 25M Michael Murphy
4. 40 Randy Embrey
5. 74J Dean Hartwig
6. 2N Donovan Nunnikhoven
7. T15 Jacob Thompson
8. 00 Kyle Dirks
9. 8B Bobby Smith
10. 51D Dustin Filloon
11. T10 Tim Barber
12. 26T Jeremy Tilley
13. 66 Andy Mahlstedt
14. 81B Chad Baker - Blairstown, IA
15. 83 Chris Hupp
16. 16B Jay Arends
17. 1BC Tony Cox
18. 5A Tyler Pickett
19. 24B Brandon Brinton
20. 20T Richard Yaw
21. 37G Jeff Gunderson
DNS: 12M Matt McDonald
12J Kenneth Johnson

Feature #2

1. m15 Pat Mather
2. 38R Aaron Rudolph
3. 9R Matt Hudspeth
4. 20 Donnie Gustoff
5. 10 Travis Fenton
6. 3A Austin Luellen
7. 12A Rob Allison
8. 18L Kenny Loftus
9. 46J Jesse Hopkins
10. 293 Jake Wirtz
11. 14 Matt Wahlert
12. 9 Andrew Arends
13. 67 Ed Mahlsetedt
14. 63 Cory Tasler
15. 96 Mark Hidlebaugh
16. 39 Larry Embrey
17. 43 Nic Shearer
18. 4W John Watson
19. 83S Scott Lograsso
DNS: 66R Richie Arnold - Ottumwa, IA
26 Kyle Habrich
53D Ron Downing, Jr. - Ottumwa, IA
911 Darin Rothfus

Dwarf/Mod Lite - 21 cars

Heat 1 - 3 Cory Dennis
Heat 2 - 03 Rick Dennis

Feature

1. 0B Colby Oberembt
2. 3 Cory Dennis
3. 66F Eric Hendrickson
4. 95 Mike Kennedy
5. X50 Joel Huggins
6. 8 Dusty Masolini
7. 99 Josh May
8. 01 David Schmalzried
9. 5X Matthew Goodin
10. 20 Jeff Stensland
11. 88 James May
12. 89 Travis Stensland
13. 37 Mike Thomas
14. 4 Cliff Barber
15. 76M Angelo Montgomery
16. 64 Randy Bryan
17. 4L Larry Sorenson
18. 76 Terry Sorenson
19. 00 Phillip Reeves
20. 03 Rick Dennis
21. 9 Rick Taylor

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Rain Shortens Program at Marshalltown

Friday brought rain once again and it was not looking good for racing in the area. However, promoter Toby Kruse was not about to give in to Mother Nature this week. The afternoon brought clearing skies and the show went on. The track was heavy and fast but none too kind on a few motors. With perfect blue skies to the west, who would have thought the night's program would be cut short by a small rain cell that found the Marshalltown Speedway!

The Dwarf/Mod Lite feature saw all thirteen cars start the feature, including the #99 of Josh May. May had rolled his car off of turn one in the heat race when it appeared a tire dug into the soft track. Joel Huggins leaped to the lead early, soon to be chased by Mike Morrill and Tim Hennigar. Huggins slid a little high on the backstretch which allowed Hennigar to slip around him. When the final checkers flew, Tim Hennigar would take the win. Mike Morrill also made the pass on Huggins, to take the runner-up position. Huggins had to settle for third, fourth went to Josh May who made his way up from the tail of the starting line-up, and fifth went to his dad, Jimmy May.

The IMCA Northern SportMods had 38 cars in attendance. Two B Mains were needed to cut the starting field to 24 cars. Chad Louk won the first B and Fred Leytham, making his first appearance of the season, took B Main number two. A couple of incidents in the main event, would take out more than a few cars. Young Cayden Carter, just 14 years old from Oskaloosa, put his car out front and pulled away from the pack on a couple of restarts. He had just missed getting a win at the track earlier this year, but on this night, the win was his. Point leader Eric Elliott came home in second, another young driver, Jake Strayer was third, fourth went to Scott Davis, and fifth to Shawn Hunter, the early race leader.

