2024 Buckeye Outlaw Sprints Results
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Chapple Perseveres With BOSS Win at Knox
Just days prior to the BOSS race at Knox Raceway on Sunday, defending tour champion Isaac Chapple rode out a violent flip at the historic Knoxville Raceway in Iowa. The victim of a slide job gone wrong, Chapple returned to action with BOSS Saturday at Mercer with a fifth place finish then backed it up with a domintaing win on Sunday in the tour's first ever visit to the scenic Knox Raceway in Pennsylvania.
Nineteen drivers signed in for racing with rain in the area threatening the event. Dustin Ingle, Matt Westfall and Carmen Perigo paced their groups in qualifying. Westfall was overall quickest in ARP Fasteners time trials with a 15.300 lap time. Jesse Vermillion, Cody Gardner and Chapple scored heat race wins.
All nineteen cars reported to the grid and pushed off for the 25 lap main event as very light sprinkles began to fall. With Steven Drevicki and Isaac Chapple pacing the field, third starting Cody Gardner was forced to the pits with mechanical issues. Chapple would grab the early lead but the race's only yellow flag would fly working lap 2 for a conglomerate of cars stopped in turn 2.
Back under green, Chapple set sail on a clear race track leaving the balance of the field to fight for the balance of the main event purse. The imminent rain prevented the track staff from being able to work the traack before the main event. Although smooth, the racers found the bottom groove as the place to be. Lap after lap, the cars ran lower and lower on the track, eventually getting the left front into an area that was not watered.
The professional racers the BOSS tour is proud to put on display did a great job of navigating the impaired vision off turn 4 and the race went the final 24 laps caution free. Chapple was never challenged flashing the Doug Hall number 6 across the line with a 7.815 second advantage over Drevicki who held on for second. Matt Westfall, Korby Hayslett and Dustin Ingle compleyed the top 5. The balanve of the top 10 was Carmen Perigo, Jesse Vermillion, hard charger Ricky Lewis, Charles Davis Jr and Lee Underwood.
Behind Chapple, positions 2 through 15 finished on the lead lap, all separated by only 7.376 seconds showing how competitive the tour is. BOSS has already been invited to return with series officials and track officials eager to give the drivers a better racing surface to show how fast Knox Raceway CAN be when not rushed by oncoming weather issues. We want to thank the teams for their cooperation as the complete 4 division program was run in well under 2 hours.
BOSS returns to action this Friday night, joining the All Star Circuit of Champions and their Ohio All Star Sprint Speedweek event at Eldora Speedway. Then on Saturday, the tour goes to the Lawrenceburg Speedway, where they will pay tribute to the late Justin Owen in a race that will feature an "extra lap for The Juice" and will pay the winner $2,264 to win, celebrating Owen's numbers 26 and 4 with which he competed with the tour.
ARP Fasteners - Qualifying
Group 1: 1. 2di-Dustin Ingle 15.747, 2. 19-Steven Drevicki 15.768, 3. 53-Steve Little 15.999, 4. 5v-Jesse Vermillion 16.050, 5. 24L-Lee Underwood 16.548, 6. 5-Brett Perigo 16.681, 7. 24-Gale Ruth Jr 17.001
Group 2: 1. 33m-Matt Westfall 15.300, 2. 47-Charles Davis Jr 15.415, 3. 9G-Cody Gardner 15.767, 4. 37-Matt Mitchell 16.056, 5. 41-Ricky Lewis 16.116, 6. 73-Blake Vermillion 16.316
Group 3: 1. 21-Carmen Perigo 16.063, 2. 49-Brian Ruhlman 16.178, 3. 1H-Korby Hayslett 16.218, 4. 6-Isaac Chapple 16.351, 5. 87-Paul Dues 16.633, 6. 87x-Jim Dues 18.181
MadTree Brewing - Heat 1: 1. 5v-J.Vermillion[1] ; 2. 19-Drevicki[3] ; 3. 2di-Ingle[4] ; 4. 53-Little[2] ; 5. 24L-Underwood[5] ; 6. 24-Ruth Jr[7] ; 7. 5-B.Perigo[6]
Outsider's Merchandise & Apparel - Heat 2: 1. 9G-Gardner[2] ; 2. 33m-Westfall[4] ; 3. 47-Davis Jr[3] ; 4. 37-Mitchell[1] ; 5. 73-B.Vermilliion[6] ; 6. 41-Lewis[5]
Elizabeth Gardner Photography - Heat 3: 1. 6-Chapple[1] ; 2. 1H-Hayslett[2] ; 3. 21-C.Perigo[4] ; 4. 49-Ruhlman[3] ; 5. 87-P.Dues[5] ; 6. 87x-J.Dues[6[
MPD Racing - A Main: 1. 6-Chapple[2] ; 2. 19-Drevicki[1] ; 3. 33m-Westfall[5] ; 4. 1H-Hayslett[4] ; 5. 2di-Ingle[7] ; 6. 21-C.Perigo[9] ; 7. 5v-J.Vermillion[6] ; 8. 41-Lewis[17] ; 9. 47-Davis Jr[8] ; 10. 24L-Underwood[13] ; 11. 37-Mitchell[11] ; 12. 49-Ruhlman[12] ; 13. 87-P.Dues[15] ; 14. 73-B.Vermillion[14] ; 15. 53-Little[10] ; 16. 5-B.Perigo[19] ; 17. 87x-J.Dues[18] ; 18. 24-Ruth Jr[16] ; 19. 9G-Gardner[3]
All Pro Cylinder Heads - Hard Charger: 41-Ricky Lewis +9
Cowen Truck Line - Steel Block Bonus: 24-Gale Ruth Jr
All Star Performance - Hard Luck: 9G-Cody Gardner
E A Home Supply - Lucky Pill Draw: 49-Brian Ruhlman
Hoosier Tire - Free Tire Bonus: 6 - Isaac Chapple
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