SAPULPA, OK (Nov. 14, 2025) โ Under a bright spotlight at his home track with friends, family and sponsors watching, Blake Hahn pulled through when it mattered most.
Hahn, the two-time American Sprint Car Series champion from Sapulpa, OK, scored his third Series victory of the season Friday night, passing veteran racer Zach Chappell for the lead on a green-white-checkered finish and holding on for the win at Creek County Speedway.
This wasnโt just another triumph at the track built by grandfather and Series founder, Emmett Hahn. This one came on opening night of the 10th edition of Fuzzyโs Fall Fling โ the event that honors Blakeโs late grandmother.
โAny time we can be on top, itโs great, but to be on top at this race, it means that much more,โ he said. โItโs a good momentum start for the weekend and, hopefully, we can finish it strong tomorrow.โ
From the drop of the green until the final circuit, Chappell appeared to be the man to beat at the head of the field. The 2001 Series champion from Talala, OK, took the lead from Chance Morton on Lap 2 and paced the field around the 1/4-mile oval while Hahn began his march forward from fifth on the starting grid.
First was Chance Morton. Next came Sam Hafertepe Jr. Then it was the move for second on Matt Covington with five laps remaining. Hahn soon looked up and saw only Chappell and his No. 50z ahead of him with the white flag in the air. And then came the yellow.
With Austyn Gossel spun around in Turn 2, the field was restacked for a green-white-checkered shootout to the finish line. Chappell sat out front under yellow, knowing exactly his plan for the final restart.
โI really wasnโt thinking, I was just trying to keep my car straight,โ Chappell said. โStraight and smooth on the bottom was really where I was thinking. I hadnโt seen anybody or heard anybody get to the outside of me. I was just trying to pace myself.โ
The green flag waved and Chappell took off around the bottom lane, while Hahn opted for a different strategy.
โDalton (Seigler, crew chief) was over here telling me to rip the top for one lap, so I bumped the wing back just a little bit and sailed it in on the top,โ Hahn said. โIt looked like, to me, a few of the guys had been up there and it kinda rolled-in the top in (Turns) 1 and 2, so I was able to get a good run down the back straightaway on the top and then finish it off of 4.โ
With plenty of speed heading into Turn 3, Hahn again threw his No. 52 car against the cushion, got a great run off of Turn 4 and beat Chappell back to the flag stand by .148 seconds to take the lead with the white flag in the air.
The two went side-by-side through Turns 1 and 2 once more, but Hahnโs top-side momentum carried him past Chappell down the backstretch and back around to the checkered flag.
โWhen Zach won in 2001, I was only six years old at that point,โ Hahn said. โZach is still the youngest champion at 18 years old and, obviously, is still a good driver. I said it in my post-race interview โ Zach and I are really good friends, so I was kinda cheering him on when I was sitting in about fourth. I was like, โMan, I would like to see Zach win this deal.โ
โBut obviously, we want to win every single one of them. Weโre happy to pull it off, and to be able to battle with Zach for the last-lap pass was fun.โ
In the end, Chappell held on for a runner-up finish โ his best since his last national Series victory in 2010. Though he was only one lap away from his first such win in over 15 years, Chappell was still in high spirits after his first 360 Sprint Car start of the year.
โIn hindsight, maybe I shouldโve went to the top, but thatโs looking in the back,โ Chappell said. โIโm not mad at all. Iโm still happy with a second place.โ
Matt Covington crossed the stripe in third, banking his ninth podium finish of the season on the national circuit. Reigning Series champion Seth Bergman finished fourth while Missouri racer Chase Porter completed the top five.
UP NEXT
The season finale for the American Sprint Car Series and the ASCS Sooner Region goes down at Creek County Speedway Saturday, Nov. 15, in the conclusion of Fuzzyโs Fall Fling โ $10,000 on the line for the winner.
Tickets for Saturday will be sold at the gate. If you canโt be there, stream every lap live on DIRTVision.
