Lincoln Park Speedway (Video Highlights from FloRacing.com)
7/1/22
Lincoln Park Speedway
Putnamville, IN
Bill Gardner Sprintacular Night #1
MSCS/USAC
58 cars
Cars qualified in their heat groups all at once. Chase Stockon set quick time in the first heat at 12.622 seconds. Ryan Thomas set overall quick time with 12.439 on the 5/16-mile oval for heat two. Other heat quick timers were Kyle Cummins with 12.577, Justin Grant with 12.635, Robert Ballou with 12.771 and Shane Cottle with 12.633. It was a full point show for MSCS and show-up points for USAC. It will be the reverse Saturday night.
Heat one (started): 1. Stockon 5s (4) 2. Logan Seavey 5L (1) 3. Jason McDougal 5m (5) / 4. Brent Beauchamp 34B (2) 5. Emerson Axsom 47BC (3) 6. Donny Brackett 4B (10) 7. Geoff Ensign 04 (9) 8. Seth Parker 38P (7) 9. Austin Graby 7 (8) 10. Jake Scott 33 (6)
10-lap heats were inverted by four by time, and took the top three to the feature, fourth and fifth to the B, sixth and seventh to the C, and the rest to the D. Beauchamp led Seavey, Axsom and Stockon early. A spin by Scott slowed things a lap in, and he exited. On the restart, Stockon took third from Axsom. McDougal also got by Axsom for fourth, and then took the final transfer spot from his teammate on lap five. At that point, Graby came to a stop bringing another caution. With two laps to go, Stockon performed a slide job on McDougal to take back third. Stockon would pass Beauchamp for the lead coming for the white flag and bring Seavey with him. McDougal would drive hard into turn four on the final lap. Beauchamp would drive over the cushion and surrender the last transfer.
Heat two (started): 1 .CJ Leary 77m (3) 2. Matt Westfall 33m (1) 3. Jadon Rogers 14 (2) / 4. Brandon Mattox 28 (5) 5. Chase Johnson 2 (10) 6. Blake Vermillion 73 (7) 7. R. Thomas 77FR (4) 8. Ivan Glotzbach I1 (6) 9. Collin Ambrose 36 (8) 10. Aric Gentry 10 (9)
Leary led from the start and pulled away for the win. Gentry went over the top of turn one and stopped, bringing the caution one lap in. Leary led Westfall, Rogers, B. Mattox and Thomas back to green. Rogers would stay with Westfall riding a higher line. He’d take second on the white flag lap, only to have Westfall drive back under him at the checkers.
Heat three (started): 1. Brayden Fox (3) 2. Cummins 3R (4) 3. Carson Garrett 15 (1) / 4. Mitchel Moles 19AZ (5) 5. AJ Hopkins 77 (2) 6. Cody Trammell 27T (6) 7. Todd Hobson 77AU (7) 8. Tony Helton 87 (9) 9. Michael Clark 8 (8) DNS – Travis Berryhill 77s
Garrett led early over Fox and Cummins. Moles passed Hopkins for fourth on lap two, and they went back and forth a couple of times in a good battle. On lap seven, Fox hit the low side to get by Garrett for the point. Cummins moved into second coming for the white flag.
Heat four (started): 1. Kevin Thomas Jr. 15K (2) 2. Tye Mihocko 2E (5) 3. Grant 4 (4) / 4. Kyle Shipley 17GP (7) 5. Zack Pretorius 9z (1) 6. Cole Bodine 57B (6) 7. Tres Mehler 5A (10) 8. Jesse Vermillion 5V (9) 9. Max Adams 17 (8) 10. Evan Mosley 27 (3)
Thomas Jr. led the distance. Pretorius was second until Mihocko and Grant both shot by on lap two to gain second and third. Grant would go over the top of turn one and lose a spot on lap six. Shipley moved into the final transfer, but Grant clawed back and gained third in the final corner.
Heat five (started): 1. Ballou 12 (4) 2. Dave Darland 36D (2) 3. Sterling Cling 34 (3) / 4. Koby Barksdale 16K (6) 5. Gabriel Gilbert 10G (5) 6. Cindy Chambers 18c (7) 7. Brandon Smith 11 (9) 8. Derek Crane 19WI (8) 9. Brian Hayden 2H (1)
Hayden led Darland, Ballou and Cling in the early going. Barksdale passed Cling for fourth on lap two. Ballou shot by Darland for second on lap three, and took the lead from Hayden high in turn four on lap five. Hayden dropped out of second on lap seven, handing the final transfer to Cling, who battled back by Barksdale.
