From URSS
Golden Colorado’s Coby Pearce took top honors at the URSS Colorado Region’s season opener to claim his very first URSS “A” Feature victory. 18 cars check into El Paso County Speedway in Calhan Colorado and left the fans standing on their feet and cheering for more when it was over.
Pearce, starting on the pole with Green River Wyoming’s Zac Taylor brought the field to the green with Taylor jumping into an early lead. Taylor would continue to lead with Pearce in hot pursuit with 4th starting Patrick Bourke jumping into 3rd on lap 2, passing rookie Nic Sutton in 4th and John Jacob rounding out the top 5 until the one and only red flag flew for a flipping Clint Schubert on lap 12 after making contact with Brian Hardman on the back straightaway. Schubert was unhurt, disgusted and both he and Hardman were done for the night.
On the restart it would be Taylor, Pearce, Bourke, Jacob and Zach Merritt rounding out the top 5.and 10th starting Jake Bubak moving into 5th place before the lap was completed. The field would remain that way until lap 17 when Bubak would move into 4th getting around Jacob.
It would remain that way until the leaders encountered lap traffic starting on lap 21. Bubak took advantage by using a lap car as a pick and moving around Bourke. Lap 22 would see Taylor momentarily slowed by lap traffic and Pearce seizing the opportunity to blast past Taylor to take the lead. Bubak would then muscle his way past Taylor on lap 23 to begin pressuring Pearce with Taylor and Bourke all over his back bumper.
Pearce would hold off the trio as the crowd were on their feet and cheering wildly as he took the checkered flag for his first URSS win.
A jubilant Pearce stated “What a fun race that was. I’m sure glad to get a First Win under my belt”.
Heat Race winners were Coby Pearce, Zach Merritt and John Jacob
Keizer Aluminum Wheels Hard Charger award went to Jake Bubak who move up from 10th to 2nd.
The Colorado Region will return to El Paso County Speedway on May 31st. Races start at 5:00 pm.
Feature results
1. Coby Pearce 2. Jake Bubak 3. Zac Taylor 4. Patrick Bourke 5. John Jacob 6. Nic Sutton 7. Joey Schmidt 8. Jerem Huish 9. Scott Cochran 10. Mike Taylor 11. Luke Lucero 12. Kevin Schramek 13. Dustin Mcneill (DNF) Zach Merritt, Brian Hardman, Clint Schubert, Mike Hathaway, DNS Bob Schaeffer