Chris Martin wins 360 Sprint Invader Feature at 34 Raceway

 

BURLINGTON, IOWA (April 12, 2025) – Chris Martin of Ankeny, Iowa led from start to finish in the season lid lifter for the Mohrfeld Solar Sprint Invaders Saturday at 34 Raceway in West Burlington, Iowa. The two-time Sprint Invaders champion’s win earned him $2,000 aboard the Chris Martin Racing #44 and came over 30 competitors. It was his third career win with the series on the 3/8-mile oval, and the ninth overall.

Martin started on the pole by virtue of a win in the Agriland FS Dash, but the 20-lap feature got off to a rocky start when contact from another car caused Tasker Phillips to do a 360 when completing the first lap, and back in the pack, Blaine Jamison got the worst of a chain reaction, flipping hard down the front stretch. He was uninjured. Tasker was forced to restart at the tail of the field, surrendering his front row starting spot.

Martin led Josh Schneiderman, Tanner Gebhardt, Brandon Anderson and defending series’ champion Paul Nienhiser early, before Colton Fisher broke his front end after contact two laps in. On the double-file restart, Nienhiser advanced two spots to third before a lap four caution for debris. On that restart, a multi-car pileup saw eighth running Carson McCarl and Nathan Murders go off on the hook, while sixth running Terry McCarl had to restart at the tail.

While Martin continued to lead Schneiderman and Nienhiser, Anderson and Gebhardt exchanged fourth. Just as Martin was entering lapped traffic at the halfway mark, Cole Mincer got over the top of the turn two corner and did a 360, bringing yellow again. One more lap was in the books, when Sawyer Phillips caught an infield tire, sending it skyward and taking off the top wing of his brother Tasker, who retired.

The lead five remained the same through a second Mincer spin, this one on lap 19. A one-lap Dash decided the finish, with Martin taking the win over Schneiderman and Nienhiser. Terry McCarl made a late charge on the bottom for fourth, ahead of Anderson. Gebhardt, Cody Wehrle, hard-charger Chase Porter, Riley Goodno and Cam Martin rounded out the top ten. Tasker Phllips, Schneiderman, Gebhardt and Anderson took the heat race wins, and Jamison claimed the B.

“I want to thank all the fans that came out on this chilly night,” said Martin in Victory Lane. “I’m happy I didn’t see any of it (the incidents behind him). We just kept our nose clean. We just kept on trucking. I’d like to thank my Dad (Richard), my crew chief, Danny Lasoski who couldn’t be here tonight. He’s been working hard with me to get this thing dialed in. My crew guy Graham and I spend more time with each other than our significant others sometimes.”

“I was tickled with the car right out of the box,” said Schneiderman. “This is a car we really didn’t race a lot last year, but Jarrod worked hard on it all winter and got it shined up. It’s always good to start out the season with a top three. You always want to win, but I gave it everything I had on that last lap. I tried the bottom just to see what was down there, but all in all, it was a solid evening.”

“It was good to get back in the car,” said Nienhiser. “We had a few things to clean up, but got pretty good by the end of the night. By the time we got to third, there wasn’t much we could do. I was trying some last ditch efforts. We couldn’t make anything happen there, but we tried. It was a pretty good start to the year.”

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11 entries
Modifieds
A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 53-Logan Anderson[2]; 2. 22-Austen Becerra[3]; 3. 50-Denny Eckrich[4]; 4. 9Z-Chris Zogg[7]; 5. 26J-Jadin Fuller[6]; 6. 71-Dennis LaVeine[8]; 7. 5R-Bill Roberts Jr[1]; 8. 44X-Blaise Lewis[11]; 9. 32-Skyler Harroun[5]; 10. (DNF) 57-Andrew Hamburg[9]; 11. (DNF) 8C-Michael Claeys[10]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 22-Austen Becerra[2]; 2. 53-Logan Anderson[3]; 3. 50-Denny Eckrich[4]; 4. 9Z-Chris Zogg[5]; 5. 57-Andrew Hamburg[6]; 6. 44X-Blaise Lewis[1]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 26J-Jadin Fuller[2]; 2. 5R-Bill Roberts Jr[1]; 3. 32-Skyler Harroun[3]; 4. 71-Dennis LaVeine[4]; 5. 8C-Michael Claeys[5]

