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Jackson Captures Ron Jenkins Memorial at Lucas Oil Speedway

By Billy Rock (Wheatland, MO) -- For the 14th time in his Lucas Oil MLRA career, Tony Jackson Jr. topped the field at the Lucas Oil Speedway on Saturday night, capturing the win in the 8th Annual Ron Jenkins Memorial.

For the second night in a row, Jackson dominated the field early on winning back-to-back heat races along with DirtonDirt.com Fast Time Awards. This time around his overall fast lap of 15.302 netted him a $750 bonus in honor of the late Ron Jenkins, the builder of the original Wheatland Raceway.

PHOTO CREDIT: GS Stanek Racing Photography

One night ago, mechanical issues prevented Jackson from taking the green from the pole position, but on Saturday night the Capital Chassis driver was determined not to be denied. As the field took the green on the 40 lapper however, it was leading Sunoco Race Fuel Rookie driver Kolby Vandenbergh taking control of the main event.

Vandenbergh stretched the advantage early, but by lap ten Jackson was back on attack of the race leader as they raced side by side. Jackson would finally drive by for the lead as they crossed the stripe on lap 12, and just moments before the nights first of three cautions slowed the pace as 3rd running Billy Moyer Jr. slowed off the exit of turn two.

Jackson brought the field back to the green, and this time it was Logan Martin making the moves to slide into the runner up position with Mason Oberkramer working his way inside of the top three. Lap 20 would spell disaster for Vandenbergh as he slowed at the top of turn three and forced officials to throw the second yellow flag of the night. The leading series rookie would rebound to finish in 12th, snagging rookie of the race honors.

The night’s final caution came out with just 13 laps to go for Brennon Willard, and would give Oberkramer one final shot at over taking Jackson for the victory on the restart. Jackson tip toed the fine line along the top side of the speedway and was able to hold on in the closing laps for a win by 1.535 seconds over Oberkramer. Jacksons third MLRA win of the season in his last five starts netted him a total payday of $8,500 thanks to a $1,500 winners bonus from Mary Jenkins.

Logan Martin recorded his best MLRA run of 2022 finishing in third, while Midwest Sheet Metal point leader Chad Simpson finished in fourth. Payton Looney rounded out the top five. Blair Nothdurft collected another $750 Ron Jenkins Memorial Bonus via his 13 position advancement to finish as the nights hard charger in the eighth position.

Jackson got his redemption from his disappointments the night prior at Lakeside Speedway, commenting in Cedar Creek Beef Jerky Victory Lane in saying, “We had a good race car last night and just couldn’t capitalize, and we had another good one tonight.”

Jackson’s dual with Oberkramer provided for a one-two Capital finish. “It’s always good to have one of your buddies behind you,” exclaimed Jackson. “Mason had come from a long way back so I was nervous also, and I knew he had a good car. I was a lot more comfortable there when I was leading, just rolling around the middle but I had to go back up there and do some more work in one and two.”

“I’m gonna count this as a win for us,” noted Oberkramer of his runner up finish. “Ever since we got this car from Marshall we just haven’t been able to hit it here. It’s like Lucas has been my nemesis and it used to be one of my favorite tracks and I was really good here. To finally land a good podium finish and be back up front where we belong feels reassuring.”

Martin ran in the runner-up position for eight laps, before settling for third in the end. “It was a solid effort by all of our guys. A lot of hard work goes into this, so to bring home a top three finish is always a good thing. I thought we had a good shot at it going there, when I found the top in one and two before Jackson did,” continued Martin. I was able to catch him but hind sights twenty-twenty, maybe I should have tried a slide down there in three and four, but you don’t want to make contact or anything like that."

The final leg of the MLRA’s triple header weekend will take place on Sunday night September 4th, at the Randolph County Raceway in Moberly, MO. The 2nd annual Weiner Nationals will mark the re-opening of the ½ mile facility, which has sat idle thus far in 2022. There will be NO Entry fee for the event for late models, which will pay out $10,000 to the victor.

