5/7/2023
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Davis, Sobbing win Jayhawk Classic at Lakeside
By USMTS (Kansas City, KS) -- The Lakeside Speedway hosted the Summit USMTS National Championship presented by RacinDirt on Saturday for the final night of the 12th Annual Jayhawk Classic at the historic half-mile dirt oval in Kansas City, Kan.
Just another USMTS race. Just another incredible finish… This time between two rivals from the Sunflower State.
PHOTO CREDIT: Todd Boyd
The green flag waved over the field with 40 laps the distance for one driver’s $10,000 payday, and polesitter Jason Hughes took advantage right away as the four-time USMTS National Champion charged forward to lead the first seven laps.
Tyler Davis of nearby Haysville, Kan., started next to Hughes on the front row but dropped back about six car-lengths before he began to reel the leader in a few laps later. Davis grabbed the top spot on the eighth lap but Hughes wrestled it right back one lap later.
Hughes currently sits second on the all-time USMTS wins list with 155 victories, but none have occurred at the Lakeside Speedway where the series has experienced 24 main events since 2012.
Behind the lead duo was Tanner Mullens, Carlos Ahumada Jr. and Dereck Ramirez with everybody in the top five searching every inch of the racing surface to find an advantage.
Davis found it on lap 15 as sped back into the lead. His reign was short-lived, however, as Mullens snagged first place just shy of the halfway mark before the race’s first and only caution came about on the 23rd lap.
From that moment forward, it was anybody’s race to win and a barnburner to the end. Nonetheless, Mullens was in charge from lap 19 until the finish. Almost.
As Mullens and Davis continued to bang the outside concrete wall each orbit while riding a skinny line of moisture, the wear and tear started to become visible. Over the course of the final seven laps or so, the rear spoiler on Mullens’ Mullens Chassis began to flop around in the wind while Davis pulled up to his rear bumper with two laps remaining.
Then, as the white flag waved, Davis went to the top side in the first turn while Mullens went from middle to top. The two raced nose-to-tail down the back-stretch and into the final corner.
Davis shot down low and got himself for a risky slider on the leader. He completed the slide job and drove away in the final few hundred feet for the win. Mullens, meanwhile, suffered a flat tire in the final corner so, unaware to Davis, his victory hopes were already dashed when Davis got by and got the $10,000 winner’s share of the prize money.
“We’ve sucked all year,” Davis proclaimed. “I don’t think we’ve been focused enough and this week I said we got to get our (crap) together. “That cushion was pretty gnarly down there and I gave up the lead by going to the bottom and hitting that rut and I know Tanner was trying to protect the same thing.
“I knew my only way to get it back was going to be a slide job at the end so I just really went in as hard as I could but I seen the white flag and he tucked in a little low. I just buried it in the corner and had the speed down the backstretch and we pulled it off.
It was the third career USMTS triumph for Davis, who bookended last season with wins at the Rocket Raceway Park and his home track at 81 Speedway.
Despite the last-lap tire failure, Mullens held off Dereck Ramirez for runner-up honors while Rodney Sanders and points leader Jake O'Neil came from 14th and 20th, respectively, to finish fourth and fifth.
Hughes held on for a sixth-place paycheck while Ahumada took seventh. Jim Chisholm passed ten cars to earn the eighth spot, rookie Jacob Hobscheidt nabbed ninth and Dan Ebert rounded out the top ten.
“My daughter said, ‘You don’t win any more… You suck Dad’ so we put our hard hats on and got to work,” added Davis—the defending Summit USRA Weekly Racing Series national champ in the USRA Modified division.
Up next for the Summit USMTS National Championship presented by RacinDirt is a return to the Deer Creek Speedway in Spring Valley, Minn., on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, May 25-27, for the 20th Annual LRS Waste Services USMTS Southern MN Spring Challenge.