Heat six (started): 1. Brady Bacon 69 (3) 2. S. Cottle 74x (4) 3. Jake Swanson 5T (2) / 4. Harley Burns 16 (1) 5. Alex Banales 5x (7) 6. Matt McDonald 5MC (6) 7. Alec Sipes 99 (5) 8. Ryan Bond 7R (8) DNS – Hunter Maddox 24M
Burns led Swanson and Bacon early. Bacon quickly moved into second on lap two, while Cottle used the low side to get by Swanson for third a lap later. Bacon used the low side of four to pass Burns for the lead on lap five. Cottle followed him into second on lap six. Burns slipped into the infield on lap seven, handing Swanson a transfer spot.
D main (started): 1. Parker (1) 2. Adams (10) 3. Helton (3) 4. Scott (11) / 5. Bond (6) 6. Berryhill (12) 7. Glotzbach (2) 8. Ambrose (8) 9. Crane (5) 10. Graby (7) 11. Clark (9) 12. J. Vermillion (4) DNS – Hayden, H. Maddox, Gentry, Mosley
The 10-lap D took the top four to the back of the C. Parker led throughout. One lap in, Bond climbed the right rear of Glotzbach and veered into J. Vermillion, who flipped. He was uninjured. Parker led Helton, Glotzbach, Bond and Ambrose back to green. Bond and Glotzbach battled hard for third, but Adams was on the move, gaining fourth from Glotzbach on lap five and third from Bond on lap eight. Scott, who started in row six, shot by Bond for the final transfer coming for the white flag.
C main (started): 1. Ensign (7) 2. Trammell (3) 3. Bodine (4) 4. B. Vermillion (2) / 5. Mehler (10) 6. R. Thomas (8) 7. Brackett (1) 8. Adams (14) 9. Smith (11) 10. Sipes (12) 11. Chambers (5) 12. Parker (13) 13. McDonald (6) 14. Scott (16) 15. Hobson (9) 16. Helton (15)
The 10-lapper send the top four to the back of the B. Brackett led Trammell, B. Vermillion and Bodine on lap one. One lap in, Parker climbed the tail tank of Mehler. Helton was also involved. Trammell took the lead o the restart, while Ensign went on the high side to jump from sixth to a transfer. Ensign was one of the few to brave the top, and he gained fourth from Bodine on lap three. Bodine would advance ack up to third by lap six. Ensign kept his momentum high and took the lead from Trammell with two to go. It looked to be over before McDonald roughed his car up on the turn one cushion. The restart didn’t affect the transfers.
B main (started): 1. Moles (3) 2. B. Mattox (2) 3. Axsom (7) 4. Barksdale (5) / 5. Hopkins (9) 6. Burns (6) 7. Trammell (14) 8. Ensign (13) 9. Johnson (8) 10. Bodine (15) 11. Banales (12) 12. Gilbert (13) 13. Beauchamp (1) 14. B. Vermillion (16) 15. Pretorius (10) 16. Shipley (4)
The 12-lapper took four to the feature. Shipley had a flat in staging. He was able to rejoin when Johnson spun and collected Banales on the restart. On the second attempt, Banales spun in turn two. Shipley exited for good this time with his tire issue. Beauchamp led B. Mattox, Moles and Barksdale early on. On lap two, Moles passed B. Mattox for second and then took the lead from Beauchamp on the high side on lap four. Beauchamp exited shortly after. B. Mattox took second, and Axsom was working his way up through the top five, grabbing third by the checkers. Hopkins made a late run at the final transfer, but found the back of Barksdale’s tail tank at the finish.
A main (started): 1. Leary (3) 2. Bacon (6) 3. Cummins (9) 4. Thomas Jr. (1) 5. Stockon (4) 6. Cottle (12) 7. Mihocko (10) 8. Swanson (20) 9. Grant (16) 10. Seavey (7) 11. Rogers (14) 12. Westfall (8) 13. Axsom (21) 14. Cling (17) 15. B. Mattox (20) 16. Moles (19) 17. Darland (11) 18. Fox (2) 19. Ambrose (23, prov.) 20. Garrett (15) 21. Ballou (5) 22. McDougal (13) 23. Barksdale (22)
The 30-lapper saw Leary get right to the point, ahead of Ballou, Stockon and Thomas Jr. On lap two, Ballou got by Leary for second, while Thomas Jr. moved into third. Stockon tagged Thomas Jr. in the rear on lap four, taking over that spot. A spin by Cottle negated a Bacon pass from sixth to fourth. Following the restart, Thomas Jr. got back by Stockon, while Bacon moved into the top five. On lap 11, Bacon used the high side to pass Stockon for fourth. On lap 13, Thomas J. and Stockon continued their battle, until Moles spun on lap 14. That erased a four-second lead for Ballou. Learry pounced on therestart taking the point and never really being challenged. Leary got by Ballou for second on lap 16. Bacon came on late and got Thomas Jr. for third on lap 18. Cummins followed him to take fourth on lap 19, a spot the two would trade the rest of the way. Bacon was gaining on Ballou for second, when the latter spun on the last lap low in tour four. Swanson was the hard-charger.