Sam Hafertepe Jr passes Myers on final lap to win at Lake Ozark
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ELDON, Mo.—Sam Hafertepe Jr would use a late-race restart to steal the Ozark Wave Breaker at Lake Ozark Speedway with the POWRi Honest Abe Roofing 410 Outlaw Sprint League seasonal event, leading the final six laps to claim his fourth career league victory.
Launching the night’s battles with thirty-two entries, Joel Myers Jr would set the quick qualifying time of 12.653 seconds, with John Barnard, Kaleb Johnson, Seth Bergman, and Gage Montgomery each earning heat race victories as Jace Park emerged victorious in the semi-feature action.
Establishing the feature field with high-point qualifier Joe B. Miller and Sam Hafertepe Jr lined up on the front row, Hafertepe Jr would take the initial on-track advantage with Joel Myers Jr, Joe B. Miller, Dylan Bloomfield, and Roger Crockett forming the early running top five.
Keeping the leading pace for most of the feature, Joel Myers Jr appeared to be the car to beat as the laps began to wind down before a caution would bunch the field back together for late-race drama at Lake Ozark Speedway.
Overtaking for the lead on the white-flag lap after setting the stage on a lap-twenty-eight restart, Sam Hafertepe Jr would use precision on the diamond line through turns one and two to lead the final pair of corners and notch the victory. Hafertepe Jr would advance one position throughout the thirty-lap feature event to earn his first league victory of the season in the hard-fought main event.
“This bald guy can still get it done. We were a little tight early, but as the track changed, I knew it was a matter of time before the car came into its own,” said Sam Hafertepe Jr in victory lane. Adding, “This car was so good in turns one and two, I knew we had it in the bag with the late-race restart. This was a fun one. Hats off to the track crew for giving us this track tonight with all the rain last night.”
Remaining close throughout the closing laps, Joel Myers Jr, who led nineteen laps, would hold steady in the runner-up position as Kyle Bellm would conclude the podium placements, with Gage Montgomery and Kaleb Johnson rounding out the top-five finishers at Lake Ozark Speedway with the POWRi Honest Abe Roofing 410 Outlaw Sprint League.
Lake Ozark Speedway | POWRi 410 Outlaw Sprints | 5/24/26 | Full Results:
Big R Stores Quick Qualifying Time: 19-Joel Myers Jr(12.653)
Flying A Motorsports Heat Race 1 Winner: B8-John Barnard
Eibach Racing Heat Race 2 Winner: 19H-Kaleb Johnson
MVT Services Heat Race 3 Winner: 23-Seth Bergman
Engler Machine & Tool Heat Race 4 Winner: 79-Gage Montgomery
RaceTech Titanium B-Feature Winner: 28-Jace Park
Start2Finish TV High Point Qualifier: 51B-Joe B Miller
Hoosier Racing Tire Hard Charger: 6-JJ Hickle(+11)
Honest Abe Roofing Feature Winner: 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr
Event Information: https://www.myracepass.com/events/602388
Honest Abe Roofing A-Feature (25 Laps): 1. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr[2]; 2. 19-Joel Myers Jr[3]; 3. 21D-Kyle Bellm[9]; 4. 79-Gage Montgomery[7]; 5. 19H-Kaleb Johnson[6]; 6. 40-Howard Moore[13]; 7. 23-Seth Bergman[10]; 8. 6-JJ Hickle[18]; 9. 51B-Joe B Miller[1]; 10. 11F-Colton Fisher[12]; 11. 5-Ryder McCutcheon[21]; 12. 28-Jace Park[17]; 13. 8N-Dylan Bloomfield[4]; 14. 2-Miles Paulus[11]; 15. 74N-Natalie Doney[19]; 16. 74-Xavier Doney[16]; 17. B8-John Barnard[8]; 18. 12X-Landon Crawley[22]; 19. 52-Blake Hahn[15]; 20. 3-Ayrton Gennetten[20]; 21. 10G-Marcus Thomas[23]; 22. 11-Roger Crockett[5]; 23. 31-Kameron Key[14]
RaceTech Titanium - B-Feature (12 Laps): 1. 28-Jace Park[4]; 2. 6-JJ Hickle[2]; 3. 74N-Natalie Doney[3]; 4. 3-Ayrton Gennetten[1]; 5. 5-Ryder McCutcheon[6]; 6. 12X-Landon Crawley[7]; 7. 10G-Marcus Thomas[8]; 8. 00-Broc Elliott[11]; 9. 7-Paul Solomon[15]; 10. 23X-Jeff Asher[12]; 11. 15-Jack Potter[5]; 12. 1JR-Steven Russell[9]; 13. 11R-Rodney Huband[14]; 14. 23F-Matt Fox[16]; 15. 75-Glen Saville[13]; 16. 3N-Jake Neuman[10]
