Clauson Sweeps Duel in Dodge City

From Dick Jordan, images by TWC Photo

Dodge City, KS — Bryan Clauson won Saturday night’s USAC National Midget Car Series feature to sweep the Duel in Dodge City. Bobby East, Brady Bacon, Gary Taylor, and Kody Swanson rounded out the top five.

MOPAR USAC NATIONAL MIDGET RACE RESULTS: April 23, 2011 – Dodge City, Kansas – Dodge City Raceway Park – “Duel in Dodge City”
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Bryan Clauson, 39, Tucker/BCI/Curb-Agajanian-15.547; 2. Tanner Swanson, 19k, Team 6R/TK-15.661; 3. Bobby East, 4, Klatt-15.691; 4. Kody Swanson, 11, Wilke-Pak-15.732; 5. Levi Roberts, 2D, Roberts-15.770; 6. Jerry Coons Jr., 3nz, JCJ-15.773; 7. Darren Hagen, 3, RFMS-15.851; 8. Gary Taylor, 4J, James-15.856; 9. Brady Bacon, 11w, Wilke-Pak-15.875; 10. Brad Kuhn, 17B, RW-15.891; 11. Caleb Armstrong, 71, Kunz-15.908; 12. Tony Rossi, 14, Rossi-15.927; 13. Tracy Hines, 24, Parker-15.946; 14. Kyle Larson, 67, Kunz-15.948; 15. Mario Clouser, 06, MCM-15.953; 16. Zach Daum, 5, Daum-15.992; 17. Cody Brewer, 96, Brewer-16.019; 18. Patrick Stasa, 19s, Stasa-16.057; 19. Keith Rauch, 27, Petauro-16.058; 20. C.J. Johnson, 45x, Martin-16.113; 21. Dalton Armstrong, 71k, Kunz-16.141; 22. Troy DeCaire, 12D, Acceleration Racing-16.162; 23. Rick Montgomery, 32, Dunlap-16.179; 24. Chris Deshon, 51, JP-16.248; 25. Jeff Stasa, 91, Stasa-16.401; 26. Bob Harr, 2H, Halarr-16.435; 27.
Chris Coker, 45, Young-16.455; 28. Chett Gehrke, 11c, Matteson-16.515; 29. Chad Frewaldt, 4F, Frewaldt-16.722; 30. Andy Shouse, 27s, Bishop-16.735; 31. Doug McCune, 9, Urbansky-16.927; 32. Mike Boesel, 77, Boesel-18.961; 33. Chris Shiel, 47, Mason-NT; 34. Jimmy Simpson, 21, RacePro-NT (time of 16.418 disallowed due to rules infraction); 35. Scott Fennell, 33, Clark-NT (time of 16.634 disallowed due to rules infraction).

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Hines, 2. Bacon, 3. D.Armstrong, 4. Clauson, 5. Brewer, 6. Roberts, 7. J.Stasa, 8. Frewaldt, 9. Simpson. 2:10.67

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. P.Stasa, 2. Kuhn, 3. Larson, 4. T.Swanson, 5. Coons, 6. Shouse, 7. Harr, 8. Fennell, 9. DeCaire. 2:09.69

THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. East, 2. Rauch, 3. Hagen, 4. C.Armstrong, 5. Montgomery, 6. Coker, 7. McCune. 2:11.17

FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Johnson, 2. Daum, 3. Deshon, 4. Taylor, 5. 6. Rossi, 7. Gehrke, 8. K.Swanson, 9. Boesel. 2:12.30

SEMI: (12 laps) 1. K.Swanson, 2. Coons, 3. Roberts, 4. Rossi, 5. Gehrke, 6. Brewer, 7. Montgomery, 8. J.Stasa, 9. Coker, 10. Harr, 11. DeCaire, 12. McCune, 13. Boesel, 14. Fennell, 15. Shouse, 16. Frewaldt. NT

FEATURE: (40 laps) 1. Bryan Clauson, 2. Bobby East, 3. Brady Bacon, 4. Gary Taylor, 5. Kody Swanson, 6. Darren Hagen, 7. Brad Kuhn, 8. Jerry Coons Jr., 9. Caleb Armstrong, 10. Kyle Larson, 11. Tanner Swanson, 12. Levi Roberts, 13. Keith Rauch, 14. Tracy Hines, 15. Zach Daum, 16. Tony Rossi, 17. Chris Deshon, 18. Dalton Armstrong, 19. Chett Gehrke, 20. C.J. Johnson, 21. Patrick Stasa, 22. Cody Brewer. NT
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**Larson flipped on lap 33 of the feature.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-21 Taylor, Laps 22-40 Clauson.

NEW MOPAR USAC NATIONAL MIDGET POINTS: 1-Clauson-140; 2-East-140; 3-Bacon-125; 4-Taylor-113; 5-Hagen-110; 6-Coons-95; 7-K.Swanson-93; 8-Kuhn-93; 9-Roberts-81; 10-T.Swanson-74.

NEXT MOPAR USAC NATIONAL MIDGET RACE: May 14 – Sun Prairie, Wisc. – Angell Park Speedway

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