CAR WARS VICTORIES GO TO GUSTIN, AVILA, LOGUE, WATSON, AND STENSLAND

admin | May 5, 2024

BOONE, IOWA (May 4, 2024) – Boone Speedway jumped back into action Saturday night after Mother Nature had other ideas last week. It was May the 4th and “Car Wars” night with the drivers all wanting to take home those unique trophies by Logue Fabrication for each class. One hundred seventy-six cars checked in which included 36 IMCA Friesen Performance Modifieds. The top car count went to the 47 IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars, the IMCA Friesen Performance Northern SportMods brought 31, the IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stocks drew 40, and the IMCA Stealth STARS Mod Lites were 22 strong.

Travis Stensland swept the 15 lap Mod Lite feature, presented by Carquest, Auto, Truck, and Farm. Stensland led all laps on his way to victory. The racing action was halted on lap eight when David Meinecke took a high flip in corner four, but he was thankfully okay. When the race returned to green, Stensland shot off from the rest of the pack, stretched out his lead, and took the checkers by a lengthy margin. Cory Sonner ran second for most of the race to go home as the runner up. Third place went to eleventh place starter Austin Gray with a great run, Joe Glick was scored fourth, and Josh May completed the top five.

It was 18 laps of IMCA Northern SportMod feature racing next, presented by Elmquist Towing. After an initial “no go” was called on the start, the race went caution free. Bryan Morris, Charles City, Iowa led the opening lap, with Dusty Lynch taking over the following lap. By lap three, it was Matt Avila taking command, a position he never gave up to the flying checkers. Following a distant second was Hunter Longnecker who had started in eighth spot, Ryan Leeman went from ninth to finish third, fourth was twelfth place starter Taylor Kuehl, and early leader Dusty Lynch was fifth.

Another unique Car Wars trophy was on the line for the 20 lap IMCA feature, presented by D & E Outside Services. This one had the fans on their feet nearly from the drop of the green as Kaden Cochrun, who calls Bakersfield, California home, and popular area racer Jimmy Gustin went at it. Cochrun held the upper hand through lap fifteen when high riding Gustin made the pass for the lead. Gustin then kept that top spot the remainder of the race and took the win. Jake McBirnie started eighth and took a distant second. Third went to Johnathon Logue, fourth was Riley Simmons who started eleventh, and early leader Kaden Cochrun rounded out the top five.

Up next…the Class too Tough to Tame, the IMCA Stock Cars for their 20 lap main event, presented by Moose Lodge of Boone. They put on their usual exciting race as well. John Logue started on the outside front row and immediately jumped to the lead. There was a tight pack that soon joined in behind him however, which was turning into a real battle. Coming out of the pack to take second place was Jeff Mueller who had worked his way into the runner up spot after starting tenth, and Jimmy Gustin and Austin Bouzek, were still much in the hunt. When a caution flew at lap fourteen, Logue still held the lead, with Gustin, Mueller, Bouzek, and now….20th place starter Michael Jaennette had made his presence known as he was in fifth spot. When the race restarted, Logue maintained his lead but Mueller was now having to hold back Jaennette to hold second. Jaennette was able to get around Mueller with two laps to go and had set his sights now on the leader. It wasn’t to be on this night however, as Logue kept hold of the lead and grabbed the victory. Jaennette, who qualified through one of two B’s and started 20th, had a great run to finish as the runner up. Jeff Mueller, Jimmy Gustin, and Austin Bouzek rounded out the top five. Jaennette, Mueller, and Gustin all gave winner Logue congratulations in Victory Lane for a great race.

The finale of the evening was the 15 lapper for the IMCA Hobby Stocks, presented by Pickett Salvage. John Watson would find his way to Victory Lane in this contest. He started sixth and took the lead on lap three, and never gave it up on his way to the win. There was a tight battle brewing behind him however, for much of the race. At the checkers, it was Eric Knutson holding off tenth place starter Mike Smith, as they went second and third respectively. Seth Butler took fourth place, and Zach Hemmingson, Marne, Iowa was fifth.

Next Saturday, May 11 will be another weekly series race with the five IMCA classes being joined by the Karl Chevrolet Dirt Trucks. Pits open at 3:30, grandstand 4:30, with hot laps at 5, and racing at 6.

