Modified Kart

Limited Buggy
Thanks  to a two row inversion of yesterday’s qualifying results, pole-winner  Curt Geer started fourth in his #392 BFGoodrich Lothringer, while Bruce  Fraley and John Fitzgerald started on the front row. Fitzgerald made a  great start, moving to the early lead as Fraley, Bryan Freeman, Geer,  and Sean Kennedy followed closely in spots two through five. The top  three drivers maintained a close gap as they moved clear of Geer and  Kennedy before the competition yellow, and continued to hold their  positions as the green flag came back out. Meanwhile, Kennedy  made a  good jump to get his Goodyear/Lucas Oil buggy back around Geer for  fourth place. A few laps later, Freeman squeaked by his former teammate  Fraley to move into second position in his #318 Lone Kid Racing  machine, and with one lap to go, it was now Fitzgerald, Freeman,  Fraley, Kennedy, and Geer in the first five spots. Geer was eager to  get fourth place back, and after pressuring Kennedy for several laps,  he used a good run through the moguls to move inside of Kennedy into  turn four. With his nose in front, Geer swung wide and shut the door on  Kennedy, solidifying fourth place for himself and fifth for Kennedy.  The top three drivers stayed in their respective places, with  Fitzgerald taking a start-to-finish victory in his #314 Geico  Powersports/Rockstar buggy, ahead of Freeman and #312 Fraley in the  Freeman’s Carpet Service Fraley buggy.

UTV
The  #639 of Kenny Bates and the #673 of Mark Holtz had the front row  starting positions for today’s UTV race thanks to a six position  inversion of yesterday’s UTV qualifying results, but it was Austin  Kimbrell in the #607 Xtreme Machine and Fabrication machine who got by  both these guys to take the early lead. RJ Anderson spun in turn four  and collected some of the frontrunners in the process, and Robert  Vanbeekum was black flagged for an early incident, making for an  action-packed first lap. With one lap in the books, Kimbrell was the  early leader, and was followed by Holtz, Bates, and teammates Chad  George and Tyler Winbury. George moved up to the third place in his  #624 Funco Kawasaki on lap two, and young Winbury took over fourth  place in his #694 Beard Seats Kawasaki on the following lap. As the  competition yellow flag came out, Kimbrell still led over George and  Holtz, with Winbury and Bates sitting fourth and fifth. Winbury pulled  off the track on the yellow flag lap, which moved Anderson’s #637  Walker Evans Racing Polaris up into the top five. As the green flag  flew again, it was Vanbeekum who’d made the biggest move, pulling into  third place behind Kimbrell and George. Anderson then pulled off the  track, and Corry Weller’s beautiful-sounding Yamaha R1-powered Ranger,  which she was driving only as an exhibition of the new SR1 UTV class,  moved into fifth spot physically after starting dead last. With just  one lap to work with, Vanbeekum, who’d worked his way clear through the  field after being black-flagged early on, made up some huge ground to  pass BOTH Kimbrell and George to take the lead and the win! Kimbrell  and George, who must have been somewhat dumbfounded, ended up in second  and third places, with Holtz’s Holz Racing Products machine taking  fourth and Roger Stokes rounding out the top five in the #657.
 
 
Unlimited 4
The  first six spots from yesterday’s round of Unlimited 4 qualifying were  inverted for the start of today’s race, putting the #5 Pro Comp/Toyo  Tires Ford of Travis Coyne and the #18 Terrible Herbst Chevrolet of Tim  Herbst on the front row this afternoon. Herbst made a perfect jump to  take the early lead over Coyne, Adrian Cenni, Carl Renezeder, and Troy  Herbst on lap one. Coyne was pushing the leading Herbst hard, and  finally managed to get by and take the lead in turn one. Cenni followed  suit in his #11 Atrium Chevrolet, moving past Herbst in turn four of  the same lap. Cenni then lost it in turn one a few laps later, allowing  several drivers to get by in less than one lap before he finally pulled  off the track and out of the race. Up front, Coyne still led, but it  was now Carl Renezeder in the #1 Lucas Oil/General Tires Ford who  occupied second position. Tim Herbst was now third, with Alan Pflueger  lying fourth in his #71 K&N/KMC Wheels Chevrolet and Bryce Menzies  moving up to fifth in his #51 Team Associated Ford. This order stayed  the same as the competition yellow came out, but as the second half of  the race began, it was Pflueger who had a great jump to move up to  third spot. The leader Coyne then bicycled in turn two, dropping him  back to fourth after running so strongly in the first half of the race.  Renezeder assumed the lead ahead of Pflueger and Tim Herbst, and  although Coyne provided strong enough pressure on Herbst to eventually  move into third, both he and Herbst pulled off the track with less than  two laps to go. By the end of the race, only four trucks were still  running, and it was Renezeder who came out on top, with Pflueger taking  second, Menzies third, and Jerry Daugherty in the #23 Dixie  Choppers/Racin’ Dirty Chevrolet finishing fourth.
 
