LOVE CONQUERS ALL; TAKES VENTURA & HPD DIRT TITLE

Ventura, CA……..Jesse Love IV of Menlo Park, Calif. is the 2016 USAC Western HPD Midget Dirt Champion after winning Saturday night’s 20-lap finale at Ventura Raceway. Love passed Jet Davison on lap six and led the rest of the way to beat Davison, Randi Pankratz, Ashley Hazelton and Joel Rayborne. Hazelton and Antonia Boscacci finished 2-3 in the final dirt standings.

USAC WESTERN HPD MIDGET RACE RESULTS: October 15, 2016 – Ventura, California – Ventura Raceway

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Randi Pankratz, 98jr, Pankratz-13.576; 2. Jesse Love IV, 38, Love-13.597; 3. Joel Rayborne, 13, Rayborne-13.629; 4. Ashley Hazelton, 5, Hazelton-13.636; 5. Brandon Biggs, 11R, Biggs-13.803; 6. Kyle Beilman, 37, Pankratz-13.882; 7. Mike Leach, 33, Leach-13.957; 8. Antonia Boscacci, 44, Love-14.001; 9. Annie Breidinger, 15, Hazelton-14.462; 10. Jet Davison, 59, Davison-NT.

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Rayborne, 2. Pankratz, 3. Leach, 4. Biggs, 5. A.Breidinger. NT

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Hazelton, 2. Boscacci, 3. Love, 4. Davison, 5. Beilman. NT

FEATURE: (20 laps) 1. Jesse Love IV, 2. Jet Davison, 3. Randi Pankratz, 4. Ashley Hazelton, 5. Joel Rayborne, 6. Antionia Boscacci, 7. Mike Leach, 8. Annie Breidinger, 9. Brandon Biggs, 10. Kyle Beilman. NT

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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-5 Davison, Laps 6-20 Love IV.

NEW USAC WESTERN HPD MIDGET POINTS: 1-Love IV-1,668, 2-A.Breidinger-1,388, 3-Toni Breidinger-1,104, 4-Boscacci-946, 5-Hazelton-744, 6-Tom Paterson-679, 7-Blake Brannon-608, 8-Cody Jessop-556, 9-David Prickett-391, 10-Davey Hamilton Jr.-347.

FINAL USAC WESTERN HPD MIDGET DIRT POINTS: 1-Love IV-720, 2-Hazelton-579, 3-Boscacci-516, 4-A.Breidinger-496, 5-David Prickett-331, 6-Tom Paterson-284, 7-Daniel Anderson-283, 8-Rayborne-240, 9-Pankratz-233, 10-Leach-169.

NEXT USAC WESTERN HPD MIDGET RACE: October 21 – Las Vegas (NV) Motor Speedway Bullring