Matt Kenseth, Chase Elliott, William Byron and Erik Jones join the super late model field
It’s the night of the Slinger Nationals, one of the biggest super late model races of the season. The field is set to take on the 1/4-mile bullring of Slinger Super Speedway.
View Slinger Nationals results below.
Levon Van Der Geest and Gio Ruggiero set the front row. 200 laps of short track racing are up next…
Main Event
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Green flag, Levon Van Der Geest gets the jump. Austin Nason follows him through to take 2nd. Matt Kenseth leans on the bumper of Ruggiero for 3rd but he can’t complete the pass.
Lap 4, Austin Nason looks inside of Van Der Geest for the lead. Nason clears him to take the lead.
Lap 10, William Byron slides Derek Thorn for 5th. Thorn gets into his bumper and Steve Apel drives by both of them to take 5th away.
Lap 28, William Sawalich, Brad Mueller and Brad keith spin and the caution is out.
Green, Nason leads as they rub fenders for 2nd behind him. Levon Van Der Geest takes 2nd away.
Lap 66, Luke Fenhaus works by Ruggiero to take 2nd away.
Lap 67, Matt Kenseth is off the pace. He heads for the pit lane under green.
Lap 74, Fenhaus is on the bumper of Nason for the lead. Nason moves up the track opting for the defensive outside lane. Fenhaus pulls even on the inside and takes the lead away.
Race break
Lap 100, the race break caution is out.
Green, Fenhaus and Nason run side by side at the front. Fenhaus wins the battle via the inside lane.
Lap 135, Derek Thorn doors Jacob Nottestad for 8th. As he’s forced up the banking, Chase Elliott works under him for 9th.
34 to go, Fenhaus leads Majeski by 1 second.
6 to go, Luke Fenhaus works heavy lap traffic. 8 cars are on the lead lap.
3 to go, Levon Van Der Geest pulls to the apron with a broken machine from 6th. The caution is out.
Green, Fenhaus and Majeski run side by side into turn one. Majeski noses ahead on the outside off turn two! Majeski clears him off turn four from the outside lane!
Ty Majeski wins the Slinger Nationals!
Slingler Speedway
Race Results
July 11, 2023
Full Super Late Model Results:
Qualifying
Qualifying (Top 16 Lock Into Main Event) : 1. 11P-Alex Prunty (11.3040); 2. 92B-RJ Braun (11.3400); 3. 91M-Ty Majeski (11.3530); 4. 4F-Luke Fenhaus (11.3610); 5. 9E-Chase Elliott (11.3630); 6. 51A-Steve Apel (11.3840); 7. 7T-Derek Thorn (11.3900); 8. 24B-William Byron (11.4020); 9. 8K-Matt Kenseth (11.4021); 10. Austin Nason (11.406);
11. Gio Ruggiero (11.408); 12. Levon Van Der Geest (11.419); 13. Grant Griesbach (11.421); 14. Jacob Nottestad (11.426); 15. Conrad Morgan (11.426); 16. Johnny Sauter (11.439); 17. Dennis Prunty (11.441); 18. Ryan Farrell (11.456); 19. Brad Mueller (11.458); 20. William Sawalich (11.463);
21. Rich Loch (11.464); 22. John DeAngelis (11.467); 23. Connor Jones (11.472); 24. Jeff Storm (11.480); 25. Derek Kraus (11.483); 26. Brad Keith (11.493); 27. Gabe Sommers (11.495); 28. Ryan DeStafano (11.519); 29. Erik Jones (11.529); 30. Blake Brown (11.533);
31. Jeremy Lepak (11.547); 32. Michael Hinde (11.556); 33. Stephen Nasse (11.582); 34. Steve Dorer (11.598)
LCQ
40 Laps (Top 4 Advance) : 1. William Sawalich; 2. John DeAngelis; 3. Erik Jones; 4. Connor Jones; 5. Rich Loch; 6. Derek Kraus; 7. Blake Brown; 8. Gabe Sommers; 9. Jeremy Lepak; 10. Jeff Storm; 11. Ryan Farrell; 12. Ryan DeStefano; 13. Steve Dorer;
Main Event
1. Ty Majeski
2. Luke Fenhaus
3. Derek Thorn
4. John DeAngelis
5. Austin Nason
6. Chase Elliott
7. Steve Apel
8. Levon Van Der Geest
9. Brad Mueller
10. William Byron
11. Erik Jones
12. Stephen Nasse
13. Gio Ruggiero
14. Jacob Nottestad
15. Derek Kraus
16. Dennis Prunty
17. William Sawalich
18. Rich Loch
19. Grant Griebach
20. Alex Prunty
21. Johnny Sauter
22. Matt Kenseth
23. Connor Jones
24. Conrad Morgan
25. Brad Keith
26. RJ Braun
27. Ryan DeStefano
