Timm Tops
Second Night at King of America XIII
During the final three
laps of the main event Friday night during King of
America XIII presented by RacinDirt, second-generation
rising star Jake Timm got the lead, lost it and then
grabbed it back again as he took the checkers over
Darron Fuqua with about ten feet to spare.
The
crown jewel for the Summit USMTS National Championship
presented by RacinDirt, Ryan Whitworth’s Humboldt
Speedway was once again spot, and that led to a wild
main event that had fans holding their breath until the
end.
After a dominant heat race performance, Chad
Wheeler garnered the Sybesma Graphics Pole Award and led
the first two laps of the stacked 40-lap 30-car race.
His time at the front of the field was just two
shorts laps, however, as Jim Chisholm blasted into the
lead—a spot he would be in control of for the next 35
times around the high banked clay oval at ‘The Hummer.’
The race’s first Gorsuch Performance Caution Flag
waved on lap 14 for a minor incident, but Timm performed
a major pass by Wheeler for second with 17 laps
complete.
Seven laps later while battling with
Fuqua and Dereck Ramirez for fourth, defending King of
America champ Dan Ebert suffered a terminal mechanical
failure, knocking him from the contest.
On lap
25, Fuqua passed Wheeler for third and looked like he
may have himself a second straight win as he churned the
dirt near the wall and began to chase down Chisholm and
Timm.
Meanwhile, Timm closed the distance between
himself and Chisholm. Timm took a look to the inside of
the leader and nearly spun. He kept from spinning but
lost precious ground to Chisholm.
The race’s
final yellow flag was unfurled with four laps to go when
Lucas Schott slowed on the racetrack. One lap later,
another caution slowed the action with three laps of
racing remaining.
This time, it was Chisholm who
bobbled, and opened the door for Timm to slip by and
into the lead. But Fuqua kept grinding on the
seldom-used high side and blasted by Timm for the lead
as they were shown the white flag.
This time,
Timm cut a perfect corner around the bottom of turn two,
and then outpowered Fuqua in the final turn to win the
race to the flagstand and a $5,000 payday.
“I was
just trying to be patient and I got up under Jim a
couple times there and I made a mistake once and lost a
bunch of ground,” Timm told RacinDirt’s Trenton Berry in
USMTS Victory Fuel Victory Lane. “I didn’t know how many
laps were left but I was running out of patience towards
the end I guess. I got a good start at the end there was
able to kind of kind of slide Fuqua a little bit.
“That was a fun one. I didn’t know if I was going to
win ‘til I took the checkered. I was waiting for him to
pull up alongside me at the finish.
Timm, who won
his Real Racing Wheels “B” Main and came from 14th to
triumph, claimed his first feature win of 2024 while
tenth-starting Fuqua was the second driver to cross
beneath the checkered flag.
Chisholm settled for
third, despite leading 35 of the 40 laps around the
quarter-mile bullring. Grant Junghans USMTS Rookie of
the Year points leader Jacob Hobscheidt claimed a
career-best fourth-place finish while Rodney Sanders,
who started 20th and earned the FK Rod Ends Hard Charger
Award, round out the top five.
Tyler Davis, Terry
Phillips, Jason Hughes, Dereck Ramirez and Jordan
Grabouski.
Fuqua continues to lead Mel Hambelton
Racing USMTS Central Region points by 11 markers over
Timm, But Timm’s win guaranteed him the USMTS Weiland
Points Leader spoiler for a second night when they fire
them back up on Saturday.
Now in rarified air
with some of the all-time greats, The win was Timm’s
ninth of his USMTS career, which broke a tie on the
all-time wins list with Ryan Ruter, Ricky Thornton Jr.
and Tommy Weder Jr.
Timm’s now tied with fellow
nine-time winners Brandon Davis and Brad Waits—both of
whom are Minnesota racers. With ten wins each, the late
Mike Chasteen and Tanner Mullens sit just one spot ahead
of Timm on the list.
RacinDirt USMTS King of
America XIII resumes Saturday, April 6, with $12,000 and
the King of America crown going to the winner of the
main event.
