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The 2025 Lemoore Jet Bowl Classic delivered an exciting weekend of racing, drawing over 100 entries and treating fans to great weather and a well-prepared track. Headlining the action was standout driver Jett Yantis, who claimed victory in three of the ten main events, cementing his name as one of the weekend’s top performers. With competitive fields across multiple classes and smooth track conditions throughout, this year’s Jet Bowl Classic lived up to its reputation as one of the Central Valley’s premier micro sprint events. The Jet Bowl Classic was held over two nights with five classes competing, the largest field being the Winged A-class both nights. The Junior Sprint category was sparse with only 11 cars Friday, and 10 on Saturday.
Pole winners for Friday night:
- A-Class: Lucas Mauldin - 55X
- Non-Wing Outlaw: Jeffrey Pahule - 44X
- Restricted: Maya Mauldin - 55X
- Winged Outlaw: Colton Key - 63
A-Class
The A-Class feature would find Tucson, Arizona’s Jace Thurein and Riverdale’s Brycen Roush on the front row with Hanford’s Dalton Parreira and Visalia’s Cash Lovenburg in the second row.
The green flag dropped and Roush wasted no time getting right to the lead with Lovenburg following, hoping to take second from Thurein. However, a caution quickly dampened the battles with Visalia’s Tony Heynen bringing out a yellow after only 2 laps. This caution would also see Laton’s Dash Duinkerken and Templeton’s Dustin Jones coming to a stop in an odd series of events after the yellow waved. I am unsure of the reasons, but Duinkerken would end his night there.
When the green flag came out again, Roush would lead the field with Lovenburg to his right, Parreira and Thurein would be following. Not even 1 lap would be completed with Stanwood, Washington’s Dominic Carter ending up the wrong way before even crossing the line.
Things got lined back up quickly and they restarted once again. This time it would be single file with Roush at the helm. Lovenburg timed the restart expertly and tried his best to stay with Roush on the high side, but Roush found another gear and pulled away, leaving Lovenburg to fight off Thurein.
A lapped car would prove problematic for Roush with 20 laps to go and this allowed Lovenburg to go by and claim the lead. Roush now was in the clutches of Thurein with Lovenburg increasing his lead. Roush would make another mistake while dealing with lapped traffic and end up drifting into the marbles. This allowed Parreira and Thurein to breeze by and try their hand at catching Lovenburg.
The lapped traffic would be bane of the leaders’ existence as it complicated passes and forced them off their preferred lines. This buildup of traffic brought out a yellow with 15 laps to go in the form of an upside-down Hanford native Jaxson Fragaso after a right-side bicycle proved to be too much to overcome. This bunched the leaders back up and brought the top four of Lovenburg, Thurein, Parreira, and Roush, all back together for the remaining 15 laps.
Thurein would absolutely nail the restart from the outside, taking the lead away from Lovenburg. Lovenburg doesn’t slow down and starts railing the cushion to close the gap to Thurein. Parreira and Mauldin started swapping sliders for third place, expanding the distance between them and the leaders.
A yellow comes out with 7 laps to go and Thurein in the lead. Thurein and Lovenburg restart in the front row with Thurein getting the jump, but Lovenburg held it wide open top to take the lead back. A short-lived green run was halted due to Visalia’s Greyson Henry coming to a stop in the fluff at the top of turn 3. Lovenburg was placed back into second due to not completing a lap before the caution came out.
This restart was possibly his last shot at taking point away from Thurein. The green flag came out once again and Lovenburg put it all up top and made the pass with only four laps left. Dalton Parreira was hot on his heels, eager to take second place but another caution would interrupt his momentum. This time for Heynan on the backstretch facing the wrong way, ending his night due being involved in two separate yellow flag incidents. This caution also saw Hailey Boudakian spin around and come to a stop in turns 3 and 4.
With 4 laps to go, the green flew, and Lovenburg put his foot to the floor and crushed the cushion until he saw the checkered. Thurein was able to hold off Parreira and they would complete the podium for the A-class feature on night 1.
Junior Sprints
Junior Sprints did not run any qualifying on Friday night, instead they ran a series of heats to determine the main event starting order. Hanford’s Lee Uzzell and Riverdale’s Huxcen Roush claimed victory and swept their heat races respectively which would put Roush on pole and Uzzell right beside him.
The green flagged dropped on the 20 lap main event and immediately Visalia’s Jaxson Evett made short work of Roush to set his sights on Uzzell. A caution came out with 8 laps to go which was the result of Casen Key going for a spin on the backstretch. Roush was now back in striking position just behind Evett with Uzzell still in the lead.