Unlimited Buggy
With  the help of a three row inversion, series newcomer Eric Barron in the  #910 K&N machine and Chuck Cheek in the #957 CMI Precision  Machining/Kronik Energy Alumicraft started on the front row in today’s  Unlimited Buggy race. Having set exactly the same time in qualifying  yesterday, Barron and Cheek were a great match for one another, and  their two great-looking cars sat in first and second at the end of the  first lap. Following closely were Mike Dondel, Bobby PeCoy, and Mike  Halliday in spots three through five. Barron and Dondel both went off  the track and dropped back, which allowed Cheek to pull clear up front.  PeCoy was now second in his #973 Earth Basics/Makita Alumicraft, acting  as a moving buffer zone between Cheek, who sat second in points coming  in to today’s race, and third place Halliday, the points leader. Fourth  and fifth spots were occupied by Joe Masek in the #947 Racer X/UPR  buggy and Larry Job in the #907 Menzies Motorsports/BFGoodrich tires  Alumicraft. Job soon moved past Masek to take fourth position, and at  the drop of the competition yellow flag, Cheek was still leading, ahead  of PeCoy, Halliday, Job, and Masek. After the restart, the top five  drivers held their positions, until a conglomeration of events shuffled  these spots significantly. As Job and Masek got into one another  heading into turn five, Dondel tried to take advantage by diving his  #998 Racer Engineering/Fox Racing Shox buggy down the inside. In doing  so, Dondel pushed Masek up on two wheels, and both drivers came away  with injured cars, with Masek coming out the worst for wear as he was  forced to retire from today’s race. Just before the end of the race,  PeCoy dropped out as well, and by the race’s end, the two drivers  battling each other in the points took the top two spots. Cheek  returned to his early season winning ways by taking the top step of the  podium, followed by Halliday in the #904 Green Army/Delmar Commercial  Real Estate Services Alumicraft, Job, Larry Foddrill in the #901  Goodyear/Toyota Foddrill, and Cameron Steele in the #916 Menzies  Motorsports/Metal Mulisha Alumicraft.
 
    Unlimited Lite
  Three  rows worth of inversions from qualifying left Unlimited Lite pole  winner Jimmy Stephenson back in sixth spot for the start of today’s  race, while up front, Chris Brandt and Matt Loiodice were happy to  start from the front row. Loiodice made a nice start in his #20  Mastercraft/Jimco Ford, and held the early lead ahead of Robert  Naughton in the #54 Readylift/Maxxis Tires Ford, Brandt, Brian Deegan,  and Stephenson’s #33 JS Pest Control Nissan through the end of the  first lap. The young rookie Loiodice drove well in the early going,  holding the four fastest drivers in this class at bay, until Naughton  touched Loiodice’s tail at just the wrong time in turn four, causing  Loiodice to roll over. Naughton was black flagged for his part in the  incident, and Brandt assumed the lead in his #82 Rockstar/Hart and  Huntington Toyota as the competition yellow came out. Lucas Oil/Metal  Mulisha teammates Deegan and Todd Cuffaro sat in second and third, with  Stephenson fourth and Heath Carpenter fifth in his #25 Ford. After the  green flag, Brandt slowed considerably, allowing Deegan to assume the  lead and moving Naughton back into the top five. On the final lap,  Naughton pulled off the track and out of the race, while up front, it  was Deegan taking his second win of the season in his #38 Rockstar  Ford, while his teammate Cuffaro in the #46 Nissan-powered truck came  home in second. Third went to Stephenson, who held off a hard-charging  Carpenter, who himself wound up fourth. Chuck Dempsey took his second  top five finish of the day in his #50 Speed Technologies/Bully Dog Ford.