"The Class too Tough to Tame", the IMCA stock cars, was up next. Clay Deppe led the pack early but with what appeared to be a car not wanting to turn, he would fall back a few positions. Michael Jaennette put his car to the point position then and led several circuits until a hard charging Michael Murphy was able to grab the top spot. Following Murphy through the pack, was Dustin Smith who put himself in the second position. The last couple of laps was a contest between Murphy and Smith, with Murphy being able to hold on for the win. Jaennette came home with a good run to take third, fourth went to Clay Deppe and fifth went to the Chelsea Charger, Damon Murty.

No one was quite prepared to discover raindrops beginning to fall just as the modified feature began. No more than a couple of laps were in the books, when the rain started falling heavier. Grabbing gear, seats and blankets, everyone quickly exited the grandstand as the rain came down even harder. This was quite unexpected, as the sun was shining and the sky was blue when racing began.

Next Friday, racing will begin fifteen minutes early at 7:15, with the modified feature. The make-up hobby stock feature will also be run before the regular night's action begins. Make plans to come and see some good racing at the Marshalltown Speedway. Happy racing!

Boone Speedway Avoids the Rain

This past Saturday, with rain all around, it was questionable if Boone would race. However, we should have known better. We have seen time after time when the rain will magically miss Boone Speedway, just like the hole in a donut or as if it has a glass dome over the track. According to the radar we saw, there was rain on three sides of the track but there was never more than a light sprinkle that fell at anytime during the show. The magic of Boone? As we left the track, we ran into rain just 2 miles east and then drove in it all the way home.

The Dwarf/Mod Lites were the first to run their feature with 20 cars; the largest car count yet for them this season. Sixth place starter, Joel Huggins, made quick work of putting his X50 car to the front as he took the lead on lap three. Matthew Goodin fell back a couple of positions after Huggins took the point position away from him. Father-son duo, James and Josh May tried to catch the leader but at the conclusion of the race, they had to settle for second and third respectively, as Huggins took the win. Matthew Goodin held on for fourth place and Mike Kennedy rounded out the top five.

The IMCA SportMods had to run a B feature to complete their 24 car starting field. Transferring from the B were Geoff Olson, Nick Roberts, Josh Lopshire, a visitor from Pulaski, which is located in the far southern part of the state near Bloomfield, and Jared Timmerman.
Pole sitter, Dan Wetzel would lead the race through lap twelve, but Scott Davis had his eye set on the win, and overtook Wetzel for the lead. Davis kept that top spot and came home to the checkers first. Tim Love slipped by Wetzel for runner-up place, leaving Wetzel to garner third. Fourth went to another southern Iowa driver, young Cayden Carter, and fifth was Jerry Hinton.

During the modified feature, sprinkles began to fall, but they were so light they did not cause problems with racing or even much bother the fans. Richie Gustin and Joel Bushore sat on the front row and as the green fell, Gustin jumped to the lead with Bushore in pursuit. An incident with just four laps down, involved some cars that were making good headway, including Todd Shute, Denny Pittman and Jimmy Gustin. It would end Pittman's and Gustin's run for the night. When racing resumed, Adam Larson made his way into third as he chased Richie Gustin and Bushore. At the end of the twenty lap feature, it was Richie Gustin for the win, Larson made the pass on Bushore for second as Bushore took third for his best finish of the year. Fourth went to Cale Sponsler for his best run of the year also, and fifth was Luke Wanninger.

The stock car feature had to have it's final three starters determined by a B Main. Those transferring were Cory Bushnell, Ryan Rose in his first appearance of the year, and Butch Bass.
Jerry Gifford and brother Wayne Gifford challenged each other for the lead much of the race. Fighting behind them were Ty Hill, Donavon Smith, and Mike VanGenderen. VanGenderen was lucky to hold on and only drop a spot or two, as contact was made when Dustin Smith made the pass low in turns one and two. As the laps wound down, it became a brother chasing brother race to the finish. Wayne Gifford took the win, Jerry Gifford was second, Donovan Smith captured third and fourth went to brother Dustin Smith. Ty Hill came home in fifth and VanGenderen was sixth.

