August 18, 2023 | By USMTS

Dominant Mullens wins Thursday’s 25th Anniversary USMTS Silver Jubilee prelim

Mason, City, IA —  Nobody knew who would win the feature until Jake Timm crossed underneath flagstand when the Summit USMTS National Championship opened the 25th Anniversary USMTS Silver Jubilee with a nail-biting finale on Wednesday.

Thursday’s 25-lap nightcap was never in doubt as Tanner Mullens took off at the waving of the green flag and then dominated the caution-free event until the checkered flags flew a little over seven minutes later.

His margin of victory was 3.915 seconds.

The 30-year-old from Wichita, Kan., was the fastest qualifier, raced from sixth on the grid to second place in his heat race and then disappeared from the competition in the preliminary feature race to earn the middle spot on the front row of Saturday’s 78-lap, $25,000-to-win, 78-laps, 33-car championship main event at the Mason City Motor Speedway.

Lucas Schott chased Mullens throughout the contest but settled for runner-up honors while Will Krup, ninth-starting Jeremy Nelson and Jim Chisholm completed the top five.

Finishing sixth through tenth were Dallon Murty in his first USMTS start, Jake O'Neil, Dylan Thornton, Steve Lavasseur and A.J. Hoff.

The FK Rod Ends and KSE Racing Products Hard Charger Awards went to Darron Fuqua, who started 18th and finished 11th.

The big night for Mullens also earned him contingency awards from BigDeal Car Care, MD3, Super Clean, Swift Springs, Sybesma Graphics and VP Racing.

Points were accumulated throughout the night for each driver’s performance in time trials, heat races and the feature races.

The top six in points locked themselves into the first six spots of the middle row for the start of Saturday night’s contest which starts three-wide.

Friday features Mulligan Night: Twenty-five years in the making, the 25th Anniversary USMTS Silver Jubilee continues Friday and Saturday featuring the best of the best in dirt modified racing battling for the largest pool of prize money in series history.

Racers chose Wednesday or Thursday to qualify, with the top six finishers each night locked into Saturday's finale filling the inside and middle rows, respectively.

Drivers who purchased a “mulligan” when registering for the event can try again Friday, with the top six from that night’s feature filling the outside lane of Saturday's main event.

With the purchase of their entry fee, each competitor get one free ticket into the drawing for some incredible prizes that will be given away during the week. If a racer purchase a mulligan, he or she gets another ticket into the same drawing.

Tickets will also be sold for more chances to win great gifts. On the top of that list will be a brand new USMTS 415 spec motor built by Stoen Race Engines valued at $25,000.

Extra tickets for the drawing will be on sale at $20 per ticket or six for $100. Dozens of supporters have stepped up to make this show explode, and many more are expected to jump on board before and during the event.

Competitors will earn points for each event they are in from time trials to heats, B-mains and A-mains, and the top six each night will be locked in for Saturday's $25,000-to-win main event that will pay no less than a record $2,500 to start.

The top 12 from Saturday’s “B” Main will transfer into the “A” Main. The first driver on the outside looking in (13th in the “B” Main) still walks away with $2,000 and every driver that takes the green flag in the “B” Main gets at least $1,200.

The “C” Main pays a minimum of $1,000 to start, and the “D” Main is at least $900 to start.

Officials will also auction off two spots with an opening bid of $2,500 for any person what wishes to get their choice of driver into the finale. Any extra money above $2,500 per driver will be divided equally among drivers finishing third through 33rd.

One final spot will be added by a ticket raffle open to anybody. Tickets will be $10 each, 6 for $50 or 15 for $100. The winner can put in the driver they want into the 33rd starting spot.

Lap sponsorships are $1,000 per lap. From this, more than $40,000 goes to the drivers and $37,500 to sponsors and fans. Fifteen lap sponsors will also be entered for a chance to win up to $25,000.

All lap sponsors are in a draw for 15 winners among the 78 laps of sponsors.

