Double X Speedway
California, MO
by: Dean Reichel

May 31, 2015

After dealing with mother nature claiming the past three weeks of racing at Double X Speedway, and many other tracks in the midwest, race fans and competitors turned out in force Sunday night at the California, MO oval. The pits were full with cars and drivers in all four divisions, with all hungry for the opportunity to get on the track and compete. Leading off the weekly card was the very competitive Street Stock division with 14 teams on hand. It was an all Henson Racing front row with brothers Cole and Derek leading the field to the green flag. With both of them claiming heat race victories it was “big” brother Derek making the most of the opportunity, taking the lead heading into turn one and claiming the victory in the feature event. It was not easy as he had to stave off the challenges of cagy veteran Steve Beach who had a strong run from sixth to pressure the leader over the second half of the race. Chris Dunham had a strong run claiming third with Dale Berry running fourth and Cole Henson posted a good run claiming fifth at the stripe. This class is full of very competitve cars and drivers this year and provides fan approved close racing.

In the Hobby Stock division Mike Schrader out ran perennial winner Gage Wineland to claim the victory in the feature event. Wineland led much of the event only to come up short after Schrader inherited the lead after late race caution. Tanya Canada ran a good race to claim third at the checker, Chuck Coffey was fourth and Durin Hurt posted a fifth place finish. Heat races were claimed by Wineland and Schrader.

Twenty one 600cc Micro Sprints signed in for the evening’s competition which saw the field led to the green flg by Nick Rasa and Derrick Ortega. Rasa would suffer a spin in turn four which saw Marty Ballenger flip in turn 3 trying to avoid the Rasa machine. On the restart, Quintin Benson would start beside the Albequerque, NM shoe Ortega. Benson led lap one as Ortega began experiencing mechanical woes which would see him retire from the event in the ensuing laps. While Benson was running in the lead he began to feel pressure from Ayrton Gennetten. The Versailles, MO show would run high and low trying to wrestle the lead from Benson ultimately getting past the leader but the pass was negated by a caution brought out by the spin of Ryan Marsch in turn 1. On the restart, Benson was able to hold on for the victory was Gennetten climing a close second. Kale Mueller came from mid pack to take third, Scott Hathman finished fourth and Owen Evinger advanced from 16th to round out the top five. Heat races were claimed by Nick Rasa, Derrick Ortega and Quinton Benson.

With 25 Winged Sprint Cars checked in the fans were hoping for some exciting racing from these drivers. Young Ricky Stangl used his front row pole starting spot to take the lead at the green to edge Evan Martin who pressured the leader the entire event but could not make the pass and claimed second. Taylor Walton had a good run after some early season misfortunes at other tracks and finished a strong third. Austin Alumbaugh overcame an early race problem and crossed the stripe in fourth and Cody Baker came from deep in the field to claim fifth. Stangl received $1000 for his win Sunday night. Heat races were claimed by Stangl, Evan Martin and Alumbaugh. The B feature was won by Tyler Blank.

The owners and staff of Double X Speedway want to thank everyone for coming out Sunday night and hope to see you at the races this season.

Racing resumes next Sunday evening at Double X. On June 21, the ASCS Warrior Region Sprint cars will be on hand and the trck will also be paying tribut to Jesse Hockett that evening as well since the Hockett memorial race was claimed by rain last week. For more information check out www.xxspeedway.com or like us on Facebook.

Results–

Street Stocks–
Feature- 1. 27D-Derek Henson, Russellville; 2. 10-Steve Beach, Eldon; 3. 14D-Chris Dunham, California; 4. 05-Dale Berry, Tuscumbia; 5. 31c-Cole Henson, Russellville; 6. 8jr-John Clancy,Jr., California; 7. 15-Curt Turpin, Jefferson City; 8. 52-James Keeran, California; 9. 002-Tim Cressley, Tipton; 10. 21W-Ted Welschmeyer, Tebbetts; 11. 8up- Jeff Offerman, California; 12. 96- Todd McCoin, Barnett; 13. 30C- Clayton Cambell, Otterville; 14. 7-Evan Hays, California

Heat 1–
1. Cole Henson; 2. Berry; 3. Clancy Jr.; 4. Keeran; 5. Cressley; 6. Offerman; 7. Hays
Heat 2–
1. Derek Henson; 2. Dunham; 3. Beach; 4. McCoin; 5. Welschmeyer; 6. Turpin; 7. Campbell

