TULSA, Okla. — The Third Annual Spring Chiller, which saw six different winners, opened the Tulsa Speedway on Saturday night.
Matt French, Robert Elliott, Rodger Moore, Christopher White, Ryker Pace and Cale Hancock each won their respective feature events.
The Factory Stock feature saw 18 cars take the green flag with Kevin Wasserman jumping to the lead as the large starting field jockeyed for positions behind him. The race would go five laps before a spin by Noah Sagi would bring out the race’s first caution. With a Texas style restart the field would once again scramble for positions.
The race would slow again when third-place runner, Travis Crawford got tagged from behind and spun coming out of the fourth turn. A lap eight caution would send Colby Artherton to the tail after challenging near the front from his fourth starting position. Wasserman was leading Matt Norwood, French, Tyler Kirkes and polesitter Grant Reeves.
French would take the lead on lap nine in his bright yellow No. 199. Second-place running Wasserman would bobble in the fourth turn, giving up three positions while French was pulling away to a 15-car length lead. His lead was negated when Randall Sessions spun in the second turn. Wasserman’s bad luck continued when he spun on the 16th circuit while running in the fifth spot. The spinning Wasserman caused chaos in the second turn as the large pack of cars tried to dodge the partially blocked track.
Once restarted, French once again built up a sizable lead and once again he gave it up when the caution waved for a three car tangle in turn two on lap 21.
Only 11 of the original 18 starters were able to restart. Norwood would bring out the race’s fifth caution when he spun coming out of the fourth turn. The race would restart but would go quickly yellow again for a nose piece laying on the track in turn three. Only nine cars would restart and in single file order. The race’s final caution would come out with four laps of the 30 remaining for a 360-degree spin.
French would hold on for the final laps taking the checkered over Elliott, Crawford, Mike Keever and a recovering Wasserman. French’s win was worth $1,500.
Elliott won the 15 lap B-Mod feature over Jeffrey Kaup, Nathan Hagar, Rodney Harper and Trey Eberle.
The 12-lap Dwarf Car Main went to Moore besting Patrick Holt, Jeff Robertson and Jason Miles.
Wilhite lead all 20 laps of the A-Mod feature from the pole. He was followed by Jeffrey Kaup, Chris Lewis, Treven Geter and Freddy Hogrefe.
The 15-lap 305 sprint car feature was won by Ryker Pace who battled Terry Easum for most of the race. They were followed by Hayden Mabe, Larry Bratti and Glenn James Bratti.
The Tuners Class closed out the night with their 20-lap feature won by Hancock over Braxton Brownlee, Connar Brownlee, Shawn Brownlee and Jason Henson.
