BELLEVILLE, Ill. — Xavier Doney would lead the final five laps while holding steady in a late-race restart with the POWRi Wingless Auto Racing Sprint League to capture the Night One Non-Wing Nationals feature event at Lake Ozark Speedway and notch his fourth career feature win.
Early on-track accomplishments would witness Jack Wagner start quickest in hot laps with a 13.744-second lap as Riley Kreisel and Kory Schudy would each earn heat racing wins with Kory Schudy pocketing the event’s high-point qualifier award after racing from fourth to first in his heat racing win.
Contesting on the initial green flag start would find polesitter Schudy battle against front-row companion Steven Russell into the first pair of corners with Schudy gaining the opening on-track advantage as Russell, Kreisel, Katlynn Leer and Mario Clouser running inside the top-five while attempting to run down the speedy leader.
Pacing the field out front, Schudy would appear to be in a driving advantage of his own while leading the first 14 laps of competition as Russell would lead one lap in a spirited battle up front.
Battling from a sixth starting spot, Doney would drive into the front position by using an outstanding diamond run in turn two to overtake for the top spot as a late-race restart would bunch the field together with a pair of laps remaining.
Holding steady on the late restart, Doney would not be denied in his second feature win of the season while holding off the late-stage heroics of runner-up placement Wagner as 2021 league champion Clouser finalized the podium placements.
“This was a real elbows up kind of track tonight that was up high on the cushion, I was able to find a diamond line off the corners before everyone else at that played to my advantage.” said an excited Xavier Doney in the Lake Ozark Speedway victory lane. Adding, “This car is a rocket right now, the Schnee-Lawson is really coming into its own.”
Maintaining a solid showing all night, Leer would finish fourth as Russell rounded out the top-five finishers in the POWRi Wingless Auto Racing Sprint League in the Night One Non-Wing Nationals feature event at Lake Ozark.
Feature Finish (20 Laps)
1. 74-Xavier Doney[6]; 2. 77-Jack Wagner[7]; 3. 6-Mario Clouser[5]; 4. 77K-Katlynn Leer[4]; 5. 1JR-Steven Russell[2]; 6. 34-RJ (Richard) Miller[9]; 7. 11X-Tom Curran[10]; 8. 73-Samuel Wagner[8]; 9. 16-Anthony Nicholson[15]; 10. 91-Riley Kreisel[3]; 11. I1-Ivan Glotzbach[12]; 12. 28-Kory Schudy[1]; 13. 7S-Wade Seiler[11]; 14. 88G-Garrett Hulsey[16]; 15. 43-Brennon Marshall[13]; 16. 45-Jesse Bebee[14].