The feature winners on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday will each draw five (5) random numbers from 1 through 78, and the sponsor(s) of those laps will be in Saturday’s drawing (15 lap sponsors total).

For fans, two (2) adults each on Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday—plus two from Saturday’s 50/50 drawing—will be in the drawing (15 lap sponsors + 10 fans = 25 eligible winners).

During driver introductions on Saturday, five (5) random drivers will draw five (5) random names of fans with each fan getting $2,500.

The driver that wins Saturday’s A-Main will draw a random name in the final drawing and that person will win $25,000.

Among the festivities at the 25th Anniversary Silver Jubilee are a delicous meal on Saturday afternoon and inducting some new names into the USMTS Hall of Fame.

USRA Hobby Stocks join the program Friday and Saturday, with Outlaw Mini-Mods rounding out Friday’s lineup.

The pit gates opens at 4 p.m., grandstands open at 5 each day. Following the drivers meeting at 6:15, hot laps and qualifying begins at 6:30 with racing to follow around 7:10. All times are Central Standard Time.

For full event information or to buy advance tickets for this once-in-a-lifetime blockbuster, check out https://usmts.com/schedule/event.asp?RaceID=64287

The Mason City Motor Speedway is a 1/3-mile clay oval located 5.1 miles east of I-35 at exit 194 on SR 122 (at the North Iowa Fairgrounds). For more information, call (515) 832-6000 or check out MasonCityMotorSpeedway.com. You can also follow us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.

For its Silver Anniversary season, the Summit USMTS National Championship presented by RacinDirt currently features racing at some of America's premier dirt track racing venues. The winners of those events are set to earn more than $300,000 with nearly $2 million in purses and prize money earmarked for the 2023 campaign.

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RESULTS

Summit Racing Equipment A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 02-Tanner Mullens[1]; 2. 69-Lucas Schott[5]; 3. K9-Will Krup[8]; 4. 4-Jeremy Nelson[9]; 5. 24C-Jim Chisholm[7]; 6. 21X-Dallon Murty[2]; 7. 0-Jake O'Neil[6]; 8. 38T-Dylan Thornton[4]; 9. 99L-Steve Lavasseur[11]; 10. 55H-AJ Hoff[13]; 11. 87-Darron Fuqua[18]; 12. 12-Jason Hughes[14]; 13. 83-Kylie Kath[17]; 14. 22A-Austen Becerra[19]; 15. 75-Terry Phillips[15]; 16. 65-Tyler Davis[10]; 17. 95-Keith Foss[22]; 18. 24-Joe Chisholm[20]; 19. 4TW-Tim Ward[21]; 20. 14W-Clayton Wagamon[16]; 21. 81-Cody Simpson[27]; 22. 17-Jon Plowman[3]; 23. 5D-Devon Havlik[26]; 24. 98-Kevin Stoa[23]; 25. 13J-Triston Dycus[12]; 26. 96-Taton Hansen[24]; 27. 94JR-John Doelle[28]; 28. 11N-Gene Nicholas[29]; 29. 747-Colton Eck[25]; 30. (DNS) 7X-Chris Dawson

Real Racing Wheels B Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 83-Kylie Kath[2]; 2. 22A-Austen Becerra[4]; 3. 4TW-Tim Ward[1]; 4. 98-Kevin Stoa[8]; 5. 747-Colton Eck[10]; 6. 81-Cody Simpson[7]; 7. 11N-Gene Nicholas[9]; 8. 98M-Mitchel Madery[11]; 9. 60X-Tyler Wirtjes[12]; 10. (DNF) 57-Duke Erickson[6]; 11. (DNF) 16-Austin Siebert[3]; 12. (DQ) D21-Daniel Drury[5]

Real Racing Wheels B Feature 2 (12 Laps): 1. 87-Darron Fuqua[2]; 2. 24-Joe Chisholm[6]; 3. 95-Keith Foss[3]; 4. 96-Taton Hansen[1]; 5. 5D-Devon Havlik[4]; 6. 94JR-John Doelle[5]; 7. 7X-Chris Dawson[8]; 8. 21D-David Brown[9]; 9. 25-Adam Bohlman[10]; 10. 22-Alan Bohlman[11]; 11. (DQ) 4M-Bobby Malchus[7]

