STOWE TAKES WILD FOCUS RACE BEFORE RAINS HALT MONTPELIER YOUNG GUNS

 


Montpelier, IN……..Byron Stowe of Westchester, Ohio emerged with his first USAC feature win Saturday night at Montpelier Motor Speedway, concluding a wild 25-lap feature. He took the lead on lap 24 after a four-car tangle involved the leaders and he led the last two laps in his Traxxas/Amsoil Beast. Toby Alfrey finished second ahead of Ross Rankine, Josh Staten and Dillon Welch. The accompanying Midwest Focus Young Guns feature was rained out after Sam McGhee won the heat race. In the Focus feature, Nick Drake led the first five laps, Patrick Bruns led the next 12, Drake led one and Brune then led five before incidents jumbled the standings and left Stowe as the leader on the lap 24 restart.


 


USAC MIDWEST FORD FOCUS RACE RESULTS: August 13, 2011 – Montpelier, Indiana – Montpelier Motor Speedway


 


FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. John Heydenreich (#22x Givens), 2. Patrick Bruns (#83 Bruns), 3. Nick Drake (#55 Cline), 4. Cole Custer (#55x Cline), 5. Ross Rankine (#39 Rankine), 6. Dillon Welch (#41 Sexton), 7. Toby Alfrey (#5 Alfrey). NT


 


SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Bradley Galedrige (#22 Givens), 2. Josh Staten (#26 Staten), 3. Byron Stowe (#91 Alfrey), 4. Kent Kriegbaum (#12 Kriegbaum), 5. Justen Garmenn (#14 Rankine), 6. Joey Greening (#17G Greening). NT


 


FEATURE: (25 laps) 1. Byron Stowe, 2. Toby Alfrey, 3. Ross Rankine, 4. Josh Staten, 5. Dillon Welch, 6. Kent Kriegbaum, 7. Bradley Galedrige, 8. Patrick Bruns, 9. Cole Custer, 10. Nick Drake, 11. John Heydenreich, 12. Justen Garmenn, 13. Joey Greening. NT


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**Garmenn flipped on lap 9 of the feature.


 


FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-5 Drake, Laps 6-17 Bruns, Lap 18 Drake, Laps 19-23 Bruns, Laps 24-25 Stowe.


 


NEW USAC MIDWEST FORD FOCUS POINTS: 1-Rankine-760; 2-James Robertson-635; 3-Alfrey-598; 4-Jarett Andretti-585; 5-Drake-571; 6-Jessica Bean-524; 7-Nick Hamilton-506; 8-Greening-470; 9-Tyler Shullick-392; 10-K.Kriegbaum-340.


 


NEXT USAC MIDWEST FORD FOCUS RACE: August 20 – Kalamazoo (MI) Speedway


 


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USAC MIDWEST FOCUS YOUNG GUNS RACE RESULTS: August 13, 2011 – Montpelier, Indiana – Montpelier Motor Speedway


 


HEAT RACE: (8 laps) 1. Sam McGhee (#11 McGhee), 2. Cooper Clouse (#14 Clouse), 3. Cole Custer (#55x Cline). NT


 


FEATURE: RAINED OUT


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NEW USAC MIDWEST FOCUS YOUNG GUNS POINTS: 1-McGhee-540; 2-Stevie Kuhn-501; 3-Clouse-446; 4-Michael Fanelli-308; 5-Mikell McGee-305; 6-Emmy Gray-285; 7-Custer-169; 8-Tyler Shullick-137; 9-Adam Thjomason-114; 10-Justen Garmenn-105.


 


NEXT USAC MIDWEST FOCUS YOUNG GUNS RACE: August 20 – Kalamazoo (MI) Speedway