Zach
Attacks at I-30 Speedway for Lucas
Oil ASCS Loot!
Lonnie Wheatley, LITTLE ROCK,
Ark. (April 10, 2010) – Zach
Chappell burst back into Lucas
Oil
ASCS Sprint Car Series
presented by K&N Filters victory
lane in what would prove to be
an instant classic Sprint Car
feature event, holding off Brady
Bacon and a closing
Jesse Hockett to win
Saturday night’s non-stop 35-lap
main event atop I-30 Speedway’s
high-banked, ¼-mile red clay
oval.
The 2001 ASCS National Champion
overtook Tim Crawley for the
lead on the 14th
circuit and then held off
Bacon’s challenges over the
final ten rounds with Hockett in
the mix as well, taking his
eighth career Lucas Oil ASCS
National triumph and the first
since June of 2004 in a feature
event that took a mere ten
minutes to complete.
“I knew someone was out there
but I couldn’t tell who it was,”
Chappell commented in victory
lane. “My brakes were pretty
hot, so I was just kinda chillin’
on the low side, trying to make
good, clean laps.”
It was just enough for the lanky
Talala, OK, racer, who held off
the rim-riding Bacon to secure
the win in
David Chappell’s Wesmar-powered
Legends Bar-B-Que No. 50z Maxim.
While Chappell gridded the
feature field inside the third
row a night after being
sidelined in a heat race melee
at Lone Star Speedway, it was
20-year-old Bacon leading the
feature field to the green flag
with three-time ASCS National
champion and I-30 Speedway ace
Crawley alongside.
Crawley gunned into the lead at
the outset in front of his
hometown crowd aboard Mike
Ward’s McCarver-powered Boater
Sports No. 88 Maxim and paced
the early rounds in front of
Bacon and fourth-starter Justin
Carver, with Chappell fourth in
the early going.
Finding the low side of the
track to his liking, Chappell
didn’t waste much time getting
on the move though. Chappell
slipped by Carver for third on
the eighth lap and then disposed
of Bacon for the runner-up slot
on the eleventh lap just as
Crawley reached the tail of the
field.
Chappell set his sights on the
leader, reeled him in and raced
into the lead through turns one
and two on the 14th
round with Bacon following suit
four laps later.
While Bacon kept Chappell in his
sights, Jesse Hockett climbed
into the lead mix as well when
he took third away from Crawley
on the 22nd lap and
began shadowing the lead pair.
With Chappell tenaciously
sticking to the low side, Bacon
began working the upper reaches
of I-30 Speedway clay over the
final ten circuits. Bacon
pulled alongside Chappell
several times and even edged
ahead momentarily during
portions of laps 27 and 28, only
to have Chappell surge back in
front at the stripe.
A slick move through a pair of
lapped cars on the 29th
lap gave Chappell some breathing
room, albeit briefly. Bidding
for his first Lucas Oil ASCS
National win, Bacon worked his
way past the traffic and made
one last-gasp rally on the top
side over the final two circuits
only to fall two car-lengths
short at the stripe in Mike and
Megan Eubanks’ Wesmar-powered
Tel-Star Communications No. 99
Triple X.
In the lead duo’s wake and in
position to pounce on any
bobbles by the leading Oklahoma
duo was Hockett, who settled for
a close third-place showing in
the Don Ott-powered VKCC
Motorsports No. 75 A.R.T.
Crawley crossed the stripe in
fourth, with two-time and
defending Short Track Nationals
champion Tony Bruce, Jr.,
rounding out the top five in the
Bruce Racing No. 18 Maxim.
Marshall Skinner claimed sixth
in his 2010 Lucas Oil ASCS
debut, with defending I-30
Speedway track champion Justin
Sturch racing from 19th
to seventh.
Reigning Lucas Oil ASCS Sprint
Car Series presented by K&N
Filters champion Shane Stewart
rallied from the 18th
starting position to claim
eighth, escaping the night with
a three-point advantage over
Hockett in the series $60,000
championship points race.
Jack Dover gained a half-dozen
positions to finish ninth, with
Brian Brown advancing from 19th
to complete the top ten.
