Montpelier Midgets Set For Opener This Sat., 4/15

BrianBSU23 · 4/11/17, 9:22 AM

After heavy rains throughout the week forced the postponement of the previous two Montpelier Motor Speedway 31st Annual Season Openers attempts, the 114 year old racing facility is ready to kick off the 2017 campaign this Saturday night, April 15th with a program featuring Midgets, UMP Modifieds, Super Streets, Thunder Cars, and FWD Compacts. The Montpelier Motor Speedway with the support of Midget owners and drivers across the Midwest have built a Midget series that boasts healthy Midget fields with plenty of star power and side by side racing. Logan Arnold was crowned the 2016 Montpelier Motor Speedway Midget series champion while open wheel standouts Shane Hollingsworth and Davey Ray continue to battle for the all-time Midget win leader at MMS.

The Montpelier’s Midget Series which features full size Midgets and unlimited power plants and allows a platform for other engines including Focus, Ecotech, and Motorcycle powered entries to compete utilizing an unlimited weight break and additional tire width. The Montpelier Motor Speedway Midget Series features an open tire brand and compound rule. The event will also pay USAC MWT points to members. The Montpelier Motor Speedway Midget Series is presented by the Leaders Edge of Indianapolis, Indiana.

The Montpelier Motor Speedway, which began racing in 1903 and hosted its first automobile race in 1915, is one of America’s oldest remaining racing facilities. While the east central Indiana ¼ mile clay oval has a historic past, the facility has seen many major modern upgrades the past four seasons including new restrooms and bleachers along with the addition of many safety features such as a new catch fence system along with a new front stretch wall, lighting system, transponder scoring, and corner runoff areas. The Montpelier Motor Speedway commonly competes weekly on Saturday Nights with its popular Modified and Stock Car divisions and is also the host to the popular Montpelier Motor Speedway Midget series. The Montpelier Motor Speedway serves as a host for USAC National Sprint Cars, USAC Indiana Midget Week, MSCS Sprint Cars, NRA Sprint Invaders, and BOSS Sprint Cars.

Full Event Information and Complete 2017 Schedule can be found on our website at:
www.MontpelierMotorSpeedway.com

Classes

Midgets
UMP Modifieds - $1000 To Win | $100 To Start
Super Streets - $500 To Win | $75 To Start
Thunder Cars - $400 To Win | $50 To Start
FWD Compacts - $160 To Win | $40 To Start

Event Pricing (Regular Event)
General Admission – $12
Kids (12 and Under) – FREE (with paid adult)
Pit Pass – $30 (includes Transponder Rental)

Times
Gates Open – 3:00PM
Hot Laps – 5:00PM
Racing – 6:30PM

Location
East Central Indiana
Montpelier Motor Speedway
700 South Jefferson Street
Montpelier, Indiana 47359
I69 Exit 264 Via Indiana Highway 18

Montpelier Midget Event Winners
85 Shane Hollingsworth 8
2/10/16/33 Davey Ray 6
5X Justin Peck 3
10 Chett Gehrke 3
6RR Lynsey Liguori 2
86 Shane Cottle 2
21 Nick Speidel 1
7 Critter Malone 1
10 Brandon Matus 1
17 Michael Koontz 1
3 Darren Hagen 1
10 Billy Wease 1
52 Isaac Chapple 1
9P Parker Price-MIller 1
2 Tate Martz 1
17E Blake Edwards 1
39 Spencer Bayston 1
7 Gage Walker 1
88 Scott Orr 1
1K Kyle Larson 1 (USAC National Midget Winner)

Upcoming Montpelier Motor Speedway Midget Series Dates:
2. April 15
3. May 13
4. May 27
5. June 6 (Indiana Midget Week with Non Wing Sprint Cars and UMP Modifieds)
6. June 24
7. July 15
8. July 22
9. August 12
10. August 19
11. September 2
12. September 16
13. September 30

Sprint Car Events:
April 22, Saturday – USAC Amsoil National Sprint Cars
May 2, Saturday – MSCS Non Wing Sprint Cars - $2000 To Win | $200 To Start
June 6, Tuesday – Non Wing Sprint Cars (with Indiana Midget Week)
June 17, Saturday – NRA Sprint Invaders VS GLSS Winged Sprint Cars
July 29, Satrday – NRA Sprint Invaders VS GLSS Winged Sprint Cars
September 9, Saturday ** – BOSS – Buckeye Outlaw Sprint Series – 410 Non Wing Sprint Cars[/B]
** Sprint Car Programs Feature Sprint Cars | UMP Modifieds | Super Streets | Thunder Cars