Roush now had 8 laps to make his move and claim victory, but he had to do it from third place. The race got back underway but Evett didn’t get the jump that Roush did. Evett drifted high out of turn 2, Roush followed but didn’t judge the closing speed quite right and they made contact. Roush’s right front climbed Evett’s left rear and shot towards the sky. However, Roush did a great job by not over-correcting and recovered nicely, although with a slight hit to his momentum.
Despite this, Roush caught and found a way under Evett, completing the pass before turn 1. Evett didn’t let this slow him down and capitalized on a mistake by Roush off turn 2, going high into three hoping to maintain his momentum. Evett and Roush would swap places for another lap, Roush fighting loose off the corners and Evett fighting tight into them.
Roush made a pass with 5 laps to go when a caution came out for Santa Marias Michael Dean III who spun around in turn two. Roush would have one final chance at taking the lead from Uzzell and knew he needed to nail the restart to make the pass. Roush did just that, with perfect timing, he jumped on Uzzell’s mistake and went under him in turn 1, completing the pass down the backstretch.
Uzzell would fight back but made a few more errors, landing in fourth place after washing way out wide in turn two. Roush would never look back and have smooth sailing to the checkered flag. Uzzell would fight for third place with a daring pass on Suisun City’s Nixon Soiland with one to go. The final order would be Roush, Evett, and Uzzell rounding out the podium on night 1 for the Junior Sprints.
Non-Wing Outlaw
Non-Wing Outlaw was up next, with Bakersfield native Nathan Ward sitting on pole and Brentwood’s Jeffrey Pahule beside him. Fresno’s legendary TJ Smith and Visalia’s Jett Barnes will fill out row 2.
Twenty-three cars were slated to start but issues led to Corcoran’s Katy Syra being unable to make the green. Ward started strong and took the lead right away with Barnes and Pahule in pursuit. Meanwhile Smith and Salmon started battling for fourth. Barnes didn’t dawdle and found a way around Pahule into the lead and immediately started increasing the distance to second place.
With only 5 laps down, Colin Kirby of Pleasanthill managed to find himself the wrong way up after a tumble down the front stretch because of one car losing power and another trying to avoid the broken car. Barnes and Salmon would lead the restart to a whopping 2 lap green flag run before a pair of spinning cars brought out the yellow.
This restart would swap Barnes with Pahule on the outside of the front row, but Salmon would maintain his lead. Only 1 lap was completed this time before Barnes had to slow on the front stretch due to a flat right front tire, ending his night.
Salmon would lead the field to the green with twenty-two laps to go. Pahule took off like a rocket, going to the high side and knocking over the cushion to get around Salmon. But just like a rocket, his winners circle hopes would go up in smoke after his engine let go with 21 laps still on the clock. A dejected Pahule climbed out of his car in the infield, resigned to spectator for the remainder of the feature.
Salmon was still in control but now he had the likes of Bakersfield’s Jett Yantis to keep behind him, along with Smith and Tuscon, Arizona native Quinn Thurien. Salmon took the green and went straight to the bottom of the track, which had been working for him all race up to this point. But Salmon realized the top might be coming into play, so he switched up his lines and went to work.
Yantis tried lap after lap to find a way around Salmon but just couldn’t find a way to make it work. All the while, Smith and Thurien were chomping at the bit for a shot at the lead. Salmon now knew that Yantis was there and had to do whatever he could keep him at bay. Smith tried to capitalize on this by throwing slider on Yantis, but nothing stuck and Yantis fought back every time.
Lady luck would favor Yantis with 11 laps to go as Salmon got loose going into three and couldn’t recover fast enough to maintain the lead. Yantis drove right on by as Salmon fought to keep the car straight. Salmon would recover slightly and finish third after dropping to fifth. Yantis never looked back and led every lap to the checkered flag. The podium results would be Yantis, Thurein, and Smith.
Restricted
The always exciting Restricted class feature was on deck with 25 laps and 23 cars on track. Rancho Murieta’s Maya Mauldin and Visalia’s Braxon Vasconcellos brought the field to the green with Kourtney Baker of La Cresenta and Macken Roush of Riverdale starting in row 2.
The main event would start with quite a literal bang as the 9D car of Tulare’s Tyce Domingos would catapult off a right rear and tumble down the front stretch, coming to rest against the turn 1 wall. The field was left unchanged apart from Domingos being in the infield, as a result, the restart would see the same leaders.
