Lake Ozark Speedway 360 Nationals Finale + POWRi Midgets Results and Stories

Lake Ozark Speedway (Video Highlight from Racinboys.com) 9/1/19
 
Lake Ozark Speedway
Eldon, MO
 
LOS 360 Nationals
 
ASCS Sprints
POWRi National and West Midgets
 
47 Sprints
25 Midgets
 
ASCS
 
Heat one (started): 1. Sam Hafertepe Jr. 15H (6) 2. Scott Bogucki 28 (1) 3. Kory Bales 5 (4) 4. Ayrton Gennetten 3 (5) 5. Blake Hahn 52 (7) 6. Tucker Doughty 2x (2) 7. Lanny Carpenter 24c (3) 8. Jay Russell 76 (8)
 
8-lap heats saw the top 30 in passing points move on to qualifiers, with everyone else headed for the B.  Track conditions were the polar opposite of Saturday.  Dust flew in hot laps.  Bogucki led this one early over Doughty and Hafertepe.  Sam quickly disposed of Doughty for second and then used the high side to pass Bogucki for the lead on lap three.  Bales worked by Doughty for third at the halfway point.  Gennetten gained fourth with two to go, while Hahn grabbed fifth on the last lap.
 
Heat two (started): 1. Paul Nienhiser 9x (3) 2. Miles Paulus 21 (2) 3. Alex Hill 77x (4) 4. Garret Williamson 24 (1) 5. John Carney II J2 (5) 6. Bryan Grimes 6 (6) 7. Randy Martin 14m (7) 8. Seth Bergman 23 (8)
 
Nienhiser worked by the front row on the first lap and led the distance over Paulus and Hill.  Behind the lead trio, the remainder of the field battled tooth and nail without much change from the starting lineup in the end.
 
Heat three (started): 1. Matt Covington 95 (2) 2. Tyler Blank 75 (1) 3. Jonathan Cornell 35m (4) 4. Jordon Mallett 14 (7) 5. Ben Brown 7B (3) 6. Brandon Hanks 84 (6) 7. Tucker Klaasmeyer 27 (5) 8. Tanner Carrick 47 (8)
 
Covington led the distance, followed by Blank and Cornell.  Carrick spun two laps in.  Mallett was the mover in this one from the back row, taking fourth on the restart for Carrick.
 
Heat four (started): 1. Tony Bruce Jr. 86 (1) 2. Kyle Bellm 14K (8) 3. Tim Crawley 1x (4) 4. Forrest Sutherland 85 (2) 5. Harli White 17w (6) 6. Timmy Smith 86T (7) 7. Cody Baker 38 (3) 8. Matthew Howard 37H (5)
 
Bruce led Crawley and Sutherland early.  Bellm shot from the tail to fourth on lap one.  He then took third from Sutherland, but it was negated by a Howard spin.  He reclaimed the spot after the restart, and then got by Crawley after a good battle for second, claiming the second highest point total in the heats next to Hafertepe.
 
Heat five (started): 1. Robbie Price 21P (1) 2. Chris Morgan 81A (5) 3. Evan Martin 4 (6) 4. Christian Bowman 15 (2) 5. Tyler Utz 3V (7) 6. Nathan Ryun 18x (4) 7. Dustin Barks 22 (8) 8. Danny Sams III 24D (3)
 
Price led the distance.  Bowman ran second until coming for the white flag, when Morgan passed him after a good battle.  E. Martin followed him into third.
 
Heat six (started): 1. Roger Crockett 11 (4) 2. Austin O’Neal 11A (6) 3. Riley Goodno 22x (3) 4. Jared Sewell 44 (2) 5. Kaley Gharst 78 (1) 6. Austin Alumbaugh 33 (5) 7. Aidan Homan 24H (7)
 
Crockett hit the cushion to circle the front row and pull away to a convincing win.  Gharst was second two laps in when he was punted by O’Neal, who slammed into the back of him in one and two and spun him, changing the night for both.  Alumbaugh spun in the same incident. 
 
Qualifier one (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Bogucki (2*) 2. Hill (1*) 3. Hafertepe (6*) 4. Covington (4*) 5. Carney II (9*) 6. Price (3) 7. O’Neal (5*) 8. Goodno (7) 9. Utz (8) DNS – Bowman
 
Bogucki led the distance in the 8-lapper and pulled away in doing so.  Hill was second early.  Covington and Hafertepe traded third twice in the first three laps.  Carney was the mover, coming from ninth to grab fifth.
 