11 entries
Mini Hauler
A Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 4-Caleb Ealey[3]; 2. 01-Roger Brockett[2]; 3. 74-Sheldon Brockett[6]; 4. 141-Darin Ronner[8]; 5. 16-Dawson Tipps[1]; 6. 44-Lyle Timmerman[4]; 7. 14-Bob Cowman[5]; 8. 11L-Lowrance Lain[9]; 9. 40-Randy Ronner[10]; 10. (DNF) 43-Larry Hooper[7]; 11. (DNS) 44T-Tasker Timmerman

Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 74-Sheldon Brockett[3]; 2. 44-Lyle Timmerman[5]; 3. 4-Caleb Ealey[1]; 4. 43-Larry Hooper[2]; 5. 11L-Lowrance Lain[4]; 6. (DNF) 44T-Tasker Timmerman[6]

Heat 2 (6 Laps): 1. 01-Roger Brockett[4]; 2. 14-Bob Cowman[2]; 3. 16-Dawson Tipps[1]; 4. 141-Darin Ronner[5]; 5. 40-Randy Ronner[3]

30 entries
360 Sprints – Winged
A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 44-Chris Martin[1]; 2. 49-Josh Schneiderman[4]; 3. 50-Paul Nienhiser[5]; 4. 24-Terry McCarl[9]; 5. 2-Brandon Anderson[6]; 6. 81-Tanner Gebhardt[3]; 7. 40C-Cody Wehrle[10]; 8. 2X-Chase Porter[20]; 9. 22-Riley Goodno[12]; 10. 4-Cameron Martin[19]; 11. 3P-Sawyer Phillips[7]; 12. 7-Tyler Lee[23]; 13. 55-Chase Brown[18]; 14. 4G-Cole Garner[16]; 15. 31-McCain Richards[24]; 16. (DNF) 15JR-Cole Mincer[17]; 17. (DNF) 1TAZ-Tasker Phillips[2]; 18. (DNF) 27-Carson McCarl[15]; 19. (DNF) 71-Nathan Murders[22]; 20. (DNF) 5A-Clint Garner[14]; 21. (DNF) 28-Luke Verardi[11]; 22. (DNF) 99-Jake Blackhurst[8]; 23. (DNF) 11-Colton Fisher[13]; 24. (DNF) 51J-Blaine Jamison[21]; 25. (DNS) 99D-Tucker Daly

B Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 51J-Blaine Jamison[1]; 2. 71-Nathan Murders[2]; 3. 7-Tyler Lee[7]; 4. 31-McCain Richards[4]; 5. 99D-Tucker Daly[6]; 6. 7B-Nick Guernsey[5]; 7. 88-Riley Scott[3]; 8. (DNS) 52D-Skyler Daly; 9. (DNS) 63-JJ Hickle; 10. (DNS) 6-Dustin Selvage

