Belleville, IL. (5/7/22) Joe B Miller would again impress the capacity crowd of Macon Speedway for the ILLINANA Showdown and capture the POWRi 600cc Outlaw Micro League presented by Engler Machine & Tool feature event to earn his astonishing league-leading forty-fifth career feature victory.
Entering thirty-three competitors of the POWRi 600cc Outlaw Micro League presented by Engler Machine and Tool would witness Jeff Beasley start the night off strong by gaining the quickest hot-lap time with an 11.114-second lap as Joe B Miller, Aarik Andruskevich, Austin Schaeffer, and Craig Ronk each would win their respective heat race with Miller claiming the High Point Qualifier Award through a fifth to first heat race battle. Alex Midkiff would earn the semi-feature victory.
Leading all twenty laps of the feature event competition, Joe B Miller would use the pole-starting position to earn the feature victory. Craig Ronk would make a valiant effort by driving into the runner-up spot with lap traffic coming into play, only to see the laps start to wind down.
“I could definitely feel Craig back there, but I knew I had the car to beat, and I just needed to hit my marks and run my race. This means a lot to our racing program, and it feels good to know we can still get it done” said a winning Joe B Miller for the forty-fifth time of his career in victory lane.
Fending off all challengers Joe B Miller would emerge victorious to claim the feature victory leaving Craig Ronk to place in the runner-up positioning as Austin Schaeffer would place third. Tyler Kuykendall would place fourth as Aarik Andruskevich rounded out the Macon Speedway top-five finishers for the POWRi 600cc Outlaw Micro League presented by Engler Machine & Tool.
Macon Speedway | POWRi 600cc Outlaw Micro League | ILLIANA Showdown | 5/7/22:
Hoosier Racing Tire Top Hot Lap Time: 83-Jeff Beasley (11.114)
Advanced Racing Suspensions Heat Race 1 Winner: 51B-Joe B Miller
Driven Midwest Heat Race 2 Winner: 21-Aarik Andruskevich
Schure Built Suspension Heat Race 3 Winner: 71S-Austin Schaeffer
AFOC Racing Heat Race 4 Winner: 94-Craig Ronk
Max Papis Innovations Semi Feature 1 Winner: 11-Alex Midkiff
MVT Services High Point Qualifier: 51B-Joe B Miller
Toyota Racing Development Hard Charger: 8W-Brianna Wirth (+6)
Engler Machine Feature Winner: 51B-Joe B Miller
Engler Machine Tool A Feature (20 Laps): Engler Machine Tool A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 51B-Joe B Miller[1]; 2. 94-Craig Ronk[6]; 3. 71S-Austin Schaeffer[2]; 4. 8K-Tyler Kuykendall[3]; 5. 21-Aarik Andruskevich[5]; 6. 87-Collin Shain[11]; 7. 55H-Hayden Harvey[7]; 8. 65E-Chad Elliott[16]; 9. 40-Devin Feger[9]; 10. B8-John Barnard[14]; 11. 88-Billy Lieb[12]; 12. 8W-Breanna Wirth[18]; 13. 53-Sean Robbins[10]; 14. 11-Alex Midkiff[17]; 15. 23-mike Dibart[21]; 16. 17-Molly Day[15]; 17. 92-John Plotner[20]; 18. 11K-Kylee Griffitts[8]; 19. 00T-Cole Tinsley[4]; 20. 20M-Mattison Lienemann[22]; 21. 00-Joe Taft[13]; 22. 83-Jeff Beasley[19].
Max Papis Innovations B Feature 1 (10 Laps): 1. 11-Alex Midkiff[1]; 2. 8W-Breanna Wirth[3]; 3. 83-Jeff Beasley[2]; 4. 92-John Plotner[4]; 5. 23-mike Dibart[12]; 6. 20M-Mattison Lienemann[9]; 7. 1-Tanner Tinsley[6]; 8. 14S-Mikie Stirrett[15]; 9. 101-Tobias Midkiff[10]; 10. 6T-Kyle Touchette[5]; 11. 14D-Chris DiBart[11]; 12. 71-Brooklyn Browne[13]; 13. 41K-Karter Lane[14]; 14. 27-Kyle Barker[8]; 15. 10-Jacob Tipton[16]; 16. 14-Kurt Westerfield[7]; 17. 1E-Eric Braundmeier[17].
Advanced Racing Suspension Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 51B-Joe B Miller[5]; 2. 87-Collin Shain[1]; 3. 00-Joe Taft[2]; 4. 17-Molly Day[4]; 5. 1-Tanner Tinsley[3]; 6. 14-Kurt Westerfield[6]; 7. 27-Kyle Barker[7]; 8. 14D-Chris DiBart[9]; 9. (DNS) 1E-Eric Braundmeier.
Driven Midwest Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 21-Aarik Andruskevich[1]; 2. 53-Sean Robbins[2]; 3. 88-Billy Lieb[3]; 4. 55H-Hayden Harvey[8]; 5. 8W-Breanna Wirth[4]; 6. 6T-Kyle Touchette[7]; 7. 23-mike Dibart[5]; 8. (DNS) 10-Jacob Tipton.
Schure Built Suspension Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 71S-Austin Schaeffer[4]; 2. 11K-Kylee Griffitts[3]; 3. 8K-Tyler Kuykendall[8]; 4. 40-Devin Feger[7]; 5. 83-Jeff Beasley[5]; 6. 20M-Mattison Lienemann[1]; 7. 71-Brooklyn Browne[2]; 8. 14S-Mikie Stirrett[6].
AFCO Racing Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 94-Craig Ronk[1]; 2. 00T-Cole Tinsley[5]; 3. B8-John Barnard[2]; 4. 65E-Chad Elliott[3]; 5. 92-John Plotner[4]; 6. 11-Alex Midkiff[8]; 7. 101-Tobias Midkiff[6]; 8. 41K-Karter Lane[7].
Up next for the POWRi 600cc Outlaw Micro League presented by Engler Machine & Tool will be a stand-alone league show at Jacksonville Speedway on May 14.
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