O’NEAL TAKES KOSISKI FAMILY 53 IN FIRST LUCAS OIL STOP AT SHELBY COUNTY
HARLAN, Iowa (July 16, 2024) – Defending Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series National Champion Hudson O’Neal made a three-wide pass for the lead on lap 22 and led the remaining 31 laps to score his second straight Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series win of the week on Tuesday night at Shelby County Speedway.
The first national touring late model race ever held at Shelby County was one to remember as three different drivers took turns leading the Kosiski Family 53. O’Neal prevailed by 3.503 seconds over Ricky Thornton Jr. who put on a late race charge that stalled out with three laps to go to finish second to O’Neal for the second night in a row.
Garrett Alberson, who joined O’Neal and Thornton as race leaders rounded out the Big River Steel Podium in third. Devin Moran was fourth and Jonathan Davenport rounded out the top five.
Thornton started from the pole and led the first 14 laps until Alberson powered around on the outside to take over the top spot after starting sixth. Alberson was in front for four circuits until O’Neal snuck to the inside of both Alberson and Thornton to take the lead on lap 22.
A caution with ten laps to go wiped out the healthy lead that O’Neal had built up over Thornton and Alberson. On the restart Thornton ran the top side of the track as he stayed with O’Neal but ran out of steam with less than five laps to go.
In Lucas Oil Victory Lane for the 29th time in his career, O’Neal earned his fifth series win of the season.
“I started right around that bottom and then Garrett was making that middle work there for a minute. I got a little bit nervous about it and I’m sure the top came into it at a certain point, and I just didn’t know where to be on the racetrack. I was just guessing where to run. It just feels awesome to come out here and be able to drive these guys’ race car. It’s been a long week and I continue to try and represent these sponsors the best I can.”
Thornton maintains the series points lead heading to Huset’s Speedway this weekend for the Silver Dollar Nationals.
“I think the fans loved it,” said Thornton commenting to the packed grandstands on hand for the event. “I felt pretty good around the bottom for a while. We worked so hard trying to get our stuff where we could get off the corner. We changed the right front a little bit and think it was the wrong call. I knew on the restarts I wasn’t that good around the bottom so I figured heck I might as well start sending it around the top. I felt like I had a good pace up there. I screwed up there once getting into one and about the destroyed the thing, so I thought I had better go back to the bottom. I let him [O’Neal] get away and his lead kept growing so I went back to the bottom.”
Alberson had the Roberts Motorsports car in contention for the win as he came home in third.
“These guys are the best in the country you know so to be close and right there with them is great. I was hoping there for a little bit that our tires were the right deal. I probably just needed to do a better job of driving that bottom more disciplined because those guys could do a little better than I could. I ran that top a few laps too long when I didn’t need to. I hurt my tires a little more than I should have, but we held in there it was a good solid top three.”
The winner’s Todd and Vickie Burns, SSI Motorsports, Longhorn Chassis is powered by Clements Racing Engine and sponsored by Big River Steel, Wheeler Metals, Professional Concrete Cutting and Drilling, West Side Tractor Sales, Dyno One Inc., Merrill Bonding Company, Bobcat of Batesville, Bob and Tammy Burton, O’Neal’s Salvage and Recycling, Paragon Speedway, Sunoco Race Fuels, Bilstein Shocks, and Indiana USSSA Fast Pitch Softball.
Completing the top ten were Daulton Wilson, Max Blair, Clay Harris, Blair Nothdurft, and Brandon Sheppard.
Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series
Race Summary
Kosiski Family 53
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Shelby County Speedway – Harlan, IA
Allstar Performance Time Trials
Fast Time Group A: Ricky Thornton, Jr. | 13.507 seconds
Fast Time Group B: Devin Moran | 13.499 seconds (overall)
21 entries
SORENSEN EQUIPMENT IMCA LATE MODELS
A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 76-Zach Zeitner[3]; 2. 18S-Jesse Sobbing[10]; 3. 35-Kale Kosiski[6]; 4. 60-Anthony Roth[11]; 5. 10-Jack Hearty[5]; 6. J2K-Jordan Krug[2]; 7. 13-Jason Wallace[7]; 8. 24X-Micah Brown[1]; 9. 8-Aidan Mohr[8]; 10. 18-Jarrett Getzschman[13]; 11. 3-Sterling Perkins[18]; 12. 5-Blake Andersen[15]; 13. 78-Logan Cloudt[16]; 14. 7-Jenna Johnson[14]; 15. 3X-Hayden Kenkel[4]; 16. J236-Jaymison Coffelt[20]; 17. 32-Cory Beckstrom[17]; 18. (DNF) 21-Brett Hopp[21]; 19. (DNF) 36-Drew Baker[9]; 20. (DNF) 22-Jake Jorgensen[12]; 21. (DNF) 41-Robbie Jorgensen[19]
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 76-Zach Zeitner[2]; 2. 10-Jack Hearty[3]; 3. 35-Kale Kosiski[6]; 4. 13-Jason Wallace[5]; 5. 18-Jarrett Getzschman[7]; 6. 78-Logan Cloudt[1]; 7. 41-Robbie Jorgensen[4]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 18S-Jesse Sobbing[3]; 2. 22-Jake Jorgensen[4]; 3. 3X-Hayden Kenkel[5]; 4. J2K-Jordan Krug[7]; 5. 7-Jenna Johnson[2]; 6. 32-Cory Beckstrom[6]; 7. J236-Jaymison Coffelt[1]
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 8-Aidan Mohr[3]; 2. 36-Drew Baker[1]; 3. 60-Anthony Roth[5]; 4. 24X-Micah Brown[7]; 5. 5-Blake Andersen[2]; 6. 3-Sterling Perkins[6]; 7. 21-Brett Hopp[4]
28 entries
DIRT SUPER LATE MODELS
Kosiski Family 53 A-Main (53 Laps): 1. 71-Hudson O’Neal[3]; 2. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr[1]; 3. 58-Garrett Alberson[6]; 4. 99-Devin Moran[2]; 5. 49-Jonathan Davenport[4]; 6. 18D-Daulton Wilson[5]; 7. 111-Max Blair[9]; 8. 6-Clay Harris[16]; 9. 76N-Blair Nothdurft[17]; 10. B5-Brandon Sheppard[8]; 11. 157-Mike Marlar[23]; 12. 1-Tim McCreadie[10]; 13. 7T-Drake Troutman[14]; 14. 7-Ross Robinson[11]; 15. 51-Logan Seavey[21]; 16. 20-Jimmy Owens[7]; 17. 17SS-Brenden Smith[20]; 18. 43S-Derrick Stewart[19]; 19. 04-Tad Pospisil[13]; 20. 80-Allan Hopp[15]; 21. 93F-Carson Ferguson[12]; 22. 99B-Boom Briggs[18]; 23. 25C-Chad Simpson[22]; 24. 93-Cory Lawler[24]
Fast Shafts B-Main 1 (10 Laps): 1. 76N-Blair Nothdurft[2]; 2. 99B-Boom Briggs[1]; 3. 43S-Derrick Stewart[4]; 4. 17SS-Brenden Smith[3]; 5. 51-Logan Seavey[5]; 6. 25C-Chad Simpson[6]; 7. 35D-Dylan Sillman[8]; 8. 93-Cory Lawler[10]; 9. 10-Junior Coover[9]; 10. 15-Jason O’Brien[7]; 11. 53-Andrew Kosiski[12]; 12. (DNS) 157-Mike Marlar
Penske Shocks Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr[1]; 2. 18D-Daulton Wilson[2]; 3. 111-Max Blair[3]; 4. 04-Tad Pospisil[4]; 5. 99B-Boom Briggs[5]; 6. 51-Logan Seavey[6]; 7. 10-Junior Coover[7]
