US36 WoO and Xtreme Midget Results and Stories

(Video Highlights from DirtVision.com) 4/5/24

US36 Raceway
Osborn, MO

WoO
Xtreme Midgets

41 Sprint Cars
23 Midgets

WoO

Cars were divided into two qualifying groups.  Buddy Kofoid (19th car out to time) set quick time overall and was quickest in the first group at 10.782 seconds on the bullring.  Sheldon Haudenschild (12th car out) was second quick, followed by Bill Balog (10th), Jacob Allen (20th) and David Gravel (11th).  Anthony Macri had issues that slowed him on his qualifying attempt, but an engine change got him back for the heat.  Tyler Courtney (17th car out) was quickest in the second group, ahead of Carson Macedo (10th), Donny Schatz (2nd), Rico Abreu (18th) and Austin McCarl (1st).

Heat one (started): 1. Kofoid 83 (1) 2. Gravel 2 (3) 3. Ryan Timms (4) 4. Chris Windom 55 (5) 5. Landon Crawley 7s (7) / 6. Anthony Macri 39m (8) 7. Gunner Ramey 21 (6) 8. Carson McCarl 12x (9) 9. Austin Hartmann 87A (10) 10. Balog 17B (2) DNS – Aaron Reutzel 87

8-lap heats flew by quickly on the high banks and took the top five to the feature and the top two to the Dash.  Reutzel was unable to start from his starting spot outside row two, benefiting several behind him.  Kofoid led the distance.  Gravel was hot on Balog’s heels for the second Dash spot.  Balog tried to get under the lapped car of Hartmann, but got tangled with him and flipped.  He would return for the B.

Heat two (started): 1. Haudenschild 17 (1) 2. James McFadden 83SR (3) 3. Brock Zearfoss 3z (4) 4. Allen 1a (2) 5. Cory Eliason 8 (5) / 6. Danny Sams III 24D (6) 7. Chase Randall 2KS (7) 8. Gage Pulkrabek G5 (9) 9. Trevor Serbus 10 (10) 10. Kerry Madsen 25 (8)

Madsen slowed a lap in and retired for the night.  Haudenschild led the distance.  On the restart for Madsen, Zearfoss got by Allen for third and Eliason took the final transfer from Sams.

Heat three (started): 1. Courtney 7BC (1) 2. Schatz 15 (2) 3. A. McCarl 88 (3) 4. Garet Williamson 23 (4) 5. Tanner Holmes 18T (6) / 6. Dominic Scelzi 41s (7) 7. Gio Scelzi 18 (5) 8. Jason Martin 36 (9) 9. Kraig Kinser 70 (8) 10. Kevin Newton 16th (10)

Courtney led the distance in a mostly single-file event.  The excitement was mid-pack, as D. Scelzi came up the track and slapped his brother in a collision early on.  Both would return for the B.

Heat four (started): 1. Abreu 24 (2) 2. Macedo 41 (1) 3. Logan Schuchart 1s (3) 4. Zeb Wise 26 (4) 5. Jace Park 45x (6) / 6. Jake Bubak 27B (5) 7. Zach Daum 31 (7) 8. Ayrton Gennetten 3 (8) 9. Bill Rose 6 (9) 10. Jack Potter 151 (10)

Another race with not much passing at high speeds.

C main (started): 1. Kinser (2) 2. Reutzel (5) / 3. Serbus (3) 4. Hartmann (1) 5. Rose (4) 6. Newton (6) 7. Potter (7) DNS – Madsen

The 8-lapper took the top two to the B main.  Kinser led wire to wire, while Reutzel took the final transfer from Hartmann on lap three.  Serbus, making his first ever 410 start, finished a spot out of a transfer.

Dash (started): 1. Courtney (3) 2. Haudenschild (1) 3. Gravel (4) 4. McFadden (2) 5. Kofoid (5) 6. Macedo (8) 7. Schatz (6) 8. Abreu (7)

McFadden was penalized a row for jumping the start.  Courtney pounced outside row one on the restart and ran away with the 6-lapper in dominating fashion.  The finish determined the top eight starting spots in the feature.

B main (started): 1. Macri (2) 2. Balog (3) 3. D. Scelzi (4) 4. Randall (9) / 5. Bubak (6) 6. Marin (10) 7. Kinser (14) 8. Sams (5) 9. Daum (8) 10. C. McCarl (11) 11. Gennetten (12) 12. Ramey (7) 13. Pulkrabek (13) 14. G. Scelzi (1) 15. Reutzel (15)

The 12-lapper sent the top four to the feature.  Macri led G. Scelzi, Balog and D. Scelzi early.  Reutzel came to a stop at the halfway point, setting up a restart that saw Macri ahead of G. Scelzi, Balog, and D. Scelzi.  G. Scelzi suffered a flat right rear tire taking the white flag.  He would be forced to take a provisional for the feature.

