{"id":40634,"date":"2022-10-28T20:41:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T00:41:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dirtcar.com\/?p=40634"},"modified":"2023-08-08T16:44:12","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T20:44:12","slug":"10-28-2022-hornets-the-dirt-track-at-charlotte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dirtcar.com\/dirtcar-ump\/sport-compacts\/10-28-2022-hornets-the-dirt-track-at-charlotte\/","title":{"rendered":"Slone, Presnell, Windham score World Short Track Hornet Friday Feature wins"},"content":{"rendered":"
The first three DIRTVision Hornet Features for the seventh annual World Short Track Championship at The Dirt Track at Charlotte saw two repeat victors and a first-time winner.<\/p>\n
With 55 Hornets entered for the division\u2019s marquee event, the field was split into three 15-lap Features Friday night.<\/p>\n
Zack Slone, in his first ever World Short Track Championship start, claimed his first event victory in the first Feature, while Newman Presnell and John Windham returned to Victory Lane in the proceeding two.<\/p>\n
Here is how each Feature played out\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n FEATURE #1 After a restart on Lap 4, Smith became prey to two starving hunters. Brad McManus and Zack Slone stayed within inches of Smith on the restart, making a tight three-way battle for the lead.<\/p>\n The trio dueled for multiple laps before McManus and Slone overpowered Smith for the top two spots.<\/p>\n Ripping the high side of the 4\/10-mile track, about bicycling his car every lap with the left rear leaving the ground on corner entry, Slone found an opening to the outside of McManus and passed him for the lead by the halfway point of the race.<\/p>\n With four laps to go, Smith suffered an issue, bringing his car to a stop in Turn 4, and brought out a caution. On the restart, McManus looked low on Slone into Turn 1, but Slone had the better momentum up top and drove away with his first career World Short Track Championship victory.<\/p>\n \u201cIt feels amazing, man\u201d Slone said, trying to catch his breath with every word. \u201cLiterally built this motor\u2026 had it built last week and blew it up in four laps, rushed to get it together for tonight and bring it out here and win in my first try. It feels great.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m known for finishing second a lot. Leading the whole race and losing it on the last lap. I\u2019m happy to finish it off this time.\u201d<\/p>\n McManus settled for second, CJ LaVair finished third, Ricky Weaver fourth and Hunter Wallace rounded out the top five.<\/p>\n FULL RESULTS (Feature #1 \u2013 15 laps):<\/strong> <\/a><\/p>\n When the second Feature commenced, polesitter Wayne Taylor could barely get a step ahead before being pulled into a battle for the top spot by Cale Deese and Newman Presnell \u2013 who had already worked his way from fifth to third.<\/p>\n Deese edged ahead of them down the backstretch to claim the early lead. However, his moment of glory was also short lived. After stalking Deese for a couple laps, Presnell threw a slide job into Turn 3 and cleared Deese by the next turn.<\/p>\n From there, Presnell \u2013 who won both of his World Short Track Championship Hornet races last year \u2013 put his #48 car on cruise control and drove to his third straight Dirt Track at Charlotte victory.<\/p>\n \u201cWe had a pretty good car,\u201d Presnell said. \u201cWe won here last year in both our races. I knew we had a good car and a good setup. Just stay smooth. Fifteen laps. That\u2019s a lot of time to make it to the front. The track is big and wide. Just stay smooth. Stay consistent. Run my own race and it worked out good for us.\u201d<\/p>\n Deese finished second with Taylor third, Justin Harris fourth and \u201cTop-Five Ken\u201d Kenneth Colf in fifth.<\/p>\n FULL RESULTS (Feature #2 \u2013 15 laps)<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>When the green flag flew for the first DIRTVision Hornet Feature of the night, Seth Smith earned the title as the first Hornet driver to lead a lap this weekend. However, his claim to the lead was short lived.<\/p>\n
\n1. 91Z-Zack Slone[9]; 2. 3B-Brad McManus[7]; 3. C4-CJ LaVair[16]; 4. 21-Ricky Weaver[15]; 5. 1X-Hunter Wallace[10]; 6. 4-Daniel Wright[18]; 7. 5H-Tyler Hopkins[2]; 8. 74N-Allen Wyatt[8]; 9. D2-Danny Tate[5]; 10. 12Y-Lonnie Laney[14]; 11. 04-Dustin Miller[3]; 12. 58-Ronnie Hall[12]; 13. A2-Carson Venable[6]; 14. 243-Seth Smith[1]; 15. 25X-Daniel McManus[17]; 16. 0H-Jacob Hayes[4]; 17. 0-Shawn Peche[13]; 18. 4M-Billy Mack; 19. 4X-Cookie Thompson[19]; 20. (DNS) 41-Parker Griffin<\/p>\n
\nFEATURE #2
\n<\/strong>After crowning a first-time DIRTVision Hornet World Short Track Championship winner in first Feature, a multi-time winner reigned supreme at the conclusion of the second.<\/p>\n
\n1. 48-Newman Presnell[5]; 2. 35-Cale Deese[2]; 3. 14T-Wayne Taylor[1]; 4. 1H-Justin Harris[4]; 5. 15-Kenneth Colf[12]; 6. 05-Jammie Kelly[16]; 7. 359-Michael Lambert[13]; 8. H2-Alex Brooks[10]; 9. 12X-David Laney[17]; 10. 23-Eric Grant[18]; 11. 41JR-Kolten Saam[3]; 12. 0S-Tony Slack[7]; 13. 2020-James Harrelson[14]; 14. 7L-Marcus Locklear[6]; 15. (DNS) 5-Sean Vardell; 16. (DNS) 2D-Daniel Tate; 17. (DNS) A23-Andrew Rich; 18. (DNS) 4M-Billy Mack<\/p>\n