From Eldon Butcher
Terre Haute, IN — (April 26, 2015) — Terre Haute, IN – April 26, 2015 – Brady Short of Mitchell, IN, won the Spring Fling for KISS and MSCS Sprint Cars at the Terre Haute Action Track Sunday night. The event was the opening race for the 2015 King of Indiana Sprint Series and the Action Track. It was the fourth race on this year’s schedule for the Hoosier Tire Midwest Sprint Car Series.
Brady Short lead the last 19 laps of the 25 lap feature to take the $2,500 top prize. The former KISS and MSCS Champion was driving the Cam Pottorff owned Maxim sprint sponsored by Sipes Body and Glass, Indiana Stoneworks, Simpson, and Bloomington Auto Colors. The racing engine was built by SPEC. The win moves Short up to second on the MSCS Drivers All Time Wins List.
Jerry Coons Jr. continued running in second place but did not have the speed needed to overtake Short. Restarts gave him repeated chances. Brady Short kept the lead and proved to be the master of the long straightaway. Carson Short made significant gains and took a restart three wide with just six laps remaining. No change! Kyle Robbins rode the cushion to perfection to finish fourth behind Carson Short. Robbins and Carson Short moved up 11 spots each on the field. Mitch Wissmiller powered his way up to fifth.
Chris Babcock led the second five with a strong run culminating in a sixth place finish. Max McGhee was seventh. McGhee was the Keizer Aluminum Wheels Hard Charger of the Race in gaining 15 spots. Dickie Gaines, Aric Gentry, and Ethan Barrow rounded out the top ten runners. Rookie of the Year Points leader Brandon Morin finished 11th to collect the Wilwood Tuff Brakes Award for the race.
Brandon Mattox, Brady Short, and Jerry Coons Jr. won the three heat races. All cars started the feature except Mattox who scratched for the main event prior to the redraw.
The start of the feature was delayed to remove debris that had dropped in the second turn. A red flag for Ted Hine’s accident on the initial start was then followed by three caution periods in those first 6 laps. There was a red flag on lap 7 for a three car incident, and another red flag after that restart when Shane Cockrum flipped. The final yellow was on lap 18.
Defending KISS Champion Shane Cottle led the first six laps after starting on the pole. He was one of the drivers falling out as attrition took its’ affect.
Defending MSCS Champion Kyle Cummins retired early after having flipped in the second heat race. Brent Beauchamp had worked his way up to fourth in the feature before dropping out of the competition. Only eleven of the 23 starters managed to finish the race.
The next Midwest Sprint Car Series event will be held at Montpelier Motor Speedway on Saturday night May 2nd. That race is scheduled on a night between appearances for the KISS sprints at Gas City and Kokomo Speedways. It should be a great weekend of non-wing sprint car racing across the upper middle region of the Hoosier state.
Provided as news and information for MSCS.
RACE SUMMARY
“Spring Fling”
Terre Haute Action Track
Terre Haute, IN
April 26, 2015
Hoosier Tire Midwest Sprint Car Series:
(24 Entries)
First Heat – 28 Brandon Mattox, 12 Ted Hines, 44 Dickie Gaines, 98 BrandonMorin, 11x James Lyerla, 71 Wayne Newlin, 1 Mitch Wissmiller, 17 Max McGhee
Second Heat – 11p Brady Short, 57 Shane Cottle, 5 Chad Boespflug, 66 Shane Cockrum, 21 Carson Short, 17R Kyle Robbins, 4B Donny Brackett, 11 Kyle Cummins
Third Heat – 10E Jerry Coons, Jr., 35x Chris Babcock, 34 Brent Beauchamp, 10 Aric Gentry, 15 Ethan Barrow, 24 Nate McMillen, 3 Jake Simmons, 28b Adam Brenton
Feature (25 Laps) – 11p B. Short, 10E Coons, 21C. Short, 17R Robbins, 1 Wissmiller, 35x Babcock, 17 McGhee, 44 Gaines, 10 Gentry, 15 Barrow, 98 Morin, 3 Simmons, 71 Newlin, 34 Beauchamp, 66 Cockrum, 5 Boespflug, 11x Lyerla, 4B Brackett , 57 Cottle, 11 Cummins, 28b Brenton, 24 McMillen, 12 Hines, 28 Mattox(DNS)