WARRENSBURG, Mo. — Blazing hot summer temperatures returned on Saturday along with drivers and fans to take in another week of championship season racing at Central Missouri Speedway.
Drivers competed in preliminary heat races to sort out their main event lineups for the main events. All weekly divisions competed for both POWRi national points and track points while guest class Lightning Sprints competed for POWRi points only. All total, there were 11 heat races and five main events.
Aaron Marrant is a former modified champion and past late model winner at CMS, but for this night he was in a B-Mod and earned front-row starting honors alongside Terry Schultz for the 20-lap main event.
Schultz led the opening laps, but not without constant and heavy pressure from Marrant, who searched for a way to the front. Just as it appeared that Marrant would challenge for the win, he surprisingly exited the race, ending his bid for the win on lap five.
Behind Schultz, previous winners Sturgis Streeter and Stephen Clancy worked hard to close in for the win during a battle that lasted several laps. Another solid field of cars produced some of the top talent in the region with Jacob Ebert, Jake Fetterman, Brad Smith and Cole Campbell all in search of a top-five finish.
Schultz held strong at the helm, until lap 15, when Clancy began closing in on the leader. By lap 16 and 17, the top two ran side-by-side at the line in one of the standout races of the year.
The bid for the win went right to the checkered flag as Schultz was able to keep his machine ahead of a hard-charging Clancy to claim his sixth win of the season. Cancy was second with Streeter third. Campbell was fourth with Smith rounding out the top five.
Blaine Ewing won the POWRi Super Stocks feature, with the POWRi Midwest Mods event going to Kenny Prince. The Pure Stocks feature was won by Payton McDowell. POWRi Midwest Lightning Sprints was all Stanley Kreisel.
Feature Finish (20 Laps)
1. 90-Terry Schultz[2]; 2. 12C-Stephen Clancy[5]; 3. 61-Sturgis Streeter[3]; 4. 22C-Cole Campbell[11]; 5. 99S-Brad Smith[10]; 6. 94-Jacob Ebert[4]; 7. 15J-Jake Fetterman[7]; 8. 30-Rex Harris[8]; 9. 1K-Tim Karrick[17]; 10. 12-Parker Smith[6]; 11. 6-Lucas Isaacs[9]; 12. 6T-Michael Taylor III[14]; 13. 15S-Kolby Bray[13]; 14. 23-Danny Thompson JR[18]; 15. 19B-Kaleb Bray[15]; 16. R33-Austen Raybourn[12]; 17. (DNF) 15-Colin Pierce[19]; 18. (DNF) 57-Aaron Marrant[1]; 19. (DNF) 2-Brayden Bohn[16]; 20. (DNF) 99-Jess Fitzpatrick[20]; 21. (DNS) 51M-Mike Ryun