WHEATLAND, Mo. (June 20, 2015) What a way to cap off the 23rd ASCS Sizzlin’ Summer Speedweek and Bob Westphal Memorial as Liberal, Kan. shoe Tony Bruce, Jr. picked up his first Protect the Harvest A-Feature victory in 2015 with the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series presented by MAVTV American Real at the Lucas Oil Speedway in Wheatland, Mo.

“It means a lot to me to be standing here. We’ve won a race here before, but this one is pretty special. There’s a lot happening with me personally, so this is a big win for us and everyone who’s involved with this team,” said Bruce in Victory Lane. “Hats off the track crew, Dan, and everybody here at the Lucas Oil Speedway. We’re all standing up there having our doubts that the track prep was going to be good or bad, but man, it turned out excellent and that’s the best thing about coming to this race track is they strive for greatness.”

Executing the bottom groove perfectly, Bruce built his advantage quickly before the caution displayed on Lap 7. Returning to speed, the caution flew again the following lap. Picking things up, the Oil Medics No. 18 began to pace away from the field.

Finding slower traffic at the race’s half-way point, the race for the lead began to tighten up as Bruce navigated the back of the field. Searching lines, Bruce became pined behind a pair of slower cars, allowing Kyle Bellm to take a shot at the race lead.

“I thought we had a chance at Tony there, but I got hung up behind the No. 33 car. You know, we had one shot at it there, and just didn’t get it done, but it got to be a handful. I think a bleeder quit, or we sealed a tire after that last caution but the way we’ve been running, a second here is a hell of a feat.”

Settling for the final podium step after battling most of the race with Jeff Swindell, Oklahoma’s Wayne Johnson described the hard fought finish, “Me and Jeff, neither one of us wanted to give up that spot, and unfortunately it got a little ugly there. I hate to do that, but we’re looking at the big picture here and we need every point we can get so sometimes you can’t be ‘Mr. Nice Guy’.”

Wayne’s third place finish was enough to secure the 2015 ASCS Sizzlin’s Summer Speedweek Title, fending off Tony Bruce, Jr. by seven points. Jeff Swindell, Seth Bergman, and Matt Covington completed the top-five in Speedweek points.

Having to work out of a B-Feature, the night’s KSE Hard Charger was Seth Bergman, coming from 20th to fourth after several hard fought battles through the top-ten. After running third for much of the second half of the race, Jeff Swindell would end up crossing fifth.

Derek Hagar came from 12th to grab sixth with Aaron Reutzel fading to seventh after challenging several times for a podium finish. Matt Covington eighth, Blake Hahn ninth, with Jonathan Cornell coming 18th rounded out the top-ten.

With 35 drivers making the call at the Lucas Oil Speedway, five Heat Races went to Kyle Bellm, Chance Morton, Matt Covington, Jordan Weaver, and Evan Martin. A pair of B-Features went to Logan Forler and Jonathan Cornell.

Paired with the Speedway Motors ASCS Warrior Region, Jonathan Cornell earned high points for the region. Tyler Thomas, Jay Russell, Austin Alumbaugh, and Tyler Blank completed the top-five point’s earners.

The Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series presented by MAVTV American Real heads for the Skagit Speedway for the 44th annual Jim Raper Memorial Dirt Cup presented by Jack in the Box on June 25-27. Live online PPV is available at http://www.racinboys.com.

For continued updates on the American Sprint Car Series, log onto http://www.ascsracing.com.

Race Results:

Lucas Oil ASCS National Tour
Speedway Motors ASCS Warrior Region
Lucas Oil Speedway – Wheatland, Mo.
Saturday, June 20, 2015

Car Count: 35

Heat Races: 8 Laps, taking the winner plus the next the next 11 highest in passing points to the A-Feature.

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 14K-Kyle Bellm[2]; 2. 77X-Wayne Johnson[1]; 3. 9JR-Derek Hagar[4]; 4. 42-Andy McElhannon[5]; 5. 23-Seth Bergman[3]; 6. 27-Danny Thoman[6]; 7. (DNF) 72X-Josh Fisher[7]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 7M-Chance Morton[2]; 2. 76-Jay Russell[1]; 3. 52-Blake Hahn[6]; 4. 20K-Kevin Ulmer[3]; 5. 99X-Mike Ell[5]; 6. 3B-Brad Greer[7]; 7. 99-Andrew Turley[4]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 95-Matt Covington[3]; 2. 18-Tony Bruce Jr[6]; 3. 8M-Kade Morton[1]; 4. 24S-Ricky Lee Stangl[2]; 5. 84-Brandon Hanks[5]; 6. 75-Tyler Blank[7]; 7. 34-Corey Nelson[4]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 92-Jordan Weaver[1]; 2. 87-Aaron Reutzel[6]; 3. 45X-Johnny Herrera[3]; 4. 2L-Logan Forler[4]; 5. 28-Jonathan Cornell[7]; 6. 86-Tyler Thomas[2]; 7. 1X-Brad Ryun[5]

Heat 5 (8 Laps): 1. 4-Evan Martin[2]; 2. 94-Jeff Swindell[4]; 3. 33-Kris Miller[1]; 4. 33A-Austin Alumbaugh[5]; 5. 24L-Lanny Carpenter[3]; 6. 9M-Ryan Leavitt[6]; DNS 51-Mitchell Moore

B-Feature(s): 12 laps, taking the top 3 to the tail of the A-Feature.

