From Dick Jordan
Kyle Larson had to fight off Jerry Coons Jr. and the cushion but battled his way to the the USAC Midget “Gold Crown Midget Nationals” 50 lap feature win Saturday night at Tri-City Speedway. Larson and Coons were followed by Brad Sweet, Brad Kuhn and Rico Abreu.
USAC MOPAR NATIONAL MIDGET CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: October 6, 2012 – Pontoon Beach, Illinois – Tri-City Speedway – 4th DuPont “Gold Crown Midget Nationals”
FIRST HEAT: (8 laps – no points) 1. Darren Hagen (#3 RFMS), 2. Bryan Clauson (#67 Kunz/Curb-Agajanian), 3. Brady Bacon (#99 BBR), 4. Zach Daum (#5D Daum), 5. Jerry Coons, Jr. (#63 Dooling), 6. Tim Buckwalter (#52B Buckwalter), 7. Brenden Bright (#88 Bright), 8. Taylor Ferns (#55 Ferns), 9. Tyler Robbins (#35 Robbins), 10. Isaac Chapple (#52 Chapple). NT
SECOND HEAT: (8 laps – no points) 1. Kyle Larson (#71 Kunz/Curb-Agajanian), 2. Brad Kuhn (#17 RW), 3. Nick Wean (#78 Wean), 4. Brad Sweet (#56 Hmiel), 5. Dalton Armstrong (#7A C&A), 6. Riley Emmel (#12 RayPro), 7. Chase Barber (#191 Barber), 8. John Campbell (#19 Campbell), 9. Daron Clayton (#10 Moore). 2:05.11
THIRD HEAT: (8 laps – no points) 1. Caleb Armstrong (#7c C&A), 2. Tracy Hines (#24 Parker), 3. Bobby East (#4 Klatt), 4. Dave Darland (#3F RFMS), 5. Rico Abreu (#67K Kunz), 6. Alex Bright (#77 Hemler), 7. Colten Cottle (#5c Cottle), 8. Kent Schmidt (#5K Schmidt), 9. Ryan Criswell (#11R Criswell), 10. Danny Frye (#5 Frye). 2:07.70
FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps – no points) 1. Davey Ray (#33 RayPro), 2. Hunter Schuerenberg (#2 Bush), 3. Chris Windom (#11 Wilke), 4. Andy Malpocker (#22 Malpocker), 5. Steve Buckwalter (#0 Buckwalter), 6. Thomas Meseraull (#57 Ecker), 7. Casey Shuman (#57K Ecker), 8. Tyler Courtney (#2A Bush), 9. Austin Burke (#54 Burke), 10. Gavin Galbraith (#98G Galbraith). 2:06.73
FIRST QUALIFIER: (8 laps – no points) 1. Clauson, 2. Hines, 3. Bacon, 4. A.Bright, 5. Darland, 6. Courtney, 7. D.Armstrong, 8. Emmel. 2:09.69
SECOND QUALIFIER: (8 laps – no points) 1. Larson, 2. Windom, 3. Kuhn, 4. Meseraull, 5. Malpocker, 6. Wean, 7. Burke, 8. Schmidt, 9. Barber, 10. Chapple. NT
THIRD QUALIFIER: (8 laps – no points) 1. Coons, 2. Abreu, 3. D.Ray, 4. East, 5. S.Buckwalter, 6. Cottle, 7. B.Bright, 8. Ferns, 9. Campbell, 10. Galbraith. 2:13.41
FOURTH QUALIFIER: (8 laps – no points) 1. Sweet, 2. Hagen, 3. T.Buckwalter, 4. Daum, 5. Schuerenberg, 6. C.Armstrong, 7. Shuman, 8. Frye, 9. Robbie Ray (3R, Ray). NT
DASH: (6 laps – no points) 1. Abreu, 2. Clauson, 3. Hagen, 4. Larson, 5. Sweet, 6. Bacon, 7. Hines, 8. D.Ray. 1:40.83
B-MAIN #1: (12 laps – no points) 1. Coons, 2. Meseraull, 3. Windom, 4. C.Armstrong, 5. S.Buckwalter, 6. Schuerenberg, 7. Wean, 8. B.Bright, 9. Cottle, 10. Ferns, 11. Shuman, 12. Galbraith, 13. Frye, 14. Clayton. 3:27.20
B-MAIN #2: (12 laps – no points) 1. Darland, 2. A.Bright, 3. Daum, 4. Kuhn, 5. T.Buckwalter, 6. East, 7. Barber, 8. Malpocker, 9. Courtney, 10. Burke, 11. Emmel, 12. D.Armstrong, 13. Schmidt, 14. Chapple. 3:27.18
FEATURE: (50 laps) 1. Kyle Larson, 2. Jerry Coons, Jr., 3. Brad Sweet, 4. Brad Kuhn, 5. Rico Abreu, 6. Dave Darland, 7. Chris Windom, 8. Tim Buckwalter, 9. Tracy Hines, 10. Davey Ray, 11. Tyler Courtney, 12. Hunter Schuerenberg, 13. Colten Cottle, 14. Bobby East, 15. Andy Malpocker, 16. Brady Bacon, 17. Thomas Meseraull, 18. Steve Buckwalter, 19. Zach Daum, 20. Alex Bright, 21. Caleb Armstrong, 22. Chase Barber, 23. Darren Hagen, 24. Nick Wean, 25. Bryan Clauson, 26. Brenden Bright. NT
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**B.Bright flipped on Lap 4 of the Feature. A.Bright flipped on lap 31 of the Feature.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-3 Hagen, Laps 4-36 Larson, Laps 37-42 Coons, Laps 43-50 Larson.
NEW MOPAR NATIONAL MIDGET POINTS: 1-Hagen-1,152; 2-Hines-968; 3-Clauson-924; 4-C.Armstrong-831; 5-Larson-791; 6-Kuhn-741; 7-East-732; 8-Abreu-691; 9-Windom-670; 10-Coons-636.
NEW MOPAR NATIONAL MIDGET DIRT POINTS: 1-Hagen-719, 2-Windom-670, 3-Coons-636, 4-Kuhn-634, 5-Clauson-601, 6-Hines-584, 7-Larson-555, 8-D.Ray-499, 9-Abreu-454, 10-C.Armstrong-423.
NEXT MOPAR NATIONAL MIDGET RACE: November 9-10 – Peoria, AZ – Canyon Speedway Park