EMMIE BOESE
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — Racing is back on the historic half-mile oval in Hutchinson. Salt City Racing LLC opened its 2024 season Friday night at the Kansas State Fairgrounds.
"We had a great night," said Phil Nightingale. "Hit my goal on race cars and we had over 2,500 in the stands!"
In November of 2022, the Kansas State Fair Board approved demolishing the half-mile oval racetrack.
In January 2024, the fair rescinded their motion to demolish the track after accepting a proposal from Nightingale of Mel Hambelton Ford.
There were more than a dozen Hutchinson natives who entered into Friday night’s races. Five different classes competed: Stock, URSS Sprints, Hobby Stock, Sport Mods and Modified.
Tathan Burkhart of Hays placed first in IMCA Stock Car. Scott Miller of Hutchinson placed third in stock car. Miller placed first in his heat. Larned Mayor and chief save our track supporter William Nusser placed 12th in the stock class.
Dakota Sproul of Hays placed first in IMCA Modified. Sproul placed first in his heat. Peyton Burkhart of Hutchinson placed fifth in modified and first in his heat.
Taylor Velasquez of Liberal placed first in IMCA Racesaver Sprint Car and also placed first in his heat.
Cody Williams of Minneapolis placed first in IMCA Hobby Stock and first in his heat.
Warren Huffman of Salina placed first in Northern Sportmod and first in his heat.
Each class was split into two different heat races. The stock and sprint class completed eight laps around the track in the heat races and modified, hobby stock and Northern Sportmod completed six.
For the A Feature (main event) the stock, hobby stock and northern sportmod completed 15 laps around the track and modified and sprint car completed 20 laps.
Results:
IMCA Stock Car
A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 250-Tathan Burkhart[2]; 2. 25P-Mike Petersilie[4]; 3. 1-Scott Miller[3]; 4. 68-Garrett Hager[10]; 5. 3T-Tanner Thiel[7]; 6. 12-Reed Payne[8]; 7. 97-Chase Moore[11]; 8. 59-James Lutkie[9]; 9. 55X-Mike Burian[16]; 10. 19D-Dylan Chambers[15]; 11. (DNF) 25X-Troy Burkhart[6]; 12. (DNF) 7N-William Nusser[5]; 13. (DNF) 48-Craig Miller[1]; 14. (DNF) 01-Chris Griffin[14]; 15. (DNF) 660$-David Brown[12]; 16. (DNF) 20$-Shannon Edwards[13]; 17. (DNS) 64-Ryan Carey
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 68-Garrett Hager[5]; 2. 250-Tathan Burkhart[1]; 3. 12-Reed Payne[2]; 4. 3T-Tanner Thiel[4]; 5. 48-Craig Miller[9]; 6. 97-Chase Moore[7]; 7. 20$-Shannon Edwards[3]; 8. 19D-Dylan Chambers[6]; 9. (DNS) 64-Ryan Carey
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 1-Scott Miller[3]; 2. 25X-Troy Burkhart[4]; 3. 25P-Mike Petersilie[8]; 4. 7N-William Nusser[7]; 5. 59-James Lutkie[5]; 6. 660$-David Brown[1]; 7. 01-Chris Griffin[6]; 8. (DNS) 55X-Mike Burian
IMCA Modified
