7/23/14
Highland Speedway
Highland, IL
Illinois Speedweek Night #1
MOWA
31 cars
Heat one (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Brady Bacon 99B (1*) 2. Bret Tripplett 22 (2*) 3. Jay Waugh 99a (6*) 4. Levi Curry 25 (3*) 5. Joe B. Miller 51B (9*) 6. Danny Smith 4 (8*) 7. Korey Weyant 99w (11*) 8. Caleb Wankel 5 (4) 9. AJ Bruns 44 (7) 10. Vinny Ward 82 (5) 11. Paul Nienhiser 9 (10)
Heats were ten laps in distance. Heat winners and the top three in passing points qualified for the Dash. The top sixteen point getters locked into the A. Bacon led early over Tripplett and Curry. Three laps in, Ward did a 360 and drilled Nienhiser, ending both of their nights. The restart saw Bacon leading Tripplett, Curry, Wankel and Bruns. Bruns had passed to third, but the move was negated by the caution. While Curry was tight and did several wheelies down the frontstretch, Bruns and Smith got by. The two battled back and forth for third, before making contact in turn three. That ended the heat for Bruns and sent Smith to the back. Waugh grabbed third from Curry on the last lap in an eventful heat.
Heat two (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Danny Lasoski 33 (1*) 2. Christopher Bell 53 (7*) 3. Logan Faucon 52F (2*) 4. Ben Wagoner 84 (6*) 5. Parker Price-Miller 01 (8*) 6. John Dines 31 (3) 7. Jeremy Standridge 10s (9) 8. Randy Myers 18x (5) 9. Patrick Budde 90 (4) DNS – Kody Kinser 4K
Lasoski led Faucon and Dines early. On lap three, Wagoner snagged third from Dines, but Bell was on the move. He took third from Wagoner on lap five, and second from Faucon coming for the white flag lap.
Heat three (started, *qualified for feature): 1. Jerrod Hull 12 (2*) 2. Jimmy Hurley 35 (8*) 3. Joey Moughan 17m (4*) 4. Terry McCarl 99 (6*) 5. Brett Samonds 47 (1) 6. Jack Lee 25AU (3) 7. Chris Urish 77u (7) 8. Ryan Bunton 6R (9) 9. Ian Madsen 18 (5) 10. Robbie Standridge 10K (10)
Hull led Samonds and Moughan early on. Robbie Standridge spun with four laps in the books. The restart saw Hull leading Samonds, Moughan, Hurley, Lee and McCarl. A seventh running Madsen clipped the turn one infield tire on the restart, ending his heat, and collecting Standridge who was sent pitside. Lee was running fifth when he got sideways and collected Urish at the halfway point. Moughan and Hurley battled for second, with Hurley gaining the spot on lap nine, while McCarl worked his way by Samonds and Lee for fourth.
Dash (started): 1. Christopher Bell (2) 2. Jimmy Hurley (1) 3. Jay Waugh (4) 4. Danny Lasoski (6) 5. Brady Bacon (5) 6. Jerrod Hull (3)
Bell dominated the 6-lapper. Hurley and Waugh traded second three times in the best race of the Dash.
B main (started): 1. AJ Bruns (9) 2. Ian Madsen (11) 3. Brett Samonds (2) 4. Paul Nienhiser (14) / 5. Robbie Standridge (12) 6. Ryan Bunton (6) 7. Randy Myers (7) 8. Caleb Wankel (8) 9. Kody Kinser (13) 10. John Dines (3) 11. Patrick Budde (10) 12. Jeremy Standridge (1) 13. Jack Lee (4) 14. Chris Urish (5) DNS – Vinny Ward
Samonds led early in the 12-lapper over Jeremy Standridge and Lee. Dines stopped with a lap in the books bringing out the caution flag. On the restart fourth running Bunton and Lee contacted. Lee was done, as was Urish who was also involved. Second running Jeremy Standridge also bowed out with front end issues. Madsen, who started 11th was in third by lap five, following Bruns, who had moved up form row five. Bruns would grab the lead from Samonds on lap nine. Nienhiser would come back from his heat race misfortune to pass Robbie Standridge for the final transfer spot on the last lap.
A main (started): 1. Christopher Bell (1) 2. Danny Lasoski (4) 3. Brady Bacon (5) 4. Bret Tripplett (9) 5. Logan Faucon (11) 6. Jerrod Hull (6) 7. Parker Price-Miller (8) 8. Joey Moughan (12) 9. Ian Madsen (18) 10. Ben Wagoner (7) 11. Terry McCarl (13) 12. Joe B. Miller (10) 13. AJ Bruns (17) 14. Jay Waugh (3) 15. Danny Smith (16) 16. Paul Nienhiser (20) 17. Levi Curry (15) 18. Korey Weyant (14) 19. Jimmy Hurley (2) 20. Brett Samonds (19)
Bell led the 25-lapper early over Hurley, Lasoski and Bacon. While Bell pulled away, Lasoski challenged Hurley for second in a good battle. Hurley jumped the turn four cushion with nine laps in the books, spinning sideways. It was the only caution of the event, and Bell had already put six lapped cars between himself and Lasoski. Bacon restarted third, ahead of Hull and Faucon who would battle for fourth. Faucon took the spot on lap 15, but a surging Tripplett would grab it later. Bell dominated the last half of the race, lapping up to eighth and running high low and through the middle in traffic.