John Ownbey
Tops Inaugural Thanksgiving Thunder Field!
(November
23, 2024) John Ownbey passed Tucker Anderson on lap 22
to take the lead and win the inaugural Thanksgiving Thunder race.
Anderson won the pole for the 30-lap feature and fought off Skip
Arp to get the early lead. Ownbey battled Bobby Giffin for third
and eventually took the spot before the lap 10 mark of the race.
Arp would have trouble before the halfway mark to move Ownbey
into second. On the restart, Ownbey worked on Anderson using the
outside line. Ownbey got alongside Anderson on lap 21 and completed
the pass on lap 22. Giffin finished comfortably in third ahead
of Hayden Ownbey and Travis Fultz. (MRM Racing
Photo)
Colby Horner led flag-to-flag to get his first sportsman late
model win at Smoky Mountain. Horner had to hold off Mitchell Childress
as the leaders fought though slower traffic. Horner finally cleared
the traffic with two laps to go to hold on for the win.
Colton Proffitt took advantage of a spin by race leader Jacob
Hall to win the open wheel modified feature. Hall lead most of
the race before tangling with a slower car in turn 2. Proffitt
inherited the lead and held off Ace Claborn to get the win.
Tim Kilby took the early lead from Austin Atkins and never looked
back in winning the street stock feature. Eric Hughes got around
Atkins for second.
Layton Bennett dominated the Tennessee Mod Lite feature in a
caution-free race. Bennett grabbed the lead over Jaedon McDowell
on the start and was never pressured in taking the win.
Austin Maples won the front wheel drive feature. As Maples was
in charge, a fierce battle for second was taking place between
Taylor Gregory, Brandon Porstner, and Gregory Wyatt. Porstner
took second place in the race and Wyatt followed to take third.
Cody Smith held off Jonathan Allen to win the Crown Vic feature.
Smith and Allen moved past pole sitter Joseph McGill to battle
among themselves for the lead. Allen remained glued to the rear
bumper of Smith as the laps counted down. Smith held off one final
challenge to win.
Steel Block Late Models: 1. 44-John
Ownbey[4]; 2. 22A-Tucker Anderson[1]; 3. 97-Bobby Giffin[3]; 4.
18O-Hayden Ownbey[5]; 5. 329-Travis Fultz[7]; 6. 07-Hayden Cardwell[10];
7. 29-Rusty Ballenger[6]; 8. 32-Jason Manley[9]; 9. 51M-Mack McCarter[11];
10. 84-Ryan Tims[8]; 11. 18-Brandon Kinzer[16]; 12. 23C-Layne
Clifton[13]; 13. 27-Jordon Horton[14]; 14. 90J-Jason Trammell[23];
15. 7-Tyler Price[17]; 16. 777-Mike Skelly[18]; 17. 51-Jed Emert[22];
18. 31-Skip Arp[2]; 19. 63-Josh Collins[19]; 20. 66-Eric Groah[24];
21. 01-Tate McCollum[20]; 22. 31T-Wes Tilley[12]; 23. 22-Mike
Weeks[15]; 24. 20-Daniel Boles[21]
Sportsman Late Models: 1. 15-Colby
Horner[1]; 2. 2C-Mitchell Childress[2]; 3. Z1-Zach Shannon[4];
4. 8-Jacob Owens[5]; 5. 98-Jed Emert[7]; 6. 6C-Chandler Hickman[3];
7. 2P-Terry Poore[6]; 8. 07A-Addison Cardwell[10]; 9. 10B-Bradley
Lewelling[9]; 10. 7-Heath Alvey[13]; 11. 16-Dawson Lowe[8]; 12.
C4-Cameron Hawkins[12]; 13. 5-Curtis Thomas[16]; 14. 31-Brad Seagle[18];
15. D22-DJ Shannon[14]; 16. 2-Austin Atkins[22]; 17. 102-Reed
Hatchett[15]; 18. 22W-Dustin Ward[20]; 19. 33-Warren McMahan[23];
20. 50-Adam Mitchell[19]; 21. 21J-Jon Ellison[11]; 22. 11-Tanner
Haines[17]; 23. 11T-Tim Bounds[24]; 24. 22-Jonathan McKenzie[21]
Open Wheels: 1. 56-Colton Profitt[2];
2. 12C-Ace Claborn[3]; 3. 26-Adam Ogle[4]; 4. 11-Reece Ogle[5];
5. 28C-Jeff Cotterman[6]; 6. 29C-Joey Cotterman[10]; 7. 13-David
Clark[9]; 8. 43J-Jacob Hall[1]; 9. 2N-Drew Nolley[17]; 10. 3-Kaleb
Trent[8]; 11. 36P-Billy Palmer[15]; 12. 2-Alan Poyner[16]; 13.