While the feature ran off in
entertaining non-stop fashion,
several contenders watched much
of the proceedings from the
infield after running afoul of
the infield markers including
Travis Rilat and
Sammy Swindell.
Bacon, Matt Covington, A.G.
Rains, Chappell, Bruce, Jr., and
Crawley topped heat race action
for Saturday night’s 53-car
field, with Brown, Stewart and
Sturch winning the “B” Mains.
The Lucas Oil ASCS Sprint Car
Series presented by K&N Filters
returns to action with the
Second Annual Rock ‘N Roll 50 at
Riverside International Speedway
in West Memphis, AR, on April
23-24.
Lucas Oil
ASCS Sprint Cars
presented by K&N Filters
I-30
Speedway Results:
Heat
Races (Top 16 in Passing Points
to "A" Main; Balance to 3 "B"
Mains):
Heat One (10
Laps): 1. 99-Brady Bacon, 2.
10-Sammy Swindell, 3.
26-Marshall Skinner, 4.
16-Anthony Nicholson, 5.
29-Travis Rilat, 6. 6-Kyle Hirst,
7. 0-Andy McElhannon, 8.
44-Ronny Howard, 9. 74x-Joshua
Hodges.
Heat Two (10
Laps): 1. 95-Matt Covington, 2.
75-Jesse Hockett, 3. 57-Shane
Stewart, 4. 45x-Johnny Herrera,
5. 93-Dustin Morgan, 6. 7-Don
Young, 7. 9x-Gary Wright, 8.
8z-Zach Pringle, 9. 94-Danny
Wood.
Heat Three
(10 Laps): 1. 3-A.G. Rains, 2.
71-Channin Tankersley, 3.
23-Brian Bell, 4. 1g-Cody
Gardner, 5. 35-Matt Sherrell, 6.
44w-Austen Wheatley, 7. 32-Garry
Bell, 8. 3g-Darren Long, 9.
6x-Raymond Stull.
Heat Four
(10 Laps): 1. 50z-Zach
Chappell, 2. 58-Wade Oliver, 3.
53-Jack Dover, 4. 9-Justin
Sturch, 5. 57g-Dude Garrett, 6.
2-Kenneth Walker, 7. 5k-Jerry
Kamer, 8. 40-Ernie Ainsworth, 9.
91x-Taylor Milton.
Heat Five
(10 Laps): 1. 18-Tony Bruce,
Jr., 2. 1-Sean McClelland, 3.
24-Justin Carver, 4. 39-Brad
Bowden, 5. 1x-Chad Pitts, 6.
87a-Andrew Marshala, 7.
10a-Ricky Logan, 8. 17-Bruce
Griffith, Jr., 9. 12T-Joe Young.
Heat Six (10
Laps): 1. 88-Tim Crawley, 2.
91-Darren Stewart, 3. 41-Jason
Johnson, 4. 21-Brian Brown, 5.
8x-Chris Williams, 6. 5h-Justyn
Cox, 7. 14-Jordon Mallett. DNS:
12g-Johnny Gardner.
"B"
Mains (Top 2 From Each Advance
to "A" Main):
First "B"
Feature (12 Laps): 1. 21-Brian
Brown, 2. 29-Travis Rilat, 3.
57g-Dude Garrett, 4. 1g-Cody
Gardner, 5. 16-Anthony
Nicholson, 6. 6x-Raymond Stull,
7. 0-Andy McElhannon, 8. 1x-Chad
Pitts, 9. 32-Garry Bell, 10.
87a-Andrew Marshala. DNS:
40-Ernie Ainsworth, 44-Ronny
Howard, 12g-Johnny Gardner.
Second "B"
Feature (12 Laps): 1. 57-Shane
Stewart, 2. 45x-Johnny Herrera,
3. 3g-Darren Long, 4. 35-Matt
Sherrell, 5. 8x-Chris Williams,
6. 10a-Ricky Logan, 7. 5h-Justyn
Cox, 8. 74x-Joshua Hodges, 9.
17-Bruce Griffith, Jr., 10.
8z-Zach Pringle, 11. 93-Dustin
Morgan. DNS: 39-Brad Bowden.