USRA Stock Cars and USRA B-Mods will
once again join the Summit USMTS Modifieds with each
class racing for $1,000 to win and Summit USRA Weekly
Racing Series national points.
The Humboldt
Speedway is located 0.1 mile west of US 169 at the
Humboldt exit, then 0.5 mile south, then 0.9 mile east
to 1663 Georgia Rd, Humboldt, KS 66748.
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OFFICIAL RESULTS
United States Modified Touring Series Summit USMTS
National Championship presented by RacinDirt Mel
Hambelton Racing USMTS Central Region RacinDirt King
of America XIII – Night 2 of 3 Humboldt Speedway,
Humboldt, Kan. Friday, April 5, 2024
Showing finishing position, starting position in
parentheses, car number, driver and hometown. Heat race
lineups are determined via group qualifying. The top 12
in heat race passing points advance to the Summit Racing
Equipment “A” Main.
SIMPSON RACE
PRODUCTS HEAT RACE #1 (10 laps): 1. (2) 19SB
Lance Mari, El Centro, Calif. 2. (1) 4 Jeremy Nelson,
Alexandria, Minn. 3. (3) 10C Cayden Carter,
Oskaloosa, Iowa 4. (4) 1TPO Tyler Peterson, Hickson,
N.D. 5. (7) 457 Boone Evans, Bullard, Texas 6. (8)
69 Lucas Schott, Chatfield, Minn. 7. (9) 21K Kyle
Brown, Madrid, Iowa 8. (6) 16 Austin Siebert,
Grandview, Mo. 9. (5) 26S Steven Glenn, Hamilton, Mo.
FAST SHAFTS HEAT RACE #2 (10 laps):
1. (2) 60 Dan Ebert, Lake Shore, Minn. 2. (1) 75M
Gunner Martin, Sugar Creek, Mo. 3. (4) 127 Paden
Phillips, Chanute, Kan. 4. (5) 25 Joe Chisholm,
Osage, Iowa 5. (9) 12H Mike Hansen, Dickinson, N.D.
6. (7) 19R Chris Kratzer, Haysville, Kan. 7. (3) 2G
Ryan Gierke, Villard, Minn. 8. (8) 247 Jarret Dotson,
Baxter Springs, Kan. 9. (6) 56 Broc Bowen, Fannin,
Texas
EDELBROCK HEAT RACE #3 (10 laps):
1. (1) 7G Gabe Hodges, Lebo, Kan. 2. (3) 444 Brooks
Strength, Raymond, Miss. 3. (6) 87 Darron Fuqua,
Mayetta, Kan. 4. (5) 15WX Alex Williamson, Rushford,
Minn. 5. (2) 55H A.J. Hoff, Mantorville, Minn. 6.
(8) 25C Cody Thompson, Sioux City, Iowa 7. (9) 10H
Nathan Heinrich, Bellingham, Minn. 8. (7) 26 Shawn
Fletcher, Brainerd, Minn. 9. (4) 75J Jeremy LaCoe,
Lincoln, Ark.
WIELAND METAL SERVICES HEAT
RACE #4 (10 laps): 1. (4) 4R Dereck Ramirez,
Woodward, Okla. 2. (1) 96 Taton Hansen, Spicer, Minn.
3. (6) 58X Gary Christian, Broken Bow, Okla. 4. (2)
65X Carlos Ahumada Jr., El Paso, Texas 5. (3) 10B
Brandon Givens, Wichita, Kan. 6. (8) 15W Wyatt
Gaggero, Wichita, Kan. 7. (7) 30 Jordan Grabouski,
Beatrice, Neb. 8. (9) 88S Nathan Smith, Anthony, N.M.
9. (5) 12C Leland Cruz, Amarillo, Texas
VP RACING HEAT RACE #5 (10 laps): 1. (2) 88
Chad Wheeler, Muskogee, Okla. 2. (1) 75 Terry
Phillips, Springfield, Mo. 3. (3) 20 Rodney Sanders,
Happy, Texas 4. (7) 65 Tyler Davis, Haysville, Kan.
