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Blackhurst Back to Victory Lane

By Madeline “Chatty Madi” Ruh

The night started off as yet another Midwest Spring 50 degrees where 37 410 Sprint Cars checked into Wilmot Raceway for the Inaugural Dick Colburn Classic, where Paul Nienhiser would be fastest in Box3 Media Hot Laps. Fastest overall in Carbon Safety Technologies Qualifying and taking home the High Planes Building Division Quicktime Award the Terre Haute, IN native of Bryce Norris.

Fox Lake Harbor Presents Allstar Performance Heat #1 winner was Blake Nimee, BodyCraft of Antioch presents Behling Racing Heat #2 winner was Matt Vandervere, Game Day Men’s Health presents Engler Machine & Tool Heat #3 winner being Jordan Goldesberry, and BR Motorsports presents King Racing Products Heat #4 winner was Jake Blackhurst.

Horizon Whiskey Dash draw put Matt Vandervere and Scotty Thiel on the poles of the dashes. Paul Nienhiser brought home the win in Optimum Electric dash one, while Travis Arenz took home Kristine Hartmann-Pleasant View Realty Dash 2.

Danny Schlafer transferred to the feature by winning the Behling Racing Equipment B Main, and Clayton Rossman picked up the A-Main Apparel B-Main Award.

We dropped the green on the 30 lap feature for the Inaugural Dick Colburn Classic, it was the 37 of Bryce Norris leading the field. Nienhiser and Blackhurst would begin their attempts to reel in the young-gun. We’d drop the Honest Abe Roofing Caution Flag for Klemko off the pace in turns one and two. We’d go back to green, and Norris would continue ticking away laps at Wilmot Raceway.
Norris would have to weave the thirty-seven through lap traffic, where the battle would have fans on the edge of their seats. Thiel would make his way to third and only tenths of a second would separate himself, Blackhurst, and Norris. Blackhurst would take this opportunity and throw the ninety six into the lead. Fans roared at the sight and the possibility for the two-time champion to park it back in victory lane.

The Honest Abe Roofing Caution Flag would fly once more for Matt Vandervere. 10 laps would remain in the battle when we went back to racing. Blackhurst, for the first time in the Nine-Six Motorsports car, would take the checkered for the Dick Colburn Classic. Bryce Norris would settle for second, and Thiel would round out the podium.

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410 Sprints - Winged 37 Entries
A Feature 30 Laps | 00:13:19.006

1. 96-Jake Blackhurst[3]; 2. 37-Bryce Norris[4]; 3. 51-Scotty Thiel[6]; 4. 9X-Paul Nienhiser[1]; 5. 25T-Travis Arenz[2]; 6. 79-Blake Nimee[7]; 7. 65-Jordan Goldesberry[9]; 8. 3B-Shelby Bosie[10]; 9. 3N-Jake Neuman[12]; 10. 9K-Kyle Schuett[18]; 11. 17-Tylar Rankin[19]; 12. 2W-Scott Neitzel[11]; 13. 4-Alex Pokorski[14]; 14. B8-John Barnard[20]; 15. 7A-Will Armitage[8]; 16. 12-Corbin Gurley[23]; 17. 85J-Logan Julien[13]; 18. 4K-Kris Spitz[15]; 19. 87A-Austin Hartmann[22]; 20. 25-Danny Schlafer[21]; 21. GR8-Will Gerrits[17]; 22. (DNF) 10V-Matt VanderVere[5]; 23. (DNF) 70-Chris Klemko[24]; 24. (DNF) 4D-Cruz Dickerson[16]

B Feature 12 Laps | 00:09:45.534

1. 25-Danny Schlafer[2]; 2. 87A-Austin Hartmann[1]; 3. 12-Corbin Gurley[13]; 4. 70-Chris Klemko[3]; 5. 09-Clayton Rossmann[7]; 6. 43-Jereme Schroeder[6]; 7. 13-CJ Malueg[8]; 8. 16C-Max Guilford[10]; 9. 21H-TJ Haddy[12]; 10. 9-Tommy Colburn[4]; 11. 99-Tyler Brabant[15]; 12. 24-Scott Conger[14]; 13. (DNS) 52-Cody Schlafer; 14. (DNS) 1-Mark Chisholm; 15. (DNS) 54G-Scott Grissom; 16. (DNS) 55S-Ryan Sawusch; 17. (DNS) 5D-Zach Daum

Dash 1 4 Laps | 00:01:46.550

1. 9X-Paul Nienhiser[3]; 2. 96-Jake Blackhurst[2]; 3. 10V-Matt VanderVere[1]; 4. 79-Blake Nimee[4]; 5. 65-Jordan Goldesberry[5]

Dash 2 4 Laps | 00:00:52.289

1. 25T-Travis Arenz[2]; 2. 37-Bryce Norris[4]; 3. 51-Scotty Thiel[1]; 4. 7A-Will Armitage[3]; 5. 3B-Shelby Bosie[5]

Heat 1 8 Laps | 00:01:44.482

1. 79-Blake Nimee[1]; 2. 2W-Scott Neitzel[2]; 3. 85J-Logan Julien[5]; 4. 37-Bryce Norris[4]; 5. 17-Tylar Rankin[9]; 6. 70-Chris Klemko[6]; 7. 1-Mark Chisholm[8]; 8. 12-Corbin Gurley[10]; 9. 99-Tyler Brabant[7]; 10. (DNF) 87A-Austin Hartmann[3]

