By Dick Jordan
Three USAC Eastern Ignite Midget races are on tap this week and the Washington Dirt series also swings into action. The Eastern series visits Concord (N.C.) Speedway Wednesday night, then travels to Ace Speedway in Altamahaw, N.C. Friday and stops at Orange County Speedway in Durham, N.C. Saturday. Saturday night’s Washington Dirt race is at Grays Harbor Raceway in Elma.
Chris Lamb leads the Eastern standings into this week’s tripleheader and Chase Goetz is the Washington Dirt point leader.
Lamb, of Colfax, N.C., swept a pair of Honda Eastern/Midwest features last weekend. Friday night he won the 30-lap feature at Kil-Kare Speedway in Xenia, Ohio. He led all but one lap of the race and led the final 11 to beat Cooper Clouse, Ricky Bowers, Gage Walker and Justin Whittall.
Saturday Lamb repeated at Columbus (Ohio) Motor Speedway, leading 23 laps of the 40-lap race after passing Cooper Clouse to pace the final six. Clouse was second ahead of Walker, Billy Gaule and Wil Raber. Austin Nemire led the first 16 laps of the race.
The Eastern and Midwest calendars have added an August 23 event at the Motordrome Speedway in Smithton, Pa.
Bryant Dawson of Phoenix, Ariz. stormed from the last starting spot to win Saturday night’s 30-lap Honda USAC Western Pavement Ignite Midget feature at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway Bullring. Trailing Dawson at the checkered flag were Jarid Blondel, Shawn Buckley, Christine Breckenridge and Cody Jessop.
2013 WESTERN HONDA IGNITE PAVEMENT MIDGET POINTS: 1-Bryant Dawson-285, 2-Jarid Blondel-267, 3-Christine Breckenridge-243, 4-Michael Fanelli-237, 5-Shawn Buckley-229, 6-George Blacker-197, 7-Marina Turner-173, 8-Cody Jessop-165, 9-Ron Hazelton-92, 10-Ariel Biggs-47.
2013 WESTERN HONDA IGNITE MIDGET POINTS: 1-Jarid Blondel-509, 2-Christine Breckenridge-430, 3-Bryant Dawson-285, 4-Cory Elliott-271, 5-George Blacker-241, 6-Michael Fanelli-237, 7-Shawn Buckley-229, 8-Clayton Ruston-222, 9-Wally Pankratz-201, 10-Parker Colston-188.
2013 MIDWEST HONDA PAVEMENT MIDGET POINTS: 1-Chris Lamb-213, 2-Cooper Clouse-195, 3-Ricky Bowers-150, 4-Wil Raber-150, 5-Gage Walker-142, 6-Tyler Corriher-123, 7-Billy Gaule-119, 8-Austin Nemire-118, 9-Adam Thomason-110, 10-Nikki Carroll-98.
2013 EASTERN HONDA MIDGET POINTS: 1-Chris Lamb-708, 2-Tyler Corriher-662, 3-Wil Raber-654, 4-Calvin Carroll-545, 5-Blaine Leydig-507, 6-Nikki Carroll-489, 7-Justin Whittall-459, 8-Ryan Krachun-455, 9-Billy Gaule-454, 10-Nic Davidson-398.
2013 WASHINGTON HONDA IGNITE DIRT MIDGET POINTS: 1-Chase Goetz-391, 2-Garrett Thomas-341, 3-Ariel Biggs-298 4-Dougie James-267, 5-Robby Vaughn-246, 6-Todd Hartman-200, 7-Chance Crum-197, 8-Jeremy Miller-177, 9-Jared Peterson-139, 10-Annika Johanson-124.