Lake Ozark Jason Johnson Classic WoO/Xtreme/POWRi Results and Stories

Jacob Allen (Video Highlights from DirtVision.com) 4/9/22

Lake Ozark Speedway
Eldon, MO

Jason Johnson Classic

WoO
Xtreme Sprint Car Series

38 WoO/POWRi 410 cars
35 Xtreme/POWRi-WAR cars

WoO/POWRi 410’s

Cars were split into two flights of qualifying.  Jacob Allen (16th car out to time) set quick time in the first group and overall on the 3/10-mile oval at 11.464 seconds.  Brady Bacon (6th car out) was second quick, followed by Logan Schuchart (19th), David Gravel (15th) and Sam Hafertepe Jr. (5th).  Kyle Bellm failed to get a time in.  Brad Sweet (1st car out) was quickest in the second group at 11.588 seconds.  Brock Zearfoss (2nd) was second quick, followed by Spencer Bayston (6th), Sheldon Haudenschild (10th) and Gio Scelzi (14th).

Heat one (started): 1. Allen 1a (1) 2. Schuchart (2) 3. Brent Marks 19 (4) 4. Brian Brown 21 (5) 5. Aaron Reutzel 8 (7) / 6. Hafertepe Jr. 15H (3) 7. Ayrton Gennetten 3 (6) 8. Riley Goodno 22 (9) 9. Kyle Bellm 50K (10) 10. Jake Neuman 3N (8)

The 10-lap heat took the top two to the Dash and the top five to the feature.  Allen led throughout, though Schuchart put on a good battle up front.  By the halfway point, Reutzel had moved up from seventh to get by Hafertepe for the fifth and final transfer.  He took a late shot at Brown but came up short.

Heat two (started): 1. Gravel 2 (2) 2. Bacon 21H (1) 3. Hunter Schuerenberg 55 (4) 4. Carson Macedo 41 (3) 5. Tyler Courtney 7BC (6) / 6. Kraig Kinser 11K (7) 7. Brian Bell 23B (5) 8. Joe B. Miller 51B (8) 9. Gunner Ramey 21R (9)

Bacon led Gravel, Macedo and Schuerenberg early.  Schuerenberg slid by Macedo for third on lap two.  On lap four, Kinser used the low side to propel from seventh to fourth.  That started a duel for the last two transfer spots between Courtney, who grabbed fourth on lap seven, Kinser and Macedo.  A 360 spin by Ramey set up a two lap Dash for the last two spots.  A couple of death slides by Macedo gave him fourth, while Courtney came back and snookered the last spot from Kinser on the last lap.

Heat three (started): 1. Sweet 49 (1) 2. Bayston 5 (2) 3. Scelzi 18 (3) 4. Donny Schatz 15 (5) 5. James McFadden 83 (4) / 6. Jason Sides 7s (6) 7. Bill Balog 17B (7) 8. Noah Gass 20G (8) 9. Alan Gilbertson 97 (10) 10. Bill Rose 6 (9)

Sweet led the distance over Bayston.  Scelzi moved past McFadden for third on lap two.  Schatz calculated in fifth and stole fourth from McFadden in the final corner.

Heat four (started): 1. Zearfoss 3z (1) 2. Haudenschild 17 (2) 3. Rico Abreu 24 (4) 4. JJ Hickle 25 (6) 5. Scotty Thiel 73 (3) / 6. Kevin Thomas Jr. 9K (8) 7. Zach Hampton 35 (5) 8. Garet Williamson 24w (7) DNS – Ben Brown 7B

Zearfoss went wire to wire.  Hickle, in his first night in Brandon Ikenberry’s 25, was impressive.  He moved from sixth to fourth by the second lap.

Dash (started): 1. Allen (1) 2. Bayston (2) 3. Bacon (4) 4. Gravel (3) 5. Sweet (5) 6. Zearfoss (8) 7. Schuchart (6) 8. Haudenschild (7)

The 10-lapper set the first four rows for the feature.  Allen, Bayston and Bacon remained in their spots throughout.  Haudenschild got into the turn one wall at the halfway point, and would return for the feature after replacing the front end.  Schuchart also exited early.

