The original plan for Super Nationals was to camp over there all week and attend all the nights
including the prelude and practice night. However this year, things
changed not allowing that to happen so the plan was then to still go all
the nights
except the practice but on the day of the prelude, I was not feeling
well enough to make a drive over and drive back so stayed home. Sunday
was the practice night and Super Nationals Party with Iowa's very own
Country Singer Cody Hicks performing once again, mother nature at least
let that happen but shortly after the rains came in and made the grounds
so wet that meant Monday was going to start late meaning it was not
going wise to make a drive over even though the Late Models moved from
Monday again.
So Tuesday came around
and again rain was in the forecast decided I was not going to sit
around and wait to see what was going to happen so I headed to the Boone
Speedway for the Tuesday Show which was Day 2 of Qualifying for Sport
Mods and Hobby Stocks plus the full show for Sport Compacts.
Unfortunately mother nature would not allow them to complete Tuesday
Show including the Sport Compacts not able to get races of their show in
yet forcing them cancel. The remaining Sport Mods and Hobby Stocks
races was then rescheduled for Wednesday.
Wednesday's show changed, Sport Mods and Hobby Stocks would complete their round of qualifying with the final
6 starters for Saturday's Dance being filled in by top 6 in points from
the week. The Stock Cars would have their complete qualifying night 1
with the Modifieds Wednesday's show being moved to Thursday Morning at 8 am.
Thursday's Racing action went 16 hours and 45 minutes, started at 8 am with the Wednesday's Modifieds Show followed by Thursday's Stock Cars and Modifieds
complete show. Thursday was also the day the Late Models rescheduled to
however because all the dry spots in the pits were already filled and
no more room for any haulers because of the muddy pits the Late Models got scrapped from this years Super Nationals. The Race of Champions Races for Modifieds and Stock Cars was then added to the card.
Friday was a normal date as qualifying Day 3 for Modifieds
and Stock Cars plus the Fast Shaft All-Star Invitational was on the
schedule. Saturday had the last chance races for Stock Cars and Modifieds plus Big Dances and Race of Champions for Mods, Stocks, Hobby Stocks and Sport Mods.
Before I get to recapping each night even more.....I want to commend the great staff at Boone from all the track officials, flagmans and scorers for getting the show running off in a timely manner.
Great Job by the "Dirt Doctor" Rod Robbins and the Track Prep team
making the race track a great racing surface all week despite getting
thrown curveballs early in the week. Belinda "Elliott" Davis and the
Parking Staff did a great job getting everybody parked even though the
pits were a muddy mess all week. The nothing to put your head down, you
all did a great job so keep up the great work.
Saturday Prelude (September 1st, 2018)
51 Hobby Stocks, 71 Sport Mods, 95 Modifieds and 68 Stock Cars making the total entries for the Wild Rose Casino Prelude to the Super Nationals. Jake McBirnie started the week off right with a win in the IMCA Northern Sport Mods after starting seventh. Andrew Borchardt took his first career IMCA Stock Car feature win during the Prelude. Richie Gustin Jr. started on the pole and went on to win the Modified feature that was made up on Sunday after Mother Nature rained out the feature. Eric Stanton took the IMCA Hobby Stocks Feature from his third place starting spot that was also made up on Sunday.
Saturday Prelude Results
Sunday (September 2nd, 2018)
Is known as Sunday Funday at Super Nationals which includes a Practice and Pit Party for $10 pit admission. Pre-Tech for Sport Mods and Hobby Stocks from 10 am-4pm starts the day followed by Open Practice 5-7pm and Concert by Cody Hicks at 8pm. Arnold Motor Supply was supplying Pork Loin Sandwiches from Berkwood Farms.
Monday (September 3rd, 2018)
Deery Brothers Summer Series Late Models was originally scheduled to race on Monday but mother nautre did not cooperate late Sunday Night and left the grounds extremely wet and hard to get anybody in the pits so they were rescheduled to Thursday in hopes for better conditions so that meant it was just going to be IMCA Northern Sport Mods and IMCA Hobby Stocks racing.