Hobby Stocks–
Feature- 1. 11-Mile Schrader, Sedalia; 2. 12G-Gage Wineland, Syracuse; 3. 54-Tanya Canada, Fulton; 4. 171-Chuck Coffey, Windsor; 5. 10-Durin Hurt, Mokane; 6. 4A-Laura Atkinson, Eldon; 7. 14-Kevin Prall, Sedalia; 8. 15-Katie Goodson, Sedalia; 9. 77-Will Register, Sedalia; 10. 84-Jeremiah Wallingford, Jamestown; 11. 34-Larry Dickson, Speed; 12. 10X-Cole Canada, Fulton; 13. 09R-Joe Reed, Tipton; 14. 2X- Rudy Wirts, California

Heat 1-
1. Wineland; 2. Register; 3. Coffey; 4. Wallingford; 5. C. Canada; 6. Atkinson;
Heat 2-
1. Schrader; 2. Wirts; 3. Prall; 4. Goodson; 5. T. Canada; 6. Hurt; 7. Dickson; 8. Reed

600cc Micro Sprints–
Feature- 1. 15B-Quintin Benson, Sweet Springs; 2. 3-Ayrton Gennetten, Versailles; 3. 76-Kale Mueller, Savannah; 4. 56-Scott Hathman, Columbia; 5. 18E-Owen Evinger, Odessa; 6. 75-Travis Arnold, Pilot Grove; 7. 98P-Miles Paulus, Marshall; 8. 11-Tom Curran, Kansas City, MO; 9. 35T- Tyler Dowell, Marshall; 10. 18-Steve Finn, Collinsville, IL; 11. 2R-Ryan Marsch, Jefferson City; 12. 37-Ethan Green, Boonville; 13. 72-Casey Kempker, Jefferson City; 14. 88J-Jimmy Dowell, Boonville; 15. 35B-Dwayne Benson, Sweet Springs; 16. 74-Derrick Ortega, Albequerque,NM; 17. 26B-Nick Rasa, Sedalia; 18. 22L-Maty Ballenger, Malta Bend; 19. 749-Kyle Schlotz,, Jefferson City (DNS); 20. 56H-Dean Hathman, Columbia (DNS); 21. 9S-Nick Schaefer, Marshall (DNS)

Heat1-
1. Rasa; 2. Gennetten; 3. S. Hathman; 4. T. Dowell; 5. Green; 6. Evinger; 7. D. Hathman
Heat 2–
1. Ortega; 2. D. Benson; 3. J. Dowell; 4. Mueller; 5. Ballenger; 6. Schlotz; 7. Schaefer
Heat 3–
1. Q. Benson; 2. Marsch; 3. Arnold; 4. Curran; 5. Paulus; 6. Finn; 7. Kempker

Winged Sprint Cars==
Feature–1. 24S-Ricky Stangl, Lees Summit; 2. 4-Evan Martin, California; 3. 93- Taylor Walton, Warrensburg; 4. 33-Austin ALumbaugh, Higginsville; 5. 38-Cody Baker, Lone Jack; 6. 75-Tyler Blank, California; 7. 0-Randy Martin, California; 8. 34-Cory Nelson, Eugene; 9. 27-Danny Thoman, Higginsville; 10. 31-Mike Trent, Rocheport; 11. 18X-Nathan Ryun, Higginsville; 12. 49B-Ben Brown, Marshall; 13. 49E-Tyler Elliott, California; 14. 10-Will Register, Sedalia; 15. 5-Matt Close, LaMonte; 16. 65-TJ Muths, Sedalia; 17. 24LCR-Lanny Carpenter, Clarksburg; 18. 99E-Michael Ell, Raymore; 19. 72X-Josh Fisher, Jefferson City; 20. 20K-Kevin Ulmer, Sedalia

B Feature–1. Blank; 2. Carpenter; 3. Register; 4. Ulmer; 5. B. Brown; 6. 99T-Andrew Turley, Sedalia; 7. XX-AJ Wirts, California

Heat 1–
1. Stangl; 2. R. Martin; 3. Fisher; 4. Ell; 5. Baker; 6. Blank; 7. Carpenter; 8. Ulmer; 9. B. Brown
Heat 2–
1. E. Martin; 2. Walton; 3. Nelson; 4. Trent; 5. Muths; 6. Turley; 7. Wirts; 8. 12c-Faron Crank, Sedalia (DNS)
Heat 3–
1. Alumbaugh; 2. Ryun; 3. Thoman; 4. Close; 6. T. Elliott; 7. 48-David Brown, Marshall(DNS); 8. 75X-Broc Elliott, California(DNS)