The Montpelier Motor Speedway had two first time Midget winners last night. Pennsylvania's Brandon Matus, driving for Don Moore, picked up his first career midget win in the the make up feature. If you are not familier with Brandon, Brandon races 410 winged sprints in the Pennsylvania area. Joe Liguori led the bulk of the laps, but Brandon was able to pass Joe on a late race restart. Joe and Brandon were locked into a side by side battle the entire feature. A very good and racey feature!

The second feature also saw a first time winner with Bloomington, Indiana's Michael Koontz picking up the win. Michael won in convincing fashion leading every lap in route to his first career Midget win. Michael is a previous winner at the speedway in a UMRA TQ Midget.

Congrats to Brandon and Michael. We have had 5 different winners in 6 races so far this season.

Also, thanks to Greg and Alex Watson, Bill and Kent Kreighbaum, and Lynsey Tilton for displaying their midgets at intermission and for allowing so many kids to climb behind the wheel of their race cars. For many kids, it was their first time in a race car.


We have two additional midget races for the 2012 season - September 1 and September 15.

I will have pictures and full results up on website this evening. Thanks everyone for your support. We had a nice crowd on hand for racing last night.