[racegal]

Thank you Dirt in ur beer!!!!

[Justigit]

Congrats to Chris Windom for picking up the sprint win!

[Kinser11]

Windom wins over darland grant

[minispeed]

Great racing tonight!!! Good job dave and crew! Can't wait to read Charles thesis on tonight's race. Lol

[racefan20]

Originally Posted by Kinser11 Abreu wins over Hines Bell Bacon Clauson... Bright gets into the wall in turn 3&4 in the final lap

USAC has BC 4th Bacon 5th then Darland Windom Cottle

[Charles Nungester]

They came, they raced, They Conquered.
Thesis done......................
Before results, I made me almost embarassed to be a openwheel fan sitting by Rico's Mom while half the crowd booed and when you point out that Karma's a B**** as Bright hit Pickens in the exact same way. They look at you like your crazy. Thought they were nice people they didn't deserve the boos. Every driver out there would have taken that chance for the lead.

Midgets are a bit different than sprints you jump off the gas or on the brake and they load up and do not take off again like the sprints.

Anyhow, I was wowed, Glad there was a cushion to lean on and it wasn't real dusty for the features. The racing, EXCELLENT and INTENSE.

Midgets Per www.usacracing.com


Lawrenceburg, Indiana.……Rico Abreu continued what has been a sensational 2014 Honda National Midget season with his third win of the year on Saturday, a frenetic affair that featured countless slide-jobs around the high-banked Lawrenceburg Speedway.

Alex Bright edged Michael Pickens back to the line to lead lap one, but Pickens took command as they ran the extreme high line. Pickens and Bright were setting a torrid pace early, encountering traffic as Bright closed for the lead. A turn-one slide-job followed, and the two made contact in the middle of the corner with Pickens getting up into the concrete and collapsing his front end. He was done for the race.

After that, Bright was in command as Abreu worked on Tracy Hines for second, and cars were racing all over behind them. Brady Bacon was moving his way through the field, using every inch of the wide race track.

Abreu closed on Bright for the lead and pulled the trigger into turn-one on lap 27, and again the lead duo ended up in the same spot, this time with Bright on the short end as he struggled to regain control exiting turn-two. As his front-end bounced around, Abreu raced away and scored a relatively easy win aboard the Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports – Toyota TRD #97 Bullet/Speedway Toyota.

“Whether they boo me or cheer for me, I’ll be at Kokomo tomorrow night driving just as hard. Alex (Bright) is a hell of a driver, and both of us are running as hard as we can. He got the short end of the stick on that one. I just have to thank my guys for giving me an incredible car once again. It’s good to be back in victory lane now after the injury. You have to respect these cars, as I’ve had my fair share of big ones,” Abreu said to a boisterous Lawrenceburg crowd.

Bright held second until the final lap, when he could hold on no more and bounced to a stop through turn-three just as Abreu was taking the checkers. Hines had flashed by with the runner-up spot aboard the Parker Machinery – Turbines, Inc. #24 Spike/Stanton Toyota.

“I had a front-row seat for a lot of wild slide-jobs tonight, and they were from everybody. Our car was pretty good, and I’m happy to finish out a long day with a good finish after coming from the Silver Crown race at Gateway,” Hines said.

Friday night winner Christopher Bell returned to the podium with a strong run in third, again in the Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports – Toyota TRD #71 Bullet/Speedway Toyota.

“Hats off to the track crew for giving us a great race track where we could move around. We had great cars again tonight, but I got us behind the eight-ball a little with a poor qualifying run,” Bell said.

Bryan Clauson was credited with fourth in the Fairbury Westin Packaged Meats – Curb Records #63 Spike/Esslinger, and Bacon’s run from 18th to fifth in the Wilke-Pak Racers – Autonet Mobile #11 Spike/Stanton Mopar earned him the night’s B&W Auto Mart “Hard Charger Award.” Tanner Thorson, who earlier in the night earned the ProSource “Fast Time Award” for the second night in a row, retired from the event early.