B Feature (12 Laps): 1. 2L-Logan Forler[2]; 2. 84-Brandon Hanks[4]; 3. 33-Kris Miller[1]; 4. 75-Tyler Blank[5]; 5. 72X-Josh Fisher[8]; 6. 24S-Ricky Lee Stangl[3]; 7. 24L-Lanny Carpenter[6]; 8. 9M-Ryan Leavitt[7]; 9. 99-Andrew Turley[9]; DNS 51-Mitchell Moore

B Feature 2 (12 Laps): 1. 28-Jonathan Cornell[1]; 2. 23-Seth Bergman[5]; 3. 86-Tyler Thomas[7]; 4. 3B-Brad Greer[4]; 5. 20K-Kevin Ulmer[2]; 6. 34-Corey Nelson[9]; 7. 1X-Brad Ryun[8]; 8. (DNF) 27-Danny Thoman[6]; 9. (DNF) 99X-Mike Ell[3]

A-Feature: 30 Laps

A Feature (30 Laps): 1. 18-Tony Bruce Jr[4]; 2. 14K-Kyle Bellm[1]; 3. 77X-Wayne Johnson[10]; 4. 23-Seth Bergman[20]; 5. 94-Jeff Swindell[2]; 6. 9JR-Derek Hagar[12]; 7. 87-Aaron Reutzel[7]; 8. 95-Matt Covington[8]; 9. 52-Blake Hahn[6]; 10. 28-Jonathan Cornell[18]; 11. 45X-Johnny Herrera[14]; 12. 86-Tyler Thomas[22]; 13. 2L-Logan Forler[17]; 14. 84-Brandon Hanks[19]; 15. 42-Andy McElhannon[15]; 16. 8M-Kade Morton[16]; 17. 4-Evan Martin[5]; 18. 7M-Chance Morton[3]; 19. 92-Jordan Weaver[9]; 20. (DNF) 33-Kris Miller[21]; 21. (DNF) 76-Jay Russell[11]; 22. (DNF) 33A-Austin Alumbaugh[13]

Lap Leader(s): Tony Bruce, Jr. 1-30
KSE Hard Charger: Seth Bergman +16
FSR High Point: Tony Bruce, Jr.
Provisional(s): N/A

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2015 Lucas Oil ASCS Winners: Aaron Reutzel 3; Seth Bergman 2; Jason Sides 1; Mark Smith 1; Brian Brown 1; Blake Hahn 1; Wayne Johnson 1; Tony Bruce, Jr. 1;

Lucas Oil ASCS Driver Points (Top 10): 1. Aaron Reutzel 1,386; 2. Johnny Herrera 1,328; 3. Seth Bergman 1,309 4. Wayne Johnson 1,306; 5. Jeff Swindell 1,263; 6. Tony Bruce, Jr. 1,241; 7. Matt Covington 1,181; 8. Blake Hahn 1,138; 9. Kyle Bellm 1,047; 10. Brandon Hanks 971;

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Parkinson picks up win at Lucas Oil

Wheatland, MO(June 20, 2015)-The Impact Signs, Awnings and Wraps WAR Series presented by Next LED would see thirty one cars compete on Saturday night at Lucas Oil Speedway.  When all was said and done, 2014 series champ Chris Parkinson picked up his first win of 2015.

Polesitter Kenny Potter would jump out into the lead as third-starting Derek Hager moved into second immediately and put constant pressure on the Harrisonville, MO veteran driver for the top spot.
Hagar would move by Potter on lap three as Kevin Risley and Parkinson ran third and fourth.

The top four would remain the same until lap six when Parkinson was able to move by Risley into third.  A lap later, the Gladstone, MO driver would work his way past Potter and into second.

With Hagar still out front, Parkinson started to apply heavy pressure by lap nine.  Over the next handful of laps, the pair would be less than a few car lengths from one another as Hagar continued to hold off Parkinson.
By lap fifteen, Risley had also joined in the fray as Casey Shuman had now moved into fourth.