A main (started): 1. Gravel (3) 2. Schatz (7) 3. Kofoid (5) 4. McFadden (4) 5. Courtney (1) 6. Randall (24) 7. Macedo (6) 8. Schuchart (12) 9. G. Scelzi (25, prov.) 10. Zearfoss (11) 11. Eliason (19) 12. Haudenschild (2) 13. Macri (21) 14. Windom (13) 15. Balog (22) 16. D. Scelzi (23) 17. Williamson (14) 18. A. McCarl (10) 19. Holmes (18) 20. Park (20) 21. Kinser (26, prov.) 22. Crawley (17) 23. Timms (9) 24. Abreu (8) 25. Allen (15) 26. Wise (16)


The 35-lapper had a rocky start when Wise flipped down the front straightaway.  He was o.k  Once Underway, Haudenschild led Courtney, McFadden, Gravel and Macedo.  Kinser spun three laps in setting up a double-file restart that saw Kofoid move up to fifth.  Haudenschild was back into traffic on lap 12.  Schatz was on the move as well, moving into the top five.  He took third from Courtney on lap 18 before NOS on NOS crime saw the lapped car of Windom spin and collect the leader Haudenschild.  Gravel inherited the led with 16 to go, ahead of Schatz, Courtney, McFadden and Kofoid.  Macedo and Abreu contacted in turn two on lap 23.  Gravel chose the inside line on the restart ahead of Schatz, Courtney, McFadden and Kofoid. Kofoid shot from fifth to third on that restart after a fuel stoppage.  There was no deterring Gravel, though as Schatz trailed him to the line.  Randall was the hard-charger.

Karter Sarff (Video Highlights from DirtVision.com) Xtreme Midgets

Cars timed in their respective heat groups.  Chase McDermand, Cannon McIntosh (quickest overall with a new track record at 13.129 seconds) and Karter Sarff were quickest in their groups.

Heat one (started): 1. Kale Drake 97 (3) 2. Ashton Torgerson 67K (2) 3. Chase McDermand 40 (4) 4. Elijah Gile 13 (1) 5. Brayton Lynch 1K (5) 6. Josh Most 92 (6) 7. Bradley Fezard 938 (7) 8. Trevor Cline 55 (8)

Heats were 8 laps in distance.  As. Torgerson led early before Drake used the lose side of turn three to take the point on lap two.  From there, he checked out on the field.

Heat two (started): 1. Zach Daum 7u (2) 2. Cannon McIntosh 71K (4) 3. Hayden Reinbold 19AZ (1) 4. Taylor Reimer 25K (3) 5. Austin Torgerson 88A (5) 6. Peter Smith 5u (7) 7. Todd McVay 89 (6) DNS – Tyler Edwards 56

Reinbold leed early ahead of Dahm and McIntosh.  Daum diamonded turn three and four to shoot into the lead at the halfway point.  McIntosh used a last lap pass of Reinbold to finish second.

Heat three (started): 1. Karter Sarff 21K (4) 2. Ethan Mitchell 19M (2) 3. Tyler Smith 14s (1) 4. Ryan Timms 67 (3) 5. Branigan Roark 44 (6) 6. Luke Drotschie 98 (5) 7. Jayden Clay 66 (7)

Mitchell shot out early and held off Sarff until he got him on the low side of turn one on lap five.

A main (started): 1. Sarff (4) 2. McDermand (5) 3. McIntosh (2) 4. Reimer (8) 5. Timms (10) 6. Daum (1) 7. Drake (3) 8. Reinbold (9) 9. T. Smith (11) 10. Mitchell (6) 11. As. Torgerson (7) 12. Lynch (14) 13. P. Smith (17) 14. Kline (22) 15. Au. Torgerson (13) 16. Drotschie (16) 17. Clay (21) 18. Fezard (20) 19. McVay (19) 20. Most (18) 21. Roark (15) 22. Gile (12) DNS – Edwards


Roark tumbled in turn four before a lap could be completed  He was ok.  McIntosh jumped out to an early lead in the 30-lapper, trailed by Sarff and Daum.  McDermand made quick work of Daum lap two to claim third.  Drotschie brought out a caution 11 laps in, thwarting a great race that saw battles for the top three between McIntosh and pursuers Sarff and McDermand.  Sarff was all over McIntosh for the lead.  He slid by briefly on lap 17, and made his winning pass on lap 19.  He was in lapped traffic on lap 21.  McDermand found his way by McIntosh for second with four to go.  The hard-charger was Kline.