GROAT PASSES RUNYAN LATE & WINS AT RMR

 


Salt Lake City, UT……..Chuck Groat of West Valley City, Utah won Saturday night’s 20-lap USAC Western/Utah Ford Focus feature at Rocky Mountain Raceways. Groat passed Bobby Runyan on lap 18 and led to the checkered flag to beat Western Ford Focus point leader Cody Gerhardt, Ron Duncombe, Gregg Fuette and Austin Luttmer. Runyan led 15 laps, Gerhardt led two and Groat, the night’s fastest qualifier, led the last eight.


 


USAC WESTERN/UTAH FORD FOCUS SERIES RACE RESULTS: July 24, 2010 – Salt Lake City, Utah – Rocky Mountain Raceways


 


QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Chuck Groat, 24, Groat-15.436; 2. Bobby Runyan, 9, Sutton-15.546; 3. Cody Gerhardt, 60, Western Speed-15.681; 4. Bob Brewer, 5, Brewer-15.686; 5. Tanner Long, 8, Sutton-15.722; 6. Michael Daniels, 87, Remick-15.754; 7. Gregg Fuette, 15, Strickland-15.861; 8. Austin Luttmer, 49, James-15.893; 9. Ron Duncombe, 4, Walton-15.914; 10. Aaron Higgins, 42, Sutton-15.915; 11. Jeremy McKenna, 17, Remick-15.954; 12. Connor Kassik, 26, Kassik-16.083; 13. Guy Sainsbury, 88, Sainsbury-16.121; 14. Terra Brower, 07, Remick-16.128; 15. J.R. Williams, 74, Williams-16.270; 16. Christina Remick, 13, Remick-17.255.


 


FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Groat, 2. McKenna, 3. Gerhardt, 4. Fuette, 5. Duncombe, 6. Long, 7. Williams. NT


 


SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Kassik, 2. Runyan, 3. Daniels, 4. Luttmer, 5. Higgins, 6. Remick, 7. Brower. NT


 


FEATURE: (25 laps) 1. Chuck Groat, 2. Cody Gerhardt, 3. Ron Duncombe, 4. Gregg Fuette, 5. Austin Luttmer, 6. Jeremy McKenna, 7. Aaron Higgins, 8. Terra Brower, 9. J.R. Williams, 10. Christina Remick, 11. Bobby Runyan, 12. Tanner Long, 13. Connor Kassik, 14. Michael Daniels. NT


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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-3 Runyan, Laps 4-5 Gerhardt, Laps 6-17 Runyan, Laps 18-25 Groat.


 


NEW WESTERN FORD FOCUS SERIES POINTS: 1-Gerhardt-749; 2-Runyan-668; 3-Kyle Edwards-633; 4-Kassik-538; 5-Daniels-482; 6-Nick Carlson-445; 7-Williams-440; 8-Garrett Peterson-402; 9-Andrew Mulhearn-401; 10-Jet Davison-395.


NEW UTAH FORD FOCUS SERIES POINTS: 1-Daniels-482; 2-Kassik-379; 3-Williams-333; 4-Groat-324; 5-Runyan-302; 6-Brower-300; 7-Gerhardt-295; 8-Duncombe-264; 9-Kipp Posey-262; 10-Eli Schrock-248.


 


NEXT WESTERN FORD FOCUS RACE: July 31 – Perris (CA) Auto Speedway


NEXT UTAH FORD FOCUS RACE: August 7 – Salt Lake City, UT – Rocky Mountain Raceways