HAMPTON, Ga. - Jensen Jorgensen made a statement in the last week’s Thursday Thunder double header at Atlanta Motor Speedway’s ¼-mile Thunder Ring.
After seeing Wednesday night’s action washed out by rain, drivers faced off in two features each on Thursday night.
The Stockbridge, Georgia driver swept both WJP Investments Pro Legends features. Jorgensen nabbed the lead midway through the first race despite challenges from Donovan Strauss and Gianni Esposito and pulled away from the pair en route to the checkered flag.
Starting from the pole in the second feature, Jorgensen held off all challengers once again. Contact on a restart with two laps to go helped him clinch his second win of the night and vault him into the division title fight.
Some of the most competitive racing came in the Semi-Pro Legends division, with 19 cars competing in each feature. Mason Lastra outdueled polesitter Jason Treschl in the opening laps of the first feature and pulled away in the final laps to secure the victory.
In the second Semi-Pro feature of the night, Jackson Reynolds took advantage of green-white-checkered at the end of the race to storm past the front row of drivers, including Lastra, to snag his first win of the season.
Joey Clanton was three laps away from completing his own sweep of the Masters division features. After earning the victory in the round three feature, Clanton led the first 17 laps of the round four feature as he chased his second win of the night. However Benjamin Jones had other ideas and went door-to-door with Clanton out of turn four coming to three laps to go. The pair battled side-by-side all the way to the finish, and Jones triumphed by a nose at the stripe over Clanton to take the win.
In other action, three divisions had drivers sweep the night, taking the checkered flag in both rounds three and four, including Emma Britt in the Powersports Outlaws division, Emily Arenas in the Chargers division, and Brielle Rudolph in the Fr8Auctions Rookie Bandoleros.
Bryce Sanders and Kyle Bacon split The Associates Group Young Lions features. Lane Christensen and Wyatt Coffey each took home hardware from the night’s Bandits features.
Round five of Thursday Thunder continues on Thursday, June 22. For more information, visit AtlantaMotorSpeedway.com.
Atlanta Motor Speedway – Hampton, GA
Thursday Thunder Round 3 – June 15, 2023
Pro
1. 32-Jensen Jorgensen
2. 16-Currie Pierce
3. 5-Garrett Gumm
4. 72-Nick Woodall
5. 51-Donovan Strauss
6. 25-Christopher Clanton
7. 3-Taylor Jorgensen
8. 22-Gianni Esposito
9. 71-Jake Bollman
10. 9-Chris Dilbec
Semi-Pro
1. 17L-Mason Lastra
2. 31-Jason Treschl
3. 72-Luke Yarbrough
4. 98-Sean McElearney
5. 41-Michael Gannon
6. 77-Oliver Dibble
7. 48-Noah Ryan
8. 5X-Jesse Martinez
9. 9-Jackson Reynolds
10. 55-George Phillips
11. 73-Ian Hampton
12. 316-Coleman Moody
13. 7-Jonathan Taylor
14. 29-Bailey North
15. 38-Cameron White
16. 97-C.J. Almond
17. 75-Amanda Woodall
18. 30-Trey Tadrzak
19. 17-Hudson Bulge
Master
1. 83-Joey Clanton
2. 7-Phillip Young
3. 14-Mark Swan
4. 15-Bill Plemons, Jr.
