For Immediate Release

Missouri’s Rusty Dukes Steals The Sooner Midget Nationals!

Missouri’s Rusty Dukes ended up taking the money and the Sooner Midget Nationals trophy from I-44 Riverside Speedway, back to the “Show Me State” on Saturday night!

Preliminary night winner Kevin Bayer jumped out to the point on the first lap, but that didn’t last long as Dukes got by him to lead the second lap. Bayer wasn’t happy with anything but first and he made a third lap pass back for the lead and held the point until Colorado’s Todd Plemons took advantage of a rare Bayer mistake on lap 7 to take the top spot! Plemons lead was short lived as he and Andrew Felker would tangle on the next lap with both cars being retired from the event. Dukes would inherit the lead at that point and never look back throughout the 30 lap main event! Dukes who is an experienced late model and modified driver was ecstatic in victory lane saying, “that was awesome, I sure hope we get to come back to this place, because that was the most fun I’ve had in a race car in along time!”

Oklahoma hot shoe-Chris Andrews took home the non-wing micro portion of the Sooner Midget Nationals!

The KMK Transportation-SOUTHERN OPEN WHEEL SERIES and I-44 Riverside Speedway would like to thank all the drivers and teams for coming out, but most importantly we would like to thank the fans for supporting this awesome show!

Heat Race Winners: Crawford, Burke, Plemons, Dukes

Melmark Pipe and Supply Dash Results: Bayer, Dukes, Johnson, Plemons

B-Main Results: Taylor, Thomas, Stasa, Pardo, Harvey, Harr, Ruffin, McVay, Allen, Jackson, Halford, Snow, Kreisel, McCune, Arnall

A-Main Results: Dukes, Bayer, Burke Jr, J. Stasa, Fenton, Gherke, Loyet, P. Stasa, Crawford, Hahn, Johnson, Taylor, Thomas, Bell, Cole, Schudy, Plemons, Felker, Sewell, Pardo

The K.M.K. Transportation SOUTHERN OPEN WHEEL SERIES would like to thank ROD END Supply, MelMark Pipe and Supply, Oklahoma Pipe, Mud-X, and Doyle Ent. for their support through the 2011 season!

Also thanks to Michael at Thriller Productions! Go to thrillerproductions.com for videos of both nights!

More midgets in Oklahoma City than Kokomo?!

how 'bout first names?

Hey all you IOW'ers I just wanted to point out that RRE Chevy ECOtec's placed FIRST and THIRD on Friday night at this event, along with winning the trophy dash. On Saturday night we also contested the win, settling for SECOND, FOURTH and FIFTH. Kevin Bayer earned $2,300.00 on the weekend with his RRE ECOtec!

Kevin Bayer, Chet Gherke, Eric Fenton and Richard Kriesel all did great jobs with their RRE ECOtec powered cars and are to be congratulated for getting out there and running hard with the big dogs.