Belleville, IL. (9/9/22) Jake Swanson would strike in the latter stages of the Lucas Oil POWRi Wingless Auto Racing Sprint League feature event at Jacksonville Speedway, running in conjunction with the Xtreme Outlaw Sprint Series presented by Low-E Insulation, to notch his second career league feature victory.
Early on track accomplishments with twenty-seven entries would witness Mario Clouser clock fast-time in group qualifying with an 11.605-second-lap as Alex Bright, Robert Ballou, and Anton Hernandez all each notched heat racing victories as Mitchell Davis would earn the semi-feature win with Anton Hernandez gaining the high point qualifier award after the preliminary competition.
Redrawing six during intermission to shuffle the front of the grid would find Brandon Mattox combat front-row companion Alex Bright into the first pair of corners with Bright gaining the early race lead as Robert Ballou, Jake Swanson, Mario Clouser, and Anton Hernandez all battled inside the first three rows of competition in close contention for the front.
Grabbing the preferred position in front after a late-race restart would witness Jake Swanson precisely maneuver around the leading Bright with a hungry pack of traditional sprinters trying to keep a quick pace with the front-runners.
Keeping the field of talented WAR/Xtreme drivers behind, Jake Swanson would emerge victorious for the second time in 2022 as one-time leader Alex Bright would finish in a close runner-up positioning with seventh-starting CJ Leary clinching the final podium placement in the event.
Maintaining a solid showing all night, Anton Hernandez would finish fourth as Kevin Thomas Jr rounded out the top-five finishers from starting ninth in the Lucas Oil POWRi Wingless Auto Racing Sprint League, running in conjunction with the Xtreme Outlaw Sprint Series presented by Low-E Insulation, feature event at Jacksonville Speedway Friday Night.
POWRi WAR Sprint League | Jacksonville Speedway | 9/9/22:
Hoosier Racing Tire Quick Time: 6-Mario Clouser (11.605)
Advanced Racing Suspension Heat Race 1 Winner: 20-Alex Bright
Auto Meter Heat Race 2 Winner: 12-Robert Ballou
Schure Built Suspensions Heat Race 3 Winner: 2B-Anton Hernandez
Max Papis Innovations Semi Feature Winner: 56-Mitchell Davis
MVT Services High Point Qualifier: 2B-Anton Hernandez
Toyota Racing Development Hard Charger: 66-Shane Cockrum(+12)
Lucas Oil Feature Winner: 21AZ-Jake Swanson
Feature (30 Laps): 1. 21AZ-Jake Swanson[4]; 2. 20-Alex Bright[2]; 3. 77M-CJ Leary[7]; 4. 2B-Anton Hernandez[6]; 5. 15K-Kevin Thomas Jr[9]; 6. 66-Shane Cockrum[18]; 7. 33M-Matt Westfall[8]; 8. 12-Robert Ballou[3]; 9. 56-Mitchell Davis[17]; 10. 6-Mario Clouser[5]; 11. 28-Kory Schudy[14]; 12. N2-Nic Harris[11]; 13. 8D-Will Armitage[12]; 14. 1JR-Steven Russell[15]; 15. 16-Anthony Nicholson[19]; 16. 44-Wesley Smith[13]; 17. 2A-Austin Archdale[21]; 18. 17GP-Max Adams[10]; 19. 24-Landon Simon[20]; 20. 52-Isaac Chapple[16]; 21. 28M-Brandon Mattox[1]; 22. 52F-Logan Faucon[22].
Last Chance Showdown 1 (10 Laps): 1. 56-Mitchell Davis[3]; 2. 66-Shane Cockrum[4]; 3. 16-Anthony Nicholson[2]; 4. 24-Landon Simon[9]; 5. 2A-Austin Archdale[1]; 6. 52F-Logan Faucon[5]; 7. 70X-Eric Shelton[6]; 8. 44B-Cory Bruns[7]; 9. 8-Tyler Roth[8]; 10. 70-Korey Weyant[10]; 11. 29-Mitch Wissmiller[11].
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 20-Alex Bright[1]; 2. 33M-Matt Westfall[2]; 3. 21AZ-Jake Swanson[4]; 4. 17GP-Max Adams[3]; 5. 28-Kory Schudy[5]; 6. 52-Isaac Chapple[6]; 7. 66-Shane Cockrum[8]; 8. 8-Tyler Roth[9]; 9. 24-Landon Simon[7].
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 12-Robert Ballou[1]; 2. 77M-CJ Leary[2]; 3. 6-Mario Clouser[4]; 4. 15K-Kevin Thomas Jr[3]; 5. 44-Wesley Smith[5]; 6. 2A-Austin Archdale[6]; 7. 70X-Eric Shelton[7]; 8. 44B-Cory Bruns[8]; 9. 70-Korey Weyant[9].
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 2B-Anton Hernandez[4]; 2. 28M-Brandon Mattox[5]; 3. 8D-Will Armitage[1]; 4. N2-Nic Harris[3]; 5. 1JR-Steven Russell[6]; 6. 16-Anthony Nicholson[7]; 7. 52F-Logan Faucon[8]; 8. 56-Mitchell Davis[2]; 9. 29-Mitch Wissmiller[9].
Qualifying Group 1: 1. 21AZ-Jake Swanson, 00:11.762[9]; 2. 17GP-Max Adams, 00:11.870[5]; 3. 33M-Matt Westfall, 00:11.883[1]; 4. 20-Alex Bright, 00:11.921[4]; 5. 28-Kory Schudy, 00:12.078[2]; 6. 52-Isaac Chapple, 00:12.200[8]; 7. 24-Landon Simon, 00:12.319[3]; 8. 66-Shane Cockrum, 00:12.366[6]; 9. 8-Tyler Roth, 00:13.028[7].
Qualifying Group 2: 1. 6-Mario Clouser, 00:11.605[2]; 2. 15K-Kevin Thomas Jr, 00:11.631[9]; 3. 77M-CJ Leary, 00:11.681[4]; 4. 12-Robert Ballou, 00:11.801[5]; 5. 44-Wesley Smith, 00:11.961[7]; 6. 2A-Austin Archdale, 00:12.331[3]; 7. 70X-Eric Shelton, 00:12.734[6]; 8. 44B-Cory Bruns, 00:12.817[8].
Qualifying Group 3: 1. 2B-Anton Hernandez, 00:11.810[2]; 2. N2-Nic Harris, 00:11.910[1]; 3. 56-Mitchell Davis, 00:12.100[6]; 4. 8D-Will Armitage, 00:12.212[5]; 5. 28M-Brandon Mattox, 00:12.231[9]; 6. 1JR-Steven Russell, 00:12.358[3]; 7. 16-Anthony Nicholson, 00:12.365[8]; 8. 52F-Logan Faucon, 00:12.450[7].
Next, for the Lucas Oil POWRi Wingless Auto Racing Sprint League will be a weekend wrap-up of running in conjunction with the Xtreme Outlaw Sprint Series at Spoon River Speedway on Saturday, September 10th.
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