Simpson Performance Products Heat 1 (10 Laps): 1. 69-Lucas Schott[2]; 2. 02-Tanner Mullens[6]; 3. 13J-Triston Dycus[1]; 4. 12-Jason Hughes[4]; 5. 75-Terry Phillips[5]; 6. 22A-Austen Becerra[3]; 7. D21-Daniel Drury[7]; 8. 81-Cody Simpson[10]; 9. 21D-David Brown[8]; 10. 98M-Mitchel Madery[9]

Fast Shafts Heat 2 (10 Laps): 1. 24C-Jim Chisholm[4]; 2. 4-Jeremy Nelson[2]; 3. 38T-Dylan Thornton[6]; 4. 4TW-Tim Ward[1]; 5. 83-Kylie Kath[3]; 6. 14W-Clayton Wagamon[5]; 7. 94JR-John Doelle[7]; 8. 98-Kevin Stoa[8]; 9. 11N-Gene Nicholas[9]; 10. 25-Adam Bohlman[10]

Edelbrock Heat 3 (10 Laps): 1. 17-Jon Plowman[2]; 2. 0-Jake O'Neil[6]; 3. 65-Tyler Davis[3]; 4. 55H-AJ Hoff[5]; 5. 16-Austin Siebert[1]; 6. 95-Keith Foss[4]; 7. 57-Duke Erickson[7]; 8. 4M-Bobby Malchus[10]; 9. 747-Colton Eck[8]; 10. 22-Alan Bohlman[9]

Wieland Metals Heat 4 (10 Laps): 1. 21X-Dallon Murty[6]; 2. K9-Will Krup[5]; 3. 99L-Steve Lavasseur[2]; 4. 96-Taton Hansen[1]; 5. 87-Darron Fuqua[4]; 6. 5D-Devon Havlik[3]; 7. 24-Joe Chisholm[7]; 8. 7X-Chris Dawson[8]; 9. (DNF) 60X-Tyler Wirtjes[9]

Qualifying A (2 Laps): 1. 02-Tanner Mullens, 00:15.095[4]; 2. 38T-Dylan Thornton, 00:15.099[8]; 3. 0-Jake O'Neil, 00:15.106[29]; 4. 21X-Dallon Murty, 00:15.118[25]; 5. 75-Terry Phillips, 00:15.166[19]; 6. 14W-Clayton Wagamon, 00:15.258[3]; 7. 55H-AJ Hoff, 00:15.281[21]; 8. K9-Will Krup, 00:15.316[31]; 9. 12-Jason Hughes, 00:15.317[2]; 10. 24C-Jim Chisholm, 00:15.320[27]; 11. 95-Keith Foss, 00:15.329[35]; 12. 87-Darron Fuqua, 00:15.381[9]; 13. 22A-Austen Becerra, 00:15.411[39]; 14. 83-Kylie Kath, 00:15.429[17]; 15. 65-Tyler Davis, 00:15.457[5]; 16. 5D-Devon Havlik, 00:15.516[38]; 17. 69-Lucas Schott, 00:15.553[6]; 18. 4-Jeremy Nelson, 00:15.559[7]; 19. 17-Jon Plowman, 00:15.564[13]; 20. 99L-Steve Lavasseur, 00:15.578[23]; 21. 13J-Triston Dycus, 00:15.641[11]; 22. 4TW-Tim Ward, 00:15.650[28]; 23. 16-Austin Siebert, 00:15.651[20]; 24. 96-Taton Hansen, 00:15.765[12]; 25. D21-Daniel Drury, 00:15.767[18]; 26. 94JR-John Doelle, 00:15.778[30]; 27. 57-Duke Erickson, 00:15.790[15]; 28. 24-Joe Chisholm, 00:15.806[16]; 29. 21D-David Brown, 00:15.810[26]; 30. 98-Kevin Stoa, 00:15.812[1]; 31. 747-Colton Eck, 00:15.908[24]; 32. 7X-Chris Dawson, 00:15.919[32]; 33. 98M-Mitchel Madery, 00:15.944[10]; 34. 11N-Gene Nicholas, 00:15.978[34]; 35. 22-Alan Bohlman, 00:16.025[22]; 36. 60X-Tyler Wirtjes, 00:16.182[14]; 37. 81-Cody Simpson, 00:16.223[33]; 38. 25-Adam Bohlman, 00:16.226[37]; 39. 4M-Bobby Malchus, 00:16.258[36]