Media
Official Website – www.MontpelierMotorSpeedway.com|
Facebook Page – www.Facebook.com/MontpelierMotorSpeedway
Twitter (@Montpelier Track) – www.twitter.com/MontpelierTrack

Crankin · 4/17/17, 8:10 PM

Results?????

cwfan08 · 4/17/17, 8:17 PM

Davey Ray won by .084 over Tanner Carrick.

Crankin · 4/17/17, 9:07 PM

Yup. Know that. What about the other 32 cars?
Plus I'm sure some folks might be interested in the other divisions?

nathans1012 · 4/17/17, 11:49 PM

Good field of cars there but track was a bit of a farm field in the turns. we pulled off in the ump modified feature with about 8 laps left (#21c). 33/34 midgets & 37 modifieds. not sure on car count for other classes but there where 2 heats for them each.

BrianBSU23 · 4/18/17, 9:25 AM

My apologies for not having them posted earlier. I usually have them posted within 24 hours, but we were working through a lot of opening week issues and getting ready for the USAC Amsoil National Sprints cars this week.

Midgets (presented by Leaders Edge)
34 Entries

1. 33 Davey Ray
2. 71 Tanner Carrick
3. 71 Jodie Robinson
4. 39BC Zeb Wise
5. 22 Chase Jones
6. 43 Logan Arnold
7. 39 Kyle May
8. 21 Justin Dickerson
9. 6B Brad Kraus
10. 3 Alex Watson
11. 8JR Bear Woods
12. 38 Nick Corea
13. 11 Corey Bedwell
14. 11 Aaron Leffel
15. 32 Nick Hamilton
16. 7K Justin Peck
17. 88 Tyler Nelson
18. 1 Korbyn Hayslett
19. 7 Gage Walker
20. 35 Chris Baue

Note: Margin of Victory .084
B Main #1
1. 1H Korbyn Hayslett
2. 38 Nick Corea
3. 44 Ron Coleman
4. 2B Thomas Bigelow
5. 7 Tom Hessett
6. 11 Charles Taylor
7. 10 Chett Gehrke
8. 14 Nich Daughtery
9. 65 Chris Bounds

B Main #2
1. 6B Brad Kraus
2. 11 Aaron Leffel
3. 44 Chris Whipple
4. 25 John Watson
5. 22 Mark Horning
6. 71 Stratton Briggs
7. 4 Brent Fordyce
8. 26 Tyler Rankin

Thanks to all the teams for their support. This is the new record car count for the MMS Midget Series. Now, with our friends at the Kokomo Speedway running our concept we think we can see even further growth of the series and cars.

The track conditions were rough for the feature as Nathan noted. We have been bombarded with rain as you probably saw with the fields full of water coming into Montpelier. On Friday, the track and pits were under water from a heavy rain early Friday morning not forecasted. It was all pumped and we could not get equipment or even the mower back there until late afternoon Friday. We appreciate everyone working with the parking and track.

Crankin · 4/18/17, 9:30 AM

Thanks!

Geoff Kaiser · 4/19/17, 10:40 AM

Your doing a great job, keep it up

4/17/17, 9:07 PM	#4
Crankin Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 991	Yup. Know that. What about the other 32 cars? Plus I'm sure some folks might be interested in the other divisions? _________________________________________________ Last edited by Crankin; 4/17/17 at 9:09 PM.

4/17/17, 11:49 PM	#5 Re: Montpelier Midgets Set For Opener This Sat., 4/15
nathans1012 Senior Member Race Count This Year: 7 Race Count Last Year: 34 Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 7,430	Good field of cars there but track was a bit of a farm field in the turns. we pulled off in the ump modified feature with about 8 laps left (#21c). 33/34 midgets & 37 modifieds. not sure on car count for other classes but there where 2 heats for them each. __________________ 2024 Season: Race 1 - April 20th Brownstown (Crate LM). Unlike many I don't discriminate on what racing I choose to watch.

4/17/17, 8:10 PM	#2
Crankin Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 991	Results?????