RANKINE, McGHEE TOP COLUMBUS FOCUS DRIVERS

 


Columbus, OH……..Ross Rankine of Willard, Ohio and Sam McGhee of Camby, Ind. were the winners of USAC Ford Focus features at Columbus Motor Speedway Saturday night. Rankine passed James Robertson on lap 20 and led the final 21 laps to win the 40-lap Midwest/Eastern Ford Focus feature in his National pride Beast/Ford. Nick Hamilton finished second ahead of Jarett Andretti, Robertson and Gage Walker. Toby Alfrey led the first two laps. Rankine’s win made him the Midwest Pavement Ford Focus Champ for 2011. McGhee led all the the first lap of the 20-lap Midwest/Eastern Focus Young Guns feature to beat fast qualifier Cooper Clouse, Michael Fanelli, Mikell McGee and Stevie Kuhn, who led lap one. McGhee piloted the Stoops Freightliner/CPM Machine Spike to the win.


 


USAC MIDWEST/EASTERN PAVEMENT FORD FOCUS RACE RESULTS: September 17, 2011 – Columbus, Ohio – Columbus Motor Speedway


 


QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Ross Rankine, 9, Nine Racing-13.937; 2. Nick Hamilton, 33, Hamilton-14.007; 3. Jarett Andretti, 11, Trotter-14.084; 4. Jared Irvan, 28, Irvan-14.112; 5. Nick Drake, 55, Cline-14.138; 6. Gage Walker, 7, Walker-14.148; 7. James Robertson, 1, Steele-14.339; 8. Scott Hunter, 14, Brown-14.342; 9. Tyler Shullick, 61, Shullick-14.343; 10. Toby Alfrey, 5, Alfrey-14.466; 11. Tyler Corriher, 12x, Noffsinger/Brown-14.521; 12. Orry Hunte, 96, Brown/Noffsinger-14.544; 13. Nic Davidson, 39, Davidson-14.576; 14. Joey Greening, 17G, Greening-14.584; 15. Jessica Bean, 3, Bean-14.677; 16. Kyle Baugh, 91, Alfrey-14.833; 17. Kent Kriegbaum, 12, Kriegbaum-15.377.


 


FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Robertson, 2. Andretti, 3. Drake, 4. Corriher, 5. Shullick, 6. Rankine, 7. Bean, 8. K.Kriegbaum, 9. Davidson. NT


 


SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Hunte, 2. Hunter, 3. Alfrey, 4. N.Hamilton, 5. Walker, 6. Irvan, 7. Greening, 8. Baugh. NT


 


FEATURE: (40 laps) 1. Ross Rankine, 2. Nick Hamilton, 3. Jarett Andretti, 4. James Robertson, 5. Gage Walker, 6. Nick Drake, 7. Jared Irvan, 8. Tyler Shullick, 9. Toby Alfrey, 10. Scott Hunter, 11. Tyler Corriher, 12. Orry Hunte, 13. Joey Greening, 14. Jessica Bean, 15. Kyle Baugh, 16. Nic Davidson, 17. Kent Kriegbaum. NT


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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-2 Alfrey, Laps 3-19 Robertson, Lap 20-40 Rankine.


 


NEW MIDWEST FORD FOCUS SERIES POINTS: 1-Rankine-771; 2-Robertson-694; 3-Drake-624; 4-Andretti-612; 5-Alfrey-598; 6-N.Hamilton-573; 7-Bean-549; 8-Greening-470; 9-Shullick-443; 10-K.Kriegbaum-359.


FINAL MIDWEST PAVEMENT FORD FOCUS SERIES POINTS: 1-Rankine-705; 2-Robertson-694; 3-N.Hamilton-573; 4-Andretti-560; 5-Alfrey-481.


NEW EASTERN FORD FOCUS SERIES POINTS: 1-Drake-787; 2-Hunter-747; 3-Andretti-719; 4-Chris Lamb-673; 5-Davidson-612; 6-Tyler Corriher-570; 7-Austin Prock-502; 8-Rankine-445; 9-Cole Custer-339; 10-Steven Intravaia-329.


NEW EASTERN PAVEMENT FORD FOCUS SERIES POINTS: 1-Drake-838; 2-Andretti-820; 3-Chris Lamb-638; 4-Hunter-619; 5-Davidson-596.


 


NEXT MIDWEST FORD FOCUS RACE: September 30 – Gas City (IN) I-69 Speedway


NEXT EASTERN FORD FOCUS RACE: October 8 – Altamahaw, NC – Ace Speedway


 


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USAC MIDWEST/EASTERN FOCUS YOUNG GUNS SERIES RACE RESULTS: September 17, 2011 – Columbus, Ohio – Columbus Motor Speedway


 


QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Cooper Clouse, 14, Clouse-14.678; 2. Sam McGhee, 11, McGhee-14.803; 3. Mikell McGee, 22, McGee-14.816; 4. Stevie Kuhn, 74, Kuhn-14.976; 5. Michael Fanelli, 14F, Rankine-15.310; 6. Cordy Horn, 114, Horn-15.335; 7. Austin Nemire, 14x, Rankine-15.355; 8. Emmy Gray, 7, Gray-16.061.


 


FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1.Clouse, 2. McGee, 3. Fanelli, 4. Nemire. NT


 


SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. McGhee, 2. Kuhn, 3. Gray, 4. Horn. NT


 


FEATURE: (20 laps) 1. Sam McGhee, 2. Cooper Clouse, 3. Michael Fanelli, 4. Mikell McGee, 5. Stevie Kuhn, 6. Cordy Horn, 7. Emmy Gray, 8. Austin Nemire. NT


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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Lap 1 Kuhn, Laps 2-20 McGhee.


 


NEW MIDWEST FOCUS YOUNG GUNS SERIES POINTS: 1-S.McGhee-605; 2-Clouse-510; 3-Kuhn-502; 4-Fanelli-370; 5-M.McGee-367; 6-Gray-333; 7-Cole Custer-168; 8-Horn-153; 9-Tyler Shullick-137; 10-Adam Thomason-114.


FINAL EASTERN FOCUS YOUNG GUNS SERIES POINTS: 1-Jared Irvan-572; 2-Cole Custer-435; 3-S.McGhee-392; 4-Trey Hutchens-337; 5-M.McGee-305; 6-Clouse-188; 7-Fanelli-166; 8-Kuhn-122; 9-Tyler Shullick-70; 10-Brendon Bock-64.


 


NEXT MIDWEST FOCUS YOUNG GUNS SERIES RACE: October 1 – Montpelier (IN) Motor Speedway