125 Hobby Stocks checked in with Top 4 from each Heats advanced to one of two qualifying A Mains. Heats 1-7 raced in Feature 1 and that would fill the Inside Row of Saturday's Big Dance while Heats 8-14 raced in Feature 2 and fill the Middle Row of Saturday's Big Dance. Craig Clift led the first 14 laps after starting on the outside front row but Nebraska's Hot Shoe Jesse Vanlaningham took the lead away and led the final 11 laps to take the win in the first feature. Andy Hoffman was second, Shannon Anderson was third, Clift fell back to fourth and Brandon Nielsen was fifth. Shaun Wirtz came across the line in sixth was disqualifed in post race tech inspection for illegal carburetor so that moved up James Johnson to sixth, Matthew McAtee to seventh and Kyle Parizek in to the final transfer spot for the inside row starters.
Dylan Nelson led early in the Hobby Stock feature before John Watson took the lead away. Watson led unil six laps to go when Corey Madden took the top spot away. Madden went on to take the win with a borrow motor. Watson finished second, Jeff Ware was third, Andrew Burg was fourth and Adam Ayers was fifth. Andrew Claus, Drew Barglof and Dawson Deboer finish sixth through eighth to complete the first eight qualifers for the middle row. All other Hobby Stocks ran in B-Mains for Points Only.
147 Northern Sport Mods checked in with Heat Winner advancing to the A Main and 2nd place advance to B-Main with Top 10 advancing to Monday's Qualifying A Feature for Sport Mods, all other cars raced in C-Mains. In the Qaulifying A Main for the Sport Mods, Chase Rudolf started outside front row and grabbed the lead and never looked back leading all 25 laps with the only thing slowing him down was lap traffic in the second half of the feature, the win gives him the pole for Saturday's Big Dance. Jake McBirnie came across the line in second but disqualifed in post race tech inspection for illegal steering box, that moved up Chad Ryerson to third. Zech Norgaard was disqualifed for compression that moved Johnathon Logue to third, Brayton Carter to fourth, Joe Docekal to fifth, Jarred Hackler to sixth. Rodger Peck was disqualifed for Compression and Robert Draper for Rear End Violation so that moved Gunnar Pike and Ty Rogers to seventh and eighth final qualifers.
Monday Super Nationals 9-3-18 Results
Tuesday (September 4th, 2018)
136 Sport Mods checked in with Top 3 from each heat advancing to one of two qualifying A Mains. Heats 1-10 raced in Feature 1 and that would fill the Middle Row of Saturday's Dance while Heats 11-20 raced in Feature 2 and that would fill the outside row of Saturday's Dance. All other Cars ran in B-Mains for points only.
Mark Rodgers led the first 15 laps before Ben Chapman took the lead away on lap 16. Chapman and the field saw the caution come out with a few laps left and then saw the race be cut short one lap because of mother nature. Jake McBirnie finished second, Mark Rodgers came across the line in third but was disqualifed in post race tech inspection for illegal carburetor that moved up Austin Luellen to third. Reese Coffee, Arie Schouten, Cory Rose, Doug Cook and Cody Thompson all rounded out the top eight.
The rest of Tuesday's show had to be completed on Wednesday Afternoon that included the Race of Champions Heats and Hobby Stocks Feature.
So when they finished Tuesday's show on Wednesday, Joe Docekal took the win in the second Sport Mod Qualifying feature with Chad Briese, early race leader finishing in second. Alec Fett was third, Tony Olson was fourth but was disqualifed for illegal valve springs so that moved up Daniel Fellows to fourth. Anthony Kobus, JJ Baumli, Ethan Braaksma and Brandon Dale finished fifth through eighth.
98 Hobby Stocks checked in with top 2 from each heat advanced to the qualifying A Main to fill in the outside 8 rows for Saturday. Brandon Cox led the first six laps before Jason Kohl worked his way from eighth place starting spot. Kohl battled with Eric Stanton until Stanton exited with a flat tire. Cox finished second, Zach Olmstead was third, Tyson Overton was fourth and Benji Irvine was fifth. Gary Pesicka, Eric Gillette and Tathan Burkhart rounded out the eight qualifers.
Race of Champions races also took place on Wednesday. Johnathon Logue, Doug Smith, Brandon Dale, Adam Birck won each Sport Mod ROC heats with Colby Fett, Tony Rialson, Steve Clancy and Robby Rosselli finishing second and the final qualifers was Ethan Braaksma, Austin Luellem, Rusty Montagne and Brett Meyer.
In the Hobby Stocks ROC Heats : Winners - Jeff Ware, Zach Olmsteadm Aaron Rudolph and Tanner Jones; 2nd place qualifers - Corey Madden, David Rieks, Tathan Burkhart and Chanse Hollatz; 3rd place qualifers - Brandon Cox, Cody Williams, Brandon Nielsen and Brett Vanous.