Two A mains were run by the IMCA hobby stocks. Tyer Pickett led the first race from his outside front row starting spot until Cody Gustoff over took him. The race would end with Gustoff taking the win and Pickett in second. Aaron Rudolph came home in third from his 8th starting spot, John Watson in fourth from 10th spot, and fifth went to Brandon Pruitt who came from starting 11th. In the second feature, disaster was avoided on the start. As the cars took the green flag and they became bottled up going into the first corner. It was one of those, "whew, that could have been bad" moments, that didn't turn out to be bad, as everyone regained control. Eric Stanton started back in twelfth position and was able to come through the pack incredibly fast and was leading by lap five. Equally impressive, was the move of Pat Mather who came from 15th starting position and take the second spot. As the final checkers of the night flew, it was Stanton keeping the lead for the win, Mather was second, third went to Tony Cox. fourth to veteran driver Randy Embrey, and fifth was Jesse Hopkins.

The racing action ended right at 10:45 p.m. , with a chilly and brisk wind blowing, but still only a few sprinkles falling. For more information and results, you can check the Boone Speedway website at http://www.raceboone.com/. Racing action will continue next week with another points event in all divisions. Hot laps are scheduled for 6:45 with racing at 7:30. More complete results are listed below. Happy racing!

Boone - 4/24/10

Unofficial results:

145 cars

Modified - 27 cars

Heat 1 - 19G Richie Gustin
Heat 2 - 87 Joel Bushore - 1st win in an A Mod
Heat 3 - 19 Jimmy Gustin

Feature

1. 19G Richie Gustin
2. 2L Adam Larson
3. 87 Joel Bushore
4. 93 Cale Sponsler
5. 20 Luke Wanninger
6. 18 Jake Durbin
7. 3 Mike Albersten
8. 83G Josh Gilman
9. 7C Nate Caruth
10. 15X Scott Baker
11. 3Z Randy Havlik
12. 5 Todd Shute
13. 22D Daniel Hilsabeck
14. 28R Russ Dickerson
15. 27 Kelly Lyons
16. 94 Fred Schimmels
17. 77C Craig Carlson
18. 12C Kent Croskey
19. 34 Scott Strauss - Cedar Rapids
20. 69X Jon Snyder
21. 49T Tim Stevens
22. 12 Stacy Warren
23. 1 Bill Davis, Jr.
24. 58 Denny Pittman
25. 19 Jimmy Gustin
26. K1 Kyle Krampe
27. 10K Ronn Lauritzen

SportMod - 31 cars

Heat 1 - 81D Scott Davis
Heat 2 - 5M Matthew Meinecke
Heat 3 - 57 Lynn Brockett
Heat 4 - 13X Brett Moffitt

B Feature - 4 transfer to A

1. 2G Geoff Olson
2. 23JR Nick Roberts
3. 312 Josh Lopshire - Pulaski, IA
4. 7+ Jared Timmerman
5. 17 Jamie Ganoe
6. 6 Darren Huntley
7. 72 Rick Ringgenberg
8. 66 Cody Hennings
9. 28 James Reichart
10. B00K - Dylan Book
DNS: 41 Jeremy Embrey

Feature

1. 81D Scott Davis
2. 27 Tim Love
3. 13D Dan Wetzel
4. 10 Cayden Carter
5. 34J Jerry Hinton
6. 3R Randy Roberts
7. 5M Matthew Meinecke
8. 2G Geoff Olson
9. 3L Clint Luellen
10. 22J Jeff Blume
11. 80 Steve Reetz
12. 7 Carter VandenBerg
13. 23JR Nick Roberts
14. 32L Ty Luellen
15. 59 Tara Longnecker
16. 3 Stacey Clark
17. 312 Josh Lopshire
18. 13X Brett Moffitt
19. 9E Eric Elliott
20. 24 Brian Miller
21. 57 Lynn Brockett
22. X4 Jason Purvis
23. 7+ Jared Timmerman
24. 84 Brandon Morris

