Marion, IL. (8/23/24) Kole Kirkman would lead all twenty-five laps to win Eibach Racing Preliminary Night Two of the fourth yearly installment of the Keith Kunz Motorsports Challenge presented by Start2Finish TV to claim his first career victory with the POWRi Non-Wing Outlaw Micro League at the outstanding hosting Southern Illinois Raceway.
Going through a strong split-field of thirty-three entries on prelim night Two of the POWRi Non-Wing Outlaw Micro division in the KKM Challenge would find Brian Carber set the quick qualifying time with a lap of 10.041 seconds. Brody Mclaughlin, Grayson Springer, Mack Leopard, and Russ Disinger would each emerge victorious in heat racing action with Gavin Miller, Kole Kirkman, and Johnny Boland all earning wins in qualifier competitions as Autumn Criste would gain the semi-feature win.
Flying onto the smooth Southern Illinois Raceway surface for Eibach Racing Preliminary Night Two feature racing for the opening night of the Keith Kunz Motorsports Challenge presented by Start2Finish TV would see high-point qualifier Jeffrey Newell battle outside front-row contender Kole Kirkman as the green flew with Kole Kirkman holding the front of the field by .oo4 over Justis Sokol on the opening lap with Jeffrey Newell, Brian Carber, and Johnny Boland all staying close inside the early contending top five as caution bunched the field back together on lap two.
Restarting under an Honest Abe’s Choose Cone restart, low-line firing Kole Kirkman would continue to show the point of the field as Justis Sokol and Jeffrey Newell battled behind with Brian Carber, Johnny Boland, Gavin Miller, Russ Disinger, Cruz Dickerson, Greyson Springer, and Brecken Reese running inside the top ten.
Continuing the rapid pace up front would find Kole Kirkman protecting the lead from Justis Sokol as Johnny Boland moved into a podium placement around the mid-race point with Jeffrey Newell and Brian Carber maintaining a top-five contention.
Separating from the field by over a two-second lead, Kole Kirkman would appear to be in a different gear as lap traffic began to come into the picture with Johnny Boland, Justis Sokol, Jeffrey Newell, and Brian Carber bunched back together after a lap twenty-one caution.
Single-file restarting with less than five laps remaining would find Kole Kirkman holding steady up front for his first career POWRi Non-Wing Outlaw Micro victory as Johnny Boland would finish in the closely contended second spot from starting fourth with Justis Sokol finalizing the podium placements.
“We went to work after the qualifier and made the car really good to where I was able to put the car anywhere,” said Kole Kirkman in the Southern Illinois Raceway victory lane for Preliminary Night Two of the Indiana KKM Challenge. Adding, “The last two weeks have been awesome from winning last week to locking into the $10K race tomorrow, this place is going to be fun”.
Driving from starting eighth, Russ Disinger would place in the fourth and final Saturday lock-in as Jeffrey Newell rounded out the top-five finishers in the POWRi Non-Wing Outlaw Micro League feature in Eibach Racing Preliminary Night Two of the Keith Kunz Motorsports Challenge presented by Start2Finish TV at Southern Illinois Raceway.
