Chad Boat Navigates Path Valley to Victory

Chad Boat. (Bill Miller photo)

USAC MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP & EASTERN REGIONAL MIDGETS PRESENTED BY ARDC RACE RESULTS: August 14, 2017 – Path Valley Speedway Park – Spring Run, Pennsylvania – “Pennsylvania Midget Week”

PROSOURCE QUALIFYING: 1. Spencer Bayston, 97, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-11.213 (New Track Record); 2. Chad Boat, 84, Tucker/Boat-11.256; 3. Tanner Thorson, 67, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-11.259; 4. Tyler Courtney, 7BC, Clauson/Marshall-11.299; 5. Brady Bacon, 76m, FMR-11.357; 6. Brayton Lynch, 1K, RKR-11.405; 7. Shane Golobic, 17w, Clauson-Marshall/Wood-11.422; 8. Justin Grant, 39BC, Clauson/Marshall-11.459; 9. Holly Shelton, 67K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-11.480; 10. Alex Bright, 77, Bright-11.493; 11. Tanner Carrick, 71K, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-11.520; 12. Landon Simon, 29, Clover-11.550; 13. Ryan Greth, 4R, Lesher-11.568; 14. Brett Arndt, 46, Essay-11.601; 15. Timmy Buckwalter, 29s, Seymour-11.624; 16. Adam Pierson, 76E, Mancini-11.626; 17. Kenny Miller, III, 23m, Miller-11.734; 18. Kenney Johnson, 46x, Johnson-11.758; 19. Andrew Layser, 77L, Bright-11.884; 20. Eric Heydenreich, 11, Heydenreich-11.893; 21. Jimmy Glenn, 07, Glenn-12.128; 22. Josh Heckman, 12, Heckman-NT; 23. Shawn Jackson, 7J, Jackson-NT; 24. Jim Radney, 95, Radney-NT.

SIMPSON RACE PRODUCTS FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Courtney, 2. Bayston, 3. Greth, 4. Pierson, 5. Golobic, 6. Layser, 7. Bright, 8. Heckman. NT

COMPETITION SUSPENSION, INC. (CSI) SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Grant, 2. Arndt, 3. Boat, 4. Carrick, 5. Bacon, 6. Miller, 7. Heydenreich, 8. Jackson. NT

CHALK STIX/INDY RACE PARTS THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. T.Buckwalter, 2. Thorson, 3. Shelton, 4. Simon, 5. Lynch, 6. Glenn, 7. Johnson. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Chad Boat, 2. Tyler Courtney, 3. Ryan Greth, 4. Holly Shelton, 5. Brayton Lynch, 6. Timmy Buckwalter, 7. Tanner Carrick, 8. Brett Arndt, 9. Brady Bacon, 10. Landon Simon, 11. Adam Pierson, 12. Kenny Miller, III, 13. Eric Heydenreich, 14. Tanner Thorson, 15. Justin Grant, 16. Jimmy Glenn, 17. Andrew Layser, 18. Shawn Jackson, 19. Spencer Bayston, 20. Shane Golobic. NT
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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-9 Lynch, Laps 10-24 Thorson, Lap 25 Bacon, Laps 26-28 Thorson, Laps 29-30 Boat.

KSE RACING PRODUCTS HARD CHARGER: Ryan Greth (11th to 3rd)

WILWOOD BRAKES 13TH PLACE FINISHER: Eric Heydenreich

NEW USAC MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Bayston-1150, 2-Golobic-1095, 3-Bacon-1074, 4-Grant-1067, 5-Thorson-1058, 6-Courtney-1030, 7-Boat-895, 8-Shelton-840, 9-Jerry Coons, Jr.-808, 10-Carrick-747.

NEW USAC EASTERN REGIONAL MIDGETS PRESENTED BY ARDC POINTS: 1-Greth-1241, 2-Bright-1110, 3-Miller-1018, 4-Pierson-979, 5-Jackson-969, 6-Trevor Kobylarz-764, 7-Arndt-754, 8-Layser-735, 9-Heckman-705, 10-Jay Hartman & Tommy Kunsman, Jr.-631.

NEXT USAC MIDGET NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: August 15 – Lanco’s Clyde Martin Memorial Speedway – Newmanstown, Pennsylvania – “Pennsylvania Midget Week”