5. 10-Benjamin Jones
6. 5-Ronnie Wehunt
7. 00-Jason Turner
8. 37-Lisa Young
Young Lions
1. 15-Bryce Sanders
2. 8-Cooper Gaul
3. 9-Garrett Erwin
4. 1-Jackson Denton
5. 24-Austin Bloodworth
6. 48-Kyle Bacon
7. 88-Aiden King
8. 46-Cole Denton
9. 20-Evan McKnight
10. 62-Dylan Bongiovanni
11. 78-Will Haire
Bandits
1. 46-Lane Christensen
2. 2-Wyatt Coffey
3. 38-Billy Lee
4. 9-Carson Sherman
5. 18-Matthew Laprade
Rookie Bandoleros
1. 87-Briella Rudolph
2. 9-Luke Young
3. 20-Kinsley Tatum
4. 38-Gerald White III
5. 75-Alison Johnson
6. 1J-James Behnke
7. 16-Flynt Pierce
8. 99T-Topher Almon
9. 0-Oliver Turner
10. 19-Grant Hooker
Outlaws
1. 38-Emma Britt
2. 8-J.T. O’Connor
3. 4-Mitchell Flater
4. 74-Addyson King
5. 28-Blaine Miller
6. 95-Javier Soto
7. 37-Wyatt Youngblood
8. 2-Killian McMann
Chargers
1. 3-Emily Arenas
2. 99-Baylor O’Neil
3. 28-Conner Butler
4. 9-Abi Johnson
5. 27-Kayli Kade
6. 27C-Brian Cosier
7. 13-Ben Mack
8. 26-Emma Teal[
9. 24-Katelyn Hicks
Atlanta Motor Speedway – Hampton, GA
Thursday Thunder Round 4 – June 15, 2023
Pro
1. 32-Jensen Jorgensen
2. 72-Nick Woodall
3. 16-Currie Pierce
4. 25-Christopher Clanton
5. 3-Taylor Jorgensen
6. 5-Garrett Gumm
7. 51-Donovan Strauss
8. 22-Gianni Esposito
Semi-Pro
1. 9-Jackson Reynolds
2. 41-Michael Gannon
3. 5X-Jesse Martinez
4. 316-Coleman Moody
5. 72-Luke Yarbrough
6. 48-Noah Ryan
7. 7-Jonathan Taylor
8. 97-C.J. Almond
9. 77-Oliver Dibble
10. 38-Cameron White
11. 75-Amanda Woodall
12. 73-Ian Hampton
13. 29-Bailey North
14. 30-Trey Tadrzak
15. 31-Jason Treschl
16. 55-George Phillips
17. 17L-Mason Lastra
18. 98-Sean McElearney
19. 17-Hudson Bulger
Masters
1. 10-Benjamin Jones
2. 83-Joey Clanton
3. 15-Bill Plemons, Jr.
4. 7-Phillip Young
5. 14-Mark Swan
6. 00-Jason Turner
7. 5-Ronnie Wehunt
8. 37-Lisa Young
Young Lions
1. 48-Kyle Bacon
2. 46-Cole Denton
3. 8-Cooper Gaul
4. 88-Aiden King
5. 20-Evan McKnight
6. 15-Bryce Sanders
7. 24-Austin Bloodworth
8. 62-Dylan Bongiovanni
9. 9-Garrett Erwin
10. 78-Will Haire
Bandits
1. 2-Wyatt Coffey
2. 46-Lane Christensen
3. 18-Matthew Laprade
4. 9-Carson Sherman
5. 38-Billy Lee
Rookie Bandoleros
1. 87-Briella Rudolph
2. 75-Allee Johnson
3. 38-Gerald White III
4. 99T-Topher Almon
5. 16-Flynt Pierce
6. 9-Luke Young
7. 1J-James Behnke
8. 19-Grant Hooker
9. 20-Kinsley Tatum
10. 0-Oliver Turner
Outlaws
1. 38-Emma Britt
2. 2-Killian McMann
3. 4-Mitchell Flater
4. 8-J.T. O’Connor
5. 37-Wyatt Youngblood
6. 28-Blaine Miller
7. 74-Addyson King
8. 95-Javier Soto
Chargers
1. 3-Emily Arenas
2. 28-Conner Butler
3. 27C-Brian Cosier
4. 27-Kayli Kade
5. 26-Emma Teal
6. 9-Abi Johnson
7. 13-Ben Mack
8. 24-Katelyn Hicks
9. 99-Baylor O’Neil
