Jake Bubak Grabs Win in Wakeeney

07/01/2023

Wakeeney Speedway

Wakeeney, Kansas

IMCA Racing/American Sprint Car Series

By: Sheldon Wickwar

The Wakeeney Speedway- Photo courtesy of Sheldon Wickwar

A dominant win for Jake Bubak as he was able to work through lapped traffic the fastest, as a hard charging Blake Hahn was not able to run down your feature winner. Joining Bubak in victory lane, were Josh Barnhart in the sport mods, Zach Olmstead in the hobby stocks, and Chris Lohrey in the crazy cruisers feature! Sixty-three race teams converged on the Wakeeney Speedway for a pre-Fourth of July celebration, with fireworks on and off the track!

Hobby stocks started the show out, as seventeen of them entered a battle, Drew Barry and Zach Olmstead were the two heat race winners.

Jake Wharton and Drew Barry would start from the front row of the fifteen-lap feature, and Barry got the early lead. Caution would come out early as Allen Snethen hit the wall and was okay but was done for the night. Barry led the field to a restart, where he would lead a lap before giving way to Zach Olmstead. Lap four would see Cody Williams get into second place as he would start to attempt to run down your race leader. Caution would come out a couple times later in the feature as Drew Barry had problems, and later on there was a multi car pileup, all drivers were okay, and the field would restart. Off of a late race restart, a three wide battle would break out as Levi Jones, Cody Ghumm and Cody Williams all competed for second, Williams would gain second, meanwhile Zach Olmstead would race to the finish line, grabbing his thirteenth win of the year. Second was Cody Williams, third was Cody Ghumm , fourth was Derick Coomes and fifth was Reagan Sellard. Hard charger was Reagan Sellard who gained ten spots, other nice runs included Zach Olmstead up seven spots, Derick Coomes up six spots and Cody Williams up five spots.

Zach Olmstead and family celebrate his IMCA hobby stock win! Photo courtesy of Photo's By Red-Carl Red Larson!

The sprint cars were second on the program, with twenty-five entries on the night, as Chris Morgan won the first heat race, Brandon Anderson the second, and Whit Gastineau the third.

The twenty-five-lap feature started with a front row of Blake Hahn and Jake Bubak, the pair would battle side by side for the majority of the first lap, but it was Bubak leading the first lap as he started to pull away from the field. Lap six saw a slowing Michael Day to bring out the first caution of the event. Bubak would lead the field back to green but caution quickly came back out on lap seven and eleven as Christopher Townsend came to a stop, he would retire from the event after the second caution and Bubak would lead the field to a couple more restarts. Lap nineteen saw a two-car incident to bring out the final caution as Tony Rost and Joel Mellon would tangle down the front stretch, during that green flag run from lap eleven to nineteen, Blake Hahn was able to close in on Jake Bubak, but lapped traffic ultimately held Hahn up and allowed Bubak to race away with the feature win. Second was Blake Hahn, and third was Jason Martin to round out the podium. Hard charger in the feature was Jeremy Huish who picked up eight spots, other nice runs included Jeremy McCune and Zack Merritt both picking up six spots each.

Jake Bubak celebrates his ASCS win with friends and family! Photo courtesy of Photo's By Red-Carl Red Larson!

Third on the program were the sport mods who fielded thirteen entries, winning heat races were Adam Weber and Josh Barnhart.

The fifteen-lap feature saw a front row of Josh Barnhart and Jimmy Brozek, Barnhart grabbed the early race lead and immediately started building a big lead. Kamren Gruber was able to get to second place by lap four. Lap nine saw a caution for Shawn Ward spinning, which would put the field back on Barnhart's rear bumper, but that didn't slow Barnhart as off the restart he was able to build his lead back up. Caution would come out a second time as Adam Weber got off track down the backstretch and brought out a caution with six laps to go. One last caution came out with four laps to go as Ward spun again and headed to the pits, Barnhart would continue his dominance to easily pick up his first win of the season. Second was Kamren Gruber, third was Jimmy Brozek, fourth was Brianna Maughlin and fifth was CJ Pfannenstiel. Hard charger in the feature was Brianna Maughlin who grabbed five spots.

Josh Barnhart celebrates with friends and family, after winning the IMCA sport mod feature! Photo courtesy of Photo's By Red-Carl Red Larson!

