Wheatland Jesse Hockett/Daniel McMillin Memorial Results and Stories

9/21/19
 
Lucas Oil Speedway
Wheatland, MO
 
Jesse Hockett/Daniel McMillin Memorial Finale
 
53 ASCS Sprints
54 POWRi WAR Sprints
 
ASCS
 
Afternoon rains caused a delay that saw first racing events take the track at 9:20 p.m.
 
Qualifier #1 (started): 1. Mark Smith M1 (2) 2. Clinton Boyles 29 (5) / 3. Harli White 17w (1) 4. Tyler Thomas 91T (4) 5. Mike Goodman 11G (7) 6. Matt Covington 95 (8) 7. Robbie Price 21P (6) 8. Sam Hafertepe Jr. 15H (3)
 
12 laps was the distance, top two to the A.  Lined up by points accumulated Thursday and Friday.  Remaining drivers line straight up by finish in one of three B mains.  The first start saw M. Smith get into White in turn two, causing a chain reaction.  Everyone kept it going until turn four, when Hafertepe got over the cushion into the wall.  He walked away.  It was all M. Smith from there.  Boyles got by a biking White in turn two on the first lap and held onto the final transfer.
 
Qualifier #2 (started): 1. Seth Bergman 23 (1) 2. Jonathan Cornell 35M (2) 3. Kameron Key 21K (3) 4. Kyle Clark 9$ (4) 5. Miles Paulus 21 (6) 6. Brad Bowden 39 (5) 7. Adam Gullion 21G (7) 8. Danny Sams III 24D (12) 9. Riley Goodno 22x (8) 10. Colton Fisher 11F (11) 11. Austin O’Neal 11A (9) 12. Avery Goodman 11x (10) 13. Asa Swindell 95x (13)
 
Bergman led Cornell the entire distance as the track remained fast and narrow.  Both A. Goodman and O’Neal brought the caution flag in separate incidents that saw them both hit the wall in turns three and four.
 
Qualifier #3 (started): 1. Sean McClelland 22 (2) 2. Jordon Mallett 14 (1) / 3. Tim Crawley 1x (3) 4. Sawyer Phillips 3P (6) 5. Wade Nygaaard 9N (8) 6. Alex Hill 77x (4) 7. Matthew Howard 37H (10) 8. John Carney II J2 (5) 9. Joe B. Miller 51B (7) 10. Brad Ryun 1 (13) 11. Broc Elliott 75E (14) 12. Danny Smith 12x (12) 13. Nathan Ryun 18x (11) 14. Cody Baker 38 (9)
 
Mallett was penalized a row for jumping.  Crawley assumed the pole and held the lead in turn two.  However, McClelland and Mallett would storm by him and hold their spots.  Baker flipped in turn three with two laps down.  He was o.k.  Phillips grabbed the fourth spot on the restart and challenged Crawley for third late.  N. Ryun also brought a caution when he slowed and exited with three laps run.
 
Qualifier #4 (started): 1. Zach Daum 5D (2) 2. Brady Bacon 99 (1) / 3. Ben Brown 7B (6) 4. Dale Howard 47 (5) 5. Brinton Marvel 21x (7) 6. Slater Helt 22s (10) 7. Garret Williamson 24 (9) 8. Kyle Bellm 14K (8) 9. Brandon Hanks 84 (4) 10. Tucker Doughty 2x (3)
 
Bacon was penalized at the start for jumping.  Doughty assumed the pole, but drifted up into Hanks and the wall at the start.  After one lap, with Daum leading Bacon, Brown and Hanks, he stopped.  Hanks exited afterwards.  Daum led the rest of the way, with Bacon challenging a couple of times.
 
B main one (started): 1. Covington (5) 2. Phillips (3) / 3. Paulus (4) 4. M. Howard (7) 5. Hanks (9) 6. Sams III (8) 7. Brown (2) 8. Helt (6) 9. N. Ryun (10) 10. White (1) DNS – Doughty, A. Goodman
 
15 laps is the distance, top 2 to the A.  Brown led White and Covington early.  Covington was on a mission, sliding in front of White for second on lap two.  White would slow and exit three laps in.  Covington used the caution to jet to the lead ahead of Brown, while Paulus took third from Phillips.  Phillips battled back to third on lap five and reeled in Brown for the final transfer.  The pair entered side by side, with Phillips on the low side of three on lap 11.  Brown appeared to come down the track a bit, contacting his left front with Phillips right rear, ending his race.  Covington held on the rest of the way.
 
B main two (started): 1. Key (1) 2. T. Thomas (2) / 3. Price (6) 4. D. Howard (3) 5. Nygaard (4) 6. Bowden (5) 7. Williamson (7) 8. Goodno (9) 9. Fisher (10) 10. Carney (8) DNS – O’Neal, D. Smith
 
Carney got upside down before a lap was complete.  He was o.k.  Key led wire to wire ahead of T. Thomas.  A caution for debris with six laps left gave Price a shot, as he slid in front of D. Howard into third.  He pulled up on T. Thomas, but settled for third.
 
