PETERSON WINS 1, KOSTECKI 3 AT LAS VEGAS

 


Las Vegas, NV……..Garrett Peterson and Brodie Kostecki were the big winners Saturday night at Las Vegas Motor Speedway’s Bullring in USAC racing action. Peterson, of West Sacramento, Calif. won the second 30-lap Western/Utah Ford Focus feature, while Kostecki, of Roseville, Calif., won the first 30-lap Ford Focus feature and both 20-lap Focus Young Guns main events. Kostecki led all 30 laps of the Ford Focus opener to beat Keegan Walmer, Peterson, Tanner Long and Jessica Clark. Shawn Buckley, Jarid Blondel and Jim Waters led the first four laps of the second race before Peterson took over on lap five and led the rest of the way to beat Kostecki, Brandon White, Waters and Long. Trailing Kostecki in the first Focus Young Guns feature were Trevor Hunt, James Eden, Christine Breckenridge and Marina Turner. In the second 20-lapper, Walmer took second ahead of Hunt, Eden and Breckenridge.


 


USAC WESTERN PAVEMENT/UTAH/SOUTH/NORTH FORD FOCUS RACE RESULTS: August 20 – Las Vegas, Nevada – Las Vegas Motor Speedway Bullring


 


QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Keegan Walmer, 3, Sutton-15.453; 2. Brandon White, 9, Sutton-15.526; 3. Brodie Kostecki, 40, Western Speed-15.539; 4. Tanner Long, 42, Sutton-15.551; 5. Garrett Peterson, 31, Peterson-15.558; 6. Paul Graham, 24, Sutton-15.616; 7. Jessica Clark, 44, Clark-15.618; 8. James Eden, 8, Sutton-15.792; 9. Jim Waters, 28, Waters-15.914; 10. Jarid Blondel, 60, Blondel-16.132; 11. Wally Pankratz, 32, Pankratz-16.330; 12. J.R. Williams, 74, Williams-16.638; 13. Trent Kassik, 83, Kassik-16.927; 14. Shawn Buckley, 7, Buckley-NT.


 


FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Waters, 2. Walmer, 3. Clark, 4. Kostecki, 5. Pankratz, 6. Kassik, 7. Peterson. NT


 


SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Graham, 2. White, 3. Eden, 4. Long, 5. Blondel, 6. Buckley, 7. Williams. NT


 


FIRST FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Brodie Kostecki, 2. Keegan Walmer, 3. Garrett Peterson, 4. Tanner Long, 5. Jessica Clark, 6. Brandon White, 7. James Eden, 8. Jarid Blondel, 9. Jim Waters, 10. Shawn Buckley, 11. Paul Graham, 12. J.R. Williams, 13. Trent Kassik. NT


 


SECOND FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Garrett Peterson, 2. Brodie Kostecki, 3. Brandon White, 4. Jim Waters, 5. Tanner Long, 6. Keegan Walmer, 7. James Eden, 8. Jarid Blondel, 9. Jessica Clark, 10. Shawn Buckley, 11. Wally Pankratz (#28x Waters), 12. Paul Graham, 13. J.R. Williams. NT


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FIRST FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-30 Kostecki.


SECOND FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Lap 1 Buckley, Lap 2 Blondel, Laps 3-4 Waters, Laps 5-30 Peterson.


 


NEW WESTERN FORD FOCUS POINTS: 1-Kostecki-768; 2-Waters-748; 3-Clark-709; 4-Blondel-677; 5-Pankratz-665; 6-Tyler Dolacki-655; 7-Chuck Groat-618; 8-Daniel Williams-594; 9-Austin Luttmer-577; 10-Jet Davison-504.


NEW WESTERN PAVEMENT FORD FOCUS POINTS: 1-Clark-742; 2-Kostecki-543; 3-White-491; 4-Graham-452; 5-Walmer-420; 6-Peterson-413; 7-Long-367; 8-Alex Jacobsen-351; 9-Eden-332; 10-Williams-323.