Summit Racing Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 71-Hudson O’Neal[1]; 2. 20-Jimmy Owens[3]; 3. 7-Ross Robinson[4]; 4. 80-Allan Hopp[7]; 5. 17SS-Brenden Smith[5]; 6. 15-Jason O’Brien[6]; 7. 157-Mike Marlar[2]
Earnhardt Technologies Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 99-Devin Moran[1]; 2. 58-Garrett Alberson[3]; 3. 1-Tim McCreadie[2]; 4. 7T-Drake Troutman[5]; 5. 76N-Blair Nothdurft[4]; 6. 25C-Chad Simpson[6]; 7. 93-Cory Lawler[7]
Simpson Race Products Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 49-Jonathan Davenport[1]; 2. B5-Brandon Sheppard[2]; 3. 93F-Carson Ferguson[3]; 4. 6-Clay Harris[5]; 5. 43S-Derrick Stewart[4]; 6. 35D-Dylan Sillman[7]; 7. 53-Andrew Kosiski[6]
Qualifying | GROUP A: 1. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr, 00:13.507[1]; 2. 71-Hudson O’Neal, 00:13.602[11]; 3. 18D-Daulton Wilson, 00:13.628[7]; 4. 157-Mike Marlar, 00:13.684[9]; 5. 111-Max Blair, 00:13.722[8]; 6. 20-Jimmy Owens, 00:13.742[4]; 7. 04-Tad Pospisil, 00:13.747[6]; 8. 7-Ross Robinson, 00:13.814[5]; 9. 99B-Boom Briggs, 00:13.852[3]; 10. 17SS-Brenden Smith, 00:13.861[14]; 11. 51-Logan Seavey, 00:14.043[10]; 12. 15-Jason O’Brien, 00:14.233[13]; 13. 10-Junior Coover, 00:14.460[12]; 14. 80-Allan Hopp, 00:14.609[2]
Qualifying | GROUP B: 1. 99-Devin Moran, 00:13.499[14]; 2. 49-Jonathan Davenport, 00:13.512[7]; 3. 1-Tim McCreadie, 00:13.607[1]; 4. B5-Brandon Sheppard, 00:13.666[6]; 5. 58-Garrett Alberson, 00:13.708[12]; 6. 93F-Carson Ferguson, 00:13.737[13]; 7. 76N-Blair Nothdurft, 00:13.772[10]; 8. 43S-Derrick Stewart, 00:13.777[11]; 9. 7T-Drake Troutman, 00:13.784[2]; 10. 6-Clay Harris, 00:13.807[9]; 11. 25C-Chad Simpson, 00:13.816[4]; 12. 53-Andrew Kosiski, 00:14.077[5]; 13. 93-Cory Lawler, 00:14.131[8]; 14. 35D-Dylan Sillman, 00:14.347[3]
Hot Laps | GROUP 1: 1. 04-Tad Pospisil, 00:13.749[6]; 2. 99B-Boom Briggs, 00:13.823[3]; 3. 20-Jimmy Owens, 00:13.824[4]; 4. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr, 00:13.850[1]; 5. 7-Ross Robinson, 00:13.881[5]; 6. 18D-Daulton Wilson, 00:14.028[7]; 7. 80-Allan Hopp, 00:14.607[2]
Hot Laps | GROUP 2: 1. 71-Hudson O’Neal, 00:13.787[4]; 2. 157-Mike Marlar, 00:13.815[2]; 3. 51-Logan Seavey, 00:13.921[3]; 4. 111-Max Blair, 00:13.975[1]; 5. 17SS-Brenden Smith, 00:14.172[7]; 6. 15-Jason O’Brien, 00:14.355[6]; 7. 10-Junior Coover, 00:14.627[5]
Hot Laps | GROUP 3: 1. B5-Brandon Sheppard, 00:13.724[6]; 2. 49-Jonathan Davenport, 00:13.725[7]; 3. 7T-Drake Troutman, 00:13.929[2]; 4. 25C-Chad Simpson, 00:13.950[4]; 5. 1-Tim McCreadie, 00:14.012[1]; 6. 35D-Dylan Sillman, 00:14.206[3]; 7. 53-Andrew Kosiski, 00:14.249[5]
Hot Laps | GROUP 4: 1. 76N-Blair Nothdurft, 00:13.454[3]; 2. 58-Garrett Alberson, 00:13.570[5]; 3. 99-Devin Moran, 00:13.587[7]; 4. 43S-Derrick Stewart, 00:14.049[4]; 5. 93-Cory Lawler, 00:14.062[1]; 6. 93F-Carson Ferguson, 00:14.225[6]; 7. (DNS) 6-Clay Harris
Category: Iowa
