Cooney, St. Arnold open week with wins

BOONE — Advice from a five-time champion helped Todd Cooney win his second IMCA Speedway Motors Super Nationals title. Cooney led all 50 laps of Monday’s opening night Late Model feature at Boone Speedway, taking the checkers nearly half a lap ahead of Josh Most. “I just ran the top,” Cooney said. “Steve Jackson told me to get on top here and don’t turn ‘til I had to. I’ve lived and breathed by that.” Jackson owns five Super Nationals Stock Car crowns, and Cooney did his best to emulate Jackson’s dominating runs with a flag-to-flag showing after drawing the pole start. Sprint Cars raced Tuesday at Boone Speedway. Tim St. Arnold didn’t look like a driver who’d been away from the sport for two years when he took to the track. St. Arnold left