WUERDEMAN TAKES GAS CITY FOCUS FEATURE

Gas City, IN.......Ronnie Wuerdeman of Cincinnati, Ohio won Friday night's 15-lap USAC Midwest Ford Focus feature event at the Gas City I-69 Speedway. He led the first seven laps in his Bell Helmets/Klotz Lubricants Hawk, then trailed Craig Haack for three laps before regaining the top spot and leading the final five laps. Haack finished second ahead of Jimmy Simpson, Tyler Cottongim and new series point leader Joe Liguori.


 


USAC MIDWEST FORD FOCUS SERIES RACE RESULTS: April 17, 2009 – Gas City, Indiana – Gas City I-69 Speedway


 


HEAT RACE: (8 laps) 1. Joe Liguori (#22 Givens), 2. Tyler Cottongim (#28 Cottongim), 3. Jimmy Simpson (#41 Griffith), 4. Ronnie Wuerdeman (#33 Wuerdeman), 5. Craig Haack (#8 Haack), 6. Paul Crafton (#51 Nigh), 7. Bill Kriegbaum (#12 Kriegbaum). 2:04.96


 


FEATURE: (15 laps) 1. Ronnie Wuerdeman, 2. Craig Haack, 3. Jimmy Simpson, 4. Tyler Cottongim, 5. Joe Liguori, 6. Bill Kriegbaum, 7. Paul Crafton. 3:34.01


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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-7 Wuerdeman, Laps 8-10, Haack, Laps 11-15 Wuerdeman.


 


NEW USAC MIDWEST FORD FOCUS POINTS: 1-Liguori-120; 2-Simpson-112; 3-Cottongim-109; 4-Scott Hunter-68; 5-Wuerdeman-65; 6-Steven Intravaia-64; 7-Eric Coomes-62; 8-Haack-61; 9-Rick Fedrizzi-49; 10-Bryce Burden-47.


 


NEXT USAC MIDWEST FORD FOCUS RACE: May 8 – Anderson (IN) Speedway