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Super Nationals Thursday Notebook Part 2

* Super Nationals is legendary for bringing drivers from across the country and Canada to Boone. The diversity of addresses was best seen Wednesday in the 28th Modified heat where the eight starters represented seven states and our neighbors to the north. That heat included Terry Johnson of Iowa, Mike Petersilie of Kansas, Andrew Timm of Minnesota, Jason Wolla of North Dakota, Kody Scholpp of Saskatchewan, Steve Reynolds of South Dakota, Kyle Kudick of Wisconsin and Richard Mueller of Wyoming. Seven different states are represented in two of the 30 Thursday night heats, the ninth and 18th. * A dozen Modifieds will start tonight’s inaugural Karl Crate Clash. The winner goes home with a 604 crate engine, valued at $5,500, courtesy of Chevrolet Performance and Karl Performance. Names of the drivers starting the race were drawn from 121 entries this afternoon, with starting spots determined later in front of an SRO crowd at the Fan Zone. Brian Schmitt and Chevy Hadan drew front row starts. Ricky Stephan and Mike Petersilie are in the second row, [Read More]

Super Nationals Thursday Notebook

All Modifieds and Stock Cars Thursday at Super Nationals BOONE, Iowa (Sept. 5) – Qualifying today at Boone Speedway will determine the front eight spots in the middle rows for Modified and Stock Car main events at the IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s. Two qualifying features for both divisions will be on the program, as will all Harris Auto Racing Modified Race of Champions heats. Also on the Thursday card is the inaugural Karl Crate Clash. Racing starts at 3 p.m. * Stock Cars with community betterment/charitable organization themes will be on display beginning at 1 p.m. Thursday in the Fan Zone. Autograph sessions scheduled at the same location are at 4 p.m. for Wednesday Stock Car qualifying feature winners David Smith and Brandon Czarapata; at 5 p.m. for Wednesday Modified qualifying feature winners Ricky Thornton Jr. and Chase Allen; and at 7 p.m. for former Modified champions in attendance at Super Nationals. The drawing for starting spots on the Karl Crate Clash grid is at 6 p.m. * Qualifying feature winner [Read More]

Thornton, Allen top Modified qualifiers

BOONE, Iowa (Sept. 4) – Two first-time visitors to the IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s were first to the checkers in their Modified qualifying features Wednesday night at Boone Speedway. Ricky Thornton Jr. made the trip from Arizona and led all 25 laps of the first race, winning ahead of Keith White, Johnny Saathoff and Jesse Sobbing. Allen, from Texas, took the lead on the 14th circuit in the nightcap. He beat 14th starting Chris Abelson, Adam Larson and 15th starting Mike Jergens across the stripe. Top four finishers from each qualifier will line up on the inside row of Saturday’s main event. Thornton was unshakeable following each of four restarts. White moved into second to stay with 10 laps to go. Sobbing held onto the final transfer spot from the 17th circuit on. White and Sobbing both advanced seven positions. Kevin Stoa and Eric Dailey did stints at the front of the second feature field before Allen worked his way by. Larson ran second the last half of the contest while [Read More]

Smith impresses, Czarapata amazes in winning Stock Car qualifiers

BOONE, Iowa (Sept. 4) – David Smith impressed in winning Wednesday’s first qualifying feature for Stock Cars at Boone Speedway. Brandon Czarapata amazed in winning the second. Top four finishers in both events will advance to the inside row of Saturday’s IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s main event. Smith raced from the 18th starting spot to top the opener ahead of Mike Nichols, Bob Daniels and Jeff Tubbs. Czarapata started way back in 28th and raced quick and clean to the front on the 24th of 25 laps. Donavon Smith, Jay Schmidt and Abe Huls completed that top four. Two-time Super Nationals champion Brian Irvine and Dustin Larson threatened to run away from the field in the first feature, but their run way up front ended on lap 14 when Larson guessed how Irvine would run turn three and guessed wrong. The two made heavy contact, Irvine had to restart at the rear and Larson was directed to the pits. Daniels led for a single circuit before Smith took over. Nichols caught [Read More]

Long leads SportMods to last-chance checkers

BOONE, Iowa (Sept. 4) – A green-white-checkered finish ended with Josh Long holding off hometown challenger Eric Elliott to win the last-chance qualifying feature Wednesday for Northern SportMods at Boone Speedway. Top six finishers in the 25-lapper complete the 30-car field for Saturday’s IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s main event. Justin Medler, Justin Zimmerman, Geoff Olson and Darin Roepke followed Long and Elliott across the stripe. Elliott raced to second from the 15th starting spot while Olson rocketed 19 spots to fifth. Roepke started 20th and charged into the final qualifying position coming out of the final turn. Olson will start his seventh straight SportMod main. Long is in for the third time in his career, Elliott for the second, Medler, Roepke and Zimmerman each for the first. Medler also became the first North Dakota driver to make the SportMod show since the division was added to the Super Nationals program in 2005. Feature results – 1. Josh Long, Little Suamico, Wis.; 2. Eric Elliott, Boone; 3. Justin Medler, Minot, N.D.; 4. [Read More]