In heavy lapped traffic, Parkinson was able to move by Hagar on lap nineteen.  Over the next few laps, Hagar would continue to mount heavy pressure and by lap twenty three, Hagar made a bold move around a pair of lapped cars in turns three and four looking for the top spot.  Parkinson was able to get by the pair low and held the advantage as Hagar slid high in turn four opening some ground for Parkinson.  Over the last two laps Hagar would not be able to mount a serious challege as Parkinson would go on to the win in his Ozark Barge and Dock Service/54^th Street Grill and Bar/Country Kids Daycare #65.   Hagar was second in the Hockett Racing #75.  Risley was a solid third in the Risley Trash Service #24K.   John Helm moved up steadily to run fourth in the Helm Racing #12.   Rounding out the top five was Josh Stephens in the Summers Farms #09.   Shuman was sixth followed by Devon Huff, in his first WAR start of 2015.   TJ Muths, Potter, and Riley Kreisel rounded out the top ten.

The Impact Signs, Awnings and Wraps WAR Series presented by Next LED will next be in action on Friday July 3^rd at the Valley Speedway in Grain Valley, MO.

There has also been a schedule change as the race originally scheduled for July 11 at 81 Speedway in Park City, KS has been changed to Saturday August 29^th.

Please join the WAR Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/groups/122872191163959/ or go to warsprints.com to get the latest information about Wingless Auto Racing.

Wingless Auto Racing Results

Lucas Oil Speedway-June 20, 2015

31 cars

*Top 16 in passing points make the A-Main

1^st Heat-8 laps

1. * 00-Casey Shuman, Rattlesnake Bend, AZ; 2. * 09-Josh Stephens, Buckner, MO (3); 3. *20-Steve Thomas-Ludlow, IL (2); 4. *65M-TJ Muths, Sedalia, MO (5); 5. *7s-Wade Seiler, Alton, IL (7); 6. 8XX-Scott Comstock-Tipton, MO (6); 7. 18X-Nathan Ryun, Higginsville, MO (4); DNS: 6-Doug Fry, Wheatland, MO

2^nd Heat-8 laps

1. * 75-Derek Hagar, Marion, AR (6); 2. * 7JR-Hannah Adair, Broken Arrow, OK (3); 3. *4U-Devon Huff, Nixa, MO (8); 4. 8-Jeff Wingate, Centertown, MO (2); 5. 83-Adam Cruea, Troy, Ohio (1); 6. 70-Pete Palazzolo, Pacific, MO (4)-DNF; 7. 42-Warren Johnson, Overland Park, KS (5)-DNF; 8. 88RR-Ryan Rector, Jasper, MO (7)-DNF

3^rd Heat- 8 laps

1. *65-Chris Parkinson, Gladstone, MO (2); 2. *24K-Kevin Risley, Collinsville, OK (7); 3. *12-John Helm, Kearney, MO (6); 4. *8X-Brandon Dunham, California, MO (8); 5. 14-John Hillman, Jefferson City, MO (5); 6. 9-Casey Baker, Lone Jack, MO (1); 7. 75A-Travis Arnold, Pilot Grove, MO (4); 8. 88-Chad Tye, Independence, MO (3)-DNF

4^th Heat- 8 laps

1. *55-Kenny Potter, Harrisonville, MO (6); 2. *24C-Craig Carroll, Collinsville, OK (1); 3. *38-Cody Baker, Lone Jack, MO (3); 4. *10- Will Register, Sedalia, MO (5); 5. 13-Clyde Knipp, California, MO (7); 6. 99-Tony Rost, Utica, NE (2); 7. 90-Riley Kreisel, Warsaw, MO (4)-DNF

B-Feature- 12 laps(Top 4 to A)

1. 8-Jeff Wingate (2); 2. 90-Riley Kreisel (9); 3. 14-John Hillman (3); 4. 13-Clyde Knipp (4); 5. 99-Tony Rost (6); 6. 9-Casey Baker (7); 7. 75A-Travis Arnold (8); 8. 83-Adam Cruea (4); 9. 6-Doug Fry (10); 10. 8XX-Scott Comstock (5)-DNF; DNS-70- Pete Palazzolo; 42-Warren Johnson; 18X-Nathan Ryun; 88RR-Ryan Rector; 88-Chad Tye

A-Feature- 25 laps

1. 65-Chris Parkinson (4); 2. 75-Derek Hagar (3); 3. 24K-Kevin Risley (2); 4. 12-John Helm (6); 5. 09-Josh Stephens (9); 6. 00-Casey Shuman (7); 7. 4U-Devon Huff (5); 8. 65M-TJ Muths (14); 9. 55-Kenny Potter (1); 10. 90-Riley Kreisel (18); 11. 24C-Craig Carroll (11); 12. 20-Steve Thomas (13); 13. 13-Clyde Knipp (20); 14. 7s-Wade Seiler (16); 15. 8X-Brandon Dunham (8); 16. 10-Will Register (15); 17. 14-John Hillman (19); 18. 7JR-Hannah Adair (10); 19. 38-Cody Baker (12); 20. 8-Jeff Wingate (17)