36 entries
IMCA MODIFIED
DE Outside Services A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 19-Jimmy Gustin[4]; 2. 82-Jake McBirnie[8]; 3. 69-Johnathon Logue[5]; 4. 21R-Riley Simmons[11]; 5. 23K-Kaden Cochrun[1]; 6. 5M-Matthew Meinecke[3]; 7. 28T-Trevor Fitz[10]; 8. 17-Cory Sauerman[6]; 9. 4TW-Tim Ward[9]; 10. 38T-Dylan Thornton[12]; 11. 11-Izac Mallicoat[7]; 12. 10-Jeremy Mills[20]; 13. 05-Paul Nagle[18]; 14. 10K-Ronn Lauritzen[19]; 15. 7R-Ethan Robey[22]; 16. 28R-Russ Dickerson[21]; 17. 58-Dennis Pittman[13]; 18. 98-Jacob Snyder[23]; 19. 22B-Brian Eppert[16]; 20. 118-Jesse Patterson[24]; 21. 28-James Reichart[17]; 22. (DNF) 57V-Mike Van Genderen[15]; 23. (DNF) 75-Greg Elliott[2]; 24. (DNF) 69N-Cory Wray[14]

DE Outside Services B Feature 1 (10 Laps): 1. 28R-Russ Dickerson[4]; 2. 7R-Ethan Robey[3]; 3. 98-Jacob Snyder[8]; 4. 118-Jesse Patterson[1]; 5. 17W-Dan Wagner[7]; 6. 72B-Jerod Ballhagen[11]; 7. 50-Robert Stofer[13]; 8. 164-Brandon Leeman[12]; 9. 37F-Tyler Fudge[2]; 10. 7D-Dave Finstad[6]; 11. 87-Joel Bushore[14]; 12. 13F-Troy Fudge[15]; 13. (DNF) 7-Danny Fye[5]; 14. (DNF) 2B-Robert Moore[10]; 15. (DNF) 7S-David Solberg[9]; 16. (DNF) 32-Dillon Carlisle[16]

DE Outside Services Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 17-Cory Sauerman[5]; 2. 19-Jimmy Gustin[4]; 3. 38T-Dylan Thornton[9]; 4. 58-Dennis Pittman[3]; 5. 28-James Reichart[2]; 6. 118-Jesse Patterson[7]; 7. 7-Danny Fye[1]; 8. 7S-David Solberg[6]; 9. 50-Robert Stofer[8]

DE Outside Services Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 11-Izac Mallicoat[5]; 2. 28T-Trevor Fitz[6]; 3. 5M-Matthew Meinecke[3]; 4. 69N-Cory Wray[7]; 5. 05-Paul Nagle[4]; 6. 37F-Tyler Fudge[9]; 7. 7D-Dave Finstad[1]; 8. (DNF) 2B-Robert Moore[8]; 9. (DNS) 87-Joel Bushore

DE Outside Services Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 23K-Kaden Cochrun[1]; 2. 75-Greg Elliott[2]; 3. 82-Jake McBirnie[5]; 4. 57V-Mike Van Genderen[6]; 5. 10K-Ronn Lauritzen[4]; 6. 7R-Ethan Robey[3]; 7. 17W-Dan Wagner[8]; 8. 72B-Jerod Ballhagen[7]; 9. 13F-Troy Fudge[9]

DE Outside Services Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 69-Johnathon Logue[4]; 2. 4TW-Tim Ward[5]; 3. 21R-Riley Simmons[8]; 4. 22B-Brian Eppert[1]; 5. 10-Jeremy Mills[7]; 6. 28R-Russ Dickerson[3]; 7. 98-Jacob Snyder[6]; 8. 164-Brandon Leeman[2]; 9. (DNF) 32-Dillon Carlisle[9]

47 entries
IMCA STOCK CAR
Boone Moose Lodge 104 A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 69-Johnathon Logue[2]; 2. 93X-Michael Jaennette[20]; 3. 77M-Jeff Mueller[10]; 4. 19-Jimmy Gustin[3]; 5. 14B-Austin Bouzek[9]; 6. 11R-Braden Richards[17]; 7. 25J-Josh Daniels[5]; 8. 50B-Brock Badger[7]; 9. 35-Donavon Smith[19]; 10. 22-Chris Pruitt[15]; 11. 81-Devin Smith[4]; 12. 5A-Tyler Pickett[13]; 13. 25D-Bob Daniels[6]; 14. 71-Corey Piffer[23]; 15. (DNF) 81D-Scott Davis[1]; 16. (DNF) 8-David Smith[11]; 17. (DNF) 82-Jake McBirnie[12]; 18. (DNF) V31-Todd VanEaton[18]; 19. (DNF) 8M-Austin Meiners[8]; 20. (DNF) 92X-Buck Schafroth[14]; 21. (DNF) 19J-Jay Schmidt[21]; 22. (DNF) 3S-Bryan Snell[16]; 23. (DNF) 4A-Chase Alves[22]; 24. (DNS) 12D-Doug Smith