5. (9) 49 Jake Timm, Winona, Minn. 6. (4) 97 Cade
Dillard, Robeline, La. 7. (5) 442 Aaron Johnson,
Brainerd, Minn. 8. (8) 99L Steve Lavasseur, River
Falls, Wis. 9. (6) 98 Kenton Allen, Chanute, Kan.
CHEVROLET PERFORMANCE HEAT RACE #6 (10
laps): 1. (1) 01 Jacob Hobscheidt,
Plattsmouth, Neb. 2. (6) 24C Jim Chisholm, Osage,
Iowa 3. (7) 32 D.J. Shannon, Merced, Calif. 4. (8)
12 Jason Hughes, Watts, Okla. 5. (2) 68 Dean Wille,
Warrensburg, Mo. 6. (3) 02 Tanner Mullens, Wichita,
Kan. 7. (5) 22B Rick Beebe, Shawnee, Kan.
REAL RACING WHEELS “B” MAIN #1 (15 laps, top 6
advance): 1. (2) 75 Terry Phillips,
Springfield, Mo. 2. (3) 127 Paden Phillips, Chanute,
Kan. 3. (5) 12H Mike Hansen, Dickinson, N.D. 4.
(6) 25 Joe Chisholm, Osage, Iowa 5. (4) 10C Cayden
Carter, Oskaloosa, Iowa 6. (1) 75M Gunner Martin,
Sugar Creek, Mo. 7. (7) 1TPO Tyler Peterson, Hickson,
N.D. 8. (8) 457 Boone Evans, Bullard, Texas 9.
(13) 21K Kyle Brown, Madrid, Iowa 10. (10) 69 Lucas
Schott, Chatfield, Minn. 11. (9) 10B Brandon Givens,
Wichita, Kan. 12. (11) 15W Wyatt Gaggero, Wichita,
Kan. 13. (12) 97 Cade Dillard, Robeline, La. 14.
(18) 99L Steve Lavasseur, River Falls, Wis. 15. (15)
442 Aaron Johnson, Brainerd, Minn. 16. (16) 88S
Nathan Smith, Anthony, N.M. 17. (14) 2G Ryan Gierke,
Villard, Minn. 18. (21) 98 Kenton Allen, Chanute,
Kan. 19. (17) 247 Jarret Dotson, Baxter Springs, Kan.
20. (20) 75J Jeremy LaCoe, Lincoln, Ark. 21. (19) 26S
Steven Glenn, Hamilton, Mo.
REAL RACING
WHEELS “B” MAIN #2 (15 laps, top 6 advance):
1. (5) 49 Jake Timm, Winona, Minn. 2. (2) 12 Jason
Hughes, Watts, Okla. 3. (3) 65 Tyler Davis,
Haysville, Kan. 4. (4) 20 Rodney Sanders, Happy,
Texas 5. (14) 30 Jordan Grabouski, Beatrice, Neb.
6. (8) 55H A.J. Hoff, Mantorville, Minn. 7. (7) 65X
Carlos Ahumada Jr., El Paso, Texas 8. (12) 02 Tanner
Mullens, Wichita, Kan. 9. (9) 68 Dean Wille,
Warrensburg, Mo. 10. (13) 10H Nathan Heinrich,
Bellingham, Minn. 11. (16) 26 Shawn Fletcher,
Brainerd, Minn. 12. (15) 16 Austin Siebert,
Grandview, Mo. 13. (17) 56 Broc Bowen, Fannin, Texas
14. (10) 25C Cody Thompson, Sioux City, Iowa 15. (11)
19R Chris Kratzer, Haysville, Kan. 16. (18) 12C
Leland Cruz, Amarillo, Texas 17. (1) 96 Taton Hansen,
Spicer, Minn. 18. (6) 15WX Alex Williamson, Rushford,
Minn. DNS – 22B Rick Beebe, Shawnee, Kan. DNS –
32W Darrick Waggoner, Las Cruces, N.M.
SUMMIT RACING EQUIPMENT “A” MAIN (40 laps):
1. (14) 49 Jake Timm, Winona, Minn. 2. (10) 87 Darron
Fuqua, Mayetta, Kan. 3. (3) 24C Jim Chisholm, Osage,
Iowa 4. (8) 01 Jacob Hobscheidt, Plattsmouth, Neb.