Qualifier two (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Blank (2*) 2. Cornell (1*) 3. Gennettten (7*) 4. Bellm (6*) 5. White (8) 6. E. Martin (4) 7. Nienhiser (5*) 8. Mallett (3) 9. Sewell (9) 10. Smith (10)
 
Blank led Cornell and Mallett early.  Bellm was on the move again, grabbing third from Mallett on lap two with E. Martin in tow.  Contact with Nienhiser saw Mallett wpin with three laps down.  Blank led Cornell, Bellm, E. Martin and Gennetten back to green.  Gennetten used the restart to gain fourth.  He stalked Bellm for third and grabbed it on the white flag lap.  White moved from eighth to fifth, putting herself on the pole of the B.
 
Qualifier three (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Crawley (1*) 2. Crockett (6*) 3. Bales (2*) 4. Hahn (7*) 5. Paulus (3) 6. Morgan (5*) 7. Sutherland (8) 8. Bruce Jr. (4) 9. Williamson (9) 10. Brown (10)
 
Crawley led wire to wire, but held on ahead of a charging Crockett, who took third from Paulus on lap three and second from Bales on lap six.  Hahn moved up nicely from seventh to fourth.
 
B main one (started): 1. Mallett (4) 2. Paulus (2) 3. White (1) / 4. Bruce Jr. (3) 5. Williamson (6) 6. Hanks (9) 7. Brown (7) 8. Doughty (11) 9. Carpenter (13) 10. Russell (14) 11. Gharst (8) 12. Carrrick (15) 13. Sams III (16) 14. Utz (5) 15. Homan (12) 16. Barks (10)
 
White led the 12-lapper early over Paulus, Mallett and Bruce.  Mallett worked the middle of the track to get by Paulus for second on lap three.  After a good battle with White, he did the same to take the lead on lap eight.  Paulus shot under White for second with two to go.
 
B main two (started): 1. E. Martin (1) 2. Goodno (4) 3. Price (2) / 4. Sutherland (3) 5. Alumbaugh (7) 6. Grimes (8) 7. R. Martin 14m (9) 8. Baker (11) 9. Bergman (14) 10. Ryun (10) 11. Smith (6) 12. Sewell (5) 13. Klaasmeyer (12) 14. Howard (13) DNS – Bowman
 
E. Martin led Price, Goodno and Sutherland early.  R. Martin worked up to fifth by lap two, but faded late.  Goodno, just sixteen years old and from Knoxville, used the low side to get by Paulus for second on lap three.
 
A main (started): 1. Hafertepe Jr. (2) 2. Crockett (1) 3. Bogucki (4) 4. Carney II (16) 5. Hahn (11) 6. Gennetten (7) 7. Cornell (10) 8. Bellm (3) 9. Covington (8) 10. Bales (12) 11. Nienhiser (15) 12. Blank (5) 13. Mallett (17) 14. E. Martin (18) 15. Hill (9) 16. Morgan (13) 17. Goodno (20) 18. Grimes (25, prov.) 19. O’Neal (14) 20. Price (22) 21. Brown (24, prov.) 22. Crawley (6) 23. Paulus (19) 24. Doughty (23. prov.) 25. White (21)
 
The non-stop 40-lapper was all Hafertepe, who led from the outset, and dominated in every way.  He would lap up to fifth place at the checkers and score $5,000 for the win.  He entered lapped traffic by lap six, as the battle heated for second.  Crockett was running there, but Bogucki got around him on lap nine.  The next circuit, there were seven lapped cars between Hafertepe and the Aussie.  Crockett managed to wrestle back the runner-up spot in traffic, white Cornell took fourth from Crawley on lap 16.  Covington followed him into fifth at the time.  By lap 30, Hafertepe had roared by the seventh through 25th runners, and he was able to get by the sixth runner Gennetten before the checkers.  Carney was the hard-charger, moving up from 16th to take fourth coming for the white flag.

