Clauson Closes Midget Week with Kokomo Victory

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Kokomo, IN — (June 15, 2014) — Bryan Clauson closed out the 2014 edition of Indiana Midget Week with the USAC Honda Midget Car Series by winning the feature Sunday night at Kokomo Speedway. Tracy Hines, Rico Abreu, Dave Darland, and Zach Daum rounded out the top five.

The third place finish secured Abreu the overall 2014 Indiana Midget Week Championship.

Justin Grant won the sprint car feature over Robert Ballou and Chad Boespflug.

HONDA USAC NATIONAL MIDGET RACE RESULTS: June 15, 2014 – Kokomo, Indiana – Kokomo Speedway – “Indiana Midget Week”

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Rico Abreu, 97, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.278; 2. Dave Darland, 17, RW/Curb-Agajanian-13.341; 3. Christopher Bell, 71, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.361; 4. Tracy Hines, 24, Parker-13.425; 5. Michael Pickens, 3F, RFMS-13.555; 6. Zach Daum, 5D, Daum-13.579; 7. Andrew Felker, 11A, Felker-13.640; 8. Bryan Clauson, 63, RKR/Curb-Agajanian-13.649; 9. Justin Grant, 35, Gardner-13.657; 10. Trey Marcham, 39, Tucker/BCI/Curb-Agajanian-13.740; 11. Chris Windom, 3, RFMS-13.747; 12. Tanner Thorson, 67, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.804; 13. Brady Bacon, 11, Wilke-13.845; 14. Thomas Meseraull, 16, Sandy-13.913; 15. Brock Maskovich, 39B, Tucker/BCI/Curb-Agajanian-13.915; 16. Chad Boespflug, 57B, Ecker-13.979; 17. Shane Cottle, 57, Ecker-13.992; 18. Garrett Aitken, 32, Aitken-14.001; 19. Ross Rankine, 39x, Rankine-14.004; 20. Kevin Thomas, Jr., 9K, KBR-14.016; 21. Domain Ramsay, 20, Ramsay-14.044; 22. Ronnie Gardner, 68, Johnson-14.051; 23. Isaac Chapple, 52, Chapple-14.069; 24. Tyler Thomas, 91T, Thomas-14.080; 25. Alex Schutte, 28, Schutte/McElwee-14.119; 26. Alex Bright, 77, Hemler-14.120; 27. Steve Buckwalter, 9x, Ronk-14.248; 28. Parker Price-Miller, 9P, Ronk-14.254; 29. Nathan Smee, 3A, Cooper-14.372; 30. Tony DiMattia, 50, Brandywine Auto-14.487; 31. Robby Parish, 7k, Irwin-14.537; 32. Tyler Courtney, 35x, Hampton-14.607; 33. Brenden Bright, 92, Bright-14.721; 34. Jaimie McKinlay, 42, Graham-14.728; 35. Gary Gipson, 5, Byers-14.904; 36. Leyton Kendall, 7L, KBR-NT.

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Bacon, 2. Pickens, 3. Abreu, 4. B.Bright, 5. Grant, 6. S.Cottle, 7. Schutte. 8. Ramsay, 9. Smee. 2:18.13

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. R.Gardner, 2. Daum, 3. Aitken, 4. Darland, 5. Meseraull, 6. A.Bright, 7. DiMattia, 8. Marcham, 9. Gipson. 2:17.98

THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Bell, 2. Chapple, 3. Buckwalter, 4. Felker, 5. Windom, 6. Maskovich, 7. Rankine, 8. Parish. 2:18.99

FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Thorson, 2. K.Thomas, 3. Clauson, 4. Hines, 5. Price-Miller, 6. Courtney, 7. Boespflug, 8. T.Thomas. 2:18.15

SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Windom, 2. S.Cottle, 3. T.Thomas, 4. Courtney, 5. Meseraull, 6. Grant, 7. A.Bright, 8. Boespflug, 9. Schutte, 10. Marcham, 11. DiMattia, 12. Rankine, 13. Ramsay, 14. Maskovich, 15. Parish, 16. Smee, 17. Price-Miller, 18. Gipson. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Bryan Clauson, 2. Tracy Hines, 3. Rico Abreu, 4. Dave Darland, 5. Zach Daum, 6. Michael Pickens, 7. Kevin Thomas Jr., 8. Tanner Thorson, 9. Andrew Felker, 10. Brady Bacon, 11. Justin Grant, 12. Christopher Bell, 13. Trey Marcham, 14. Shane Cottle, 15. Garrett Aitken, 16. Parker Price-Miller, 17. Ronnie Gardner, 18. Brenden Bright, 19. Tyler Thomas, 20. Tyler Courtney, 21. Chris Windom, 22. Steve Buckwalter, 23. Thomas Meserull, 24. Isaac Chapple. NT
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**Kendall flipped during qualifying. Chapple flipped on lap 9 of the feature.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Lap 1 Daum, Lap 2 Pickens, Laps 3-5 Dzum, Laps 6-7 Abreu, Laps 8-9 Daum, Laps 10-17 Abreu, Laps 18-30 Clauson.

NEW HONDA USAC NATIONAL MIDGET POINTS: 1-Abreu=481, 2-Hines-388, 3-Clauson-387, 4-Bell-370, 5-Darland-311, 6-Thorson-311, 7-Daum-285, 8-Felker-272, 9-Windom-267, 10-K.Thomas-257.
FINAL INDIANA MIDGET WEEK POINTS: 1-Abrue=275, 2-Clauson-244, 3-Hines-236, 4-Darland-217 5-Pickens-177, 6-Bell-176, 7-Windom-159, 8-Daum-153, 9-Thorson-150, 10-Felker-146.

NEXT HONDA USAC NATIONAL MIDGET RACES: July 5-6 – Sun Prairie, WI – Angell Park Speedway

Sprint Cars Feature:
1. Justin Grant
2. Robert Ballou
3. Chad Boespflug
4. Bryan Clauson
5. Jerry Coons
6. Tyler Courtney
7. Scotty Weir
8. Kevin Thomas Jr
9. Logan Jarrett
10. Chris Windom
11. Dalten Gabbard
12. Dave Darland
13. Kyle Robbins
14. Jarett Andretti
15. Cj Leary
16. Brian Karraker
17. Chris Gurley
18. Travis Hery
19. Josh Spencer
20. Thomas Meseraull