Boone Moose Lodge 104 B Feature 1 (10 Laps): 1. 35-Donavon Smith[1]; 2. 19J-Jay Schmidt[14]; 3. 71-Corey Piffer[4]; 4. 95-Bo Eads[3]; 5. 18-Tyler Nelsen[2]; 6. 4X-Ethan Thompson[10]; 7. $-Cody Center[8]; 8. 77-Josh Monthei[9]; 9. 8X-Mike Hansen[7]; 10. 33G-Kevin Gyles[6]; 11. 15D-Jason McDowell[13]; 12. 9-Dylan Breeden[11]; 13. 66-Mike Vondrak[5]; 14. 52-Jerry Williams[12]

Boone Moose Lodge 104 B Feature 2 (10 Laps): 1. 93X-Michael Jaennette[1]; 2. 4A-Chase Alves[6]; 3. 12D-Doug Smith[3]; 4. 19A-Alan Van Gorp[10]; 5. 53D-Clayton Deppe[12]; 6. 57H-Daniel Hagen[15]; 7. 55JR-Greg Taylor[13]; 8. 2K-Kyle Everts[14]; 9. 33VH-Dusty Van Horn[2]; 10. 94K-Chester Kaufman[11]; 11. (DNF) 02-Mike Goldsberry[9]; 12. (DNF) 83-Nicholas Rees[8]; 13. (DNF) 44K-Kevin Opheim[5]; 14. (DNF) 20-Chad Ten Napel[4]; 15. (DNS) 57VG-Rowdee Van Genderen

Boone Moose Lodge 104 Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 25J-Josh Daniels[3]; 2. 82-Jake McBirnie[7]; 3. 5A-Tyler Pickett[5]; 4. 35-Donavon Smith[4]; 5. 71-Corey Piffer[1]; 6. 8X-Mike Hansen[8]; 7. 4X-Ethan Thompson[2]; 8. (DNF) 15D-Jason McDowell[6]

Boone Moose Lodge 104 Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 8M-Austin Meiners[4]; 2. 81D-Scott Davis[1]; 3. 92X-Buck Schafroth[5]; 4. 93X-Michael Jaennette[3]; 5. 20-Chad Ten Napel[7]; 6. 57VG-Rowdee Van Genderen[6]; 7. 19A-Alan Van Gorp[2]; 8. 55JR-Greg Taylor[8]

Boone Moose Lodge 104 Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 25D-Bob Daniels[3]; 2. 14B-Austin Bouzek[5]; 3. 22-Chris Pruitt[8]; 4. 18-Tyler Nelsen[2]; 5. 66-Mike Vondrak[7]; 6. $-Cody Center[6]; 7. 9-Dylan Breeden[1]; 8. (DNF) 19J-Jay Schmidt[4]

Boone Moose Lodge 104 Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 69-Johnathon Logue[1]; 2. 19-Jimmy Gustin[2]; 3. 3S-Bryan Snell[3]; 4. 33VH-Dusty Van Horn[7]; 5. 44K-Kevin Opheim[4]; 6. 83-Nicholas Rees[6]; 7. 94K-Chester Kaufman[8]; 8. (DNF) 2K-Kyle Everts[5]

Boone Moose Lodge 104 Heat 5 (8 Laps): 1. 50B-Brock Badger[3]; 2. 77M-Jeff Mueller[5]; 3. 11R-Braden Richards[4]; 4. 95-Bo Eads[2]; 5. 33G-Kevin Gyles[6]; 6. 77-Josh Monthei[7]; 7. (DNF) 52-Jerry Williams[1]

Boone Moose Lodge 104 Heat 6 (8 Laps): 1. 81-Devin Smith[2]; 2. 8-David Smith[5]; 3. V31-Todd VanEaton[3]; 4. 12D-Doug Smith[4]; 5. 4A-Chase Alves[6]; 6. 02-Mike Goldsberry[7]; 7. 53D-Clayton Deppe[1]; 8. (DNF) 57H-Daniel Hagen[8]