For its Silver Anniversary season, the Summit USMTS National Championship presented by RacinDirt currently features 45 nights of racing at 15 of America's premier dirt track racing venues in nine states. The winners of those events are set to earn more than $300,000 with nearly $2 million in purses and prize money earmarked for the 2023 campaign.
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RESULTS
Summit Racing Equipment A Feature 1 (40 Laps): 1. 65-Tyler Davis[2]; 2. 02-Tanner Mullens[3]; 3. 4R-Dereck Ramirez[7]; 4. 20-Rodney Sanders[14]; 5. 0-Jake O'Neil[20]; 6. 12-Jason Hughes[1]; 7. 65X-Carlos Ahumada Jr[4]; 8. 24C-Jim Chisholm[18]; 9. 01-Jacob Hobscheidt[6]; 10. 60-Dan Ebert[13]; 11. 58X-Gary Christian[15]; 12. 87-Darron Fuqua[17]; 13. 88-Chad Wheeler[11]; 14. 10C-Cayden Carter[16]; 15. 4-Jeremy Nelson[24]; 16. 4TW-Tim Ward[19]; 17. K9-Will Krup[22]; 18. 21K-Kyle Brown[5]; 19. 11X-Tom Berry Jr[9]; 20. 4W-Tyler Wolff[10]; 21. 33Z-Zack VanderBeek[8]; 22. 75-Terry Phillips[23]; 23. 3B-Nic Bidinger[12]; 24. 25C-Cody Thompson[21]
Real Racing Wheels B Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 58X-Gary Christian[1]; 2. 87-Darron Fuqua[3]; 3. 4TW-Tim Ward[5]; 4. 25C-Cody Thompson[12]; 5. 10B-Brandon Givens[4]; 6. 99L-Steve Lavasseur[10]; 7. 11N-Gene Nicholas[9]; 8. 16-Austin Siebert[6]; 9. 75-Terry Phillips[2]; 10. 44K-Kelsie Foley[8]; 11. 68-Kerry Davis[7]; 12. (DNS) 45-Chase Holland
Real Racing Wheels B Feature 2 (12 Laps): 1. 10C-Cayden Carter[2]; 2. 24C-Jim Chisholm[1]; 3. 0-Jake O'Neil[3]; 4. K9-Will Krup[5]; 5. 1K-Tim Karrick[6]; 6. 44T-Tanner Black[4]; 7. 4-Jeremy Nelson[10]; 8. 17-Jon Plowman[7]; 9. 19SB-Lance Mari[12]; 10. 30-Dalton Kirk[11]; 11. 55-Chris Kratzer[9]; 12. 21C-Chad Clancy[8]; 13. (DNS) 38T-Dylan Thornton
Simpson Performance Products Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 33Z-Zack VanderBeek[1]; 2. 11X-Tom Berry Jr[3]; 3. 02-Tanner Mullens[4]; 4. 4W-Tyler Wolff[5]; 5. K9-Will Krup[2]; 6. 87-Darron Fuqua[10]; 7. 16-Austin Siebert[7]; 8. 68-Kerry Davis[8]; 9. 11N-Gene Nicholas[9]; 10. 25C-Cody Thompson[6]
Fast Shafts Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 01-Jacob Hobscheidt[2]; 2. 21K-Kyle Brown[4]; 3. 65X-Carlos Ahumada Jr[6]; 4. 88-Chad Wheeler[5]; 5. 0-Jake O'Neil[8]; 6. 17-Jon Plowman[1]; 7. 21C-Chad Clancy[3]; 8. 4-Jeremy Nelson[7]; 9. 30-Dalton Kirk[9]; 10. 45-Chase Holland[10]
Edelbrock Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 65-Tyler Davis[2]; 2. 12-Jason Hughes[4]; 3. 10C-Cayden Carter[3]; 4. 44T-Tanner Black[1]; 5. 20-Rodney Sanders[5]; 6. 60-Dan Ebert[6]; 7. 1K-Tim Karrick[9]; 8. 55-Chris Kratzer[8]; 9. 99L-Steve Lavasseur[7]; 10. 38T-Dylan Thornton[10]
