05/11/2024
RPM Speedway
Hays, Kansas
By: Sheldon Wickwar
Connor Schwien, Zach Olmstead, Kyle Pfeifer, Tyler Watts and Dakota Sproul all picked up wins Saturday night at the legendary RPM Speedway in Hays, America! Seventy-one race teams checked into the speedway for the 13th annual Cody Younger Memorial Race Night.
The sport compacts started the program off with a six-lap heat race won by Connor Schwien. Their fifteen-lap feature event started with a front row of Connor Schwien and Kyle Mortensen, with Schwien grabbing the early race lead, meanwhile Rileigh Flohrs grabbed second on the first lap. Madison Reed started using the bottom lane to move around but fell a couple of positions, meanwhile Connor Schwien still led. After five laps Connor Schwien held a five-car length lead over the second-place runner Rileigh Flohrs. At the halfway point Jakob Schwien would attempt to get around Rileigh Flohrs for second, but fourth place runner Gage Porter would start to pressure Jakob. Lap eleven saw Gage Porter and Jakob Schwien battle side-by-side for the third position, meanwhile up-front Connor Schwien had a huge lead. Connor Schwien picked up the race win, second was Rileigh Flohrs, third was Jakob Schwien, fourth was Gage Porter and fifth was Kiowa Higdon. Hard chargers in the field were Rileigh Flohrs, Jakob Schwien, Gage Porter and Kiowa Higdon all grabbing two spots each.
The hobby stocks were second on the program with three eight-lap heat races won by Trent Matson, Zach and Morgan Olmstead. Their twenty-lap feature event started with a front row of Tyler Heath and Trent Matson, and Heath got the early lead, meanwhile Zach and Morgan Olmstead wasted no time making moves to get to the front. Lap two saw Morgan Olmstead enter the top-five after getting by Jonathan Saliba. Heath would lead the field single file after four laps. Caution came out on lap four as Dion Priddy and Blake Holmes tangled in turn one, both drivers were able to keep going, with Blake Holmes being sent to the end of the field for the contact. Tyler Heath restarted the field with fifteen laps remaining and would lose the lead a lap later as Zach Olmstead took the lead. At the halfway point Zach Olmstead led over Tyler Heath and Morgan Olmstead. Caution came out as William Doudney, Ryan Grubbs and Blake Holmes tangled in turn two, after Doudney turned right into Grubbs. Off the restart Zach bobbled and gave the lead to Tyler Heath but at the line got the lead back. Lap thirteen saw Morgan Olmstead start a side-by-side battle with Tyler Heath for second place, meanwhile Zach was pulling away from the field. Lap fifteen saw Morgan solidify the second-place spot as he started chasing his brother down for the lead. Zach Olmstead was able to pick up the race win, second was Morgan Olmstead, third was Tyler Heath, fourth was Jonathan Saliba and rounding out the top-five was Cole Pfeifer. Hard charger in the event was Ryan Grubbs who picked up seven spots, other nice runs included the Olmstead brothers picking up six spots each.
The sport mods were third on the program with three eight-lap heat races won by Adam Weber, Blaine Walt, and Kamren Gruber. Their twenty-lap feature event started with a front row of Sage Dinkel and Tyler Watts, Watts grabbed the early race lead, meanwhile Brianna Maughlin, Ryan Kirchoff and Blaine Walt were moving to the front. Brianna Maughlin was able to get to third place before a caution came out on lap two when Sam McCune and Brian Conness spun out in turns two and three. Tyler Watts restarted the field with eighteen laps remaining in the feature event, and caution came out as Shawn Ward went for a spin after Kamren Gruber got sideways and stacked the field up. Tyler Watts attempted another restart with eighteen laps remaining, and started pulling away, meanwhile Blaine Walt got to second and Ryan Kirchoff to third after getting by Brianna Maughlin on the restart. After five laps Tyler Watts held a one and two hundredths second lead over Walt, but that would be erased as Sam McCune went for a spin in turn two. Watts led the field to a restart with fifteen laps remaining and a lap later caution came out as Sage Dinkel went for a spin and collected Jack Kirchoff and Brian Conness. Watts led the field to a restart with fourteen laps remaining, and Adam Weber got a good jump and challenged for the lead, but Watts held strong. Lap seven saw Tracy Holloway and Blaine Walt battle closely for third place. The field would single out by the halfway point with Tyler Watts holding the lead, Walt would challenge Adam Weber for the second place and would start to run down Tyler Watts. Lap thirteen saw Tyler Watts enter lapped traffic as he tried to protect the race lead from a hard charging Blaine Walt. Caution came out on lap fourteen as Brian Conness lost an engine in turns one and two. Watts would restart the field with six laps remaining trying to hold off Blaine Walt. Holloway and Weber would enter the lead battle with a four wide battle with Blaine Walt and Tyler Watts. Tracy Holloway spun in turn two to bring out a caution, once again Tyler Watts would try to survive another restart. Off the restart Walt threw a slider in turn three to take the lead, but Watts crossed him back over in turn four. With three laps to go Watts was still defending slide jobs from Blaine Walt, with two laps to go Watts started to pull away. Tyler Watts held on for the win, second was Blaine Walt, third was Adam Weber, fourth was Kamren Gruber and fifth was Ryan Kirchoff. Hard charger in the event was Carson Lang who gained eleven spots.
