SEASON LONG EFFORTS PAY OFF FOR WAGNER, MOORE, MARKHAM, COLLINS, AND TUCKE

By William Burkhart

Caleb Helms would make a return to Wayne County and start on the pole of the 25 lap Pine Tree Towing and Recovery Feature with points leader Leyton Wagner to his outside. Helms would jump out to the early lead. Wagner and Tyler Gunn in second and third respectively. Wagner would make a few efforts to get past Helms. He would try a slider on lap 4 but would slip and let the 91 of Gunn get by him. 17 to go Tyler Gunn would slide past the 40x of Helms and take over the lead. Gunn would slice and dice his way through lap traffic. Jordan Ryan would enter the mix on lap 13 to try and steal the track championship. Lap 15 Caleb Helms would eliminate the 8 tenth of a second lead that Tyler Gunn had to steal the lead back. Gunn would stay within half of a second of the Findlay Ohio Native. As hard as he would try Gunn couldn’t catch the 40 of Helms as he wins his first Wayne County feature in 2024 in his first visit. Tyler Gunn would be second and Leyton Wagner would finish third to collect his first Wayne County Speedway Track Championship.

Millersburg’s Mitch Caskey and Mansfield’s Dave Hornikel would lead the field to the green for the Malcuit Tavern UMP Late Models. Kyle Moore who had the championship clinched was offered to start 12^th for a shot at a $500 bonus if he could win and excepted Jason’s challenge. Hornikel would jump up to the top side and take the opening lead. Coming around for lap 2 the field would get stacked up and bring out the first Bucks Auto Sales Yellow Flag of the evening. Back under the green Hornikel would get back to work. Moore would drive his Tye Twarog longhorn up to the second spot by lap 5. As he would catch the back of Hornikel another yellow would fly for Trace Settles spinning in turn 4. Back under the Green Moore would rip the lip and take over the lead. Behind them JR Gentry would make his way into the 6^th spot after starting in the 16^th position. Moore would run away with the race.  As the laps ticked by Gentry would find his way into the third sport. Moore would open up close to a 6 second lead. As he came around to the checkers one car would spin setting up a one lap dash. With Nathan Loney on his tail Moore would run away from the field to pick up his 11^th WCS win of 2024 and his first Malcuits Tavern UMP Late Model Championship. JR Gentry would sneak by Loney to go 16^th to 2^nd and Loney would take third.

The top 2 in Flynn’s Tire & Auto Service UMP Modifieds would make up the top to starting positions. Jimmy Humphrey would start on the pole with Ryan Markham to his outside. Markham would duke it out with Humphrey before getting by him at the flag stand on the opening lap. Markham would rip the lip with Jess Hartman behind him. Ryan Robey would spin in turn in 4 to bring out the first Bucks Auto Sales Yellow Flag of modified competition. Back under green flag action Markham would lead the field with Hartman all over his back bumper. Lap 5 would see another yellow for the Hood coming up on Daniel Sanchez’s machine. Back under green it would be a lot of the same story with Markham leading and Hartman in a very close battle. After another yellow we went back under the green with Markham still holding on to the lead. Hartman would try some big slider jobs to try and take over the lead. Lap 12 Casey Butler and Dustin Daugherty would get up to the 5 of Hartman. When it looked as if Markham would have the race in the bag a Yellow would fly once more for a spinning Ron Miller. Markham would choose the top side and get a great restart in the 2-lap shootout. Hartman would try slide job after slide job. On the last lap going into turn three Markham would tag the wall allowing Hartman to get along side him. The two would drag race to the line and Markham would beat Hartman by a 10^th of a second to win the feature and his first Flynn’s Tire &Auto Service UMP Late Model Championship.