The crazy cruisers ended the show with eight entries, winning the only heat race was Weston Kraus.

The twelve-lap feature had a front row of Weston Kraus and Matt Ramsey, Weston led the first few laps, and caution came out on lap five as David Kraus came to a stop, Weston would lead the field to a restart and off the restart Chris Lohrey was able to get to the lead. Lap seven saw a red flag as the track officials decided to let the crazy cruisers literally flip themselves around and race the track in the wrong direction. Lohrey would lead the remainder of the wacky feature to pick up the win! Second was Dylan Pfeifer, third was Nathan Armbruster and fourth was Matt Ramsey, as they were the only four cars able to finish the race. Hard charger was Dylan Pfeifer who gained three spots.

Chris Lohrey and Clint Gilmore celebrate their crazy cruisers feature win! Photo courtesy of Photo's By Red-Carl Red Larson!

After the electric action on track, Wakeeney Speedway ended the night with beautiful fireworks display to kick off the Fourth of July holiday!

FULL RESULTS FROM MYRACEPASS:

SPRINTS:

RacinDirt A-Main (25 Laps): 1. 27B-Jake Bubak[2]; 2. 52-Blake Hahn[1]; 3. 36-Jason Martin[4]; 4. 2-Whit Gastineau[3]; 5. 55B-Brandon Anderson[5]; 6. 95-Matt Covington[8]; 7. 2J-Zach Blurton[7]; 8. 14-Jordon Mallett[9]; 9. 88J-Jeremy Huish[17]; 10. 45X-Kyler Johnson[14]; 11. 3-Howard Moore[15]; 12. 10C-Jeremy Campbell[11]; 13. 7C-Chris Morgan[6]; 14. 99-Tony Rost[13]; 15. 88-Jordan Knight[12]; 16. 0J-Jeremy McCune[22]; 17. 91X-Jeff Stasa[19]; 18. 74-Zack Merritt[24]; 19. 10-Tyler Knight[21]; 20. 1M-Don Droud Jr[25]; 21. 3J-Joel Mellon[18]; 22. 44-Ryan Rader[20]; 23. 6T-Kaden Taylor[10]; 24. 6-Christopher Townsend[16]; 25. 91-Michael Day[23]

AR Dyno Specialty Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 7C-Chris Morgan[1]; 2. 36-Jason Martin[3]; 3. 27B-Jake Bubak[4]; 4. 88-Jordan Knight[2]; 5. 3-Howard Moore[5]; 6. 88J-Jeremy Huish[6]; 7. 3J-Joel Mellon[8]; 8. 74-Zack Merritt[9]; 9. 0J-Jeremy McCune[7]

AR Dyno Specialty Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 55B-Brandon Anderson[2]; 2. 6T-Kaden Taylor[1]; 3. 2J-Zach Blurton[6]; 4. 14-Jordon Mallett[3]; 5. 45X-Kyler Johnson[5]; 6. 1M-Don Droud Jr[4]; 7. 44-Ryan Rader[7]; 8. (DNS) 91-Michael Day

AR Dyno Specialty Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 2-Whit Gastineau[2]; 2. 10C-Jeremy Campbell[1]; 3. 52-Blake Hahn[4]; 4. 95-Matt Covington[3]; 5. 99-Tony Rost[5]; 6. 6-Christopher Townsend[8]; 7. 91X-Jeff Stasa[6]; 8. 10-Tyler Knight[7]

The Drivers Project Qualifying 1 (3 Laps): 1. 27B-Jake Bubak, 00:14.864[6]; 2. 36-Jason Martin, 00:15.028[7]; 3. 88-Jordan Knight, 00:15.044[8]; 4. 7C-Chris Morgan, 00:15.198[1]; 5. 3-Howard Moore, 00:15.222[5]; 6. 88J-Jeremy Huish, 00:15.386[9]; 7. 0J-Jeremy McCune, 00:15.558[3]; 8. 3J-Joel Mellon, 00:15.800[4]; 9. (DNS) 74-Zack Merritt, 00:15.800

The Drivers Project Qualifying 2 (3 Laps): 1. 1M-Don Droud Jr, 00:14.805[7]; 2. 14-Jordon Mallett, 00:14.832[4]; 3. 55B-Brandon Anderson, 00:15.123[1]; 4. 6T-Kaden Taylor, 00:15.132[2]; 5. 45X-Kyler Johnson, 00:15.163[8]; 6. 2J-Zach Blurton, 00:15.201[5]; 7. 91-Michael Day, 00:15.351[6]; 8. 44-Ryan Rader, 00:17.450[3]