IMCA Sport Compacts was scheduled to compete on Tuesday and they had 67 entries checked in but when Mother Nature came during the first Sport Mod A Main and never let up until Wednesday at 12:15 pm there was no chance the Sport Compacts could be
rescheduled despite people complaining they could get the the, they moved them later in the show because it was a one day show and need to get Sport Mods and Hobby Stocks out of the pits in order for more stalls for Modifieds and Stock Cars.
Tuesday Super Nationals 9-4-18 Results
Wednedsay (September 5th, 2018)
After the completion of Tuesday's show for Hobby Stocks and Sport Mods, there had to be a revised scheduled since not everybody could get in the pits dued to the wet grounds so that meant that Wednedsay's Modifieds Show would be moved to Thursday Morning at 8 am and The Wednedsay Stock Car Show would go on as planned.
Sport Mods and Hobby Stocks would normally run Last Chance Features to get the final six qualifers for Saturday but because of the rain and their show being forced to finish on Wednesday the decision was made to take the top six non-qualifers in points to the big dance on Saturday in both classes.
170 Stock Cars checked in and they would run two A Mains taking the top 4 from each to give the eight qualifers for the inside row of Saturday's Big Dance. Top 3 in each heat advanced to the A Mains, Heats 1-10 to A Main 1 and Heats 11-20 to A Main 2. Damon Murty led all 25 laps to win A Main 1. Derek Green finished second, John Oliver Jr was third and Brandon Czarapata was fourth. In A Main 2, Jay Schmidt started third but grabbed the lead and went on to take the win. Cayden Carter came across the line in second but was disqualifed in post race tech inspection for illegal trailing arms that moved up Elijah Zevenbergen to second, Dean Abbey to third and Kyle Frederick to fourth. All other cars race in B-Mains for points only.
When the Modifieds ran their Wednesday show on Thursday with 229 cars entered. They also ran two qualifying A Mains with the top 4 from each advancing to the inside rows for saturday. Top 2 from each heat advanced to the qualifying A Mains, Heats 1-15 to A Main 1 and Heats 16-30 to A Main 2. Ryan Ruter caught Ethan Dotson eight laps into the A Main and went on to take the win. Wisconsin's Josh Long was second, Dotson was third and Cody Laney was fourth. Jeff Aikey led all but the opening circuit taking the win A Main qualifier 2. Riley Simmons, Jay Noteboom and Mitchell Hunt rounded out the top four. Finishers third through sixth in each heat advanced on B-Mains for points only.
Wednesday Super Nationals 9-5-18 Results
Thursday (September 6th, 2018)
So Thursday started with the completion of Wednesday Program and then they cleared the pits and rolled in to Thursday's program around 3:30 pm. The Deery Brothers Summer Series Late Models were rescheduled for Thursday but the pits were still too wet to added any more haulers in the pits so they were cancelled from this year's Super Nationals.
The Race of Champions Qualifying Races for Stock Cars and Modifieds were added to the program on Thursday and would started the Thursday Night Program.
ROC Qualifers in the Modifieds : Winners - Anthony Roth, Scott Hogan, Chris Elliott, Jason Wolla, Steven Bowers Jr and Kody Scholpp; 2nd place finishers - Drew Armstrong, Chaz Baca, Tyler Frye, Regan Tafoya, Jimmy Gustin and Todd Shute.
Stock Cars also saw the top 2 in each heat of the ROC qualifers advance. Winners was : Jesse Taylor, Shane Stutzman, John Oliver Jr., Elijah Zevenbergen, Justin Nehring and Devin Smith. 2nd place finishers was : Jeff Tubbs, Scott Davis, Jay Schmidt, Dustin Larson, Norman Chesmore and Jeremy Christians.
165 IMCA Stock Cars entered in to compete on Thursday Show with the same format as Wednesday, two A Mains taking the top 4 from each to give the eight qualifers for
the middle row of Saturday's Big Dance. Top 3 in each heat advanced to
the A Mains, Heats 1-10 to A Main 1 and Heats 11-20 to A Main 2.
Kyle Vanover in his Bigg Johnson Race Car led all 25 laps in A Main 1. Jeff Tubbs finished second, Jeff Mueller was third and Jason See was fourth. Johnny Spaw led all 25 laps in A Main 2 with Luke Lemmens finished second. Hunter Marriott came across the line third but was disqualifed for rev limiter, Bryan Rigsby was disqualifed for compression so that moved Jeremy Christians to third. Justin Nehring was disqualifed for trailing arms so that moved in Donavon Smith to the fourth spot.