Johnny Bruce and Kyle Petit would lead the Joyride Transport field to the green for 12 laps. Justin Cranmore would jump out the early lead with Johnny Bruce running in second and points leader Anthony Collins in third. Yellow would fly for debris on lap 3. A few yellows would slow up action before Cranmore would lead the field to some green flag laps. Doug Hensel would find his way into the second spot and work on getting past the 2 machine with Anthony Collins behind him. Cranmore would stick to his line. Despite all efforts Hensel couldn’t by as Cranmore would pick up his 4^th win of 2024 as third place finisher Anthony Collins would pick up his first career track championship.

Braden Tucke would start on the pole for the Glass House Super Stock feature with Kyle Moore to his outside for 15 laps of racing. Tucke would jump out to the early lead with Moore in hot pursuit.  Tucke would run the middle line with Moore right around the wall. The two would run away from the field before Jim Nicley would spin to bring the Bucks Auto Sales yellow flag. Back under way the two would go back to their huge lead over the field. Moore and Tucke would duke it out until Moore would take the lead from Tucke with 5 laps to go. Moore would cruise off to the victory as Braden Tucke would win back to back championships in the Glass House Super Stocks. 

Up next at Orrville’s Historic Oval, Sunday September 1, the Pete Jacobs Memorial, $10,000 to win FAST on Dirt Sprints, along with Malcuit Tavern UMP Late Models, Flynn’s Tire & Auto Service UMP Modifieds, and the Glass House Super Stocks.

Media Results for 8/24/2024 at Wayne County Speedway – Orrville, OH

Pine Tree Towing & Recovery 410 Sprints 30 Entries
A Feature 25 Laps | 00:07:04.075
1. 40X-Caleb Helms[1]; 2. 91-Tyler Gunn[4]; 3. 25R-Jordan Ryan[5]; 4. 38-Leyton Wagner[2]; 5. 38K-Chris Myers[10]; 6. 81-Lee Jacobs[3]; 7. 70-Henry Malcuit[6]; 8. 8T-Tanner Tecco[8]; 9. 9Z-Duane Zablocki[7]; 10. 1-Jamie Myers[12]; 11. 7-Troy Kingan[16]; 12. 7DK-Dylan Kingan[9]; 13. 6J-Jonah Aumend[13]; 14. 9H-Lance Heinberger[11]; 15. 11-Shawn Hubler[14]; 16. 2A-Joe Adorjan[17]; 17. 86-Mike Lutz[15]; 18. 85-Dustin Feller[18]; 19. 17S-Shelby Rankin[20]; 20. 91X-Aaron Middaugh[19]

B Feature 8 Laps | 00:16:29.880
1. 2A-Joe Adorjan[5]; 2. 85-Dustin Feller[2]; 3. 91X-Aaron Middaugh[1]; 4. 17S-Shelby Rankin[3]; 5. 3TN-Tyler Newhart[7]; 6. 52-Chris Smith[13]; 7. 8-Natalie Brannon[9]; 8. 30-Jazlyn Boyles[8]; 9. 18-Todd Hinton[4]; 10. 00K-Anthony Gaskins[12]; 11. 89K-Landon King[6]; 12. (DNS) 16-Danny Mumaw; 13. (DNS) 9W-Matt Warner; 14. (DNS) 5-Jordan Harble

Heat 1 8 Laps | 00:02:09.471
1. 40X-Caleb Helms[2]; 2. 25R-Jordan Ryan[4]; 3. 7DK-Dylan Kingan[3]; 4. 6J-Jonah Aumend[1]; 5. 91X-Aaron Middaugh[6]; 6. 2A-Joe Adorjan[5]; 7. 8-Natalie Brannon[8]; 8. 52-Chris Smith[7]

Heat 2 8 Laps | 00:06:03.858
1. 38-Leyton Wagner[4]; 2. 70-Henry Malcuit[3]; 3. 38K-Chris Myers[7]; 4. 11-Shawn Hubler[1]; 5. 85-Dustin Feller[6]; 6. 89K-Landon King[8]; 7. 16-Danny Mumaw[2]; 8. 5-Jordan Harble[5]