Third “B”
Feature (12 Laps): 1. 9-Justin
Sturch, 2. 6-Kyle Hirst, 3.
9x-Gary Wright, 4. 44w-Austen
Wheatley, 5. 2-Kenneth Walker,
6. 7-Don Young, 7. 5k-Jerry
Kamer, 8. 94-Danny Wood, 9.
14-Jordon Mallett, 10.
91x-Taylor Milton, 11. 23-Brian
Bell. DNS: 12T-Joe Young.
I-30
Speedway “A" Main Event:
“A” Feature (35 Laps): 1.
50z-Zach Chappell, 2. 99-Brady
Bacon, 3. 75-Jesse Hockett, 4.
88-Tim Crawley, 5. 18-Tony
Bruce, Jr., 6. 26-Marshall
Skinner, 7. 9-Justin Sturch, 8.
57-Shane Stewart, 9. 53-Jack
Dover, 10. 21-Brian Brown, 11.
91-Darren Stewart, 12. 6-Kyle
Hirst, 13. 41-Jason Johnson, 14.
9x-Gary Wright, 15. 24-Justin
Carver, 16. 95-Matt Covington,
17. 45x-Johnny Herrera, 18.
3-A.G. Rains, 19. 58-Wade
Oliver, 20. 71-Channin
Tankersley, 21. 1-Sean
McClelland, 22. 94-Danny Wood,
23. 10-Sammy Swindell, 24.
29-Travis Rilat.
HORIZON MINI-SPRINTS ~ 10
HEAT WINNER: #15j
Jeremy Middleton
FEATURE: #89 Blake
Jenkins, #71 Kelsey Jenkins (Mid
State Golf Cars Hard Charger),
#d6 Dakota Gaines, #92f Nick
Counts, #05 Jacob Lofland, #15j
Middleton, #32 Nick Ivy, #50 JJ
Borden and #25 Ronnie Beard
MINI-SPRINTS ~ 19
HEAT WINNERS: #9x
Bradley Meyer and #11a Seth
Akers
FEATURE: #22j Josh Rehm,
#631 Phil Reed, #32 Nick Ivy,
#9x Meyer, #43 Matthew Bauldwin,
#20 Jeremy Postlethwait (Mid
State Golf Cars Hard Charger),
#3 Cody Coggin, #13 Tristan
Tidmore, #57 Trent Taylor, #3h
Brandon Hanks, #70 Tim Brothers,
#10 Tim McKenzie, #11a Akers, #4
Tommy Snellgrove, #6x Chris
Meyer and #14mc Thomas McCann
BUMPER TO BUMPER SUPER
STOCKS ~ 26
HEAT WINNERS: #13 Darin
Long, #36 John Kelley and #3b
Mike Bolding
"B' FEATURE WINNER: #7e
William Essex
FEATURE: #3b Bolding,
#13 Long, #10 David Ratliff, #36
Kelley, #0 Derek Goshien, #8
Robert Weston, #19 Matt Lantz,
#7e Essex, #83c Josh Chaney,
#TEN Jason Eddy, #11 Wayne
Jackson, #91k Kameron Eddy, #41
Jeremy Murphy, #25h Kenny
Howerton, #14 Toby Pence,
#58 Tim Cobb, #67 Dale Fishburn
and #21v Nathan Vales
GRT/IMCA MODIFIEDS ~ 29
HEAT WINNERS: #02
Jeremy Palmer, #c5 Chris Carter
and #48 Alan Brown
"B" FEATURE WINNER: #82
Jayson Hefley
FEATURE: #82 Hefley
(Mid State Golf Cars Hard
Charger), #9b Bart Singleton,
#43 Scooter Scruggs, #94 Terrell
Chastain, #57d Jimmy Dixon,
#1010 Shawn Blees, #c5 Carter,
#44 Ricky Anderson, #88 Allen
Turnage, #01a Drew Armstrong,
#4x Chuck Sanders, #22 Emmett
Lawson, #66 Shane Gibbons, #48
Brown, #f1 Randy Weaver, #29
Jeremy Kuykendall, #02 Palmer,
#18 Drew Palmer and #7g JT
Goodson
