KOFOID TAKES INDIANA MIDGET WEEK POINT LEAD TO THE BURG
By: Richie Murray – USAC Media
Lawrenceburg, Indiana (June 5, 2021)………Buddy Kofoid’s feature victory following a see-saw battle Friday night at Bloomington Speedway has positioned the Penngrove, Calif. driver as the new point leader of Indiana Midget Week with two races down and six to go in the 17th annual series.
Kofoid also finished 4th in the opener Thursday at Paragon Speedway and his total of 145 IMW points is 12 more than second running Chris Windom (Canton, Ill.) in 2nd. Sutter, California’s Logan Seavey is 3rd (-16) with Ione, California’s Justin Grant 4th (-22) and San Jose, California’s Thomas Meseraull 5th (-27).
Indiana Midget Week continues Saturday night, June 5, at Lawrenceburg and will feature the USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship, Lawrenceburg Sprint Cars and Modifieds.
Fans can save $5 with purchase of advance tickets at www.TracPass.com. Tickets and pit passes will also be sold at the gate.
On Saturday, the pits open at 3pm EDT with grandstands opening at 5pm, drivers meeting at 5pm and hot laps at 6pm.
Every Indiana Midget Week event will be streamed LIVE on FloRacing at https://bit.ly/3dgONXz.
2021 INDIANA MIDGET WEEK POINTS (After Round 2 of 8):
1. 145-Buddy Kofoid
2. 133-Chris Windom
3. 129-Logan Seavey
4. 123-Justin Grant
5. 118-Thomas Meseraull
6. 116-Daison Pursley
7. 113-Jason McDougal
8. 112-Cannon McIntosh
9. 110-Bryant Wiedeman
10. 103-Kevin Thomas Jr.
11. 99-Emerson Axsom
12. 86-Hayden Williams
13. 80-Brady Bacon
14. 72-Kyle Cummins
15. 67-Tanner Thorson
16. 67-Corey Day
17. 62-Brenham Crouch
18. 62-Trey Gropp
19. 58-Chase Randall
20. 56-Sam Johnson
21. 51-Ryan Timms
22. 49-Cole Bodine
23. 46-Brian Carber
24. 45-Chance Crum
25. 40-Ethan Mitchell
26. 40-Bryan Stanfill
27. 20-Blake Brannon, Chett Gehrke, Hayden Reinbold, Kaylee Bryson, Max Guilford & Tyler Nelson
33. 10-Michael Clark, Stephen Schnapf, Travis Buckley & Oliver Akard
2021 INDIANA MIDGET WEEK SCHEDULE:
Jun 3: Paragon Speedway – Paragon, IN
WINNER: Thomas Meseraull (RMS Racing #7x)
Jun 4: Bloomington Speedway – Bloomington, IN
WINNER: Buddy Kofoid (Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports #67)
Jun 5: Lawrenceburg Speedway – Lawrenceburg, IN
Jun 6: Tri-State Speedway – Haubstadt, IN
Jun 9: Circle City Raceway – Indianapolis, IN
Jun 10: Lincoln Park Speedway – Putnamville, IN
Jun 11: Gas City I-69 Speedway – Gas City, IN
Jun 12: Kokomo Speedway – Kokomo, IN