B main (started): 1. Hafertepe Jr. (1) 2. Kinser (3) 3. Hampton (2) 4. Balog (8) / 5. Thomas Jr. (6) 6. Gennetten (5) 7. Gass (10) 8. Bell (7) 9. Miller (11) 10. Bellm (12) 11. Goodno (9) 12. Neuman (16) 13. Gilbertson (13) 14. Rose (17) 15. Be. Brown (15) 16. Sides (4) 17. Ramey (14) DNS – Williamson

The 12-lapper took the top four to the tail of the feature.  Hafertepe Jr., Kinser and Hampton locked down the top three spots early.  Sides worked by Gennetten for the final transfer on lap two.  Thomas Jr. worked around Sides for the spot on lap three.  Balog was slowly moving up from eighth and reeling in Thomas for the final transfer spot.  Using momentum on the high side of turn four, he shot by for the spot at the checkers by about a tenth of a second.

A main (started): 1. Allen (1) 2. Bayston (2) 3. Gravel (4) 4. Schuchart (7) 5. Sweet (5) 6. Zearfoss (6) 7. Abreu (12) 8. Marks (9) 9. Scelzi (11) 10. Haudenschild (8) 11. Schuerenberg (10) 12. Schatz (15) 13. McFadden (19) 14. Reutzel (17) 15. Br. Brown (13) 16. Macedo (14) 17. Bacon (3) 18. Courtney (18) 19. Kinser (22) 20. Thiel (20) 21. Hampton (23) 22. Hickle (16) 23. Balog (24) 24. Hafertepe Jr. (21)

The race was scheduled for 41 laps, but reduced to 30 due to deteriorating track conditions.  Allen jumped out to lead early over Bayston and Bacon.  Bacon used the low side to gain second on lap two.  Schuchart advanced into the top five behind Gravel, who rode fourth.  The leaders were in lapped traffic by lap eight.  In heavy lapped traffic, Bacon worked by Allen to lead lap 12.  In good racing, Allen got back by the following lap.  By the halfway point, rubber down conditions were evident on the low side.  In trying to get by a lapper, the leader slowed, and Bacon shot by to lead lap 20.  He held that spot until Allen butted under him, making contact twice to take the lead with two to go.  Shortly after, Bacon would blow his right rear.  Allen went on to win ahead of Bayston and Gravel.  McFadden was the hard-charger.

CJ Leary (Video Highlights from DirtVision.com) Xtreme/POWRi-WAR Sprints

Four heat race groups qualified together.  Brady Bacon (13.846), Chad Boespflug (14.235), Wesley Smith (13.975) and Kory Schudy (14.583) set quick time for their respective groups.

Heat one (started, *qualified for feature): 1. CJ Leary 77m (3*) 2. Carson Short 21s (2*) 3. Brady Bacon 98 (4*) 4. Kyle Shipley 17GP (7*) 5. Jake Swanson 21AZ (6) 6. Wyatt Burks 11w (5) 7. Ricky Lewis 41L (8) 8. Zach Clark 26 (9) DQ (Scales, Crossed 1st) Robert Ballou 12

8-lap heats were inverted four by time and added passing points to determine the top 16 spots locked into the feature.  Ballou led the distance, but missed the scales, resulting in a DQ and entertainment on the track the rest o fthe night.  Bacon got off to a rough start, backing up to fifth, but was into what would eventually be the third spot after getting by Burks on lap three.

Heat two (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Alex Bright 20 (1*) 2. Isaac Chapple 52 (3*) 3. Chad Boespflug 2B (4*) 4. Dustin Clark 75 (2*) 5. Katlynn Leer 77K (6) 6. Sam Wagner 73 (5) 7. Bryson Smith 33 (9) 8. Zach Daum 31 (8) 9. Steven Russell 91 (7)

Bright towed from PA and led wire to wire.  Daum got loose on lap three and collected Russell.  Both would exit before another green flag lap was run.  The restart saw Bright leading Clark, Chapple, Boespflug and S. Wagner back to green.  Chapple would work up to second with two laps to go, and Boespflug would follow him by Clark on lap seven to take third.