Tyler Thomas (Video Highlight from SpeedShiftTV.com) POWRi Midgets
 
Heat one (started): 1. Thomas Meseraull 7x (2) 2. Michael Pickens 1NZ (5) 3. Zach Daum 5D (7) 4. Daison Pursley 9 (4) 5. Maria Cofer 97 (1) 6. Hank Davis 42 (5) 7. Trey Marcham 32 (6) DNS – Jake Neuman 28, Noah Gass 20G
 
8-lap heats gave passing points toward feature starting positions.  Meseraull, Saturday’s winner, started things out by leading wire to wire ahead of his teammate Pickens.  Daum was from the tail to fourth by lap five, and got under Pursely for third in the last corner.
 
Heat two (started): 1. Cannon McIntosh 08 (7) 2. Tucker Klaasmeyer 27 (8) 3. Andrew Felker 44s (5) 4. Sam Johnson 72 (1) 5. Ace McCarthy 3N (4) 6. Jesse Colwell 71 (3) 7. Kade Morton 8m (6) 8. Chad Winfrey 321 (2)
 
Johnson led early over Winfrey and McCarthy.  McCarthy took second, followed by Felker on lap two.  On lap three, McIntosh had driven from seventh to third.  At that point, McCarthy spun, bringing the yellow flag.  Johnson led McIntosh, Felker, Colwell and Klaasmeyer back to green.  Colwell advanced to third with Klaasmeyer on his tail on the restart.  Up front, McIntosh shot by Johnson to lead lap five before a Colwell sping with three to go.  Klaasmeyer gained second from Johnson on the restart, white Felker worked by Johnson for third coming for the white flag in an entertaining heat.
 
Heat three (started): 1. Tanner Carrick 71K (6) 2. Tyler Thomas 91T (2) 3. Holley Hollan 67 (7) 4. Jesse Love 97K (5) 5. Luke Howard 00 (3) 6. Carson Garrett 15 (1) 7. JD Black 7JR (4) 8. Jordan Howell 2H (8)
 
Thomas led Carrick, Love and Garrett early.  Hollan moved into fourth by lap two.  Up front, Carrick rode the cushion around Thomas to lead lap three.  Hollan got by her teammate Love for third.
 
A main (started): 1. Thomas (9) 2. Klaasmeyer (3) 3. Daum (4) 4. Pickens (5) 5. Meseraull (7) 6. Hollan (6) 7. Colwell (18) 8. Pursley (10) 9. McIntosh (1) 10. Felker (8) 11. Cofer (16) 12. Davis (14) 13. Love (11) 14. McCarthy (13) 15. Neuman (24) 16. Marcham (17) 17. Gass (25) 18. Howard (15) 19. K. Morton (20) 20. Garrett (19) 21. Howell (22) 22. Johnson (14) 23. Winfrey (23) 24. Carrick (2) 25. Black (21)
 
The 30-lapper was a great race that kept getting interrupted by cautions.  McIntosh led Carrick and Daum early.  Klaasmeyer worked his way into third by lap two.  Three laps in, Carrick flipped in turns one and two for the second night in a row.  He walked away.  McIntosh led Klaasmeyer, Daum, Hollan and Pickens back to green.  Thomas was up to fifth after the restart (from ninth).  Up front, Klaasmeyer slid in front of McIntosh to lead lap six.  On lap eight, Daum and Hollan moved into second and third when McIntosh got loose in turns three and four.  By lap 11, Thomas was by Hollan and into the third spot.  Daum used the low side to get by Klaasmeyer to take his turn at the point, but it was negated by a stopped Johnson 13 laps in.  He would regain the lead on lap 15, however, before Howell stopped to bring yellow 16 laps in.  Now Daum led Klaasmeyer, Thomas, Pickens and Hollan back to green.  Colwell made his way into the top five after starting 18th on that restart.  Garrett came to a stop on lap 18.  Two laps after that restart, Thomas used the high side to pass Klaasmeyer for second, and then took the lead from Daum, before a four-car tangle involving Morton, McCarthy, Howard and Love slowed things again and negated his pass.  On lap 23, Thomas would make his winning move, getting around Daum.  With two laps to go, Pickens took fourth from Colwell.  When Howard spun 29 laps in, it set up a one-lap Dash that had Thomas ahead of Daum, Klaasmeyer and Pickens.  Thomas held his ground, while Klaasmeyer won a drag race to the line for second.  Colwell was still the hard-charger despite fading to seventh at the checkers.