5. (20) 20 Rodney Sanders, Happy, Texas 6. (18) 65
Tyler Davis, Haysville, Kan. 7. (13) 75 Terry
Phillips, Springfield, Mo. 8. (16) 12 Jason Hughes,
Watts, Okla. 9. (6) 4R Dereck Ramirez, Woodward,
Okla. 10. (22) 30 Jordan Grabouski, Beatrice, Neb.
11. (1) 88 Chad Wheeler, Muskogee, Okla. 12. (26) 97
Cade Dillard, Robeline, La. 13. (9) 444 Brooks
Strength, Raymond, Miss. 14. (2) 32 D.J. Shannon,
Merced, Calif. 15. (17) 12H Mike Hansen, Dickinson,
N.D. 16. (11) 58X Gary Christian, Broken Bow, Okla.
17. (21) 10C Cayden Carter, Oskaloosa, Iowa 18. (7)
7G Gabe Hodges, Lebo, Kan. 19. (28) 65X Carlos
Ahumada Jr., El Paso, Texas 20. (25) 02 Tanner
Mullens, Wichita, Kan. 21. (19) 25 Joe Chisholm,
Osage, Iowa 22. (15) 127 Paden Phillips, Chanute,
Kan. 23. (24) 55H A.J. Hoff, Mantorville, Minn.
24. (27) 21K Kyle Brown, Madrid, Iowa 25. (23) 75M
Gunner Martin, Sugar Creek, Mo. 26. (30) 457 Boone
Evans, Bullard, Texas 27. (29) 69 Lucas Schott,
Chatfield, Minn. 28. (4) 60 Dan Ebert, Lake Shore,
Minn. 29. (5) 19SB Lance Mari, El Centro, Calif.
30. (12) 4 Jeremy Nelson, Alexandria, Minn. DNS –
15WX Alex Williamson, Rushford, Minn.
Lap
Leaders: Wheeler 1-2, Joe Chisholm 3-37, Timm
38, Fuqua 39, Timm 40. Total Laps Led:
Jim Chisholm 35, Timm 2, Wheeler 2, Fuqua 1.
Margin of Victory: 0.278 second.
Time of Race: 22 minutes, 15.204
seconds (4 cautions). Provisional Starters:
Mullens, Dillard, Williamson, Brown.
Emergency Provisionals: Ahumada, Schott, Evans.
FK Rod Ends Hard Charger: Sanders
(started 20th, finished 5th). Entries:
53. Next Race: Saturday,
April 6, Humboldt Speedway. Summit USMTS
National Championship Points: Timm 521,
Phillips 478, Hughes 460, Ebert 459, Davis 458, Ramirez
448, Jim Chisholm 441, Mullens 437, Sanders 431,
Christian 407. Mel Hambelton Racing USMTS
Central Region Points: Fuqua 199, Timm 188,
Phillips 173, Hobscheidt 163, Dillard 159.
Grant Junghans USMTS Rookie of the Year Points:
Hobscheidt 81, Hodges 336, Shannon 309, Evans 291, Joe
Chisholm 233. FK Rod Ends USMTS Hard Charger
Points: Timm 42, Sanders, Hansen 34, Davis,
Hobscheidt 31. Miller Welders USMTS
Manufacturers Championship Points: Mullens 51,
Rage 43, Hughes 36, BOM 35, Bloodline 30.
Callies/JE Pistons USMTS Engine Builder of the Year
Points: Mullins 54, OFI 43, KSE 37, Durham 35,
Cornett 34.
Contingency Awards:
Aero Race Wheels – Gierke. American Racer – Joe
Chisholm. Bear Graphix – P. Phillips. Beyea Custom
Headers – Hobscheidt. Bryke Racing – Hansen. BSB
Manufacturing – Joe Chisholm. Champ Pans – Sanders.
