By Ray Cunningham (Park City, KS) -- After a extremely hot and windy day, Wyatt Burks took charge to win Saturday nights Wholesale Batteries USAC MWRA non winged sprint car feature event at Park City’s 81 Speedway located just outside of Wichita, Kansas.
PHOTO CREDIT: Mason McKim Photography
The “Sheriff” from Topeka, Kansas, the 2020 MWRA champ picked up his 9th all-time victory in this USAC series, and his 2nd at 81 Speedway in MWRA action after patiently working the bottom throughout the 25 lapper. While seizing the opportunity for the win after Cody Baker, and Xavier Doney both suffered tire woes. Meanwhile Quinton Benson from Sweet Springs, Missouri, and hometown favorite Jeremy Campbell from Wichita, worked their way up to the podium finishing 2nd and 3rd respectively, after starting in the 4th row. While rounding out the top 5 were impressive runs by teammates 2022 ROY candidate Chad Winfrey from Gladstone, Missouri, finishing 4th, and Chris Parkinson also from Gladstone rounding out the top 5.
Parkinson after dropping a cylinder during his heat race, would also pick up the JDL Media Hard Charger award after advancing from 18th to 5Th in the feature when Buddy Parker gave him his mount in the Parkinson/ Weld Racing machine in a great show of sportsmanship.
Positions 6-10 featured great efforts from Independence, Missouri’s, Dakota Earls running 6th, and Wichitas Spencer Martinez finishing 7th. While Olathe, Kansas chauffeur Zach Clark ran 8th, 2022 ROY candidate A.J. Gilbert of Tonganoxie, Kansas finished 9th, and Kearney, Missouri’s Brad Wyatt rounded out the top 10 in the 20 car field. Gilbert’s night was also one of perseverance as he dropped out of his heat race with mechanical woes in the DGR Deuce. And from there worked his way up from 16th to 7th before contact with Doney sent him to the back, before restarting and finishing in the top 10.
Earlier in the evening the “X-Man” Xavier Doney put on a show winning the first heat race coming from 6th to 1st giving him the pole for the feature event. While a pumped up Dakota Earls won the 2nd heat in impressive fashion over Burks, shaking his fist as he crossed the start finish line! And Cody Baker put on a clinic in heat number three while executing a perfect slide job to pass Winfrey on the last lap to win heat race number 3.
The USAC MWRA Sprint Cars are next in action Sunday night July 3rd racing for the first time ever at Butler, Missouri’s Electric City Speedway for race number 4 of the 2022 MWRA campaign. Racing action photo by John Lee High Fly’N High Fly'N Photos www.highfly-nphotos.com
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RESULTS
A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 11W-Wyatt Burks[3]; 2. 15B-Quinton Benson[7]; 3. 10C-Jeremy Campbell[8]; 4. 65W-Chad Winfrey[6]; 5. 93X-Chris Parkinson[18]; 6. 15E-Dakota Earls[4]; 7. 6S-Spencer Martinez[11]; 8. 26-Zach Clark[5]; 9. 2-AJ Gilbert[16]; 10. 41-Brad Wyatt[10]; 11. (DNF) 31M-Eric Matthews[12]; 12. (DNF) 74-Xavier Doney[1]; 13. (DNF) 9H-Cody Baker[2]; 14. (DNF) 2X-Kyle Lewis[17]; 15. (DNF) 7M-Heath Murry[15]; 16. (DNF) 27J-Justin Johnson[9]; 17. (DNF) 9X-Chad Goff[13]; 18. (DNF) 03-Tyler Burton[14]; 19. (DNS) 11X-Tom Curran; 20. (DNS) 93-Buddy Parker
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 74-Xavier Doney[6]; 2. 93X-Chris Parkinson[2]; 3. 15B-Quinton Benson[4]; 4. 31M-Eric Matthews[1]; 5. 27J-Justin Johnson[7]; 6. 03-Tyler Burton[3]; 7. (DNF) 2-AJ Gilbert[5]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 15E-Dakota Earls[1]; 2. 11W-Wyatt Burks[5]; 3. 10C-Jeremy Campbell[4]; 4. 41-Brad Wyatt[3]; 5. 93-Buddy Parker[2]; 6. (DNF) 7M-Heath Murry[7]; 7. (DNS) 2X-Kyle Lewis
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 9H-Cody Baker[3]; 2. 65W-Chad Winfrey[1]; 3. 26-Zach Clark[5]; 4. 6S-Spencer Martinez[2]; 5. 9X-Chad Goff[4]; 6. (DNS) 11X-Tom Curran
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ALTERNATIVE PEST MANAGEMENT USRA MODIFIEDS
