Belleville, IL. (3/24/24) Debuting the first weekend of 2024 racing action with a double-header of on-track excitement at Central Arizona Speedway as the POWRi Desert Wing Sprint Series presented by MVT Services would witness Jake Helsel sweeping the weekend in gaining feature victories on the two-day adventure in 360 Wing-Sprint speed.
Starting the season at Central Arizona Speedway with twenty-five entries in Night One would find Tuesday Calderwood, JT Imperial, Lorne Wofford, and JJ Hickle each notch heat racing wins with JT Imperial gaining the pole-starting grid for the feature event.
Going green flag feature racing for the first time in 2024 would find Jake Helsel quickly gaining the racing advantage from the fourth starting position ahead of the hungry pack of winged 360 sprint competitors.
Using patience and precision, Helsel would out-maneuver the pack to clinch the top spot even enduring a late race restart in the feature. Holding steady out front, Jake Helsel would not be denied in notching his first career POWRi Desert Wing Sprint feature victory.
Closing late and hard-charging through the field, fifteenth-starting Chase Johnson would fly past thirteen drivers to finish runner-up as Terry McCarl would finish third from starting eighth. Twelfth-starting Rick Ziehl placed fourth with seventh-starting JJ Hickle rounding out the top five feature finishers for the POWRi Desert Wing Sprint Series on Night One at Central Arizona Raceway.
Proceeding into the second night of opening weekend racing would witness JT Imperial, Chase Johnson, and Caleb Saiz each winning heat races with Jesse Baker earning the pole-starting grid for the feature event.
Flying into the second night of feature action with twenty-three entries would find Jake Helsel grab the lead to wheel his way out front of the field and notch his second straight career POWRi DWSS feature victory with JT Imperial finishing runner-up as Terry McCarl finalized the podium placements.
Contending up front, Chase Johnson would finish fourth with Rick Ziehl rounding out the top five feature finishers for the POWRi Desert Wing Sprint Series Night Two of the 2024 opening weekend double-header at Central Arizona Raceway.
POWRi DWSS | Central Arizona Raceway | 3/22/24:
A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 8-Jake Helsel[4]; 2. 4J-Chase Johnson[15]; 3. 01-Terry McCarl[8]; 4. 20Z-Rick Ziehl[12]; 5. 66-JJ Hickle[7]; 6. 7BG-Joshua Shipley[2]; 7. 75X-JT Imperial[1]; 8. 19AZ-Hayden Reinbold[18]; 9. 75-Chris Bonneau[21]; 10. 00-Levi Hillier[11]; 11. 45X-Don Grable[20]; 12. 4C-Tuesday Calderwood[5]; 13. 151-Duke Johnson[16]; 14. 7D7-Spencer Hill[9]; 15. 22-Jesse Baker[10]; 16. 7OH-Bryan Ledbetter Jr[13]; 17. 7-Lorne Wofford[3]; 18. 4-Dylan Harris[6]; 19. 19-Colby Thornhill[22]; 20. 42-Caleb Saiz[14]; 21. 5K-Patrick Krob[23]; 22. 3-Chloe High[17]; 23. 619-Claudia Sigala[19]; 24. 3V-Jim Vanzant[24]; 25. (DNS) 57-Alex Pettas.
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 4C-Tuesday Calderwood[1]; 2. 7BG-Joshua Shipley[3]; 3. 22-Jesse Baker[4]; 4. 20Z-Rick Ziehl[5]; 5. 4J-Chase Johnson[6]; 6. 5K-Patrick Krob[2]; 7. (DNS) 57-Alex Pettas.
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 75X-JT Imperial[2]; 2. 01-Terry McCarl[3]; 3. 8-Jake Helsel[5]; 4. 19AZ-Hayden Reinbold[1]; 5. 45X-Don Grable[4]; 6. (DNS) 3V-Jim Vanzant.
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 7-Lorne Wofford[4]; 2. 7D7-Spencer Hill[2]; 3. 7OH-Bryan Ledbetter Jr[1]; 4. 42-Caleb Saiz[3]; 5. 151-Duke Johnson[6]; 6. 75-Chris Bonneau[5].
Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 66-JJ Hickle[2]; 2. 4-Dylan Harris[3]; 3. 00-Levi Hillier[4]; 4. 619-Claudia Sigala[1]; 5. 3-Chloe High[6]; 6. 19-Colby Thornhill[5].
POWRi DWSS | Central Arizona Raceway | 3/23/24:
A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 8-Jake Helsel[2]; 2. 75X-JT Imperial[6]; 3. 01-Terry McCarl[3]; 4. 4J-Chase Johnson[8]; 5. 20Z-Rick Ziehl[10]; 6. 19-Colby Thornhill[5]; 7. 66-JJ Hickle[9]; 8. 7-Lorne Wofford[11]; 9. 75-Chris Bonneau[14]; 10. 7D7-Spencer Hill[15]; 11. 4C-Tuesday Calderwood[4]; 12. 00-Levi Hillier[12]; 13. 45X-Don Grable[18]; 14. 22-Jesse Baker[17]; 15. 19AZ-Hayden Reinbold[1]; 16. 619-Claudia Sigala[21]; 17. 3V-Jim Vanzant[16]; 18. 3-Chloe High[20]; 19. 5K-Patrick Krob[19]; 20. 42-Caleb Saiz[7]; 21. (DNS) 7BG-Joshua Shipley.
B Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 22-Jesse Baker[2]; 2. 45X-Don Grable[5]; 3. 5K-Patrick Krob[4]; 4. 3-Chloe High[1]; 5. 619-Claudia Sigala[3]; 6. (DNS) 7OH-Alex Pettas; 7. (DNS) 4-Dylan Harris.
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 75X-JT Imperial[2]; 2. 01-Terry McCarl[4]; 3. 4C-Tuesday Calderwood[6]; 4. 20Z-Rick Ziehl[5]; 5. 3V-Jim Vanzant[1]; 6. 3-Chloe High[8]; 7. 619-Claudia Sigala[7]; 8. 45X-Don Grable[3].
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 4J-Chase Johnson[2]; 2. 8-Jake Helsel[6]; 3. 7-Lorne Wofford[1]; 4. 00-Levi Hillier[4]; 5. 66-JJ Hickle[8]; 6. 7D7-Spencer Hill[7]; 7. 5K-Patrick Krob[5]; 8. 7OH-Alex Pettas[3].
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 42-Caleb Saiz[2]; 2. 19AZ-Hayden Reinbold[1]; 3. 19-Colby Thornhill[5]; 4. 7BG-Joshua Shipley[4]; 5. 75-Chris Bonneau[6]; 6. 22-Jesse Baker[3]; 7. (DNS) 4-Dylan Harris.
Up next for the rapidly growing POWRi Desert Wing Sprint Series will be a Memorial Weekend Double-Header at state-of-the-art Vado Speedway Park, in Vado New Mexico, on May 24-25. Event information is available online at www.vadospeedwaypark.com.
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