Bellm Sets Sights on Hockett/McMillin Memorial this Weekend!

Lonnie Wheatley, NIXA, Mo. (September 19, 2018) – Kyle Bellm and the Nixa, Missouri-based No. 14k Sprint Car team take aim at another $10,000 winner’s share close to home with this weekend’s Lucas Oil ASCS National Tour “Jesse Hockett/Daniel McMillin Memorial” at Wheatland, Missouri’s Lucas Oil Speedway.

The three-day tilt for the Greenworks Nursery/Landscapes Awarded Sprint Car team unfolds over the course of Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

“I’m excited for it,” the driver of the Christian County Collision Repair/Bybee Lawn Care machine commented.  “If the weather will hold, I think we’ll have a good weekend.”

Fans will also have a chance to update their Kyle Bellm race wear with new tee shirts available for purchase this weekend.

After some rough luck early in the season, Bellm has been on point since aboard the PPG Automotive Finishes/Colorvision entry with his three triumphs on the season coming in his most recent dozen starts.

And, despite missing some events, Bellm enters the weekend ranked third in ASCS Warrior Region points with a pair of series wins among his 2018 triumphs.

Racing to 11 top-ten finishes in his last 14 starts aboard the VP Racing Fuels/Schure Built Suspensions/Schaeffers Racing Oil entry, Bellm looks to build upon that with this weekend’s tripleheader at Lucas Oil Speedway.

“Obviously we want to win,” Bellm says.  “But the way the format looks, if we can just run top eight to ten on both Thursday and Friday then we should be sitting good for Saturday night.  And that’s definitely attainable.”

Bellm, an ASCS Speedweek runner-up finisher at Lucas Oil Speedway in 2015, had his evening cut short by mechanical problems in his only previous start atop the Wheatland clay oval this year.

“It’s been a while since we’ve had much luck at Lucas Oil, but I feel like we’re on the right track now,” Bellm concludes.

Bellm will be looking to add to the win column this weekend, particularly in Saturday night’s $10,000-to-win Hockett/McMillin finale.

2018 Quick Stats:  27 races, 3 wins, 12 top-fives, 17 top-tens.

Up Next: Lucas Oil ASCS National Tour “Jesse Hockett/Daniel McMillin Memorial” at Lucas Oil Speedway in Wheatland, Missouri on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Keep Track:  Keep track of Kyle Bellm’s on-track action including schedule and results at http://www.kylebellm.com/, on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/KyleBellmRacing?fref=ts or on Twitter at @kylebellmracing.

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Carney Sets Sights on Hockett/McMillin Memorial this Weekend

Lonnie Wheatley, EL PASO, Texas (August 30, 2018) – John Carney II is set to get back into Lucas Oil ASCS National Tour action with this weekend’s “Jesse Hockett/Daniel McMillin” Memorial at Wheatland, Missouri’s Lucas Oil Speedway.

The event culminates with a $10,000 winner’s share on Saturday night following preliminary competition on both Thursday and Friday.

“We have usually been pretty fast there as long as we avoid trouble,” Carney commented.

Carney has raced his way into each of the last two Hockett/McMillin Memorial feature events, missing a top-ten finish by just one position last year after posting a third-place run in preliminary action the previous year.  Carney has also posted a top-ten in past ASCS Speedweek competition at Lucas Oil Speedway.

Carney will be back aboard the Carney Racing No. J2 Sprint Car for the first time since Speedweek in June after racing on the west coast and then in Iowa with the California-based Clayton Snow No. 7 team and then joining force with Scott Brown for Eagle Raceway’s Racesaver Nationals that kicked off the month of September.

This rendition of the Racesaver Nationals on August 31 through September 2 didn’t go as planned for the 2015 event champion.

“We just got in a hole to begin with that we couldn’t dig our way out of,” the driver of the Lubbock Wrecker Service/Steward Builders No. 11c commented.

Carney did salvage the weekend with a podium finish of third in the Jake Ita Memorial Race of Champions portion of the event.

The three-day extravaganza kicked off in promising fashion with Carney winning his Race of Champions heat race on Friday to open the weekend.

And it continued to look promising when Carney scored a heat race win in the opening leg of the Racesaver Nationals the following evening.  But things soured when Carney was collected in a feature crash that resulted in an 18th-place finish.

“We were going along just fine and basically just got wrecked,” Carney commented.