This time the field got as far as turn 4 before the yellow. Mauldin would get tight going into turn 3 and slide up the track into the turn 4 wall. Right before the caution came out, two cars got jumbled up on the backstretch, resulting in one upside down. The cars involved were Fresno’s Andrew Williams and Visalia’s Luke Andrade. Andrade would end up on his lid, ending his race while Williams would salvage a 13th place finish.
The next restart would still show 24 laps remaining laps on the board, and three cars were already in the infield collecting a DNF. Vasconcellos led Roush and Baker to the restart and started grinding down the laps, putting space between himself and Roush. Vasconcellos had a close call with a lapped car off turn four, almost spinning the lapper and losing control himself. Lucking everyone recovered and the race continued.
Further back, Visalia’s Aubri Huckleberry was making moves and working towards the front. With 16 laps to go, a caution waved after Pleasant Grove’s Bree Arnold and Hanford’s Bryson Sozinho would end up facing the wrong way in turns 1 and 2. This bunched the field back up and erased Vasconcellos’ massive lead.
Now with Roush and Huckleberry back on his bumper, he had to bring his A-game to maintain the lead and secure victory. Immediately at the restart, Huckelberry found a lane on the bottom and put Roush behind her, sights now set on Vasconcellos. But now Huckleberry had almost a full second of time to make up to get to his bumper, never mind the pass. Fifteen to go saw another caution with two cars tangling bumpers in turns 3 and 4, eliminating Vasconcellos gap once again.
Huckleberry used the last restarts experience again, this time capitalizing on Vasconcellos and grabbing the lead. Huckleberry and Vansconcellos would swap positions time and time again, with Roush and now San Diego’s Cole Bezio, waiting in the wings to pounce on any mistake the leaders might make. Seven to go brought out a yellow once again for a spun car in turn 4.
While Vasconcellos lead was again erased, now lapped traffic would be minimal. A blessing and a curse. This would prove to be Vasconcellos downfall. After the green, Huckleberry passed Vasconcellos on the bottom but gave up her momentum on the top. This allowed Vasconcellos to pull alongside her going down the backstretch. Huckleberry, while understandably trying to defend her position, unnecessarily pushed Vansconcellos down into the bottom berm of the track, which ended up with Vasconcellos locking wheels with her, barrel rolling one time, and landed on his wheels. This destroyed his top wing while she lost her front wing and spun around before coming to a stop.
Huckleberry initially got out of her car, thinking her night was done. But when she noticed that the damage was limited to a front wing, she got back in the car to salvage any positions she could. Ultimately coming 7th from the rear of the field, as far back as 15th. While impressive, she may have had a shot at the win if it hadn’t been for the earlier incident.
The remaining 6 laps started with Cole Bezio on point with Roush and Baker in tow. Only one caution interrupted this run with Los Banos Brodie Copeland taking the scenic route through the infield and bringing Temecula’s Rowdy Medina along for the ride.
The green flag was unfurled for yet another short stint. This time Peoria Arizona’s Jayden Ferneau went for a tumble exiting turn 4, bringing out the red flag and ending his night. The green would wave for a few laps but ultimately, the race would end under a checkered/yellow condition as it had met its time constraint. This time it was brought out by the stopped car of Hanford’s Judd Fragoso. Cole Bezio would be crowned the winner with Mackcen Roush and Miles Boertje completing the podium.
Winged Outlaw
Finally, the crown jewel feature. The Winged Outlaw main event would kick off with Jett Barnes, Jett Yantis, Jake Smith, and Colton Key making up the first 2 rows. A stacked few front rows meant the rest of the field would not have an easy time taking the positions from these guys.
Yantis already had one feature win under his belt tonight. Barnes has proven himself again and again, even winning a few Golden Drillers. Jake Smith is no slouch, coming off a podium at the KKM Showdown. Key mostly recently found victory at Delta Speedway but is also a Mark Hagopian Memorial winner. There’s no doubt these four front row starters have plenty of pedigree.
For the first 5 laps, this lineup would remain largely unchanged. Then finally, on lap 6, a contender would reveal himself in the form of Bozeman Montana’s Cole Schroeder. Schroeder would make his way around Key and set his sights on Smith. Salmon would also appear, making short work of Key and taking fifth place.
A short yellow would arise because of Stockton’s Alex Panella slowing on the front stretch. Panella would join Visalia’s Evan Dixon in the infield for a moment but then rejoin the field within minutes. When the green was thrown again, Yantis and Barnes would still retain the top two spots, this time with Smith and Schroeder chasing them down. Schroeder would throw a huge slider on Barnes going into turn 3 but would fail to completely clear Barnes. Schroeder would lose several spots because of this move.