Feature (30 Laps): 1. 52-Blake Hahn[5]; 2. 50Z-Zach Chappell[1]; 3. 95-Matt Covington[3]; 4. 23-Seth Bergman[9]; 5. 2-Chase Porter[6]; 6. 1-Sean McClelland[7]; 7. 7M-Chance Morton[2]; 8. 85-Kyle Bellm[8]; 9. 5D-Zach Daum[11]; 10. 8-Alex Sewell[16]; 11. 10-Landon Britt[12]; 12. 71-Brady Baker[18]; 13. 88R-Ryder Laplante[20]; 14. 23H-Sam Henderson[23]; 15. 15D-Andrew Deal[21]; 16. 45X-Kyler Johnson[14]; 17. 938-Bradley Fezard[22]; 18. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr[4]; 19. 23X-Matt Sherrell[17]; 20. 2B-Garrett Benson[15]; 21. 7F-Joshua Tyre[13]; 22. 88C-Brogan Carder[26]; 23. 16G-Austyn Gossel[10]; 24. 22C-Blake Edwards[27]; 25. 2J-Zach Blurton[19]; 26. 36-Jason Martin[25]; 27. 8M-Kade Morton[24]
Last Chance Showdown (12 Laps): 1. 15D-Andrew Deal[1]; 2. 938-Bradley Fezard[2]; 3. 23H-Sam Henderson[7]; 4. 8M-Kade Morton[6]; 5. 20I-Kelsey Ivy[4]; 6. 22-Riley Goodno[5]; 7. 31-Casey Wills[3]; 8. 29-Emilio Hoover[13]; 9. 88C-Brogan Carder[9]; 10. 22C-Blake Edwards[11]; 11. 88-Terry Easum[15]; 12. 11A-Kaleb Montgomery[8]; 13. 0BS-Weston Gorham[17]; 14. 36-Jason Martin[12]; 15. 12W-Dale Wester[10]; 16. 21H-Levi Hinck[16]; 17. 26M-Fred Mattox[14]
C-Main (10 Laps): 1. 21H-Levi Hinck[1]; 2. 0BS-Weston Gorham[3]; 3. 6G-Bryan Gossel[4]; 4. 16S-Steven Shebester[10]; 5. 55M-Corey McGehee[5]; 6. 21G-Garth Kasiner[9]; 7. 52H-Hayden Mabe[6]; 8. 5-Lucas Boxwell[7]; 9. (DNS) 7-Tyler Edwards; 10. (DNS) 70K-Henry Rogers
Dash (5 Laps): 1. 50Z-Zach Chappell[1]; 2. 7M-Chance Morton[3]; 3. 95-Matt Covington[4]; 4. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr[2]; 5. 52-Blake Hahn[6]; 6. 2-Chase Porter[8]; 7. 1-Sean McClelland[7]; 8. 85-Kyle Bellm[5]; 9. 23-Seth Bergman[9]
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 50Z-Zach Chappell[4]; 2. 16G-Austyn Gossel[1]; 3. 2B-Garrett Benson[2]; 4. 88R-Ryder Laplante[5]; 5. 20I-Kelsey Ivy[3]; 6. 12W-Dale Wester[7]; 7. 29-Emilio Hoover[6]; 8. (DNS) 7-Tyler Edwards; 9. (DNS) 16S-Steven Shebester
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 52-Blake Hahn[1]; 2. 7M-Chance Morton[4]; 3. 45X-Kyler Johnson[2]; 4. 71-Brady Baker[5]; 5. 15D-Andrew Deal[3]; 6. 88C-Brogan Carder[7]; 7. 88-Terry Easum[8]; 8. 6G-Bryan Gossel[9]; 9. 52H-Hayden Mabe[6]
