Hunter Schuerenberg led wire to wire with the All Stars at Jacksonville Friday (Mark Funderburk Photo) (Video Highlights from FloRacing.com)
5/12/23
Jacksonville Speedway
Jacksonville, IL
All Stars and 305’s
38 All Stars
16 305’s
All Stars
Drivers qualified in their heat groups. The first seemed to be the stoutest and Parker Price-Miller set quick time for the group and overall at 10.204 seconds on the quarter-mile filling in for Zeb Wise in the Rudeen Racing #26. Hunter Schuerenberg set quick time in the second group, Zach Hampton in the third, and JJ Hickle in the fourth. Following Price-Miller (4th car out to time) overall were Aaron Reutzel (2nd), Schuerenberg (11th), Paul Nienhiser (1st), Ryan Timms (10th), Riley Goodno (20th), Hickle (30th), Scotty Thiel (18th), Hampton (27th) and Chase Randall (23rd). Corbin Gurley failed to get a time in. Joey Moughan struggled with throttle linkage issues all night.
Heat one (started): 1. Nienhiser 9x (2) 2. Reutzel 8 (1) 3. Price-Miller 26 (4) 4. Tyler Courtney 7BC (6) 5. Brady Bacon 21H (5) / 6. Timms 5T (3) 7. Trevin Littleton 1T (8) 8. Kyle Bellm 50K (7) 9. Will Armitage 7A (9) DNS – Corbin Gurley 12G
8-lap heats took winners and the quickest qualifier in the top five to the Dash, and the top five finishers to the feature. Nienhiser led the distance. Bacon snatched the final transfer from Timms on the last lap in a heat that would see good cars in the B.
Heat two (started): 1. Thiel 70 (2) 2. Schuerenberg 55 (4) 3. Goodno 22 (1) 4. Sye Lynch 29 (5) 5. Zach Daum 5D (7) / 6. Joe B. Miller 51B (6) 7. Brenham Crouch 1 (3) 8. Logan Faucon 52F (9) 9. Austin Hartmann 87A (8) DNS – Joey Moughan 31
Thiel led Goodno and Schuerenberg early. Schuerenberg got by Goodno on the second lap for second. Miller got sideways and his nose wing was run over. A quick trip to the work area saw them take his nose wing off. He came from the back to fall just short of Daum for the final transfer.
Heat three (started): 1. Chris Windom 4 (2) 2. Randall 9 (1) 3. Hampton 35 (4) 4. Zeth Sabo 23 (3) 5. Korey Weyant 47 (6) / 6. Tyler Lee 7 (5) 7. Preston Perlmutter 42P (7) 8. Jeff Masson 15M (9) 9. Eric Shelton 70s (8)
Windom led wire to wire. Weyant took the fifth and final transfer from Lee on lap three. Lee was making his first ever 410 start.
Heat four (started): 1. Conner Morrell 28M (1) 2. Shelby Bosie 3B (3) 3. Tim Shaffer 45 (5) 4. Hickle 97 (4) 5. Caden Englehart 71M (2) / 6. Chris Martin 44 (6) 7. Cory Bruns 44B (9) 8. Kyle Schuett 9K (7) 9. Jeremy Standridge 10s (8)
Morrell led the distance ahead of Bosie. Shaffer was the prime mover on the low side, grabbing third form Hickle on lap three.
Dash (started): 1. Windom (2) 2. Schuerenberg (1) 3. Price-Miller (3) 4. Morrell (4) 5. Nienhiser (5) 6. Hickle (7) 7. Thiel (6) 8. Hampton (8)
The 6-lapper set up the first four rows of the feature. Windom and Schuerenberg led the pack in a mostly single-file affair.
B main (started): 1. Timms (1) 2. Miller (3) 3. Martin (5) 4. Bruns (8) / 5. Lee (4) 6. Standridge (10) 7. Littleton (6) 8. Armitage (12) 9. Hartmann (13) 10. Perlmutter (7) 11. Gurley (15) 12. Shelton (14) 13. Crouch (2) 14. Faucon (11) 15. Bellm (9) DNS – Schuett, Masson, Moughan
The 12-lapper took the top four to the A. Timms led Miller, Crouch, Martin and Bruns early. Gurley and Shelton tangled a lap in to bring caution. On lap three, Bruns took the low side past Martin for fourth in a good battle. Bellm had a flat three laps in to bring another caution. Faucon spun four laps in, and then smacked the turn four wall after the restart to end his night. Crouch would also get into the turn four wall with four to go while running third. That put Martin back into a transfer spot. He passed Bruns for third with two to go.
A main (started): 1. Schuerenberg (2) 2. Windom (1) 3. Reutzel (9) 4. Courtney (15) 5. Hickle (6) 6. Shaffer (13) 7. Daum (18) 8. Nienhiser (5) 9. Thiel (7) 10. Price-Miller (3) 11. Goodno (12) 12. Morrell (4) 13. Randall (10) 14. Lynch (14) 15. Martin (23) 16. Bosie (11) 17. Sabo (16) 18. Miller (22) 19. Timms (21) 20. Weyant (20) 21. Hampton (8) 22. Bacon (17) 23. Englehart (19) 24. Bruns (24)
The 35-lapper saw plenty of movement through the field, but lacked that Jacksonville lapped traffic that can make races epic. Bosie spun, collecting Bacon at the outset. Both restarted. Schuerenberg led Windom and Price-Miller early. Nienhiser gained fourth from Morrell on lap two. Windom took and couple of shots at the leader on laps seven and eight with sliders that Schuerenberg ducked back under. At that point, Weyant tangled with another car as Randall hit the work area. A series of restarts for a spun Timms, and Englehart with a flat right rear 11 laps in saw no change in the top five as Schuerenberg continued to lead Windom, Price-Miller, Nienhiser and Hickle. That changed on lap 12 when Wise got over the berm coming out of turn four and spun in front of the grandstand. He restarted at the tail and climbed back to tenth. Hickle gained third from Nienhiser on the lap 12 restart, and Nienhiser hit the wall shortly after, losing a few spots. Hampton climbed to fourth before climbing the turn one cushion and flipping on lap 16. He was uninjured. Now it was Schuerenberg ahead of Windom, Hickle, Nienhiser and Reutzel. Reutzel shot into fourth, followed by Courtney who entered the top five from the eighth row. The leaders were approaching lapped traffic on lap 22 when Weyant came to a stop. Timms suffered a flat right rear two laps later. Shaffer was also moving up, and briefly passed Courtney for fifth. Miller tried to pass Nienhiser for eighth on lap 26 when he made contact and suffered a flat right rear. On lap 28, Courtney shot low to go from fifth to third. Reutzel passed Hickle for 4th on lap 29 before Sabo suffered a flat with five to go. Schuerenberg won the five-lap dash to the checkers in front of Windom. Reutzel passed Courtney for third with three to go. Courtney was the hard-charger.