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CHRISTIE DOOR COMPANY USRA STOCK CARS

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 1G-Pat Graham[4]; 2. 6-Chanse Hollatz[6]; 3. 11-Jesse Brown[5]; 4. 23-Paul Conrad[7]; 5. 14A-Blake Adams[2]; 6. 87T-Travis Shipman[8]; 7. 97-Lynn Panos[1]; 8. 21-Andrew Borchardt[9]; 9. 21X-Xander Treichel[10]; 10. 84-Joe Schmit[3]; 11. 14-Chris Adams[16]; 12. 82-Dylan Fitzpatrick[17]; 13. 14-Todd Staley[11]; 14. 39J-Dan Klingfus[13]; 15. 123-Kyle Rose[15]; 16. 9-Cody Torkelson[12]; 17. 42-Coy VanHauen[14]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 97-Lynn Panos[1]; 2. 87T-Travis Shipman[4]; 3. 1G-Pat Graham[5]; 4. 84-Joe Schmit[2]; 5. 21X-Xander Treichel[3]; 6. 21-Andrew Borchardt[9]; 7. 42-Coy VanHauen[6]; 8. 123-Kyle Rose[7]; 9. 14-Chris Adams[8]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 14A-Blake Adams[2]; 2. 11-Jesse Brown[5]; 3. 6-Chanse Hollatz[6]; 4. 23-Paul Conrad[7]; 5. 14-Todd Staley[3]; 6. 9-Cody Torkelson[4]; 7. 39J-Dan Klingfus[1]; 8. (DNF) 82-Dylan Fitzpatrick[8]

WINDOW WORLD USRA B-MODS

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 85-Ben Moudry[4]; 2. 25-Joe Chisholm[5]; 3. 56H-Brandon Hare[8]; 4. 20-Gage Motl[1]; 5. 56X-Ty Griffith[14]; 6. 29-Lilli Reps[2]; 7. 53-Tianna Mithun[11]; 8. 5-Trystan Hagen[15]; 9. 5R-James Richert[3]; 10. 10T-Trevor Fecht[13]; 11. 42B-Kaeden Bronner[12]; 12. 90-George Nordman[10]; 13. 28T-Philip Ihde[18]; 14. 13-Peyton Burkhart[9]; 15. 57-Lynn Brockett[16]; 16. 40-George Gilliland[17]; 17. (DNF) 36K-Jayden Larson[7]; 18. (DNF) 56-Shadren Turner[6]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 56-Shadren Turner[1]; 2. 85-Ben Moudry[4]; 3. 20-Gage Motl[3]; 4. 56H-Brandon Hare[2]; 5. 36K-Jayden Larson[8]; 6. 42B-Kaeden Bronner[6]; 7. 56X-Ty Griffith[7]; 8. 5-Trystan Hagen[5]; 9. 28T-Philip Ihde[9]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 25-Joe Chisholm[1]; 2. 5R-James Richert[4]; 3. 29-Lilli Reps[2]; 4. 13-Peyton Burkhart[3]; 5. 90-George Nordman[5]; 6. 53-Tianna Mithun[7]; 7. 10T-Trevor Fecht[9]; 8. 57-Lynn Brockett[8]; 9. 40-George Gilliland[6]