Logue by a nose at the checkers, Smith, Avila, Knutson, and Sonner also go to Victory Lane

 

BOONE, IA  (July 15, 2023) – The Boone Speedway held its weekly racing series on Saturday night, even after the area had nearly 7 inches of rain earlier in the week, and the track was covered with water.  The drainage system and the great track prep crew had the track in perfect racing condition that saw multi lane racing from the 158 race cars checked into the pits.

There was only one repeat winner, that being Matt Avila in the IMCA Friesen Performance Northern SportMod class.  First time wins this regular season went to Johnathon Logue, in a near photo finish in the IMCA Friesen Performance Modifieds, David Smith in the IMCA Sunoco Stock Cars, Eric Knutson in the IMCA Sunoco Hobby Stocks, and Cory Sonner in the IMCA Stealth Racing STARS Mod Lites.

The 15 lap IMCA STARS Mod Lites, presented by Carquest Auto, Truck, and Farm kicked off feature racing.

David Bailey had a big lead in the early going of the race, but Josh May reeled him in and with just three laps remaining was on his tail. That’s when disaster struck for the two drivers, when a close racing incident occurred in turn four, leaving them both stopped on the track, and bringing out a caution.  The two then drove off into the pits, their night ended.

Cory Sonner inherited the lead for the restart of the run to the checkers when the race returned to green.  He was then able to hold on to the lead the remainder of the race, and got to take a trip to Victory Lane for the first time this year.  Bryan Zehm started ninth and took the runner up spot, with eighth place starter Austin Gray a close third.  Fourth was Randy Bryan, and Joe Glick completed the top five.

The IMCA Northern SportMods, presented by Elmquist Towing ran 18 laps for their feature event, and it was Matt Avila leading all but the first three laps to take his ride to the winner’s circle for the second time this year.  He got the lead on lap four, and pulled away to take the win by a near straightaway.  Danny Fye started eleventh on the field, and raced his way through the pack to finish in second place.  Third went to Jessiah Taylor, fourth was Hunter Longnecker, and Curtis Veber started thirteenth, and finished in fifth.

Up next was 20 laps of IMCA Modified feature racing, presented by D & E Outside Services.  This one turned into a barnburner, and a near photo finish at the line.

Tim Love, who was wheeling his #27 for the last time, and hanging up his racing career, started on the outside of the front row, and immediately grabbed the lead.

Love continued his ride at the front of the pack through lap ten, when a caution flew.  By this time, Johnathon Logue had gotten to second, and was chomping at the bit for the restart.  It was just what Logue wanted as he had the lead when lap eleven was in the books.

Logue put some distance between himself and the field but that was all erased when the race was red flagged, with just two laps remaining. That’s when “TM3”, Troy Morris, III, Bakersfield, California visiting racer took a tumble off the top of turn two, halting the race.  Morris was unhurt, and when the race was restarted, Logue had some heavy company behind him….Russ Dickerson running in second, twelfth place starter Tim Ward restarting third, and last week’s winner, Jimmy Gustin in fourth.

The green-white-checkered finish proved to be a thriller. Tim Ward swung around the topside and grabbed the lead as the white flag flew, but Logue was able to push ahead just enough coming out of corner four and make it to the finish line 25/1000 of a second ahead of Ward and snag the win.  Ward had to settle for second, third went to Jacob Murray, fourth was Jimmy Gustin, and veteran racer Russ Dickerson was fifth.

The IMCA Stock Cars, presented by Boone Moose Lodge ran their 20 lap feature caution free, with cars finding a groove high, low, and in the middle of the track.

Mathew West, Kellerton, Iowa racer looked strong as he held down the top spot easily through the first portion of the race.  By the halfway mark, David Smith had caught the leader and then the excitement began.  The two ran closely lap after lap until Smith was finally able to get under West on the backstretch on lap nineteen, and then was able to hang on to take the win…his first this season.  West had to be content with the runner up position, Donavon Smith raced his way from tenth starting spot to take third, fourth went to Chris Pruitt, and point leader Scott Davis finished fifth.

The IMCA Hobby Stocks, presented by Pickett Salvage, ran 15 laps to put a nightcap on the evening’s racing.

