Any Knoxville Updates?

Fred Zirzow · 5/30/09, 10:37 PM

B-Main
Finish:
1 99 Brady Bacon Broken Arrow, OK
2 13 Matt Smith Newcastle, NSW, Aust.,
3 30 Chad Boat Phoenix, AZ
4 21 Tracy Hines New Castle, IN
5 97 Henry Clarke Villa Park, CA
6 7c Caleb Armstong Riverside, CA
7 1x Mark Brown Sydney, NSW, Aust.,
8 44 Don Droud Jr. Lincoln, NE
9 69 AJ Fike Galesburg, IL

Starting Order: 30, 97, 13, 99, 69, 21, 44, 1X, 7C, 5D
8 laps and all cars will transfer in the order they finish this race. Boat has the early lead Bacon took to the top to lead lap one. Smith is second, Boat third Clarke fourth and then Hines. The battle is for second with Boat and Smith. the caution is for Droud who has stopped in turn four and is being pushed to the pit area. The restart shows Bacon taking lap 6.

Fred Zirzow · 5/30/09, 10:41 PM

Midget Nationals A Feature

LINE UP

1 3 Darren Hagen Riverside, CA
2 49 Brad Sweet Grass Valley, CA
3 11 Jerry Coons Jr. Tucson, AZ
4 05 Brad Loyet Sunset Hills, MO
5 8 Ricky Ehrgott Brandon, FL
6 17B Brad Kuhn Avon, IN
7 67 Kevin Swindell Germantown, TN
8 1 Cole Whitt Alpine, CA
9 4 Bobby East Brownsburg, IN
10 20 Levi Jones Avon, IN
11 99 Brady Bacon Broken Arrow, OK
12 13 Matt Smith Newcastle, NSW, Aust.,
13 30 Chad Boat Phoenix, AZ
14 21 Tracy Hines New Castle, IN
15 97 Henry Clarke Villa Park, CA
16 7c caleb Armstrong Riverside, CA
17 1x Mark Brown Sydney, NSW, Aust.,
18 44 Don Droud Jr. Lincoln, NE
19 69 AJ Fike Galesburg, IL
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Kevin Swindell Wins!

FINISH:
1 67 Kevin Swindell Germantown, TN
2 11 Jerry Coons Jr. Tucson, AZ
3 49 Brad Sweet Grass Valley, CA
4 3 Darren Hagen Riverside, CA
5 1 Cole Whitt Alpine, CA
6 30 Chad Boat Phoenix, AZ
7 05 Brad Loyet Sunset Hills, MO
8 17B Brad Kuhn Avon, IN
9 21 Tracy Hines New Castle, IN
10 13 Matt Smith Newcastle, NSW, Aust.,
11 1x Mark Brown Sydney, NSW, Aust.,
12 20 Levi Jones Avon, IN
13 4 Bobby East Brownsburg, IN
14 8 Ricky Ehrgott Brandon, FL
15 7c Caleb Armstrong Riverside, CA
16 97 Henry Clarke Villa Park, CA
17 99 Brady Bacon Broken Arrow, OK
18 69 AJ Fike Galesburg, IL

Starting Order: 3, 49, 11, 05, 8, 17B, 67, 1, 4, 20
25-lap feature. Coons is leading this non-stop race. Kevin Swindell has won this by two car lengths.

Fred Zirzow · 5/30/09, 11:39 PM

USAC MOPAR NATIONAL & USAC/SMRS GREAT PLAINS MIDGET CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: May 30, 2009 - Knoxville, Iowa - Knoxville Raceway - 8th "Pepsi Knoxville Midget Nationals" - Presented by Iowa Telecom (Co-Sanctioned by BMARA & POWRi)

QUALIFYING: 1. Brad Kuhn, 17B, RW-20.046; 2. Ricky Ehrgott, 8, Rev 1-20.158; 3. Brad Loyet, 05, Loyet-20.162; 4. Jerry Coons Jr., 11, Wilke-Pak-20.208; 5. Brad Sweet, 49, Kahne-20.211; 6. Darren Hagen, 3, RFMS-20.234; 7. Kevin Swindell, 67, Kunz-20.294; 8. Cole Whitt, 1, Kunz-20.348; 9. Bobby East, 4, Klatt-20.452; 10. Levi Jones, 20, Stewart-20.751; 11. Chad Boat, 30, Boat-20.753; 12. Henry Clarke, 97, Kunz-20.766; 13. Matt Smith, 13, Smith-20.776; 14. Brady Bacon, 99, Tel-Star-10.840; 15. A.J. Fike, 69, RFMS-20.857; 16. Tracy Hines, 21, Stewart-20.877; 17. Don Droud Jr., 44, Smith-21.055; 18. Mark Brown, 1x, Rinkin-21.584; 19. Caleb Armstrong, 7A, C & A-21.929; 20. Zach Daum, 5D, Daum-NT.