Lucas Oil Speedway Contingencies 9/3/22

Lap Leaders – K. Vandenbergh (1 - 11), T. Jackson (12 - 40)

?Cautions – 3

DirtonDirt.com “Overall Fast Time Award" --Tony Jackson Jr. (15.302 sec.)

Lucas Oil Slick Mist "Pole Award" – Tony Jackson Jr.

Outerwears Crew Chief of the Race – Rob Schlup

Hooker Harness "11th Place Finisher" – Mark Burgtorf

Performance Bodies "Performer of the Race" – Tony Jackson Jr.

Sunoco “Rookie of the Race” – Kolby Vandenbergh

Swift Springs “Move of the Race” – Tony Jackson Jr.

Midwest Sheet Metal "Points Leader Spoiler Challenge" – Chad Simpson

A Feature 1 40 Laps | 00:24:47.854

1. 56JR-Tony Jackson Jr[1]; 2. 93-Mason Oberkramer[6]; 3. 36M-Logan Martin[5]; 4. 25-Chad Simpson[13]; 5. 15L-Payton Looney[10]; 6. 2S-Stormy Scott[17]; 7. 49-Justin Wells[3]; 8. 76-Blair Nothdurft[21]; 9. 62-Justin Zeitner[15]; 10. 7-Cole Wells[22]; 11. 7B-Mark Burgtorf[11]; 12. 15V-Kolby Vandenbergh[2]; 13. 22-Daniel Hilsabeck[14]; 14. 10-Jacob Magee[19]; 15. 50-Kaeden Cornell[24]; 16. 0K-Dewayne Kiefer[9]; 17. 51-Larry Ferris[7]; 18. 78S-Steve Stultz[23]; 19. 96-Dalton Imhoff[12]; 20. (DNF) 1X-Aaron Marrant[20]; 21. (DNF) 2-Tyler Stevens[8]; 22. (DNF) 3-Brennon Willard[16]; 23. (DNF) 21-Billy Moyer Jr[4]; 24. (DNF) 29D-Spencer Diercks[18]

B Feature 1 10 Laps | 00:03:24.000

1. 2S-Stormy Scott[1]; 2. 10-Jacob Magee[3]; 3. 76-Blair Nothdurft[2]; 4. 1G-Bryan Glaze[6]; 5. 7D-Dusty Leonard[4]; 6. 6C-Cale Osborn[8]; 7. 17W-Greg Williams[5]; 8. 2K-Richard Kimberling[9]; 9. (DNS) 14W-Dustin Walker

B Feature 2 10 Laps | 00:03:23.000

1. 29D-Spencer Diercks[1]; 2. 1X-Aaron Marrant[2]; 3. 7-Cole Wells[4]; 4. 15T-David Turner[3]; 5. 78S-Steve Stultz[6]; 6. 50-Kaeden Cornell[7]; 7. 0X-Jason Sivils[8]; 8. (DNS) 6-Al Humphrey

Heat 1 8 Laps | 00:01:32.000

1. 56JR-Tony Jackson Jr[1]; 2. 36M-Logan Martin[5]; 3. 0K-Dewayne Kiefer[2]; 4. 25-Chad Simpson[9]; 5. 2S-Stormy Scott[4]; 6. 10-Jacob Magee[3]; 7. 17W-Greg Williams[6]; 8. 6C-Cale Osborn[8]; 9. 14W-Dustin Walker[7]

Heat 2 8 Laps | 00:04:59.000

1. 49-Justin Wells[1]; 2. 51-Larry Ferris[2]; 3. 7B-Mark Burgtorf[6]; 4. 62-Justin Zeitner[4]; 5. 76-Blair Nothdurft[5]; 6. 7D-Dusty Leonard[3]; 7. 1G-Bryan Glaze[7]; 8. 2K-Richard Kimberling[8]