Wieland Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 4R-Dereck Ramirez[3]; 2. 58X-Gary Christian[1]; 3. 24C-Jim Chisholm[4]; 4. 3B-Nic Bidinger[5]; 5. 75-Terry Phillips[6]; 6. 10B-Brandon Givens[7]; 7. 4TW-Tim Ward[9]; 8. 44K-Kelsie Foley[8]; 9. 19SB-Lance Mari[2]
Qualifying 1: 1. 4W-Tyler Wolff, 00:19.130[3]; 2. 02-Tanner Mullens, 00:19.204[4]; 3. 11X-Tom Berry Jr, 00:19.272[2]; 4. 87-Darron Fuqua, 00:19.305[9]; 5. K9-Will Krup, 00:19.541[5]; 6. 33Z-Zack VanderBeek, 00:19.639[6]; 7. 25C-Cody Thompson, 00:19.757[1]; 8. 16-Austin Siebert, 00:19.773[10]; 9. 68-Kerry Davis, 00:20.047[8]; 10. 11N-Gene Nicholas, 00:20.325[7]
Qualifying 2: 1. 65X-Carlos Ahumada Jr, 00:19.273[2]; 2. 88-Chad Wheeler, 00:19.296[1]; 3. 21K-Kyle Brown, 00:19.456[7]; 4. 21C-Chad Clancy, 00:19.458[9]; 5. 01-Jacob Hobscheidt, 00:19.577[8]; 6. 17-Jon Plowman, 00:19.637[4]; 7. 4-Jeremy Nelson, 00:19.648[5]; 8. 0-Jake O'Neil, 00:19.704[3]; 9. 30-Dalton Kirk, 00:19.850[6]; 10. 45-Chase Holland, 00:19.850[10]
Qualifying 3: 1. 60-Dan Ebert, 00:19.094[1]; 2. 20-Rodney Sanders, 00:19.107[4]; 3. 12-Jason Hughes, 00:19.228[7]; 4. 10C-Cayden Carter, 00:19.405[6]; 5. 65-Tyler Davis, 00:19.632[5]; 6. 44T-Tanner Black, 00:19.678[8]; 7. 99L-Steve Lavasseur, 00:19.719[9]; 8. 55-Chris Kratzer, 00:19.732[3]; 9. 1K-Tim Karrick, 00:19.747[2]; 10. 38T-Dylan Thornton, 00:19.747[10]
Qualifying 4: 1. 75-Terry Phillips, 00:19.216[7]; 2. 3B-Nic Bidinger, 00:19.274[1]; 3. 24C-Jim Chisholm, 00:19.330[8]; 4. 4R-Dereck Ramirez, 00:19.491[3]; 5. 19SB-Lance Mari, 00:19.509[2]; 6. 58X-Gary Christian, 00:19.558[9]; 7. 10B-Brandon Givens, 00:19.561[6]; 8. 44K-Kelsie Foley, 00:19.766[5]; 9. 4TW-Tim Ward, 00:19.816[4]
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SOBBINGS BAGS $10,000 PRIZE IN MALVERN BANK LATE MODELS
By Anthony Ainslie (Kansas City, KS) -- Jesse Sobbing scores the biggest jackpot of his career in Saturday’s Jayhawk Classic finale for the Malvern Bank and Haulin’ with Hoker Trucking Super Late Model Series.
The Malvern Bank West and Haulin’ with Hoker Trucking East Series were back at Kansas City, Kansas’ Lakeside Speedway for the second and final night of the 12th annual Jayhawk Classic. A strong field of 36 late models made the call for a shot at the $10,000.
Four-time Champion Tad Pospisil was the top qualifier on the evening, and after four heat races and two B features, 26 cars took to the speedway in the 40-lap main event. Pospisil started on pole position and was quick to jump out to the race lead. Jake Neal came up and took the lead on lap ten only for Pospisil to take the lead back the very next lap.
