HAMILTON TAKES “BATTLE ON THE BORDER 2” AT MORRIS

Morris, IL……..Kyle Hamilton of Danville, Ind. won Saturday night’s “Battle on the Border 2” 30-lap Honda USAC National Pavement Midget race at Grundy County Speedway. He took the lead in his Curtis Motor Sales/Hamilton Painting Spike/Esslinger from Jim Anderson on lap 11 and led the rest of the way in the race co-sanctioned by STARS. Bobby Santos took second at the checkered flag ahead of Dalton Armstrong, Christopher Bell and Brad Greenup.

HONDA USAC NATIONAL MIDGET PAVEMENT CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: August 10, 2013 – Morris, Illinois – Grundy County Speedway – “Battle on the Border 2” – Co-sanctioned by STARS

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Kyle Hamilton, 33, Hamilton-14.536; 2. Christopher Bell, 71, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-14.613; 3. Darren Hagen, 3, RFMS-14.632; 4. Tracy Hines, 24, Parker-14.657; 5. Brad Greenup, 4, Greenup-14.669; 6. Aaron Andruskevitch, 5, Andruskevitch-14.729; 7. Dalton Armstrong, 7A, C&A-14.733; 8. Grant Galloway, 16, Galloway-14.767; 9. Jim Anderson, 36, Guess-14.775; 10. Bobby Santos, 17, RW-14.855; 11. Patrick Wilda, 33w, Wilda-14.885; 12. Tyler Trainor, 25, Trainor-14.886; 13. Tyler Baran, 11, Baran-14.958; 14. Austin Prock, 41, Prock-14.965; 15. Nick Wagner, 32, Wagner-14.979; 16. Billy Hulbert, 88, Hilbert/Rittof-15.016; 17. Ryan Probst, 99, Probst-15.127; 18. Nick Baran, 87, Baran-15.344; 19. Tom Eyman, 2, Eyman-15.574; 20. Terry Ahern, 6T6, Ahern-15.732; 21. Kyle O’Gara, 27, RW-NT; 22. Bret Sanderson, 66, Sanderson-NT.

SCRAMBLE HEAT #1: (12 laps) 1. Anderson, 2. Hamilton, 3. D.Armstrong, 4. Greenup, 5. Wilda, 6. Hagen, 7. T.Baran, 8. Probst, 9. Wagner, 10. Eyman. NT

SCRAMBLE HEAT #2: (12 laps) 1. Santos, 2. Andruskevitch, 3. Bell, 4. Hines, 5. Hulbert, 6. Prock, 7. Ahern, 8. N.Baran, 9. Trainor, 10. Galloway, 11. O’Gara (#66). NT

FEATURE: (50 laps) 1. Kyle Hamilton, 2. Bobby Santos, 3. Dalton Armstrong, 4. Christopher Bell, 5. Brad Greenup, 6. Kyle O’Gara (#66), 7. Billy Hulbert, 8. Tracy Hines, 9. Tyler Trainor, 10. Patrick Wilda, 11. Darren Hagen, 12. Nick Baran, 13. Austin Prock, 14. Ryan Probst, 15. Tyler Baran, 16. Nick Wagner, 17. Tom Eyman, 18. Jim Anderson, 19. Terry Ahern. 20. Grant Galloway, 21. Aaroin Andruskevitch. NT

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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-10 Anderson, Laps 11-50 Hamilton.

NEW HONDA NATIONAL MIDGET PAVEMENT CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Hines-409, 2-Hagen-409, 3-Santos-385, 4-O’Gara-361, 5-Hamilton-327, 6-Bell-309, 7-D.Armstrong-302, 8-Caleb Armstrong-264, 9-Tanner Swanson-220, 10-Taylor Ferns-184.

NEXT HONDA NATIONAL MIDGET PAVEMENT CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: October 12 – Columbus (OH) Motor Speedway