Story By: BEN SHELTON / COMP CAMS SUPER DIRT SERIES – SPRINGFIELD, MO – Starting 19th on the feature grid was no match from keeping Clay Stuckey from his first-career COMP Cams Super Dirt Series (CCSDS) Super Late Model Series victory on Saturday.
The Louisiana racer’s maiden voyage to Victory Lane with the tour came at Springfield (Mo.) Raceway in the facility’s March Madness and was worth $5,000.
“Oh my God, that was unbelievable,” Stuckey said. “I knew I was good, but I didn’t know if I was anywhere near the front until that (lap-26) caution. I knew when I was about fifth or sixth, and I was like, ‘I got a shot at this.’ I thought, ‘This is gonna be my time to make something happen,’ and every time we’d go into the corner somebody in front of me would push and it fell right into my hands (after Chamberlain spun). Words can’t explain (how this feels). You do all this work and it finally pays off.”
While Clay Stuckey ultimately shined in Victory Lane at the end of the 40-lap affair it was Mark Martin Automotive Fast Qualifier and NewVisionCustomShirts.com Pole Sitter, Tristan Chamberlain, who paced the first 27 circuits of the Comprehensive Motorsports main event. Unfortunately, bad luck bit the Indiana rising star on lap 28 when he got over the turn four cushion and spun to draw a Mr. Dent Caution Flag.
The restart saw Clay Stuckey powering to the lead and drove away from the field in the closing laps to streak under the checkered flag 3.382 seconds in front of Tony Jackson Jr. with Sawyer Crigler, Kyle Beard and 11th-starting Jace Parmley.
With his impressive 19th-to-first charge, Clay Stuckey also collected the MD3 Bodies Hard Charger Award.
With three series events in the book two-time series champion, Logan Martin leads the standings as the Midwest Sheet Metal Marked Man by five markers over Tony Jackson Jr. with Morgan Bagley, Kyle Beard, and B.J. Robinson rounding out the Top 5 in the latest series points
The COMP Cams Super Dirt Series will be idle the rest of March before resuming action on April 5 at Poplar Bluff (Mo.) Speedway with a $5,000-to-win event before rolling into Old No. 1 Speedway (Harrisburg, Ark.) the next night for the $5,000-to-win edition of the Cow Patty.
The CCSDS Super Late Model tire rule for the weekend is as follows:
Left Front Tire: Any Hoosier Tire (90)
Right Front Tire and Left Rear Tire: NLMT2 (90), NLMT3 (90)
Right Rear Tire: NLMT3 (92)
Midwest Sheet Metal A Feature 1 (40 Laps): 1. 15-Clayton Stuckey[19]; 2. 25-Tony Jackson Jr[5]; 3. 11S-Sawyer Crigler[3]; 4. 86B-Kyle Beard[9]; 5. 82-Jace Parmley[11]; 6. 36-Logan Martin[4]; 7. 14M-Morgan Bagley[7]; 8. 12-Scott Crigler[6]; 9. 1-BJ Robinson[16]; 10. 11-Jon Kirby[18]; 11. 5-Jon Mitchell[17]; 12. R5-Hunter Rasdon[22]; 13. 22H-Dustin Hodges[10]; 14. 3W-Brennon Willard[13]; 15. 20TC-Tristan Chamberlain[1]; 16. 5V-Austin Vincent[23]; 17. 88-Chance Mann[24]; 18. 17-Jarret Stuckey[12]; 19. 22-Daniel Hilsabeck[8]; 20. 9-Shane Hebert[21]; 21. 8-Dillon McCowan[2]; 22. 14R-Jeff Roth[14]; 23. B17-Brandon Ball[15]; 24. 60-Kip Hughes[20]
Mid State Golf Cars B Feature 1 (10 Laps): 1. 5-Jon Mitchell[2]; 2. 15-Clayton Stuckey[3]; 3. USA1-Chris Hawkins[1]; 4. 4D-Doug Tye[10]; 5. R5-Hunter Rasdon[6]; 6. 28-Jim Greenway[8]; 7. (DNF) USA1A-Devon Andrews[4]; 8. (DNF) 9-Shane Hebert[7]; 9. (DNF) 71-James Body[5]; 10. (DNS) 8K-Tyler Kuykendall
Mississippi State Police B Feature 2 (10 Laps): 1. 11-Jon Kirby[2]; 2. 60-Kip Hughes[1]; 3. 88-Chance Mann[6]; 4. 81-Troy Bynum[5]; 5. 26M-Matt Menbie[9]; 6. 29-Chandler Moenning[4]; 7. 5V-Austin Vincent[3]; 8. 26-Glen Powell[7]; 9. (DNS) 2-Charlie Cole