Heat 3 8 Laps | 00:02:04.688
1. 81-Lee Jacobs[4]; 2. 9Z-Duane Zablocki[3]; 3. 9H-Lance Heinberger[2]; 4. 86-Mike Lutz[1]; 5. 17S-Shelby Rankin[6]; 6. 3TN-Tyler Newhart[5]; 7. (DNS) 9W-Matt Warner

Heat 4 8 Laps | 00:02:11.845
1. 91-Tyler Gunn[4]; 2. 8T-Tanner Tecco[1]; 3. 1-Jamie Myers[3]; 4. 7-Troy Kingan[2]; 5. 18-Todd Hinton[7]; 6. 30-Jazlyn Boyles[6]; 7. 00K-Anthony Gaskins[5]

Qualifying 10 Laps | 00:02:08.000
1. 25R-Jordan Ryan, 00:14.611[18]; 2. 38-Leyton Wagner, 00:14.652[25]; 3. 81-Lee Jacobs, 00:14.889[6]; 4. 91-Tyler Gunn, 00:14.895[10]; 5. 7DK-Dylan Kingan, 00:14.980[3]; 6. 70-Henry Malcuit, 00:15.049[11]; 7. 9Z-Duane Zablocki, 00:15.390[4]; 8. 1-Jamie Myers, 00:15.394[30]; 9. 40X-Caleb Helms, 00:15.618[2]; 10. 16-Danny Mumaw, 00:15.636[15]; 11. 9H-Lance Heinberger, 00:15.737[17]; 12. 7-Troy Kingan, 00:15.747[26]; 13. 6J-Jonah Aumend, 00:15.781[8]; 14. 11-Shawn Hubler, 00:15.811[24]; 15. 86-Mike Lutz, 00:15.965[5]; 16. 8T-Tanner Tecco, 00:15.971[14]; 17. 2A-Joe Adorjan, 00:16.099[19]; 18. 5-Jordan Harble, 00:16.220[12]; 19. 3TN-Tyler Newhart, 00:16.237[22]; 20. 00K-Anthony Gaskins, 00:16.521[1]; 21. 91X-Aaron Middaugh, 00:16.904[7]; 22. 85-Dustin Feller, 00:17.058[29]; 23. 17S-Shelby Rankin, 00:17.269[16]; 24. 30-Jazlyn Boyles, 00:17.376[13]; 25. 52-Chris Smith, 00:17.502[21]; 26. 38K-Chris Myers, 00:17.607[23]; 27. 9W-Matt Warner, 00:17.700[20]; 28. 18-Todd Hinton, 00:17.935[9]; 29. 8-Natalie Brannon, 00:18.586[27]; 30. 89K-Landon King, 00:22.310[28]

Malcuit Tavern UMP Super Late Models 24 Entries
A Feature 25 Laps | 00:17:05.751
1. 1*-Kyle Moore[12]; 2. 14JR-JR Gentry[16]; 3. 10-Nathan Loney[3]; 4. 71-Dave Hornikel[2]; 5. 187-Mitch Caskey[1]; 6. 59M-Tanner McLoughlin[5]; 7. 55-TJ Watson[4]; 8. 7-Nick Cox[13]; 9. 59-Larry Bellman[8]; 10. 79-Ryan Markham[9]; 11. 22-Dominic DeNero[14]; 12. 151-Trace Settles[11]; 13. 71M-Mike Basich[6]; 14.  24X-Jason Skelly[10]; 15. 12R-Race Gardiner[7]; 16. 41-Randy Pollock[17]; 17. 61-Tony Paynter[19]; 18. U2-Kristin Uhler[18]; 19. 93C-Jim Cochran[20]; 20. 11-Ryan Abel[15]

B Feature 8 Laps
1. 14JR-JR Gentry[6]; 2. 41-Randy Pollock[1]; 3. U2-Kristin Uhler[2]; 4. 61-Tony Paynter[5]; 5. 93C-Jim Cochran[3]; 6. J28-Jason Henderson[8]; 7. 93M-Wes Morrison[4]; 8. (DNS) 33-Chaz Dawson Jr; 9. (DNS) 8X-David Giaugue