The Drivers Project Qualifying 3 (3 Laps): 1. 52-Blake Hahn, 00:14.673[1]; 2. 95-Matt Covington, 00:14.801[3]; 3. 2-Whit Gastineau, 00:14.856[7]; 4. 99-Tony Rost, 00:15.014[2]; 5. 10C-Jeremy Campbell, 00:15.020[6]; 6. 91X-Jeff Stasa, 00:15.341[4]; 7. 10-Tyler Knight, 00:15.496[5]; 8. 6-Christopher Townsend, 00:15.758[8]

CRUISERS:

A Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 12-Chris Lohrey[3]; 2. 10 32-Dylan Pfeifer[5]; 3. 62-Nathan Armbruster[4]; 4. 911-Matt Ramsey[2]; 5. 63-Weston Kraus[1]; 6. 27-David Kraus[7]; 7. 29-Madelyn Kraus[6]; 8. 20-Richard Disinger[8]

Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 63-Weston Kraus[5]; 2. 911-Matt Ramsey[6]; 3. 12-Chris Lohrey[7]; 4. 62-Nathan Armbruster[3]; 5. 10 32-Dylan Pfeifer[8]; 6. 29-Madelyn Kraus[1]; 7. 27-David Kraus[4]; 8. 20-Richard Disinger[2]

SPORT MODS:

A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 5150-Josh Barnhart[1]; 2. 27G-Kamren Gruber[4]; 3. 64-Jimmy Brozek[2]; 4. 17M-Brianna Maughlin[9]; 5. 4-CJ Pfannenstiel[6]; 6. 28K-Ryan Kirchoff[5]; 7. 11D-Devon Ghumm[8]; 8. 19-Terry Collins[12]; 9. 36W-Willie Wynn[3]; 10. 97-Shawn Ward[11]; 11. 3-Adam Weber[7]; 12. 24-Doug Beaman[10]; 13. 8-Brian May[13]

Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 3-Adam Weber[4]; 2. 64-Jimmy Brozek[2]; 3. 17M-Brianna Maughlin[7]; 4. 36W-Willie Wynn[6]; 5. 28K-Ryan Kirchoff[1]; 6. 97-Shawn Ward[5]; 7. 8-Brian May[3]

Heat 2 (6 Laps): 1. 5150-Josh Barnhart[1]; 2. 4-CJ Pfannenstiel[3]; 3. 11D-Devon Ghumm[4]; 4. 27G-Kamren Gruber[5]; 5. 24-Doug Beaman[6]; 6. 19-Terry Collins[2]

HOBBY STOCKS:

A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 98Z-Zach Olmstead[8]; 2. 77-Cody Williams[7]; 3. 1C-Cody Ghumm[3]; 4. 03-Derick Coomes[10]; 5. 2S-Reagan Sellard[15]; 6. 6-Drew Barry[2]; 7. 81-Manuel Salazar[11]; 8. 8K-Hayden Kelly[12]; 9. 11B-Blake Spear[6]; 10. 82-Levi Jones[4]; 11. 37X-Cash Tubbs[13]; 12. 21-Allen Snethen[5]; 13. 12S-Cole Schulte[16]; 14. 93-Jake Wharton[1]; 15. 21C-Bret Conness[9]; 16. (DNS) 12-Colbly Wetzel; 17. (DNS) 24-Ray Caldwell

Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 6-Drew Barry[4]; 2. 1C-Cody Ghumm[8]; 3. 21-Allen Snethen[3]; 4. 93-Jake Wharton[5]; 5. 11B-Blake Spear[6]; 6. 81-Manuel Salazar[2]; 7. 37X-Cash Tubbs[9]; 8. 2S-Reagan Sellard[7]; 9. (DNS) 24-Ray Caldwell

Heat 2 (6 Laps): 1. 98Z-Zach Olmstead[6]; 2. 77-Cody Williams[5]; 3. 21C-Bret Conness[2]; 4. 03-Derick Coomes[7]; 5. 82-Levi Jones[4]; 6. 8K-Hayden Kelly[3]; 7. 12-Colbly Wetzel[1]; 8. 12S-Cole Schulte[8]