The following night started with heat race problems that buried Carney in G Main action.  Carney made his best effort at running through the alphabet, winning the ‘G’ and ‘F” Mains before finishing second in the ‘E’ and fourth in the ‘D’ before the charge stalled at 11th in the ‘C’.

The tough luck on the preliminary nights limited Carney to a ‘B’ Main finish in the finale of the event that featured over 100 competitors with the third-place Race of Champions offering a glimpse of what could have been.

Now, Carney is set to get back into his No. J2 Sprint Car that he drove to a top-ten finish in ASCS Speedweek points.

John Carney Racing is made possible by the support of invaluable partners including Mesilla Valley Transportation, Vado Speedway Park, South Plains Auto Transport, Danny Sander Construction, CSR Garage, Briley Trucking, Momentum Racing Suspensions, Performance Plus, Performance Motor Coach, Raider Graphix, MSD Ignition, Joe Hunt Magnetos and Bell Helmets.

Next Up: Lucas Oil ASCS National Tour “Jesse Hockett/Daniel McMillin Memorial” at Wheatland, Missouri’s Lucas Oil Speedway on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Keep Track:  Keep track of John Carney II’s on-track action including schedule and results at https://www.johncarneyracing.com/ and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JohnCarneyRacing/.

If you would like John Carney Racing press releases e-mailed directly to you, send your e-mail address to Lonnie Wheatley at lonniewheatley@gmail.com.

Penning the recurring series of “The Wheatley Chronicles” articles on www.sprintcarmania.com, Lonnie Wheatley provides media, public relations and more for select tracks, drivers and events.  For more information, Wheatley may be contacted at lonniewheatley@gmail.com.

McIntosh Charges to Top Ten Finish in I-30 Speedway’s Ralph Henson Memorial – Hockett/McMillin Memorial this Weekend

Lonnie Wheatley, BIXBY, Okla. (September 19, 2018) – Cannon McIntosh was back on track this past weekend and made the most of it by rallying from the 19th starting position to capture an eighth-place finish in Saturday night’s Ralph Henson Memorial at Little Rock’s I-30 Speedway.

The strong run came after mechanical woes had cut short the most pair of attempts in 360-ci Sprint Car action.

With the RL Hudson No. 08 Sprint Car firing on all cylinders, McIntosh and team will take to Wheatland, Missouri’s Lucas Oil Speedway for this weekend’s Lucas Oil ASCS National Tour “Jesse Hockett/Daniel McMillin Memorial” on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

“Hopefully we can make a couple of features and then see what we can get,” the 15-year-old commented.

Saturday’s ASCS Mid-South vs. Red River Region-sanctioned event stated out quietly enough for McIntosh with a fifth-place heat race finish.

“It didn’t start out all that great,” McIntosh explains.  “I was a little rusty and we don’t have a lot of experience in the Sprint Car yet.”

McIntosh picked up the pace in “B” Main action, snaring the third and final transfer position on the final round after starting sixth.

“I stepped it up and drover harder in the ‘B’,” McIntosh says.  “I got tight with about two to go, but then one of the guys ahead of me broke on the last lap and I barely beat him to the line to get in the feature.”

McIntosh capitalized on the opportunity, slicing through the field from the last row to earn an eighth-place finish.  It was his fourth top-ten run in just his fifth full night of winged Sprint Car competition.

“We started last, it was dialed in and we were able to move right through there,” McIntosh recalls.  “We had a radius rod bolt backing out and a right rear going flat the last few laps, so it was getting pretty tricky.”

With the strong run in the books, McIntosh looks to carry that momentum into this weekend’s Hockett/McMillin Memorial.

“It’s running good now, we’re looking forward to this weekend,” McIntosh summed up.

2018 Quick Stats:  24 races, 1 win, 5 top-fives, 11 top-tens.

Up Next: Lucas Oil ASCS National Tour “Jesse Hockett/Daniel McMillin Memorial” at Lucas Oil Speedway in Wheatland, Missouri, on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Keep Track:  Keep track of Cannon McIntosh’s on-track action including schedule and results at https://www.facebook.com/cmacracing/.

If you would like Cannon McIntosh Racing press releases e-mailed directly to you, send your e-mail address to Lonnie Wheatley at lonniewheatley@gmail.com.

Penning the recurring series of “The Wheatley Chronicles” articles on www.sprintcarmania.com, Lonnie Wheatley provides media, public relations and more for select tracks, drivers and events.  For more information, Wheatley may be contacted at lonniewheatley@gmail.com.