Dash 1 (6 Laps): 1. 44-Chris Martin[2]; 2. 1TAZ-Tasker Phillips[7]; 3. 81-Tanner Gebhardt[3]; 4. 49-Josh Schneiderman[4]; 5. 50-Paul Nienhiser[6]; 6. 2-Brandon Anderson[5]; 7. 3P-Sawyer Phillips[1]; 8. (DNF) 99-Jake Blackhurst[8]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 1TAZ-Tasker Phillips[2]; 2. 40C-Cody Wehrle[1]; 3. 28-Luke Verardi[3]; 4. 22-Riley Goodno[5]; 5. 27-Carson McCarl[7]; 6. 55-Chase Brown[8]; 7. 31-McCain Richards[4]; 8. 7B-Nick Guernsey[6]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 99-Jake Blackhurst[1]; 2. 24-Terry McCarl[3]; 3. 50-Paul Nienhiser[6]; 4. 11-Colton Fisher[5]; 5. 2X-Chase Porter[4]; 6. 4-Cameron Martin[8]; 7. (DNF) 7-Tyler Lee[2]; 8. (DNF) 6-Dustin Selvage[7]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 81-Tanner Gebhardt[3]; 2. 49-Josh Schneiderman[4]; 3. 3P-Sawyer Phillips[7]; 4. 15JR-Cole Mincer[2]; 5. (DNF) 99D-Tucker Daly[1]; 6. (DNF) 52D-Skyler Daly[6]; 7. (DNF) 63-JJ Hickle[5]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 2-Brandon Anderson[2]; 2. 44-Chris Martin[5]; 3. 5A-Clint Garner[1]; 4. 4G-Cole Garner[3]; 5. 51J-Blaine Jamison[4]; 6. 71-Nathan Murders[7]; 7. 88-Riley Scott[6]

Hot Laps 1: 1. 44-Chris Martin, 00:14.126[24]; 2. 3P-Sawyer Phillips, 00:14.252[27]; 3. 63-JJ Hickle, 00:14.297[19]; 4. 2X-Chase Porter, 00:14.377[14]; 5. 5A-Clint Garner, 00:14.443[4]; 6. 99-Jake Blackhurst, 00:14.592[2]; 7. 81-Tanner Gebhardt, 00:14.749[11]; 8. 50-Paul Nienhiser, 00:14.846[22]; 9. 49-Josh Schneiderman, 00:14.889[15]; 10. 4G-Cole Garner, 00:14.976[16]; 11. 2-Brandon Anderson, 00:15.007[12]; 12. 7-Tyler Lee, 00:15.194[6]; 13. 15JR-Cole Mincer, 00:15.204[7]; 14. 4-Cameron Martin, 00:15.215[30]; 15. 51J-Blaine Jamison, 00:15.216[20]; 16. 24-Terry McCarl, 00:15.248[10]; 17. 11-Colton Fisher, 00:15.583[18]; 18. 52D-Skyler Daly, 00:15.651[23]; 19. 88-Riley Scott, 00:15.771[28]; 20. 40C-Cody Wehrle, 00:15.955[1]; 21. 6-Dustin Selvage, 00:15.984[26]; 22. 27-Carson McCarl, 00:16.047[25]; 23. 1TAZ-Tasker Phillips, 00:16.050[5]; 24. 55-Chase Brown, 00:16.081[29]; 25. 22-Riley Goodno, 00:16.111[17]; 26. 99D-Tucker Daly, 00:16.191[3]; 27. 71-Nathan Murders, 00:16.339[8]; 28. 31-McCain Richards, 00:16.382[13]; 29. 28-Luke Verardi, 00:16.384[9]; 30. 7B-Nick Guernsey, 00:16.557[21]

8 entries
Sport Compact
A Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 2B-Dyllan Bonk[4]; 2. 63-Tim Schnathorst[5]; 3. 48-Chuck Fullenkamp[3]; 4. 2X-TJ Weyls[1]; 5. 20C-Caleb Giese[6]; 6. 38-Brandon Crawley[7]; 7. (DNF) 57-Barry Taft[2]; 8. (DNS) 10C-Chadrick Edward Poland

Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 57-Barry Taft[2]; 2. 48-Chuck Fullenkamp[1]; 3. 2B-Dyllan Bonk[7]; 4. 2X-TJ Weyls[3]; 5. 63-Tim Schnathorst[6]; 6. 20C-Caleb Giese[5]; 7. 38-Brandon Crawley[4]; 8. 10C-Chadrick Edward Poland[8]

Category: 34 Raceway, Iowa