WHEATLAND, MO. (Sept. 18, 2026) - Tanner Thorson had plenty to celebrate Friday night at Lucas Oil Speedway, leading all 30 laps to win the Interstate Batteries High Limit Racing/POWRi 410 feature on Night 2 of the 16th annual Jesse Hockett-Daniel McMillin Memorial.
Thorson, of Broken Arrow, Okla., earned $10,000 and assured himself a prime starting position in Saturday finale, which pays $25,000 to visit victory lane. But this weekend is about more than money, Thorson said, when discussing what this race is all about.
TJ Nichols, cousin of the late Jesse Hockett, is helping on the crew of the Jason and Shantel owned GST Motorsports winged sprint car. If the team is able to win on Saturday, it would be one of Thorson's biggest moments of his career.
"It means everything," Thorson said. "When I started racing sprint cars, I always saw Jesse Hockett, Jesse Hockett. Unfortunately I was never able to meet him. TJ is one bad-ass kid and his family is great people. I want to win here in general, and especially this race."
The Hockett-McMillin Memorial pays tribute to the legacy of Hockett, from Warsaw, who was a national star in both the winged and non-wing sprint divisions when he lost his life in a shop accident in 2010 when Thorson was 14. Hockett's cousin and crew chief, Daniel McMillin, was killed in an automobile accident in 2006.
In the POWRi WAR Sprints portion of the program, Riley Kreisel of nearby Warsaw led all 25 laps to capture $2,000.
Action concludes on Saturday night a $25,000-to-win High Limit/POWRi 410 feature and $5,077 for the POWRi WAR winner on the line.
Thorson might have led it all the way, but it was far from easy as he had to fend off repeated challenged from runner-up Peck. He wound up 1.5 seconds in front, which was his biggest margin of the event.
Thorson sprinted away around the top groove to the lead at the start and already had a .737-second advantage over Peck by lap five with Randall third. Peck whittled the lead to a car length by lap 10 as the top three separated from the field and entered lapped traffic.
As Peck and Randall battled for second, Thorson was able to build on his lead as the frontrunners continued to weave through slower cars. Caution for a pair of spinners on the backstretch, including the third-running Randall, brought out a caution on lap 16 and elevated Tanner Holmes to third.
Thorson led Peck by a second with five to go, continuing to use the high line. Peck made up some ground as they again entered lapped traffic, but couldn't make up enough. Thorson took the checkers by a semi-comfortable margin.
"Hats off to my team," said Thorson, who won an Aug. 1 "Road to the Hockett" POWRi race at Wheatland. "It's just incredible to have good people behind you. The mojo of your team really extends itself. We're gonna drink some beer tonight."
Scott Bogucki rallied from ninth to finish third with Holmes fourth and Joel Myers Jr. third.
Peck finished second for the seventh time on the High Limit season.
"I thought we had a really good race car," Peck said. "That first start I just blew the bottom and still kind of was able to hang with Tanner there, so I thought we'll slow down and really try to come off the grip. That was substantially worse.
"It was pretty much wide open on the top the whole race. I was trying to move around and do anything I could to really make a run on him. I don't know. It's funny to say you're frustrated to run second, but I'm over it. That should lock us in for tomorrow and that's your goal."
Peck's pair of seconds the last two nights has locked him into the $25,000-to-win feature, along with Thorson, Giovanni Scelzi and Brent Marks.
Brogan Carter of Sioux Falls, S.D., won the third heat and became the youngest heat-race winner in High Limit Racing at 16 years and one day.
Aaron Reutzel of Clute, Texas, broke his own track record with a lap of 12.600 to pace a qualifying session that saw 14 drivers post sub-13-second laps. Reutzel's lap of 12.789 on Thursday broke Rico Abreu's record that had stood for more than two years.
Wingless win goes to Kreisel: Riley Kreisel, from Jesse Hockett's hometown of Warsaw, led all 25 laps and held off Justin Zimmerman over the final laps to pick up the $2,000 WAR Sprint win.
It was his second win of the season and a strong bounce back from a 19th-place finish the night before when Kreisel battled issues with the car.
"We started with a really, really good race car," Kreisel said. "The place is kind of uncharacteristic to normal and we got tighter and tighter as we went. That's a good thing. Normally we're fighting to get tight enough at the end. So the changes we made from last night to tonight have made really big improvement."
