After a week’s absence, TTT is back in expanded fashion. This week’s version of Tuesday’s Top Ten is in fact Twenty, taking a gander at some of the relevant and sometime irrelevant aspects from the past couple of weeks of American Sprint Car Series racing action.
Catch up.
1. Spring Fever – The past two weekends featured Spring Nationals events for the O’Reilly American Sprint Cars on Tour at both the Devil’s Bowl Speedway in Mesquite, TX, and Oklahoma City’s State Fair Speedway. A total of 67 different drivers from 15 states and Canada took part in at least one of the weekend doubles.
Chuck Swenson represented South Dakota quite well on both weekends with three top-four feature finishes, with Jake Peters winning the Devil’s Bowl finale before shying away from Oklahoma City due to gloomy weather forecasts. Ryan Bickett and Dusty Ballenger didn’t fall for the meteorologists’ tricks and made the trek to Oklahoma.
Natalie Sather led the way for North Dakota on both weekends, with Mike Sitzmann, Jr., joining in at Oklahoma City.
Minnesota’s Scott Winters and Neil Stevens took in Devil’s Bowl action, with Winters leading the first ASCS National Tour feature laps of his career before ultimately finishing tenth (his third career ASCS National Tour top ten finish).
The Lincoln, Nebraska area quartet of Toby Chapman, Jack Dover, Mike Chadd and Mark Pace each made it to Da’ Bowl. Chapman was the only one to make both features in Texas, finishing 13th on both nights.
Devil’s Bowl also had Georgia shoe Matt Linder and Montana traveler Mason Hill, while Oklahoma City drew the Colorado team of Keith Rauch and Bob Schaeffer along with Glendale, AZ, surprise visitor Ben Gregg.
2. The Real Jake – There has seemingly been two different Jake Peters in recent years. The northern version piles up wins throughout Iowa, South Dakota and the rest of the northern plains area, while the southern version has typically struggled. At the Devil’s Bowl Spring Nationals, Texas fans finally got to witness what the northern fans have been watching Jake Peters do for the last several years.
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