[RACEMS41]

This horse is dead. They just haven't buried it yet. Way to go Kevin!!!

[BrentTFunk]

I think if we can just get a few more people crying, moaning, complaining, and just being overall negative, that this will make more tracks want to run races, more teams wanting to participate, and more sponsors to come on board. Anybody think that will happen? I am going to say this. Thanks to the people who purchased a shuttered racetrack. Intead of scrapping it and turning it into a mall, thank you for taking a chance on open wheel racing, and I hope your crowd was decent. I know the field was short, so I thank all the teams that made the effort to haul out to Colorado. Lastly I am glad on this high speed track, that it was a safe event.

[cowboyhar69]

EAST WINS “ROCKY MOUNTAIN CLASSIC”

Fountain, CO……..Bobby East of Brownsburg, Ind. won Saturday’s 100-mile “Rocky Mountain Classic” TRAXXAS USAC Silver Crown Championship race at Pikes Peak International Raceway, the race, in the Tony Stewart/Curb-Agajanian Racing Chevrolet Performance/Curb Beast/Kistler was the 29th in series competition for Stewart as a car owner. East passed Brian Tyler on lap 26 and held off a late-race challenge from Jerry Coons Jr. to post the victory over Coons, Tracy Hines, Tyler and fast qualifier Kody Swanson, who qualified at 141.188 mph. Coons emerged as the series point leader by 15 over East. Hines led the first four laps and Tyler led the next 21 before yielding to East.

TRAXXAS USAC SILVER CROWN CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES RACE RESULTS: June 29, 2013 – Fountain, Colorado – Pikes Peak International Raceway – “Rocky Mountain Classic”

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Kody Swanson, 63, DePalma-25.498; 2. Tracy Hines, 16, Lightfoot-25.687; 3. Kyle Hamilton, 33, Six-R-Hamilton-25.709; 4. Bobby Santos, 17, RW/Curb-Agajanian-25.787; 5. David Byrne, 40, Byrne-25.893; 6. Jerry Coons Jr., 27, RW/Curb-Agajanian-25.906; 7. A.J. Fike, 3, RFMS-25.913; 8. Bobby East, 10, Stewart/Curb-Agajanian-25.920; 9. Chris Windom, 7, RW/Curb-Agajanian-25.954; 10. Brian Tyler, 21, Six-R-25.993; 11. Taylor Ferns, 35, Ferns-26.148; 12. Shane Hollingsworth, 20, Nolen-26.236; 13. Jarett Andretti, 4, Andretti-26.427; 14. Frank D’Alonso, 25, Sachs-NT.

FEATURE: (100 Miles) 1. Bobby East, 2. Jerry Coons Jr., 3. Tracy Hines, 4. Brian Tyler, 5. Kody Swanson, 6. Shane Hollingsworth, 7. David Byrne, 8. Jarett Andretti, 9. Chris Windom, 10. Kyle Hamilton, 11. Taylor Ferns, 12. A.J. Fike, 13. Bobby Santos, 14. Frank D’Alonso. NT

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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-4 Hines, Laps 5-25 Tyler, Laps 26-100 East.

NEW TRAXXAS SILVER CROWN SERIES POINT STANDINGS: 1-Coons-159, 2-East-144, 3-Swanson-137, 4-Hines-133, 5-Hollingsworth-132, 6-Tyler-129, 7-Windom-114, 8-Fike-110, 9-Levi Jones-102, 10-Santos-87.

NEXT TRAXXAS SILVER CROWN RACE: July 27 – Indianapolis, IN – Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis – “J.D. Byrider 100 – Rich Vogler Classic”

[cowboyhar69]

HINES WINS “ROCKY MOUNTAIN CLASSIC” MIDGET THRILLER

Fountain, CO……..Tracy Hines of New Castle, Ind. scored his 86th career USAC National race victory Saturday in the 25-mile “Rocky Mountain Classic” Honda USAC National Midget race at Pikes Peak International Raceway. Hines was third on the white-flag lap when, entering turn four, leader Kyle Hamilton ran short of fuel. Runner-up Darren Hagen was blocked as Hines slid by on the top side and emerged as the leader. Hines led the last two laps for the win in his Parker Machinery/Turbines, Inc. Spike/Stanton Toyota. Hagen took second ahead of Caleb Armstrong, Bobby Santos and Taylor Ferns. Hamilton, who started on the pole, was sixth in the official finish. The race feature numerous lead changes. Kyle O’Gara led nine laps, Hamilton led 10 laps, Caleb Armstrong led four laps and Hines the last two. Hagen emerged as the point leader by two points.

HONDA USAC NATIONAL MIDGET PAVEMENT CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: June 29, 2013 – Fountain, Colorado – Pikes Peak International Raceway – “Rocky Mountain Classic”

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Kyle Hamilton, 33, Hamilton-26.800; 2. Caleb Armstrong, 7c, C&A-26.925; 3. Kyle O’Gara, 27, RW-26.932; 4. Tracy Hines, 24, Parker-26.989; 5. Darren Hagen, 3, RFMS-27.186; 6. Dalton Armstrong, 7A, C&A-27.223; 7. Chad Nichols, 17n, Nichols-27.853; 8. David Byrne, 20, Byrne-28.036; 9. Taylor Ferns, 55, Ferns-28.091; 10. Bobby East, 4, Klatt-NT; 11. Bobby Santos, 17, RW-NT.

FEATURE: (25 laps) 1. Tracy Hines, 2. Darren Hagen, 3. Caleb Armstrong, 4. Bobby Santos, 5. Taylor Ferns, 6. Kyle Hamilton, 7. David Byrne, 8. Chad Nichols, 9. Kyle O’Gara, 10. Dalton Armstrong, 11. Bobby East. NT

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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-9 O’Gara, Lap 10 Hamilton, Lap 11 C.Armstrong, Laps 12-13 Hamilton, Lap 14-15 C.Armstrong, Lap 16 Hamilton, Lap 17 C.Armstrong, Laps 18-23 Hamilton, Laps 24-25 Hines.

NEW HONDA NATIONAL MIDGET PAVEMENT CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Hagen-239, 2-Santos-237, 3-C.Armstrong-237, 4-Hines-233, 5-O’Gara-205, 6-D.Armstrong-182, 7-Tanner Swanson-156, 8-Byrne-140, 9-Hamilton-137, 10-Ferns-137.

NEXT HONDA NATIONAL MIDGET PAVEMENT CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: July 27 – Indianapolis, IN – Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis – “Rich Vogler Classic”

[toprowjim]

I attended the USAC midget and silver crown race at PPIR.First of all the midget race was terrific. Caleb Armstrong and Kyle Hamilton put on a great show. They passed each other on each corner of the track for almost 10 laps. The number of laps lead for each driver was only part of the story since each pass didn't count at the line. Last year I was vice president of Rocky Mountain Midget Racing Association (RMMRA) and I can tell you we have approx. 25 midgets registered in our group. USAC asked for our assistance with the car count. We have only run dirt the last three years and when we did run asphalt only in line cars were legal. The club voted several years ago to out law off set asphalt cars. The main reason for this was that only one or two owners could afford to invest in both types of cars and they would be the only ones to show up to run the asphalt shows. So you see we really couldn't help with the car count at PPIR.
As far as the silver crown cars go, one of the owners said in the pits they couldn't wait to get to Belleville and actually expect several parked cars to show up. 30 cars!! Keep the faith race fans!! Jim Bredenberg