I-70 Motorsports Park (Video Highlights from DirtVision.com)
4/30/2021
I-70 Motorsports Park
Odessa, MO
WoO and POWRi-WAR Sprints
WoO
29 cars
The reopening of I-70 was highly anticipated with 7,000 tickets presold in a venue that holds 8,000. The track surface was a concern as some track equipment has not arrived yet (the tiller is due in June), and Friday was the first a water truck had been on it. In the end, the track was fine and racing was good.
The track measures just under a half-mile. David Gravel (3rd car out to time) set the new standard in time trials at 13.018 seconds. Kyle Larson (4th car out) was second quick, followed by Carson Macedo (8th), Brian Brown (22nd), Brock Zearfoss (11th), Gio Scelzi (28th), Sheldon Haudenschild (29th), Logan Schuchart (6th), Brad Sweet (16th) and Donny Schatz (9th).
Heat one (started): 1. Brown 21 (2) 2. Gravel 2 (1) 3. Schatz 15 (4) 4. Kraig Kinser 11K (5) 5. Haudenschild 17 (3) 6. Jake Bubak 1x (6) / 7. Zach Hampton 35 (7) 8. Ayrton Gennetten 3 (8) 9. Riley Goodno 22 (10) 10. Ben Brown 7B (9)
8-lap heats were more like speed parades without the candy and waves. The top two went to the Dash, and the top six to the feature.
Heat two (started): 1. Zearfoss 3z (2) 2. Larson 57 (1) 3. Rico Abreu 24 (4) 4. Schuchart 1s (3) 5. James McFadden 9 (5) 6. Aaron Reutzel 83 (7) / 7. Tim Kaeding 14 (9) 8. Tucker Klaasmeyer 27 (6) 9. Wayne Johnson 2c (8) 10. Noah Gass 20G (10)
Heat three (started): 1. Macedo 41 (1) 2. Scelzi 18 (2) 3. Sweet 49 (3) 4. Parker Price-Miller 19 (5) 5. Jason Sides 7s (4) 6. Jacob Allen 1a (6) / 7. Mason Daniel 33m (7) 8. Garet Williamson 24w (8) 9. Joe B. Miller 31 (9)
Dash (started): 1. Gravel (1) 2. Zearfoss (2) 3. Macedo (4) 4. Br. Brown (3) 5. Larson (5) 6. Scelzi (6)
The six-lap Dash set the first three rows of the feature.
B main (started): 1. Kaeding (3) 2. Klaasmeyer (1) 3. Hampton (2) 4. Daniel (4) 5. Johnson (8) 6. Gennetten (5) / 7. Miller (9) 8. Williamson (6) 9. Goodno (7) 10. Be. Brown (10) 11. Gass (11)
Klaasmeyer led Hampton, Daniel and Kaeding early in the 12-lapper that took the top six to the feature. On the second lap, Kaeding passed Daniel for third, and Gennetten passed Johnson for fifth. Kaeding continued his surge passing Hampton and then shot by Klaasmeyer on lap five to win going away.
A main (started): 1. Sweet (9) 2. Br. Brown (4) 3. Gravel (1) 4. Macedo (3) 5. Larson (5) 6. McFadden (14) 7. Haudenschild (13) 8. Scelzi (6) 9. Abreu (8) 10. Schuchart (11) 11. Kaeding (19) 12. Schatz (7) 13. Reutzel (17) 14. Kinser (10) 15. Bubak (16) 16. Price-Miller (12) 17. Gennetten (24) 18. Sides (15) 19. Hampton (21) 20. Allen (18) 21. Zearfoss (2) 22. Klaasmeyer (20) 23. Daniel (22) 24. Johnson (23)
The 30-lapper saw Zearfoss blaze out to an early lead over Gravel and Brown. Scelzi entered the top five on lap five, and on lap six took fourth from Macedo. Zearfoss entered lapped traffic on lap seven. Macedo got back by Scelzi in heavy lapped traffic in a good battle for fourth on lap nine. On lap ten, Larson and Daniel contacted, sending the latter headfirst into the turn four wall. He was uninjured. Zearfoss chose the outside line on the double-file restart, ahead of Gravel, Brown, Macedo, Scelzi and Larson. Gravel shot to the lead at that point, while Sweet moved up two spots to fourth. Sweet passed Brown for third on lap 14, and tracked down Zearfoss for second with ten to go. Macedo got around Brown in lapped traffic on lap 21, and on lap 24, Sweet went below the lapped car of Gennetten, and Gravel went above. The result was Sweet surging into the lead. Disaster struck for the third running Zearfoss with three laps to go when he broke a front end. The last restart saw Sweet leading Gravel, Macedo, Brown and Larson. Brown was on fire, passing Macedo and then Gravel to climb to second. He came just short of a slide of Sweet, who won for the second night in a row.