By Dick Jordan
Nevada and Washington host Honda USAC Ignite Midget races this week. Saturday’s race at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Bullring sees Bryant Dawson entering the race with a 22-point lead over Jarid Blondel. Chase Goetz holds a commanding lead in the Washington series which visits Grays Harbor Raceway in Elma Saturday.
Patrick Bruns of Champaign, Ill. swept a pair of Illinois races for the USAC Midwest Dirt Ignite Midget series last weekend. Driving his Cain’s Marine Welding/Tin Cup RV Park Beast, he won Friday at Kankakee County Speedway and Saturday at Macon Speedway.
Bruns passed Mike Gass on lap 17 and led the final four laps for the win at Kankakee over Gass, Gage Walker, Joey Greening and Cooper Clouse, who led the first four laps of the race. He led all 20 laps at Macon to beat Clouse, Greening, Gage Walker and Toby Alfrey.
Walker will take and 81-point lead into the Midwest Dirt finale September 27 at Gas City (Ind.) Speedway.
2013 WESTERN HONDA IGNITE MIDGET POINTS: 1-Jarid Blondel-897, 2-Christine Breckenridge-757, 3-Cory Elliott-530, 4-Bryant Dawson-496, 5-Shawn Buckley-385, 6-Michael Fanelli-384, 7-Parker Colston-322, 8-Marina Turner-304, 9-Marc Jessop-271, 10-Wally Pankratz-267.
2013 WESTERN HONDA IGNITE DIRT MIDGET POINTS: 1-Cory Elliott-456, 2-Jarid Blondel-423, 3-Christine Breckenridge-356, 4-Parker Colston-322, 5-Wally Pankratz-267, 6-Clayton Ruston-222, 7-Brennan Rogers-164, 8-Randi Pankratz-114, 9-Ariel Biggs-112, 10-Michael Steele-100.
2013 WESTERN HONDA IGNITE PAVEMENT MIDGET POINTS: 1-Bryant Dawson-496, 2-Jarid Blondel-474, 3-Christine Breckenridge-401, 4-Shawn Buckley-385, 5-Michael Fanelli-384, 6-Marina Turner-304, 7-Cody Jessop-271, 8-George Blacker-197, 9-Ron Hazelton-189, 10-Jake Swanson-112.
2013 MIDWEST HONDA DIRT IGNITE MIDGET POINTS: 1-Gage Walker-743, 2-Cooper Clouse-662, 3-Austin Nemire-599, 4-Joey Greening-515, 5-Toby Alfrey-509, 6-Stratton Briggs-467, 7-John Heydenreich-426, 8-Katlynn Leer-361, 9-Adam Thomason-311, 10-Emmy Gray-240.
2013 EASTERN HONDA MIDGET POINTS: 1-Chris Lamb-1,180, 2-Wil Raber-950, 3-Tyler Corriher-937, 4-Blaine Leydig-760, 5-Calvin Carroll-756, 6-Ryan Krachun-724, 7-Nikki Carroll-686, 8-Justin Whittall-684, 9-Billy Gaule-600, 10-Matt Lundstrom-442,
2013 WASHINGTON HONDA IGNITE DIRT MIDGET POINTS: 1-Chase Goetz-1,003, 2-Garrett Thomas-866, 3-Ariel Biggs-801, 4-Todd Hartman-519, 5-Jeremy Miller-460, 6-Dougie James-406, 7-Annika Johanson-331, 8-Tristin Thomas-311, 9-Robby Vaughn-310, 10-Madison Hess-304.