(Video Highlights from DirtVision.com)
10/4/24
Jacksonville Speedway
Jacksonville, IL
Xtreme Midgets
MOWA Sprints
33 Midgets
40 Sprints
Xtreme Midgets
Heavy morning rains resulted in a narrow track with a huge cushion that moved up the track very slowly throughout the night.
A total of four drivers broke the track record of 11.952 seconds on the quarter-mile. Chase McDermand was the quickest of them all, setting the standard in the third of four qualifying groups at 11.814 seconds. Ethan Mithcell was quickest in the first group at 11.939, Corbin Rueschenberg paced the second group at 11.884, and Gavin Miller was fastest in the fourth group at 11.888 seconds. Karter Sarff was the other driver to break the former standard with a lap of 11.903 seconds. RJ Corson failed to get a time in. Parker Jones flipped in hot laps, but came back to qualify.
Heat one (started): 1. 19AZ-Hayden Reinbold[2]; 2. 68-Jacob Denney[1]; 3. 14S-Tyler Edwards[5]; 4. 51B-Joe B Miller[8]; 5. 67K-Ashton Torgerson[3]; 6. 19M-Ethan Mitchell[4]; 7. 98-Gunnar Setser[6]; 8. 16TH-Kevin Newton[7]; 9. 17-Parker Jones[9]
8-lap heats transferred the top sixteen in passing points to the feature. Denney led early over Reinbold, Torgerson and Edwards. Quick timer Mitchell had gotten over the cushion and bobbled in turn two on the first lap. J. Miller moved into fourth on lap two. Reinbold took the point on lap five. Torgerson brought out the caution while running third with three to go. He would recover to finish fifth, passing Mitchell on the last lap.
Heat two (started): 1. 7U-Zach Daum[1]; 2. 71K-Cannon McIntosh[2]; 3. 21K-Karter Sarff[3]; 4. 3N-Jake Neuman[5]; 5. 26-Corbin Rueschenberg[4]; 6. 66-Jayden Clay[6]; 7. 44-Branigan Roark[7]; 8. 17C-Devin Camfield[8]
Daum led wire to wire. Rueschenberg, who was quickest in the group, jumped the cushion like Mitchell had done at the start and lost ground. He would climb back to fifth at the chekcers.
Heat three (started): 1. 40-Chase McDermand[4]; 2. 87-Rylan Gray[2]; 3. 55-Trevor Cline[1]; 4. 83-Will Armitage[6]; 5. 7X-Thomas Meseraull[5]; 6. 50-Daniel Adler[3]; 7. 33-Jacob McFarlin[7]; 8. 15-RJ Corson[8]
Gray led Kline and McDermand early. McDermand gained second on the second lap, and the lead at the halfway point.
Heat four (started): 1. 5U-Kameron Key[2]; 2. 67-Ryan Timms[3]; 3. 97-Gavin Miller[4]; 4. 56-Tyler Roth[6]; 5. 16C-David Camfield Jr[5]; 6. 92-Mike Hess[1]; 7. 91-Alex Midkiff[8]; 8. 7WX-Korey Weyant[7]
Key led the distance. Timms took second from G. Miller on lap five. Roth and D. Camfield shot by Hess for fourth and fifth late.
B main (started): 1. 51B-Joe B Miller[1]; 2. 7X-Thomas Meseraull[5]; 3. 19M-Ethan Mitchell[3]; 4. 50-Daniel Adler[4]; 5. 98-Gunnar Setser[9]; 6. 16C-David Camfield Jr[6]; 7. 17-Parker Jones[16]; 8. 92-Mike Hess[7]; 9. 15-RJ Corson[17]; 10. 44-Branigan Roark[10]; 11. 66-Jayden Clay[8]; 12. 91-Alex Midkiff[12]; 13. 16TH-Kevin Newton[13]; 14. 56-Tyler Roth[2]; 15. 7WX-Korey Weyant[14]; 16. 17C-Devin Camfield[15]; 17. 33-Jacob McFarlin[11]
The 10-lapper took the top four to the feature. J. Miller led Mitchell, Roth and Adler early. Meseraull shot from fifth to third on the second lap. McFarlin spun twice in the next two laps. Meseraull took over second. Several incidents back in the pack slowed things, but J. Miller, Meseraul, Mitchell and Adler would transfer in the end.
