ELDON, Mo. — Ayrton Gennetten would emerge victorious in the sixth event for the season in the POWRi 410 Bandit Outlaw Sprint Series return to their home facility of Lake Ozark Speedway to notch his first career series feature victory in the ‘Father’s Day Wing-Fest’ in an outstanding pursuit to the checkers.
Cruising onto the perfectly smoothed and well-maintained track would witness Ayrton Gennetten set a quick time with an 11.738/second lap time.
Going into the initial green flag start would find front-row starter Don Droud Jr. speed to the early racing advantage as Gennetten, Slater Helt, Brian Bell, and Kyle Bellm battled within the top five.
Overtaking for the front of the field, Gennetten would use lap traffic to perfection after Droud misjudged the entry into turn one with Gennetten able to capitalize as Droud recovered to valiantly contend throughout.
Leading the final eight revolutions of the 25 feature laps Ayrton Gennetten would hold steady after the final restart to earn his first career POWRi 410 BOSS feature victory.
Battling intently after leading the first seventeen laps, Don Droud Jr would finish runner-up from starting pole with Kyle Bellm flying into placing in the final podium placement from starting fifth.
“What a great way to build momentum for this team, great job on track prep we had multiple lanes of racing and it feels great to get a win this close to home,” said Gennetten. “Lapped traffic definitely came into play and I knew I had to be patient for everything to work out.”
Staying in the hunt for the front all feature Slater Helt would finish fourth as seventh-starting Roger Crockett rounded out the top five.
The finish:
Feature (25 Laps): 1. 19-Ayrton Gennetten[3]; 2. 1M-Don Droud Jr[1]; 3. 50K-Kyle Bellm[5]; 4. 22S-Slater Helt[4]; 5. 11-Roger Crockett[7]; 6. 79-Gage Montgomery[12]; 7. 74-Xavier Doney[6]; 8. 23B-Brian Bell[2]; 9. 122-Lane Warner[8]; 10. 33$-Shane O’Banion[14]; 11. 3P-Russell Potter[16]; 12. 15-Jack Potter[9]; 13. 73-Samuel Wagner[11]; 14. 49-Tyler Elliott[18]; 15. 9-Emilio Hoover[15]; 16. B8-John Barnard[17]; 17. 8S-Steve Short[10]; 18. 1S-Joey Schmidt[13]; 19. 8R-Ryker Pace[19].