BURKS HIGH SIDES TO VICTORY AT U.S. 36

By: Ray Cunningham

Osborn, Missouri (May 26, 2023)………Defending USAC Wholesale Batteries Midwest Wingless Racing Association Sprint Car champion Wyatt Burks earned a hard fought victory in the series’ 25-lap feature event on Friday night at Osborn, Missouri’s U.S. 36 Raceway.

Burks (Topeka, Kan.) made his winning moves by passing Kory Schudy for second, then Ty Hulsey for first on the high side during a wild sequence of events following a restart for stalled leader Cody Baker with six laps to go.

When the dust settled on this one, Burks and his Wyatt Burks Racing No. 11w collected their 12th all-time USAC MWRA feature win.

Schudy (Battlefield, Mo.), in the Jon Sawyer Racing 28 was second.  Riley Kreisel (Warsaw, Mo.), running the DKR Motorsports No. 91, came home third.  Hulsey (Owasso, Okla.) wheeled the Risley Trash Service No. 24H to fourth while Brad Wyatt (Kearney, Mo.) grabbed fifth as the pilot of the Valor Racing No. 41.

Baker (Lone Jack, Mo.) made a mad dash to sixth after the restart, narrowly losing out to Wyatt for a top-five finish.  Baker led the first 19 laps of the feature before his machine stalled in turn one.

Dakota Earls (Independence, Mo.) put in a solid outing to finish seventh.  Point Braydon Cromwell (Lone Jack, Mo.) raced his way to eighth.  Chris Parkinson (Gladstone, Mo.) rebounded from issues in his heat race to go last (23rd) to ninth to earn Hard Charger honors.  Parkinson’s teammate, Chad Winfrey (Gladstone, Mo.) rounded out the top-10 in the feature, which was a co-sanctioned event with the Western Iowa Non-wing Sprint Cars (WINS).

Heat races were won by Hulsey, 2022 WINS champion Cam Schafer (Little Canada, Minn.) and Baker.

A.J. Gilbert (Tonganoxie, Kan.) and Kreisel pocketed Richmond Gear Contingency boxes.

On June 10, the USAC MWRA Sprint Car series returns to action to race for the first time ever at the Belleville High Banks Short Track located at the North Central Kansas Fairgrounds.

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USAC WHOLESALE BATTERIES MIDWEST WINGLESS RACING ASSOCIATION RACE RESULTS: May 26, 2023 – U.S. 36 Raceway – Osborn, Missouri – Co-Sanctioned by the Western Iowa Non-Wing Sprint Cars

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. 24H-Ty Hulsey (3), 2. 11w-Wyatt Burks (2), 3. 41-Brad Wyatt (4), 4. 6-Jake Kouba (6), 5. 88-Chad Tye (7), 6. 2H-Luke Howard (8), 7. 93-Buddy Parker (5), 8. 65-Chris Parkinson (1). NT

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. 97s-Cam Schafer (2), 2. 65w-Chad Winfrey (4), 3. 15E-Dakota Earls (5), 4. 4-Braydon Cromwell (6), 5. 26-Zach Clark (3), 6. 2-A.J. Gilbert (7), 7. 4T-Taylor Forbes (1). NT

THIRD HEAT: (8 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. 9H-Cody Baker (2), 2. 28-Kory Schudy (1), 3. 91-Riley Kreisel (3), 4. 9-Chad Goff (5), 5. 11B-Ben Woods (4), 6. 27-Justin Johnson (8), 7. 7-Clinton Bruns (7), 8. X-Jeff Pellersels (6). NT

ALSO AT THE TRACK: Craig Carroll, Tom Curran & Kevin Frisbie

FEATURE: (25 laps, starting positions in parentheses) 1. Wyatt Burks (6), 2. Kory Schudy (7), 3. Riley Kreisel (11), 4. Ty Hulsey (3), 5. Brad Wyatt (8), 6. Cody Baker (1), 7. Dakota Earls (5), 8. Braydon Cromwell (10), 9. Chris Parkinson (23), 10. Chad Winfrey (2), 11. Jake Kouba (9), 12. Ben Woods (15), 13. Zach Clark (17), 14. Chad Goff (12), 15. Luke Howard (14), 16. Chad Tye (13), 17. Cam Schafer (4), 18. A.J. Gilbert (16), 19. Justin Johnson (18), 20. Taylor Forbes (21), 21. Clinton Bruns (19), 22. Jeff Pellersels (22), 23. Buddy Parker (20). NT

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-19 Cody Baker, Lap 20 Ty Hulsey, Laps 21-25 Wyatt Burks.

USAC WHOLESALE BATTERIES MIDWEST WINGLESS RACING ASSOCIATION POINTS: 1-Braydon Cromwell-770, 2-Wyatt Burks-760, 3-Brad Wyatt-725, 4-Chad Winfrey-665, 5-Chris Parkinson-655, 6-Justin Johnson-555, 7-Zach Clark-525, 8-Buddy Parker-445, 9-Kory Schudy-445, 10-Chad Goff-400.

NEXT USAC WHOLESALE BATTERIES MIDWEST WINGLESS RACING ASSOCIATION SPECIAL EVENT RACE: June 2-3, 2023 – Knoxville Raceway – Knoxville, Iowa – Avanti Windows & Doors Corn Belt Clash – Co-Sanctioned by the USAC Wholesale Batteries Midwest Wingless Racing Association Sprint Cars