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4/24/2016

By Michael Batz

White-knuckle racing is the only way to describe night number two of Starrcade 2016.

Brett Wanner led the ARDC Midgets to the green flag for their 25 lap feature.

It would become apparent early that the midgets were going to use every inch of the quarter mile on this night.

Wanner lead until he bobbled in turn three and Brett Arndt was able to move into the top spot. Unfortunately for Arndt the pass would not stand because of a yellow flag for Ryan Greth and Jim Radney who were right behind Wanner when he slowed and brought out the yellow flag.

On the restart Wanner was able to hold off both Arndt and Nick Wean until lap eight when Arndt passed for the lead again. Once Arndt was out front would wage a battle with Bright and Wean for the top spot as they went 3 wide numerous times over the next five laps.

Arndt’s car was much better after a lap 14 red flag for Jamie Spears who flipped in turn 1.

After the red Arndt easily became the car to beat while Bright tried to fend off a hard charging Trevor Kobylarz.

Ardnt was able to withstand a late race yellow flag to grab his first ARDC Midget win at Linda’s Speedway.

Bright came across second ahead of Kobylarz, Wean, and Tommy Kunsman. Brendon Bright, Wanner, Eric Heydenrich, Jimmy Glenn, and Ryan Wilson made up the top ten finishers from the ARDC Midget portion of the Starrcade event.

Heat race winners for the Midgets were Alex Bright, Tommy Kunsman, and Ryan Greth

Lindas feature finish
Arndt
A Bright
Kobylarz
Wean
Kunsman
B Bright
Wanner
Heydenreich
Glenn
Wilson
Lowery
Beasley
Rivard
Spears
Morral
Radney
Greth
Dns-stratton

Next event is this Saturday 4/30 at Susquehanna Speedway with the winged super sportsman

[Andrew S. Quinn]

The middle of the race was much more exciting than described above,among the top 4 cars. I havent been to an ARDC race in many years,the last time was at Lincoln when they ran wings. It ended up being a good night at Linda's for a new track for me,(#163)and the ARDC midgets. I left after the midget feature,but the other 2 classes were pretty good too. I had a long day at Spring Carlisle,and many miles of walking,after a night of not much sleep after driving to Pa. after work on Thursday.