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Phillips masters Mason City for 40th USMTS triumph

By USMTS PR (Mason City, IA) -- The best of the best battled for a second night on Friday as the Pritchard Family Auto Stores Mason City Motor Speedway hosted round two of the 10th Annual USMTS North Iowa Nationals presented by Christie Door Store.

After nabbing the Sybesma Pole Award, Terry Phillips set a torrid pace early on as North Iowa’s Action Track provided a completely different racetrack than 24 hours earlier.

PHOTO CREDIT: Buck Monson

Four cautions slowed the action throughout the 40-lap main event, and several attackers took a shot at the 57-year-old superstar from Springfield, Mo., but Phillips never faltered and led the whole way for his second win of 2023 and 40th of his USMTS career.

“We got lucky in that heat race there on the front, and I knew the car has been good, but I’ve been getting a lot of calls asking what's wrong and it’s just kind of circumstances I guess,” Philips said in victory lane. “It felt good though. Tommy Boy (Tony Rogers) got us dialed in tonight.

“I’m already worried about tomorrow, but it feels good. We have fought and worked our butts off.”

The last and only win in Mason City happened on Aug. 12, 2018, for the son of NASCAR hall-of-famer Larry Phillips when the track was a classic fairgrounds-style big, fast half-mile oval.

Friday’s triumph was worth $5,000 while Sanders rebounded from a rough night Thursday to grab the runner-up spot and extend his points lead after 26 events.

Jake O'Neil bested Jeremy Nelson for third after those two battled hard can clean most of the race, and last night’s winner, Jim Chisholm, roared from 18th to fifth at the checkered flag to earn the FK Rod Ends Hard Charger Award.

Also passing 13 competitors from his place on the starting grid, Tyler Wolff clawed his way to a sixth-place finish while Cayden Carter, 16th-starting Tanner Mullens, Jason Hughes and Dereck Ramirez rounded out the top 10.

Return of The King: Nine-time USMTS National Champion Kelly Shryock of Fertile, Iowa, finished 14th as he was seeking back-to-back wins, so to speak.

His last win came on Nov. 8, 2014, when he won the finale of the USMTS Winter Nationals at the Ark-La-Tex Speedway in Vivian, La.—his last start with the series before Saturday.

In 1999 when he won his first USMTS title during the debut season for Todd and Janet Staley’s fledgling series, Shryock didn’t win a points race. His only win came on Oct. 7 that year during the inaugural Featherlite Fall Jamboree, which was a non-points race at the time.

There were 18 races that season, and he didn't win his first points race until midway through the third season on June 7, 2001, at the North Fork Speedway in Oronogo, Mo., en route to his third straight USMTS crown.

With 182 career victories, Shryock leads all drivers in titles and wins, and is currently the only driver inducted into the USMTS Hall of Fame—that part will change next month at the 25th Anniversary USMTS Silver Jubilee right here in Mason City when several others will join him.

Two down, one to go: The throttle-smashing USMTS maniacs return for a third day Saturday for championship night at the 10th Annual North Iowa Nationals. The winner will take home a cool $10,000 plus contingencies in the prelude to the 25th Anniversary USMTS Silver Jubilee here Aug. 16-19.

Saturday’s show will also feature the mud-slinging WINS Sprint Car Series racing for $1,200 to win and another night of wild ‘n’ wacky school bus races.

The pits open at 4 p.m. and grandstand gates swing open at 5. Following the drivers meeting at 6:15, hot laps and qualifying begins at 6:30 with racing following the National Anthem around 7. All times are Central Standard Time.

The Mason City Motor Speedway is a 1/3-mile clay oval located 5.1 miles east of I-35 at exit 194 on SR 122 (at the North Iowa Fairgrounds). For more information, call (515) 832-6000 or check out MasonCityMotorSpeedway.com. You can also follow MCMS on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

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. 75-Terry Phillips[1]; 2. 20-Rodney Sanders[3]; 3. 0-Jake O'Neil[5]; 4. 4-Jeremy Nelson[2]; 5. 24C-Jim Chisholm[18]; 6. 4W-Tyler Wolff[19]; 7. 10C-Cayden Carter[10]; 8. 02-Tanner Mullens[16]; 9. 12-Jason Hughes[14]; 10. 4R-Dereck Ramirez[15]; 11. 33Z-Zack VanderBeek[8]; 12. K9-Will Krup[6]; 13. 60-Dan Ebert[13]; 14. 3-Kelly Shryock[7]; 15. 21K-Kyle Brown[21]; 16. 65X-Carlos Ahumada Jr[22]; 17. 24-Aaron Benson[12]; 18. 99L-Steve Lavasseur[4]; 19. 7-Al Hejna[26]; 20. 23-Darwin Karau[11]; 21. (DNF) 38T-Dylan Thornton[25]; 22. (DNF) 96-Taton Hansen[24]; 23. (DNF) 15W-Alex Williamson[23]; 24. (DNF) 58X-Gary Christian[17]; 25. (DNF) 11X-Tom Berry Jr[9]; 26. (DNF) 49-Jake Timm[20]

