Bell Blasts to Victory at Angell Park

Christopher Bell. - Bill Miller Photo
Christopher Bell. - Bill Miller Photo
Christopher Bell. – Bill Miller Photo

From Dick Jordan

Sun Prarie, WI — (July 5, 2014) — Christopher Bell led a sweep of the podium for Keith Kunz Motorsports on Saturday night at Angell Park Speedway.  Bell topped teammates Rico Abreu and Tanner Thorson for the victory.  Chris Windom and Tracy Hines rounded out the top five.

HONDA USAC NATIONAL MIDGET RACE RESULTS: July 5, 2014 – Sun Prairie, Wisconsin – Angell Park Speedway – “Pepsi Midget Nationals” – Co-sanctioned by POWRi and Badger

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Tanner Thorson, 67, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-14.559; 2. Michael Pickens, 3F, RFMS-14.568; 3. Chris Windom, 3, RFMS-14.637; 4. Rico Abreu, 97, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-14.641; 5. Tracy Hines, 24, Parker-14.660; 6. Christopher Bell, 71, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-14.738; 7. Bryan Clauson, 63, RKR/Curb-Agajanian-14.811; 8. Tyler Courtney, 2B, Lein-14.816; 9. Zach Daum, 5D, Daum-14.884; 10. Parker Price-Miller, 9P, Ronk-14.950; 11. Austin Brown, 7, KBR-14.962; 12. Andrew Felker, 11A, Felker-14.975; 13. Kevin Olson, 25x, Hardy-14.980; 14. Bill Balog, 2s, Lein-15.055; 15. Kevin Thomas, Jr., 9K, KBR-15.064; 16. Jake Blackhurst, 25, Blackhurst-15.087; 17. Brady Bacon, 11, Wilke-15.152; 18. Garrett Aitken, 32, Aitken-15.161; 19. Seth Motsinger, 2, KBR-15.163; 20. Tyler Thomas, 91T, Thomas-15.181; 21. Robbie Ray, 3R, Ray-15.203; 22. Spencer Bayston, 39, Tucker/BCI/Curb-Agajanian-15.270; 23. Brandon Waelti, 15, Huston-15.276; 24. Isaac Chapple, 52, Chapple-15.318; 25. David Budres, 31, Manic-15.320; 26. Terry Babb, 88, Babb-15.328; 27. Scott Hatton, 4, Hardy-15.368; 28. Jerry Coons, Jr., 57, Ecker-15.423; 29. Katlynn Leer, 77K, Leer-15.450; 30. Darren Hagen, 56, Hmiel/Wilke-NT.

FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Bacon, 2. Hines, 3. Daum, 4. Thorson, 5. Ray, 6. Olson, 7. Budres, 8. Leer. 2:31.40

SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Bell, 2. Bayston, 3. Pickens, 4. Aitken, 5. Balog, 6. Babb, 7. Price-Miller, 8. Hagen. 2:32.20

THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Clauson, 2. K. Thomas, 3. Windom, 4. Waelti, 5. Brown, 6. Motsinger, 7. Hatton. NT

FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. T. Thomas, 2. Abreu, 3. Blackhurst, 4. Coons, 5. Felker, 6. Courtney, 7. Chapple. 2:34.51

SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Courtney, 2. Brown, 3. Balog, 4. Felker, 5. Price-Miller, 6. Babb, 7. Olson, 8. Motsinger, 9. Ray, 10. Chapple, 11. Budres, 12. Hatton, 13. Leer. 3:14.88

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Christopher Bell, 2. Rico Abreu, 3. Tanner Thorson, 4. Chris Windom, 5. Tracy Hines, 6. Michael Pickens, 7. Bryan Clauson, 8. Kevin Thomas, Jr., 9. Tyler Courtney, 10. Parker Price-Miller, 11. Spencer Bayston, 12. Andrew Felker, 13. Jerry Coons, Jr., 14. Jake Blackhurst, 15. Austin Brown, 16. Bill Balog, 17. Garrett Aitken, 18. Seth Motsinger, 19. Kevin Olson, 20. Tyler Thomas, 21. Zach Daum, 22. Terry Babb, 23. Brady Bacon, 24. Brandon Waelti. NT

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**Babb flipped on Lap 3 of the Feature. Daum flipped on Lap 18 of the Feature.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Lap 1-30 Bell.

NEW HONDA USAC NATIONAL MIDGET POINTS: 1-Abreu-548; 2-Hines-445; 3-Bell-439; 4-Clauson-437; 5-Thorson-376; 6-Windom-328; 7-Dave Darland-311; 8-Daum-304; 9-K.Thomas-303; 10-Felker-302.

NEXT HONDA USAC NATIONAL MIDGET RACES: July 6 – Sun Prairie, WI – Angell Park Speedway – “Pepsi Midget Nationals” – – Co-sanctioned by POWRi and Badger