Koop captures last-chance feature for Hobby Stocks

BOONE, Iowa (Sept. 4) – Weston Koop led all 25 laps in winning Wednesday’s last-chance qualifier for Hobby Stocks at Boone Speedway. The top six finishers advance to the IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s main event on Saturday evening. Koop, Brian Happel, Drew Barglof, Kyle Bond, Cory Ganson and Brent Schlake fill the remaining spots on the 30-car grid. Koop drew the pole and held off all challengers through four restarts, the last yellow coming with six circuits left. John Watson had worked to a qualifying spot after starting 19th but exited with a flat tire following that caution. Bond and Schlake both qualified for their career Hobby Stock main events. Koop, Happel, Barglof and Ganson all are first-timers. Feature results – 1. Weston Koop, Rockwell; 2. Brian Happel, Van Horne; 3. Drew Barglof, Sioux Rapids; 4. Kyle Bond, Gibbon, Neb.; 5. Cory Ganson, Clear Lake; 6. Brent Schlake, Blue Springs, Neb.; 7. Chad Legere, Des Moines; 8. Travis Coop, Portis, Kan.; 9. Shawn Slezak, Milligan, Neb.; 10. William Woehler, South Sioux [Read More]

Deery Series win gives Aikey third career Super Nationals crown

BOONE, Iowa (Sept. 2) – He’s been there and he’s done that, but it never stops being special. Jeff Aikey raced to his career third IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s championship, and his 60th Deery Brothers Summer Series feature win Monday night at Boone Speedway. The IMCA Late Model victory paid $3,630, including a $630 IMCA Speedway Motors Weekly Racing bonus. After working his way up from ninth starting to second, Aikey passed Jason Rauen following a lap 29 restart. He led to the finish of the 50-lapper, holding off challenges from Justin Kay and then Ray Guss Jr. Guss looked to steal the lead away using the lower line with five laps left but Aikey made the higher groove work to perfection. He pulled away to win by six car lengths. “This was a good race to win. It means a lot to me,” said Aikey, a 16-time Super Nationals qualifier and also champion in 1995 and 2004. “I knew Ray and Justin were back there but I had a lot [Read More]

VanDenBerg earns SportMod pole with late pass

BOONE, Iowa (Sept. 2) – A first-time qualifier for the main event will start his bid for an IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s crown from the pole come Saturday night. Carter VanDenBerg gained the lead late in the Labor Day qualifying feature for Karl Chevrolet Northern SportMods, then held off Tim Love to win by a couple car lengths. VanDenBerg had been a spectator for the Late Model main event earlier in the evening and watched Jeff Aikey race from ninth to first. He started 11th and also used the high groove in moving steadily toward and eventually to first. Following VanDenBerg and Love across the stripe and into Saturday’s show were Paul Nagle, Kyle Prauner, Jerry Hinton, Nate Whitehurst, Doug Cook and Johnathon Logue. Nagle and Cook are the only previous qualifiers from Monday’s top eight. Both will be in the main event for the second time. Feature results – 1. Carter VanDenBerg, Oskaloosa; 2. Tim Love, Kelley; 3. Paul Nagle, Nevada; 4. Kyle Prauner, Norfolk,  Neb.; 5. Jerry Hinton, Adel; [Read More]

Record car count for Sport Compacts at Super Nationals

BOONE, Iowa (Sept. 3) – It’s the Sport Compact’s turn to shine Tuesday night at Boone Speedway and numbers for the 4-cylinder division add up to a new IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s record. Sixty-three Sport Compacts saw action in six heat races. Three ‘B’ features will the starting grid for his evening’s main event. That 25-lap race pays $250 to win plus a Speedway Motors Weekly Racing bonus of as much as another $250. Forty-nine Sport Compacts were in action when the class debuted at Super Nationals in 2011, 55 last year. Top two finishers in each of five heats qualified for the Karl Chevrolet Races of Champions for Hobby Stocks and for Northern SportMods this afternoon, then headed to the Fan Zone to draw cards to determine their starting spots in their Saturday events. Colby Langenberg and Randy Embrey will start on the front row of the Hobby Stock RoC. Trevor Holm and Brock Beeter are in row two, Corey Madden and 2011 race winner Shannon Anderson in row three, [Read More]

Anderson checks out in second qualifier

BOONE, Iowa (Sept. 2) – As he’s done before on IMCA’s biggest stage, Shannon Anderson proved he’s as good at running in traffic as he is at running away from it. Anderson checked out on the rest of the field in Monday’s second Hobby Stock qualifier at Boone Speedway after every restart, then used lapped traffic to his advantage to take the checkers comfortably ahead of Jacob Keiser. And as a result, Anderson will take the green flag from the middle of the front row in the main event Saturday at the IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals fueled by Casey’s. Now in the big show for a sixth straight September, the 2009 and defending champion will start inside familiar foe Brandon Pruitt. 1998 champion Bill Bonnett, Eric Stanton, Corey Madden, Matt Brown, Randall Macku and Gary Pesicka finished third through eighth, respectively, and will line up behind Anderson and Keiser on Saturday. Anderson drew the pole and pulled away from the pack after each of the five cautions that slowed the first 15 circuits in [Read More]