Belleville, IL. (6/17/23) Ayrton Gennetten would emerge victorious in the sixth event for the 2023 season in the POWRi 410 Bandit Outlaw Sprint Series return to their home facility of Lake Ozark Speedway to notch his first career series feature victory in the ‘Father’s Day Wing-Fest’ in an outstanding pursuit to the checkers.

Cruising onto the perfectly smoothed and well-maintained track would witness Ayrton Gennetten set a quick time with an 11.738/second lap time. Roger Crockett, Don Droud Jr, and Slater Helt would each earn an early heat racing victory with Don Droud Jr gaining the event high point qualifier award and pole starting position for the twenty-five-lap feature event.

Going into the initial green flag start would find front-row starter Don Droud Jr speed to the early racing advantage as Ayrton Gennetten, Slater Helt, Brian Bell, and Kyle Bellm battled within the top five.

Overtaking for the front of the field, Ayrton Gennetten would use lap traffic to perfection after Don Droud Jr misjudged the entry into turn one with Gennetten able to capitalize as Droud recovered to valiantly contend throughout.

Leading the final eight revolutions of the twenty-five feature laps Ayrton Gennetten would hold steady after the final restart to earn his first career POWRi 410 BOSS feature victory. Battling intently after leading the first seventeen laps, Don Droud Jr would finish runner-up from starting pole with Kyle Bellm flying into placing in the final podium placement from starting fifth.

“What a great way to build momentum for this team, great job on track prep we had multiple lanes of racing and it feels great to get a win this close to home,” said Ayrton Gennetten in the Lake Ozark Speedway victory lane ceremony celebrations. Adding, “Lap traffic definitely came into play and I knew I had to be patient for everything to work out.”

Staying in the hunt for the front all feature Slater Helt would finish fourth as seventh-starting Roger Crockett rounded out the top-five finishers for the POWRi 410 Bandit Outlaw Sprint Series at Lake Ozark Speedway’s Father’s Day Wing-Fest.

Lake Ozark Speedway | POWRi 410 Bandit Outlaw Sprint Series | 6/17/23:
Hoosier Racing Tire Quick Qualifying Time: 19-Ayrton Gennetten(11.738)
Advanced Racing Suspension Heat Race 1 Winner: 11-Roger Crockett
Auto Meter Heat Race 2 Winner: 1M-Don Droud Jr
Schure Built Suspension Heat Race 3 Winner: 22S-Slater Helt
MVT Services High Point Qualifier: 1M-Don Droud Jr
Super Clean Hard Charger: 79-Gage Montgomery(+6)
Toyota Racing Development Feature Winner: 19-Ayrton Gennetten

A Feature (25 Laps): 1. 19-Ayrton Gennetten[3]; 2. 1M-Don Droud Jr[1]; 3. 50K-Kyle Bellm[5]; 4. 22S-Slater Helt[4]; 5. 11-Roger Crockett[7]; 6. 79-Gage Montgomery[12]; 7. 74-Xavier Doney[6]; 8. 23B-Brian Bell[2]; 9. 122-Lane Warner[8]; 10. 33$-Shane O'Banion[14]; 11. 3P-Russell Potter[16]; 12. 15-Jack Potter[9]; 13. 73-Samuel Wagner[11]; 14. 49-Tyler Elliott[18]; 15. 9-Emilio Hoover[15]; 16. B8-John Barnard[17]; 17. 8S-Steve Short[10]; 18. 1S-Joey Schmidt[13]; 19. 8R-Ryker Pace[19].

Advanced Racing Suspensions Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 11-Roger Crockett[2]; 2. 50K-Kyle Bellm[3]; 3. 19-Ayrton Gennetten[4]; 4. 79-Gage Montgomery[1]; 5. 33$-Shane O'Banion[5]; 6. 3P-Russell Potter[6]; 7. (DNS) 4-Brett Combs.

Auto Meter Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 1M-Don Droud Jr[4]; 2. 74-Xavier Doney[3]; 3. 122-Lane Warner[6]; 4. 1S-Joey Schmidt[1]; 5. 8S-Steve Short[2]; 6. (DNS) B8-John Barnard; 7. (DNS) 5B-Kory Bales.

Schure Built Suspensions Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 22S-Slater Helt[3]; 2. 23B-Brian Bell[4]; 3. 73-Samuel Wagner[1]; 4. 15-Jack Potter[2]; 5. 9-Emilio Hoover[5]; 6. (DNS) 49-Tyler Elliott; 7. (DNS) 8R-Ryker Pace.

Qualifying 1: 1. 19-Ayrton Gennetten, 00:11.738[14]; 2. 1M-Don Droud Jr, 00:11.978[4]; 3. 23B-Brian Bell, 00:12.078[2]; 4. 50K-Kyle Bellm, 00:12.083[19]; 5. 74-Xavier Doney, 00:12.169[1]; 6. 22S-Slater Helt, 00:12.234[11]; 7. 11-Roger Crockett, 00:12.278[3]; 8. 8S-Steve Short, 00:12.296[21]; 9. 15-Jack Potter, 00:12.331[16]; 10. 79-Gage Montgomery, 00:12.353[12]; 11. 1S-Joey Schmidt, 00:12.380[7]; 12. 73-Samuel Wagner, 00:12.474[6]; 13. 33$-Shane O'Banion, 00:12.493[10]; 14. B8-John Barnard, 00:13.225[17]; 15. 9-Emilio Hoover, 00:13.242[15]; 16. 3P-Russell Potter, 00:13.475[13]; 17. 122-Lane Warner, 00:13.604[8]; 18. 49-Tyler Elliott, 00:13.995[18]; 19. (DNS) 4-Brett Combs; 20. (DNS) 5B-Kory Bales; 21. (DNS) 8R-Ryker Pace.