Stock Car - 28 cars

Heat 1- 22 Wayne Gifford
Heat 2 - 85 Dustin Smith
Heat 3 - 23HR Rod Richards

B Main - 3 transfer to A Main

1. 55 Cory Bushnell
2. 12+ Ryan Rose
3. 26K Butch Bass
4. 60 Clay Deppe
5. 76 Norm Belew
6. 2L Jon Lang
7. 27M Mike Munson

Feature

1. 22 Wayne Gifford
2. 9 Jerry Gifford
3. 35 Donavon Smith
4. 85 Dustin Smith
5. 3H Ty Hill
6. 57V Mike VanGenderen
7. 45 Larry Crocheck
8. 25 Trent Murphy
9. 77 Andy Bryant
10. 17X Kenny Hansen
11. 556 Terry Cornelison
12. 12+ Ryan Rose
13. 19A Alan VanGorp
14. 26 Bill Reetz
15. 24K Kevin Shaw
16. 2J Steve Jackson
17. 33 Matt Gray
18. 26K Butch Bass
19. 12 Bryan Trogdon
20. 55 Cory Bushnell
21. 5 Keith Miner
22. 27D Brad Dutton
23. 22X Josh Brauckman
24. 23HR Rod Richards

Hobby Stock - 39 cars

Heat 1- 4W John Watson
Heat 2 - 5A Tyler Pickett
Heat 3 - 40 Randy Embrey
Heat 4 - 293 Jake Wirtz

Feature #1

1. 23 Cody Gustoff
2. 5A Tyler Pickett
3. 38R Aaron Rudolph
4. 4W John Watson
5. 10B Brandon Pruitt
6. 83S Scott Lograsso
7. 293 Jake Wirtz
8. 43 Nic Shearer
9. 9R Matt Hudspeth
10. 20 Donnie Gustoff
11. T15 Jacob Thompson
12. 33X Max Leonard
13. 07 Jacob Keiser
14. 911 Darin Rothfus
15. 67 Ed Mahlstedt
16. 05 Jake Comer
17. 0F Jeff Fink
DNS: 10 Travis Fenton
11B Solomon Bennett

Feature #2

1. 7B Eric Stanton
2. m15 Pat Mather
3. 1BC Tony Cox
4. 40 Randy Embrey
5. 46J Jesse Hopkins
6. T10 Tim Barber
7. 24B Brandon Brinton
8. 14 Matt Wahlert
9. 51D Dustin Filloon
10. 3A Austin Luellen
11. 20T Richard Yaw II
12. 16B Jay Arends
13. 66 Andy Mahlstedt
14. 27R Clint Rothfus
15. 8B Bobby Smith
16. 83 Chris Hupp
17. 25M Michael Murphy
18. 9 Andrew Arends
DNS: T71 Marcus Kyle

Dwarf/Mod Lite - 20 cars

Heat 1 - 95 Mike Kennedy
Heat 2 - 99 Josh May

Feature

1. x50 Joel Huggins
2. 88 Jimmy May
3. 99 Josh May
4. 5X Matthew Goodin
5. 95 Mike Kennedy
6. 20 Jeff Stensland
7. 01 David Schmalzried
8. 66F Eric Hendrickson
9. 4 Cliff Barber
10. 76M Angelo Montgomery
11. 37 Mike Thomas
12. 46 Kevin Grisham
13. 4L Larry Sorenson
14. 97 Brian Summers
15. 76 Terry Sorenson
16. 03 Rick Dennis
17. 3 Cory Dennis
18. 0B Colby Oberembt
19. 89 Travis Stensland
DNS: 64 Randy Bryan

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Larson and Lucas take Modified Division Wins at Boone

The Boone Speedway was our regular Saturday night stop for racing action this past weekend. It was a bit more comfortable weather wise for spectators, but the wrap was still on a section of front stretch bleachers, and the heaters were beneath to provide some warmth for the fans. A nice field of 128 cars was on hand for the night's program.

The first feature of the evening was the Dwarf/Mod-Lites. It was appearing that Dusty Masolini might take his second win of the weekend, as he had won at the Marshalltown Speedway the previous night. However, Josh May, who has been on a streak lately, had other ideas. May would come from starting sixth to over take second place runner, Randy Bryan and then passed Masolini for the lead. I believe this was Josh May's fourth victory of this early season. Masolini had to settle for the runner-up position, Bryan was third, fourth was Coby Oberembt in his best finish of the year, and fifth went to James May.

