3/21/2024
POWRi
Blayden Graham and Connor Penix Win in KKM Challenge Preliminary Night One Support Divisions
Visalia, CA. (3/20/24) Captivating the crowd at the friendly confines of Plaza Park Raceway powered by Keller Auto Center in support of the Preliminary Night One of the first yearly KKM Challenge would find Blayden Graham earn the feature victory in Restrictors as Connor Penix would find victory lane driving in the Jr Sprint division.
Setting a determined field of twenty-six entries spanning the Restrictor division, Blayden Graham would outpace others by setting the hot-lap quick time with a lap of 11.373 seconds with Connor Penix situating the early standard of speed over sixteen Jr Sprinters with a time of 13.302-second lap in the early Plaza Park Raceway competitions for Preliminary Night One of the West Coast KKM Challenge.
Battling in intense heat racing action for the Restrictors would find Levi Osborne, Tate Gurney, and Jace Thurein each earn the hard-fought victories with Jace Meyers and Logan Banks gaining the early on-track wins in the Jr Sprint division. KKM Challenge Preliminary Night One High Point Qualifiers earning the feature pole starting positions at Plaza Park Raceway would be Blayden Graham in the Restrictors with Logan Banks in Jr Sprints.
Driving swiftly onto the well-prepared Plaza Park Raceway powered by Keller Auto Center smooth surface for the POWRi Restrictor Micro feature would witness Blayden Graham protect find the front and lead all twenty green flag feature laps to score the victory. Brycen Roush would cross the checker's second with Braxton Flatt placing third from starting fifth as Colton Knapp finished fourth from ninth just ahead of James Ferrin rounding out the top-five finishers in the Preliminary Night One of the KKM Challenge feature event.
Competing into feature oppositions for the Jr Sprints would find an intensely thrilling twenty-lap battle as Connor Penix would lead nineteen feature laps to claim victory from starting second position with one-lap leader Levi Ballard holding steady in a close runner-up position from starting first. Hard-charging past nine positions, Mackcen Roush would place third with Jaxson Evett finishing fourth as Jace Meyers rounded out the POWRi Jr Sprint top-five finishers for Preliminary Night One in support competition of the K1 Race Gear KKM Challenge at Plaza Park Raceway powered by Keller Auto Center.
Plaza Park Raceway | POWRi Support Micro Leagues | KKM Challenge | 3/20/24:
Jr Sprint: A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 3P-Connor Penix[2]; 2. 87-Levi Ballard[3]; 3. 17M-Mackcen Roush[12]; 4. 4-Jaxson Evett[9]; 5. 14-Jace Meyers[4]; 6. 3D-David Anderson[14]; 7. 9B-Beau Bickner[6]; 8. 65-Bryton Buoy[11]; 9. 12-Haven Sherman[15]; 10. 14Q-Quentin Hagopian[8]; 11. 379-Kendyl Leal[16]; 12. 7L-Logan Banks[1]; 13. 77-Nixen Gabbard[13]; 14. 4U-Lee Uzzell[5]; 15. 9D-Tyce Domingos[10]; 16. 11E-Easton Wright[7].
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 14-Jace Meyers[1]; 2. 87-Levi Ballard[3]; 3. 3P-Connor Penix[4]; 4. 9D-Tyce Domingos[6]; 5. 11E-Easton Wright[2]; 6. 3D-David Anderson[7]; 7. 12-Haven Sherman[8]; 8. 17M-Mackcen Roush[5].
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 7L-Logan Banks[4]; 2. 4U-Lee Uzzell[2]; 3. 4-Jaxson Evett[6]; 4. 14Q-Quentin Hagopian[5]; 5. 77-Nixen Gabbard[7]; 6. 9B-Beau Bickner[3]; 7. 379-Kendyl Leal[8]; 8. 65-Bryton Buoy[1].
Qualifying 1 (2 Laps): 1. 3P-Connor Penix, 00:13.302[11]; 2. 7L-Logan Banks, 00:13.490[10]; 3. 87-Levi Ballard, 00:13.512[2]; 4. 9B-Beau Bickner, 00:13.518[16]; 5. 11E-Easton Wright, 00:13.557[5]; 6. 4U-Lee Uzzell, 00:13.571[8]; 7. 14-Jace Meyers, 00:13.579[7]; 8. 65-Bryton Buoy, 00:13.606[9]; 9. 17M-Mackcen Roush, 00:13.677[1]; 10. 14Q-Quentin Hagopian, 00:13.678[15]; 11. 9D-Tyce Domingos, 00:13.747[13]; 12. 4-Jaxson Evett, 00:13.814[4]; 13. 3D-David Anderson, 00:13.861[12]; 14. 77-Nixen Gabbard, 00:13.926[14]; 15. 12-Haven Sherman, 00:13.953[3]; 16. 379-Kendyl Leal, 00:14.823[6].