Next up the POWRi 410 Bandit Outlaw Sprint Series will be the Independence Day Celebrations at Lake Ozark Speedway on Saturday, July 1st also featuring the POWRi National and West Midget Leagues as well as the POWR-sanctioned Midwest Mod, Super Stock, and Hornet Divisions.

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Belleville, IL. (6/16/23) Jake Bubak would wheel his way to a dominating win in the fifth event for the 2023 season in the POWRi 410 Bandit Outlaw Sprint Series to notch his inaugural career series feature victory in the phenomenal Night of the ‘POWRi Double’ at I-70 Motorsports Park.

Cruising onto the well-maintained track would witness Garet Williamson set a quick time with a 13.907/second lap time. Jake Bubak and Jace Park would each earn an early heat racing victory with Brian Brown gaining the event high point qualifier award and pole starting position for the twenty-five-lap feature event.

Going into the initial green flag start would witness outside front-row starter Jake Bubak blast to the early racing advantage as Brian Brown, Garet Williamson, Don Droud Jr, and Tasker Phillips battled within the top five.

Leading twenty-four of the twenty-five feature laps Jake Bubak would not be denied in his first POWRi 410 BOSS feature victory of the season after grabbing the lead and holding off all challenges. A very speedy Brian Brown would finish runner-up with Roger Crockett placing in the final podium placement.

“My crew guys got a little excited celebrating and clocked me in the nose to give me a bloody nose but man what a race.” said an elated Jake Bubak in the I-70 Motorsports Park award ceremony celebrations. Adding, “I was in complete tire conservation mode there at the end, I threw a slider after losing the lead and it stuck.”

Fourth-starting Don Droud Jr would finish fourth as eighth-starting Ayrton Gennetten rounded out the top-five finishers for the POWRi 410 Bandit Outlaw Sprint Series at I-70’s POWRi Double on Saturday, June 16th.

I-70 Motorsports Park | POWRi 410 Bandit Outlaw Sprint Series | 6/16/23:
Hoosier Racing Tire Quick Qualifying Time: 24-Garet Williamson(13.907)
Advanced Racing Suspension Heat Race 1 Winner: 1X-Jake Bubak
Auto Meter Heat Race 2 Winner: 87-Jace Park
MVT Services High Point Qualifier: 21B-Brian Brown
Super Clean Hard Charger: 23B-Brian Bell(+6)
Toyota Racing Development Feature Winner: 1X-Jake Bubak

A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 1X-Jake Bubak[2]; 2. 21X-Brian Brown[1]; 3. 11-Roger Crockett[7]; 4. 1M-Don Droud Jr[4]; 5. 19-Ayrton Gennetten[8]; 6. 51B-Joe B Miller[9]; 7. 23B-Brian Bell[13]; 8. 24-Garet Williamson[3]; 9. 74-Xavier Doney[10]; 10. 15-Jack Potter[14]; 11. 7T-Tasker Phillips[6]; 12. 77-Jack Wagner[12]; 13. 73-Samuel Wagner[15]; 14. 22S-Slater Helt[11]; 15. 111-Chad Frewaldt[16]; 16. 2-Whit Gastineau[18]; 17. 1S-Joey Schmidt[20]; 18. 122-Lane Warner[17]; 19. 5-Joe Bob Lee[19]; 20. 87J-Jace Park[5].

Advanced Racing Suspensions Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 1X-Jake Bubak[2]; 2. 7T-Tasker Phillips[1]; 3. 1M-Don Droud Jr[3]; 4. 24-Garet Williamson[4]; 5. 51B-Joe B Miller[6]; 6. 22S-Slater Helt[7]; 7. 23B-Brian Bell[5]; 8. 73-Samuel Wagner[8]; 9. 122-Lane Warner[9]; 10. (DNS) 1S-Joey Schmidt.

Auto Meter Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 87J-Jace Park[1]; 2. 21X-Brian Brown[4]; 3. 19-Ayrton Gennetten[2]; 4. 11-Roger Crockett[3]; 5. 74-Xavier Doney[6]; 6. 77-Jack Wagner[7]; 7. 15-Jack Potter[5]; 8. 111-Chad Frewaldt[8]; 9. 2-Whit Gastineau[10]; 10. 5-Joe Bob Lee[9].

Qualifying 1: 1. 24-Garet Williamson, 00:13.907[2]; 2. 21X-Brian Brown, 00:14.029[16]; 3. 1M-Don Droud Jr, 00:14.096[7]; 4. 11-Roger Crockett, 00:14.176[6]; 5. 1X-Jake Bubak, 00:14.204[8]; 6. 19-Ayrton Gennetten, 00:14.314[18]; 7. 7T-Tasker Phillips, 00:14.544[12]; 8. 87J-Jace Park, 00:14.596[15]; 9. 23B-Brian Bell, 00:14.624[19]; 10. 15-Jack Potter, 00:14.651[1]; 11. 51B-Joe B Miller, 00:14.722[20]; 12. 74-Xavier Doney, 00:14.792[5]; 13. 22S-Slater Helt, 00:14.846[17]; 14. 77-Jack Wagner, 00:15.021[13]; 15. 73-Samuel Wagner, 00:15.267[10]; 16. 111-Chad Frewaldt, 00:15.431[9]; 17. 122-Lane Warner, 00:16.584[3]; 18. (DNS) 5-Joe Bob Lee, 00:16.585; 19. (DNS) 1S-Joey Schmidt, 00:16.586; 20. (DNS) 2-Whit Gastineau, 00:16.587.

Next up the POWRi 410 Bandit Outlaw Sprint Series will be the Father’s Day Wing-Fest at Lake Ozark Speedway on Saturday, June 17th.

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