31 entries
IMCA NORTHERN SPORTMOD
Elmquist Towing A Feature 1 (18 Laps): 1. 2X-Matt Avila[5]; 2. 93-Hunter Longnecker[8]; 3. R31-Ryan Leeman[9]; 4. 2K-Taylor Kuehl[12]; 5. 5-Dustin Lynch[4]; 6. 4-Gage Hilgenberg[7]; 7. 54-Eddie Ingram[18]; 8. 62-Cory Pestotnik[11]; 9. 193-Jessiah Taylor[6]; 10. 18-Mitchell Morris[14]; 11. 14S-Brian Sullivan[3]; 12. 8K-Dusty Masolini[10]; 13. 13V-Curtis Veber[21]; 14. 0LD-Bryan Morris[2]; 15. 85-Dustin West[16]; 16. 26-Jason Carney[24]; 17. 58-Hunter Poston[15]; 18. 117-Zach Hovell[13]; 19. 74-Camdan Vincent[19]; 20. 11K-William Klosterman[17]; 21. 8-Tom Lathrop[22]; 22. (DNF) 17-Kyle Free[1]; 23. (DNF) 14-Ted Gould[20]; 24. (DNF) 1S-Shelby Alves[23]

Elmquist Towing B Feature 1 (10 Laps): 1. 8-Tom Lathrop[2]; 2. 1S-Shelby Alves[3]; 3. 26-Jason Carney[1]; 4. 47X-Darin Roepke[4]; 5. 3W-Chris Webb[7]; 6. MR31-Mike Rutherford[9]; 7. 27C-Charlie Peck[8]; 8. 7M-Steve McLaughlin[6]; 9. 68M-Nick Minar[10]; 10. (DNS) 11-Austin Price

Elmquist Towing Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 193-Jessiah Taylor[4]; 2. 4-Gage Hilgenberg[5]; 3. 0LD-Bryan Morris[2]; 4. 62-Cory Pestotnik[8]; 5. 117-Zach Hovell[1]; 6. 85-Dustin West[10]; 7. 74-Camdan Vincent[6]; 8. 26-Jason Carney[7]; 9. 47X-Darin Roepke[9]; 10. 3W-Chris Webb[3]; 11. 68M-Nick Minar[11]

Elmquist Towing Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 14S-Brian Sullivan[2]; 2. 5-Dustin Lynch[3]; 3. 93-Hunter Longnecker[6]; 4. R31-Ryan Leeman[7]; 5. 18-Mitchell Morris[8]; 6. 11K-William Klosterman[4]; 7. 14-Ted Gould[1]; 8. 8-Tom Lathrop[5]; 9. 11-Austin Price[9]; 10. 27C-Charlie Peck[10]

Elmquist Towing Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 2X-Matt Avila[3]; 2. 8K-Dusty Masolini[7]; 3. 2K-Taylor Kuehl[10]; 4. 17-Kyle Free[1]; 5. 58-Hunter Poston[5]; 6. 54-Eddie Ingram[8]; 7. 13V-Curtis Veber[6]; 8. 1S-Shelby Alves[9]; 9. 7M-Steve McLaughlin[2]; 10. (DNF) MR31-Mike Rutherford[4]

40 entries
IMCA HOBBY STOCK
Picketts Salvage A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 4W-John Watson[6]; 2. 12K-Eric Knutson[5]; 3. 22X-Mike Smith[10]; 4. 22-Seth Butler[9]; 5. 3Z-Zach Hemmingsen[12]; 6. 21X-Joe Doran[13]; 7. 11B-Solomon Bennett[7]; 8. 7C-Chad Legere[22]; 9. 12M-Matt McDonald[11]; 10. 72-Joey Young[16]; 11. 38R-Aaron Rudolph[4]; 12. 22B-Braden Gifford[21]; 13. 14B-Keith Burg[3]; 14. 84B-Rusty Bates[14]; 15. 18A-Aaron Elliott[24]; 16. 8F-Aron Fye[23]; 17. 2M-Mitchell McNeill[18]; 18. 4-Joe Wollenhaupt[17]; 19. 47X-Raymond Fees[20]; 20. 31-Will Smith[19]; 21. (DNF) 13-Brian Ashburn[2]; 22. (DNF) 85-Seth Janssen[15]; 23. (DNF) 10-Travis Fenton[1]; 24. (DNF) 1K-Tom Killen Jr[8]

Picketts Salvage B Feature 1 (10 Laps): 1. 22B-Braden Gifford[1]; 2. 8F-Aron Fye[4]; 3. 70X-Garrett Croy[3]; 4. 23-Tayte Harazin[7]; 5. 88-Daniel Smith[10]; 6. 24-Jeff Wright[8]; 7. (DNF) 59JR-Chad Rickett Jr[9]; 8. (DNS) A24-Nicholas Adams; 9. (DNS) 78B-Andrew Burg; 10. (DNS) 14-Mike House