Restrictor: A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 66B-Blayden Graham[1]; 2. 17B-Brycen Roush[2]; 3. 81-Braxton Flatt[5]; 4. 5C-Colton Knapp[9]; 5. 03-James Ferrin[6]; 6. 71K-Tate Gurney[7]; 7. 9J-Levi Osborne[4]; 8. 115-Shyla Ernst[3]; 9. 5-Jace Thurein[8]; 10. 38JT-Jackson Tardiff[11]; 11. 71-Mavrick Page[13]; 12. 01-TJ Stark[24]; 13. 37X-Cole Bezio[12]; 14. 29V-Vito Celli `[22]; 15. 29-Jaydon Barnes[15]; 16. 13V-Braxon Vasconcellos[19]; 17. 55X-Maya Mauldin[10]; 18. 3L-Kasey Leal[23]; 19. 16S-Bryson Sozinho[16]; 20. 91-Kaiden Johnson[20]; 21. 66-Buoy Brooks[14]; 22. 68-McKenna Morgan[18]; 23. 21G-Greyson Henry[17]; 24. (DNS) 2-Izzie Bezio; 25. (DNS) 10-Brodie Copeland.
Heat 1 (10 Laps): 1. 9J-Levi Osborne[2]; 2. 66B-Blayden Graham[4]; 3. 55X-Maya Mauldin[1]; 4. 81-Braxton Flatt[3]; 5. 29-Jaydon Barnes[6]; 6. 29V-Vito Celli `[8]; 7. 66-Buoy Brooks[5]; 8. 91-Kaiden Johnson[7]; 9. (DNF) 2-Izzie Bezio[9].
Heat 2 (10 Laps): 1. 71K-Tate Gurney[2]; 2. 17B-Brycen Roush[4]; 3. 03-James Ferrin[3]; 4. 37X-Cole Bezio[1]; 5. 71-Mavrick Page[5]; 6. 21G-Greyson Henry[6]; 7. (DNF) 10-Brodie Copeland[7]; 8. (DNF) 01-TJ Stark[8].
Heat 3 (10 Laps): 1. 5-Jace Thurein[2]; 2. 38JT-Jackson Tardiff[1]; 3. 115-Shyla Ernst[4]; 4. 5C-Colton Knapp[3]; 5. 13V-Braxon Vasconcellos[7]; 6. 68-McKenna Morgan[6]; 7. 3L-Kasey Leal[8]; 8. 16S-Bryson Sozinho[5].
Qualifying 1 (2 Laps): 1. 66B-Blayden Graham, 00:11.373[3]; 2. 17B-Brycen Roush, 00:11.451[4]; 3. 115-Shyla Ernst, 00:11.605[6]; 4. 81-Braxton Flatt, 00:11.752[11]; 5. 03-James Ferrin, 00:11.779[15]; 6. 5C-Colton Knapp, 00:11.812[18]; 7. 9J-Levi Osborne, 00:11.826[8]; 8. 71K-Tate Gurney, 00:11.842[5]; 9. 5-Jace Thurein, 00:11.849[9]; 10. 55X-Maya Mauldin, 00:11.902[20]; 11. 37X-Cole Bezio, 00:11.957[13]; 12. 38JT-Jackson Tardiff, 00:12.030[21]; 13. 66-Buoy Brooks, 00:12.066[19]; 14. 71-Mavrick Page, 00:12.126[16]; 15. 16S-Bryson Sozinho, 00:12.127[14]; 16. 29-Jaydon Barnes, 00:12.147[22]; 17. 21G-Greyson Henry, 00:12.164[23]; 18. 68-McKenna Morgan, 00:12.199[7]; 19. 91-Kaiden Johnson, 00:12.384[1]; 20. 10-Brodie Copeland, 00:12.398[10]; 21. 13V-Braxon Vasconcellos, 00:12.411[24]; 22. 29V-Vito Celli `, 00:12.437[12]; 23. 01-TJ Stark, 00:12.442[25]; 24. 3L-Kasey Leal, 00:12.507[2]; 25. 2-Izzie Bezio, 00:13.678[17].
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