POWRi Non-Wing Outlaw Micro | KKM Challenge | 8/23/24:
Eibach Racing Quick Qualifying Time: 8-Brian Carber(10.041)
Hyper Racing Heat Race One Winner: 59-Brody Mclaughlin
Victory Fuel Heat Race Two Winner: 24G-Grayson Springer
Rush Race Gear Heat Race Three Winner: 87-Mack Leopard
Hoosier Racing Tire Heat Race Four Winner: 39-Russ Disinger
Driven Midwest Qualifier One Winner: 71K-Gavin Miller
Engler Machine and Tool Qualifier Two Winner: 22-Kole Kirkman
Eibach Racing Qualifier Three Winner: 1V-Johnny Boland
Victory Fuel Semi-Feature Winner: 126-Autumn Criste
Hyper Racing High Point Qualifier: 12X-Jeffrey Newell
Hoosier Racing Tire Hard Charger: 11R-James Kelly(+8)
Eibach Racing Feature Winner: 22-Kole Kirkman
Eibach Racing A Feature (25 Laps): 1. 22-Kole Kirkman[2]; 2. 1V-Johnny Boland[4]; 3. 25S-Justis Sokol[3]; 4. 39-Russ Disinger[8]; 5. 12X-Jeffrey Newell[1]; 6. 8-Brian Carber[6]; 7. 24G-Greyson Springer[10]; 8. 59-Brody Mclaughlin[9]; 9. 20Q-Brecken Reese[11]; 10. 33-Cruz Dickerson[13]; 11. 11R-James Kelly[19]; 12. 34-Colton Robinson[18]; 13. 126-Autumn Criste[17]; 14. 44-Gunner Shroyer[20]; 15. 8C-LeRoy Carley[16]; 16. 87-Mack Leopard[7]; 17. 5P-Luke Porter[22]; 18. 71K-Gavin Miller[5]; 19. 12K-Dylan Kadous[15]; 20. 25R-Nathan Rector[21]; 21. 99B-Robbie Smith[12]; 22. 5-Ryder McCutcheon[14].
Victory Fuel B Feature (12 Laps): 1. 126-Autumn Criste[2]; 2. 34-Colton Robinson[4]; 3. 11R-James Kelly[5]; 4. 44-Gunner Shroyer[1]; 5. 25R-Nathan Rector[6]; 6. 5P-Luke Porter[3]; 7. 93-Matt Carr[7]; 8. 16-Brian Jones[9]; 9. 85-Cale Goodwin[12]; 10. 5X-Reece Shelton[11]; 11. 28-Rich Williams[16]; 12. 16C-Sam Coleman[14]; 13. 36A-Tanner Williams[13]; 14. 95-Paige Moss[15]; 15. 9C-Camryn Varrichio[17]; 16. 88M-Max Crabdree[8]; 17. 72-Jaxton Wiggs[10].
Hyper Racing Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 59-Brody Mclaughlin[1]; 2. 1V-Johnny Boland[2]; 3. 99B-Robbie Smith[3]; 4. 8-Brian Carber[4]; 5. 33-Cruz Dickerson[6]; 6. 93-Matt Carr[5]; 7. 85-Cale Goodwin[7]; 8. 5X-Reece Shelton[8]; 9. 28-Rich Williams[9].
Victory Fuel Victory Fuel Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 24G-Greyson Springer[2]; 2. 25S-Justis Sokol[4]; 3. 71K-Gavin Miller[3]; 4. 44-Gunner Shroyer[1]; 5. 72-Jaxton Wiggs[6]; 6. 34-Colton Robinson[5]; 7. 11R-James Kelly[7]; 8. 16C-Sam Coleman[8].
Rush Race Gear Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 87-Mack Leopard[2]; 2. 12X-Jeffrey Newell[4]; 3. 20Q-Brecken Reese[3]; 4. 8C-LeRoy Carley[5]; 5. 126-Autumn Criste[6]; 6. 5P-Luke Porter[1]; 7. 95-Paige Moss[7]; 8. 9C-Camryn Varrichio[8].
Hoosier Racing Tire Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 39-Russ Disinger[2]; 2. 22-Kole Kirkman[3]; 3. 12K-Dylan Kadous[1]; 4. 16-Brian Jones[7]; 5. 36A-Tanner Williams[8]; 6. 5-Ryder McCutcheon[4]; 7. 25R-Nathan Rector[5]; 8. 88M-Max Crabdree[6].