With 20 laps to go, Key would pull into the infield and retire for the night. Salmon and Schroeder battled for fourth for several laps before Schroeder would leave Salmon behind to try and take 3rd from Smith. With 10 laps to go and lapped traffic heavily effecting the leaders, Yantis found himself with a 4+ second lead on Barnes. With no cautions coming out until lap 25, Yantis was firmly in the lead. But after Hanford’s Keaton Martella came to a stop at the top of turn 3, Yantis would see that lead disappear.
With the leaders bunched back up and only a handful of laps to go, the green flag flew for the final time on night 1 of the Jet Bowl Classic. Yantis, Barnes, Smith, Schroeder, and Salmon would have one final battle for the victory. Schroeder would throw a dive bomb on Smith for third, but this would net a negative outcome for both drivers as Salmon drove right by them on the low side with Dalton Parreira also pouncing on the opportunity to gain a few positions. Yantis would reach the finish unchallenged to take home the win with Barnes and Salmon securing podiums for themselves.
Night 1 of the 2025 Lemoore Jet Bowl Classic set the tone with intense racing, standout performances, and a strong showing from Jett Yantis who already picked up multiple main event wins. With the track in great shape and over 100 cars in the pits, the energy is only building. As teams regroup and adjust for night 2, the stakes get even higher.
See complete night 1 event results here.
Night 2
After night 1 was a success with good racing all around and a great track throughout the event, night 2 would start off with a different feeling around the track. To begin, the races were starting 90 minutes earlier, meaning the track would be in the sun for a longer duration than the day before. The weather was also slightly different with the sun being much stronger on Saturday than it had been on Friday, thanks to slightly overcast skies shielding the clay from the sun’s heat. This meant drivers and team would have to adapt and try their best at guessing what the track might be like through the night. This proved a tall task for some as the track didn’t really slick off and dry out, instead, it picked up lots of rubber and made an absolute glued down line on the bottom side with a nice cushion way up top.
Night 2 Qualifying
In qualifying, the track was standard, nothing unexpected happening yet. Fresh from wheel pack and water, it had lots of grip if the drivers didn’t venture too high. It started out narrow but widened as more cars made their laps.
A-Class saw lap times average in the mid 10 second range with Levi Osborne taking pole.
Junior Sprints would be next with times coming in around the high 12s and Easton Cambensy claiming quick time.
Non-Wing Outlaw always attacks the track differently due to not having any wings and therefore less downforce helping the car find grip. These guys always let it hang over the edge to be fast and are willing to put the car in precarious positions to make a pass or claim pole. This qualifying session was no exception with a few cars sliding way up into the fluff and ruining a lap time. Pole would ultimately go to Niko Panella with a time of 11.852 seconds and the rest of the field falling somewhere in the high 11’s and low 12’s.
Restricted would have their qualifying session next with 17 cars lined up to make a run at fast time. The track had some laps run on it by the previous three classes, so it wasn’t green, but it was far from ideal. Restricted cars don’t make much power, so the key is smooth momentum. Like the non-wing class, lap times ranged from Kasey Leal on pole with an 11.791 all the way to 12.879 at the bottom of the leaderboard.
Finally, Winged Outlaw took to the track to finish up qualifying and a few were brave enough to venture out onto the minimal cushion. This became more common as the session wore on with some drivers using it to get near the top of the boards. Quicktime would go to Cole Schroeder with Austin Torgerson a full two-tenths of a second slower.
Heat Races
Heat winners would include Jett Barnes, Maverick Myrick, and Evan Dixon in the A-Class. In Junior Sprints Samantha Dozier claimed victory. Nathan Ward and Mattix Salmon both reigned supreme in the Non-Wing Outlaw heats. Maya Mauldin and Aubri Huckleberry would take home the victories in the Restricted class. Winged Outlaw would see Keaton Martella and Jake Smith in the top spots.
Feature Races
A-Class
The main events started with a twenty car A Class field facing 25 laps at the Jet Bowl. Cash Lovenburg would hold off the likes of Eric Botelho, Landon Hurst, Jett Barnes, and Evan Dixon to claim a Jet Bowl Classic victory from the pole. Lovenburg was strong right from the green, gaining a full front stretch lead within a handful of laps.
Lap 15 would bring out a caution for Brycen Roush tumbling down the front stretch after contact with the #422 of Dustin Jones pushed him out wide and into the concrete barrier. Lap 20 would see another with Dalton Parreira spinning around the wrong way off turn 4, and on lap 22 Barnes do the same going into turn 3.