Real Racing Wheels B Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 4R-Dereck Ramirez[2]; 2. 58X-Gary Christian[1]; 3. 4W-Tyler Wolff[3]; 4. 21K-Kyle Brown[6]; 5. 15W-Alex Williamson[5]; 6. 4TW-Tim Ward[4]; 7. 55H-AJ Hoff[9]; 8. 7-Al Hejna[10]; 9. 65D-Dustin Brown[7]; 10. 29D-Brad Dierks[11]; 11. 60X-Tyler Wirtjes[13]; 12. 96T-RC Whitwell[12]; 13. R-Ron Ver Beek[8]; 14. 87-Darron Fuqua[14]

Real Racing Wheels B Feature 2 (15 Laps): 1. 02-Tanner Mullens[1]; 2. 24C-Jim Chisholm[5]; 3. 49-Jake Timm[2]; 4. 65X-Carlos Ahumada Jr[7]; 5. 96-Taton Hansen[10]; 6. 71M-Chad Melton[11]; 7. 1G-Pat Graham[9]; 8. 16B-Randy Brown[12]; 9. 17-Jon Plowman[13]; 10. 19SB-Lance Mari[3]; 11. 38T-Dylan Thornton[4]; 12. 10B-Brandon Givens[14]; 13. 25-Joe Chisholm[8]; 14. 5D-Devon Havlik[6]

Simpson Performance Products Heat 1 (10 Laps): 1. 20-Rodney Sanders[2]; 2. 0-Jake O'Neil[4]; 3. K9-Will Krup[6]; 4. 10C-Cayden Carter[5]; 5. R-Ron Ver Beek[1]; 6. 65D-Dustin Brown[8]; 7. 71M-Chad Melton[3]; 8. 17-Jon Plowman[7]; 9. 87-Darron Fuqua[9]

Fast Shafts Heat 2 (10 Laps): 1. 4-Jeremy Nelson[2]; 2. 11X-Tom Berry Jr[4]; 3. 3-Kelly Shryock[6]; 4. 5D-Devon Havlik[1]; 5. 4W-Tyler Wolff[5]; 6. 55H-AJ Hoff[3]; 7. 7-Al Hejna[7]; 8. 96T-RC Whitwell[8]; 9. (DNS) 10B-Brandon Givens

Edelbrock Heat 3 (10 Laps): 1. 99L-Steve Lavasseur[1]; 2. 23-Darwin Karau[2]; 3. 02-Tanner Mullens[4]; 4. 15W-Alex Williamson[3]; 5. 4R-Dereck Ramirez[6]; 6. 21K-Kyle Brown[5]; 7. 96-Taton Hansen[7]; 8. 16B-Randy Brown[8]

Wieland Heat 4 (10 Laps): 1. 75-Terry Phillips[2]; 2. 24-Aaron Benson[1]; 3. 49-Jake Timm[3]; 4. 4TW-Tim Ward[4]; 5. 38T-Dylan Thornton[5]; 6. 1G-Pat Graham[7]; 7. 65X-Carlos Ahumada Jr[6]; 8. 60X-Tyler Wirtjes[8]

VP Race Fuels Heat 5 (10 Laps): 1. 33Z-Zack VanderBeek[2]; 2. 58X-Gary Christian[1]; 3. 19SB-Lance Mari[3]; 4. 24C-Jim Chisholm[4]; 5. 60-Dan Ebert[6]; 6. 25-Joe Chisholm[8]; 7. 29D-Brad Dierks[7]; 8. 12-Jason Hughes[5]

Qualifying 1 (2 Laps): 1. K9-Will Krup[8]; 2. 10C-Cayden Carter[3]; 3. 0-Jake O'Neil[5]; 4. 71M-Chad Melton[4]; 5. 20-Rodney Sanders[7]; 6. R-Ron Ver Beek[9]; 7. 17-Jon Plowman[6]; 8. 65D-Dustin Brown[2]; 9. 87-Darron Fuqua[1]