Kreisel started on the pole and staved off Justin Zimmerman in the early going with Thursday winner Rylan Gray a close third. Kreisel had a one-second lead at the 10-lap mark with Gray a half-second in back of Zimmerman.
By lap 15, the leaders caught lapped traffic. Zimmerman was able to close within a car length, just before the race's first caution slowed the action on lap 16.
Kreisel had a solid restart, but soon had Zimmerman, Gray and Jack Wagner in pursuit. Kreisel was able to hang on and beat Zimmerman by .732 seconds with Gray third, Mario Clouser fourth and Wagner fifth.
Kreisel, 26, said "it's a blast to drive this race car right now" and said "mind-set" is the key word for Saturday night, which pays $5,077 to win. "We just have to come into tomorrow like nothing happened and be a little bit better."
Zimmerman, a 42-year-old from Athens, Texas, has raced sparingly this season. He's thrilled with the weekend he's had so far with finishes of fourth and second.
"That was fun. I haven't had that much fun in a long time," Zimmerman said. "I think we have the car digging now so now we can see if I can go one spot more tomorrow."
16th annual Jesse Hockett-Daniel McMillin Memorial (Friday's unofficial results)
Interstate Batteries High Limit/POWRi 410 Sprints
A Feature - 1. 88-Tanner Thorson[2]; 2. 26-Justin Peck[1]; 3. 1X-Scott Bogucki[9]; 4. 13-Tanner Holmes[6]; 5. 19JR-Joel Myers Jr[13]; 6. 77-Giovanni Scelzi[5]; 7. 19-Brent Marks[16]; 8. 24D-Danny Sams III[10]; 9. 12X-Landon Crawley[3]; 10. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[24]; 11. 22M-Rees Moran[17]; 12. 9R-Chase Randall[4]; 13. 87-Aaron Reutzel[8]; 14. 40-Howard Moore[19]; 15. 55-Brady Bacon[14]; 16. 24-Rico Abreu[22]; 17. 5-Kasey Jedrzejek[23]; 18. 9-Daison Pursley[25]; 19. 11-Roger Crockett[7]; 20. 74-Xavier Doney[15]; 21. 88C-Brogan Carder[11]; 22. 3-Ayrton Gennetten[18]; 23. 2-Gage Montgomery[12]; 24. 51B-Joe B Miller[20]; 25. 57-Cam Sorrels[21]
B Feature - 1. 57-Cam Sorrels[1]; 2. 24-Rico Abreu[2]; 3. 5-Kasey Jedrzejek[3]; 4. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[5]; 5. 17GP-Brock Zearfoss[4]; 6. 42-Sye Lynch[6]; 7. 66-Ryan Newton[7]; 8. 19H-Hank Davis[10]; 9. G6-Kyle Jones[8]; 10. 45X-Ashton Torgerson[13]; 11. 31-Scotty Thiel[11]; 12. 74N-Natalie Doney[12]; 13. 9-Daison Pursley[9]; 14. B8-John Barnard[14]
C Feature - 1. 45X-Ashton Torgerson[1]; 2. B8-John Barnard[2]; 3. 91-Garrett Benson[3]; 4. 28-Jace Park[4]; 5. 21-Brian Brown[6]; 6. 75-Tyler Blank[8]; 7. 98P-Miles Paulus[5]; 8. 15-Jack Potter[9]; 9. 63-JJ Hickle[7]
Heat 1 - 1. 74-Xavier Doney[1]; 2. 24D-Danny Sams III[2]; 3. 26-Justin Peck[3]; 4. 87-Aaron Reutzel[6]; 5. 88-Tanner Thorson[4]; 6. 24-Rico Abreu[5]; 7. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[7]; 8. 9-Daison Pursley[8]; 9. 45X-Ashton Torgerson[11]; 10. 98P-Miles Paulus[9]; 11. 15-Jack Potter[10]
