SUSSEX CROWNED PROSOURCE’S INDIANA SPRINT WEEK PASSING MASTER KING
By: Richie Murray – USAC Media
Speedway, Indiana (August 1, 2021)………With a whopping 52 positions advanced throughout 2021 NOS Energy Drink Indiana Sprint Week by AMSOIL, Stevie Sussex has earned himself the moniker of ProSource Passing Master for the seven-race series.
Driving the Tyler Sturgeon Racing/Shaggy’s Consulting – K & N Filters – Red Line Oil/Maxim/J & D Chevy, which sported one of the most popular liveries throughout Indiana Sprint Week, paying homage to The Mystery Machine featured of Scooby Doo fame, the Mesa, Ariz. driver earned the bulk of his passes in two events.
Sussex’s two most notable nights came during the opening race of the series at Kokomo Speedway where the 2017 USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car Rookie of the Year passed 24 cars. Five nights later at Lincoln Park, Sussex added 23 more passes to his total.
Sussex earned a $500 bonus courtesy of ProSource by advancing the most total positions from his starting spot in all prelim and feature events throughout the entirety of ISW, and was already thinking of his future plans for the cash added to his wallet.
“Thanks to (ProSource President) Buck Rice for the Passing Master. That really does help a lot; it covers my airfare,” Sussex said. “I had a good week with a lot of ups and downs. When we were down, we somehow dug out and passed a lot of cars. I’ll take that $500 and maybe get on a flight to Smackdown or something.”
In Saturday’s finale at Tri-State Speedway in Haubstadt, Brady Bacon (Broken Arrow, Okla.) made a surge from 22nd to 8th in the feature that put him just one point short of Sussex at 51. Justin Grant (Ione, Calif.) finished with 46 while Kyle Cummins (Princeton, Ind.) got 45 and Shane Cottle (Kansas, Ill.) 41.
Robert Ballou (Rocklin, Calif.), the inaugural Indiana Sprint Week ProSource Passing Master in 2020, finished 20th overall this year with 16 passes.
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2021 FINAL INDIANA SPRINT WEEK PROSOURCE PASSING MASTER STANDINGS:
1. 52-Stevie Sussex
2. 51-Brady Bacon
3. 46-Justin Grant
4. 45-Kyle Cummins
5. 41-Shane Cottle
6. 36- Chris Windom & Chase Stockon
8. 30-Tanner Thorson
9. 26-Logan Seavey & Max Guilford
11. 24-Kevin Thomas Jr.
12. 20-Cole Bodine, A.J. Hopkins & Brandon Mattox
15. 19-Chase Jones, Jason McDougal, Jadon Rogers & Jake Swanson
19. 18-Nick Bilbee
20. 16-Robert Ballou & Chris Gansen
22. 15-Charles Davis Jr. & Chase Johnson
24. 14-Braydon Cromwell, C.J. Leary & Cannon McIntosh
27. 13-Dustin Clark, Kyle Edwards & Critter Malone
30. 12-Brent Beauchamp & Shane Cockrum
32. 11-Korbyn Hayslett & Carson Short
34. 10-Brayden Clark, Sterling Cling, Gabriel Gilbert & Thomas Meseraull
38. 9-Evan Mosley & Eddie Tafoya Jr.
40. 8-Ryan Barr, Ryan Bond, Dickie Gaines, Tye Mihocko, Jake Scott & Scotty Weir
46. 7-Alex Banales, Paul Nienhiser & Brandon Spencer
49. 6-Harley Burns & Alec Sipes
51. 5-Dan Clodfelter
52. 4-Brady Short
53. 3-Clinton Boyles, Tyler Hewitt, Jack James, Ricky Lewis, Kendall Ruble, Cooper Welch, Matt Westfall & Tayte Williamson
61. 2-Matt McDonald & Chet Williams
63. 1-Anthony D'Alessio, Aric Gentry, Zack Pretorius, Kent Schmidt & Stephen Schnapf
68. 0-Garrett Aitken, Stan Beadles, Saban Bibent, Mario Clouser, Colten Cottle, Mitchell Davis, Brayden Fox, Matt Goodnight, David Hair, J.J. Hughes, Tyler Kendall, Jordan Kinser, Riley Kreisel, Dylan Moan, Joss Moffatt, Shey Owens, Sam Scott & Jessica Swanson
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INDIANA SPRINT WEEK PROSOURCE PASSING MASTER CHAMPIONS:
2020: Robert Ballou
2021: Stevie Sussex
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2021 USAC NOS ENERGY DRINK INDIANA SPRINT WEEK WINNERS:
Saturday, July 24: Kokomo Speedway | Kokomo, IN | WINNER: Justin Grant
Sunday, July 25: Lawrenceburg Speedway | Lawrenceburg, IN | WINNER: Logan Seavey
Monday, July 26: Gas City I-69 Speedway | Gas City, IN | WINNER: Logan Seavey
Wednesday, July 28: Terre Haute Action Track | Terre Haute, IN | WINNER: Logan Seavey
Thursday, July 29: Lincoln Park Speedway | Putnamville, IN | WINNER: Tanner Thorson
Friday, July 30: Bloomington Speedway | Bloomington, IN | WINNER: Brady Bacon
Saturday, July 31: Tri-State Speedway | Haubstadt, IN | WINNER: Justin Grant
