Belleville, IL. (8/13/23) Increasing intrigue into Night Three of the Fifth Annual POWRi Lightning Sprint Nationals as the hosting POWRi Minn-Kota Lightning Sprint Series would welcome competitors from all over the United States and Canada onto the class facility of Greenbush Race Park with Canadian talent Alex Therrien emerging victorious to claim Nationals Night Three glory as well as overall weeklong Nationals points lead.
Remaining resilient in the four-day speed-fest in Greenbush Minnesota with thirty-five talented entries, Night Three of the POWRi Lightning Sprint Nationals would find the hometown merits of Dylan Langevin claiming checkers in Heat Race One and Alan Truscinski winning Heat Race Three as Victoriaville Quebec driver Alex Therrien emerged victorious in Heat Race Two and Union Grove Wisconsin wheelman Adrew Kiedrowski winning Heat Race Four. Semi-feature winners would include Californian Grant Sexton and Quebecer Eric Sunborg.
Launching on the feature green flag racing would find Californian Dash winner Brent Sexton, after a complete rebuild from the prior event, battle front-row companion and weeklong point-leader Alex Therrien into the first pair of corners as the patriarch Sexton-Gatlin driver would blast to the preferred position with Therrien, Dexter Dvergsten, Jesse Fernandez, and Alan Truscinski all right behind the leader compiling the top-five.
Battling nearly every lap in almost every corner, the feature event would witness four lead changes with Brent Sexton, Jesse Fernandez, Dexter Dvergsten, and Alex Therrien all sharing duties as lap leaders throughout an action-packed forty-lap feature event that would also see several drivers advance multiple positions on the finely prepared Greenbush Race Park surface with several grooves of speedy racing.
Holding the front of the field on the gem of a track for the final thirty-two laps of the forty-lap feature event, Alex Therrien would not be denied in his making an emphatic statement of speed to earn his inaugural career victory in the POWRi Lightning Sprint Division while also overtaking the lead in the weeklong racing retreat after the Night Three feature finish.
Leader of seven laps in the early part of the feature event, Brent Sexton would recover from a previous night's mishap to finish runner-up as perennial powerhouse Dexter Dvergsten would clinch third from starting tenth. Hometown hopeful Alan Truscinski finished fourth with hard-charger Josiah King flying past fourteen other competitors to round out the top-five finishers for the hosting POWRi Minn-Kota Lightning Sprint Series feature event at Greenbush Race Park for Night Three of the 2023 POWRi Lightning Sprint Nationals.
The Top-four points earners from the previous three days will be automatically locked into Sunday’s final POWRi Lightning Sprint Nationals feature event at Buffalo River Speedway will be 1. #21-Alex Therrien(Victoriaville, QC), 2. #16N-Mike Neau(Pleasant Prairie, WI), 3. #24B-Johnny Boos(Lakewood, CO), and 4. 11-Dexter Dvergsten(Greenbush, MN).
POWRi Lightning Sprint Regional Feature Results | POWRi Lightning Sprint Nationals:
MKLS @ Greenbush Race Park(8/12/23): A Feature (40 Laps): 1. 21-Alex Therrien[2]; 2. 44-Brent Sexton[1]; 3. 11-Dexter Dvergsten[10]; 4. 13-Alan Truscinski[4]; 5. 13J-Josiah King[19]; 6. 24L-Jeremy Lafleur[16]; 7. 4-Dylan Langevin[9]; 8. 29-Stephane St Laurent[14]; 9. 24B-Johnny Boos[5]; 10. 16-Eric Sunborg[18]; 11. 24-Bryce Haugeberg[11]; 12. 16N-Mike Neau[21]; 13. 7-Josh Flood[20]; 14. 61-Jesse Fernandez[3]; 15. 3F-Chris Crowder[6]; 16. K9-Andrew Kiedrowski[7]; 17. 18-Hayden Koehmstedt[8]; 18. (DNF) 87-Matthew Taves[12]; 19. (DNF) 3S-Grant Sexton[17]; 20. (DNF) 5-Tyler Trengove[22]; 21. (DNF) 55H-Mark Heinert[15]; 22. (DNF) 18E-Emmitt Isane[13]; 23. (DNF) 22-Chase Fischer[23]; 24. (DNF) 27-Weston Olson[24].
B Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 3S-Grant Sexton[3]; 2. 13J-Josiah King[1]; 3. 16N-Mike Neau[2]; 4. 22-Chase Fischer[9]; 5. 31-Steve Becker[4]; 6. 21B-BJ Sauer[8]; 7. 11X-Brock Purvis[7]; 8. 11B-Loki Bjerke[10]; 9. 10C-Chasity Younger[6]; 10. 40-Evan Yanish[5].
B Feature 2 (12 Laps): 1. 16-Eric Sunborg[3]; 2. 7-Josh Flood[2]; 3. 5-Tyler Trengrove[1]; 4. 27-Weston Olson[8]; 5. 1W-Mark Williams[7]; 6. 91-Mike Tindell[4]; 7. 23-Gerald Hatlestad[5]; 8. 20-Jasmyn Hatlestad[6]; 9. (DNS) 3-Alan Therrien.