Super Lite
The  drivers of the Bully Dog Super Lite division were next out on track,  and following an eight position inversion, #20 Joey Granatelli and #72  Brandon Bailey sat on the front row for the start of the race. As the  green flag dropped, #16 Dawson Kirchner spun out before crossing the  start/finish line, forcing a full restart of the race. Once the drivers  had settled down again, it was Bailey who jumped into the early lead in  his Lamb Energy/Stronghold Motorsports machine after the race got  underway again. Chad George sat in second in his Independent/Blanco  Basura truck, with John Harrah third in the #13 Speed Technologies  truck, Brandon Ward (son of Unlimited 2 driver Jeff Ward) fourth, and  Ricky James in fifth. James was on a charge, moving his #24 So Cal  Supertrucks machine into fourth, then third, then second, and finally  into the lead in just a handful of laps. Shortly thereafter, a bizarre  combination of events nearly ended James’ chances of victory. Jason  Patison rolled at the end of the mogul section, which brought out a  full course yellow. Race directors decided to use this yellow flag as  the competition yellow flag as well, and as the leaders slowed while  passing by the start finish line, second placed Bailey seemed to not  notice the yellow flags, and sailed off a jump and right into the back  of the leader James. Despite the rough-looking collision, James’ truck  wasn’t damaged severely, and as the green flag came back out, he held  the lead ahead of Bailey and George. On the final lap, George made a  desperate attempt to dive inside of Bailey in turn five, but he only  ended up pulling Bailey and himself off the track and back to sixth and  seventh places. Ahead and clear of this chaos, James took his third  victory in a row, keeping intact his perfect record of three wins in  three Lucas Oil series starts. Second place fell to the Speed  Technologies truck of Kirchner, third to Chuck Dempsey in the #50  XDP/Skin truck, fourth to Kirchner’s Bully Dog teammate Harrah, and  fifth to Ward in the #92 NOS Energy Drink machine.
 
Unlimited 2
After  a four row inversion, Robbie Pierce sat on the pole in his first ever  LOORRS race, alongside seasoned veteran Kevin Probst. As the race got  underway, a red flag was brought out following a tremendous “endo”  crash by Dale Dondel off the very first jump. Carey Hart was also taken  out by this incident, and Robby Woods was out on the first lap with  right front suspension failure. When the race restarted, Probst got the  hole shot in his #9 E3 Spark Plugs Chevrolet, and led at the end of lap  one. Behind Probst came Bryce Menzies in the #7 Super Clean/O’Neill  Ford, Greg Adler’s #10 4 Wheel Parts/BFGoodrich Ford, Pierce in the #30  Mastercraft Chevrolet, and Carl Renezeder in the #17 General Tires/Team  Associated Ford. As the first three drivers began to pull away,  Renezeder finally got around Pierce after several laps of work, and  began to close down that gap. Up front, Menzies took the lead away from  Probst, who then pushed Adler slightly off in an effort to maintain his  second position. This allowed Renezeder through and into second place,  while Probst pulled off the track and out of the race shortly  afterwards. The competition yellow flag then came out, and the order  was Menzies, Renezeder, Adler, Pierce, and Rodrigo Ampudia in the top  five spots. Ampudia and Jeff Ward moved into fourth and fifth after the  restart, and Ward then moved past Ampudia to steal fourth place away.  Ampudia then lost his fifth place to the #2 Dragonfire Racing/Magnaflow  Performance Exhaust Ford of Jerry Whelchel, while up front, the revered  Renezeder was pressuring the young phenomenon Menzies for the lead.  However, Menzies kept his cool and despite a couple of minor twitchy  moves, he held off Renezeder to take the win. With Adler pulling out in  the late going, Ward took third in his #3X Speed Technologies/Bully Dog  Chevrolet, Whelchel came home fourth, and Ampudia rounded out the top  five in his #36 Papas and Beer/Lucas Oil Ford.