Heat 3 8 Laps | 00:02:44.000

1. 15V-Kolby Vandenbergh[1]; 2. 93-Mason Oberkramer[4]; 3. 15L-Payton Looney[3]; 4. 22-Daniel Hilsabeck[6]; 5. 29D-Spencer Diercks[2]; 6. 15T-David Turner[8]; 7. 6-Al Humphrey[5]; 8. (DNF) 50-Kaeden Cornell[7]

Heat 4 8 Laps | 00:02:49.000

1. 21-Billy Moyer Jr[4]; 2. 2-Tyler Stevens[3]; 3. 96-Dalton Imhoff[2]; 4. 3-Brennon Willard[1]; 5. 1X-Aaron Marrant[7]; 6. 7-Cole Wells[6]; 7. 78S-Steve Stultz[5]; 8. 0X-Jason Sivils[8]

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JOHNSON, KIDWELL, WHITE SCORE SUPPORT DIVISION WINS AT LUCAS OIL SPEEDWAY

By Lyndal Scranton (Wheatland, MO) -- Johnson rolls to USRA Modified victory: Matt Johnson of Archie led all the way, beating two-time reigning track champion Dillon McCowan by 2.6 seconds, for the Cedar Creek Beef Jerky USRA Modified feature win.

“I knew that 7 (McCowan) was right there and I didn't have time to mess around,” said Johnson, who earned $1,000 for his third victory of the season. "Dillon is a lot of fun to race with, as are these other guys."

Johnson grabbed the early lead from his outside front-row starting position with McCowan moving from fifth to second by lap four. Those two soon pulled away to a 1.5-second gap over third-place Dustin Hodges.

The leaders encountered lapped traffic with Johnson’s lead over McCowan expanding to six car lengths by lap 15 and double that by lap 20.

Johnson remained solid the rest of the way as the action remained caution-free, pulling away to earn the victory.

Titan B-Mod win to Jackson: Lebanon's Kris Jackson captured his seventh Ozark Golf Cars USRA B-Mod feature win of the Lucas Oil Speedway season, taking home $1,000 for the Titans B-Mod Series 25-lapper.

Jackson led all the way, but fought off Mitchell Franklin in the early stages before finally opening up a cushion over the final 10 laps. It was his 23rd overall feature win of 2022.

"I thought for a second me and Mitchell were going to be side-by-side for 20 laps," Jackson said. "I've got a lot of respect for that young man and his father (Josh). They build their own race cars and do a whale of a job. Mitchell's a smooth racer and we share an engine builder.

"I wanted to give him all the room that he would need. We had a nice, good race. I was just praying that if I could keep a nose in front of him and we could get a caution, I felt it would be the deal-breaker."

Franklin pulled alongside Jackson on the outside several times during the opening 10 laps, but was unable to get by. Jackson kept hugging the low line to maintain his lead as a caution flew on lap 11 to slow the action.

Shadren Turner moved into second on the restart, but Franklin regained second by lap 14. As those two swapped position, Jackson took advantage and opened a 1.1-second lead.

Jackson kept stretching it out from there as the action remained under the green flag the rest of the way. He finished 2.2 seconds in front of Turner with Franklin third, Robbe Ewing fourth and Sheets taking fifth.

Bryan White scores USRA Stock Cars win: Bryan White patiently stalked the leader before finally taking over the top spot with five laps remaining and went on to take the O'Reilly Auto Parts USRA Stock Cars main event.

Front-row starters William Garner and White set the pace the first portion of the race, with Wille settling into third as the trio separated from the field by more than 15 car lengths.

White hugged the bottom groove to pull alongside Garner repeatedly, but was unable to nudge past as the two young Lebanon drivers dueled. A caution flew on lap 16 when fifth-place running Doug Keller spun in turn four.

As the race resumed, the battle up front resumed with Garner in the middle of the track and White inside. White finally edged past coming to the completion of lap 20 held on from there as he held off Garner by one car length. Wille was third, on Garner’s back bumper.

