Liquori Picks Up Focus Victory at Gas City

From Dick Jordan

Joe Liquori won the USAC Midwest Ford Focus Feature at Gas City I-69 Speeway Friday night.

USAC MIDWEST DIRT FORD FOCUS RACE RESULTS: April 16, 2010 – Gas City, Indiana – Gas City I-69 Speedway

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. John Heydenreich (#22x Givens), 2. Joe Liguori (#22 Givens), 3. Jessica Bean (#3 Stigall), 4. Kyle O’Gara (#4 Beast), 5. Bill Kriegbaum (#12 Kriegbaum). 1:53.43

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Jake Blackhurst (#25 Blackhurst), 2. Toby Alfrey (#4x Alfrey), 3. Tyler Cottongim (#28 Cottongim), 4. Josh Staten (#2 Staten), 5. Ronnie Wuerdeman (#33 Wuerdeman). 1:54.18

ALSO AT THE TRACK: Eric Rankine (#39 Rankine).

FEATURE: (20 laps) 1. Joe Liguori, 2. Eric Rankine, 3. Jake Blackhurst, 4. Toby Alfrey, 5. Tyler Cottongim, 6. Kyle O’Gara, 7. Ronnie Wuerdeman, 8. John Heydenreich, 9. Josh Staten, 10. Bill Kriegbaum, 11. Jessica Bean. NT
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**Bean flipped during the feature.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-6 Heydenreich, Laps 7-20 Liguori.

NEW MIDWEST FORD FOCUS SERIES POINTS: 1-Blackhurst-170; 2-Scott Hunter-236; 3-Liguori-126; 4-Nick Drake-112; 5-Chris Lamb-107; 6-Bradley Riethmeyer-98; 7-Cottongim-93; 8-Justin Hommel-79; 9-O’Gara-77; 10-Jeremy Frankoski-72.
NEW MIDWEST DIRT FORD FOCUS SERIES POINTS: 1-Liguori-67; 2-Blackhurst-62; 3-Alfrey-58; 4-Rankine-57; 5-Cottongim-54; 6-O’Gara-50; 7-Heydenreich-47; 8-Wuerdeman-46; 9-Staten-41; 10-Kriegbaum-37.

NEXT MIDWEST FORD FOCUS RACE: April 17 – Montpelier (IN) Motor Speedway