The only challenger for Lovenburg all night was the 2B of Botelho throwing a slider but ultimately was unable to make anything stick. Cash “Money” Lovenburg would cruise to victory on the cushion.
Junior Sprints
Juniors took to the track next with Jaxson Evett leading the field to green and Lee Uzzell outside. The 20 lap main saw Evett to an early lead before a yellow interrupted because of an upside-down Smantha Dozier in turn 2.
The green came out with 18 laps to go and saw Evett start to pull away from the field, gaining as much as half a second on Uzzell. On lap 7, Kendyl Leal would end up high centered on the berm in turn 4, which would cause a yellow to fly, erasing Evetts lead.
The remaining laps would roll by without a hitch as Evett claimed victory with Uzzell, Roush, Soiland, and Cambensy grabbing top-5's.
Non-Wing Outlaw
The only topless class of the weekend rolled out in the form of Non-Wing Outlaw with Jett Yantis and Mattix Salmon leading the charge to the 30 lap feature. A short caution would come out a lap later including four cars but only ending Pahule’s night with a nerf bar shoved into the right rear.
Yantis would have one challenge from Salmon on the restart but would get back by and work on distancing himself from the field. Salmon would find something in the track and make the pass on Yantis with 14 laps remaining in the feature and try to pull away. Salmon would retain the lead for another 10 laps, but a lapped car would be his undoing as Yantis rode the cushion while Salmon got stuck behind the slower traffic.
One lap later, Zack Williams would go around off the bumper of Yantis and bring out the caution. Immediately following that event, Salmon would go around off the left rear of Yantis, spinning into the infield in a cloud of dust. But somehow Salmon kept it moving and avoided a “go to the rear” penalty.
The remaining four laps would go smooth with Salmon making a last lap, last corner effort to pass Yantis, but came up one-tenth of a second shy. Quinn Thurein, Caden Stoll, and Cameron Paul completed the top 5.
Restricted
The Restricted 25 lap main event was up next, and Cole Bezio was on point. Mackcen Roush, Miles Boertje, and Rowdy Medina made up the first two rows of the 21 car field. Bezio led every lap for 13 laps before Huckleberry was able to catch and pass him with the help of some lapped traffic that Huckleberry was able navigate better.
With 5 laps to go, Roush entered the fray and started his bid for second place. Bezio would never leave Huckleberry’s bumper for the rest of the race, even hooking Huckleberry’s left rear while trying to pass her into turn 3. They both held onto their spots despite this incident and continued with 2 laps to go. Huckleberry would hold onto the lead and win the Restricted feature while Bezio, Roush, Mauldin, and Bookout would follow.
Winged Outlaw
Now it was the “main” main event time. The Winged Outlaw class was up next and 15 cars would take the grid in a bid to claim the top prize in the Jet Bowl Classic Finale. Yantis, Torgerson, Barnes, and Salmon would start in the front two rows with all eyes on the #4 of Jett Yantis.
Yantis had already claimed 2 feature wins this weekend and was starting from the pole for the final feature event. Thirty laps sat between these drivers and a victory, who would come out on top? Well, it started rough, with Cody Christensen having issues and bringing out a caution one lap into the race.
Barnes and Torgerson both passed Yantis on lap 5 after a series of mistakes took the air out Yantis sails. Yantis would refocus and get back by Torgerson a lap later, now with his sights set on Barnes. For nearly 15 laps, Barnes would enjoy some breathing room with over half a second between him and the #4.
But lapped traffic would soon bury that comfort and place Barnes squarely in Yantis’ crosshairs. With 12 laps to go, Yantis changed tactics and went to the high side in hope that Barnes would stay on the bottom, hindered by the slower cars. It didn’t quite go to plan as Barnes expertly navigated the traffic and once again found clean air, leaving Yantis to pick his way through the back markers.
Lap 25 would give Barnes something to worry about as he got stuck behind a slower car with Yantis quickly closing the gap. For four laps, Barnes ran his line behind the lapped car, knowing Yantis was back there somewhere waiting to pounce. But Yantis wasn’t able to close enough to give it a go and Barnes would cross the line in first place, sealing a victory at the Jet Bowl Classic.
2025 Jet Bowl Classic Champions
- A-Class - Cash Lovenburg
- Junior Sprint - Jaxson Evett
- Non-Wing Outlaw - Jett Yantis
- Restricted - Aubri Huckleberry
- Winged Outlaw - Jett Barnes
Find complete night 2 event results here.