"It was real fun. Me and Will were racing side by side there for several laps and it was real fun," said White, who earned $750 a week after wrapping up the regular-season championship.

The top three were separated by .679 seconds. Mason Beck, who started 11th, finished fourth and James McMillin came home fifth.

O'REILLY AUTO PARTS USRA STOCK CARS

A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 41-Bryan White[2]; 2. 7-William Garner[1]; 3. 68-Dean Wille[3]; 4. 0F-Mason Beck[11]; 5. 8M-James McMillin[12]; 6. 91J-Jaylen Wettengel[8]; 7. 5-Robert White[13]; 8. 110J-JD Jackson[10]; 9. 77-Zack Willis[15]; 10. 116-Zack Smith[14]; 11. 24-Craig Wright[6]; 12. 47-Ed Griggs[9]; 13. 83-James Ellis[18]; 14. 21P-Darren Phillips[16]; 15. 12-Christopher Sawyer[7]; 16. (DNF) 3C-Chad Staus[4]; 17. (DNF) 7D-Doug Keller[5]; 18. (DNF) 25BA-Gerry Vaughn[17]

Bill Roberts Chevrolet Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 68-Dean Wille[1]; 2. 7-William Garner[6]; 3. 47-Ed Griggs[3]; 4. 110J-JD Jackson[5]; 5. 77-Zack Willis[4]; 6. 21P-Darren Phillips[2]

Bill Roberts Chevrolet Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 41-Bryan White[2]; 2. 12-Christopher Sawyer[1]; 3. 91J-Jaylen Wettengel[4]; 4. 8M-James McMillin[3]; 5. 5-Robert White[6]; 6. 83-James Ellis[5]

Bill Roberts Chevrolet Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 3C-Chad Staus[1]; 2. 24-Craig Wright[3]; 3. 7D-Doug Keller[7]; 4. 0F-Mason Beck[5]; 5. 116-Zack Smith[2]; 6. 25BA-Gerry Vaughn[4]; 7. (DNF) 10-Stacy Hall[6]

CEDAR CREEK BEEF JERKY USRA MODIFIEDS

A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 1X-Matt Johnson[2]; 2. 7X-Dillon McCowan[5]; 3. 7J-Justin Johnson[18]; 4. 16S-Eric Turner[4]; 5. 51-Lucas Gibbs[9]; 6. 3B-Nic Bidinger[13]; 7. 21M-Ryan Middaugh[11]; 8. 88-Jimmy Dowell[10]; 9. 68-Dean Wille[17]; 10. 29-Dennis Elliott[20]; 11. 38C-Jason Pursley[21]; 12. 3J-Lewis Jackson[12]; 13. 311-John Baker[15]; 14. 98-Jeff Cutshaw[7]; 15. 14-Kameron Grindstaff[1]; 16. 23-Lucas Dobbs[24]; 17. 24D-Donnie Fellers[14]; 18. 194-Scott Phillips[16]; 19. 24-Toby Lindell[22]; 20. 28C-Thomas Creech[19]; 21. 22H-Dustin Hodges[6]; 22. (DNF) 18-Casey Lindell[23]; 23. (DNF) 19-Dylan Hoover[3]; 24. (DNF) 21TW-Tracy Wolf[8]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 1X-Matt Johnson[2]; 2. 22H-Dustin Hodges[4]; 3. 16S-Eric Turner[8]; 4. 88-Jimmy Dowell[7]; 5. 311-John Baker[1]; 6. 68-Dean Wille[6]; 7. 28C-Thomas Creech[5]; 8. (DNF) 23-Lucas Dobbs[3]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 7X-Dillon McCowan[1]; 2. 98-Jeff Cutshaw[2]; 3. 21M-Ryan Middaugh[3]; 4. 3J-Lewis Jackson[5]; 5. 3B-Nic Bidinger[8]; 6. 7J-Justin Johnson[6]; 7. 38C-Jason Pursley[7]; 8. 18-Casey Lindell[4]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 19-Dylan Hoover[2]; 2. 14-Kameron Grindstaff[7]; 3. 51-Lucas Gibbs[4]; 4. 21TW-Tracy Wolf[8]; 5. 24D-Donnie Fellers[6]; 6. 194-Scott Phillips[1]; 7. 29-Dennis Elliott[5]; 8. 24-Toby Lindell[3]