Jimmy Johnson, Cherokee, Iowa jumped to the immediate lead from his pole starter position when the race went green.  Seth Butler was quickly into second and chasing the leader, and Eric Knutson throwing his hat into the ring to run third when the only caution of the race flew on lap three.  When the race restarted, Knutson made his way into second and began pestering the leader.  It took until lap eight before his persistence paid off, and Knutson took over the top spot.  Knutson held on then the rest of the way to take the win, also his first of the year, with Johnson finishing a close second.  Seth Butler took third place, fourth went to fourteenth place starter John Watson, and Solomon Bennett took fifth after starting tenth.

Next Saturday night, July 22 is another weekly racing series for the IMCA classes and a King of the Katwalks paying $2500 to the Stock Cars.  Pits open at 4:30, Grandstands at 5:30, Hot laps at 6, and racing at 7.

 

34 entries
IMCA MODIFIED
DE Outside Services A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 69-Johnathon Logue[5]; 2. 4TW-Tim Ward[12]; 3. 48J-Jacob Murray[1]; 4. 19-Jimmy Gustin[10]; 5. 28R-Russ Dickerson[7]; 6. 05-Paul Nagle[8]; 7. 17-Cory Sauerman[9]; 8. 164-Brandon Leeman[6]; 9. 10K-Ronn Lauritzen[11]; 10. 23JR-Nick Roberts[23]; 11. 5M-Matthew Meinecke[17]; 12. 2-Nick Meyer[16]; 13. 10-Jeremy Mills[14]; 14. 58-Dennis Pittman[13]; 15. 7-Sam Hoffman[15]; 16. 88-Luke Bird[24]; 17. 3-Andy Tiernan[4]; 18. 7R-Ethan Robey[20]; 19. 49-Rod McDonald[22]; 20. 27-Tim Love[2]; 21. (DNF) 07X-Troy Morris III[21]; 22. (DNF) 11-Izac Mallicoat[19]; 23. (DNF) 87-Joel Bushore[3]; 24. (DNS) 2B-Robert Moore

DE Outside Services B Feature 1 (10 Laps): 1. 07X-Troy Morris III[8]; 2. 49-Rod McDonald[3]; 3. 23JR-Nick Roberts[12]; 4. 88-Luke Bird[4]; 5. 12LF-Jonathan Mawhinney[5]; 6. 24-Robert Avery[1]; 7. 23K-Kaden Cochrun[7]; 8. 0-Jamie Anderson[9]; 9. 28-James Reichart[2]; 10. 19W-Chris Weimer[11]; 11. (DNF) 50-Robert Stofer[6]; 12. (DNF) 82-Jake McBirnie[14]; 13. (DNF) 369-Bart Taylor[10]; 14. (DNS) 40RC-Rod Clement

DE Outside Services Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 10K-Ronn Lauritzen[7]; 2. 05-Paul Nagle[5]; 3. 4TW-Tim Ward[9]; 4. 58-Dennis Pittman[3]; 5. 5M-Matthew Meinecke[6]; 6. 24-Robert Avery[1]; 7. 12LF-Jonathan Mawhinney[8]; 8. 0-Jamie Anderson[4]; 9. 40RC-Rod Clement[2]

DE Outside Services Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 17-Cory Sauerman[5]; 2. 27-Tim Love[2]; 3. 164-Brandon Leeman[4]; 4. 10-Jeremy Mills[6]; 5. 2B-Robert Moore[3]; 6. 28-James Reichart[9]; 7. 50-Robert Stofer[1]; 8. (DNF) 369-Bart Taylor[8]; 9. (DNF) 82-Jake McBirnie[7]

DE Outside Services Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 87-Joel Bushore[2]; 2. 69-Johnathon Logue[3]; 3. 19-Jimmy Gustin[6]; 4. 7-Sam Hoffman[1]; 5. 11-Izac Mallicoat[5]; 6. 49-Rod McDonald[8]; 7. 23K-Kaden Cochrun[4]; 8. (DNF) 19W-Chris Weimer[7]

DE Outside Services Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 3-Andy Tiernan[2]; 2. 28R-Russ Dickerson[4]; 3. 48J-Jacob Murray[1]; 4. 2-Nick Meyer[6]; 5. 7R-Ethan Robey[3]; 6. 88-Luke Bird[8]; 7. 07X-Troy Morris III[7]; 8. (DNF) 23JR-Nick Roberts[5]