221 IMCA Modifieds entered in to race on Thursday with two qualifying A Mains with the top 4 from each advancing to the middle
rows for saturday. Top 2 from each heat advanced to the qualifying A
Mains, Heats 1-15 to A Main 1 and Heats 16-30 to A Main 2. Austin Luellen led every lap in A Main 1 meanwhile Hunter Marriott need nearly the entire race to get to the top spot in A Main 2. Finishing behind Luellen in A Main 1 was Cayden Carter, Jimmy Gustin and Chaz Baca while finishing behind Marriott in A2 was Tanner Black, Justin (JD) Auringer and "Big Daddy" Joe Duvall.
Thursday's Racing action started at 8am nd the final checkers was at 12:45 am.......16 hrs and 45 minutes of racing all in one day.
Thursday Super Nationals 9-6-18 Results
Friday (September 7th, 2018)
Finally was able get back on schedule with this years Super Nationals as the Modifieds and Stock Cars continued their qualifying and also the Friday means the Fast Shaft All-Star Invitational race.
In the Fast Shaft All-Star Invitational Race saw Joel Rust grab the early race lead but a caution came out on lap seven for Kyle Strickler spinning in turn two. Rust again saw the caution come out on lap ten when Jay Noteboom in turn 2. Rust led until Hunter Marriott took the lead away and shortly after Rust brought out the caution when he spun in turn two. Marriott held off Richie Gustin and Kelly Shryock to take the win in the All-Star Invitational. Gustin was second, Shryock was third, Dotston was fourth and Chris Abelson was fifth.
153 IMCA Stock Cars entered in to compete on Friday, trying to make Saturday's Big Dance. Again Two A Mains taking the top 4 from each to give the eight qualifers for
the outside row of Saturday's Big Dance. Top 3 in each heat advanced to
the A Mains, Heats 1-10 to A Main 1 and Heats 11-20 to A Main 2.
Todd Reitzler led the first half of the race before Wayne Gifford took the lead away, Reitzler also got passed by Kyle Strickler. Gifford went on to take the checkers first but was disqualifed in post race tech for engine component infraction so that moved up Kyle Strickler to the win in A1, Strickler was driving Elijah Zevenbergen's back up car and it was the first time ever in a Stock Car. Todd Reitzler finish second, Randy Brands was third and Kevin Opheim was fourth.
Shawn Wagner known as "Lunch Box" led all 25 laps in A2 with Abe Huls finished second and Troy Jerovetz in third. Mitch Ross came across the line in fourth but was disqualifed in post-race tech inspection for illegal steering box so that moved Devin Smith in to fourth.
210 IMCA Modifieds entered in to compete on Friday ith two qualifying A Mains with the top 4 from each advancing to the outside rows for saturday. Top 2 from each heat advanced to the qualifying A
Mains, Heats 1-15 to A Main 1 and Heats 16-30 to A Main 2. In A Main 1, the only car number to lead the feature was 01. First was Peyton Taylor and then it was Drew Armstrong. Armstrong went on to take the win with Kyle Brown in second, Taylor fell back to third and Grey Ferrando was fourth.
Nick Meyer led the first two laps in A Main 2 before Richie Gustin Jr took the top spot away. Jason Wolla followed suit and ran second the last 21 laps to Gustin. Gustin was disqualified post race tech inspection for illegal valve springs so Wolla was promoted to the win ahead of Nick Roberts, Anthony Roth and Tyler Sutton.
Friday Super Nationals 9-7-18 Results
Saturday (September 8th, 2018)
Modifieds ran 15 Last Chance Heats with the top 3 in each heat advancing to one of three Saints Avenue Cafe Last Chance Scrambles. Ricky Thornton Jr. had pre-entered but back out when he was scheduled to run a Late Model at the World 100 in Ohio but because they postponed he hurry back while his crew got the car ready and he tag the tail of a last chance heat race coming up one spot short transfering to Last Chance A Mains.
In the Last Chance A Mains, Steven Bowers took the lead on the last lap in A1 with Jordy Nelson and Troy Foulger rounding out the top three to complete the inside rows. In A Main 2 it was "Superman" Collen Winebarger leading all 12 in A2 ahead of Kelly Shryock and Nick Deal to complete the middle rows. Tim Ward led from start to finish in A3 to take the win ahead of Tyler Frye and Scott Drake, who rounded out the outside row qualifers.
