Mattoon, IL. (9/5/24) Steven Snyder Jr would dominate in leading all twenty-five laps of the feature event to earn checkers in Eibach Racing Preliminary Night One of the sixth yearly installment of the Keith Kunz Motorsports Challenge presented by Start2Finish TV to claim his eleventh career victory with the POWRi Non-Wing Outlaw Micro League at the outstanding hosting Coles County Speedway.
Going through a strong split-field of twenty-nine entries on prelim night one of the POWRi Non-Wing Outlaw Micro division in the KKM Challenge would find Cullen Hutchison set the quick qualifying time with a time of 10.689 seconds. Jeffrey Newell, Steven Snyder Jr, Darren Brown, and Brant Woods would each emerge victorious in heat racing action with Steven Snyder Jr, Frank Flud, and Brecken Reese all earning wins in qualifier competitions as Braxton Weger would gain the semi-feature win.
Flying onto the smooth Coles County Speedway surface for Preliminary Night One feature racing for the opening night of the Keith Kunz Motorsports Challenge presented by Start2Finish TV would see the high point qualifier Steven Snyder Jr battle outside front-row contender Jeffrey Newell as the green flew with Steven Snyder Jr holding the front of the field as Jeffrey Newell, Frank Flud, Chelby Hinton, and Brecken Reese all kept close inside the early contending top five.
Pulling away from the field in the opening six laps, Steven Snyder Jr would separate by nearly a two-second margin from second-running Jeffrey Newell as lap traffic began to come into play with Frank Flud, Chelby Hinton, and Brecken Reese battling to stay in the contending top five as Daniel Robinson, Darren Brown, Jordan Clay, Cullen Hutchison, and Gunnar Pio all paced inside the top ten before caution would halt the on-track action.
Restarting under Honest Abe’s Choose-Cone conditions, low-line refiring Steven Snyder Jr would get an outstanding jump on the field to retain the lead with Jeffrey Newell and Chelby Hinton sliding each other on opposite sides of the track for the runner-up positioning as laps began to tick away rapidly.
Separating from the field by over a three-and-a-half second margin, Steven Snyder Jr would take a commanding lead into the mid-point of the feature as all eyes were on the battle for the second spot as Chelby Hinton, Frank Flud, and Jeffrey Newell all attempted to run in the same line as caution would wave with Newell the odd-man out and facing the wrong way on the track.
Bringing the field back to green on lap sixteen, Steven Snyder Jr would again restart with winning intent and run away from the field only to witness a late race caution bunch the field back together for theatrics to end the evening with two laps remaining.
Flying back out front on the single-file restart, Steven Snyder Jr would hold steady up front for his sixth yearly POWRi Non-Wing Outlaw Micro victory by a one-and-a-half second margin of victory in preliminary night action.
“It’s our first time here and all those practice sessions last night paid off, the track came into our liking, and we tried something else from what we normally run and this car was bad fast,” said Steven Snyder Jr in the Coles County Speedway victory lane for Preliminary Night One of the Indiana KKM Challenge. Adding, “Lap traffic never really came into play with the cautions coming out at the right time so we’ll see what we have in store for Saturday Night”.
Chelby Hinton would finish in the heavily contested second spot with Frank Flud completing the podium placements, and Brecken Reese earning the final lock-in positioning in fourth as well as Darren Brown rounding out the top-five finishers in the POWRi Outlaw Micro League feature in Preliminary Night One of the Keith Kunz Motorsports Challenge presented by Start2Finish TV at Coles County Speedway.
POWRi Non-Wing Outlaw Micro | KKM Challenge | 9/5/24:
Eibach Racing Quick Qualifying Time: 83-Cullen Hutchison(10.689)
Hyper Racing Heat Race One Winner: 71-Jeffrey Newell
Victory Fuel Heat Race Two Winner: 21S-Steven Snyder Jr
Rush Race Gear Heat Race Three Winner: 11C-Darren Brown
Hoosier Racing Tire Heat Race Four Winner: 83W-Brant Woods
Driven Midwest Qualifier One Winner: 21S-Steven Snyder Jr
Engler Machine and Tool Qualifier Two Winner: 81-Frank Flud
Eibach Racing Qualifier Three Winner: 12J-Brecken Reese
Victory Fuel Semi-Feature Winner: 31BW-Braxton Weger
Hyper Racing High Point Qualifier: 21S-Steven Snyder Jr
Hoosier Racing Tire Hard Charger: 12C-Chase Spicola(+10)
Eibach Racing Feature Winner: 21S-Steven Snyder Jr
Eibach Racing A Feature (25 Laps): 1. 21S-Steven Snyder Jr[1]; 2. 28-Chelby Hinton[3]; 3. 81-Frank Flud[4]; 4. 12J-Brecken Reese[6]; 5. 11C-Darren Brown[7]; 6. 24S-Colby Sokol[13]; 7. 41-Colton Hardy[16]; 8. 28P-Gunnar Pio[12]; 9. 3-Drew Sherman[10]; 10. 12C-Chase Spicola[20]; 11. 61-Cole Tinsley[19]; 12. 32-Trey Marcham[15]; 13. 75-Blayne Buntin[14]; 14. 31BW-Braxton Weger[17]; 15. 71-Jeffrey Newell[2]; 16. 83W-Brant Woods[11]; 17. 94C-Jordan Clary[5]; 18. 4J-Jaylon Mills[18]; 19. 14B-Brody Bridgeman[22]; 20. 83-Cullen Hutchison[8]; 21. 10-Daniel Robinson[9]; 22. 40-Devin Feger[21].
