Lakeside ASCS Results and Stories

Mason Daniel 5/10/18

Lakeside Speedway
Kansas City, KS

ASCS

30 cars

Heat one (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Mason Daniel 33m (3*) 2. Paul Nienhiser 9 (2*) 3. Wayne Johnson 2c (4*) 4. Jack Dover 81 (7*) 5. Skylar Gee 99 (5) 6. Miles Paulus 21P (8) 7. Matt Covington 95 (6) 8. Alex Hill 77x (1)

Eight lap heats took the top sixteen in passing points to the feature.  Contact between Hill and W. Johnson on lap one, deterred both cars progress.  Daniel stormed to the front, ahead of Covington and Nienhiser.  W. Johnson battled back through the pack and grabbed fourth by the halfway point.  Covington suffered driveline/engine issues while running second with two to go and retired.  Daniel won going away.

Heat two (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Seth Bergman 23 (1*) 2. Sam Hafertepe Jr. 15H (6*) 3. Terry McCarl 24 (2*) 4. Kyle Bellm 14K (4) 5. Evan Martin 4 (5) 6. Roger Crockett 11 (7) 7. Jamie Ball 5J (8) 8. Curtis Evans 1P (3)

Bergman won going away.  McCarl was running second.  Hafertepe passed Bellm for third on lap two, and then nipped McCarl at the line for second.  Bellm crossed fourth, but lost his second motor in three nights.

Heat three (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Scott Bogucki 28 (1) 2. Harli White 17w (4*) 3. Chris Martin 44 (2*) 4. Wyatt Burks 11w (5*) 5. Robbie Price 21 (6) 6. JR Topper 92J (7) 7. Aidan Roosevans 6A (3)

Bogucki led flag to flag and pulled away.  Burks was second early, ahead of White.  White passed Burks for second on lap five.  The track started drying out and the top gave way to the bottom for the final two heats.

Heat four (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Tony Stewart 14 (1*) 2. Logan Seavey 1 (3*) 3. Brian Brown 21B (4*) 4. Blake Hahn 52 (6*) 5. Johnny Herrera 45x (7*) 6. Ayrton Gennetten 3 (5) 7. Danny Thoman 27 (2)


Stewart left the rest behind in a mostly single-file affair.

Ayrton Gennetten B main (started): 1. Gennetten (8) 2. Gee (4) 3. Paulus (1) 4. E. Martin (3) 5. Ball (7) 6. Price (2) / 7. Crockett (6) 8. Evans (11) 9. Thoman (10) 10. Roosevans (9) 11. Hill (12) 12. Topper (5) DNS – Bellm, Covington


Paulus led early over E. Martin and Gee in the 12-lapper.  The top had been watered, and Gennetten picked his way forward on the cushion.  By lap three, he was by Gee for third.  He too, second from E. Martin on lap seven, with Gee following him.  Paulus was caught on the bottom in traffic with two to go, and Gennetten shot around him to win going away in a good race.

Seth Bergman A main (started): 1. Bergman (4) 2. Brown (11) 3. Stewart (3) 4. Dover (1) 5. Hafertepe (2) 6. W. Johnson (10) 7. Hahn (12) 8. Bogucki (5) 9. T. McCarl (13) 10. Herrera (16) 11. Seavey (7) 12. Daniel (8) 13. Gee (18) 14. Gennetten (17) 15. Paulus (19) 16. Evans (23, prov.) 17. Ball (21) 18. C. Martin (14) 19. Nienhiser (9) 20. White (6) 21. E. Martin (20) 22. Price (22) 23. Burks (15) 24. Crockett (24, prov.) DNS – Covington (25, prov.)

The 25-lapper was a good one.  The tiller came out on the high and low sides.  Dover led lap one over Stewart and Hafertepe.  Stewart would shoot around Dover on the high side to lead lap two.  He entered lapped traffic by lap seven.  Two laps later, White slowed, bringing out the caution.  Stewart led Dover, Hafertpe, Bergman, Nienhiser and Brown (up from 11th) back to green.  One of the few series not to use split yellows cost Bergman a pass of Hafertepe for third when Price (a lapped car still holding his position) spun.  Nienhiser was caught in that one, but kept it going and restarted in his fifth spot.  The restart saw Brown throw a slider on Nienhsier for fifth. Paul woold fight back, going from sixth to fourth on lap 12.  Meanwhile, Bergman gained third from Hafertepe.  At the halfway point, something went awry for Nienhiser, who veered into an infield tire and limped to the infield with a broken front end.  The red came out with 14 laps down when C. Martin tipped over.  Ball was also involved and both went out on the hook.  Stewart led Dover, Bergman, Brown and Hafertepe back to green.  Bergman worked by Dover for second.  On lap 16, Brown followed him into third.  Rubber started developing under the cushion, where Stewart was running.  Bergman found it first and passed Stewart for the lead heading into turn one with five to go.  Brown would follow him two laps later.