10/13/2025
Batesville Motor Speedway
ZANE DEVILBISS WINS RACE FOR HOPE AT BATESVILLE MOTOR SPEEDWAY
Batesville Motor Speedway
The 9th Annual IMCA.tv Race For Hope 71 event is in the books and this was definitely one of our best ones yet!! Three nights of racing ... Three different winners highlighted the IMCA Modified event.
Wendell Wallace was the winner on Thursday, Curtis Cook won on Friday and Zane DeVilbiss won the Championship feature on Saturday night.
Thanks to all the drivers and race teams that chose to race with us.
Special thanks to IMCA.tv for live-streaming the Race For Hope and for all your support throughout the season.
Saturday night re-cap:
Zane Devilbiss (Farmington, NM) took home the Race For Hope 71 Championship trophy on Saturday night as he flew around the very fast 3/8 mile high-banked track. Devilbiss, however, is no stranger to Victory Lane at Batesville Motor Speedway. He was the Champion of the 2021 Race For Hope 71 where he took home $50,000, and was the 2024 winner of the Schoenfeld Headers Mid-America Stock Car Championship.
It looked like pole-sitter, Tom Berry, Jr (Marshalltown, IA) and the Champion of the 2024 R4H, was the one to beat but Hall of Famer and 2-time champion of the R4H. Wendell Wallace grabbed the lead for twelve laps before relinquishing the lead back to Berry. Supernationals Champion, Tim Ward (Mesa, AZ) then charged around Wallace to take second.
Berry maintained the lead until a late caution with eight laps to go. Ward, Wallace. Supernational Champion, Jeff Taylor (Batesville, AR) and Devilbiss were all lined up behind Berry for the re-start. Devilbiss jumped out and within a lap was criss-crossing with Berry side-by-side for five laps and took the lead with three laps to go. Ward, who passed Berry on the final lap, crossed the finish line behind Devilbiss for second place with Tom Berry, Jr coming in third. Wallace, the Thursday night R4H winner, finished in fourth place.
Drew Janssen from Pella, Iowa came in fifth. Jeff Taylor, Brandon Smith(Floral, AR), Curtis Cook (Conway, AR), and Batesville drivers, Ashton Wilkey and Peyton Taylor rounded out the Top Ten.
Cook was the Friday night feature winner of the Race For Hope 71 event.
In the IMCA Stock Car Division, a father-son duo from Little Rock, Arkansas were the winners with Hayden Linn crossing the finish line in front of his dad, Patrick Linn.
TJ Herndon (Atwood, TN) took third. Joe Payne of Concord finished fourth with Haydan Hartwick in fifth. Rounding out the top ten were Peyton Taylor, Gavin Lowe, Randy Weaver, Steven Brewster and Jack Sullivan.
The Midwest Mod class was won by Slade Hartwick (Quitman, AR). Hartwick swept the series by winning all three nights. Jason Wilkey came in second followed by Connor Wheeler, Keaton Wheeler and Eli Muilenburg from Ozark, Missouri.
Local driver, Roger Witt took home the trophy in the Arkansas Factory Stock division. Connor Kuykendall came in second followed by Jeremy Tharp, Gavin Lowe and William Lawrence.
We want to thank IMCA.tv for live/streaming the event and for all their support throughout this season. You guys are Rockstars!!
We are honored to be associated with Miracle League of Arkansas. To find out more about Miracle League of Arkansas or to make a donation go to miracleleaguear.com
Submitted By: Connie Starr
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