Flying A Motorsports - Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. B8-John Barnard[1]; 2. 8N-Dylan Bloomfield[3]; 3. 19-Joel Myers Jr[4]; 4. 74-Xavier Doney[6]; 5. 6-JJ Hickle[5]; 6. 1JR-Steven Russell[8]; 7. 15-Jack Potter[2]; 8. 23X-Jeff Asher[7]
Eibach Racing - Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 19H-Kaleb Johnson[2]; 2. 51B-Joe B Miller[4]; 3. 31-Kameron Key[1]; 4. 2-Miles Paulus[3]; 5. 28-Jace Park[6]; 6. 5-Ryder McCutcheon[5]; 7. 3N-Jake Neuman[8]; 8. 11R-Rodney Huband[7]
MVT Services - Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 23-Seth Bergman[1]; 2. 21D-Kyle Bellm[2]; 3. 11-Roger Crockett[4]; 4. 3-Ayrton Gennetten[6]; 5. 40-Howard Moore[3]; 6. 12X-Landon Crawley[5]; 7. 00-Broc Elliott[8]; 8. 7-Paul Solomon[7]
Engler Machine & Tool - Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 79-Gage Montgomery[2]; 2. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr[4]; 3. 52-Blake Hahn[6]; 4. 11F-Colton Fisher[3]; 5. 74N-Natalie Doney[1]; 6. 10G-Marcus Thomas[5]; 7. 75-Glen Saville[8]; 8. 23F-Matt Fox[7]
Big R Stores Qualifying: 1. 19-Joel Myers Jr, 12.653[5]; 2. 51B-Joe B Miller, 12.771[7]; 3. 11-Roger Crockett, 12.793[9]; 4. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr, 12.847[4]; 5. 8N-Dylan Bloomfield, 12.916[18]; 6. 2-Miles Paulus, 13.012[13]; 7. 40-Howard Moore, 13.052[12]; 8. 11F-Colton Fisher, 13.065[14]; 9. 15-Jack Potter, 13.067[6]; 10. 19H-Kaleb Johnson, 13.124[3]; 11. 21D-Kyle Bellm, 13.234[15]; 12. 79-Gage Montgomery, 13.275[24]; 13. B8-John Barnard, 13.300[8]; 14. 31-Kameron Key, 13.303[16]; 15. 23-Seth Bergman, 13.377[19]; 16. 74N-Natalie Doney, 13.386[17]; 17. 6-JJ Hickle, 13.446[32]; 18. 5-Ryder McCutcheon, 13.467[25]; 19. 12X-Landon Crawley, 13.495[23]; 20. 10G-Marcus Thomas, 13.517[11]; 21. 74-Xavier Doney, 13.517[20]; 22. 28-Jace Park, 13.626[21]; 23. 3-Ayrton Gennetten, 13.706[27]; 24. 52-Blake Hahn, 13.717[22]; 25. 23X-Jeff Asher, 13.723[1]; 26. 11R-Rodney Huband, 13.801[10]; 27. 7-Paul Solomon, 14.196[2]; 28. 23F-Matt Fox, 14.204[26]; 29. 1JR-Steven Russell, 14.240[28]; 30. 3N-Jake Neuman, 14.254[31]; 31. 00-Broc Elliott, 14.295[29]; 32. 75-Glen Saville, 15.098[30]
Big R Stores Hot Laps: 1. 23-Seth Bergman, 12.510[19]; 2. 51B-Joe B Miller, 12.542[7]; 3. 8N-Dylan Bloomfield, 12.565[18]; 4. 52-Blake Hahn, 12.588[22]; 5. 12X-Landon Crawley, 12.594[23]; 6. 11-Roger Crockett, 12.642[9]; 7. 40-Howard Moore, 12.659[12]; 8. 19-Joel Myers Jr, 12.687[5]; 9. B8-John Barnard, 12.709[8]; 10. 79-Gage Montgomery, 12.815[24]; 11. 11F-Colton Fisher, 12.861[14]; 12. 21D-Kyle Bellm, 12.871[15]; 13. 2-Miles Paulus, 12.874[13]; 14. 28-Jace Park, 12.901[21]; 15. 74N-Natalie Doney, 12.922[17]; 16. 74-Xavier Doney, 12.933[20]; 17. 3-Ayrton Gennetten, 12.981[27]; 18. 31-Kameron Key, 12.990[16]; 19. 5-Ryder McCutcheon, 12.998[25]; 20. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr, 13.039[4]; 21. 3N-Jake Neuman, 13.099[31]; 22. 10G-Marcus Thomas, 13.109[11]; 23. 19H-Kaleb Johnson, 13.159[3]; 24. 11R-Rodney Huband, 13.173[10]; 25. 00-Broc Elliott, 13.496[29]; 26. 23X-Jeff Asher, 13.565[1]; 27. 6-JJ Hickle, 13.593[32]; 28. 1JR-Steven Russell, 13.596[28]; 29. 15-Jack Potter, 13.696[6]; 30. 23F-Matt Fox, 13.862[26]; 31. 75-Glen Saville, 14.389[30]; 32. 7-Paul Solomon, 14.389[2]
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A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 65JR-Kris Jackson[1]; 2. 17-Logan Roark[3]; 3. 23-Tyler Knudtson[2]; 4. 0-Dakota Girard[6]; 5. 17R-Earl Roark[4]; 6. 25-Eli Muilenburg[8]; 7. 84-Dayton Newell[5]; 8. 39-Blake Muilenburg[7]; 9. 18K-Konner Reed[9]; 10. R4-Caleb Rhoads[11]; 11. 7C-Derek Cook[15]; 12. 55-Adriell Shepherd[12]; 13. 51-Sean Henson[10]; 14. 28D-Dylan Dampier[14]; 15. 41-Alex Schultz[16]; 16. (DNS) 32-Cole Dippold
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Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 17-Logan Roark[2]; 2. 65JR-Kris Jackson[7]; 3. 0-Dakota Girard[3]; 4. 18K-Konner Reed[1]; 5. 51-Sean Henson[8]; 6. 55-Adriell Shepherd[5]; 7. 32-Cole Dippold[6]; 8. 41-Alex Schultz[4]
POWRi Super Stocks
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POWRi B-Mods
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