I shot a couple of pic's of Mike last Saturday night at the season championships in WC. They pulled all of the cars onto the track and did driver introductions. Then they were lined up in order of point standings. Mike started 6th and after being back in 8th he managed to get 3rd. A great way to end the season. Unfortunately, more stuff got torn up on the car. 
That along with the damage from the previous week forced us to make the decision to not race the SuperNationals. So, it was time to relax, enjoy the racing and root on the other guys we know. 
Monday night I took several photo's in all directions from the spot I was standing. 
As you can see, there are cars, haulers, people, and campers as far as you can see.
The infield is jam packed full of cars. In fact they have been kicking out non qualifiers to make room for other classes coming in to race.
Monday was stock car and hobby stock qualifying and a complete late model show. There were 170+ stock cars and 110+ hobby stocks.
Tuesday was day two of stock car and the final day hobby stock Qualifying. Tuesday also saw a complete sprint car show
A terrible photo of one of my favorite late model drivers from Monday night. Josh Most (a WC regular) started inside row 5 and got 2nd place. He put on a heck of a show, working through the field and lapped traffic. My other friend, Ryan Griffith, finished eighth after starting right in front of Josh. There were 48 late models.
Wednesday! Modified invasion!!! Limited Modified hot laps lining up. There are 304 open modified's registered. Last night they ran 40 heat races, 2 A mains, and 8 B mains along with last chance qualifiers for stock cars and the last chance A main for stock cars. Our friend Ryan Leeman just missed making the show Saturday. He finished 13th. The top 10 qualify.
Hot Car Alert!!! This Texas based car is one of the hottest cars I've seen. I did pick out a couple more but haven't gotten photo"s yet.
This car is nice and clean looking on the outside and when it's circling the track it looks solid.
Once you get up close though. Wow! The intricate vinyl work on this thing is amazing. the entire deck through the car is like this and all of the inside panels are too. Just think, all that clean looking stuff you see on the sides and top is all done up like this on the inside. Amazing! 
Not a good way to start your Supernationals. They said this guy flepped goo last year too.
Once the car was right side up he was done. He did walk away. The racing was fast and ferious. There was a lot of rubbing and bumping, beating and banging as the only way to make the A main last night was to win your heat race. Webster City's own Mark Elliot smoked em in his heat. Rich Lewerke finished second in his heat and then walked away with his B main.
Once the dust had settled and the last of 8 B mains were over, I headed to the tech. tent. in the second A main Mark Elliot won pretty convincingly. He looks really good and I think he has a shot to win the entire thing. this shot was from tech where the guys were tearing Mark's car apart for tech inspection.Tonite the B mods take to the track. The car count for the week sofar is almost 700. I'm sure after the B mods tonite it will be over 900. Amazing for a small town like Boone, IA. to draw that many cars from places like California, Texas, New Mexico, North Carolina, Kentucky, New York, and even Canada. They said so far 22 states are represented plus Canada. And that's in all classes. I can see cars coming from all over to run modifieds but, there's a ton of staock cars from Texas there. Crazy!!!
Stay tuned. I'll pass on more from Friday and Saturday.
God Bless and be safe with whatever your doing! :-)
1 comments:
Thad, nice photo spread. I was out there in turn 1 until about 12:30, but after that last A Main my cold ass was ready to get home to a warm bed! Rode to the races by the way! That guy who wacked the wall in 3 finished 4th in the Big Dance last year. On his roof! Good racing indeed this year. Hope you enjoy your times there, Iowa's Action Track! Ciao!
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