BRUNS WINS AGAIN AT GAS CITY

 


Gas City, IN……..Patrick Bruns of Champaign, Ill. led the final 16 laps to win Friday night’s 20-lap USAC Midwest Ford Focus race at Gas City I-69 Speedway in his Behling Racing Equipment/Bell Helmets Beast. John Heydenreich led a lap and finished second ahead of Midwest point leader Ross Rankine, Toby Alfrey and Tyler Shullick, who led the first three laps.


 


USAC MIDWEST FORD FOCUS RACE RESULTS: July 8, 2011 – Gas City, Indiana – Gas City I-69 Speedway


 


QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Patrick Bruns, 83, Bruns-13.971; 2. Ross Rankine, 39, Rankine-14.025; 3. John Heydenreich, 22, Givens-14.254; 4. Nick Drake, 55, Cline-14.367; 5. Toby Alfrey, 5, Alfrey-14.406; 6. Tyler Shullick, 61, Shullick-14.575; 7. Jessica Bean, 3, Bean-14.790; 8. Kent Kriegbaum, 12, Kriegbaum-15.469; 9. Josh Staten, 26, Staten-16.292; 10. Cole Custer, 55x, Cline-NT; 11. Byron Stowe, 91, Alfrey-NT.


 


FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Heydenreich, 2. Bruns, 3. Stowe, 4. Alfrey, 5. Staten, 6. Bean. NT


 


SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Rankine, 2. Drake, 3. Shullick, 4. Custer, 5. Kriegbaum. NT


 


FEATURE: (20 laps) 1. Patrick Bruns, 2. John Heydenreich, 3. Ross Rankine, 4. Toby Alfrey, 5. Tyler Shullick, 6. Nick Drake, 7. Cole Custer, 8. Jessica Bean, 9. Josh Staten, 10. Byron Stowe. (NOTE: Kent Kriegbaum's car disqualified after finishing 11th ofr failing to pass post-race technical inspection) 


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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-3 Shullick, Lap 4 Heydenreich, Laps 5-20 Bruns.


 


NEW USAC MIDWEST FORD FOCUS POINTS: 1-Rankine-558; 2-Alfrey-369; 3-James Robertson-352; 4-Bean-347; 5-Jarett Andretti-332; 6-Drake-324; 7-Shullick-307; 8-Joey greening-247; 9-Nick Hamilton-239; 10-Bruns-202.


 


NEXT USAC MIDWEST FORD FOCUS RACE: July 12 – Indianapolis, IN – Bryant Heating & Cooling Indianapolis Speedrome – “Elite 8 Series”