Driven Midwest Qualifier 1 (10 Laps): 1. 71K-Gavin Miller[1]; 2. 8-Brian Carber[2]; 3. 25S-Justis Sokol[4]; 4. 87-Mack Leopard[3]; 5. 5-Ryder McCutcheon[5]; 6. 8C-LeRoy Carley[6]; 7. 5P-Luke Porter[8]; 8. 25R-Nathan Rector[9]; 9. 16C-Sam Coleman[11]; 10. 95-Paige Moss[10]; 11. 72-Jaxton Wiggs[7].
Engler Machine Tool Qualifier 2 (10 Laps): 1. 22-Kole Kirkman[3]; 2. 12X-Jeffrey Newell[4]; 3. 59-Brody Mclaughlin[1]; 4. 99B-Robbie Smith[2]; 5. 12K-Dylan Kadous[5]; 6. 126-Autumn Criste[7]; 7. 34-Colton Robinson[8]; 8. 88M-Max Crabdree[10]; 9. 85-Cale Goodwin[9]; 10. 9C-Camryn Varrichio[11]; 11. 16-Brian Jones[6].
PageKC Qualifier 3 (10 Laps): 1. 1V-Johnny Boland[2]; 2. 33-Cruz Dickerson[6]; 3. 20Q-Brecken Reese[1]; 4. 39-Russ Disinger[3]; 5. 24G-Greyson Springer[4]; 6. 11R-James Kelly[9]; 7. 44-Gunner Shroyer[5]; 8. 5X-Reece Shelton[10]; 9. 28-Rich Williams[11]; 10. 93-Matt Carr[7]; 11. 36A-Tanner Williams[8].
Eibach Racing Qualifying: 1. 8-Brian Carber, 00:10.041[2]; 2. 25S-Justis Sokol, 00:10.090[17]; 3. 12X-Jeffrey Newell, 00:10.148[1]; 4. 5-Ryder McCutcheon, 00:10.175[33]; 5. 99B-Robbie Smith, 00:10.186[12]; 6. 71K-Gavin Miller, 00:10.188[27]; 7. 20Q-Brecken Reese, 00:10.195[26]; 8. 22-Kole Kirkman, 00:10.202[9]; 9. 1V-Johnny Boland, 00:10.210[22]; 10. 24G-Greyson Springer, 00:10.217[15]; 11. 87-Mack Leopard, 00:10.220[25]; 12. 39-Russ Disinger, 00:10.237[8]; 13. 59-Brody Mclaughlin, 00:10.264[7]; 14. 44-Gunner Shroyer, 00:10.309[18]; 15. 5P-Luke Porter, 00:10.335[19]; 16. 12K-Dylan Kadous, 00:10.343[23]; 17. 93-Matt Carr, 00:10.368[20]; 18. 34-Colton Robinson, 00:10.373[5]; 19. 8C-LeRoy Carley, 00:10.373[4]; 20. 25R-Nathan Rector, 00:10.386[24]; 21. 33-Cruz Dickerson, 00:10.395[21]; 22. 72-Jaxton Wiggs, 00:10.397[29]; 23. 126-Autumn Criste, 00:10.427[28]; 24. 88M-Max Crabdree, 00:10.429[32]; 25. 85-Cale Goodwin, 00:10.447[16]; 26. 11R-James Kelly, 00:10.549[11]; 27. 95-Paige Moss, 00:10.572[31]; 28. 16-Brian Jones, 00:10.623[14]; 29. 5X-Reece Shelton, 00:10.646[30]; 30. 16C-Sam Coleman, 00:10.658[13]; 31. 9C-Camryn Varrichio, 00:10.756[6]; 32. 36A-Tanner Williams, 00:10.872[10]; 33. 28-Rich Williams, 00:10.986[3].
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Winners of the $10K-to-win finale events at each of the KKM Challenge Races will receive automatic entry into the “Challenge Champions Dash” at the KKM Giveback Classic at Port City Raceway on October 19th, with that winner earning automatic entry into the King of Port pole-shuffle and prized starting position in the Non-Wing Outlaw feature event for the KKM Giveback Classic.
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