By Lonnie Wheatley, PONTOON BEACH, Ill. (April 17, 2015) – It’s not that Hunter Schuerenberg hadn’t ever won with a wing over his head. It’s just that it had been a while. A “while” as in ten years or so for the Sikeston, MO, racer.
Focusing on USAC’s wingless Sprint Car ranks over the past few years, the 25-year-old Schuerenberg is delving back into the winged wars and came away with a victory in just his third night out by topping Friday night’s Neal Tire MOWA Sprint Series feature event at Tri-City Speedway.
Schuerenberg picked up $2,000 by wiring the field in the 25-lapper aboard the Roof Bolt Xpress No. 20n Mach 1 chassis.
“It’s pretty awesome to be able to get a win just the third night out with this car,” Schuerenberg said in victory lane.
The triumph came one week after Schuerenberg debuted the No. 20n machine at Jacksonville and West Burlington.
“It’s really pretty humbling, we pretty much got our teeth kicked in last weekend with MOWA at Jacksonville and then the NSL race,” Schuerenberg explained after winning the Dash to earn the pole position for the feature.
That teeth-kicking was shortlived with Schuerenberg the class of the field throughout the night.
“It takes a little bit to start getting comfortable again, it really started to feel pretty good in the Dash,” Schuerenberg explained.
Starting from the pole position, Schuerenberg outgunned four-time and reigning MOWA kingpin Jerrod Hull for the lead at the drop of the green flag and led throughout.
Hull closed to Schuerenberg’s rear bumper after each caution but otherwise was never able to mount a serious challenge.
After running the top side of the 3/8-mile oval in the early going, Schuerenberg dropped to the low side in the rubber by then tenth round and was untouchable the rest of the way. “That’s probably my first winged win since about 2005, back when I was driving dad’s car,” Schuerenberg said.
Hull held second until slowing abruptly exiting turn two in the closing laps and pulling to the infield. Running fourth at the time, Brad Loyet took quick advantage by racing by Jordan Goldesberry when the latter got into the back of Hull when he slowed.
Loyet chased Schuerenberg to the line with Goldesberry settling for third. Paul Nienhiser was fourth with Korey Weyant rounding out the top five.
Tri-City Speedway
4/17/15
Heat 1:
| Place | No. | Name | Laps | Lag | Last Time | Fast Time | Fast Lap |
| 1 | 65 | Jordan Goldsberry | 10 | 0 | 16.396 | 15.334 | 3 |
| 2 | 20m | Hunter Schueremburg | 10 | -1.371 | 16.421 | 15.681 | 7 |
| 3 | 4k | Kody Kinser | 10 | -2.391 | 16.376 | 15.986 | 5 |
| 4 | 17m | Joey Moughan | 10 | -4.4 | 16.153 | 15.24 | 3 |
| 5 | 14t | Tank Bridgeman | 10 | -6.741 | 16.553 | 13.832 | 8 |
| 6 | 10s | Jeremy Standridge | 10 | -8.174 | 17.084 | 14.673 | 8 |
| 7 | 22 | Bret Tripplett | 10 | -8.794 | 18.197 | 14.305 | 8 |
| 8 | 52f | Logan Faucon | 10 | -10.565 | 17.125 | 15.299 | 5 |
| 9 | 25 | Levi Curry | 2 | -8 | 17.624 | 16.899 | 1 |
Heat 2:
| Place | No. | Name | Laps | Lag | Last Time | Fast Time | Fast Lap |
| 1 | 12m | Jerrod Hull | 10 | 0 | 15.793 | 14.784 | 1 |
| 2 | 99w | Korey Weyant | 10 | -5.177 | 15.777 | 15.768 | 9 |
| 3 | 77u | Chris Urish | 10 | -8.236 | 16.17 | 15.547 | 2 |
| 4 | 25b | Jake Blackhurst | 10 | -8.738 | 15.974 | 15.943 | 3 |
| 5 | 42 | Cory Bruns | 10 | -9.715 | 16.496 | 15.557 | 5 |
| 6 | 51b | Joe Miller | 10 | -11.713 | 16.5 | 16.168 | 2 |
| 7 | 55f | Taylor Ferns | 10 | -13.37 | 16.837 | 16.03 | 6 |
| 8 | 2 | AJ Bruns | 0 | -10 | — | — | — |
Heat 3:
| Place | No. | Name | Laps | Lag | Last Time | Fast Time | Fast Lap |
| 1 | 9 | Paul Neinhiser | 10 | 0 | 15.315 | 14.523 | 1 |
| 2 | 5 | Brad Loyet | 10 | -4.791 | 15.629 | 14.993 | 3 |
| 3 | 99 | Austin McCarl | 10 | -7.921 | 15.436 | 15.436 | 10 |
| 4 | 2w | Scottie Neitzel | 10 | -10.033 | 15.88 | 15.536 | 6 |
| 5 | 23d | Trey Datweiler | 10 | -11.026 | 15.781 | 15.41 | 7 |
| 6 | 6r | Ryan Bunton | 10 | -13.759 | 15.812 | 15.628 | 8 |
| 7 | 82 | Vinny Ward | 4 | -6 | 20.637 | 17.659 | 2 |
| 8 | 79j | Jacob Patton | 0 | -10 | — | — | — |
Feature:
1. Hunter Schuerenburg
2. Brad Loyet
3. Jordan Goldsberry
4. Paul Neinhiser
5. Korey Weyant
6. Chris Urish
7. Kody Kinser
8. Tank Bridgeman
9. AJ Bruns
10. Scottie Neitzel
11. Ryan Bunton
12. Joey Moughan
13. Cory Bruns
14. Taylor Ferns
15. Bret Tripplett
16. Trey Datweiler
17. Jerrod Hull
18. Joe Miller
19. Vinny Ward
20. Jeremy Standrige
21. Jake Blackhurst
22. Logan Faucon
23. Austin McCarl