Lucas Oil Speedway Spotlight: Defending champ Tattershall looks to avoid the mayhem in Easter Bowl Enduro 150
2025-04-16 19:56
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WHEATLAND, MO. (April 16, 2025) - It's perhaps the most-unique race of Lucas Oil Speedway's season, where mayhem in the norm and avoiding carnage is imperative to those hoping to contend for a trip to checkered flag.
The Easter Bowl Enduro 150, scheduled for Saturday night at Lucas Oil Speedway, isn't about having the fastest car. Patience, tire conservation and having a little bit of luck on your side is the recipe for success.
"That's one of my favorite part about the big Enduro races," said Will Tatterhsall of Bois D'Arc, defending champion of the $1,500-to-win Easter Bowl 150, in which the action only stops for a red flag if the track is blocked or someone's in a particularly dangerous situation.
"Once you hit the track, it doesn't matter if there's carnage or calls stalled," Tattershall noted. "You're just running and trying to avoid it all. You're trying to strategize staying on the track. That's been my goal, trying to manage the tires and not blowing them out. There's no cautions. You just run, run run … and avoid the chaos."
Tattershall is one of the premier Enduro racers in the area. He's coming off a 151-lap win on Saturday at Springfield Raceway and said he has nine wins in 23 attempts since switching to his Crown Vic-style Panther chassis last year. One of those wins came at the 2024 Easter Bowl Enduro 150.
Speed, while nice, is not the main objective when the entrants line up three-wide to start the marathon. Last year's Easter Bowl Enduro took 1 hour, 4 minutes to complete.
"Just made laps and tried to be consistent," Tattershall said, noting that was the key to his latest win at Springfield. "That's all I tried to do. I was by far not the fastest car. I went back and looked at my lap times and my fastest lap I was 12th. I just tried to be consistent and keep the tires on the car.
"I had a little luck Saturday night, picking the right lanes when I had to and not getting caught up with other cars."
Tattershall said he's a long-time racing enthusiast who has tried his hand at racing in various dirt-track divisions over the years.
"Years ago before I had kids, a buddy and I put together one of those cruiser cars with a gas man and a wheel man," Tattershall said. "We did that for a few years. He was scared to ride and run the gas, so I was always the gas man and never got to drive. Then my girlfriend, Haley Burros, she raced a lot of her teen-age years. She had a friend in Pure Stocks I became pretty good buddies with, Jeff Reid. For the last four years now I've raced a lot with him.
"I'd like to have an upper-class car, but it's so much fun in the Enduro and Bomber type cars that I'm happy to stay with those. That's kind of where the dirt trackin' comes from."
Asked about any special preparation to the car in anticipation of inevitable beating and banging over the course of a 150-lap race, Tattershall laughed and said his car spent most of the winter sitting in a field underneath a tarp. He needed to take a battery out of his boat to get it started and into the shop for some maintenance the week before racing at Springfield.
"I took it up and down the road a little bit - I live out in the country and I hot-lapped it a little bit - just to make sure it would run," he said. "I bought two new ride-side tires, so that was it.
"It worked so good last year, I didn't do a lot to change anything this year," he added. " "I like the track up there at Lucas for the Enduros because it never really slicks off. I wouldn't want to run one every weekend, it's a lot. You're in the car for a long race. That's a long time to stay focused."
Three Weekly Racing Series classes in action: While the unique Enduro race will conclude the action, three divisions of the Pitts Homes and Realty Weekly Racing Series also will be in action with the Arctic Food Equipment Modifieds in the spotlight with a $1,000-to-win main event. The O'Reilly Auto Parts Stock Cars and Clear Creek Golf Cars USRA B-Mod also will compete.
Also to kick off the racing action, the Stock Cars will hold a makeup of their feature from Full Body Madness that was rained out on March 22nd. The winner will earn $1,500.
Pit and spectator gates open at 4 p.m. with hot laps at 6:30 and opening ceremonies at 7.
UTV Round 2 postponed: With rain in the weekend forecast, Round 2 of the UTV Short Course scheduled for Friday and Saturday on the Off Road track has been postponed. It will be made up on May 16-17.
Lucas Oil Speedway General Manager Danny Lorton said a decision on the dirt-track program will be made later this week.
RCR Junior Fan Club Pit Tour: The RCR Junior Fan Club Kids' Pit Tour continues with new Lucas Oil Speedway flagman Chris Loberg leading the way. Youngsters can sign up on the midway for the fan club before 5 p.m. and be a part of a drawing for a chance to join Loberg on a golf-car tour of the pits to meet drivers.
Dirt Track Admission:
Advance Discount Tickets online only (13 and up) - $12
Adults (13 and up) - $15
Seniors (62 and up)/Military - $12
Youth (6-12) - $5
Kids (5 and under) - FREE
Family Pass - $35
Pit Pass - $35
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CONTACT:
Danny Lorton
Lucas Oil Speedway General Manager
Office: (417) 282-5984
DLorton@lucasoilspeedway.com
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Twenty-One VIP Luxury Suites, HD Jumbo-Tron Screen, Stadium Style Musco Sports Lighting, a Bose Sound System, Go-Kart Slick Track, The Diamond Bar, Track Treasures Gift Shop, the best track food in the country and paved pits are a few of the spectacular amenities setting the Diamond of Dirt apart. This year marks the 12th season for the Liquid Quarter Mile Drag Racing Lake, "Lake Lucas." New for 2017 was all-purpose built Off Road facility featuring a host of regional events.
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