Keith Lawson Motorsports Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 20TC-Tristan Chamberlain[1]; 2. 25-Tony Jackson Jr[3]; 3. 86B-Kyle Beard[4]; 4. 3W-Brennon Willard[6]; 5. USA1-Chris Hawkins[8]; 6. 15-Clayton Stuckey[5]; 7. 71-James Body[7]; 8. (DNF) 9-Shane Hebert[2]; 9. (DNS) 8K-Tyler Kuykendall
Dixon Road UPullIt Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 11S-Sawyer Crigler[2]; 2. 14M-Morgan Bagley[1]; 3. 82-Jace Parmley[3]; 4. B17-Brandon Ball[6]; 5. 5-Jon Mitchell[7]; 6. USA1A-Devon Andrews[4]; 7. R5-Hunter Rasdon[8]; 8. 28-Jim Greenway[5]; 9. (DNF) 4D-Doug Tye[9]
Delta Thunder Motorsports Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 8-Dillon McCowan[2]; 2. 12-Scott Crigler[1]; 3. 22H-Dustin Hodges[3]; 4. 14R-Jeff Roth[5]; 5. 60-Kip Hughes[7]; 6. 5V-Austin Vincent[4]; 7. 81-Troy Bynum[6]; 8. 26-Glen Powell[9]; 9. 26M-Matt Menbie[8]
American Built Machinery Company Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 36-Logan Martin[2]; 2. 22-Daniel Hilsabeck[1]; 3. 17-Jarret Stuckey[3]; 4. 1-BJ Robinson[4]; 5. 11-Jon Kirby[6]; 6. 29-Chandler Moenning[7]; 7. 88-Chance Mann[5]; 8. (DNS) 2-Charlie Cole
MARK MARTIN AUTOMOTIVE Qualifying 1: 1. 20TC-Tristan Chamberlain, 00:11.980[1]; 2. 14M-Morgan Bagley, 00:12.117[3]; 3. 9-Shane Hebert, 00:12.463[7]; 4. 11S-Sawyer Crigler, 00:12.475[4]; 5. 25-Tony Jackson Jr, 00:12.596[8]; 6. 82-Jace Parmley, 00:12.755[12]; 7. 86B-Kyle Beard, 00:12.900[10]; 8. USA1A-Devon Andrews, 00:13.007[2]; 9. 15-Clayton Stuckey, 00:13.046[16]; 10. 28-Jim Greenway, 00:13.116[5]; 11. 3W-Brennon Willard, 00:13.167[9]; 12. B17-Brandon Ball, 00:13.278[14]; 13. 71-James Body, 00:13.278[18]; 14. 5-Jon Mitchell, 00:13.288[15]; 15. USA1-Chris Hawkins, 00:13.373[11]; 16. R5-Hunter Rasdon, 00:13.384[17]; 17. 8K-Tyler Kuykendall, 00:13.567[6]; 18. 4D-Doug Tye, 00:13.883[13]
MARK MARTIN AUTOMOTIVE Qualifying 2: 1. 12-Scott Crigler, 00:12.744[12]; 2. 22-Daniel Hilsabeck, 00:12.767[13]; 3. 8-Dillon McCowan, 00:13.012[8]; 4. 36-Logan Martin, 00:13.082[7]; 5. 22H-Dustin Hodges, 00:13.141[3]; 6. 17-Jarret Stuckey, 00:13.286[16]; 7. 5V-Austin Vincent, 00:13.294[11]; 8. 1-BJ Robinson, 00:13.470[5]; 9. 14R-Jeff Roth, 00:13.575[17]; 10. 88-Chance Mann, 00:13.637[9]; 11. 81-Troy Bynum, 00:13.638[2]; 12. 11-Jon Kirby, 00:13.675[10]; 13. 60-Kip Hughes, 00:13.862[15]; 14. 29-Chandler Moenning, 00:13.967[4]; 15. 26M-Matt Menbie, 00:14.069[14]; 16. 2-Charlie Cole, 00:14.218[1]; 17. (DQ) 26-Glen Powell[6]
HYPERCO Hot Laps 1: 1. USA1A-Devon Andrews[2]; 2. 14M-Morgan Bagley[3]; 3. B17-Brandon Ball[14]; 4. 86B-Kyle Beard[10]; 5. 20TC-Tristan Chamberlain[1]; 6. 11S-Sawyer Crigler[4]; 7. 28-Jim Greenway[5]; 8. USA1-Chris Hawkins[11]; 9. 9-Shane Hebert[7]; 10. 25-Tony Jackson Jr[8]; 11. 8K-Tyler Kuykendall[6]; 12. 5-Jon Mitchell[15]; 13. 82-Jace Parmley[12]; 14. R5-Hunter Rasdon[17]; 15. 14R-Jeff Roth[18]; 16. 15-Clayton Stuckey[16]; 17. 4D-Doug Tye[13]; 18. 3W-Brennon Willard[9]
HYPERCO Hot Laps 2: 1. 71-James Body[17]; 2. 81-Troy Bynum[2]; 3. 2-Charlie Cole[1]; 4. 12-Scott Crigler[12]; 5. 22-Daniel Hilsabeck[13]; 6. 22H-Dustin Hodges[3]; 7. 60-Kip Hughes[15]; 8. 11-Jon Kirby[10]; 9. 88-Chance Mann[9]; 10. 36-Logan Martin[7]; 11. 8-Dillon McCowan[8]; 12. 26M-Matt Menbie[14]; 13. 29-Chandler Moenning[4]; 14. 26-Glen Powell[6]; 15. 1-BJ Robinson[5]; 16. 17-Jarret Stuckey[16]; 17. 5V-Austin Vincent[11]