Stock Cars had a last chance A Main with the top 24 in non-qualifer points competing to finish out the final six starters for the Big Dance. Justin Temeyer led all 25 laps to take the win ahead of David Smith, Aaron Stolp and Travis Barker. Reid Keller finished fifth but was disqualifed for wheel sticker that moved up Norman Chesmore to fifth and Tanner Pettitt to sixth.
Next up was the Race of Champions Races for Sport Mods, Hobby Stocks, Stock Cars and Modifieds. Hobby Stocks ROC saw Cody Williams lead the first eight laps before Corey Madden took the lead awy on lap nine. Madden claim the win in the caution free event.
Sport Mods ROC saw Colby Fett led the first six laps before a caution came out for Brett Meyer in turn two. On the restart, Doug Smith took the lead away from Fett. Smith and Fett swapped the lead on laps nine and ten before Fett took the lead for good on lap 11 allowing him to go on and take the win.
Jeff Tubbs led first two circuits in the Stock Cars ROC before John Oliver Jr took the leady away on lap three. Oliver went on to take the win ahead of Elijah Zevenbergen.
Todd Shute led the first 2 laps in the Modifieds ROC before "Big Show" Jason Wolla took the lead away on lap three. Wolla cruised on to the easy win.
First Big Dance was the 30 laps IMCA Hobby Stocks feature. Shannon Anderson started seventh but by the end of lap one he was in the top spot. Just after the completion of lap one, the caution came out for Craig Clift in turn two and Kyle Parizek in turn four. Anderson was not fazed and pulled away only to see the caution come out again on lap 17 for Tyson Overton in turn four. Anderson led the remaining laps to take his fifth Super Nationals title. Corey Madden, Eric Stanton, Zach Olmstead and Jeff Ware rounded out the top five.
The IMCA Northern Sport Mods 30 laps Big Dance saw Doug Smith take the early race lead. Smith led until Jake McBirnie took the top spot away on lap 19 just before a caution came out for Brayton Carter in turn two. McBirnie led through two more cautions, one on lap 23 for four cars in turns 3 and 4 and then again on lap 26 for debris in turn 1. McBirnie was determined to add his name to the books os Super Nationals Champion and he went on to take the win ahead of Joe Docekal, Doug Smith, Austin Luellen and Chase Rudolf.
Kyle Strickler led first 3 laps of the 30 laps IMCA Stock Cars Big Dance before Damon Murty took the top spot away. Murty began to pull away but the caution came out just before half way on lap 14 for debris on front stretch and Jason See in turn two and then again on the restart for Travis Barker in turn two. Murty pulled away and looked to be heading on to the easy win but a caution came out with two laps to go for Derek Green in turn two. Murty held off Kyle Vanover to take the his first Super Nationals Crown. Vanover finished second ahead of Todd Reitzler, Abe Huls was fourth and Devin Smith worked his way to fifth place finish.
Final race was the 40 lap Big Dance for IMCA Modifieds. Jeff Aikey started the pole and grabbed the top spot right away only to see the caution come out just after 1 lap was scored for debris and for Mitchell Hunt in turn 2. Aikey got a great restart but again saw the caution come out on lap seven for Kelly Shryock on front stretch. Aikey led the entire distance to take his first Super Nationals Crown in the Modifeds, he has several in the Late Models before. Only thing slowing down Aikey was lap traffic but they were also slowing down Cayden Carter, who finished second and Ryan Ruter, who finished third. Ethan Dotson and Jason Wolla finished fourth and fifth.
After the races at Super Nationals, the feature winners motors go up for Auction. Shannon Anderson's Hobby Stock Engine went for $3,300.....Jake McBirnie's Sport Mod Engine went for $4,500......Damon Murty's Stock Car Engine went for $7,300......Jeff Aikey's Modified Engine went for $5,000.
Saturday Super Nationals 9-8-18 Results
Once again Super Nationals never seems to amaze and I always have fun just relaxing despite taking some notes but once a racing nut always a racing nut. I drove my self early in the week but Thursday, Friday and Saturday rode over with a good friend "Drunk Girl" aka Melissa from Team 3W and her boyfriend Scott......had fun conversations with Bigg Johnson Race Cars Gang on Saturday Night after the races.
Next up for me will the World Nationals at Marshalltown Speedway this week, not sure if I will write a blog but one thing you will expect my clipboard, headset and radios will be and mostly likely my camera to take some pictures.