OZARK GOLF CARS USRA B-MODS

B Feature 1 (10 Laps): 1. 54-Tyler Kidwell[3]; 2. 6T-Michael Taylor III[8]; 3. 8-Jerry Morgan[1]; 4. 3A-Aaron Speck[2]; 5. 15H-Jeremy Hazel[7]; 6. 26-Derick Schlarb[4]; 7. (DNF) 24L-Dakota Lowe[5]; 8. (DNF) 10J-Caden Johnson[6]

B Feature 2 (10 Laps): 1. 49-Patrick Royalty[1]; 2. 39-Dwight Brown[2]; 3. 15S-Kody Bray[5]; 4. 42J-Donnie Jackson[3]; 5. 15J-Jake Fetterman[4]; 6. 55J-Jeremy Short[7]; 7. 28-Wesley Briggs[6]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 65-Kris Jackson[2]; 2. 8S-Jon Sheets[4]; 3. 32-Robbe Ewing[1]; 4. 5S-Austin Skiles[3]; 5. 8-Jerry Morgan[5]; 6. 54-Tyler Kidwell[8]; 7. 24L-Dakota Lowe[7]; 8. 15H-Jeremy Hazel[6]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 56-Shadren Turner[1]; 2. 1B-Bobby Williams[2]; 3. 2-Quentin Taylor[4]; 4. 80-TJ Yount[3]; 5. 3A-Aaron Speck[5]; 6. 26-Derick Schlarb[7]; 7. (DNF) 10J-Caden Johnson[8]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. X2-Brian Bolin[7]; 2. 42C-Casey Thomas[1]; 3. Z28-Randy Zimmerman[4]; 4. 91-Jaylen Wettengel[2]; 5. 39-Dwight Brown[5]; 6. 15J-Jake Fetterman[3]; 7. 28-Wesley Briggs[6]

Qualifying 1: 1. 32-Robbe Ewing[1]; 2. 56-Shadren Turner[11]; 3. 65-Kris Jackson[8]; 4. 1B-Bobby Williams[15]; 5. 5S-Austin Skiles[5]; 6. 80-TJ Yount[12]; 7. 8S-Jon Sheets[6]; 8. 2-Quentin Taylor[10]; 9. 8-Jerry Morgan[4]; 10. 3A-Aaron Speck[14]; 11. 15H-Jeremy Hazel[9]; 12. 6T-Michael Taylor III[2]; 13. 24L-Dakota Lowe[7]; 14. 26-Derick Schlarb[3]; 15. 54-Tyler Kidwell[16]

Qualifying 2: 1. F1-Mitchell Franklin, 00:18.087[6]; 2. 42C-Casey Thomas, 00:18.477[15]; 3. 37-Wes Long, 00:18.497[7]; 4. 91-Jaylen Wettengel, 00:18.660[9]; 5. 24-Jerry Ellis, 00:18.720[10]; 6. 15J-Jake Fetterman, 00:18.764[4]; 7. 98-Christopher Watts, 00:18.825[12]; 8. Z28-Randy Zimmerman, 00:18.880[11]; 9. 15S-Kody Bray, 00:18.894[5]; 10. 49-Patrick Royalty, 00:18.937[2]; 11. 28-Wesley Briggs, 00:19.146[8]; 12. 42J-Donnie Jackson, 00:19.174[13]; 13. X2-Brian Bolin, 00:19.183[3]; 14. 55J-Jeremy Short, 00:19.214[1]; 15. 116-Nathan Melanson, 00:59.999[14]

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