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Swindell, 2. Sweet, 3. Kuhn, 4. Loyet, 5. East, 6. Boat, 7. Smith, 8. Fike, 9. Droud, 10. C.Armstrong (#7c). 2:49.14

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Hagen, 2. Coons, 3. Whitt, 4. Ehrgott, 5. Jones, 6. Bacon, 7. Hines, 8. Brown, 9. Clarke. NT

SEMI: (10 laps) 1. Bacon, 2. Smith, 3. Boat, 4. Hines, 5. Clarke, 6. C.Armstrong (#7c), 7. Brown, 8. Droud, 9. Fike, 10. Daum. NT

FEATURE: (25 laps) 1. Kevin Swindell, 2. Jerry Coons Jr., 3. Brad Sweet, 4. Darren Hagen, 5. Cole Whitt, 6. Chad Boat, 7. Brad Loyet, 8. Brad Kuhn, 9. Tracy Hines, 10. Matt Smith, 11. Mark Brown, 12. Levi Jones, 13. Bobby East, 14. Ricky Ehrgott, 15. Caleb Armstrong (#7C), 16. Henry Clarke, 17. Brady Bacon, 18. A.J. Fike, 19. Don Droud Jr. 9:14.98
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"KNOXVILLE MIDGET NATIONALS" FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-2 Sweet, Laps 3-23, Laps 24-25 Swindell.

NEW MOPAR NATIONAL MIDGET CAR STANDINGS: 1-Hagen-417; 2-Coons-410; 3-East-401; 4-Kuhn-396; 5-Sweet-387; 6-Hines-364; 7-Swindell-346; 8-Whitt-342; 9-Boat-318; 10-Jones-303.
NEW USAC/SMRS GREAT PLAINS MIDGET CAR STANDINGS: 1-Chad McDaniel-968; 2-Matt Sherrell-908; 3-Andrew Deal-902; 4-Rick England-898; 5-Loyet-816; 6-Cody Brewer-788; 7-Will Pierce-784; 8-Evan Pardo-780; 9-Robby Ross-556; 10-Ryan Cole-493.

NEXT MOPAR NATIONAL MIDGET RACE: June 10 - Gas City (IN) I-69 Speedway - "Indiana Midget Week"
NEXT USAC/SMRS GREAT PLAINS MIDGET RACE: July 10 - Wainwright, OK - Outlaw Motor Speedway

illiNOISE · 5/31/09, 7:26 AM

I can't see the logic of running a semi when there were only 19 cars. Why draw further attention to the short field by running an absurd B-main that eliminates no one? If they wanted to run an "extra" race for the fans, why not just take the top 3 out of each heat, give them their "times back", and run a 6 car dash?

SUPERDUKE · 5/31/09, 9:40 AM

You talk about the short field of cars! How bout the small crowd? Bout 250 fri. And 1200 t0 1500 sat! Its going to get worse! What a great pass by swindel last corner last lap!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And sammy almost pulled it off in the sprint main!

Tim Watson · 5/31/09, 1:23 PM

Would they get more cars if they ran it at a smaller track?

5/31/09, 1:41 PM

I wonder do you guys think half miles are too big for Sprints and Midgets that run without a wing. Supposedly the reason the outlaws went with wings is that too many cars were getting destroyed. A wing definitely softens a roll over (most of the time) by absorbing energy. Of course there have been drivers hurt with a wing but in the big picture guys seem to survive better. A wing makes a car more stable. Maybe I'm wrong but it's just a thought.

SUPERDUKE · 5/31/09, 4:47 PM

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Originally Posted by aceace

i wonder do you guys think half miles are too big for sprints and midgets that run without a wing. Supposedly the reason the outlaws went with wings is that too many cars were getting destroyed. A wing definitely softens a roll over (most of the time) by absorbing energy. Of course there have been drivers hurt with a wing but in the big picture guys seem to survive better. A wing makes a car more stable. Maybe i'm wrong but it's just a thought.

hell no! We have raced midgets and sprints on miles and 1/2miles paved and dirt since the 40s! Things happen at any size track! I've seen 3 die in midgets at the speed drome on a 1/5 mile flat track! And they also die in wing sprint cars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Tim Watson · 5/31/09, 7:34 PM

I just thought if they ran this at a smaller track they might get more cars, this has nothing to do with the tragedy. Guys that run for points like Badger can't take the chance to run 2 nights on a big track cause if they hurt a motor it could end the season for them.