Heat three (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Shane Cockrum 66 (1*) 2. Mario Clouser 6 (3*) 3. W. Smith 44 (4) 4. Jason McDougal 67 (2*) 5. Dallas Hewitt 21H (7) 6. Shain Kaiser 40s (8) 7. Landon Simon 24 (6) 8. Cody Baker 38 (5) DNS – Brad Wyatt 41

Cockrum led McDougal early, who drove the Kunz entry with Buddy Kofoid winning in PA at Lincoln in the Indy Race Parts car.  W. Smith was running fourth when he contacted Clouser and spun a lap in.  It also collected Simon, who spun another lap in.  By then, W. Smith was back up to fifth.  On that restart, Baker caught the turn one infield tire and took a series of flips.  He was ok, but done for the night.  W. Smith used the low side to get by Clouser for third on lap four, but Clouser came back by with three to go.  The two exchanged the spot while going high and low around McDougal.  Clouser would grab second in a great race in the last corner.

Heat four (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Jack Wagner 77 (2*) 2. Matt Westfall 33m (1*) 3. Brandon Mattox 28M (3*) 4. Schudy 28 (4*) 5. Anthony Nicholson 16 (5) 6. Dennis Gile 13 (6) 7. Jadon Rogers 14 (7) 8. Rob Caho Jr. 78 (8)

J. Wagner led the distance, followed by Westfall.  Mattox and Schudy battled back and forth for the third spot, exchanging it three times with Mattox taking over for good with three to go.

B main (started): 1. Ballou (12) 2. Swanson (1) 3. Hewitt (3) 4. Nicholson (4) 5. Leer (2) 6. Daum (14) / 7. Simon (8) 8. Rogers (11) 9. Burks (5) 10. Lewis (9) 11. Clark (13) 12. Kaiser (7) 13. S. Wagner (6) 14. B. Smith (10) DNS – Wyatt, Gile, Baker, Caho, Russell

The 12-lapper took the top six to the feature.  Simon contacted another car, got loose and collected B. Smith who got upside down on the first lap.  Ballou was also caught, but returned after a visit to the work area.  He was back into a transfer spot a lap after the restart, went from sixth to fourth on lap two, and was second by lap three.  He took the lead on lap four and checked out.  Nicholson dropped back before climbing back to third by lap five.  Leer passed Hewitt for fourth on lap eight.  S. Wagner stopped on lap 11, setting up one final restart.  Daum was able to get by Simon for the final transfer at the checkers.

A main (started): 1. Leary (1) 2. Ballou (17) 3. Cockrum (9) 4. Westfall (12) 5. McDougal (15) 6. W. Smith (8) 7. J. Wagner (2) 8. Schudy (13) 9. Swanson (18) 10. Chapple (3) 11. Daum (22) 12. Clouser (4) 13. Leer (21) 14. Bacon (5) 15. D. Clark (14) 16. Burks (23, prov.) 17. Boespflug (6) 18. Nicholson (20) 19. Hewitt (19) 20. Mattox (11) 21. Shipley (16) 22. Bright (7) 23. Short (10) 24. Simon (24, prov.)

The 30-lapper for $5,000 saw Leary leading J. Wagner, Clouser, Chapple and Bacon early.  Bacon was by Chapple for fourth on lap two, while Clouser passed J. Wagner for second.  On lap seven, Bacon slid in front of J. Wagner for third.  Bright moved into fourth on lap nine.  Bacon went under Clouser for second on lap 12, as the leader entered lapped traffic.  He would pass Leary for the point on lap 13.  On lap 16, Clouser blew his right rear tire while running third.  The restart saw Bacon leading Leary, Bright and Short, who got upside down when the green fell.  He was ok.  Once green again, Ballou was on the move, surging from fifth to third.  On lap 18, Bright would flip while running fifth.  Bacon still led Leary, Ballou, Cockrum and Westfall at that point.  Ballou nabbed second from Leary on the restart.  Two laps later, Cockrum took third from Leary.  Bacon spun out of the lead with seven to go, giving Ballou the lead, while Leary took second from Cockrum.  McDougal got by Cockrum for third on lap 25.  Up front, Leary was dogging Ballou and got by with three to go.  Cockrum reclaimed third from McDougal, who got sideways.  Westfall also snuck by for fourth.