RONNIE COMBS WINS AT RUSHVILLE
Greensburg's Ronnie Combs won his second feature of the season on Thursday night when the Midwest TQ Racing League
presented by Vincennes University competed at the Rush County Fair.
Tate Martz started the evening off by setting quick time with a lap of 13.288 seconds in qualifications. Jason Willis then won the Jackson Oil & Solvents Duel for Fuel and qualifying race wins went to Chris Mann and Cody Kiewitt. Martz, Jon Steed and Rick Robinson topped the ten lap heat races and Rob Walton won the B Main.
The feature got off to a slow start when polesitter Bruce Leisure spun in turn two and then on the subsequent restart Willis flipped spectacularly on the front stretch. The third try was the charm and new polesitter Robinson jumped out to the lead followed by Combs, Zach Cougill, Corey Eaglin & CJ Leary.
Robinson would lead the first four laps until losing a wheel in turn three. His misfortune gave the lead to Combs and he pulled away, easily taking the win in his Tony Stewart owned #50 three quarter midget. Cougill held off a charging Leary for second followed by Martz and Steed. Eaglin, Leisure, with a nice charge back through the field, Kiewitt, Mann and Walton rounded out the top ten.
Completing the field were Caleb Faulkner, Bill James, Scot Quintel, Will Wilson, Kevin Blue, Jake Moore, Robinson, Chad Rouse, Willis and Brett Hankins.
Eaglin was the Tony Stewart Racing Rookie of the Race, Willis the Duane & Sonja Alexander Hard Luck Driver, and Moore won the drawing for the Jackson Oil & Solvents gift certificate.
The next race on the MTQRL schedule will be Saturday night July 9th at the Shelby County Fair in Shelbyville, Ind.
For more information please visit
www.mtqrl.com.