A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 08-Dakota Sproul[1]; 2. 3C-Casey Jo Gemmill[3]; 3. A2-Randy Wilson[2]; 4. 11W-Tim Watts[10]; 5. 13-Peyton Burkhart[6]; 6. 94-Jim Graves[11]; 7. 132-Tyler Humphries[12]; 8. (DNF) 721-Troy Gemmill[8]; 9. (DNF) 23A-Aaron Rayl[4]; 10. (DNF) 3G-Ryan Green[13]; 11. (DNF) 7N-Chris Pitts[9]; 12. (DNF) 10-Patrick McManus[5]; 13. (DNF) 86S-lee steffen[15]; 14. (DNS) 3J-Jake Nightingale; 15. (DNS) 93J-Jeff Carrell
Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 13-Peyton Burkhart[4]; 2. 23A-Aaron Rayl[2]; 3. A2-Randy Wilson[6]; 4. 10-Patrick McManus[7]; 5. 3C-Casey Jo Gemmill[8]; 6. 94-Jim Graves[1]; 7. 3G-Ryan Green[5]; 8. 86S-lee steffen[3]
Heat 2 (6 Laps): 1. 08-Dakota Sproul[1]; 2. 721-Troy Gemmill[4]; 3. 3J-Jake Nightingale[6]; 4. 7N-Chris Pitts[3]; 5. 11W-Tim Watts[7]; 6. 132-Tyler Humphries[5]; 7. (DNS) 93J-Jeff Carrell
IMCA Racesaver Sprint Car
Mel Hambelton Ford Racing A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 21X-Taylor Velasquez[1]; 2. 0-Steven Richardson[2]; 3. 51-Jeremy Campbell[8]; 4. 97-Brian Herbert[4]; 5. 81-Jon Freeman[5]; 6. 20-Jeremy Huish[3]; 7. 16-Conner Thomas[9]; 8. 8X-Charlee Chaffin[10]; 9. (DNF) 22-Justin Chaffin[6]; 10. (DNF) 21K-TJ Kleyman[7]; 11. (DNS) 23K-Mike Kleymann; 12. (DNS) 1H-Henry Chambers
KansasLand Tire Service Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 20-Jeremy Huish[6]; 2. 0-Steven Richardson[3]; 3. 22-Justin Chaffin[4]; 4. 21K-TJ Kleyman[2]; 5. 8X-Charlee Chaffin[1]; 6. (DNF) 23K-Mike Kleymann[5]
Kansas land Tire Service Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 97-Brian Herbert[1]; 2. 21X-Taylor Velasquez[4]; 3. 81-Jon Freeman[5]; 4. 51-Jeremy Campbell[6]; 5. 16-Conner Thomas[3]; 6. (DQ) 1H-Henry Chambers[2]
IMCA Hobby Stock
A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 77-Cody Williams[5]; 2. 24R-Dillon Richards[6]; 3. 187-Tyler Heath[9]; 4. 70-Billy McBride[4]; 5. 5S-Jonathan Saliba[8]; 6. 55-Blake Holmes[1]; 7. 11B-Blake Spear[7]; 8. (DNF) 55C-Garrit Caswell[2]; 9. (DNF) 30-Dawson Bradford[3]; 10. (DNS) D21-Dan Kruse
Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 24R-Dillon Richards[4]; 2. 5S-Jonathan Saliba[5]; 3. 55C-Garrit Caswell[2]; 4. 30-Dawson Bradford[3]; 5. (DNF) D21-Dan Kruse[1]
Heat 2 (6 Laps): 1. 77-Cody Williams[4]; 2. 70-Billy McBride[1]; 3. 187-Tyler Heath[5]; 4. 11B-Blake Spear[3]; 5. 55-Blake Holmes[2]
IMCA Northern Sportmod
A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 20-Warren Huffman[2]; 2. 02-Justin Lampe[4]; 3. 54-Eddie Ingram[11]; 4. 64-Jimmy Brozek[1]; 5. 10-Alex Wiens[5]; 6. 18-Kyle Wiens[8]; 7. 22B-Dalton Bell[3]; 8. 8-Brian May[6]; 9. 120-Stacey Huffman[9]; 10. (DNF) 77W-Tyler Watts[7]; 11. (DNS) 97-Shawn Ward
Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 20-Warren Huffman[1]; 2. 10-Alex Wiens[5]; 3. 64-Jimmy Brozek[6]; 4. 8-Brian May[4]; 5. (DNF) 120-Stacey Huffman[2]; 6. (DNF) 54-Eddie Ingram[3]
Heat 2 (6 Laps): 1. 22B-Dalton Bell[1]; 2. 02-Justin Lampe[3]; 3. 77W-Tyler Watts[5]; 4. 18-Kyle Wiens[4]; 5. (DNS) 97-Shawn Ward
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