Qualifying 2 (2 Laps): 1. 3-Kelly Shryock[9]; 2. 4W-Tyler Wolff[8]; 3. 11X-Tom Berry Jr[1]; 4. 55H-AJ Hoff[7]; 5. 4-Jeremy Nelson[4]; 6. 5D-Devon Havlik[5]; 7. 10B-Brandon Givens[3]; 8. 7-Al Hejna[2]; 9. 96T-RC Whitwell[6]

Qualifying 3 (2 Laps): 1. 4R-Dereck Ramirez, 00:15.057[4]; 2. 21K-Kyle Brown, 00:15.170[3]; 3. 02-Tanner Mullens, 00:15.267[7]; 4. 15W-Alex Williamson, 00:15.397[5]; 5. 23-Darwin Karau, 00:15.494[1]; 6. 99L-Steve Lavasseur, 00:15.495[8]; 7. 96-Taton Hansen, 00:15.559[6]; 8. 16B-Randy Brown, 00:16.341[2]

Qualifying 4 (2 Laps): 1. 65X-Carlos Ahumada Jr, 00:15.105[2]; 2. 38T-Dylan Thornton, 00:15.151[8]; 3. 4TW-Tim Ward, 00:15.278[6]; 4. 49-Jake Timm, 00:15.304[3]; 5. 75-Terry Phillips, 00:15.382[4]; 6. 24-Aaron Benson, 00:15.394[1]; 7. 1G-Pat Graham, 00:15.463[7]; 8. 60X-Tyler Wirtjes, 00:15.463[5]

Qualifying 5 (2 Laps): 1. 60-Dan Ebert, 00:14.920[7]; 2. 12-Jason Hughes, 00:15.024[1]; 3. 24C-Jim Chisholm, 00:15.153[5]; 4. 19SB-Lance Mari, 00:15.234[6]; 5. 33Z-Zack VanderBeek, 00:15.250[4]; 6. 58X-Gary Christian, 00:15.265[3]; 7. 29D-Brad Dierks, 00:15.806[2]; 8. 25-Joe Chisholm, 00:16.115[8]

WESTERN IOWA NON-WING SPRINTS

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 93-Josh Most[4]; 2. 97X-Cam Schafer[6]; 3. 6-Jake Kouba[2]; 4. 10Z-Zach Widdes[3]; 5. 38-Eric Schulz[5]; 6. 93S-Glen Saville[7]; 7. 3K-Jeremy Kerzman[1]; 8. 7B-Scott Brandt[14]; 9. 11B-Ben Woods[12]; 10. 12-Doug Sylvester[11]; 11. 4T-Taylor Forbes[8]; 12. 7-Clinton Bruns[10]; 13. 17-Doug Martens[13]; 14. 18-Nate Laugen[9]; 15. 7X-Lance Silvers[15]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 97X-Cam Schafer[5]; 2. 6-Jake Kouba[1]; 3. 93S-Glen Saville[2]; 4. 4T-Taylor Forbes[4]; 5. 18-Nate Laugen[3]; 6. 12-Doug Sylvester[6]; 7. 17-Doug Martens[8]; 8. (DNF) 7X-Lance Silvers[7]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 38-Eric Schulz[3]; 2. 10Z-Zach Widdes[2]; 3. 93-Josh Most[7]; 4. 3K-Jeremy Kerzman[6]; 5. 7-Clinton Bruns[1]; 6. 11B-Ben Woods[5]; 7. 7B-Scott Brandt[4]

SCHOOL BUSES

A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 5-Lucas Prohaska[2]; 2. 21ISH-Joseph Prohaska[6]; 3. 96-Reece Burggeman[3]; 4. 555-Zach Eichmann[1]; 5. 7-Travis Schmidt[4]; 6. 1206-Erik Goll[7]; 7. 1776-Matt Braickman[8]; 8. 30+-Tucker Brinkman[5]; 9. 69XXX-Mick Formanek[9]; 10. 73-Cade Steenhard[13]; 11. 01-Jade Pringnitz[10]; 12. 777-Dalton Cullinan[11]; 13. 48-Ryan Drag[12]

Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 555-Zach Eichmann[1]; 2. 30+-Tucker Brinkman[2]; 3. 21ISH-Joseph Prohaska[4]; 4. 1206-Erik Goll[6]; 5. 01-Jade Pringnitz[5]; 6. 777-Dalton Cullinan[7]; 7. 73-Cade Steenhard[3]

Heat 2 (6 Laps): 1. 5-Lucas Prohaska[6]; 2. 96-Reece Burggeman[4]; 3. 7-Travis Schmidt[3]; 4. 1776-Matt Braickman[5]; 5. 69XXX-Mick Formanek[2]; 6. 48-Ryan Drag[1]

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