Dash 1 (8 Laps): 1. 44-Brent Sexton[2]; 2. 21-Alex Therrien[1]; 3. 61-Jesse Fernandez[6]; 4. 13-Alan Truscinski[7]; 5. 24B-Johnny Boos[8]; 6. 3F-Chris Crowder[5]; 7. K9-Andrew Kiedrowski[3]; 8. 18-Hayden Koehmstedt[4].
Heat 1 (10 Laps): 1. 4-Dylan Langevin[1]; 2. 61-Jesse Fernandez[9]; 3. 18E-Emmitt Isane[5]; 4. 24-Bryce Haugeberg[8]; 5. 3S-Grant Sexton[3]; 6. 31-Steve Becker[6]; 7. 11X-Brock Purvis[2]; 8. 1W-Mark Williams[7]; 9. (DNS) 3-Alan Therrien.
Heat 2 (10 Laps): 1. 21-Alex Therrien[2]; 2. 11-Dexter Dvergsten[3]; 3. 24B-Johnny Boos[8]; 4. 29-Stephane St Laurent[7]; 5. 16N-Mike Neau[4]; 6. 13J-Josiah King[9]; 7. 23-Gerald Hatlestad[5]; 8. (DNF) 21B-BJ Sauer[1]; 9. (DNF) 11B-Loki Bjerke[6].
Heat 3 (10 Laps): 1. 13-Alan Truscinski[2]; 2. 3F-Chris Crowder[6]; 3. 24L-Jeremy Lafleur[1]; 4. 55H-Mark Heinert[5]; 5. 16-Eric Sunborg[3]; 6. 7-Josh Flood[7]; 7. 10C-Chasity Younger[4]; 8. 40-Evan Yanish[9]; 9. (DNF) 22-Chase Fischer[8].
Heat 4 (10 Laps): 1. K9-Andrew Kiedrowski[2]; 2. 44-Brent Sexton[4]; 3. 18-Hayden Koehmstedt[8]; 4. 87-Matthew Taves[7]; 5. 5-Tyler Trengrove[5]; 6. 91-Mike Tindell[1]; 7. 20-Jasmyn Hatlestad[3]; 8. (DNF) 27-Weston Olson[6].
POWRi Lightning Sprint Nationals will finalize the weekend at Buffalo River Speedway on Sunday, August 13th. Additional information including photos, results, payout, format, and accommodations can be found on the Minn-Kota Lightning Sprints Facebook page.
Current 2023 POWRi Lightning Sprint National Points Standings | As of 8/13/23:
- Dexter Dvergsten 2. Kate Taves -390, 3. Mathew Taves -420, 4. Dylan Langevin -620, 5. Kelsi Pederson -660, 5. Alex Truscinski -660, 7. Alan Truscinski -680, 8. Jason Berg -920, 9. Mark Williams -1120, 10. Gerald Hatlestadt -1470.
Current POWRi Lightning Sprints Points standings are available online at http://www.powri.com/downloads/get.aspx?i=856870.
Tentative POWRi Lightning Sprints Upcoming Point-Event Schedule:
8/13/23: Buffalo River Speedway | Glyndon, MN | | POWRi Lightning Sprint Nationals
8/18/23: Electric City Speedway | Butler, MO | MLS
8/19/23: Central Missouri Speedway | Warrensburg, MO | MLS
8/19/23: Greenbush Race Park | Greenbush, MN | MKLS
8/19/23: Perris Auto Speedway | Perris, CA | SWLS
8/20/23: Buffalo River Speedway | Glyndon, MN | MKLS
8/26/23: Central Missouri Speedway | Warrensburg, MO | MLS
8/26/23: El Paso County Raceway | Calhan, CO | RMLSA
8/27/23: Buffalo River Speedway | Glyndon, MN | MKLS
POWRi Lightning Sprint Full 2023 Schedule is available online at http://www.powri.com/downloads/get.aspx?i=801426&fbclid=IwAR0R3ImydR5ScNVRTXf3VZpyFHjPJkkPdHtSdD8TK-2jU1M7gE9aLoyLDAU.
Full Point fund for the National POWRi Lightning Sprint Division can be found at http://www.powri.com/downloads/get.aspx?i=690554. A POWRi Lightning Sprint National Points System breakdown can be found online at http://www.powri.com/downloads/get.aspx?i=690553. Rules and guidelines are available online at http://www.powri.com/downloads/get.aspx?i=611007.
More information about the POWRi Midwest Lightning Sprint can be found online at www.midwestlightningsprintsracing.com, or on Facebook.
Future updates and information regarding the POWRi Olson Underground Minn-Kota Lightning Sprints can be found at www.minnkotalightningsprints.com or follow along on social media.
For more information on the POWRi EMi Rocky Mountain Lightning Sprint Association visit www.rmlsa.com or Facebook and Twitter pages @RMLSA.
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- Cassy Staley on Aug 13, 2023
- Article Date: 8/13/2023