9/19/2020
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Clouser repeats POWRi WAR on Night 2 of Hckett/McMillin Memorial
By Lyndal Scranton (Wheatland, MO) -- Night Two of the Jesse Hockett-Daniel McMillin Memorial produced familiar faces in Lucas Oil Speedway victory lane.
Mark Smith once again captured the Lucas Oil ASCS Winged Sprint feature while Mario Clouser repeated his victory in the POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Sprints.
In turn, Smith and Clouser stamped themselves as the drivers to beat in Saturday night's big-money finales. Smith and Clouser will start on the pole of their respective features.
PHOTO CREDIT: POWRi WAR photo
Saturday night will find features paying $10,000 to win for the ASCS Sprints and $3,077 to the POWRi WAR winner. Gates open at 3 p.m. with hot laps at 5:30 p.m. and racing set for 6:35.
Clouser makes it 2-for-2: Mario Clouser of Chatham, Illinois, made it two feature wins in the two preliminary nights for the POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Sprints, driving away to win by a straightaway margin over runner-up Casey Shuman.
Clouser took the lead on lap 14 and dominated the rest of the way. The success the first two nights nailed down the pole position for him for Saturday night’s $3,077-to-win finale.
Asked what has made his program so successful, Clouser said it was pretty simple.
“I’ve put a lot of work into it, I guess,” Clouser said, adding that the track was a lot different than a night earlier when it was extremely dry slick.
“Early on I was running the bottom and slowly those guys started to pull away,” Clouser said. “So I knew I had to do something different. I started to run (leader Colten Cottle) down and then the lapped car made it a little easier there to seal the deal.”
Cottle started outside of the front row and jumped to the lead, opening as much as a 2.1-second advantage by lap eight over Garrett Aitken.Clouser gradually closed in from his fifth starting position and moved into second by lap 11, whittling away at Cottle’s lead.
Clouser took over the point on lap 14, passing Cottle coming off turn two.
On lap later, the race’s first caution came out to bunch things up. Casey Shuman, Anthony Nicholson and Cottle followed the two leaders as the race went back to green.
Clouser made it a runaway from there, getting a clean restart and breezing to a second straight $1,500 triumph. Shuman was second with Aitken in third, Cottle fourth and Wyatt Burks in fifth.
A total of 133 cars - 74 ASCS Winged and 59 POWRi WAR wingless sprints - checked into the pits for Night 2 of the three-night event.
The major for open-wheel sprints is named in memory of Jesse Hockett, a legendary sprint-car driver from Warsaw who died in a 2010 shop accident and Daniel McMillin, Hockett's cousin and crew chief who passed away in an automobile accident in 2006.
Lucas Oil Speedway results (Sept. 18, 2020)
10th annual Jesse Hockett/Daniel McMillin Memorial
POWRi Lucas Oil WAR Sprints
Lucas Oil A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 6-Mario Clouser[5]; 2. 24X-Casey Shuman[3]; 3. 32-Garrett Aitken[1]; 4. 5C-Colten Cottle[2]; 5. 11W-Wyatt Burks[6]; 6. 91-Riley Kreisel[9]; 7. 28-Kory Schudy[11]; 8. 31-Joe B Miller[16]; 9. 16-Anthony Nicholson[7]; 10. 8D-Terry Babb[8]; 11. 33M-Matt Westfall[15]; 12. 311-Quinton Benson[22]; 13. 5D-Zach Daum[13]; 14. 12-Wesley Smith[19]; 15. 37-Brian Beebe[17]; 16. 77M-RJ Johnson[18]; 17. 77K-Katlynn Leer[14]; 18. 74-Xavier Doney[21]; 19. 22S-Slater Helt[12]; 20. 73-Samuel Wagner[23]; 21. 24-Landon Simon[4]; 22. 77-Jack Wagner[10]; 23. 9W-Justin Zimmerman[20]
Mesilla Valley Transport B Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 37-Brian Beebe[3]; 2. 9W-Justin Zimmerman[1]; 3. 18-Terry Richards[2]; 4. 73-Samuel Wagner[7]; 5. 1ST-Lane Stone[5]; 6. 11X-Tom Curran[6]; 7. 54-Trey Gropp[14]; 8. 90-Patrick Budde[9]; 9. 2-Jason Billups[15]; 10. 66M-Max Grogan[11]; 11. 27-Steve Thomas[4]; 12. 52-JD Fry[13]; 13. 89-Todd McVay[10]; 14. 15-Jeremy Jonas[8]; 15. (DNS) 90W-Dan Wohnoutka