Heat 2 - 1. 1X-Scott Bogucki[2]; 2. 22M-Rees Moran[1]; 3. 12X-Landon Crawley[4]; 4. 11-Roger Crockett[6]; 5. 19-Brent Marks[3]; 6. 5-Kasey Jedrzejek[5]; 7. 42-Sye Lynch[8]; 8. 19H-Hank Davis[7]; 9. B8-John Barnard[10]; 10. 21-Brian Brown[9]
Heat 3 - 1. 88C-Brogan Carder[2]; 2. 77-Giovanni Scelzi[4]; 3. 40-Howard Moore[1]; 4. 13-Tanner Holmes[6]; 5. 51B-Joe B Miller[8]; 6. 17GP-Brock Zearfoss[3]; 7. 66-Ryan Newton[5]; 8. 31-Scotty Thiel[7]; 9. 91-Garrett Benson[10]; 10. 63-JJ Hickle[9]
Heat 4 - 1. 55-Brady Bacon[2]; 2. 3-Ayrton Gennetten[1]; 3. 19JR-Joel Myers Jr[3]; 4. 9R-Chase Randall[5]; 5. 2-Gage Montgomery[4]; 6. 57-Cam Sorrels[6]; 7. G6-Kyle Jones[7]; 8. 74N-Natalie Doney[9]; 9. 28-Jace Park[8]; 10. 75-Tyler Blank[10]
Qualifying - 1. 87-Aaron Reutzel, 12.600[31]; 2. 11-Roger Crockett, 12.776[38]; 3. 13-Tanner Holmes, 12.789[24]; 4. 57-Cam Sorrels, 12.809[29]; 5. 24-Rico Abreu, 12.878[1]; 6. 5-Kasey Jedrzejek, 12.900[30]; 7. 66-Ryan Newton, 12.923[16]; 8. 9R-Chase Randall, 12.932[12]; 9. 88-Tanner Thorson, 12.937[20]; 10. 12X-Landon Crawley, 12.947[18]; 11. 77-Giovanni Scelzi, 12.955[11]; 12. 2-Gage Montgomery, 12.961[9]; 13. 26-Justin Peck, 12.965[39]; 14. 19-Brent Marks, 12.995[36]; 15. 17GP-Brock Zearfoss, 13.004[14]; 16. 19JR-Joel Myers Jr, 13.009[40]; 17. 24D-Danny Sams III, 13.009[41]; 18. 1X-Scott Bogucki, 13.027[35]; 19. 88C-Brogan Carder, 13.068[21]; 20. 55-Brady Bacon, 13.128[7]; 21. 74-Xavier Doney, 13.130[10]; 22. 22M-Rees Moran, 13.132[26]; 23. 40-Howard Moore, 13.153[13]; 24. 3-Ayrton Gennetten, 13.154[34]; 25. 7BC-Tyler Courtney, 13.199[22]; 26. 19H-Hank Davis, 13.223[33]; 27. 31-Scotty Thiel, 13.237[3]; 28. G6-Kyle Jones, 13.345[4]; 29. 9-Daison Pursley, 13.350[23]; 30. 42-Sye Lynch, 13.352[19]; 31. 51B-Joe B Miller, 13.359[28]; 32. 28-Jace Park, 13.372[25]; 33. 98P-Miles Paulus, 13.373[17]; 34. 21-Brian Brown, 13.429[6]; 35. 63-JJ Hickle, 13.449[32]; 36. 74N-Natalie Doney, 13.569[5]; 37. 15-Jack Potter, 13.659[8]; 38. B8-John Barnard, 13.683[15]; 39. 91-Garrett Benson, 13.809[2]; 40. 75-Tyler Blank, 13.838[37]; 41. 45X-Ashton Torgerson, 55:55.555[27]
POWRi WAR Sprints
A Feature - 1. 91-Riley Kreisel[1]; 2. 1Z-Justin Zimmerman[2]; 3. 1-Rylan Gray[4]; 4. 6-Mario Clouser[3]; 5. 77-Jack Wagner[7]; 6. 11W-Wyatt Burks[5]; 7. 41-Ricky Lewis[8]; 8. 44-Wesley Smith[10]; 9. 79F-Cooper Sullivan[21]; 10. 97-Cam Schafer[11]; 11. 34-RJ Miller[6]; 12. 13-Chase Howard[19]; 13. 33-Bryson Smith[14]; 14. 76-Edison Aldrich[13]; 15. 2-Luke Howard[16]; 16. 00-Nathan Schank[9]; 17. 11-James Lyerla[15]; 18. 24LCR-Brett Combs[22]; 19. 6K-Jake Kouba[20]; 20. 73-Samuel Wagner[17]; 21. 98P-Ryan Padgett[12]; 22. 11X-Tom Curran[18]
B Feature - 1. 73-Samuel Wagner[1]; 2. 11X-Tom Curran[3]; 3. 13-Chase Howard[4]; 4. 6K-Jake Kouba[2]; 5. 79F-Cooper Sullivan[7]; 6. 24LCR-Brett Combs[9]; 7. 99-Jarrett Weyant[5]; 8. 27-Justin Johnson[8]; 9. 33X-Justin Patocka[6]; 10. (DNS) 52-Dean Bowers; 11. (DNS) 00W-Noah Whitehouse