36 entries
IMCA STOCK CAR
Boone Moose Lodge 104 A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 8-David Smith[5]; 2. 31X-Mathew West[2]; 3. 35-Donavon Smith[10]; 4. 22-Chris Pruitt[4]; 5. 81D-Scott Davis[9]; 6. 69-Johnathon Logue[6]; 7. 8M-Austin Meiners[7]; 8. 14B-Austin Bouzek[8]; 9. 82-Jake McBirnie[11]; 10. 92-Buck Schafroth[15]; 11. 56X-Doug Smith[13]; 12. 44K-Kevin Opheim[22]; 13. 8E-Mitchell Evens[24]; 14. V31-Jeremy Mills[12]; 15. 57H-Daniel Hagen[20]; 16. 2K-Kyle Everts[16]; 17. 23-Cody Gustoff[21]; 18. 5A-Tyler Pickett[17]; 19. 7T-James Tarter[23]; 20. (DNF) 10B-Brandon Pruitt[18]; 21. (DNF) 33-Tim Rupp[14]; 22. (DNF) 77C-Craig Carlson[3]; 23. (DNF) 71-Corey Piffer[1]; 24. (DNF) 23HR-Rod Richards[19]

Boone Moose Lodge 104 B Feature 1 (10 Laps): 1. 23-Cody Gustoff[2]; 2. 44K-Kevin Opheim[12]; 3. 7T-James Tarter[1]; 4. 8E-Mitchell Evens[6]; 5. 24R-Kevin Robinson[4]; 6. 123-Kyle Rose[3]; 7. 18-Tyler Nelsen[11]; 8. 77-Tobie Talk[10]; 9. 77M-Jeff Mueller[8]; 10. 16-Jeff Byers Jr[7]; 11. 58-Bill Heinkel II[9]; 12. 32-Bill Atcheson[5]; 13. 59-Brandon Mannhardt[13]; 14. 52-Jerry Williams[16]; 15. (DNS) 80-Ryan Warner; 16. (DNS) 3S-Bryan Snell

Boone Moose Lodge 104 Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 81D-Scott Davis[7]; 2. 71-Corey Piffer[1]; 3. 8M-Austin Meiners[6]; 4. 56X-Doug Smith[5]; 5. 5A-Tyler Pickett[4]; 6. 7T-James Tarter[3]; 7. 32-Bill Atcheson[9]; 8. 58-Bill Heinkel II[8]; 9. (DNF) 59-Brandon Mannhardt[2]

Boone Moose Lodge 104 Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 14B-Austin Bouzek[6]; 2. 35-Donavon Smith[7]; 3. 31X-Mathew West[2]; 4. 33-Tim Rupp[8]; 5. 10B-Brandon Pruitt[4]; 6. 23-Cody Gustoff[5]; 7. 8E-Mitchell Evens[9]; 8. 77-Tobie Talk[3]; 9. 80-Ryan Warner[1]

Boone Moose Lodge 104 Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 8-David Smith[5]; 2. 82-Jake McBirnie[8]; 3. 77C-Craig Carlson[2]; 4. 92-Buck Schafroth[7]; 5. 23HR-Rod Richards[6]; 6. 123-Kyle Rose[4]; 7. 16-Jeff Byers Jr[3]; 8. (DNF) 18-Tyler Nelsen[1]; 9. (DNF) 52-Jerry Williams[9]

Boone Moose Lodge 104 Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 22-Chris Pruitt[3]; 2. 69-Johnathon Logue[5]; 3. V31-Jeremy Mills[8]; 4. 2K-Kyle Everts[6]; 5. 57H-Daniel Hagen[9]; 6. 24R-Kevin Robinson[2]; 7. (DNF) 77M-Jeff Mueller[7]; 8. (DNF) 44K-Kevin Opheim[4]; 9. (DNF) 3S-Bryan Snell[1]

34 entries
IMCA NORTHERN SPORTMOD
Elmquist Towing A Feature 1 (18 Laps): 1. 2X-Matt Avila[4]; 2. 7-Danny Fye[11]; 3. 193-Jessiah Taylor[6]; 4. 93L-Hunter Longnecker[9]; 5. 13V-Curtis Veber[13]; 6. 5-Dustin Lynch[7]; 7. 17F-Christopher Frisbie[2]; 8. R31-Ryan Leeman[10]; 9. 8K-Dusty Masolini[12]; 10. 82T-Brett Thomas[14]; 11. CB25-Chris Burke[22]; 12. 11R-Braden Richards[15]; 13. 62-Cory Pestotnik[17]; 14. 2C-Colby Grady[20]; 15. 15-Billy Dyer[3]; 16. 11K-William Klosterman[1]; 17. 74-Camdan Vincent[21]; 18. 8-Tom Lathrop[16]; 19. (DNF) 26A-Jason Carney[19]; 20. (DNF) 88N-Nate Albrant[8]; 21. (DNF) 2K-Taylor Kuehl[18]; 22. (DNF) 36H-David Hoover[5]; 23. (DNF) 46-Jackson Harpole[24]; 24. (DNF) 34N-Thomas Nelson[23]