A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 8-Dillon McCowan[1]; 2. 75-Tad Davis[8]; 3. 87-Kenny Sweet[4]; 4. 21B-Bryce Schniepp[6]; 5. 19R-Chris Kratzer[3]; 6. 4A-Josh Lanterman[14]; 7. 127-Paden Phillips[5]; 8. 22N-Kevin Newell[10]; 9. 3J-Lewis Jackson[19]; 10. 4-Dan Powers[13]; 11. 15W-Wyatt Gaggero[17]; 12. 18-Bobby Mayfield[20]; 13. 65B-Brett Davis[23]; 14. 69-Cecil Dymond[7]; 15. 32R-Daniel Richey[9]; 16. (DNF) 20G-Jake Greider[16]; 17. (DNF) K9-Kyler Kemp[15]; 18. (DNF) 96-Logan Johnson[12]; 19. (DNF) 2W-Richard Wilson[24]; 20. (DNF) 71-Patrick McManus[11]; 21. (DNF) 37D-Dakota Dale[2]; 22. (DNF) 42-Darren Moses[21]; 23. (DNF) 52-Ryan McAninch[18]; 24. (DNF) 14-Eric Jarvis[22]
B Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 4-Dan Powers[2]; 2. 4A-Josh Lanterman[1]; 3. K9-Kyler Kemp[4]; 4. 20G-Jake Greider[3]; 5. 15W-Wyatt Gaggero[7]; 6. 52-Ryan McAninch[8]; 7. 3J-Lewis Jackson[5]; 8. 18-Bobby Mayfield[13]; 9. 42-Darren Moses[6]; 10. 14-Eric Jarvis[16]; 11. 65B-Brett Davis[12]; 12. 2W-Richard Wilson[9]; 13. (DNF) 7CJ-Chris Eveland[11]; 14. (DNF) 41-Chevy Coleman[10]; 15. (DNF) 7J-Jerry Eveland[15]; 16. (DNF) 38-Cody Johnson[14]; 17. (DNS) 7-Steve Emond
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 87-Kenny Sweet[3]; 2. 8-Dillon McCowan[7]; 3. 75-Tad Davis[6]; 4. 96-Logan Johnson[1]; 5. 20G-Jake Greider[5]; 6. 4-Dan Powers[9]; 7. 52-Ryan McAninch[8]; 8. 41-Chevy Coleman[4]; 9. 65B-Brett Davis[10]; 10. 38-Cody Johnson[2]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 21B-Bryce Schniepp[2]; 2. 37D-Dakota Dale[6]; 3. 127-Paden Phillips[9]; 4. 32R-Daniel Richey[8]; 5. K9-Kyler Kemp[5]; 6. 3J-Lewis Jackson[7]; 7. 15W-Wyatt Gaggero[10]; 8. 7CJ-Chris Eveland[1]; 9. 18-Bobby Mayfield[3]; 10. (DNS) 7-Steve Emond
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 19R-Chris Kratzer[2]; 2. 69-Cecil Dymond[4]; 3. 22N-Kevin Newell[3]; 4. 4A-Josh Lanterman[1]; 5. 71-Patrick McManus[9]; 6. 42-Darren Moses[7]; 7. 2W-Richard Wilson[8]; 8. (DNF) 7J-Jerry Eveland[5]; 9. (DNF) 14-Eric Jarvis[6]
AUTOTECH SERVICE SUPER STOCKS
A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 75-Jerrod Reimer[4]; 2. 24B-David Blocher[1]; 3. 36-Chris Purkey[5]; 4. M111-Scott Miller[13]; 5. 34-Rickey Bonham[3]; 6. 09B-Kyle Blocher[2]; 7. 19-Shane Cook[6]; 8. 7J-Jerry Eveland Sr[10]; 9. 67-Austin Ramey[8]; 10. 164-James Weve[12]; 11. 54-Mike McIlvain[7]; 12. 45-Scott Squier[14]; 13. 32-Jeff Richey[19]; 14. 82-Joey Richmond[15]; 15. 134-Alan Blevins[9]; 16. 2K-Colten Kelley[11]; 17. 3B-Raymond Ketner[17]; 18. 66-Jeremy Heim[21]; 19. 21-Ron Creech[18]; 20. (DNF) 84T-Mark Courtright[16]; 21. (DNS) 28-Tim Ozbun
Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 75-Jerrod Reimer[2]; 2. 09B-Kyle Blocher[1]; 3. 134-Alan Blevins[3]; 4. 7J-Jerry Eveland Sr[4]; 5. 164-James Weve[7]; 6. 82-Joey Richmond[5]; 7. 3B-Raymond Ketner[6]
Heat 2 (6 Laps): 1. 19-Shane Cook[1]; 2. 36-Chris Purkey[5]; 3. 24B-David Blocher[7]; 4. 2K-Colten Kelley[2]; 5. M111-Scott Miller[4]; 6. (DNS) 28-Tim Ozbun; 7. (DNS) 32-Jeff Richey
Heat 3 (6 Laps): 1. 34-Rickey Bonham[6]; 2. 54-Mike McIlvain[1]; 3. 67-Austin Ramey[4]; 4. 66-Jeremy Heim[7]; 5. 45-Scott Squier[3]; 6. 84T-Mark Courtright[5]; 7. 21-Ron Creech[2]
PRIMAL JERKY MINI STOCKS
A Feature 1 (10 Laps): 1. 775-Jayce Reimer[3]; 2. 36-Brett Barber[7]; 3. 26D-David Bice[5]; 4. 88-RC Esparza[2]; 5. 16-Rustin Allen[10]; 6. 16X-Addison Petty[6]; 7. (DNF) 73G-Gratton Dalton[1]; 8. (DNF) 78-Tina Flauding[4]; 9. (DNF) 4K-Kasey Coleman[9]; 10. (DNS) 15-Harley Gaggero; 11. (DNS) 5-Mark Jaeger; 12. (DNS) 5G-Craig Pemberton
Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 88-RC Esparza[2]; 2. 775-Jayce Reimer[3]; 3. 26D-David Bice[5]; 4. 36-Brett Barber[1]; 5. (DNF) 4K-Kasey Coleman[6]; 6. (DNS) 15-Harley Gaggero
Heat 2 (6 Laps): 1. 73G-Gratton Dalton[3]; 2. 78-Tina Flauding[2]; 3. 16X-Addison Petty[4]; 4. (DNF) 5-Mark Jaeger[1]; 5. (DNF) 16-Rustin Allen[5]; 6. (DNS) 5G-Craig Pemberton