Horsepower Festival Spring 2023 Review! . . . in Missouri!

 DIESEL Motorsports has tried Spring events before and it is a 50/50% shot of dodging severe weather being in the Midwest! We lucked out on this one with 2 days of rain before and after the event on May 13th in Osborn Missouri at US 36 Dragway!

It turned out to be a beautiful warm day with great sunshine and a perfect setting for our event. The Horsepower Festival Spring is one of two such Festivals this year with the 2nd one being held September 23rd in Okaloosa Iowa at Eddyville Dragway!

At these events we combine a car/truck show with swap meet, dyno competition, local food trucks, vendors and drag racing. The drag racing includes local classes along with Diesel Motorsports truck class. Basically an overall motorsports festival with a fairground atmosphere for fans to enjoy all day long.

We moved the Osborn Missouri Festival to Spring in order to accommodate the track's schedule from the Fall which allowed us to open a 2nd one in Iowa. We had a great turnout of a combination of cars and trucks for over 22 categories and 3 Best of Show Awards! It amazes us the top quality of vehicles every year, many of these could easily be on display at industry trade shows. In fact I know of 4 of them that will be showing at SEMA this year.

The Revolution Auto Works Dyno ran many different vehicles trying to register for the highest HP prize with the largest being 789 HP. Many fans liked watching the vehicles run on the dyno while also visiting the Diesel Motorsports Sponsors tent and many other vendors.

The food vendors were busy all day and night along with the track's concession stand. That is one thing our people like to do is try different foods and eat. We had top notch BBQ, local made kettle corn, shaved ice and local ice cream. 

The drag racing started around 6pm in the evening with some great local cars and trucks racing on the 1/8th mile track. The winners are listed below with many different classes even including Jr Dragsters. The truck class was a heads up class with a yearly winner taking the trophy home again. The track crew did a great job of quickly running the classes down the track all night long.

It was considered a successful event since we had a great fan base all day and evening watching all aspects of motorsports. 

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Winners listed below:

Precision Diesel Works Show-N-Shine Show

Trucks

Best of Show Diesel – Ty Little – 2017 Ford F-350

Best of Show Gas – Dakota Beemer – 1979 Chevy K2500

Best GMC/Chevy – Travis Baldwin – 2016 Chevy 2500

Best Dodge – Al Roscoe – 1980 Dodge 1500

Best Ford – Haden Long – 2022 Ford F350

Best Work Truck – Conner Drew – 1993 Dodge D350

Best Rat Rod – James Davis – 1967 Chevy C10

Cars

Best of Show – Bob Starling – 1966 Chevy Nova

Best of Show – Dalton, Jordyn & Myra Dreher – 1969 Chevy Impala SS

Best Mopar – Don Wirth – 1971 Plymouth Cuda

Best Ford – Trever Walter – 1991 Ford Mustang

Best Chevy – Gary & Cheryl Alexander – 1967 Chevy Camaro RS

Best Late Model – Buddy Caton – 2008 Ford Mustang

Best Vintage – Cooper HecKman – 1962 Ford Falcon

Best Exotic – Josip Sarar – 2015 BMW 18

Best Pro Street – Kade Heflon – 1966 Chevy Nova

Best Mini Dragster – Colton Koontz – 510X

Revolution Auto Dyno Competition

Highest HP - Tyler Williams – 2007 Chevy 2500 – 789 hp

Horsepower Festival Spring 2023

Racing Classes

Super Pro

1st Josh Henderson, St. Joseph, MO

2nd Kobe Morris, Lawson, MO

Semi Ken Warren, Lawson, MO

Semi Kelly Knauss, Edwardsville, Kansas

Pro

1st Josh Henderson, St. Joseph, MO

2nd Kodi Heflin, Maryville, MO

Semi Phil Shope, Greenfield, IA

Semi Kyle Benton, Lawson, MO

Sportsman

1st Joe Smock, St. Joseph, MO

2nd Stephen Westbrook, Lathrop, MO

Trophy

1st Jessica Lynn, Oak Grove, MO

2nd Alex Sandusky, St. Joseph, MO

Jr. Dragster

1st Ryan Cole, Maysville, MO

2nd Colton Koontz, Kearney, MO

Heads-Up DIESEL Truck Class

Champion – Vince Neiderhauser

2nd – Tyler Williams