Hagen Wins USAC Midget Car Feature and Championship at Columbus

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usac United States Auto Club 2012 logoFrom Dick Jordan

 

Columbus, OH — (October 12, 2013) — Darren Hagen won the feature and 2013 Honda USAC National Pavement Midget Car Series championship on Saturday night at Columbus Motor Speedway.   Tracy Hines, Caleb Armstrong, Dalton Armstrong, and Taylor Ferns rounded out the top five.

Blaine Leydig won the Honda USAC Ignite Midget Car Series feature.

 

HONDA USAC NATIONAL PAVEMENT MIDGET RACE RESULTS: October 12, 2013 – Columbus, Ohio – Columbus Motor Speedway – “Battle in the Buckeye State”

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Kyle Hamilton, 33, Hamilton-13.423; 2. Caleb Armstrong, 7c, C & A-13.517; 3. Nick Hamilton, 32, Hamilton-13.538; 4. Kyle O’Gara, 27, RW/Curb-Agajanian-13.552; 5. Christopher Bell, 71, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.623; 6. Bobby Santos, 17, RW/Curb-Agajanian-13.628; 7. Taylor Ferns, 55, Ferns-13.635; 8. Dalton Armstrong, 7a, C & A-13.646; 9. Bryan Nuckles, 59, Nuckles-13.657; 10. Darren Hagen, 3, RFMS-13.698; 11. Tracy Hines, 24, Parker-13.732; 12. Austin Prock, 41, Prock-13.798; 13. Tyler Edwards, 56, 56 Inc.-13.798; 14. Jim Anderson, 36, Guess-13.811; 15. Mike Larrison, 501, Hamilton-13.949; 16. Bret Sanderson, 66, Sanderson-14.722;

FIRST “SCRAMBLE” HEAT: (12 laps) 1. Hines, 2. K.Hamilton, 3. Bell, 4. Ferns, 5. N.Hamilton, 6. Nuckles, 7. Larrison, 8. Edwards. 2:44.35

SECOND “SCRAMBLE” HEAT: (12 laps) 1. Hagen, 2. Santos, 3. C.Armstrong, 4. D.Armstrong, 5. O’Gara, 6. Anderson, 7. Prock, 8. Sanderson. NT

FEATURE: (40 laps) 1. Darren Hagen, 2. Tracy Hines, 3. Caleb Armstrong, 4. Dalton Armstrong, 5. Taylor Ferns, 6. Bobby Santos, 7. Bryan Nuckles, 8. Nick Hamilton, 9. Jim Anderson, 10. Kyle Hamilton, 11. Austin Prock, 12. Kyle O’Gara, 13. Mike Larrison, 14. Tyler Edwards, 15. Bret Sanderson. NT
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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-40 Hagen.

FINAL HONDA USACNATIONAL PAVEMENT MIDGET POINTS: 1-Hagen-477, 2-Hines-474, 3-Santos-438, 4-O’Gara-398, 5-K.Hamilton-373, 6-D.Armstrong-361, 7-C.Armstrong-329, 8-Bell-317, 9-Ferns-237, 10-Tanner Swanson-220.

 

HPD IGNITE USAC EASTERN/MIDWEST PAVEMENT MIDGET RACE RESULTS: October 12, 2013 – Columbus, Ohio – Columbus Motor Speedway – “Battle in the Buckeye State”

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Gage Walker, 7, Walker-14.235; 2. Scott Hunter, 12a, Corriher-14.293; 3. Tyler Corriher, 12, Corriher-14.337; 4. Chris Lamb, 8, Radical-14.341; 5. Nick Hamilton, 1, Steele-14.363; 6. Cooper Clouse, 14, Clouse-14.390; 7. Austin Nemire, 91, Nemire-14.395; 8. Joey Greening, 17G, Greening-14.439; 9. Blaine Leydig, 21, Leydig-14.450; 10. Wil Raber, 3, Hocevar-14.475; 11. Billy Gaule, 22, Gaule-14.477; 12. Calvin Carroll, 24, Carroll-14.484; 13.Ricky Bowers, 42, Bowers-14.545; 14. Adam Thomason, 74, Thomason-14.576; 15. Natasha Cox, 19, Cox-14.625; 16. Toby Alfrey, 14a, Clouse-14.782; 17. Nikki Carroll, 5c, Carroll-14.882; 18. Nolan Allison, 16, Allison-14.976; 19. Jack Cross, 17c, Griffith-15.188.

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Gaule, 2 Leydig, 3. N.Hamilton, 4. Nemire, 5. Walker, 6. Corriher, 7. Bowers, 8. Cox, 9. N.Carroll, 10. Cross. 1:55.97

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Clouse, 2. C.Carroll, 3. Lamb, 4. Hunter, 5. Greening, 6. Thomason, 7. Alfrey, 8. Allison. 1:57.01

FEATURE: (30 Laps) 1. Blaine Leydig, 2. Scott Hunter, 3. Wil Raber, 4. Austin Nemire, 5. Gage Walker, 6. Cooper Clouse, 7. Billy Gaule, 8. Calvin Carroll, 9. Adam Thomason, 10. Joey Greening, 11. Nikki Carroll, 12. Chris Lamb, 13. Tyler Corriher, 14. Natasha Cox, 15. Ricky Bowers, 16. Toby Alfrey, 17.  Nolan Allison, 18. Jack Cross, 19. Nick Hamilton. NT
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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-11 Leydig, Lap 12 Nemire, Laps 13-30 Leydig.

FINAL HPD IGNITE USAC MIDWEST PAVEMENT MIDGET POINTS: 1-Clouse-589, 2-Raber-528, 3-Nemire-476, 4-Cox-347, 5-Walker-313, 6-C.Carroll-281, 7-Cross-266, 8-N.Carroll-263, 9-Lamb-251, 20-Bowers-175.

FINAL HPD IGNITE USAC EASTERN MIDGET POINTS: 1-Lamb-1,593, 2-Raber-1,153, 3-Corriher-1,130, 4-Leydig-1,007, 5-C.Carroll-931, 6-Ryan Krachun-881, 7-N.Carroll-837, 9-Justin Whitt1ll-681, 10-Matt Lundstrom-442.