Concern struck Pospisil as his air filter broke off the car and brought out the race’s first caution on lap 11. On the ensuing restart, Dylan Sillman got the jump on Pospisil and took the lead.
With 27 laps to go, the biggest incident happened when Jason Hahne and Jesse Sobbing battled for position. Hahne ended up spinning in turn one and collected six other cars including Chad Holladay, Bill Leighton jr., Corey Zeitner, Dave Eckrich, Curt Schroeder, and Todd Cooney.
When racing resumed, Sillman continued to lead, but as the green-flag run went on, Sillman’s car was losing speed allowing Sobbing and Pospisil to catch up. Lapped traffic did not make it any easier, and with only seven circuits remaining, Sobbing made the go-ahead move for the lead.
From there, the defending Malvern Bank West Series Champion led the rest of way to take home the biggest win of his career. It was Sobbing’s first time winning a race worth $10,000 or more. The win is Sobbing’s ninth career series win putting him in a 3-way tie with Corey Zeitner and Justin Kay for fourth on the all-time wins list.
Pospisil would take second for the second night in a row while Justin Zeitner made a big charge late in the race to finish third. Andy Eckrich was fourth, and Dylan Sillman rounded out the top five.
With the historic Jayhawk Classic weekend in the record books, the Malvern Bank West Series will now set their sights on a doubleheader weekend in Missouri on May 12th and 13th. On Friday the 12th, the tour makes its debut at the U.S. 36 Raceway in Osborn and will then follow that up with the series’ return to Warrensburg’s Central Missouri Speedway.
MALVERN BANK SUPER LATE MODEL WEST SERIES
Malvern Bank Hoker Trucking A Feature 1 (40 Laps): 1. 99-Jesse Sobbing[8]; 2. 04-Tad Pospisil[1]; 3. 62-Justin Zeitner[4]; 4. 56-Andy Eckrich[21]; 5. 35D-Dylan Sillman[3]; 6. 44-Luke Goedert[9]; 7. 30-Todd Cooney[16]; 8. 85-Josh Leonard[11]; 9. 77-Jeff Aikey[13]; 10. 4-JC Wyman[26]; 11. 53-Andrew Kosiski[10]; 12. 1-Jake Neal[5]; 13. 07-Matt Ryan[20]; 14. 15C-Curt Schroeder[22]; 15. 52-Brian Kosiski[24]; 16. 32-Curtis Glover[23]; 17. 22-Charlie McKenna[12]; 18. 26JR-Corey Zeitner[6]; 19. 33-Nick Marolf[19]; 20. 76H-Jason Hahne[2]; 21. 32C-Chad Holladay[15]; 22. 58-Dave Eckrich[7]; 23. 24-Bill Leighton[14]; 24. 43-Derrick Stewart[17]; 25. 42-Fred Remley[18]; 26. 76-Zach Zeitner[25]
Predator Custom Trailers B Feature 1 (10 Laps): 1. 43-Derrick Stewart[4]; 2. 33-Nick Marolf[2]; 3. 76-Zach Zeitner[5]; 4. 99L-Jeff Larson[6]; 5. 56-Andy Eckrich[3]; 6. 10T-Jeff Tharp[1]; 7. 52-Brian Kosiski[8]; 8. 25-Brad Perdue[7]; 9. 55D-Shayne Bailey[9]; 10. 14-Kyle Berck[10]