Heat 1 8 Laps | 00:02:25.000
1. 187-Mitch Caskey[1]; 2. 10-Nathan Loney[4]; 3. 71M-Mike Basich[2]; 4. 79-Ryan Markham[5]; 5. 7-Nick Cox[3]; 6. 41-Randy Pollock[7]; 7. 93M-Wes Morrison[6]; 8. 33-Chaz Dawson Jr[8]

Heat 2 8 Laps | 00:06:23.000
1. 1*-Kyle Moore[4]; 2. 55-TJ Watson[8]; 3. 12R-Race Gardiner[3]; 4. 24X-Jason Skelly[5]; 5. 22-Dominic DeNero[2]; 6. U2-Kristin Uhler[6]; 7. 61-Tony Paynter[7]; 8. J28-Jason Henderson[1]

Heat 3 8 Laps | 00:02:30.000
1. 71-Dave Hornikel[2]; 2. 59M-Tanner McLoughlin[3]; 3. 59-Larry Bellman[1]; 4. 151-Trace Settles[6]; 5. 11-Ryan Abel[5]; 6. 93C-Jim Cochran[7]; 7. (DNS) 14JR-JR Gentry; 8. (DNS) 8X-David Giaugue

Qualifying 20 Laps | 00:03:07.000
1. 10-Nathan Loney, 00:17.298[18]; 2. 1*-Kyle Moore, 00:17.467[6]; 3. 14JR-JR Gentry, 00:17.565[13]; 4. 7-Nick Cox, 00:17.579[1]; 5. 12R-Race Gardiner, 00:17.674[19]; 6. 59M-Tanner McLoughlin, 00:17.751[3]; 7. 71M-Mike Basich, 00:17.752[17]; 8. 22-Dominic DeNero, 00:18.003[8]; 9. 71-Dave Hornikel, 00:18.088[5]; 10. 187-Mitch Caskey, 00:18.126[14]; 11. J28-Jason Henderson, 00:18.189[16]; 12. 59-Larry Bellman, 00:18.290[9]; 13. 79-Ryan Markham, 00:18.302[2]; 14. 24X-Jason Skelly, 00:18.349[12]; 15. 11-Ryan Abel, 00:18.853[22]; 16. 93M-Wes Morrison, 00:18.928[21]; 17. U2-Kristin Uhler, 00:19.065[20]; 18. 151-Trace Settles, 00:19.323[4]; 19. 41-Randy Pollock, 00:19.892[10]; 20. 61-Tony Paynter, 00:20.022[11]; 21. 93C-Jim Cochran, 00:20.200[15]; 22. 33-Chaz Dawson Jr, 00:21.028[7]; 23. (DNS) 8X-David Giaugue; 24. (DNS) 55-TJ Watson

Flynn’s Tire & Auto Service UMP Modifieds 22 Entries
A Feature 20 Laps | 00:16:51.457
1. 5-Ryan Markham[2]; 2. 5H-Jess Hartman[3]; 3. 99-Casey Butler[5]; 4. 23D-Dustin Daugherty[4]; 5. 89-Jason King[9]; 6. 60-Jimmy Humphrey[1]; 7. 187T-Codee Schneider[17]; 8. 69-Ryan Robey[6]; 9. 463-Daniel Sanchez[10]; 10. 419-Buzz Jacobs[18]; 11. 37-Craig Mann[15]; 12. 36-Brent Coffman[16]; 13. 22G-Jesse Griffitts[20]; 14. 185-Ron Miller[14]; 15. 33-Robbie Ledger[11]; 16. 78-Richard Grogg[21]; 17. 187-Tyler Wiles[13]; 18. 309-Conner Blair[22]; 19.  138-Brian Hogan[19]; 20. 75-Tristen Bickford[8]; 21. 16-Caden Alexander[12]; 22. 12-Kevin Davis[7]

