Story By: TYLER ALTMEYER / TKS MOTORSPORTS – MITCHELLVILLE, IA – Rocky weekends tend to happen, especially in the world of competitive open wheel racing, and for Chase Randall and TKS Motorsports, it was a rocky Iowa weekend, highlighting all starts with a 13th-place score in a High Limit Racing visit to 34 Raceway in West Burlington, Iowa, on Friday, May 10.
Randall, a recent 360 Sprint Car winner at Knoxville Raceway, started the High Limit program in the exact same position, qualifying for the $12,000-to-win main event with a fourth-place finish during heat race competition.
Although scored 20th the following evening at Knoxville Raceway, Randall, ace of Troy Renfro’s Albaugh – Your Alternative, Iowa Barnstormers, Des Moines Industrial Products, Jersey Freeze Ice Cream, AL Driveline, TJ Forged, No. 2KS sprint car, was well on his way to a top-ten, winning the program’s B-Main before launching an insane charge to seventh in the evening’s 410 Sprint Car main event. Unfortunately, accidental contact with another competitor ended Randall’s potential hard charge.
“We need to work on being better earlier on in the evening. It’s tough getting out of a hole,” Troy Renfro explained. “Chase [Randall] never gives up and I’m proud of him for that. He was close to turning a bad situation into a good one at Knoxville, but those things happen. We’ll put this away and begin preparing for another big weekend. It should be an exciting two days.”
TKS Motorsports and Chase Randall will continue their 2024 campaign with an action-packed weekend in the Midwest, first joining the POWRi 410 Outlaw Sprints at Lee County Speedway in Donnellson, Iowa, on Friday, May 17, followed by a start at Knoxville Raceway in Knoxville, Iowa, on Saturday, May 18.