The IMCA SportMod feature was whittled down to 24 after the final four starters transferred from a B-Main. It was noted that two cars were unable to make that start, thus only 22 drivers took the green. Early leader Randy Roberts would get shuffled back as Austin Lucas and Geoff Olson made their way forward. Lucas pretty much had it his way when he made the pass for the lead and went home to the win. Coming home in second was Matthew Meinecke, third went to Jared Timmerman who came from starting eleventh, fourth was Mike Pruitt and fifth was Eric Elliott.

The IMCA modified class was up next for their feature. Adam Larson and Craig Carlson sat on the front row and would lead the field through the half-way point. Jake Durbin made the pass around Carlson for second place. The race ended with Larson maintaining the point position and taking the win, Durbin was second, Carlson had a good run to take third, fourth went to Jon Snyder in his sharp looking 69X ride, and fifth went to always hard-charging Jimmy Gustin.

The competitive IMCA stock car feature was completed flag to flag. Wayne Gifford paced the field early but "the Smith Brothers" were coming through the pack, picking off cars as they are known to do. Donovan Smith was able to make the move around Gifford and brother Dustin tailed Gifford in third. The race ended just that way, with Donovan Smith the winner, Wayne Gifford in second, Dustin Smith taking third, fourth to rookie Kenny Hansen, moving up from the hobby stock ranks, and fifth to last week's winner, "Hot" Rod Richards.

There was only one feature for the IMCA hobby stocks as the 31 cars had to run a B-Main.
Travis Fenton in his #10 ride, led the race past the half-way point and was looking good for taking a win. An unfortunate incident right before the white flag, put Cody Gustoff in the backstretch wall with Pat Mather also involved. This would set up a green-white-checkered finish. The restart put Michael Murphy on the back bumper of Fenton and Murphy wasted no time in making the pass for the lead. Murphy took the win, Fenton was in second, third went to Chris Hupp who came from way back in 15th starting spot, fourth to Tony Cox, a name we recall from more than a few years back, and fifth to veteran driver Randy Embrey who made his first appearance of the year.

Racing action was completed at 10:30 which allowed us to get home at the bewitching hour. Racing action will continue at the Boone Speedway next week with hot laps at 6:45 and racing at 7:30. More information can be found at www.raceboone.com. Happy racing!

More complete results are listed below.

Boone - 4-17-10

Unofficial results:

Modified - 21 cars

Heat 1 - 2L Adam Larson
Heat 2 - 28R Russ Dickerson
Heat 3 - 18 Jake Durbin

Feature

1. 2L Adam Larson
2. 18 Jake Durbin
3. 77C Craig Carlson
4. 69X Jon Snyder
5. 19 Jimmy Gustin
6. 28R Russ Dickerson
7. 15X Scott Baker
8. 27 Kelly Lyons
9. 3 Stacy Warren
10. 5 Todd Shute
11. 3Z Randy Havlik
12. 93 Cale Sponsler
13. 22D Daniel Hilsabeck
14. 20 Luke Wanninger
15. 94 Fred Schimmels
16. 49T Tim Stevens
17. 58 Denny Pittman
18. K1 Kyle Krampe
19. 87 Joel Bushore
20. 83G Josh Gilman
DNS: 12 Stacy Warren


SportMod - 34 cars

Heat 1 - 3R Randy Roberts
Heat 2 - 9X Austin Lucas
Heat 3 - 92 Mike Pruitt
Heat 4 - 2G Geoff Olson

B-Main - top 4 to the A

1. 321 Andy Tiernan
2. 20K Lauren Vis
3. 12 Creston Williams
4. 28 James Reichart
5. 59 Tara Longnecker
6. 3 Stacey Clark
7. 17 Jamie Ganoe
8. 27 Tim Love
9. 63 Daniel Tasler
10. 52 Ryan Engelkes
11. 32L Ty Luellen
DNS: 35 Bruce Egeland
23JR Nick Roberts
1C Cody Warrick