Heat 1 8 Laps | 00:06:05.951
1. 60-Jimmy Humphrey[2]; 2. 23D-Dustin Daugherty[1]; 3. 12-Kevin Davis[3]; 4. 463-Daniel Sanchez[4]; 5. 187-Tyler Wiles[5]; 6. 36-Brent Coffman[7]; 7. 138-Brian Hogan[6]; 8. 309-Conner Blair[8]

Heat 2 8 Laps | 00:06:41.220
1. 5-Ryan Markham[2]; 2. 99-Casey Butler[4]; 3. 75-Tristen Bickford[3]; 4. 33-Robbie Ledger[1]; 5. 185-Ron Miller[6]; 6. 187T-Codee Schneider[5]; 7. 22G-Jesse Griffitts[7]

Heat 3 8 Laps | 00:02:47.751
1. 5H-Jess Hartman[4]; 2. 69-Ryan Robey[2]; 3. 89-Jason King[1]; 4. 16-Caden Alexander[3]; 5. 37-Craig Mann[6]; 6. 419-Buzz Jacobs[5]; 7. 78-Richard Grogg[7]

Qualifying 20 Laps | 00:08:35.936
1. 463-Daniel Sanchez, 00:18.566[3]; 2. 99-Casey Butler, 00:18.567[12]; 3. 5H-Jess Hartman, 00:18.638[8]; 4. 12-Kevin Davis, 00:18.678[6]; 5. 75-Tristen Bickford, 00:18.872[4]; 6. 16-Caden Alexander, 00:19.093[11]; 7. 60-Jimmy Humphrey, 00:19.157[13]; 8. 5-Ryan Markham, 00:19.181[21]; 9. 69-Ryan Robey, 00:19.210[2]; 10. 23D-Dustin Daugherty, 00:19.237[9]; 11. 33-Robbie Ledger, 00:19.304[7]; 12. 89-Jason King, 00:19.389[1]; 13. 187-Tyler Wiles, 00:19.570[14]; 14. 187T-Codee Schneider, 00:19.584[10]; 15. 419-Buzz Jacobs, 00:19.781[19]; 16. 138-Brian Hogan, 00:20.030[22]; 17. 185-Ron Miller, 00:20.042[18]; 18. 37-Craig Mann, 00:20.168[20]; 19. 36-Brent Coffman, 00:20.183[16]; 20. 22G-Jesse Griffitts, 00:20.536[17]; 21. 78-Richard Grogg, 00:20.538[15]; 22. 309-Conner Blair, 00:20.866[5]

The Glass House Super Stocks 12 Entries
A Feature 15 Laps | 00:06:34.126
1. 21D-Kyle Moore[2]; 2. 18-Braden Tucke[1]; 3. 27B-Don Baney[7]; 4. C9-Brandon Morrow[3]; 5. 51-Brandon Craver[8]; 6. 70-Paul Holmes[11]; 7. 910-Don Rutt[6]; 8. 3B-Kyle McAfee[5]; 9. 33X-Jim Nicely[4]; 10. 6-Brad Enssle[9]; 11. 45-Denny Shear[10]; 12. (DNS) 77-Brad Hensel

Heat 1 8 Laps | 00:11:47.136
1. 18-Braden Tucke[2]; 2. 21D-Kyle Moore[5]; 3. C9-Brandon Morrow[4]; 4. 33X-Jim Nicely[8]; 5. 3B-Kyle McAfee[1]; 6. 910-Don Rutt[7]; 7. 27B-Don Baney[6]; 8. 51-Brandon Craver[9]; 9. 6-Brad Enssle[11]; 10. 45-Denny Shear[12]; 11. 70-Paul Holmes[3]; 12. 77-Brad Hensel[10]

