Lonnie Wheatley, NIXA, Mo. (August 22, 2015) – Kyle Bellm’s maiden voyage of the Lucas Oil ASCS National Tour continues close to home with Sunday’s $12,000-to-win High Roller Classic at Sedalia’s Missouri State Fair Speedway.
The current leader in the ASCS National Tour Rookie of the Year race comes off an impromptu non-wing start last Saturday night with the WAR series at Missouri’s Springfield Raceway that resulted in a fifth-place finish after starting 18th.
“It was a last minute thing, Adam Jones was bringing his other car and said I could drive it,” Bellm said. “We got rolling pretty good in the feature, we probably could have got up to at least second or third with another few laps.”
With some solid wingless laps in the books, it’s back aboard the PPG Automotive Finishes/Colorvision No. 14k Sprint Car since Knoxville’s recent 360 Nationals in Iowa.
It was a Nationals event that started off in promising fashion for the driver of the Schure Built Suspensions/Christian County Collision Repair Sprint Car.
“We went out pretty late and still put down a good enough lap to qualify tenth, so we were happy with that,” Bellm said of his qualifying effort on the Friday preliminary.
Missing the feature cut in the heat after a deep invert, Bellm was in good position with a second row outside start in the “B” Main.
“I was actually kind of glad to be in the “B”, I felt like it would give us some more good laps to get dialed in better for the feature,” Bellm explained.
That plan didn’t pan out though when another car spun directly in front of Bellm in the opening pair of corners. “There was nowhere to go at all,” Bellm said.
The mishap landed Bellm deep in a Saturday “C” Main where he rode out the weekend aboard the Bybee Lawn Care/Dynotech Racing Engines machine. “There was little chance of going anywhere after starting that deep, we were just getting some laps.”
Bellm will be looking for some quality laps in the Scheaffer’s Oil machine when ASCS National Tour action continues with a return to Sedalia’s Missouri State Fair Speedway on Sunday.
“I was at the last race there a couple of years ago,” Bellm recalls. “We won our heat race that night but then the feature never happened.”
Bellm will hope to be the first to see another checkered flag or two with $12,000 on the line tomorrow at the Missouri State Fair.
Next: Lucas Oil ASCS National Tour action on Sunday with the $12,000-to-win High Roller Classic at Sedalia’s Missouri State Fair Speedway.
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- administrator on Aug 22, 2015
- Article Date: 8/22/2015 by Lonnie Wheatley