From Bryan Gapinski
Kansas City, MO — The four most dominant drivers in midget auto racing from the 2009 season headline the enteries for the “Lucas Oil Bull Ring Midget Nationals Presented by Lucas Cattle Company” at Kansas City’s Kemper Arena on December 18-19.
Bryan Clauson, Brad Kuhn, Brad Loyet and Jerry Coons combine to win 46 of the 201 midget features run during the 2009 season, for an impressive twenty-three percent of all events.
Clauson captured the Saturday Night event at the Kemper Arena, last year and also scored major victories in the Belleville
Midget Nationals and Turkey Night Grand Prix on his way to claiming the National Midget Driver of the Year honors. Clauson’s midget feature victory mark was eleven. Kuhn won eight midget features and claimed the USAC National Midget and POWRi Midget Championships.
Loyet captured nineteen feature wins, winning the USAC/SMRS Championship and was runner-up in POWRi and Badger
points. Coons who captured the Friday Night event at Kemper after starting in fourteenth position had another solid season winning eight features with three different sanctioning organizations.
Last year, eighty-four midget teams from around the country participated in the two-day event. Other notable entries for the event include: Dave Darland, Danny Lasoski, Levi Jones, Don Droud, Austin Brown, Jon Stanbrough, Shane Hmiel and Zach Daum. Davey Ray has been named driver of the J.J. Yeley#1 entry. Jason Leffler originally slated to drive the car has a sponsorship commitment this weekend.
This year’s event will pay $5,000 to win on Friday night Dec. 18th and $10,000-to-win and $500 to start Saturday’s race on Dec. 19th, plus a $3,500 point fund for the top three point finishers for the two-races. Supporting classes will be the Modlites/Dwarf cars, 1200 Outlaw Lightning Winged Sprints, and QMA Quarter Midgets.
Payoff, and entry forms are now available event online at the events website: www.TwastheMidgets.com, or calling (816) 415-4398. Discount tickets for are on sale at the Sprint Center Box Office or Ticketmaster at (816)-513-4000.