Belleville, IL. (2/1/26) Competing in the series' second season opener at the outstanding hosting venue of Adobe Mountain Speedway, the rapidly growing POWRi Avanti Windows & Doors Southwest Ecotec Midget Series would witness Brody Wake earn the hard-fought feature victory after leading all twenty green-flag laps.
Kickstarting the weekend night of series excitement with nineteen entries at Adobe Mountain Speedway with the POWRi SWEM Series, Brody Wake set the quick time during hot laps with a time of 13.197, as Tyler Ruth, Gary DeWitt, and Brody Wake each notched the heat racing wins, while Wake would earn the high point qualifier award for the event.
Going green flag racing in the feature would find Brody Wake wheel his way to victory by leading every lap of the twenty laps after starting in pole position and winning his second series victory. Second-starting AJ Hernandez would finish runner-up ahead of Tyler Ruth, placing third from starting third as Chris Rahe advanced a position to finish fourth with Dayton Shelton rounding out the top-five finishers at Adobe Mountain Speedway.
POWRi SWEM | Adobe Mountain Speedway | 1/31/26:
A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 20-Brody Wake[1]; 2. 21X-AJ Hernandez[2]; 3. 88K-Tyler Ruth[3]; 4. 5-Chris Rahe[5]; 5. 2-Dayton Shelton[9]; 6. 10-Adam Teves[8]; 7. 57-Kyle Huttenhow[13]; 8. 76-Gary Wegener[11]; 9. 88-Tyler Merrill[15]; 10. 33-Lonnie Oliver[10]; 11. 7-Mason Keefer[12]; 12. (DNF) 13-Daniel DeWitt[18]; 13. (DNF) 2X-Chris Boyles[19]; 14. (DNF) 18X-Branden Bolton[17]; 15. (DNF) 48-Gary DeWitt[4]; 16. (DNF) 4-Dustin Cormany[6]; 17. (DNF) 43X-Elijah Loper[16]; 18. (DNS) 82-CJ Bunch; 19. (DNS) 18-David Gasper
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 88K-Tyler Ruth[1]; 2. 5-Chris Rahe[3]; 3. 2-Dayton Shelton[2]; 4. 33-Lonnie Oliver[5]; 5. 43X-Elijah Loper[7]; 6. 13-Daniel DeWitt[6]; 7. (DNS) 88-Tyler Merrill
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 48-Gary DeWitt[1]; 2. 21X-AJ Hernandez[4]; 3. 4-Dustin Cormany[5]; 4. 7-Mason Keefer[2]; 5. 57-Kyle Huttenhow[3]; 6. 2X-Chris Boyles[6]
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 20-Brody Wake[5]; 2. 82-CJ Bunch[2]; 3. 10-Adam Teves[4]; 4. 76-Gary Wegener[3]; 5. 18X-Branden Bolton[6]; 6. (DNF) 18-David Gasper[1]
Hot Laps 1: 1. 20-Brody Wake, 00:13.197[15]; 2. 2-Dayton Shelton, 00:13.201[4]; 3. 57-Kyle Huttenhow, 00:13.402[8]; 4. 4-Dustin Cormany, 00:13.524[14]; 5. 76-Gary Wegener, 00:13.524[9]; 6. 48-Gary DeWitt, 00:13.526[2]; 7. 10-Adam Teves, 00:13.564[12]; 8. 82-CJ Bunch, 00:13.569[6]; 9. 88-Tyler Merrill, 00:13.641[10]; 10. 5-Chris Rahe, 00:13.654[7]; 11. 7-Mason Keefer, 00:13.706[5]; 12. 13-Daniel DeWitt, 00:13.801[16]; 13. 33-Lonnie Oliver, 00:13.883[13]; 14. 88K-Tyler Ruth, 00:14.086[1]; 15. 2X-Chris Boyles, 00:14.335[17]; 16. 18X-Branden Bolton, 00:14.530[18]; 17. 21X-AJ Hernandez, 00:18.034[11]; 18. 43X-Elijah Loper, 00:19.726[19]; 19. 18-David Gasper, 02:05.482[3]
Event Details: https://www.myracepass.com/events/608139.
Up next for the POWRi Avanti Windows & Doors Southwest Ecotec Midget Series will be a return to Adobe Mountain Speedway, in Glendale, Arizona, on Saturday, February 21.
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