USAC HONDA NATIONAL MIDGET RACE RESULTS: June 14, 2014 – Lawrenceburg, Indiana – Lawrenceburg Speedway –“Indiana Midget Week”

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Tanner Thorson, 67, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-14.790; 2. Rico Abreu, 97, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-14.832; 3. Alex Schutte, 28, Schutte/McElwee-14.999; 4. Michael Pickens, 3F, RFMS-15.001; 5. Chris Windom, 3, RFMS-15.053; 6. Tracy Hines, 24, Parker-15.055; 7. Alex Bright, 77, Hemler-15.103; 8. Trey Marcham, 39, Tucker/BCI/Curb-Agajanian-15.150; 9. Christopher Bell, 71, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-15.169; 10. Steve Buckwalter, 25, Buckwalter-15.220; 11. Bryan Clauson, 63, RKR/Curb-Agajanian-15.238; 12. Tyler Thomas, 91T, Thomas-15.304; 13. Brock Maskovich, 39B, Tucker/BCI/Curb-Agajanian-15.354; 14. Isaac Chapple, 52, Chapple-15.378; 15. Zach Daum, 5D, Daum-15.386; 16. Ronnie Gardner, 68, Johnson-15.386; 17. Dave Darland, 17, RW/Curb-Agajanian-15.400; 18. Shane Cottle, 57, Ecker-15.437; 19. Brenden Bright, 92, Bright-15.573; 20. Brady Bacon, 11, Wilke-15.621; 21. Seth Motsinger, 2, KBR-15.624; 22. Andrew Felker, 11A, Felker-15.629; 23. Domain Ramsay, 20, Ramsay-15.648; 24. Jaimie McKinlay, 42, Graham-15.669; 25. Tyler Courtney, 35, Hampton-15.736; 26. Nathan Smee, 3A, Cooper-15.750; 27. Kevin Thomas, Jr., 9K, KBR-15.844; 28. Leyton Kendall, 7L, KBR-15.877; 29. James Edens, 5E, Daum-15.996; 30. Chad Boespflug, 57B, Ecker-16.007; 31. Andy Malpocker, 22, Malpocker-16.470; 32. Danny Burke, 15, Johnson/Burke-16.483; 33. Robby Parish, 7K, Irwin-16.643; 34. Tate Martz, 2x, Steele-16.800; 35. Parker Price-Miller, 9P, Ronk-80.190.

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Darland, 2. Bell, 3. Windom, 4. Thorson, 5. Motsinger, 6. Courtney, 7. Maskovich, 8. Edens, 9. Parish.

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Abreu, 2. Cottle, 3. Felker, 4. Hines, 5. Smee, 6. Boespflug, 7. Chapple, 8. Martz, 9. Buckwalter.

THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Clauson, 2. Daum, 3. A. Bright, 4. Ramsay, 5. K. Thomas, 6. Schutte, 7. B. Bright, 8. Malpocker.

FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Bacon, 2. Pickens, 3. T. Thomas, 4. McKinlay, 5. Marcham, 6. Gardner, 7. Kendall, 8. Burke.

SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Marcham, 2. Schutte, 3. Maskovich, 4. K. Thomas, 5. Gardner, 6. B. Bright, 7. Smee, 8. Chapple, 9. Courtney, 10. Boespflug, 11. Kendall, 12. Edens, 13. Parish, 14. Burke, 15. Malpocker.

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Rico Abreu, 2. Tracy Hines, 3. Christopher Bell, 4. Bryan Clauson, 5. Brady Bacon, 6. Dave Darland, 7. Chris Windom, 8. Shane Cottle, 9. Zach Daum, 10. Brock Maskovich, 11. Kevin Thomas, Jr., 12. Andrew Felker, 13. Ronnie Gardner, 14. Brenden Bright, 15. Alex Bright, 16. Jaimie McKinlay, 17. Domain Ramsay, 18. Trey Marcham, 19. Alex Schutte, 20. Tyler Thomas, 21. Michael Pickens, 22. Tanner Thorson. NT
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**K. Thomas flipped in Qualifying. Chapple flipped in Heat 2.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Lap 1 A. Bright, Laps 2-16 Pickens, Laps 17-26 A. Bright, Laps 27-30 Abreu.