B main three (started): 1. Clark (2) 2. Marvel (4) / 3. Hafertepe (6) 4. Miller (7) 5. M. Goodman (3) 6. Hill (5) 7. B. Ryun (8) 8. A. Swindell (10) 9. Crawley (1) 10. Elliott (9)
 
Clark led the distance.  Crawley was second early, before Marvel ran him down, passing him for the final transfer on lap four.  Crawley exited shortly after.  Miller was up to fourth by lap five, and then took third from Crawley on lap six.  Hafertepe gained late, passing Miller with two to go, but was one spot short of a transfer.
 
A main (started): 1. Hahn (2) 2. M. Smith (9) 3. Bacon (16) 4. Hagar (4) 5. Bergman (10) 6. Covington (17) 7. Nienhiser (6) 8. Cornell (14) 9. Gennetten (7) 10. Crockett (3) 11. T. Thomas (21) 12. Mallett (15) 13. Clark (19) 14. Phillips (20) 15. Westbrook (5) 16. McClelland (11) 17. Paulus (24, prov.) 18. Boyles (13) 19. Key (18) 20. Dover (8) 21. Daum (12) 22. Marvel (22) 23. Price (23, prov.) 24. Baughman (1)
 
40 laps was the distance, $10,000 to the winner.  Hahn took the early lead over Baughman and Hagar.  Two laps in, Marvel had contact with Mallett folding his front end.  Hahn led Baughman, Hagar, Nienhiser and Crockett back to green.  Westbrook jetted from sixth to fourth on the restart.  Hahn entered traffic on lap 12.  Nienhiser worked back by Westbrook for fourth on lap 13.  Hagar slid in front of Baughman to take second on lap 14.  Westbrook was on a roll, getting by Nienhiser for third as Baughman faded on lap 15.  M. Smith also emerged in fourth.  On lap 17, Westbrook gained second from Hagar, and M. Smith followed him on lap 20.  Dover had advanced to fifth by lap 21 when he ducked into the infield.  Westbrook reeled in Hahn gradually in traffic.  With five to go, Hahn was behind the lapped machine of Gennetten and took a hard right in turn four.  There sat Westbrook with momentum on the high side.  The result saw the Canadian upside down.  The restart saw Hahn ahead of M. Smith, Hagar, Bacon and Bergman.  Bacon passed Hagar for third with three to go.  Hagar went back by him in a great battle.  Bacon would end up grabbing the spot for good coming to the white flag.  Up front, Hahn pulled away to win. 

POWRi War Sprints
 
Rocket Race one (started): 1. Anthony Nicholson 16 (2) 2. Dave Darland 7R (1) / 3. Paul White 1 (4) 4. Zach Clark 2x (6) 5. Danny Smith 5$ (5) 6. Ty Hulsey 24H (3) 7. Scott Evans 118 (10) 8. Samuel Wagner 73 (7) 9. Chase Parson 57 (9) 10. Jason Billups 2 (11) 11. Todd McVay 89 (8)
 
10 laps was the distance, top 2 to the A.  The track was still very slick and narrow.  Nicholson led the distance.  Evans brought the lone caution with a spin three laps in.
 
Rocket Race two (started): 1. Kory Schudy 28 (1) 2. Katlynn Leer 77K (2) / 3. Thomas Meseraull 00 (3) 4. Quinton Benson 30B (4) 5. Gunner Ramey 91 (6) 6. Trey Gropp 54 (5) 7. Johnnyy Kent 7F (8) 8. Terry Richards 18 (7) 9. Cody Gentry 52 (9) 10. Taylor Peterson 96 (10) 11. Chris Desselle 21c (11)
 
Leer led the first lap, but Schudy squeezed by in turn two on lap two.  Meseraull challenged for the final transfer, but had little room to maneuver at this stage of the night.
 
Rocket Race three (started): 1. Landon Simon 24 (1) 2. Chris Parkinson 65 (2) / 3. Jack Wagner 77 (3) 4. Jeff Pellersells 22 (6) 5. Steve Thomas 20 (5) 6. Jeff Wingate 8 (7) 7. Raven Culp 3 (8) 8. Kevin Reed 36 (10) 9. Frank Rodgers III 6R (9) 10. Wesley Smith 12 (4)
 
Simon was the class of the field.  After a third running W. Smith came to a stop with issues three laps in, Wagner challenged Parkinson for the final transfer to no avail.
 