Feature

1. 9X Austin Lucas
2. 5M Matthew Meinecke
3. 7+ Jared Timmerman
4. 92 Mike Pruitt
5. 9E Eric Elliott
6. 81D Scott Davis
7. 13X Brett Moffitt
8. 2G Geoff Olson
9. 3R Randy Roberts
10. 3L Clint Luellen
11. 66 Cody Hennings
12. 57 Lynn Brockett
13. 6 Darren Huntley
14. 34J Jerry Hinton
15. 13D Dab Wetzel
16. 20L Lauren Vis
17. 12 Creston Williams
18. 72 Rick Ringgenberg
19. 41 Jeremy Embrey
20. 24 Brian Miller
21. X4 Jason Purvis
22. 28 James Reichart
DNS: 23 Jaren Hansen
321 Andy Tiernan

Stock Car - 25 cars

Heat 1 - 23HR Hot Rod Richards
Heat 2 - 22 Wayne Gifford
Heat 3 - 35 Donavon Smith

Feature

1. 35 Donavon Smith
2. 22 Wayne Gifford - carb claimed by 3S Bryan Snell- exchanged
3. 85 Dustin Smith
4. 17X Kenny Hansen
5. 23HR Rod Richards
6. 25 Trent Murphy
7. 57V Mike VanGenderen
8. 12 Bryan Trogdon
9. 45 Larry Crocheck
10. 18 Jeff Harkrider
11. 26 Bill Reetz
12. 19A Alan VanGorp
13. 55 Cory Bushnell
14. 26K Butch Bass
15. 556 Terry Cornelison
16. 76 Norm Belew
17. 18 Bryan Snell
18. 24K Kevin Shaw
19. 27D Brad Dutton
20. 2L Jon Lang
21. 3H Ty Hill
22. 9 Jerry Gifford
23. 33 Matt Gray
24. 22S Toby Smith
25. 22X Josh Brauckman

Hobby Stock - total of 31 cars - only 1 feature

Heat 1 - 23 Cody Gustoff
Heat 2 - 25M Micheal Murphy
Heat 3 - 1BC Tony Cox
Heat 4 - 12M Matt McDonald

B-Main - Top 4 to the A

1. 38R Aaron Rudolph
2. 20 Donnie Gustoff
3. T10 Tim Barber
4. 43 Nic Shearer
5. 16B Jay Arends
6. 11B Solomon Bennett
7. 293 Jake Wirtz
8. 26T Jeremy Tilley
9. 5A Tyler Pickett
DNS: 46J Jesse Hopkins
66 Andy Mahlstedt

Feature

1. 25M Michael Murphy
2. 10 Travis Fenton
3. 83 Chris Hupp
4. 1BC Tony Cox
5. 40 Randy Embrey
6. 12 Steve Roberts
7. 14 Matt Wahlert
8. 20 Donnie Gustoff
9. 38R Aaron Rudolph
10. 43 Nic Shearer
11. 83S Scogtt Lograsso
12. 24B Brandon Brinton
13. 12M Matt McDonald
14. 8B Bobby Smith
15. 63 Cory Tasler
16. T10 Tim Barber
17. 9 Andrew Arends
18. 23 Cory Gustoff
19. m15 Pat Mather
20. 74J Dean Hartwig
21. 9R Matt Hudspeth
22. 26 Kyle Habrich
23. 911 Darin Rothfus
24. T15 Jacob Thompson

Dwarf/Mod-Lite - 17 cars

Heat 1 - 99 Josh May
Heat 2 - 88 Jimmy May

1. 99 Josh May
2. 8 Dusty Masolini
3. 64 Randy Bryan
4. 0B Colby Oberembt
5. 88 Jimmy May
6. 95 Mike Kennedy
7. 37 Mike Thomas
8. 5X Matthew Goodin
9. 01 David Schmalzried
10. 4 Cliff Barber
11. 46 Kevin Grisham
12. 97 Brian Summers
13. 76 Terry Sorenson
14. 9 Rick Taylor
15. 4L Larry Sorenson
16. 00 Phillip Reeves
17. 76M Angelo Montgomery

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