NEW HONDA NATIONAL MIDGET POINTS: 1-Abreu-415; 2-Bell-329; 3-Hines-323; 4-Clauson-321; 5-Thorson-264; 6-Darland/Windom-250; 8-Felker-231; 9-Daum-229; 10-K.Thomas-208.

NEW “INDIANA MIDGET WEEK” POINTS: 1-Abreu-209; 2-Clauson-178; 3-Hines-171; 4-Darland-156; 5-Windom-142; 6-Bell-135; 7-Pickens-123; 8-Felker-106; 9-Thorson-103; 10-Bacon-102.

NEXT HONDA NATIONAL MIDGET RACE: June 15 – Kokomo, Indiana – Kokomo Speedway – “Indiana Midget Week

Sprints
Finish Start Car Driver Hometown Points
1 1 11X Chris Windom Canton , Il 150.00
2 3 41 Dave Darland Lincoln , In 140.00
3 13 40 Justin Grant Ione , Ca 130.00
4 8 42K Kody Kinser Bloomington , In 120.00
5 6 24 Landon Simon Tipp City, Oh 110.00
6 21 15F Aaron Farney Brookston , In 105.00
7 11 89 Shawn Westerfeld Guilford , In 100.00
8 10 12 Ted Hines Indianapolis , In 95.00
9 14 11 David Applegate Manchester , In 90.00
10 17 39 Matt Goodnight Winchester , In 85.00
11 18 21X Tyler Courtney Indianapolis , In 80.00
12 26 2G Joss Moffatt Columbus , In 75.00
13 23 9 Dustin Webber Goshen , Oh 70.00
14 7 57 Chad Boespflug Hanford , Ca 65.00
15 16 37RW Jon Stanbrough Brownsburg , In 60.00
16 24 13E Tj Heil North Bend, Oh 55.00
17 20 6 Nick Naber Cincinnati , Oh 50.00
18 5 12X Robert Ballou Westfield , In 45.00
19 12 21H Travis Hery Piqua , Oh 40.00
20 9 25 Eric Semple Winchester , Oh 35.00
21 15 5 Dalten Gabbard Peoria , Az 30.00
22 19 22W Mike Weber Cincinnati , Oh 25.00
23 22 26 Justin Owen Harrison , Oh 20.00
24 2 9K Kevin Thomas, Jr. Cullman , Al 15.00
25 4 30 Cj Leary Greenfield , In 10.00
26 25 20R Domain Ramsay - 0.00

[johnnythunderhead]

what a great nite of racing/ track was good all nite (could'a been a little tackier, but held up well under 35 midgets, 27 sprints and 17 mods) the midget feach was incredible, rico threw and landed a slider that turned bright around, but he somehow managed to keep er goin, with a couple laps to go. bright was running 2nd then and got tangled with the wall in turn 3 on the last lap, rico won and everyone was shouting a'beu, a'breu, or was that boo, boo? then out came the sprinters and they put on an insanely fantastic display of throwing caution to the wind, with some of the wildest non-stop blitz of slidejobs ever seen, with windom in the lead and ballou, darland and grant tossin some o the biggest sliders ever with the passees liftin and crossin over lookin much like scottish weavers workin on a black watch plaid weave, with all 4 under a blanket. seems like everyone out there were running harder than the cars were designed to endure as pieces and parts kept comin off. I've never seen anyone drive harder than Robert ballou did tonite. he bounced off of the walls in the turns as well as the back stretch and front stretch too and ended up in a wad between 3 n 4 with a couple laps to go. hats off to windom for driving a flawless race. congrats windom and Abreu and salute to hard chargers ballou and bright! thank you track prep and a bunch of fearless and talented drivers (both midgets and sprints) for one of the best shows ever!

[Charles Nungester]

Excellent summary Johnny.

[Charles Nungester]

Originally Posted by speedbump Wow I like how the burg put alot of effect into track pep.and just THINK I paid 25.00 to see a piece of **** track.I feel sorry for the drivers and fans

Who saw bad racing tonight? ANYBODY?...........................??????????????

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[johnnythunderhead]

no one in s/e Indiana did