11/17/2024
POWRi
Caleb Saiz Thrills as High Desert Nationals Champion with POWRi Desert Wing Sprints at Vado Speedway Park
Belleville, IL. (11/17/24) Hitting the smooth racing surface of Vado Speedway Park for the final night of 2024 competition action, the POWRi Desert Wing Sprint Series would headline the $10-to-Win POWRi High Desert Nationals presented by Harris Kendrick Motorsports as Caleb Saiz would find the winning formula on the final lap to take his third series checkers of the season in the increased payday feature.
Opening the final night of yearly racing at state-of-the-art Vado Speedway Park on Saturday with thirty-five entries would witness Lorne Wofford, Brekton Crouch, Scott Bogucki, and Aaron Reutzel, each notch heat racing wins with Carson Bolden and Tye Mihocko gaining the semi-feature checkers.
Soaring into the season finale of the action-packed feature racing would find high point qualifier Lorne Wofford grab the lead in the thrilling POWRi High Desert Nationals Night Two opening pair of laps at Vado Speedway Park with Night One winner Aaron Reutzel taking the preferred position up front for the next sixteen laps.
Swapping the lead for a single lap would find Caleb Saiz heading the field with Kaleb Montgomery maneuvering into the top spot in a flurry of on-track excitement as the laps began to tick away at a rapid rate with the leading pair separating from the rest of the field.
Setting up for late race dramatics while using patience and precision, tenth-starting Caleb Saiz would shoot back into the lead on the final lap to clinch the top spot to lead only a pair of laps in the thirty-five lap feature event and notch his league-leading sixth career POWRi Desert Wing Sprint feature victory as fifth-starting Kaleb Montgomery would finish in the runner-up position with Aaron Reutzel placing on the final podium placement from starting sixth.
Contending up front, ninth-starting Justin Peck would finish fourth with seventh-starting Harli White rounding out the top five feature finishers for the POWRi Desert Wing Sprint Series Night Two of the POWRi High Desert Nationals presented by Harris Kendrick Motorsports double-header at Vado Speedway Park.
POWRi DWSS | Vado Speedway Park | 11/16/24:
A Feature 1 (30 Laps): 1. 42-Caleb Saiz[10]; 2. 46-Kaleb Montgomery[5]; 3. 87-Aaron Reutzel[6]; 4. 01-Justin Peck[9]; 5. 5H-Harli White[7]; 6. 15-Nick Parker[12]; 7. 75X-JT Imperial[2]; 8. 7-Lorne Wofford[1]; 9. 20Z-Rick Ziehl[14]; 10. B2-Carson Bolden[17]; 11. 4H-Dylan Harris[16]; 12. 45X-Don Grable[19]; 13. 2-Brekton Crouch[8]; 14. 57-Alex Pettas[15]; 15. 70H-Tye Mihocko[18]; 16. 8A-Aydan Saunders[13]; 17. (DNF) 13-Elijah Gile[20]; 18. (DNF) 24-Rico Abreu[11]; 19. (DNF) 4-Tuesday Calderwood[23]; 20. (DNF) 116-Vance Wofford[24]; 21. (DNF) 08-Peter Smith[22]; 22. (DNF) 44-Jason Howell[21]; 23. (DNF) 22B-Jesse Baker[3]; 24. (DNF) 45XL-Scott Bogucki[4].
B Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. B2-Carson Bolden[2]; 2. 45X-Don Grable[4]; 3. 44-Jason Howell[3]; 4. 4-Tuesday Calderwood[7]; 5. 131-Royal Jones[1]; 6. 619-Claudia Sigala[5]; 7. 80-Willy Spann[6]; 8. (DNF) 3AZ-Chloe High[8]; 9. (DNS) 5-Ryder McCutcheon.
B Feature 2 (15 Laps): 1. 70H-Tye Mihocko[1]; 2. 13-Elijah Gile[10]; 3. 08-Peter Smith[3]; 4. 116-Vance Wofford[7]; 5. 7X-Troy Treharn[5]; 6. 9-Robert Herrera[2]; 7. (DNF) 11K-Tyler Congleton[8]; 8. (DNF) 97-Derek DeMartino[9]; 9. (DNF) 99-Diego Alvarado[6]; 10. (DNF) 11R-Rodney Huband[4].
Heat 1 (10 Laps): 1. 7-Lorne Wofford[2]; 2. 75X-JT Imperial[3]; 3. 22B-Jesse Baker[6]; 4. 9-Robert Herrera[1]; 5. 44-Jason Howell[5]; 6. 57-Alex Pettas[9]; 7. (DNF) 11K-Tyler Congleton[7]; 8. (DNF) 5-Ryder McCutcheon[4]; 9. (DNF) 97-Derek DeMartino[8].
Heat 2 (10 Laps): 1. 2-Brekton Crouch[1]; 2. 01-Justin Peck[3]; 3. 5H-Harli White[8]; 4. 131-Royal Jones[4]; 5. 70H-Tye Mihocko[6]; 6. 4H-Dylan Harris[9]; 7. 4-Tuesday Calderwood[2]; 8. 116-Vance Wofford[7]; 9. 3AZ-Chloe High[5].
Heat 3 (10 Laps): 1. 45XL-Scott Bogucki[3]; 2. 24-Rico Abreu[1]; 3. 15-Nick Parker[4]; 4. 8A-Aydan Saunders[5]; 5. B2-Carson Bolden[6]; 6. 11R-Rodney Huband[2]; 7. 619-Claudia Sigala[7]; 8. 80-Willy Spann[9]; 9. (DNF) 13-Elijah Gile[8].
Heat 4 (10 Laps): 1. 87-Aaron Reutzel[2]; 2. 46-Kaleb Montgomery[5]; 3. 20Z-Rick Ziehl[1]; 4. 42-Caleb Saiz[7]; 5. 08-Peter Smith[3]; 6. 45X-Don Grable[4]; 7. 7X-Troy Treharn[6]; 8. 99-Diego Alvarado[8].
Full event information is available online at https://www.myracepass.com/events/501513.
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Photo Credit: Ron Gilson
Submitted By: Cassy Staley