Rocket Race four (started): 1. Colten Cottle 5c (2) 2. Chris Phillips 6 (3) / 3. Riley Kreisel 90 (4) 4. Lane Stone 73s (5) 5. Slater Helt 22s (6) 6. Korey Weyant 99 (1) 7. Warren Johnson 42 (7) 8. Kevin Cummings 97 (8) 9. Kyle Lewis 14 (12) 10. Brad Wyatt 41 (9) 11. Al Thomas 72 (11) 12. Dillon Burks 02 (10)
 
Cottle led the distance, as Weyant was shuffled back with handling issues.  Kreisel rode second, followed by Phillips, but lapped traffic made things interesting late.  Kreisel tried a slide for life on a lapper that opened the door for Phillips to snag the final transfer spot coming to the white flag.
 
Non-Transfer Feature (started): 1. Rodgers (2) 2.  Reed (4) 3. Lewis (7) 4. Billups (1) 5. D. Burks (5) 6. A. Thomas (6) 7. Peterson (3) DNS – Desselle
 
The 8-lapper featured drivers not making it to the B mains.  Rodgers pocketed $600 for his win.  Reed passed him low on lap five, but Rodgers returned the pass a lap later and led to the finish.  The track was beginning to widen out.
 
Pole Shuffles
 
Round 1 (started): 1.  Garrett Aikens 32 (4) 2. Joe B. Miller 31B (1) 3. Brian Beebe 37 (2) 4. Mitchell Moore 51 (3)
 
Pole shuffles were two laps in distance.  The top ten in points from Thursday and Friday qualified.  This one started with the lowest driver in points, Aikens winning.  The top two in each round moved on, and the final round decided the starting spots in the first two rows.
 
Round 2 (started): 1. Aikens (2) 2. Wyatt Burks 11w (1) 3. Miller (3) DNS – Mario Clouser 6
 
Clouser exited before the green with engine issues.
 
Round 3 (started): 1. Logan Seavey 01 (2) 2. Zach Daum 5D (1) 3. Aikens (3) 4. W. Burks (4)
 
Round 4 (started): 1. Chris Windom 5G (2) 2. Brady Bacon 410 (1) 3. Daum (4) 4. Seavey (3)
 
B main one (started): 1. Kreisel (4) 2. J. Wagner (3) 3. Gropp (5) / 4. Hulsey (2) 5. Weyant (1) 6. Richards (8) 7. Clark (6) 8. S. Thomas (7) 9. Pellersells (9) 10. Culp (12) 11. Cummings (10) 12. Wingate (11) 13. Gentry (13) DNS – W. Smith
 
12 laps was the distance, top 3 to the A.  Hulsey led Kreisel and Wagner early.  Kreisel slid into the lead on lap four, and Wagner followed him two laps later as the track became racey.  Gropp rode the cushion around Hulsey for the final transfer with three to go.
 
B main two (started): 1. Meseraull (1) 2. Stone (5) 3. Helt (7) / 4. White (2) 5. Benson (3) 6. Ramey (6) 7. D. Smith (4) 8. W. Johnson (9) 9. Parson (11) 10. S. Wagner (8) 11. Evans (12) 12. Wyatt (13) 13. Kent (10) DNS – McVay
 
Meseraull decimated the field in this one.  Behind him White settled into second, but Stone worked by him on lap three.  Helt came from nowhere with two to go.  He jetted from fourth to second in turns one and two to steal the final transfer from White.
 
A main (started): 1. Windom (1) 2. Bacon (2) 3. Seavey (4) 4. W. Burks (6) 5. Aikens (5) 6. Simon (13) 7. Clauser (8) 8. Schudy (12) 9. Meseraull (20) 10. Nicholson (11) 11. Kreisel (19) 12. Miller (7) 13. Beebe (9) 14. J. Wagner (21) 15. Moore (10) 16. Parkinson (17) 17. Darland (15) 18. Leer (16) 19. Stone (22) 20. Cottle (14) 21. Daum (3) 22. Phillips (18) 23. Helt (24) 24. Gropp (23) 25. Weyant (25, prov.)
 
30 laps is the distance.  $3,077 to the winner.  Windom led early over Bacon and Seavey.  W. Burks passed Seavey for third on lap two, before Helt got upside down hard in turn three.  He walked away.  Phillips and Gropp were also involved.  Windom led Bacon, W. Burks, Daum and Seavey back to green.  Seavey advanced to fourth on the restart.  Daum would pull to the infield.  Nine laps in, the leaders were approaching lapped traffic when Cottle got upside down in turn three, collecting Darland.  The restart saw Windom leading Bacon, W. Burks, Seavey and Aikens.  Meseraull had advanced to eighth.  Darland restarted at the tail.  Simon advanced into the top five after the restart.  Windom entered lapped traffic on lap 17.  Aikens was back into the top five as he and Simon had a great battle for the spot.  Windom took off in traffic with about ten to go, as Bacon’s motor went away.  Seavey grabbed third from W. Burks with three to go.   Meseraull was the hard-charger.