Jerrod Hull – MOWA Champion!
(Bill W) October 16, 2013 – Jerrod Hull used a solid weekend in Illinois and some help from his friends to garner his third consecutive MOWA championship. A sixth place finish at Lincoln Speedway and a second place run at Jacksonville Speedway topped off an up and down season that resulted in another title. The Rockwell American #12 team borrowed a motor from the Wagoner family to get it done after detonating their primary powerplant at Tri-City Speedway the week before.
Things started well Friday night in Lincoln. “We borrowed a motor from Ben and Brian Wagoner and it did well for us,” says Jerrod. “At Lincoln, we were able to draw outside of row one and win the heat. We started seventh in the Dash and we ran fourth. The car was really nice in the Dash. We were running the top three down at the end.”
The Sikeston, Missouri driver’s bid for a win was thwarted early on. “Someone got in the back of us there in the feature,” he says. “That broke the Jacob’s ladder, and after that, we were struggling to hang on. I was kind of happy to be able to finish sixth at that point. We ran fifth most of the race and got passed at the end. It was enough to lock up the championship, and that’s what we wanted to do there. We could concentrate on winning at Jacksonville at that point.”
Jerrod would start outside of row three in his heat at Jacksonville in Saturday’s Shaheen’s “Blast From the Past”. “We were able to get up to third,” he says. “Then we had a good run in the Dash (from fourth), and we got up to second and we were running down Brian (Brown) at the end. We were really excited about that.”
The second place finish in the Dash put Jerrod outside of Brown to start the main event. “The bottom was faster, so he got the jump,” he says of Brown. “We started working on him pretty good. I actually found the rubber before he did, and I thought I may get him. Unfortunately, the caution came out and his crew motioned to him to come down on the track. That was about lap seven or eight, and it was pretty much rubber down-one lane racing after that.”
Jerrod would checker second. Winning the season-long points battle with MOWA was obviously the highlight. “All in all, it was a great weekend,” he says. “It was our goal to win the points. When we had flat tires in the first couple of races, I wasn’t so sure about this year. Things started going our way, and AJ (Bruns) had some tough luck. The championship is what you shoot for. That’s why we go to all the races. Things worked out pretty well.”
Jerrod and the #12 team would like to thank: Rockwell American, Midland Performance, Super Shox, Sebastian Sand Blasting & Powder Coating, Inc., Sherwin Williams, Chuck’s Small Engines, Don Hamilton, HRP, Lighthouse Christian Center, Logo Daddy, Hoosier Tire, Simpson, Weld, Automotive Machine, Maxim and Heartland Trailer Manufacturing.
Jerrod races at Jacksonville (Mark Funderburk Photo)
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