Elmquist Towing B Feature 1 (10 Laps): 1. 74-Camdan Vincent[2]; 2. CB25-Chris Burke[1]; 3. 34N-Thomas Nelson[3]; 4. 46-Jackson Harpole[11]; 5. 4-Gage Hilgenberg[5]; 6. 79M-Michael Miller[4]; 7. 93-Josh Burrell[9]; 8. 7M-Steve McLaughlin[12]; 9. MR31-Mike Rutherford[7]; 10. (DNF) 10-Summer Anderson[6]; 11. (DNF) 81-BJ Charlson[8]; 12. (DNF) 14J-Anita Lee[13]; 13. (DNS) 21-Cam Reimers; 14. (DNS) 17-Kyle Free

Elmquist Towing Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 93L-Hunter Longnecker[6]; 2. 5-Dustin Lynch[5]; 3. 193-Jessiah Taylor[4]; 4. 13V-Curtis Veber[8]; 5. 62-Cory Pestotnik[7]; 6. CB25-Chris Burke[3]; 7. 17-Kyle Free[9]; 8. 81-BJ Charlson[2]; 9. 7M-Steve McLaughlin[1]

Elmquist Towing Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 2X-Matt Avila[3]; 2. 8K-Dusty Masolini[7]; 3. 11K-William Klosterman[1]; 4. 82T-Brett Thomas[5]; 5. 2K-Taylor Kuehl[8]; 6. 74-Camdan Vincent[4]; 7. 4-Gage Hilgenberg[6]; 8. 93-Josh Burrell[2]; 9. 14J-Anita Lee[9]

Elmquist Towing Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. R31-Ryan Leeman[6]; 2. 15-Billy Dyer[2]; 3. 36H-David Hoover[3]; 4. 11R-Braden Richards[7]; 5. 26A-Jason Carney[1]; 6. 34N-Thomas Nelson[5]; 7. (DNF) 10-Summer Anderson[4]; 8. (DNF) 21-Cam Reimers[8]

Elmquist Towing Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 7-Danny Fye[6]; 2. 17F-Christopher Frisbie[1]; 3. 88N-Nate Albrant[5]; 4. 8-Tom Lathrop[4]; 5. 2C-Colby Grady[3]; 6. 79M-Michael Miller[8]; 7. MR31-Mike Rutherford[2]; 8. (DNF) 46-Jackson Harpole[7]

36 entries
IMCA HOBBY STOCK
Picketts Salvage A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 12K-Eric Knutson[6]; 2. 49J-James Johnson[1]; 3. 22-Seth Butler[3]; 4. 4W-John Watson[14]; 5. 11B-Solomon Bennett[10]; 6. 4-Joe Wollenhaupt[8]; 7. 53-Chad Rigby[4]; 8. 33-Luke Phillips[16]; 9. 12M-Matt McDonald[18]; 10. 55X-Corey VanDerwilt[12]; 11. 28-Tucker Richardson[17]; 12. 2M-Mitchell McNeill[2]; 13. 8F-Aron Fye[13]; 14. 51V-Josh Vancannon[20]; 15. 14-Mike House[22]; 16. 17X-Ben Newhouse `[23]; 17. 64H-Mark Hidlebaugh[24]; 18. A24-Nicholas Adams[19]; 19. (DNF) 22W-Wayne Gifford[7]; 20. (DNF) 22X-Mike Smith[11]; 21. (DNF) 51X-Dustin Filloon[15]; 22. (DNF) 4C-Curt Reed[9]; 23. (DNF) 22B-Braden Gifford[5]; 24. (DNF) 15-Cody Pontious[21]