4D-David Lester[14]; 14. 66-Adam Wright[11]; 15. 36-Chris Rickett[12];
16. 24-Jeff Ferguson[18]; 17. 99-Shannon Elrod[13]; 18. (DNS)
12-Jeremy Rayburn; 19. (DNS) 5-Jamey Mahon
Street Stocks: 1. T11-Tim Kilby[2];
2. 10-Eric Hughes[3]; 3. 14-Austin Atkins[1]; 4. 88-Sam Burgess[4];
5. 1-Cody Satterfield[6]; 6. A13-Austin Byrd[11]; 7. M2-Shannon
Emery[7]; 8. 23-Greg Huskey[5]; 9. B00-Josh Henry[13]; 10. 15-Lamar
Hughes[14]; 11. 156-Marcus Mays[10]; 12. 20X-Tim Nolan[15]; 13.
51-Dalton King[12]; 14. 51L-Dave Lewis[16]; 15. J3-Chad McLemore[19];
16. 8-Nick Baker[17]; 17. 8F-Brandon Francis[18]; 18. 51E-Everett
Hardin[21]; 19. 80-Brayden Blevins[22]; 20. 42-Robbie Comer[8];
21. B01-Brandon Johnson[20]; 22. (DNS) 21XP-Bobbie Petty; 23.
(DNS) 77-Brandon Griswold
Tennessee Mod Lites: 1. B7-Layton
Bennett[1]; 2. 722-Jaedon McDowell[2]; 3. 49-Jason Masengarb[3];
4. LR8-Ronnie Choate[5]; 5. 49B-Ben Blalock[4]; 6. 8-Scott Jordan[6];
7. 22-Logan Lewis[7]; 8. 81-Dennis Cooper[8]; 9. 11H-Darrick Hubbard
Jr[10]; 10. 60-Ron Nelson[14]; 11. 34-Chris Pinkston[16]; 12.
64-Micah Collins[12]; 13. 11-Joseph Dunlap[17]; 14. 3-Nathan Wolfe[9];
15. 95-Angel Rivera[18]; 16. 41-Richard Houston[13]; 17. (DNS)
T25-Troy Turner; 18. (DNS) 11C-Carson Hubbard
Front Wheel Drive: 1. 23-Austin
Maples[1]; 2. B56-Brandon Porstner[5]; 3. 17W-Gregory Wyatt[4];
4. 85-Travis Weeks[3]; 5. 75-Eric Partin[7]; 6. 82-Taylor Gregory[2];
7. 26-Michael Lambert[6]; 8. 24-Ricky Ritenour[28]; 9. 14-Kaven
Greene[12]; 10. 10-Dan Sandiford[18]; 11. 49-Andrew Edens[16];
12. J4-Jacob Anderson[22]; 13. 7B-Cody Gentry[8]; 14. 17-Dustin
Holt[9]; 15. 22-Nik Camper[10]; 16. 69-Josh Chastain[23]; 17.
12-Trent Lee[26]; 18. 8-Dylan Cupp[27]; 19. 57C-Cody Ritenour[13];
20. 51-Colton Keasler[20]; 21. 6-Allen Vaughn[29]; 22. B01-Elias
Dalton[24]; 23. 21T-Travis Taylor[15]; 24. 08-Daniel Beckham[14];
25. X-Tank Ingram[11]; 26. 00-Brandon Crawford[21]; 27. 57-Shal
Ritenour[25]; 28. (DNS) N90-Nick Adams; 29. (DNS) J19-Dylan Jones
Crown Vics: 1. 75-Cody Smith[2];
2. 11-Jonathan Allen[4]; 3. J1-Joseph McGill[1]; 4. 13-Amber Gilpatrick[3];
5. 20-Anthony Brown[5]
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