5/30/09, 10:37 PM	#21 Re: Any Knoxville Updates?
Fred Zirzow Senior Member Race Count This Year: 65 Race Count Last Year: 49 Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 958	B-Main Finish: 1 99 Brady Bacon Broken Arrow, OK 2 13 Matt Smith Newcastle, NSW, Aust., 3 30 Chad Boat Phoenix, AZ 4 21 Tracy Hines New Castle, IN 5 97 Henry Clarke Villa Park, CA 6 7c Caleb Armstong Riverside, CA 7 1x Mark Brown Sydney, NSW, Aust., 8 44 Don Droud Jr. Lincoln, NE 9 69 AJ Fike Galesburg, IL Starting Order: 30, 97, 13, 99, 69, 21, 44, 1X, 7C, 5D 8 laps and all cars will transfer in the order they finish this race. Boat has the early lead Bacon took to the top to lead lap one. Smith is second, Boat third Clarke fourth and then Hines. The battle is for second with Boat and Smith. the caution is for Droud who has stopped in turn four and is being pushed to the pit area. The restart shows Bacon taking lap 6. _________________________________________________ Last edited by Fred Zirzow; 5/30/09 at 11:38 PM.

5/30/09, 10:41 PM	#22 Re: Any Knoxville Updates?
Fred Zirzow Senior Member Race Count This Year: 65 Race Count Last Year: 49 Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 958	Midget Nationals A Feature LINE UP 1 3 Darren Hagen Riverside, CA 2 49 Brad Sweet Grass Valley, CA 3 11 Jerry Coons Jr. Tucson, AZ 4 05 Brad Loyet Sunset Hills, MO 5 8 Ricky Ehrgott Brandon, FL 6 17B Brad Kuhn Avon, IN 7 67 Kevin Swindell Germantown, TN 8 1 Cole Whitt Alpine, CA 9 4 Bobby East Brownsburg, IN 10 20 Levi Jones Avon, IN 11 99 Brady Bacon Broken Arrow, OK 12 13 Matt Smith Newcastle, NSW, Aust., 13 30 Chad Boat Phoenix, AZ 14 21 Tracy Hines New Castle, IN 15 97 Henry Clarke Villa Park, CA 16 7c caleb Armstrong Riverside, CA 17 1x Mark Brown Sydney, NSW, Aust., 18 44 Don Droud Jr. Lincoln, NE 19 69 AJ Fike Galesburg, IL _________________________________________ Kevin Swindell Wins! FINISH: 1 67 Kevin Swindell Germantown, TN 2 11 Jerry Coons Jr. Tucson, AZ 3 49 Brad Sweet Grass Valley, CA 4 3 Darren Hagen Riverside, CA 5 1 Cole Whitt Alpine, CA 6 30 Chad Boat Phoenix, AZ 7 05 Brad Loyet Sunset Hills, MO 8 17B Brad Kuhn Avon, IN 9 21 Tracy Hines New Castle, IN 10 13 Matt Smith Newcastle, NSW, Aust., 11 1x Mark Brown Sydney, NSW, Aust., 12 20 Levi Jones Avon, IN 13 4 Bobby East Brownsburg, IN 14 8 Ricky Ehrgott Brandon, FL 15 7c Caleb Armstrong Riverside, CA 16 97 Henry Clarke Villa Park, CA 17 99 Brady Bacon Broken Arrow, OK 18 69 AJ Fike Galesburg, IL Starting Order: 3, 49, 11, 05, 8, 17B, 67, 1, 4, 20 25-lap feature. Coons is leading this non-stop race. Kevin Swindell has won this by two car lengths. _________________________________________________ Last edited by Fred Zirzow; 5/30/09 at 11:40 PM.