A main (started): 1. 7U-Zach Daum[6]; 2. 40-Chase McDermand[1]; 3. 87-Rylan Gray[8]; 4. 51B-Joe B Miller[17]; 5. 21K-Karter Sarff[9]; 6. 19AZ-Hayden Reinbold[2]; 7. 68-Jacob Denney[10]; 8. 67K-Ashton Torgerson[14]; 9. 14S-Tyler Edwards[11]; 10. 55-Trevor Cline[12]; 11. 98-Gunnar Setser[21, prov.]; 12. 26-Corbin Rueschenberg[13]; 13. 71K-Cannon McIntosh[7]; 14. 5U-Kameron Key[3]; 15. 67-Ryan Timms[4]; 16. 97-Gavin Miller[5]; 17. 3N-Jake Neuman[15]; 18. 50-Daniel Adler[20]; 19. 7X-Thomas Meseraull[18]; 20. 83-Will Armitage[16]; 21. 19M-Ethan Mitchell[19]
McDermand led Timms and Reinbold on lap one of the 25-lapper. Daum used his typical low line to take over third on lap two. Timms was flying on the cushion and shot by McDermand on lap three to take the lead and pulled away from there. On lap six, Daum also got by McDermand to claim second on the low side. On lap 11, Key passed McDermand for third, and three laps later rode the cushion around Daum for second. Up front, Timms was gone in traffic. Daum battled back for second on lap 17 before Rueschenberg came to a stop in turn four to bring the first caution. G. Miller shot into fourth on the restart. On lap 20, McIntosh surged into the top four and got hot into turn one, colliding with a competitor who was out of shape. McIntosh got upside down, but restarted at the tail. Timms, who was chasing McIntosh in the point race, seemed to get a brake heading back to a five lap dash to the checkers. On the last lap, G. Miller got by Daum and then decided he was going to throw a Hail Mary slider at his teammate Timms and be a hero. The end result was taking both of them out and being a zero. Daum ran to the checkers with the win, while Timms hopes of a championship were dashed. J. Miller was the hard-charger.
MOWA Sprints
Heat one (started): 1. 7A-Will Armitage[3]; 2. 79-Gage Montgomery[2]; 3. 11-Colton Fisher[1]; 4. 5H-Joey Moughan[4]; 5. 51B-Joe B Miller[7]; 6. 14N-Kevin Newton[8]; 7. 19H-Joel Myers Jr[9]; 8. 34-Sterling Cling[10]; 9. 6-Mario Clouser[6]; 10. 90-Patrick Budde[5]
10-lap heats transferred the top 20 in passing points to the feature. Montgomery led early over Fisher and Armitage. Armitage got by Fisher at the halfway point and set his sights on the young leader. He made a last lap pass for the lead on the low side of turn two.
Heat two (started): 1. 1JR-Steven Russell[1]; 2. 20G-Noah Gass[5]; 3. 52F-Logan Faucon[3]; 4. GR8-Logan Julien[10]; 5. 4-Chase Richards[6]; 6. 77U-Chris Urish[8]; 7. 21W-Korey Weyant[4]; 8. 35-Tyler Robbins[9]; 9. 83-Jason Keith[2]; 10.87-Reed Whitney (7)
Gass shot sideways in turn two, collecting Whitney, who got upside down. He was unhurt, but done for the night. Russell led Faucon and J. Keith early. Gass recovered to pass J. Keith for third on lap three. Robbins spun with two to go, setting up a restart that saw Gass get by Faucon for second.