NEW NORTHERN CALIFORNIA FORD FOCUS POINTS: 1-Walmer-420; 2-Peterson-413; 3-Clark-385; 4-Long-367; 5-Kostecki-335; 6-Eden-332; 7-Waters-232; 8-Williams-180; 9-Kyle Bailey-162; 10-White-161.


NEW SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FORD FOCUS POINTS: 1-Clark-507; 2-White-491; 3-Graham-452; 4-Kostecki-347; 5-Ricky Bowers-230; 6-Alex Jacobsen-218; 7-Blondel-194; 8-Walmer-177; 9-Cody Gerhardt-175; 10-Peterson-162.


NEW UTAH FORD FOCUS POINTS: 1-Waters-748; 2-Chuck Groat-618; 3-Austin Luttmer-577; 4-Jeff Kelley-464; 5-Gregg Fuette-441; 6-Ron Duncombe-424; 7-Williams-422; 8-Clark-386; 9-White-342; 10-Michael Daniels-341.


 


NEXT WESTERN FORD FOCUS RACE: August 27 – Irwindale, CA – Toyota Speedway at Irwindale


NEXT UTAH FORD FOCUS RACE: September 3 – Salt Lake City, UT – Rocky Mountain Raceways


 


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USAC WESTERN/PAVEMENT/NORTH/SOUTH FOCUS YOUNG GUNS RACE RESULTS: August 20, 2011 – Las Vegas, Nevada – Las Vegas Motor Speedway Bullring


 


QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Brodie Kostecki, 40, Western Speed-15.804; 2. Keegan Walmer, 3, Sutton-16.049; 3. Trevor Hunt, 11, Sutton-16.078; 4. James Eden, 8, Sutton-16.567; 5. Christine Breckenridge, 26, Breckenridge-16.940; 6. Marina Turner, 98, Turner-17.965.


 


HEAT RACE: (8 laps) 1. Kostecki, 2. Hunt, 3. Eden, 4. Breckenridge, 5. Turner. NT


 


FIRST FEATURE: (20 laps) 1. Brodie Kostecki, 2. Trevor Hunt, 3. James Eden, 4. Christine Breckenridge, 5. Marina Turner. NT


 


SECOND FEATURE: (20 laps) 1. Brodie Kostecki, 2. Keegan Walmer, 3. Trevor Hunt, 4. James Eden, 5. Christine Breckenridge, 6. Marina Turner. NT


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FIRST FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-20 Kostecki.


SECOND FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Lap 1 Hunt, Laps 2-20 Kostecki.


 


NEW WESTERN FOCUS YOUNG GUNS POINTS: 1-Hunt-569; 2-Kostecki-569; 3-Parker Colston-516; 4-Cole Custer-461; 5-Breckenridge-450; 6-Eden-429; 7-Katlynn Leer-380; 8-Walmer-320; 9-Brandon White-264; 10-Ricky Bowers-245.


NEW WESTERN PAVEMENT FOCUS YOUNG GUNS POINTS: 1-Hunt-854; 2-Kostecki-747; 3-Eden-399; 4-Walmer-320; 5-Brandon White-264; 6-Ricky Bowers-245; 7-Breckenridge-213; 8-Turner-211; 9-Sheldon Didinger-59; 10-Colin Milroy-58.


NEW NORTHERN CALIFORNIA FOCUS YOUNG GUNS POINTS: 1-Hunt-448; 2-Eden-399; 3-Kostecki-328; 4-Walmer-320; 5-Breckenridge-159; 6-Turner-98; 7--Sheldon Didinger-59; 8-Colin Milroy-58; 9-Kyle Bailey-57;.


NEW SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FOCUS YOUNG GUNS POINTS: 1-Kostecki-679; 2-Hunt-647; 3-Brandon White-264; 4-Ricky Bowers-245; 5-Eden-219; 6-Marina Turner-211; 7-Walmer-174; 8-Breckenridge-160.


 


NEXT WESTERN FOCUS YOUNG GUNS RACE: August 27 – Irwindale, CA – Toyota Speedway at Irwindale