Belleville, IL. (6/12/22) Offering a fast-paced double-header holiday weekend of racing excitement at Aztec Speedway, the POWRi Desert Wing Sprint Series presented by MVT Services would join the ASCS Southwest Region with outstanding action aplenty as Caleb Saiz and Vance Wofford would win the weekend of feature racing excitement.
Kicking off the Aztec Speedway double-header weekend with twenty entries on Friday would see Lorne Wofford, Shane Redline, and Don Grable each notch heat racing wins.
Going green flag feature racing Friday would find eleventh-starting Caleb Saiz rocket to the front of the field to earn his first career series victory with Don Grable, who started third, maintaining a solid runner-up placement.
Outside front-row starter Brett Becker would finish third as Logan Calderwood hard-charged from seventeenth to place fourth with Rick Ziehl rounding out the top five feature finishers for the POWRi Desert Wing Sprint Series/ASCS Southwest Region and Night One of the Weekend Double-Header at Aztec Speedway.
Cruising into the final night of the Aztec Speedway doubleheader with nineteen competitors registered would witness Wes Wofford, Lorne Wofford, and JT Imperial all claiming heat race wins.
Feature action Saturday would find pole-sitter Vance Wofford wheel his out front and protect the lead to notch his first career POWRi DWSS feature victory with outside front-row starter JT Imperial claiming the runner-up position as Don Grable would drive from starting eighth to finishing in the final podium placing.
Contending up front for the feature, Lorne Wofford would race to finish fourth with Rick Ziehl, for the second time in the weekend of racing, rounding out the top five feature finishers for the POWRi Desert Wing Sprint Series/ASCS Southwest Region and Night Two of the Weekend Double-Header at Aztec Speedway.
POWRi DWSS/ASCS Southwest | Aztec Speedway | 6/10/22: A Feature (25 Laps): 1. 1HA-Caleb Saiz[11]; 2. 45X-Don Grable[3]; 3. 2B-Brett Becker[2]; 4. 6-Logan Calderwood[17]; 5. 20Z-Rick Ziehl[7]; 6. 22-Jesse Baker[6]; 7. 116-Vance Wofford[14]; 8. 91-Jake Helsel[1]; 9. 7X-Troy Treharn[8]; 10. 41-Dillon Tanner[15]; 11. 22S-Shane Redline[4]; 12. 4-Tuesday Calderwood[12]; 13. (DNF) 7-Lorne Wofford[5]; 14. (DNF) 75X-JT Imperial[9]; 15. (DNF) 2-Alex Pettas[10]; 16. (DNF) 2J-Jax Redline[13]; 17. (DNF) 22K-Joey Klemish[16]; 18. (DNS) 12J-Josh Grady; 19. (DNS) 19-Wes Wofford; 20. (DNS) 14-Cody Sickles.
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 7-Lorne Wofford[1]; 2. 7X-Troy Treharn[2]; 3. 20Z-Rick Ziehl[6]; 4. 4-Tuesday Calderwood[3]; 5. 2J-Jax Redline[5]; 6. 116-Vance Wofford[7]; 7. 6-Logan Calderwood[4].
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 22S-Shane Redline[2]; 2. 91-Jake Helsel[4]; 3. 2B-Brett Becker[7]; 4. 75X-JT Imperial[5]; 5. 41-Dillon Tanner[1]; 6. 22K-Joey Klemish[6]; 7. (DNS) 14-Cody Sickles.
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 45X-Don Grable[2]; 2. 22-Jesse Baker[3]; 3. 2-Alex Pettas[1]; 4. 1HA-Caleb Saiz[4]; 5. (DNS) 12J-Josh Grady; 6. (DNS) 19-Wes Wofford.
POWRi DWSS/ASCS Southwest | Aztec Speedway | 6/11/22: A Feature (25 Laps): 1. 116-Vance Wofford[1]; 2. 75X-JT Imperial[2]; 3. 45X-Don Grable[8]; 4. 7-Lorne Wofford[3]; 5. 20Z-Rick Ziehl[10]; 6. 22S-Shane Redline[16]; 7. 22-Jesse Baker[5]; 8. 2B-Brett Becker[12]; 9. 6-Logan Calderwood[13]; 10. 7X-Troy Treharn[14]; 11. 41-Dillon Tanner[11]; 12. 12J-Josh Grady[17]; 13. 2-Alex Pettas[15]; 14. 4-Tuesday Calderwood[7]; 15. 1HA-Caleb Saiz[9]; 16. 19-Wes Wofford[4]; 17. (DNS) 14-Cody Sickles; 18. (DNS) 22K-Joey Klemish; 19. (DQ) 91-Jake Helsel[6].
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 19-Wes Wofford[1]; 2. 22-Jesse Baker[2]; 3. 91-Jake Helsel[3]; 4. 20Z-Rick Ziehl[5]; 5. 2B-Brett Becker[6]; 6. 22S-Shane Redline[7]; 7. (DNF) 14-Cody Sickles[4].
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 7-Lorne Wofford[1]; 2. 4-Tuesday Calderwood[4]; 3. 45X-Don Grable[3]; 4. 41-Dillon Tanner[6]; 5. 7X-Troy Treharn[5]; 6. (DNF) 22K-Joey Klemish[2].
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 75X-JT Imperial[1]; 2. 116-Vance Wofford[4]; 3. 1HA-Caleb Saiz[3]; 4. 6-Logan Calderwood[2]; 5. 2-Alex Pettas[5]; 6. 12J-Josh Grady[6].
Next up for the POWRi 360 Desert Wing Sprint Series presented by MVT Servies will be a visit to Route 66 Speedway in Amarillo, TX for a two-day stay on July 15-16.
The 2022 season will mark the 31st year of competition for the American Sprint Car Series. Spearheaded by the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series presented by the MAVTV Motorsports Network, the ASCS Nation includes 11 Regional Tours encompassing both wing and non-wing competition. For other news, notes, and information on any of the tours under the ASCS banner, log onto http://www.ascsracing.com, follow on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter (@LucasOilASCS).
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