Victory Fuel B Feature (12 Laps): 1. 31BW-Braxton Weger[3]; 2. 4J-Jaylon Mills[1]; 3. 61-Cole Tinsley[7]; 4. 12C-Chase Spicola[4]; 5. 40-Devin Feger[10]; 6. 14B-Brody Bridgeman[13]; 7. 7F-Nolan Bartley[5]; 8. 4-Wyatt Walters[11]; 9. 7-Mark Clary[12]; 10. 93-Logan Anderson[9]; 11. 4R-Kameron Romack[6]; 12. 21-Ryder Wells[2]; 13. 88-Billy Lieb[8].
Hyper Racing Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 71-Jeffrey Newell[2]; 2. 81-Frank Flud[5]; 3. 3-Drew Sherman[3]; 4. 83-Cullen Hutchison[4]; 5. 4J-Jaylon Mills[6]; 6. 4-Wyatt Walters[8]; 7. 4R-Kameron Romack[7]; 8. 61-Cole Tinsley[1].
Victory Fuel Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 21S-Steven Snyder Jr[4]; 2. 41-Colton Hardy[2]; 3. 32-Trey Marcham[1]; 4. 28P-Gunnar Pio[5]; 5. 21-Ryder Wells[3]; 6. 93-Logan Anderson[6]; 7. 7-Mark Clary[7].
Rush Race Gear Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 11C-Darren Brown[1]; 2. 28-Chelby Hinton[4]; 3. 94C-Jordan Clary[3]; 4. 75-Blayne Buntin[6]; 5. 12C-Chase Spicola[5]; 6. 24S-Colby Sokol[2]; 7. 14B-Brody Bridgeman[7].
Hoosier Racing Tire Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 83W-Brant Woods[2]; 2. 7F-Nolan Bartley[1]; 3. 10-Daniel Robinson[4]; 4. 12J-Brecken Reese[3]; 5. 40-Devin Feger[6]; 6. 31BW-Braxton Weger[7]; 7. 88-Billy Lieb[5].
Driven Midwest Qualifier 1 (10 Laps): 1. 21S-Steven Snyder Jr[4]; 2. 94C-Jordan Clary[1]; 3. 28P-Gunnar Pio[6]; 4. 3-Drew Sherman[2]; 5. 10-Daniel Robinson[3]; 6. 4J-Jaylon Mills[7]; 7. 61-Cole Tinsley[9]; 8. 93-Logan Anderson[8]; 9. 7-Mark Clary[10]; 10. 7F-Nolan Bartley[5].
Engler Machine Tool Qualifier 2 (10 Laps): 1. 81-Frank Flud[2]; 2. 11C-Darren Brown[1]; 3. 28-Chelby Hinton[4]; 4. 75-Blayne Buntin[6]; 5. 83W-Brant Woods[3]; 6. 31BW-Braxton Weger[9]; 7. 12C-Chase Spicola[7]; 8. 4-Wyatt Walters[8]; 9. 21-Ryder Wells[5]; 10. 14B-Brody Bridgeman[10].
PageKC Qualifier 3 (10 Laps): 1. 12J-Brecken Reese[1]; 2. 71-Jeffrey Newell[4]; 3. 24S-Colby Sokol[6]; 4. 83-Cullen Hutchison[3]; 5. 32-Trey Marcham[5]; 6. 4R-Kameron Romack[9]; 7. 88-Billy Lieb[8]; 8. 41-Colton Hardy[2]; 9. 40-Devin Feger[7].
Eibach Racing Qualifying: 1. 83-Cullen Hutchison, 00:10.689[3]; 2. 21S-Steven Snyder Jr, 00:10.820[14]; 3. 28-Chelby Hinton, 00:10.889[15]; 4. 10-Daniel Robinson, 00:10.956[1]; 5. 3-Drew Sherman, 00:10.993[7]; 6. 21-Ryder Wells, 00:11.009[2]; 7. 94C-Jordan Clary, 00:11.016[9]; 8. 12J-Brecken Reese, 00:11.032[28]; 9. 71-Jeffrey Newell, 00:11.037[23]; 10. 41-Colton Hardy, 00:11.051[6]; 11. 24S-Colby Sokol, 00:11.053[19]; 12. 83W-Brant Woods, 00:11.067[24]; 13. 61-Cole Tinsley, 00:11.077[29]; 14. 32-Trey Marcham, 00:11.088[18]; 15. 11C-Darren Brown, 00:11.094[16]; 16. 7F-Nolan Bartley, 00:11.104[4]; 17. 81-Frank Flud, 00:11.107[21]; 18. 28P-Gunnar Pio, 00:11.121[17]; 19. 12C-Chase Spicola, 00:11.153[22]; 20. 88-Billy Lieb, 00:11.155[11]; 21. 4J-Jaylon Mills, 00:11.168[20]; 22. 93-Logan Anderson, 00:11.185[8]; 23. 75-Blayne Buntin, 00:11.199[10]; 24. 40-Devin Feger, 00:11.226[25]; 25. 4R-Kameron Romack, 00:11.244[13]; 26. 7-Mark Clary, 00:11.264[5]; 27. 14B-Brody Bridgeman, 00:11.267[12]; 28. 31BW-Braxton Weger, 00:11.335[26]; 29. 4-Wyatt Walters, 00:11.480[27].
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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 POWRi Non-Wing Outlaw feature event for the KKM Giveback Classic.
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