Belleville, IL. (11/16/24) Returning for the final weekend of 2024 racing action with a double-dose of on-track excitement as Vado Speedway Park would welcome the POWRi Desert Wing Sprint Series for the lucrative POWRi High Desert Nationals presented by Harris Kendrick Motorsports with Aaron Reutzel claiming the victory on night one of the adrenaline-fueled 360 Wing-Sprint competitions.
Starting the weekend off in style at state-of-the-art Vado Speedway Park on Friday with thirty-nine entries would find Dylan Harris, Ryder McCutcheon, Brekton Crouch, Rick Ziehl, and Caleb Saiz each notch heat racing wins with Jett Carney and Harli White gaining the semi-feature checkers.
Flying into the action-packed night of feature racing would witness high point qualifier Kaleb Montgomery grab the lead early as the field jockeyed for position for the first eleven laps of a thrilling POWRi High Desert Nationals Night One at Vado Speedway Park.
Using patience and precision, fourth-starting Aaron Reutzel would out-maneuver the pack to clinch the top spot on lap twelve to lead the remainder of the feature and notch his first career POWRi Desert Wing Sprint feature victory as third-starting Caleb Saiz would finish a spirited runner-up position with Rico Abreu placing on the final podium placement from starting thirteenth.
Contending up front, tenth-starting Justin Peck would finish fourth with Harli White hard-charging from seventeenth to round out the top five feature finishers for the POWRi Desert Wing Sprint Series Night One of the POWRi high Desert Nationals presented by Harris Kendrick Motorsports double-header at Vado Speedway Park.
POWRi DWSS | Vado Speedway Park | 11/15/24:
A Feature 1 (30 Laps): 1. 87-Aaron Reutzel[5]; 2. 42-Caleb Saiz[3]; 3. 24-Rico Abreu[13]; 4. 01-Justin Peck[10]; 5. 5H-Harli White[17]; 6. 46-Kaleb Montgomery[1]; 7. B2-Carson Bolden[11]; 8. 20Z-Rick Ziehl[6]; 9. 70H-Tye Mihocko[14]; 10. 13-Elijah Gile[4]; 11. 45XL-Scott Bogucki[12]; 12. 131-Royal Jones[16]; 13. 97-Derek DeMartino[22]; 14. 4H-Dylan Harris[2]; 15. 45X-Don Grable[23]; 16. 22B-Jesse Baker[20]; 17. 5-Ryder McCutcheon[8]; 18. 4-Tuesday Calderwood[21]; 19. 08-Peter Smith[24]; 20. 2-Brekton Crouch[7]; 21. 7-Lorne Wofford[9]; 22. 15-Nick Parker[19]; 23. 40X-Jett Carney[18]; 24. 44-Jason Howell[15].
B Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 5H-Harli White[3]; 2. 15-Nick Parker[2]; 3. 4-Tuesday Calderwood[1]; 4. 45X-Don Grable[8]; 5. 99-Diego Alvarado[4]; 6. 75X-JT Imperial[5]; 7. 7X-Troy Treharn[9]; 8. 11R-Rodney Huband[6]; 9. 619-Claudia Sigala[12]; 10. (DNF) 9-Robert Herrera[10]; 11. (DNS) 8-Jake Helsel; 12. (DNS) 7D7-Spencer Hill.
B Feature 2 (15 Laps): 1. 40X-Jett Carney[6]; 2. 22B-Jesse Baker[5]; 3. 97-Derek DeMartino[2]; 4. 08-Peter Smith[7]; 5. 8A-Aydan Saunders[10]; 6. 1I-Daniel Blaeser[3]; 7. 116-Vance Wofford[4]; 8. 80-Willy Spann[1]; 9. (DNF) 3AZ-Chloe High[8]; 10. (DNF) 57-Alex Pettas[9]; 11. (DNS) 11K-Tyler Congleton.
Heat 1 (10 Laps): 1. 4H-Dylan Harris[1]; 2. 01-Justin Peck[3]; 3. 46-Kaleb Montgomery[6]; 4. 1I-Daniel Blaeser[2]; 5. 75X-JT Imperial[4]; 6. 99-Diego Alvarado[8]; 7. 08-Peter Smith[7]; 8. (DNF) 11K-Tyler Congleton[5].
Heat 2 (10 Laps): 1. 5-Ryder McCutcheon[2]; 2. 13-Elijah Gile[4]; 3. 45XL-Scott Bogucki[5]; 4. 116-Vance Wofford[1]; 5. 97-Derek DeMartino[6]; 6. 8-Jake Helsel[3]; 7. 45X-Don Grable[7]; 8. 9-Robert Herrera[8].
Heat 3 (10 Laps): 1. 2-Brekton Crouch[2]; 2. B2-Carson Bolden[3]; 3. 24-Rico Abreu[5]; 4. 7-Lorne Wofford[8]; 5. 5H-Harli White[6]; 6. 57-Alex Pettas[1]; 7. 3AZ-Chloe High[7]; 8. (DNF) 619-Claudia Sigala[4].
Heat 4 (10 Laps): 1. 20Z-Rick Ziehl[2]; 2. 44-Jason Howell[1]; 3. 131-Royal Jones[4]; 4. 70H-Tye Mihocko[7]; 5. 80-Willy Spann[8]; 6. 11R-Rodney Huband[5]; 7. (DNF) 8A-Aydan Saunders[3]; 8. (DNF) 7D7-Spencer Hill[6].
Heat 5 (10 Laps): 1. 42-Caleb Saiz[2]; 2. 87-Aaron Reutzel[4]; 3. 15-Nick Parker[1]; 4. 4-Tuesday Calderwood[6]; 5. 22B-Jesse Baker[3]; 6. 40X-Jett Carney[5]; 7. 7X-Troy Treharn[7].
Full event information is available online at https://www.myracepass.com/events/501510.
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Photo Credit: Ron Gilson