Heat three (started): 1. 9X-Paul Nienhiser[1]; 2. 9-Tyler Duff[2]; 3. 22-Riley Goodno[4]; 4. 1-Trevin Littleton[3]; 5. 50K-Thomas Meseraull[10]; 6. 14T-Tim Estenson[8]; 7. 8S-Steve Short[6]; 8. 28K-Korbin Keith[5]; 9. 2A-Austin Archdale[7]; 10. 6N-Corey Nelson[9]
Duff led Littleton and Nienhiser, who got a bad start over the turn two cushion. Nienhiser recovered for second on lap two. It took him until the white flag lap to get by Duff for the win. Goodno gained third at the same time on a narrow track.
Heat four (started): 1. 31-Kameron Key[1]; 2. 29-Brayton Lynch[2]; 3. 3N-Jake Neuman[6]; 4. 33$-Shane O'Banion[4]; 5. 28-Luke Verardi[3]; 6. 6R-Ryan Bunton[5]; 7. B8-John Barnard[7]; 8. 21-Gunner Ramey[9]; 9. 2-Chase Porter[8]; DNS - 44-Cory Bruns
Key led the distance in a mostly single-file affair.
B main one (started): 1. 77U-Chris Urish[1]; 2. 6R-Ryan Bunton[3]; 3. 6-Mario Clouser[8]; 4. B8-John Barnard[4]; 5. 83-Jason Keith[9]; 6. 28K-Korbin Keith[7]; 7. 35-Tyler Robbins[5]; 8. 28-Luke Verardi[2]; 9. 21W-Korey Weyant[6]; DNS - 87-Reed Whitney
Two 10-lap B’s took the top two to the feature. Urish and Bunton led throughout the first one. Verardi brought a caution after some contact, collecting Weyant. On lap five, K. Keith stumbled and was bumped by Clouser, and spun. Under caution, his father, J. Keith took exception, and swerved at Clouser who stopped. Clouser was given his spot back, and J. Keith was allowed to continue. Clouser made it up to third, one spot out of a transfer.
B main two (started): 1. 19H-Joel Myers Jr[2]; 2. 14T-Tim Estenson[1]; 3. 34-Sterling Cling[3]; 4. 21-Gunner Ramey[5]; 5. 2-Chase Porter[6]; 6. 2A-Austin Archdale[7]; 7. 8S-Steve Short[4]; 8. 6N-Corey Nelson[8]; 9. 90-Patrick Budde[9]; DNS - 44-Cory Bruns
This one was much less dramatic than the first.
A main (started): 1. 9X-Paul Nienhiser[5]; 2. 7A-Will Armitage[2]; 3. 50K-Thomas Meseraull[4]; 4. 3N-Jake Neuman[8]; 5. 31-Kameron Key[7]; 6. 79-Gage Montgomery[9]; 7. 51B-Joe B Miller[15]; 8. 6R-Ryan Bunton[23]; 9. 22-Riley Goodno[12]; 10. 1JR-Steven Russell[3]; 11. GR8-Logan Julien[1]; 12. 9-Tyler Duff[10]; 13. 52F-Logan Faucon[13]; 14. 14N-Kevin Newton[20]; 15. 29-Brayton Lynch[11]; 16. 14T-Tim Estenson[24]; 17. 33$-Shane O'Banion[17]; 18. 20G-Noah Gass[6]; 19. 5H-Joey Moughan[16]; 20. 77U-Chris Urish[21]; 21. 4-Chase Richards[19]; 22. 11-Colton Fisher[14]; 23. 1-Trevin Littleton[18]; 24. 19H-Joel Myers Jr (22)
Armitage led Julien and Meseraull early in the 25-lapper. Russell passed Meseraull for third on lap three. Armitage was in traffic by lap eight. Both Meseraull and Nienhiser passed a bobbling Russell for third and fourth at the same time. Meseraull then took second from Julien on lap 10. Littleton got over the cushion and into the wall bringing the first caution. Nienhiser grabbed third from Julien on that restart. He then hit the cushion to ride around Meseraull for second on lap 13. He reeled in Armitage and shot around him for the lead on lap 16. Lynch tangled with Urish, collecting Estenson with nine to go. Nienhiser was unphased on that restart, and one more for Gass with six to go. He broke, collecting Moughan in the process. Bunton, in a points battle with Armitage, was the hard-charger, driving from 23rd to eighth.