Huset’s Speedway got its season underway on Sunday night.
Parker Price-Miller (Kokomo, Ind.) won the 25-lap 410 feature.
Aaron Reutzel (Clute, Tex.) was second, Austin McCarl (Altoona, Iowa) third, and Cory Eliason (Visalia, Calif.) fourth.
Brooke Tatnell (San Souci, NSW, Australia) piloted the DeWall Racing No. 16 to a fifth-place finish in the feature. He had won a heat race earlier in the evening.
Skylar Prochaska (Lakefield) was 13th in the feature after a third-place finish in his heat. Kaleb Johnson (Sioux Falls) was 14th in the feature after not starting his heat race.
Brandon Bosma (Rock Rapids) was the RaceSaver Sprint feature winner.
I-90 Speedway
Jesse Lindberg (Sioux Falls) won the RaceSaver sprint feature Saturday at I-90 Speedway in Brandon, S.D.
Brandon Halverson (Jackson) was sixth in the feature after he had finished second in his heat.
MSTS
The first Midwest Sprint Touring Series event of the season was held Saturday at Park-Jefferson Speedway, with Brant O’Banion (Parker, S.D.) winning the feature.
Rounding out the top five were John Klabunde (Fort Calhoun, Neb.), Javen Ostermann (Courtland), Kyler Johnson (Quinter, Kan.) and Christopher Thram (Sanborn) rounding out the top five.
There are two MSTS events scheduled next weekend, at I-80 Speedway in Greenwood, Neb. Friday and Off Road Speedway in Norfolk, Neb. Saturday.
The series is slated to run at Jackson Motorplex on Friday, May 20.
Kaleb Johnson
Perseverance was the word to describe Kaleb Johnson’s weekend.
The Sioux Falls driver qualified eighth quickest and charged from fourth to win a 360 heat race on Saturday at Knoxville Raceway. The feature inversion lined him up on the inside of the third row for the A Main.
“I was passing for third and got too anxious and drove it in too hard into turn one,” he told Inside Line Promotions. “I barely missed the bottom with my left rear and it snapped free on me. I spun out. I was pretty upset with myself, but it’s one of those deals where you live and learn. We had a really good car. We made some changes in the right direction and I felt like if I had stayed patient I could have potentially had something for the leaders. It’s easy to say that now, but our speed is there. If we can put it all together we’ll be able to contend.”
Johnson rebounded from the spin approximately a third of the way through the main event by rallying from the back of the field to finish 13th.
“The cushion got pretty treacherous with a thick curb,” he said. “A lot of people were on the bottom so I used the top to my advantage to gain as many positions as I could.”
The team then had more challenges as it ran at Huset’s Speedway in Brandon on Sunday.
“It came out of gear in hot laps,” he said. “We fixed that and went out for qualifying. It was blowing oil like crazy. At first we were going to be done for the night. I was thinking that if we’re going to race for points we needed to find a way to race. We had our other 410 engine in another car. We sent guys to our shop to pull it while me and another guy pulled the motor at the track. Luckily there was no B Main so we were able to tag the back of the feature.”
The team changed engines in time for Johnson to line up 26th in the 25-lap A Main.
“We really didn’t know what to do setup-wise,” he said. “We had made two laps all night, but they weren’t at full speed either. It was a guessing game on setup. I knew I’d be in dirty air the whole time and I’d get lapped early. When you start 26th with a field like that they’ll catch you in a hurry. I had some restarts where I could use the middle to my advantage and luckily we were able to get up to 14th.
“The cool part to me was how hard the four guys in the pits worked to get us out there. They knew how important it was for us to race the feature and make as many points as we could.”
Johnson’s run from 26th to 14th earned the Hard Charger Award for passing the most cars.
Carson Macedo (Lemoore, Calif.) was the 410 winner Saturday at Knoxville. Clint Garner (Sioux Falls) won the 360 feature.
Clay County
Sjx classes of competition are scheduled Monday in Spencer as Clay County Fair Speedway hosts its Frost Buster.
Classes on the docket are 305 Sprint Cars, IMCA Modifieds, IMCA Stock Cars, IMCA Sport Mods, IMCA Hobby Stocks and IMCA Sport Compacts.
The Sport Compact feature is $500 to win, with each of the other classes being $1,000 to win.
Jackson
Two events are scheduled for next week at Jackson Motprplex.
The first event in the Bank Midwest IMCA Series is scheduled for Tuesday, May 17.
Scheduled classes are IMCA Modifieds, IMCA Stock Cars, IMCA Sport Mods, IMCA Hobby Stocks and IMCA Sport Compacts.
Other events in that series are Tuesday, June 14; Friday, July 15; and Tuesday, June 26.
Fairmont
Fairmont Raceway will try again to get its season underway on Wednesday.
Classes at Fairmont this week are USRA B-Mods, USRA Hobby Stocks, USRA Modifieds, USRA Stock Cars, and USRA Tuners.