Picketts Salvage B Feature 2 (10 Laps): 1. 7C-Chad Legere[1]; 2. 18A-Aaron Elliott[2]; 3. 22R-Rick Reiter[3]; 4. 20-Gage Green[4]; 5. 5-Dylan Hill[10]; 6. (DNF) 78N-Matt Nelson[6]; 7. (DNF) 32E-Mike Eddinger[5]; 8. (DNF) 72H-Carl Agan[7]; 9. (DNF) 86-Shawn Mouzakis[8]; 10. (DNS) 33D-Danny Hill Jr

Picketts Salvage Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 14B-Keith Burg[3]; 2. 22-Seth Butler[8]; 3. 12M-Matt McDonald[9]; 4. 21X-Joe Doran[7]; 5. 4-Joe Wollenhaupt[10]; 6. 22B-Braden Gifford[6]; 7. 70X-Garrett Croy[5]; 8. 78B-Andrew Burg[4]; 9. 78N-Matt Nelson[2]; 10. (DNS) 86-Shawn Mouzakis

Picketts Salvage Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 22X-Mike Smith[8]; 2. 38R-Aaron Rudolph[3]; 3. 4W-John Watson[7]; 4. 84B-Rusty Bates[5]; 5. 2M-Mitchell McNeill[4]; 6. 7C-Chad Legere[6]; 7. 22R-Rick Reiter[9]; 8. 32E-Mike Eddinger[1]; 9. (DNF) 23-Tayte Harazin[10]; 10. (DNF) 59JR-Chad Rickett Jr[2]

Picketts Salvage Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 3Z-Zach Hemmingsen[9]; 2. 11B-Solomon Bennett[7]; 3. 10-Travis Fenton[1]; 4. 85-Seth Janssen[8]; 5. 31-Will Smith[3]; 6. A24-Nicholas Adams[6]; 7. 8F-Aron Fye[5]; 8. (DNF) 14-Mike House[4]; 9. (DNF) 72H-Carl Agan[10]; 10. (DNF) 33D-Danny Hill Jr[2]

Picketts Salvage Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 12K-Eric Knutson[6]; 2. 1K-Tom Killen Jr[7]; 3. 13-Brian Ashburn[2]; 4. 72-Joey Young[4]; 5. 47X-Raymond Fees[3]; 6. 18A-Aaron Elliott[5]; 7. 20-Gage Green[1]; 8. 5-Dylan Hill[10]; 9. 24-Jeff Wright[8]; 10. (DNF) 88-Daniel Smith[9]

22 entries
IMCA MOD LITE
Carquest Auto Truck and Farm A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 89-Travis Stensland[1]; 2. 47-Cory Sonner[4]; 3. 48G-Austin Gray[11]; 4. 3G-Joe Glick[9]; 5. 99-Josh May[3]; 6. 8N-William Nobles[2]; 7. 4G-Ben George[7]; 8. 95-Mike Kennedy[8]; 9. 20-Jeff Stensland[12]; 10. 46Z-Bryan Zehm[10]; 11. 9-Garrison Anderson[13]; 12. 18M-Chelsea Ladurini[6]; 13. 14-Bryan Compart[18]; 14. 96-Dillion Bush[17]; 15. 5G-Tracen Glick[20]; 16. 1-David Drake[19]; 17. (DNF) 4-Cliff Barber[16]; 18. (DNF) 14J-Jamie Bailey[14]; 19. (DNF) 5M-David Meinecke[15]; 20. (DNF) 52-Wendy Huss[22]; 21. (DNF) 21-Scott Bailey[5]; 22. (DNF) 85-Jered Douglas[21]

Carquest Auto Truck and Farm Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 89-Travis Stensland[1]; 2. 47-Cory Sonner[2]; 3. 46Z-Bryan Zehm[6]; 4. 18M-Chelsea Ladurini[3]; 5. 9-Garrison Anderson[5]; 6. 4-Cliff Barber[7]; 7. 5G-Tracen Glick[4]; 8. 52-Wendy Huss[8]

Carquest Auto Truck and Farm Heat 2 (6 Laps): 1. 8N-William Nobles[1]; 2. 95-Mike Kennedy[5]; 3. 48G-Austin Gray[6]; 4. 20-Jeff Stensland[7]; 5. 14J-Jamie Bailey[4]; 6. 96-Dillion Bush[3]; 7. (DNF) 1-David Drake[2]

Carquest Auto Truck and Farm Heat 3 (6 Laps): 1. 21-Scott Bailey[2]; 2. 4G-Ben George[4]; 3. 99-Josh May[1]; 4. 3G-Joe Glick[5]; 5. 5M-David Meinecke[6]; 6. 14-Bryan Compart[3]; 7. 85-Jered Douglas[7]

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