By Dick Jordan
USAC’s Western, Utah and Eastern Ford Focus series see action this weekend. The Western/Utah Focuses compete at Rocky Mountain Raceways in Salt Lake City, Utah Saturday night in concert with the Rocky Mountain Sprint cars. Ace Speedway in Altamahaw, N.C. hosts the Eastern Ford Focuses Monday night.
Nick Drake and Cole Custer won USAC feature events Wednesday night at Concord (N.C.) Motor Speedway. Drake, of Mooresville, N.C., led all 75 laps of the Eastern Ford Focus race to beat Chris Lamb, Austin Prock, Nic Davidson and Jarett Andretti. In the 35-lap Focus Young Guns feature, Custer, of Kannapolis, N.C., passed Jared Irvan on lap 14 and led the rest of the way to beat Irvan and Trey Hutchens.
Brodie Kostecki of Roseville, Calif. won both the USAC Western Ford Focus and Focus Young Guns features Saturday night at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale, Calif. He passed Brandon White on lap 15 of the Ford Focus race and led the final 11 laps to win the 25-lapper over Jessica Clark, fast qualifier Paul Graham, White and Jarid Blondel, who led the opening lap. Kostecki then proceeded to lead all 20 laps to win the Focus Young Guns feature over fast qualifier Trevor Hunt, Christine Breckenridge and Ricky Bowers.
Kostecki leads the Western standings into this Saturday’s race at Salt Lake City, while Jim Waters is atop the latest Utah standings. Drake is the Eastern leader entering the race at Altamahaw.
USAC NATIONAL FORD FOCUS POINT STANDINGS
1-Nick Drake-714, 2-Ross Rankine-699, 3-Scott Hunter-672; 4-Brodie Kostecki-669; 5-Jarett Andretti-651, 6-Jessica Clark-645, 7-Jim Waters-630; 8-Chris Lamb-624, 9-Jarid Blondel-612, 10-Tyler Dolacki-594.
USAC NATIONAL FOCUS YOUNG GUNS POINT STANDINGS:
1-Cole Custer-480, 2-Brodie Kostecki-480; 3-Sam McGhee-474, 4-Trevor Hunt-474, 5-Jared Irvan-465; 6-Parker Colston-456, 7-Stevie Kuhn-453, 8-Cooper Clouse-453, 9-Mikell McGee-417, 10-Christine Breckenridge-411.
USAC MIDWESTERN FORD FOCUS POINT STANDINGS
1-Ross Rankine-760, 2-James Robertson-635, 3-Toby Alfrey-598, 4-Jarett Andretti-585, 5-Nick Drake-571, 6-Jessica Bean-524, 7-Nick Hamilton-506, 8-Joey Greening-470, 9-Tyler Shullick-392, 10-Kent Kriegbaum-340.
USAC MIDWESTERN FOCUS YOUNG GUNS POINT STANDINGS
1-Sam McGhee-540, 2-Stevie Kuhn-501, 3-Cooper Clouse-446, 4-Michael Fanelli-308, 5-Mikell McGee-305, 6-Emmy Gray-285, 7-Cole Custer-168, 8-Tyler Schullick-137, 9-Adam Thomason-114, 10-Justen Garmenn-105.
USAC EASTERN FORD FOCUS POINT STANDINGS
1-Nick Drake-787; 2-Scott Hunter-747; 3-Jarett Andretti-703; 4-Chris Lamb-673; 5-Nic Davidson-612; 6-Tyler Corriher-541; 7-Austin Prock-502; 8-Ross Rankine-376; 9-Cole Custer-339; 10-Steven Intravaia-329.
USAC EASTERN FOCUS YOUNG GUNS POINT STANDINGS
1-Jared Irvan-572; 2-Cole Custer-435; 3-Trey Hutchens-337; 4-Sam McGhee-319; 5-Mikell McGee-243; 6-Cooper Clouse-117; 7-Michael Fanelli-104; 8-Tyler Shullick-70; 9-Brendon Bock-64; 10-Stevie Kuhn-64.
USAC WESTERN FORD FOCUS POINT STANDINGS
1-Brodie Kostecki-785; 2-Jim Waters-748; 3-Jessica Clark-725; 4-Jarid Blondel-691; 5-Wally Pankratz-665; 6-Tyler Dolacki-655; 7-Chuck Groat-618; 8-Daniel Williams-594; 9-Austin Luttmer-577; 10-Brandon White-550.
USAC WESTERN FOCUS YOUNG GUNS POINT STANDINGS
1-Trevor Hunt-569; 2-Brodie Kostecki-569; 3-Parker Colston-516; 4-Cole Custer-461; 5-Christine Breckenridge-453; 6-James Eden-399; 7-Katlyn Leer-380; 8-Keegan Walmer-320; 9-Ricky Bowers-300; 10-Brandon White-264.
USAC UTAH FORD FOCUS POINT STANDINGS
1-Jim Waters-748; 2-Chuck Groat-618; 3-Austin Luttmer-577; 4-Jeff Kelley-464; 5-Gregg Fuette-441; 6-Ron Duncombe-424; 7-J.R. Williams-422; 8-Jessica Clark-386; 9-Brandon White-342; 10-Michael Daniels-341.