GROAT GRABS SALT LAKE CITY FOCUS 20-LAPPER

Salt Lake City, Utah…….Chuck Groat of Kearns, Utah passed Michael Daniels on the 10th lap of Saturday night’s 20-lap USAC Western/Utah Ford Focus feature at Rocky Mountain Raceways and led the final 11 laps to win the race. Daniels finished second ahead of defending series champ Kipp Posey, Ron Duncombe and Western Ford Focus point leader Connor Kassik. Groat was also Saturday’s fastest qualifier. Duncombe led the first six laps an dDaniels led the next three before yielding to Groat.



USAC WESTERN/UTAH FORD FOCUS SERIES RACE RESULTS: May 22 2010 – Salt Lake City, Utah – Rocky  Mountain Raceways


 


QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Chuck Groat, 24, Groat-15.173; 2. Kipp Posey, 37, Posey-15.388; 3. Michael Daniels, 87, Remick-15.573; 4. Jeff Kelley, 55, Kelley-15.696; 5. Jeremy McKenna, 17, Remick-15.884; 6. J.R. Williams, 74, Williams-15.923; 7. Connor Kassik, 26, Kassik-15.949; 8. Ron Duncome, 4, Walton-15.972; 9. Terra Brower, 07, Remick-16.264; 10. Christina Remick, 13, Remick-16.690; 11. Bob Brewer, 5, Brewer-NT.


 


FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Posey, 2. Duncombe, 3. Kelley, 4. Williams, 5. Brower. NT


 


SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Graot, 2. Daniels, 3. McKenna, 4. Kassik, 5. Remick. NT


 


FEATURE: (20 laps) 1. Chuck Groat, 2. Michael Daniels, 3. Kipp Posey, 4. Ron Duncombe, 5. Connor Kassik, 6. Jeff Kelley, 7. Jeremy McKenna, 8. J.R. Williams, 9. Christina Remick, 10. Terra Brower. NT


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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-6 Duncombe, Laps 7-9 Daniels, Laps 10-20 Groat.


 


NEW WESTERN FORD FOCUS SERIES POINTS: 1-Kassik-416; 2-Kyle Edwards-400; 3-Bobby Runyan-365; 4-Cody Gerhardt-348; 5-Daniels-269; 6-Williams-230; 7-Garrett Peterson-211; 8-Nick Carlson-201; 9-Eli Shrock-187; 10-Andrew Mulhearn-182.


NEW UTAH FORD FOCUS SERIES POINTS: 1-Daniels-269; 2-Kassik-219; 3-Williams-196; 4-Bobby Runyan-188; 5-Eli Schrock-187; 6-Cody Gerhardt-165; 7-Kyle Edwards-156; 8-Austin Farley-144; 9-Groat-142; 10-Brower-140.


 


NEXT WESTERN FORD FOCUS RACE: May 29 – Perris, CA – Perris Auto Speedway


NEXT UTAH FORD FOCUS RACE: June 5 – Salt Lake City, UT – Rocky Mountain Raceways