GOFF HUMBLES THE FIELD AT HUMBOLDT
By: Ray Cunningham
Humboldt, Kansas (May 5, 2023)………At the track nicknamed “The Hummer,” Chad Goff hummed his own winning tune during Friday night’s 25-lap USAC Wholesale Batteries Midwest Wingless Association Sprint Car feature at Kansas’ Humboldt Speedway.
Goff (Spring Hill, Kan.) took his No. 9x to victory lane for the first time with the series since July of 2020. For Goff, his great night of racing started with a dominating performance in the first heat as he won by a large margin. That performance led to the veteran campaigner starting on the pole for the feature.
At the start of the A-Main, however, it was Brad Wyatt (Kearney, Mo.), the second heat winner, who seized the lead from his outside front row starting spot. As the race progressed, Goff passed Wyatt for first and never relinquished it.
The Chad Goff Motorsports machine was not done as he had to survive not one, but two green-white-checker restarts after a battle between Parkinson and Burks, resulting in both cars colliding with Parkinson flipping down the straightaway and Burks’ ride ending up incapacitated between one and two after the veteran chauffeur took the white flag. Both walked away.
From there, Goff held off Cromwell and Hulsey during the first attempt to finish the race, which resulted in a Zach Clark spin, then endured a final restart to put himself into victory lane for the first time in nearly three seasons.
Goff was honoring the memory of his good friend, the late Scott Seaton, who perished after crashing in a winged pavement sprint car race exactly 17 years earlier at Michigan’s Auto City Speedway. Goff attached a good luck charm (Elvis Stitch) to his roll cage for the night’s events in Seaton’s memory.
Braydon Cromwell of (Lone Jack, Mo.) took second in the BCR No. 4 with Ty Hulsey (Owasso, Okla.) third in the Risley No. 24H. Kobe Simpson (Bonham, Texas) grabbed fourth in his own No. 21K while Chad Winfrey, (Gladstone, Mo.) rounded out the top-five behind the wheel of Chris Parkinson Racing’s No. 65w.
Craig Carroll (Collinsville, Okla.), Zach Clark (Raymore, Mo.), Buddy Parker, (Wichita Falls, Texas), Wyatt Burks (Topeka, Kan.) and Chris Parkinson (Gladstone, Mo.) completed the top-10.
Winfrey earned Hard Charger honors presented by the Midwest Wingless Racing Association after coming from 11th to 5th. Parkinson was awarded the Hard Luck Award presented by Xtreme Color. Tom Curran accepted the random draw money courtesy of Valor Racing.
The USAC Midwest Wingless Racing Association sprint cars will now head west to Park City, Kansas’ 81 Speedway for the second half of this weekend’s doubleheader on Saturday, May, 6, for the fourth time in the last four years at the South Central Kansas facility.
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USAC WHOLESALE BATTERIES MIDWEST WINGLESS RACING ASSOCIATION RACE RESULTS: May 5, 2023 – Humboldt Speedway – Humboldt, Kansas
FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. 9x-Chad Goff (2), 2. 24H-Ty Hulsey (1), 3. 26-Zach Clark (3), 4. 21K-Kobe Simpson (6), 5. 24c-Craig Carroll (5), 6. 93-Buddy Parker (4). NT
SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. 41-Brad Wyatt (2), 2. 65-Chris Parkinson (4), 3. 4-Braydon Cromwell (1), 4. 11w-Wyatt Burks (3), 5. 2-Chad Frewaldt (5), 6. 65w-Chad Winfrey (6), 7. 27J-Justin Johnson (7). NT
ALSO AT THE TRACK: 11x-Tom Curran
FEATURE: (25 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Chad Goff (1), 2. Braydon Cromwell (7), 3. Ty Hulsey (4), 4. Kobe Simpson (5), 5. Chad Winfrey (11), 6. Craig Carroll (10), 7. Zach Clark (6), 8. Buddy Parker (12), 9. Wyatt Burks (8), 10. Chris Parkinson (3), 11. Brad Wyatt (2), 12. Chad Frewaldt (9), 13. Justin Johnson (13). NT
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-5 Brad Wyatt, Laps 6-25 Chad Goff.
**Chris Parkinson flipped on lap 25 of the feature.
USAC WHOLESALE BATTERIES MIDWEST WINGLESS RACING ASSOCIATION POINTS: 1-Braydon Cromwell-460, 2-Wyatt Burks-395, 3-Chad Winfrey-390, 4-Brad Wyatt-375, 5-Chris Parkinson-355, 6-Justin Johnson-315, 7-Chad Goff-275, 8-Kory Schudy-260, 9-Wesley Smith-255, 10-Jack Wagner-240.
NEXT USAC WHOLESALE BATTERIES MIDWEST WINGLESS RACING ASSOCIATION RACE: May 6, 2023 – 81 Speedway – Park City, Kansas