Heat 2 8 Laps | 00:01:45.601

1. 10V-Matt VanderVere[2]; 2. 3B-Shelby Bosie[1]; 3. 25T-Travis Arenz[4]; 4. 4K-Kris Spitz[3]; 5. GR8-Will Gerrits[5]; 6. 52-Cody Schlafer[6]; 7. 09-Clayton Rossmann[7]; 8. 54G-Scott Grissom[8]; 9. (DNF) 5D-Zach Daum[9]

Heat 3 8 Laps | 00:04:22.399

1. 65-Jordan Goldesberry[2]; 2. 9X-Paul Nienhiser[4]; 3. 4-Alex Pokorski[3]; 4. 9K-Kyle Schuett[5]; 5. 7A-Will Armitage[1]; 6. 25-Danny Schlafer[6]; 7. 13-CJ Malueg[8]; 8. 21H-TJ Haddy[7]; 9. 24-Scott Conger[9]

Heat 4 8 Laps | 00:06:29.086

1. 96-Jake Blackhurst[2]; 2. 51-Scotty Thiel[4]; 3. 3N-Jake Neuman[1]; 4. 4D-Cruz Dickerson[3]; 5. B8-John Barnard[5]; 6. 9-Tommy Colburn[8]; 7. 43-Jereme Schroeder[7]; 8. (DNF) 16C-Max Guilford[6]; 9. (DNS) 55S-Ryan Sawusch

Qualifying A | 00:14:52.469

1. 37-Bryce Norris, 00:12.827[3]; 2. 25T-Travis Arenz, 00:12.899[14]; 3. 79-Blake Nimee, 00:12.982[13]; 4. 3B-Shelby Bosie, 00:13.051[6]; 5. 2W-Scott Neitzel, 00:13.155[15]; 6. 10V-Matt VanderVere, 00:13.161[1]; 7. 87A-Austin Hartmann, 00:13.185[17]; 8. 4K-Kris Spitz, 00:13.334[5]; 9. 85J-Logan Julien, 00:13.376[16]; 10. GR8-Will Gerrits, 00:13.495[11]; 11. 70-Chris Klemko, 00:13.502[2]; 12. 52-Cody Schlafer, 00:13.518[8]; 13. 99-Tyler Brabant, 00:13.665[9]; 14. 09-Clayton Rossmann, 00:13.756[19]; 15. 1-Mark Chisholm, 00:14.093[7]; 16. 54G-Scott Grissom, 00:14.847[10]; 17. (DNF) 17-Tylar Rankin[18]; 18. (DNF) 5D-Zach Daum[12]; 19. (DNF) 12-Corbin Gurley[4]

Qualifying B | 00:10:39.724

1. 9X-Paul Nienhiser, 00:13.088[6]; 2. 51-Scotty Thiel, 00:13.110[15]; 3. 7A-Will Armitage, 00:13.143[14]; 4. 3N-Jake Neuman, 00:13.156[11]; 5. 65-Jordan Goldesberry, 00:13.203[2]; 6. 96-Jake Blackhurst, 00:13.345[3]; 7. 4-Alex Pokorski, 00:13.370[1]; 8. 4D-Cruz Dickerson, 00:13.386[18]; 9. 9K-Kyle Schuett, 00:13.405[8]; 10. B8-John Barnard, 00:13.459[5]; 11. 25-Danny Schlafer, 00:13.466[13]; 12. 16C-Max Guilford, 00:13.483[17]; 13. 21H-TJ Haddy, 00:13.648[7]; 14. 43-Jereme Schroeder, 00:13.690[10]; 15. 13-CJ Malueg, 00:13.716[4]; 16. 9-Tommy Colburn, 00:14.343[9]; 17. 24-Scott Conger, 00:14.556[12]; 18. (DNF) 55S-Ryan Sawusch[16]

Hot Laps | 00:10:08.946

1. 9X-Paul Nienhiser[25]; 2. 37-Bryce Norris[3]; 3. 25T-Travis Arenz[14]; 4. 51-Scotty Thiel[34]; 5. 2W-Scott Neitzel[15]; 6. 3B-Shelby Bosie[6]; 7. 17-Tylar Rankin[18]; 8. B8-John Barnard[24]; 9. 9K-Kyle Schuett[27]; 10. 85J-Logan Julien[16]; 11. 10V-Matt VanderVere[1]; 12. 16C-Max Guilford[36]; 13. 79-Blake Nimee[13]; 14. 87A-Austin Hartmann[17]; 15. 7A-Will Armitage[33]; 16. 09-Clayton Rossmann[19]; 17. 65-Jordan Goldesberry[21]; 18. 4-Alex Pokorski[20]; 19. 4D-Cruz Dickerson[37]; 20. 21H-TJ Haddy[26]; 21. 4K-Kris Spitz[5]; 22. 25-Danny Schlafer[32]; 23. GR8-Will Gerrits[11]; 24. 13-CJ Malueg[23]; 25. 70-Chris Klemko[2]; 26. 1-Mark Chisholm[7]; 27. 3N-Jake Neuman[30]; 28. 96-Jake Blackhurst[22]; 29. 52-Cody Schlafer[8]; 30. 54G-Scott Grissom[10]; 31. 99-Tyler Brabant[9]; 32. 43-Jereme Schroeder[29]; 33. 24-Scott Conger[31]; 34. 9-Tommy Colburn[28]; 35. 55S-Ryan Sawusch[35]; 36. 5D-Zach Daum[12]; 37. (DNS) 12-Corbin Gurley

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