Danny Crane Racing Engines – Davis. Deatherage
Opticians – Evans. Edelbrock – Hodges. Fast Shafts
– Ebert. Featherlite Trailers – Timm, Fuqua, Jim
Chisholm. FK Rod Ends – Sanders. Gorsuch
Performance Solutions – Timm. Hooker Harness –
Dillard. Hyperco – Williamson. Integra Racing
Shocks & Springs – Hodges. Keyser Manufacturing –
Grabouski. KSE Racing Products – Ramirez. MD3 –
Jim Chisholm. Mel Hambelton Racing – Evans, Heinrich.
MSD Performance – Hobscheidt. Penske Racing Shocks –
Strength. PEM Racing Gears & Drivetrain – Johnson.
QA1 – Ramirez. Quarter Master – Ramirez.
RacerWebsite.com – Heinrich. Rush RaceGear by Austin
Witt – Hansen, Timm. Simpson Race Products – Mari.
Summit Racing Equipment – Gaggero, Nelson, Peterson,
Ramirez, Wille. Sweet Manufacturing – Christian.
Swift Springs – Fuqua, Timm. Sybesma Graphics –
Wheeler. Total Power – Wheeler. Victory Fuel –
Timm. VP Racing – Timm. Wehrs Machine & Racing
Products – Glenn. Wilwood Disc Brakes – T. Phillips.
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USMTS
OFFICIAL SPONSORS: American
Racer Racing Tires, Beyea
Headers, Callies
Performance Products, Chevrolet
Performance, Fast
Shafts, Featherlite
Trailers, FK
Rod Ends, KSE
Racing Products, Malvern
Bank, Mesilla
Valley Transportation, Nitroquest
Media, PEM
Racing Gears & Drivetrain, RacinDirt, Summit
Racing Equipment, TicketSmarter, VP
Racing - Heartland, Wieland.
USMTS PARTICIPATING SPONSORS: ARMI
Contractors, Boomtest
Well Service, Boubin
Tire & Automotive, Brodix
Cylinder Heads, Collins
Brothers Towing, Gene
Nicholas, LLC, Hacienda
Mechanical, Hochatown
Saloon, Mel
Hambelton Ford, Miller
Welders, PBM
Performance Products, Rancho
Milagro Racing, Salty's
BBQ & Catering, Shop
Quik Stores, YouDirt.com.
USMTS CONTINGENCY SPONSORS: AERO
Race Wheels, AFCO
Racing Products, Allstar
Performance, Bear
Graphix, Bryke
Racing, BSB
Manufacturing, Champ
Pans, Danny
Crane Racing Engines, Deatherage
Racing Opticians, Edelbrock, Gorsuch
Performance Solutions, Gunshepherd.com, Hooker
Harness, Hyperco, Integra
Racing Shocks and Springs, JE
Pistons, Keyser
Manufacturing, MD3, Mel
Hambelton Racing, MSD
Performance, Penske
Racing Shocks, Performance
Bodies & Parts, QA1, Quarter
Master, RacerWebsite.com, Real
Racing Wheels, Rush
RaceGear by Austin Witt, Simpson
Performance Products, Sweet
Manufacturing, Swift
Springs, Sybesma
Graphics, Total
Power, Victory
Fuel, Victory
Vault, Wehrs
Machine & Racing Products, Wilwood
Racing.
USMTS RACETRACKS:
81 Speedway,
Arrowhead Speedway,
Beatrice Speedway,
Boothill Speedway,
Casino Speedway,
Cedar Lake Speedway,
Deer Creek Speedway,
Fairmont Raceway,
Fayette County Speedway,
Granite City Motor Park,
Hamilton County Speedway,
Heart O’ Texas Speedway,
Humboldt Speedway,
Hunt County Raceway,
Lakeside Speedway,
Lucas Oil Speedway,
Mason City Motor Speedway,
Mississippi Thunder Speedway,
Off Road Speedway,
Ogilvie Raceway,
Park Jefferson Speedway,
Rocket Raceway Park,
Route 66 Motor Speedway,
RPM Speedway,
Tri-State Speedway.
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Contact Info:
Jeff Nun
Chief Communications Officer
United States Modified Touring Series, Inc. (USMTS)
1715 W 2nd St, PO Box 905
Webster City, IA 50595
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