Qualifying 20 Laps | 00:02:48.869
1. C9-Brandon Morrow, 00:21.024[1]; 2. 70-Paul Holmes, 00:21.119[6]; 3. 18-Braden Tucke, 00:21.174[11]; 4. 3B-Kyle McAfee, 00:21.203[7]; 5. 21D-Kyle Moore, 00:21.236[12]; 6. 27B-Don Baney, 00:21.733[9]; 7. 910-Don Rutt, 00:21.806[10]; 8. 33X-Jim Nicely, 00:21.956[8]; 9. 51-Brandon Craver, 00:22.022[5]; 10. 77-Brad Hensel, 00:22.351[4]; 11. 6-Brad Enssle, 00:22.671[2]; 12. 45-Denny Shear, 00:23.249[3]

Joyride Transport Mini Stocks 31 Entries
A Feature 12 Laps | 00:20:37.748
1. 2-Justin Cranmore[3]; 2. 18-Doug Hensel[7]; 3. 71-Anthony Collins[5]; 4. 311-Johnny Bruce Sr[1]; 5. 100-David Potter[4]; 6. 2873-Brent Boreman[13]; 7. 711-Kenny Long[8]; 8. 7CM-Cody Musselman[12]; 9. 12-JR Graser[17]; 10. F7-Josh Ramirez[9]; 11. 18X-Dustin Bedlion[14]; 12. 43D-Peyton Davis[20]; 13. 29-Mitch Reichard[16]; 14. 32-Tim Workman[19]; 15. D5-Delbert LaRue[18]; 16. 23P-Kyle Petit[2]; 17. 23R-Mitchell Randolph[10]; 18. 0-Zach Myers[11]; 19. 41-Gene Arkenburgh[15]; 20. 99C-Chris Mullinnex[6]

B Feature 8 Laps | 00:02:50.126
1. 29-Mitch Reichard[3]; 2. 12-JR Graser[6]; 3. D5-Delbert LaRue[9]; 4. 32-Tim Workman[5]; 5. 43D-Peyton Davis[2]; 6. 11-Trent Bishop[14]; 7. 58-Kyle Hobbs[8]; 8. 54C-Clayton Evans[4]; 9. 55M-Malachi Braxton[10]; 10. 43K-David Keagy[7]; 11. 55-Corey Mills[13]; 12. (DNS) 17-Cody Newbury; 13. (DNS) 16J-Jolene Voshel; 14. (DNS) 05D-Colten Davis; 15. (DNS) 49B-Jimmy Burns; 16. (DNS) 420-Kevin Markey

Heat 1 6 Laps | 00:02:23.000
1. 311-Johnny Bruce Sr[2]; 2. 100-David Potter[1]; 3. 18-Doug Hensel[6]; 4. 23R-Mitchell Randolph[5]; 5. 2873-Brent Boreman[10]; 6. 17-Cody Newbury[4]; 7. 54C-Clayton Evans[7]; 8. 43K-David Keagy[9]; 9. 55M-Malachi Braxton[11]; 10. (DNS) 16J-Jolene Voshel; 11. (DNS) 11-Trent Bishop

Heat 2 6 Laps | 00:02:26.000
1. 23P-Kyle Petit[2]; 2. 71-Anthony Collins[8]; 3. 711-Kenny Long[6]; 4. 0-Zach Myers[10]; 5. 18X-Dustin Bedlion[1]; 6. 43D-Peyton Davis[3]; 7. 32-Tim Workman[9]; 8. 58-Kyle Hobbs[7]; 9. (DNS) 05D-Colten Davis; 10. (DNS) 49B-Jimmy Burns

Heat 3 6 Laps | 00:02:23.000
1. 2-Justin Cranmore[3]; 2. 99C-Chris Mullinnex[1]; 3. F7-Josh Ramirez[5]; 4. 7CM-Cody Musselman[9]; 5. 41-Gene Arkenburgh[7]; 6. 29-Mitch Reichard[2]; 7. 12-JR Graser[8]; 8. D5-Delbert LaRue[10]; 9. 55-Corey Mills[6]; 10. 420-Kevin Markey[4]