Heat 1 - 1. 77-Jack Wagner[1]; 2. 6-Mario Clouser[3]; 3. 44-Wesley Smith[2]; 4. 97-Cam Schafer[5]; 5. 98P-Ryan Padgett[4]; 6. 6K-Jake Kouba[7]; 7. 13-Chase Howard[6]; 8. 79F-Cooper Sullivan[8]; 9. 24LCR-Brett Combs[9]
Heat 2 - 1. 1Z-Justin Zimmerman[2]; 2. 1-Rylan Gray[3]; 3. 34-RJ Miller[4]; 4. 76-Edison Aldrich[1]; 5. 11-James Lyerla[5]; 6. 2-Luke Howard[8]; 7. 99-Jarrett Weyant[6]; 8. 33X-Justin Patocka[9]; 9. 52-Dean Bowers[7]
Heat 3 - 1. 91-Riley Kreisel[3]; 2. 00-Nathan Schank[2]; 3. 11W-Wyatt Burks[4]; 4. 41-Ricky Lewis[9]; 5. 33-Bryson Smith[5]; 6. 73-Samuel Wagner[7]; 7. 11X-Tom Curran[8]; 8. 27-Justin Johnson[6]; 9. 00W-Noah Whitehouse[1]
Qualifying Group 1 - 1. 98P-Ryan Padgett, 14.940[3]; 2. 6-Mario Clouser, 15.056[8]; 3. 44-Wesley Smith, 15.131[4]; 4. 77-Jack Wagner, 15.211[2]; 5. 97-Cam Schafer, 15.217[5]; 6. 13-Chase Howard, 15.399[1]; 7. 6K-Jake Kouba, 15.478[7]; 8. 79F-Cooper Sullivan, 15.516[6]; 9. 24LCR-Brett Combs, 15.970[9]
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Qualifying Group 2 - 1. 34-RJ Miller, 15.078[7]; 2. 1-Rylan Gray, 15.206[1]; 3. 1Z-Justin Zimmerman, 15.436[4]; 4. 76-Edison Aldrich, 15.471[2]; 5. 11-James Lyerla, 15.747[8]; 6. 99-Jarrett Weyant, 15.861[3]; 7. 52-Dean Bowers, 16.081[9]; 8. 2-Luke Howard, 16.277[5]; 9. 33X-Justin Patocka, 16.949[6]
Qualifying Group 3 - 1. 11W-Wyatt Burks, 14.903[5]; 2. 91-Riley Kreisel, 14.925[8]; 3. 00-Nathan Schank, 15.025[1]; 4. 00W-Noah Whitehouse, 15.165[3]; 5. 33-Bryson Smith, 15.165[6]; 6. 27-Justin Johnson, 15.340[9]; 7. 73-Samuel Wagner, 15.391[4]; 8. 11X-Tom Curran, 15.418[7]; 9. 41-Ricky Lewis, 17.000[2]
Daily on-track schedule (Saturday):
Pits and Grandstands open - 4 p.m.
Driver registration - 4:15-5:30 p.m.
Drivers' meeting - 5:45 p.m.
Engine heat - 6 p.m.
Hot laps - 6:30 p.m. (racing to follow)
Pit passes, reserved and general admission ticket packages are available online via High Limit at https://bit.ly/LucasHockett.
Daily adult admission at the gate:
Saturday - $47
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Email: CShuman@lucasoilspeedway.com
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Lucas Oil Speedway is considered by fans, drivers and industry insiders to be one of the top racing facilities in the nation. Located in Wheatland, Mo., approximately an hour from Springfield and just an hour and a half from the Kansas City metro area, the "Diamond of Dirt Tracks" lives up to its title.
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.
Lucas Oil Speedway's dirt oval track plays host to some of the largest and most-popular events in the Midwest with national and regional touring series appearing frequently including: The Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt Series, United States Modified Touring Series and the High Limit Sprint Racing Series, POWRi Sprint Cars and POWRi WAR Sprints.
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