5/30/09, 11:39 PM	#23 Re: Any Knoxville Updates?
Fred Zirzow Senior Member Race Count This Year: 65 Race Count Last Year: 49 Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 958	USAC MOPAR NATIONAL & USAC/SMRS GREAT PLAINS MIDGET CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: May 30, 2009 - Knoxville, Iowa - Knoxville Raceway - 8th "Pepsi Knoxville Midget Nationals" - Presented by Iowa Telecom (Co-Sanctioned by BMARA & POWRi) QUALIFYING: 1. Brad Kuhn, 17B, RW-20.046; 2. Ricky Ehrgott, 8, Rev 1-20.158; 3. Brad Loyet, 05, Loyet-20.162; 4. Jerry Coons Jr., 11, Wilke-Pak-20.208; 5. Brad Sweet, 49, Kahne-20.211; 6. Darren Hagen, 3, RFMS-20.234; 7. Kevin Swindell, 67, Kunz-20.294; 8. Cole Whitt, 1, Kunz-20.348; 9. Bobby East, 4, Klatt-20.452; 10. Levi Jones, 20, Stewart-20.751; 11. Chad Boat, 30, Boat-20.753; 12. Henry Clarke, 97, Kunz-20.766; 13. Matt Smith, 13, Smith-20.776; 14. Brady Bacon, 99, Tel-Star-10.840; 15. A.J. Fike, 69, RFMS-20.857; 16. Tracy Hines, 21, Stewart-20.877; 17. Don Droud Jr., 44, Smith-21.055; 18. Mark Brown, 1x, Rinkin-21.584; 19. Caleb Armstrong, 7A, C & A-21.929; 20. Zach Daum, 5D, Daum-NT. FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Swindell, 2. Sweet, 3. Kuhn, 4. Loyet, 5. East, 6. Boat, 7. Smith, 8. Fike, 9. Droud, 10. C.Armstrong (#7c). 2:49.14 SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Hagen, 2. Coons, 3. Whitt, 4. Ehrgott, 5. Jones, 6. Bacon, 7. Hines, 8. Brown, 9. Clarke. NT SEMI: (10 laps) 1. Bacon, 2. Smith, 3. Boat, 4. Hines, 5. Clarke, 6. C.Armstrong (#7c), 7. Brown, 8. Droud, 9. Fike, 10. Daum. NT FEATURE: (25 laps) 1. Kevin Swindell, 2. Jerry Coons Jr., 3. Brad Sweet, 4. Darren Hagen, 5. Cole Whitt, 6. Chad Boat, 7. Brad Loyet, 8. Brad Kuhn, 9. Tracy Hines, 10. Matt Smith, 11. Mark Brown, 12. Levi Jones, 13. Bobby East, 14. Ricky Ehrgott, 15. Caleb Armstrong (#7C), 16. Henry Clarke, 17. Brady Bacon, 18. A.J. Fike, 19. Don Droud Jr. 9:14.98 ------------------------------------ "KNOXVILLE MIDGET NATIONALS" FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-2 Sweet, Laps 3-23, Laps 24-25 Swindell. NEW MOPAR NATIONAL MIDGET CAR STANDINGS: 1-Hagen-417; 2-Coons-410; 3-East-401; 4-Kuhn-396; 5-Sweet-387; 6-Hines-364; 7-Swindell-346; 8-Whitt-342; 9-Boat-318; 10-Jones-303. NEW USAC/SMRS GREAT PLAINS MIDGET CAR STANDINGS: 1-Chad McDaniel-968; 2-Matt Sherrell-908; 3-Andrew Deal-902; 4-Rick England-898; 5-Loyet-816; 6-Cody Brewer-788; 7-Will Pierce-784; 8-Evan Pardo-780; 9-Robby Ross-556; 10-Ryan Cole-493. NEXT MOPAR NATIONAL MIDGET RACE: June 10 - Gas City (IN) I-69 Speedway - "Indiana Midget Week" NEXT USAC/SMRS GREAT PLAINS MIDGET RACE: July 10 - Wainwright, OK - Outlaw Motor Speedway _________________________________________________ Last edited by Fred Zirzow; 5/31/09 at 12:32 AM.

5/31/09, 7:26 AM	#24 Re: Any Knoxville Updates?
illiNOISE Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 890	I can't see the logic of running a semi when there were only 19 cars. Why draw further attention to the short field by running an absurd B-main that eliminates no one? If they wanted to run an "extra" race for the fans, why not just take the top 3 out of each heat, give them their "times back", and run a 6 car dash? _________________________________________________ Last edited by illiNOISE; 5/31/09 at 7:27 AM.

5/31/09, 9:40 AM	#25 Re: Any Knoxville Updates?
SUPERDUKE Banned Join Date: Mar 2008 Posts: 2,256	You talk about the short field of cars! How bout the small crowd? Bout 250 fri. And 1200 t0 1500 sat! Its going to get worse! What a great pass by swindel last corner last lap!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And sammy almost pulled it off in the sprint main!

5/31/09, 1:23 PM	#26 Re: Any Knoxville Updates?
Tim Watson Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 2,509	Would they get more cars if they ran it at a smaller track?

5/31/09, 1:41 PM	#27 Re: Any Knoxville Updates?
aceace Posts: n/a	I wonder do you guys think half miles are too big for Sprints and Midgets that run without a wing. Supposedly the reason the outlaws went with wings is that too many cars were getting destroyed. A wing definitely softens a roll over (most of the time) by absorbing energy. Of course there have been drivers hurt with a wing but in the big picture guys seem to survive better. A wing makes a car more stable. Maybe I'm wrong but it's just a thought.

5/31/09, 7:34 PM	#29 Re: Any Knoxville Updates?
Tim Watson Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 2,509	I just thought if they ran this at a smaller track they might get more cars, this has nothing to do with the tragedy. Guys that run for points like Badger can't take the chance to run 2 nights on a big track cause if they hurt a motor it could end the season for them.