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 1-Sean McClelland[1]; 2. 10-Landon Britt[2]; 3. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr[4]; 4. 23X-Matt Sherrell[3]; 5. 31-Casey Wills[6]; 6. 938-Bradley Fezard[5]; 7. 26M-Fred Mattox[7]; 8. 55M-Corey McGehee[8]; 9. (DNS) 21G-Garth Kasiner
Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 85-Kyle Bellm[2]; 2. 7F-Joshua Tyre[1]; 3. 2-Chase Porter[4]; 4. 2J-Zach Blurton[3]; 5. 8M-Kade Morton[6]; 6. 23H-Sam Henderson[5]; 7. 36-Jason Martin[7]; 8. 0BS-Weston Gorham[8]; 9. 5-Lucas Boxwell[9]
Heat 5 (8 Laps): 1. 23-Seth Bergman[1]; 2. 5D-Zach Daum[2]; 3. 8-Alex Sewell[3]; 4. 95-Matt Covington[4]; 5. 22-Riley Goodno[5]; 6. 11A-Kaleb Montgomery[8]; 7. 22C-Blake Edwards[6]; 8. 21H-Levi Hinck[7]; 9. 70K-Henry Rogers[9]
Qualifying 1 (2 Laps): 1. 50Z-Zach Chappell, 00:12.083[2]; 2. 16G-Austyn Gossel, 00:12.204[1]; 3. 2B-Garrett Benson, 00:12.328[6]; 4. 20I-Kelsey Ivy, 00:12.432[5]; 5. 88R-Ryder Laplante, 00:12.551[4]; 6. 29-Emilio Hoover, 00:12.617[8]; 7. 12W-Dale Wester, 00:12.649[9]; 8. 7-Tyler Edwards, 00:12.776[7]; 9. 16S-Steven Shebester, 01:00.000[3]
Qualifying 2 (2 Laps): 1. 7M-Chance Morton, 00:12.203[6]; 2. 52-Blake Hahn, 00:12.286[8]; 3. 45X-Kyler Johnson, 00:12.294[7]; 4. 15D-Andrew Deal, 00:12.300[3]; 5. 71-Brady Baker, 00:12.483[5]; 6. 52H-Hayden Mabe, 00:12.555[2]; 7. 88C-Brogan Carder, 00:12.590[4]; 8. 88-Terry Easum, 00:12.706[9]; 9. 6G-Bryan Gossel, 00:12.875[1]
Qualifying 3 (2 Laps): 1. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr, 00:12.147[3]; 2. 1-Sean McClelland, 00:12.175[7]; 3. 10-Landon Britt, 00:12.273[8]; 4. 23X-Matt Sherrell, 00:12.330[6]; 5. 938-Bradley Fezard, 00:12.337[9]; 6. 31-Casey Wills, 00:12.427[1]; 7. 26M-Fred Mattox, 00:12.623[2]; 8. 55M-Corey McGehee, 00:13.018[4]; 9. 21G-Garth Kasiner, 01:00.000[5]
Qualifying 4 (2 Laps): 1. 2-Chase Porter, 00:12.353[8]; 2. 7F-Joshua Tyre, 00:12.357[2]; 3. 85-Kyle Bellm, 00:12.448[1]; 4. 2J-Zach Blurton, 00:12.515[9]; 5. 23H-Sam Henderson, 00:12.524[4]; 6. 8M-Kade Morton, 00:12.539[3]; 7. 36-Jason Martin, 00:12.587[7]; 8. 0BS-Weston Gorham, 00:12.813[6]; 9. 5-Lucas Boxwell, 00:13.352[5]
Qualifying 5 (2 Laps): 1. 95-Matt Covington, 00:12.054[5]; 2. 23-Seth Bergman, 00:12.070[3]; 3. 5D-Zach Daum, 00:12.229[6]; 4. 8-Alex Sewell, 00:12.357[8]; 5. 22-Riley Goodno, 00:12.519[4]; 6. 22C-Blake Edwards, 00:12.541[1]; 7. 21H-Levi Hinck, 00:12.546[7]; 8. 11A-Kaleb Montgomery, 00:12.572[9]; 9. 70K-Henry Rogers, 00:13.724[2]