SMITH SPRINTS TO USAC MWRA VICTORY AT U.S. 36
By: Ray Cunningham
Osborn, Missouri (June 3, 2022)………On Friday night at U.S. 36 Speedway, Wesley Smith of Billings, Missouri put on a clinic.
He won both his heat and the 25-lap feature for the USAC Wholesale Batteries Midwest Wingless Racing Association Sprint Cars while driving the John Helm Racing/WSR Racing #12 to victory in the first race for the MWRA in 2022.
Smith, who won his seventh feature with MWRA twice carved up lapped traffic by slicing and dicing his way through the originally scheduled 24-car field before two red flag situations interrupted his dominant run, first for Chad Winfrey who flipped coming out of turn two, and later after Todd McVay went off the back stretch. Neither driver was injured.
From there on, Smith successfully navigated his way to victory over Cody Baker from Lone Jack, Mo. who ran second in the THR Racing/Tribble/Baker Racing #9, with fellow Lone Jack resident Braydon Cromwell, fresh off graduation from high school, taking the final podium spot in his Cromwell Racing #4.
Wyatt Burks from Topeka, Kan., running the Wyatt Burks Racing #11w, came home in 4th while and Xavier “X-Man” Doney of Odessa, Mo. ran 5th after advancing eight spots in his Doney/Lawson #74.
Rounding out the top-10 on this fine night for racing in Northwest Missouri was Oak Grove, Missouri’s Brian Beebe in sixth, Spring Hill, Kansas wheelman Chad Goff in 7th, Chris Parkinson of Gladstone, Mo. in 8th, Dakota Earls of Independence, Mo. in 9th and Zach Clark of Olathe, Kan. in 10th.
Earls took the J.D. Justin Lawson Media Cash as the hard charger award winner after advancing nine spots in the feature.
Earlier in the evening, a brief shower came and went prior to the action getting underway. The “Sheriff” Wyatt Burks took the first heat race win. with Clark holding off Baker for a heat race two triumph and Smith collected heat three.
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USAC WHOLESALE BATTERIES MIDWEST WINGLESS RACING ASSOCIATION SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: June 3, 2022 – U.S. 36 Raceway – Osborn, Missouri
FIRST HEAT: (8 laps): 1. 11w-Wyatt Burks (1), 2. 9x-Chad Goff (3), 3. 37-Brian Beebe (6), 4. 65-Chris Parkinson (5), 5. 89-Todd McVay (7), 6. 15E-Dakota Earls (2), 7. 27-Justin Johnson (4). NT
SECOND HEAT: (8 laps): 1. 26-Zach Clark (3), 2. 9H-Cody Baker (7), 3. 6s-Spencer Martinez (1), 4. 41-Brad Wyatt (4), 5. 69-Zach Sanders (6), 6. 2-A.J. Gilbert (5), 7. 90-Warren Johnson (2), 8. 93-Buddy Parker (8). NT
THIRD HEAT: (8 laps): 1. 12-Wesley Smith (6), 2. 4-Braydon Cromwell (5), 3. 11x-Tom Curran (2), 4. 74-Xavier Doney (4), 5. 4F-Chad Frewaldt (3), 6. 65w-Chad Winfrey (7), 7. 03-Tyler Burton (1), 8. 22R-Chris Rupard (8). NT
FEATURE: (25 laps): 1. Wesley Smith (1), 2. Cody Baker (2), 3. Braydon Cromwell (4), 4. Wyatt Burks (6), 5. Xavier Doney (13), 6. Brian Beebe (5), 7. Chad Goff (7), 8. Chris Parkinson (9), 9. Dakota Earls (18), 10. Zach Clark (3), 11. Brad Wyatt (12), 12. Spencer Martinez (10), 13. A.J. Gilbert (17), 14. Tyler Burton (23), 15. Warren Johnson (22), 16. Justin Johnson (19), 17. Buddy Parker (20), 18. Zach Sanders (14), 19. Chris Rupard (21), 20. Tom Curran (8), 21. 88-Chad Tye (24), 22. Todd McVay (11), 23. Chad Winfrey (15). NT
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-25 Wesley Smith.
USAC WHOLESALE BATTERIES MIDWEST WINGLESS RACING ASSOCIATION SPRINT CAR POINTS: 1-Wesley Smith-200, 2-Cody Baker-185, 3-Wyatt Burks-175, 4-Xavier Doney-170, 5-Brian Beebe-165, 6-Chris Parkinson-155, 7-Dakota Earls-150, 8-Zach Clark-145, 9-Spencer Martinez-135, 10-A.J. Gilbert-130.
NEXT USAC WHOLESALE BATTERIES MIDWEST WINGLESS RACING ASSOCIATION SPRINT CAR RACE: June 4, 2022 – Valley Speedway – Grain Valley, Missouri