The stock cars were fourth on the program with an eight-lap heat race won by Kyle Pfeifer, their fifteen-lap feature event started with a front row of Tathan Burkhart and Kyle Pfeifer, Tathan led early but a three wide battle would break out with Kyle Pfeifer leading lap one. The top-four cars were crammed in a shoebox for the first couple of laps, but lap four saw Kyle Pfeifer pull away from Tathan Burkhart for the race lead. Lap five saw Burkhart close in on the lead but could not quite get there. At the halfway point Kyle Pfeifer led over Burkhart, Garrett Hager, Brandon Conkwright, and Shaylon Holloway. The field would dissipate through the next few laps, and the top-four ran a single lane around the speedway. Kyle Pfeifer led wire-to-wire to pick up the feature event win, second was Tathan Burkhart, third was Garrett Hager and fourth was Brandon Conkwright.
The modifieds closed out the program with two eight-lap heat races won by Trevor Geist and Jake Nightingale. Their twenty-lap feature event started with a front row of Jake Nightingale and Dalton Murphy, Jake led the field early and jumped out to a nice lead. Kyle Rohleder, Daniel Gottschalk and Clay Money were charging to the front of the field. Four laps into the race Brett Berry entered the top-five after starting sixteenth. Lap seven saw Jake Nightingale get into lapped traffic and Daniel Gottschalk closed in. Caution came out on lap nine as Taos Leighton spun in turn one, Jake Nightingale would restart the field with eleven laps remaining. Caution came out on lap eleven as Taos Leighton went for a spin in turns three and four. Caution came out again as Jason Ward spun down the frontstretch, Nightingale would bring the field to a restart with eight laps remaining. Off the restart, Dakota Sproul got to the race lead, meanwhile Gottschalk, and Brett Berry were storming to the front. With five laps remaining Sproul still led over Jake Nightingale. Dakota Sproul held on to win the race, second was Jake Nightingale, third was Daniel Gottschalk, fourth was Dylan Sherfick and fifth was Brett Berry. Hard charger in the event was Brett Berry who gained ten spots in the feature event.
FULL RESULTS:
IMCA SPORT COMPACTS PRESENTED BY AUGIE'S REPAIR AND TOWING
A Feature (15 Laps): 1. 16C-Connor Schwien[1]; 2. 14-Rileigh Flohrs[4]; 3. 16-Jakob Schwien[5]; 4. 69G-Gage Porter[6]; 5. 17-Kiowa Higdon[7]; 6. 03K-Kyle Mortensen[2]; 7. 6M-Madison Reed[3]; 8. 7M-ZACK MCLAUGHLIN[8]; 9. A0K-Cam Adams[9]; 10. 22-Brent Cox[10]
Heat (6 Laps): 1. 16C-Connor Schwien[1]; 2. 6M-Madison Reed[3]; 3. 14-Rileigh Flohrs[5]; 4. 03K-Kyle Mortensen[2]; 5. 16-Jakob Schwien[6]; 6. 69G-Gage Porter[7]; 7. 17-Kiowa Higdon[4]; 8. 7M-ZACK MCLAUGHLIN[9]; 9. A0K-Cam Adams[10]; 10. 22-Brent Cox[8]
20 entries
IMCA HOBBY STOCKS PRESENTED BY GOLDEN PLAINS TRUCKING
A Feature (20 Laps): 1. 98Z-Zach Olmstead[7]; 2. 88-Morgan Olmstead[8]; 3. 187-Tyler Heath[1]; 4. 5S-Jonathan Saliba[5]; 5. 10-Cole Pfeifer[6]; 6. 2M-Trent Matson[2]; 7. D68-Dion Priddy[9]; 8. 20-James Hart[4]; 9. 6X-Roger Garrison[12]; 10. 58-Bret Conness[11]; 11. 28-Ryan Grubbs[18]; 12. 17H-Hayden Ogorzolka[3]; 13. 12S-Cole Schulte[16]; 14. 93-Jake Wharton[15]; 15. 8K-Hayden Kelly[13]; 16. 30-Dawson Bradford[17]; 17. M69-Anna Minks[20]; 18. (DNF) 7W-William Doudney[14]; 19. (DNF) 55-Blake Holmes[10]; 20. (DNS) 6T-Taylor Croisant