Mesilla Valley Transport B Feature 2 (12 Laps): 1. 77M-RJ Johnson[1]; 2. 74-Xavier Doney[6]; 3. 20G-Noah Gass[2]; 4. 7JR-JD Black[3]; 5. 41-Brad Wyatt[12]; 6. 2C-Zach Clark[14]; 7. 7S-Wade Seiler[5]; 8. 2H-Luke Howard[8]; 9. 6X-Frank Rogers[9]; 10. 82-Christie Thomason[13]; 11. 21C-Chris Desselle[11]; 12. 44-Jason Howell[4]; 13. 96-Taylor Peterson[10]; 14. (DNS) 2K-Kyle Lewis
Mesilla Valley Transport B Feature 3 (12 Laps): 1. 12-Wesley Smith[2]; 2. 311-Quinton Benson[1]; 3. 24LCR-Chris Morgan[9]; 4. 1-Paul White[3]; 5. 42-Warren Johnson[4]; 6. 90X-Mitchell Moore[10]; 7. 57-Chase Parson[7]; 8. 97-Kevin Cummings[14]; 9. 73V-Blake Vermillion[5]; 10. 00-Jaden Brown[13]; 11. 00E-Broc Elliott[12]; 12. 118-Scott Evans[6]; 13. (DNS) 26B-Nick Rasa; 14. (DNS) 48-Nathan Moore
Schure Built Suspensions Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 18-Terry Richards[4]; 2. 2K-Kyle Lewis[2]; 3. 22S-Slater Helt[8]; 4. 5D-Zach Daum[10]; 5. 27-Steve Thomas[3]; 6. 1-Paul White[7]; 7. 57-Chase Parson[9]; 8. 90W-Dan Wohnoutka[1]; 9. 41-Brad Wyatt[6]; 10. 54-Trey Gropp[5]
Auto Meter Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 24X-Casey Shuman[4]; 2. 6-Mario Clouser[5]; 3. 33M-Matt Westfall[3]; 4. 7JR-JD Black[6]; 5. 31-Joe B Miller[9]; 6. 26B-Nick Rasa[1]; 7. 15-Jeremy Jonas[8]; 8. 66M-Max Grogan[7]; 9. 21C-Chris Desselle[10]; 10. 2-Jason Billups[2]
KSE Racing Products Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 77-Jack Wagner[4]; 2. 311-Quinton Benson[7]; 3. 42-Warren Johnson[2]; 4. 1ST-Lane Stone[8]; 5. 37-Brian Beebe[5]; 6. 73-Samuel Wagner[1]; 7. 90-Patrick Budde[6]; 8. 7S-Wade Seiler[10]; 9. 48-Nathan Moore[9]; 10. 97-Kevin Cummings[3]
Advanced Racing Suspensions Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 11W-Wyatt Burks[1]; 2. 44-Jason Howell[2]; 3. 74-Xavier Doney[4]; 4. 91-Riley Kreisel[6]; 5. 77M-RJ Johnson[7]; 6. 9W-Justin Zimmerman[10]; 7. 24LCR-Chris Morgan[3]; 8. 96-Taylor Peterson[8]; 9. 00E-Broc Elliott[5]; 10. 52-JD Fry[9]
Schoenfeld Headers Heat 5 (8 Laps): 1. 24-Landon Simon[5]; 2. 5C-Colten Cottle[9]; 3. 73V-Blake Vermillion[1]; 4. 118-Scott Evans[7]; 5. 11X-Tom Curran[6]; 6. 77K-Katlynn Leer[10]; 7. 89-Todd McVay[3]; 8. 90X-Mitchell Moore[8]; 9. 82-Christie Thomason[2]; 10. 2C-Zach Clark[4]
AFCO Heat 6 (8 Laps): 1. 32-Garrett Aitken[3]; 2. 28-Kory Schudy[5]; 3. 8D-Terry Babb[6]; 4. 16-Anthony Nicholson[8]; 5. 2H-Luke Howard[2]; 6. 12-Wesley Smith[4]; 7. 20G-Noah Gass[7]; 8. 6X-Frank Rogers[9]; 9. 00-Jaden Brown[1]
Bell Helmets Qualifier 1 (8 Laps): 1. 11W-Wyatt Burks[3]; 2. 24X-Casey Shuman[5]; 3. 5C-Colten Cottle[6]; 4. 77K-Katlynn Leer[7]; 5. 5D-Zach Daum[4]; 6. 7JR-JD Black[1]; 7. 7S-Wade Seiler[10]; 8. 11X-Tom Curran[8]; 9. 57-Chase Parson[9]; 10. 2K-Kyle Lewis[2]
Bell Helmets Qualifier 2 (8 Laps): 1. 91-Riley Kreisel[1]; 2. 6-Mario Clouser[4]; 3. 24-Landon Simon[6]; 4. 20G-Noah Gass[10]; 5. 77-Jack Wagner[5]; 6. 37-Brian Beebe[8]; 7. 44-Jason Howell[2]; 8. 42-Warren Johnson[7]; 9. 1ST-Lane Stone[3]; 10. 2H-Luke Howard[9]
Bell Helmets Qualifier 3 (8 Laps): 1. 16-Anthony Nicholson[3]; 2. 33M-Matt Westfall[1]; 3. 31-Joe B Miller[2]; 4. 28-Kory Schudy[4]; 5. 22S-Slater Helt[5]; 6. 1-Paul White[8]; 7. 311-Quinton Benson[6]; 8. 73V-Blake Vermillion[7]; 9. 15-Jeremy Jonas[9]; 10. 26B-Nick Rasa[10]
Bell Helmets Qualifier 4 (8 Laps): 1. 32-Garrett Aitken[5]; 2. 9W-Justin Zimmerman[1]; 3. 8D-Terry Babb[4]; 4. 77M-RJ Johnson[7]; 5. 12-Wesley Smith[9]; 6. 27-Steve Thomas[8]; 7. 18-Terry Richards[6]; 8. 73-Samuel Wagner[10]; 9. 74-Xavier Doney[2]; 10. 118-Scott Evans[3]
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Saturday schedule:
3 p.m. - Grandstands open
4:30 p.m. - Drivers’ meeting
5:30 p.m. - Hot laps
6:35 p.m. - Racing begins
Saturday admission:
Adults (16 and up) $30
Seniors (62 and up)/Military $27
Youth (6 to 15) $10
Kids (5 and under) FREE
Family Pass $70
Pit Pass $40
For more information on the two race series, visit ASCSracing.com and POWRi.com.
For ticket questions or information for any event at Lucas Oil Speedway, contact Admissions Director Nichole McMillan at (417) 282-5984 or email her at nichole@lucasoilspeedway.com for more information.
Submitted By: Kirk Elliott
