As Super Nationals gets closer cars are getting ready for them by racing at the boone speedway on saturday. It was chilly and cold but it still heated up with the great racing action on the race track. 161 cars signed in to take action at Iowa's Action Track the Boone Speedway.
Dwarf Car/Mod Lites would come up first for their 12 lap feature event. Joel Huggins would take the lead in hopes of doing the same thing that he did in marshalltown but on lap 2 he would be passed by Dusty Masolini. After lap 2 was in the books, Tim Hennigar and Jeff Stensland would get together in turn 3 & 4. Masolini would resume the lead and go on to the victory, Huggins would get 2nd, Jimmy May would get 3rd, Josh May was 4th and Andy Hennigar came home in 5th.
The Sport Mods would come out next for their 18 lap feature event, 34 cars signed in so 4 heats and a b feature would be used to determine the field of 24. Before 1 lap would be scored 2 cautions would come out. First for Tara Longnecker, Tim Love and Jerry Hinton get together in turn 1 and then for Dalton Dingman and Joel Bushore getting together on the backstrectch, Whitney Huntley also involved. When the race got going "Young Gun" Brett Moffitt would take the lead and cruise to victory despite a caution on lap 15 when Dingman spun around in turn 4 and despite battles with Rick Ringgenberg and Austin Lucas. Moffitt would take the win, Lucas would pass Ringgenberg for 2nd, Geoff Olson would finish 4th and Scott Davis would take 5th.
Up Next was the Crash filled 20 lap IMCA Modified feature event. JJ Scott would take the lead at the start but then cautions would fly on lap 2. First caution on lap 2 was when Bill Davis, Greg Cox, Jason Schoenberger, Cale Sponsler, Nate Caruth and Denny Pittman got together in turns 3 & 4. The next caution came out on the restart, this time it was for Stacy Warren and Davis getting together, Schoenberger spun to miss but was still stopped when the yellow came out. Just after another lap was in the book another caution would come out this time for Jimmy Gustin, Todd Shute and Carl Albee getting together in 3 & 4. Scott still lead but he would be passed by Jacob Murray on lap 5. Just after the lap was scored another caution would come out when Brian Law spun in turn 2. Muray continued to lead but the last caution came out on lap 11 when Josh Gilman blew up on the front stretch, the drivers would be warned during this feature that time limit had been met so the next caution would be the end of the race if another one would come out. The final 9 laps was ran caution free, Murray was passed by Scott on lap 17 for the lead. Scott would take the win, Murray would be passed by Jake Durbin for 2nd, Kelly Lyons would finish 4th and Scott Baker was 5th.
IMCA Stock Cars were up next for their 18 lap feature event, 31 cars signed in so 4 heats and b feature would be used to set the field at 24 cars. 2 Cautions would come out in the early going, first on lap 2 when Ryan Leeman spun in turn 2 and then on lap 9 when Michael Jeannette spun in turn 3. Damon Murty would lead the first 16 laps and pull off because of some mechanical troubles and handing the lead over to Ryan Rose. Rose took the win, Donavon Smith, Josh Brauckman, Mike Van Genderen and Bryan Trogdon rounded out the top 5.
The final 2 features of the night would be for the IMCA Hobby Stocks, 47 Hobby stocks signed in. In Feature #1 which had 4 cautions. Adam Bonnett lead the first 4 laps but exited and handing the lead over to Richard Yaw. Yaw would lose the lead on lap 6 to Pat Mather. Mather would take the win, Yaw was 2nd, Joe Myers was 3rd, Michael Murphy was 4th and Matt Drottz was 5th. In Feature #2 which went green-to-checkered. Donnie Gustoff would lead the first 4 laps and Scotty Lagrosso would take the lead on lap 5 and go on to the win. Daniel Hilsabeck would finish 2nd, Chris Hupp was 3rd, Tyler Pickett was 4th and Leonard Loftus rounded out the top 5.
Season Championship night will be saturday night september 5th and then on monday night September 7th the 27th Annual Super Nationals begins!
