By Dick Jordan
USAC’s HPD Midget series, coming off a busy week in which all three series competed, are idle this week awaiting a May 15 Western race at Keller Auto Speedway at Plaza Park in Visalia, Calif.
Tommy McCarthy of Mountain View, Calif. scored a pair of feature wins during Saturday night’s “Vukovich Classic” at Madera (Calif.) Speedway. He won the 30-lap USAC Western HPD Midget main and the accompanying 15-lap Restricted HPD feature as well. In the HPD finale, he passed Toni Breidinger on lap 15 and led the rest of the way to beat Cody Jessop, Annie Breidinger, Dylan Nobile and Tom Paterson. He led all the way to win the Restricted feature over Jessop, Jesse Love IV, Ethan Lesser and Blake Brannon.
Jacob Stickle of Xenia, Ohio won Friday night’s 20-lap USAC Midwest HPD Midget opener at Toledo (Ohio) Speedway. He took the lead from Jacob Taylor on lap four and led the rest of the way in his Kreider Corporation/Willie’s Sport Bar & Grill Hawk/Focus. Alex Watson took second ahead of Leffel and Taylor.
Saturday night’s scheduled Midwest race at DeGraff, Ohio was postponed with track and USAC officials discussing a possible rescheduling later in the season. The next Midwest event is June 6 at Waynesfield Raceway Park in Waynesfield, Ohio.
Chris Lamb of Colfax, N.C. won Saturday night’s 35-lap USAC Eastern HPD Midget race at Franklin County Speedway. He passed Scott Hunter on lap five and led the rest of the way to beat Hunter, Jessica Bean, Calvin Carroll and Kyle Craker. Friday night’s Eastern race at Ace Speedway in Altamahaw, N.C. was rained out.
The Eastern series resumes action June 5 at Wake County Speedway in Raleigh, N.C.
2015 HPD USAC Western Midget Standings: 1-Cody Jessop-400, 2-Dylan Nobile-398, 3-Annie Breidinger-353, 4-Toni Breidinger-339, 5-Ashley Hazelton-311, 6-Jesse Love IV-295, 7-Tom Paterson-236, 8-Ron Hazelton-159, 9-Shawn Buckley-151, 10-Randi Pankratz-129.
2015 HPD Western Midget Pavement Standings: 1-Dylan Nobile-398, 2-Annie Breidinger-353, 3-Toni Breidinger-339, 4-Cody Jessop-325, 5-Ashley Hazelton-232, 6-Jesse Love IV-207, 7-Tom Paterson-192, 8-Dezel West-94, 9-Joel Rayborne-89, 10-Ethan Lesser-78.
2015 HPD USAC Western Midget Restricted Standings: 1-Ethan Lesser-133, 2-Blake Brannon-122, 3-Jesse Love III-71. 4-Tommy McCarthy-68, 5-Jesse Love IV-67, 6-Cody Jessop-57.
2015 HPD USAC Eastern Midget Standings: 1-Chris Lamb-233, 2-Jessica Bean-212, 3-Scott Hunter-208, 4-Calvin Carroll-186, 5-Jake Nelke-175, 6-Kyle Craker-169, 7-Nikki Carroll-157, 8-Andrew Layser-154, 9-Sam Hatfield-133, 10-Matt Lundstrom-123.
2015 HPD USAC Midwest Midget Standings: 1-Jacob Stickle-60, 2-Alex Watson-57, 3-Aaron Leffel-54, 4-Jacob Taylor-51.