Predator Custom Trailers B Feature 2 (10 Laps): 1. 42-Fred Remley[1]; 2. 07-Matt Ryan[4]; 3. 4-JC Wyman[2]; 4. 99D-Darrel DeFrance[9]; 5. 32-Curtis Glover[6]; 6. 14W-Dustin Walker[8]; 7. 10-TeeJay Janousek[7]; 8. 1X-Aaron Marrant[3]; 9. 15C-Curt Schroeder[5]; 10. 33G-Paul Glendenning[10]
Ideal Ready Mix Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 77-Jeff Aikey[1]; 2. 99-Jesse Sobbing[3]; 3. 04-Tad Pospisil[6]; 4. 10T-Jeff Tharp[2]; 5. 30-Todd Cooney[4]; 6. 32C-Chad Holladay[5]; 7. 99L-Jeff Larson[8]; 8. 99D-Darrel DeFrance[9]; 9. 14W-Dustin Walker[7]
Ideal Ready Mix Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 44-Luke Goedert[2]; 2. 35D-Dylan Sillman[6]; 3. 58-Dave Eckrich[4]; 4. 1X-Aaron Marrant[1]; 5. 85-Josh Leonard[5]; 6. 4-JC Wyman[3]; 7. 25-Brad Perdue[9]; 8. 32-Curtis Glover[7]; 9. 33G-Paul Glendenning[8]
Ideal Ready Mix Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 26JR-Corey Zeitner[4]; 2. 76H-Jason Hahne[5]; 3. 42-Fred Remley[1]; 4. 1-Jake Neal[6]; 5. 76-Zach Zeitner[7]; 6. 07-Matt Ryan[2]; 7. 43-Derrick Stewart[3]; 8. 55D-Shayne Bailey[9]; 9. 14-Kyle Berck[8]
Ideal Ready Mix Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 24-Bill Leighton[1]; 2. 53-Andrew Kosiski[3]; 3. 62-Justin Zeitner[6]; 4. 22-Charlie McKenna[4]; 5. 56-Andy Eckrich[2]; 6. 15C-Curt Schroeder[8]; 7. 10-TeeJay Janousek[9]; 8. 33-Nick Marolf[5]; 9. 52-Brian Kosiski[7]
Qualifying A: 1. 04-Tad Pospisil, 00:17.617[9]; 2. 35D-Dylan Sillman, 00:17.694[7]; 3. 32C-Chad Holladay, 00:17.878[11]; 4. 85-Josh Leonard, 00:17.914[1]; 5. 30-Todd Cooney, 00:18.143[4]; 6. 58-Dave Eckrich, 00:18.152[14]; 7. 99-Jesse Sobbing, 00:18.168[5]; 8. 4-JC Wyman, 00:18.193[15]; 9. 10T-Jeff Tharp, 00:18.208[16]; 10. 44-Luke Goedert, 00:18.215[10]; 11. 77-Jeff Aikey, 00:18.279[13]; 12. 1X-Aaron Marrant, 00:18.507[17]; 13. 14W-Dustin Walker, 00:18.588[2]; 14. 32-Curtis Glover, 00:18.765[6]; 15. 99L-Jeff Larson, 00:18.777[8]; 16. 33G-Paul Glendenning, 00:19.055[18]; 17. 99D-Darrel DeFrance, 00:19.185[3]; 18. 25-Brad Perdue, 00:19.205[12]
Qualifying B: 1. 1-Jake Neal, 00:18.014[16]; 2. 62-Justin Zeitner, 00:18.044[10]; 3. 76H-Jason Hahne, 00:18.063[14]; 4. 33-Nick Marolf, 00:18.159[2]; 5. 26JR-Corey Zeitner, 00:18.167[7]; 6. 22-Charlie McKenna, 00:18.202[9]; 7. 43-Derrick Stewart, 00:18.209[4]; 8. 53-Andrew Kosiski, 00:18.345[15]; 9. 07-Matt Ryan, 00:18.357[1]; 10. 56-Andy Eckrich, 00:18.393[11]; 11. 42-Fred Remley, 00:18.422[5]; 12. 24-Bill Leighton, 00:18.433[6]; 13. 76-Zach Zeitner, 00:18.443[18]; 14. 52-Brian Kosiski, 00:18.524[8]; 15. 14-Kyle Berck, 00:18.746[13]; 16. 15C-Curt Schroeder, 00:18.839[3]; 17. 55D-Shayne Bailey, 00:19.078[17]; 18. 10-TeeJay Janousek, 00:20.254[12]
Submitted By: Kirk Elliott