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17B · 4/23/18, 11:09 AM

Hernandez clean sweeps MMSA on night one...young Texas native Anton Hernandez had a perfect night out for the Midwest Mini Sprint Association at Brownstown Speedway Saturday night ,best of 18 entries for the opening night!

From the word go he had the night every racer dreams of, pole position heat one!
He would lead heat one from start to finish on his way to a solid starting position for the feature event. Following Anton to the checkers in heat one was Cody Trammell and Cory Clay after starting in the 9th in the heat. Cory would accumulate the most passing points by going from 9th to 3rd, which would put him in the invert 6th starting position for the feature.
Heat 2, hot shoe Justin Lewis, showed that he will be one of the top dogs in 2018 with his first heat win of the season. Justin coming off a nice 2017 season with the runner up position in the chase for the points in MMSA and 7th place in 2017 for USAC national points. Jessie Vermillion and Ethan Rutherford would follow Lewis to the checkers to finish the preliminaries.
Thus set the field for the Amain later in the evening.

Feature rolled onto track with Ethan Rutherford benefitting from the MMSA rule invert for the P1, joining Ethan on the front row was Jesse Vermilion. As the cars took the green they went three wide into turn one Lewis, Rutherford and Hernandez on the top. The top proved to be the way to the front, as Hernandez would take the top spot before entering turn 3 and never looked back. Cody Trammel from 5th would chase the leader down and put all kinds of pressure on Hernandez. Lap after lap Trammell would hound the leader, he tried the top, he tried the lower side but just could not get the bite he needed to over take the lead. Justin Lewis setting in 3rd position was ready to pounce if the top 2 had any issues with one another. Lewis would finish 3rd. Rookie Brandon Coffey would have a very nice start to the season, he would be the lucky dog to have the 10th starting position in the Amain for a chance to claim and extra $100 with a win. He may not have won, but first race out from 10th to 4th has to be a great feeling and confidence builder moving on in 2018. Cory Clay would come across 5th and Rutherford would have to settle for 6th. The rest of top 10 were Jesse Vermillion, Cindy Chambers, Keith Arvin, and Kyle Hathaway.
The feature event took 6 minutes and 25 seconds to complete our first event for 2018. Hats off to the 18 MMSA entries for a successful opening night.
The 2018 MMSA season rolls on into North Vernon this weekend Saturday night April 28th, at the Twin Cities Raceway.

4/23/18, 11:09 AM	#23 Re: Mmsa 2018
17B Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 930	Hernandez clean sweeps MMSA on night one...young Texas native Anton Hernandez had a perfect night out for the Midwest Mini Sprint Association at Brownstown Speedway Saturday night ,best of 18 entries for the opening night! From the word go he had the night every racer dreams of, pole position heat one! He would lead heat one from start to finish on his way to a solid starting position for the feature event. Following Anton to the checkers in heat one was Cody Trammell and Cory Clay after starting in the 9th in the heat. Cory would accumulate the most passing points by going from 9th to 3rd, which would put him in the invert 6th starting position for the feature. Heat 2, hot shoe Justin Lewis, showed that he will be one of the top dogs in 2018 with his first heat win of the season. Justin coming off a nice 2017 season with the runner up position in the chase for the points in MMSA and 7th place in 2017 for USAC national points. Jessie Vermillion and Ethan Rutherford would follow Lewis to the checkers to finish the preliminaries. Thus set the field for the Amain later in the evening. Feature rolled onto track with Ethan Rutherford benefitting from the MMSA rule invert for the P1, joining Ethan on the front row was Jesse Vermilion. As the cars took the green they went three wide into turn one Lewis, Rutherford and Hernandez on the top. The top proved to be the way to the front, as Hernandez would take the top spot before entering turn 3 and never looked back. Cody Trammel from 5th would chase the leader down and put all kinds of pressure on Hernandez. Lap after lap Trammell would hound the leader, he tried the top, he tried the lower side but just could not get the bite he needed to over take the lead. Justin Lewis setting in 3rd position was ready to pounce if the top 2 had any issues with one another. Lewis would finish 3rd. Rookie Brandon Coffey would have a very nice start to the season, he would be the lucky dog to have the 10th starting position in the Amain for a chance to claim and extra $100 with a win. He may not have won, but first race out from 10th to 4th has to be a great feeling and confidence builder moving on in 2018. Cory Clay would come across 5th and Rutherford would have to settle for 6th. The rest of top 10 were Jesse Vermillion, Cindy Chambers, Keith Arvin, and Kyle Hathaway. The feature event took 6 minutes and 25 seconds to complete our first event for 2018. Hats off to the 18 MMSA entries for a successful opening night. The 2018 MMSA season rolls on into North Vernon this weekend Saturday night April 28th, at the Twin Cities Raceway.