Picketts Salvage B Feature 1 (10 Laps): 1. 15-Cody Pontious[7]; 2. 14-Mike House[2]; 3. 17X-Ben Newhouse `[1]; 4. 64H-Mark Hidlebaugh[3]; 5. 21X-Joe Doran[4]; 6. 18A-Aaron Elliott[5]; 7. 87W-David Wright[9]; 8. 20-Gage Green[16]; 9. (DNF) 78N-Matt Nelson[13]; 10. (DNF) 59JR-Chad Rickett Jr[6]; 11. (DNF) 59-Daniel Pittman[8]; 12. (DNF) 13-Brian Ashburn[10]; 13. (DNF) 49-Brady Herman[12]; 14. (DNF) 5B-Brandon Behle[11]; 15. (DNS) 27-Brianna Osterson; 16. (DNS) 22R-Rick Reiter

Picketts Salvage Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 49J-James Johnson[1]; 2. 12K-Eric Knutson[5]; 3. 11B-Solomon Bennett[7]; 4. 8F-Aron Fye[6]; 5. 28-Tucker Richardson[8]; 6. 17X-Ben Newhouse `[3]; 7. 18A-Aaron Elliott[2]; 8. 87W-David Wright[4]; 9. 49-Brady Herman[9]

Picketts Salvage Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 53-Chad Rigby[4]; 2. 4-Joe Wollenhaupt[6]; 3. 2M-Mitchell McNeill[2]; 4. 4W-John Watson[7]; 5. 12M-Matt McDonald[5]; 6. 14-Mike House[3]; 7. 59JR-Chad Rickett Jr[8]; 8. 20-Gage Green[9]; 9. (DNF) 78N-Matt Nelson[1]

Picketts Salvage Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 4C-Curt Reed[6]; 2. 22B-Braden Gifford[4]; 3. 22X-Mike Smith[7]; 4. 51X-Dustin Filloon[3]; 5. A24-Nicholas Adams[2]; 6. 64H-Mark Hidlebaugh[5]; 7. 15-Cody Pontious[9]; 8. (DNF) 13-Brian Ashburn[1]; 9. (DNF) 27-Brianna Osterson[8]

Picketts Salvage Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 22-Seth Butler[3]; 2. 55X-Corey VanDerwilt[7]; 3. 22W-Wayne Gifford[5]; 4. 33-Luke Phillips[8]; 5. 51V-Josh Vancannon[4]; 6. 21X-Joe Doran[6]; 7. 59-Daniel Pittman[2]; 8. (DNF) 5B-Brandon Behle[9]; 9. (DNS) 22R-Rick Reiter

18 entries
IMCA MOD LITE
Carquest Auto Truck and Farm A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 47-Cory Sonner[6]; 2. 46Z-Bryan Zehm[9]; 3. 48G-Austin Gray[8]; 4. 64-Randy Bryan[7]; 5. 3G-Joe Glick[5]; 6. 70-Alex Eischeid[4]; 7. 95-Mike Kennedy[1]; 8. 21-Scott Bailey[17]; 9. 18M-Chelsea Ladurini[11]; 10. 3-Austin Glick[3]; 11. (DNF) 641-Joe Wood[14]; 12. (DNF) 14-David Bailey[2]; 13. (DNF) 99-Josh May[10]; 14. (DNF) 8N-William Nobles[18]; 15. (DNF) 5M-David Meinecke[12]; 16. (DNF) 11A-Andy Miller[13]; 17. (DNF) 2-Jason Toppenberg[16]; 18. (DNS) 02-Jered Douglas

Carquest Auto Truck and Farm Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 3G-Joe Glick[6]; 2. 46Z-Bryan Zehm[8]; 3. 95-Mike Kennedy[1]; 4. 64-Randy Bryan[7]; 5. 3-Austin Glick[3]; 6. 18M-Chelsea Ladurini[5]; 7. 11A-Andy Miller[9]; 8. (DNF) 02-Jered Douglas[2]; 9. (DQ) 21-Scott Bailey[4]

Carquest Auto Truck and Farm Heat 2 (6 Laps): 1. 14-David Bailey[2]; 2. 48G-Austin Gray[7]; 3. 47-Cory Sonner[6]; 4. 99-Josh May[8]; 5. 70-Alex Eischeid[4]; 6. 5M-David Meinecke[9]; 7. (DNF) 641-Joe Wood[1]; 8. (DNF) 2-Jason Toppenberg[3]; 9. (DNF) 8N-William Nobles[5]

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