McCARTHY SWEEPS MADERA’S “VUKOVICH” HPDs
Madera, CA……..Tommy McCarthy of Mountain View, Calif. scored a pair of feature wins during Saturday night’s “Vukovich Classic” at Madera Speedway. He won the 30-lap USAC Western HPD Midget main and the accompanying 15-lap Restricted HPD feature as well. In the HPD finale he passed Toni Breidinger on lap 15 and led the rest of the way to beat Cody Jessop, Annie Breidinger, Dylan Nobile and Tom Paterson. He led all the way to win the Restricted feature over Jessop, Jesse Love IV, Ethan Lesser and Blake Brannon.
USAC HPD WESTERN MIDGET RACE RESULTS: May 2, 2015 – Madera, California – Madera Speedway – “Vukovich Classic”
QUALIFYING: 1. Dylan Nobile, 40, Nobile-15.625; 2. Annie Breidinger, 75, Breidinger-15.661; 3. Toni Breidinger, 80, Breidinger-15.743; 4. Cody Jessop, 00, Jessop-15.881; 5. Tommy McCarthy, 44, Love-15.940; 6. Tom Paterson, 9, Paterson-16.053; 7. Ashley Hazelton, 5, Hazelton-NT; 8. Marvin Mitchell, 25, Mitchell-NT.
RESTRICTED QUALIFYING: 1. Jesse Love IV, 38, Love-16.187; 2. Ethan Lesser, 73, Lesser-16.446; 3. Blake Brannon, 98, Brannon-16.798.
RESTRICTED HEAT: (8 laps) 1. McCarthy, 2. Love IV, 3. Lesser, 4. Brannon. NT
FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Nobile, 2. McCarthy, 3. T.Breidinger, 4. Hazelton. NT
SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Jessop, 2. A.Breidinger, 3. Paterson. NT
RESTRICTED FEATURE: (15 laps) 1. Tommy McCarthy, 2. Cody Jessop, 3. Jesse Love IV, 4. Ethan Lesser, 5. Blake Brannon. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Tommy McCarthy, 2, Cody Jessop, 3. Annie Breidinger, 4. Dylan Nobile, 5. Tom Paterson, 6. Ashley Hazelton (#25 Mitchell), 7. Toni Breidinger, 8. Jesse Love IV, 9. Ethan Lesser. NT
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RESTRICTED FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-15 McCarthy.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-14 T.Breidinger, Laps 15-30 McCarthy.
NEW USAC HPD WESTERN MIDGET POINTS: 1-Jessop-400, 2-Nobile-398, 3-A.Breidinger-353, 4-T.Breidinger-339, 5-A.Hazelton-311, 6-Love IV-295, 7-Paterson-236, 8-Ron Hazelton-159, 9-Shawn Buckley-151, 10-Randi Pankratz-129.
NEW USAC HPD WESTERN MIDGET PAVEMENT POINTS: 1-Nobile-398, 2-A.Breidinger-353, 3-T.Breidinger-339, 4-Jessop-325, 5-A.Hazelton-232, 6-Love IV-207, 7-Paterson-192, 8-Dezel West-94, 9-Joel Rayborne-89, 10-Lesser-78.
NEW USAC HPD WESTERN MIDGET RESTRICTED POINTS: 1-Love IV-206, 2-Lesser-133, 3-Brannon-122, 4-McCarthy-68, 5-Cinnamon Brown-62, 6-Joel Rayborne-61, 7-Robert Dalby-57, 8-Jessop-57.
NEXT USAC HPD WESTERN MIDGET RACE: May 15 – Visalia, CA – Keller Auto Speedway at Plaza Park