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 2M-Trent Matson[2]; 2. 10-Cole Pfeifer[4]; 3. 6X-Roger Garrison[7]; 4. 17H-Hayden Ogorzolka[3]; 5. 8K-Hayden Kelly[5]; 6. (DNF) 12S-Cole Schulte[1]; 7. (DNF) 28-Ryan Grubbs[6]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 98Z-Zach Olmstead[4]; 2. 187-Tyler Heath[1]; 3. 20-James Hart[3]; 4. 55-Blake Holmes[6]; 5. 7W-William Doudney[5]; 6. M69-Anna Minks[7]; 7. (DNS) 6T-Taylor Croisant
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 88-Morgan Olmstead[4]; 2. 5S-Jonathan Saliba[3]; 3. D68-Dion Priddy[5]; 4. 58-Bret Conness[6]; 5. 93-Jake Wharton[2]; 6. 30-Dawson Bradford[1]
18 entries
IMCA SPORT MODS PRESENTED BY WALT'S REPAIR AND MACHINE
A Feature (20 Laps): 1. 77W-Tyler Watts[2]; 2. 14W-Blaine Walt[8]; 3. 3-Adam Weber[7]; 4. 27G-Kamren Gruber[9]; 5. 28K-Ryan Kirchoff[5]; 6. 54-Carson Lang[17]; 7. 17M-Brianna Maughlin[6]; 8. 22B-Dalton Bell[4]; 9. 88J-Jack Kirchoff[11]; 10. 67-Jacey Archer[12]; 11. 24-Douglas Beaman[13]; 12. 14-Tristan Mikesell[3]; 13. 28D-Sage Dinkel[1]; 14. 97-Shawn Ward[15]; 15. 99-Justin Meserve[18]; 16. (DNF) 83-Tracy Holloway[10]; 17. (DNF) 21C-Brian Conness[16]; 18. (DNF) 7M-Sam McCune[14]
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 3-Adam Weber[3]; 2. 28D-Sage Dinkel[1]; 3. 83-Tracy Holloway[5]; 4. 22B-Dalton Bell[2]; 5. 24-Douglas Beaman[4]; 6. 21C-Brian Conness[6]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 14W-Blaine Walt[3]; 2. 28K-Ryan Kirchoff[2]; 3. 77W-Tyler Watts[1]; 4. 67-Jacey Archer[6]; 5. 7M-Sam McCune[4]; 6. (DNF) 54-Carson Lang[5]
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 27G-Kamren Gruber[4]; 2. 17M-Brianna Maughlin[2]; 3. 88J-Jack Kirchoff[5]; 4. 14-Tristan Mikesell[1]; 5. 97-Shawn Ward[3]; 6. 99-Justin Meserve[6]
7 entries
IMCA STOCK CARS PRESENTED BY ADVANTAGE GLASS PLUS
A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 54P-Kyle Pfeifer[2]; 2. 250-Tathan Burkhart[1]; 3. 68-Garrett Hager[3]; 4. 24C-Brandon Conkwright[4]; 5. (DNF) 538-Shaylon Holloway[5]; 6. (DNF) 197-Josh Hudson[6]; 7. (DNS) 60-Curt Croisant
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 54P-Kyle Pfeifer[2]; 2. 250-Tathan Burkhart[1]; 3. 68-Garrett Hager[3]; 4. 24C-Brandon Conkwright[4]; 5. 538-Shaylon Holloway[6]; 6. 197-Josh Hudson[7]; 7. (DNF) 60-Curt Croisant[5]
16 entries
IMCA MODIFIEDS PRESENTED BY MEL HAMBELTON FORD RACING
A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 08-Dakota Sproul[9]; 2. 3J-Jake Nightingale[1]; 3. 3D-Daniel Gottschalk[7]; 4. 66D-Dylan Sherfick[8]; 5. 09B-Brett Berry[15]; 6. 7-Clay Money[5]; 7. 0-Kyle Rohleder[4]; 8. 10G-Don Geist[14]; 9. 9D-Dalton Murphy[2]; 10. 43-Kaid Calhoon[12]; 11. 30-Gary Bradford[10]; 12. 33-Jason Ward[16]; 13. (DNF) 11W-Tim Watts[6]; 14. (DNF) 10T-Trevor Geist[3]; 15. (DNF) 83L-Taos Leighton[13]; 16. (DNS) 42-John Fabrizius
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 10T-Trevor Geist[4]; 2. 3D-Daniel Gottschalk[6]; 3. 9D-Dalton Murphy[3]; 4. 30-Gary Bradford[8]; 5. (DNF) 7-Clay Money[5]; 6. (DNF) 42-John Fabrizius[1]; 7. (DNF) 83L-Taos Leighton[2]; 8. (DNF) 09B-Brett Berry[7]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 3J-Jake Nightingale[1]; 2. 0-Kyle Rohleder[4]; 3. 08-Dakota Sproul[7]; 4. 66D-Dylan Sherfick[6]; 5. 11W-Tim Watts[5]; 6. 43-Kaid Calhoon[2]; 7. (DNF) 10G-Don Geist[3]; 8. (DNF) 33-Jason Ward[8]
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