ROBERTSON, CLOUSE TAKE “JEGS CROWN” FOCUS WINS

 


Columbus, OH……..James Robertson of Indianapolis, Ind. and Cooper Clouse of Ohio City, Ohio earned USAC Ford Focus feature wins in Saturday night’s “JEGS Crown Midget Supernationals” program at the Columbus Motor Speedway. Robertson led all 30 laps to win the Midwest/Eastern Ford Focus feature in his Gregg Steele/Duane & Sonja Alexander Beast to beat Jake Blackhurst, Jarett Andretti, fast qualifier Kyle O’Gara and Andy Nock. In the accompanying 20-lap Focus Young Guns feature, Clouse led all 15 laps in his Peterbuilt of Northwest Ohio Hawk to beat Ross Rankine, Tyler Shullick, Gage Walker and Stevie Kuhn. Clouse emerged as the 2010 Midwest Young Guns Champion.


 


USAC MIDWEST/EASTERN PAVEMENT FORD FOCUS RACE RESULTS: September 18, 2010 – Columbus, Ohio – Columbus Motor Speedway – “JEGS Crown Midget Supernationals”


 


QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Kyle O’Gara, 4, East-14.105; 2. Nick Drake, 55, Cline-14.117; 3. Jake Blackhurst, 25, Blackhurst-14.165; 4. Jarett Andretti, 2, Trotter-14.192; 5. Joe Liguori, 22, Givens-14.205; 6. Andy Nock, 14, Rankine-14.217; 7. Justin Hommel, 97, Brown-14.302; 8. Scott Hunter, 14x, Brown-14.304; 9. James Robertson, 1, Steele-14.307; 10. Toby Alfrey, 4x, Alfrey-14.417; 11. Michael Sboro, 19L, Paulson-14.420; 12. Tyler Cottongim, 74, Kuhn-14.471; 13. Jessica Bean, 3, Bean-14.598; 14. Tyler Corriher, 12x, Noffsinger/Brown-14.620; 15. Nic Davidson, 13D, Paulson-15.004; 16. Kent Kriegbaum, 12, Kriegbaum-15.153; 17. Tyler Cottongim, 28, Cottongim-NT.


 


FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Blackhurst, 2. Hommel, 3. Robertson, 4. Sboro, 5. O’Gara, 6. Bean, 7. Davidson, 8. Liguori. NT


 


SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Cottongim (#74), 2. Hunter, 3. Andretti, 4. Drake, 5. Nock, 6. Corriher, 7. Alfrey, 8. Kriegbaum. 1:55.05


 


FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. James Robertson, 2. Jake Blackhurst, 3. Jarett Andretti, 4. Kyle O’Gara, 5. Andy Nock, 6. Scott Hunter, 7. Nick Drake, 8. Justin Hommel, 9. Joe Liguori, 10. Toby Alfrey, 11. Tyler Corriher, 12. Jessica Bean, 13. Kent Kriegbaum, 14. Nic Davidson, 15. Tyler Cottongim (#74), 16. Michael Sboro. NT


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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-30 Robertson.


 


NEW MIDWEST FORD FOCUS SERIES POINTS: 1-Liguori-801; 2-Blackhurst-777’ 3-O’Gara-675; 4-Cottongim-607; 5-Bean-569’ 6-Alfrey-547; 7-Nock-516; 8-Hunter-418; 9-Tate Martz-398; 10-Drake-392.


NEW MIDWEST PAVEMENT FORD FOCUS SERIES POINTS: 1-Blackhurst-607; 2-Liguori-569; 3-O’Gara-513; 4-Cottongim-482; 5-Nock-411; 6-Tate Martz-398; 7-Geoff Gerline-295; 8-Alfrey-294; 9-Hunter-282; 10-Hommel-281.


NEW EASTERN FORD FOCUS SERIES POINTS: 1-Hunter-758; 2-Drake-693; 3-Hommel-640; 4-Chris Lamb-559; 5-Corriher-538; 6-Andretti-403; 7-Cody Acton-327; 8-Blackhurst-300; 9-Eric Coomes-281; 10-Bradley Riethmeyer-257.


NEW CAROLINA FORD FOCUS SERIES POINTS: 1-Hunter-901; 2-Drake-808; 3-Hommel-756; 4-Corriher-582; 5-Chris Lamb-545; 6-Andretti-434; 7-Cody Acton-321; 8-Cottongim-292; 9-Eric Coomes-281; 10-Billy Gaule-272.


 


NEXT MIDWEST FORD FOCUS RACE: October 23 – Hickory (NC) Motor Speedway


NEXT EASTERN FORD FOCUS RACE: September 25 – Dillon (SC) Motor Speedway


 


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USAC MIDWEST YOUNG GUNS SERIES RACE RESULTS: September 18, 2010 – Columbus, Ohio – Columbus Motor Speedway – “JEGS Crown Midget Supernationals”


 


QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Cooper Clouse, 14, Clouse-14.934; 2. Gage Walker, 7, Walker-14.934; 3. Ross Rankine, 39, Rankine-14.935; 4. Derrick Morris, 2, East-15.101; 5. Tyler Shullick, 61, Shullick-15.148; 6. Stevie Kuhn, 74, Kuhn-NT.


 


HEAT RACE: (8 laps) 1. Clouse, 2. Rankine, 3. Walker, 4. Shullick, 5. Morris, 6. Kuhn. 2:00.84


 


FEATURE: (15 laps) 1. Cooper Clouse, 2. Ross Rankine, 3. Tyler Shullick, 4. Gage Walker, 5. Stevie Kuhn, 6. Derrick Morris. NT


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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-15 Clouse.


 


FINAL MIDWEST YOUNG GUNS SERIES POINTS: 1-Clouse-517; 2-Rankine-495; 3-Kuhn-439; 4-Walker-420; 5-Max McGee-193; 6-Austin Prock-133; 7-Brendon Bock-117; 8-Morris-103; 9-Mike Gass-95; 10-Shullick-61.