Friday, 5/6/11
KENNEDALE, Texas -- The USMTS Modifieds invaded the Cowtown Speedway for the first time since 2008 Friday night, and Ryan Gustin once again proved to be a quick study in an unfamiliar environment as he delivered yet another flawless performance and earned his seventh USMTS main event win of the season.
From the outside of the front row, Bobby Malchus snagged the lead at the start of the 40-lap WIX Filters “A” Main, but his reign at the front of the field was short-lived as Gustin passed six cars in the first four laps before disposing of Malchus with just five laps in the books.
Thick lapped traffic hindered Gustin’s charge midway through the race and allowed Malchus and Jason Hughes to cut into Gustin’s lead, but his advantage was big enough to keep him out of reach.
A caution flag with nine laps to go cleared the path ahead for Gustin, but it also put Hughes and Malchus on his rear bumper for the restart.
With Gustin remaining faithful to the extreme high side of the racetrack and Hughes using the shortest route around the quarter-mile oval, Malchus joined the battle using the middle groove and made it a three-wide race for the lead with seven laps to go.
After a couple of laps that saw Hughes inching ahead just slightly in the turns, Gustin settled into a quick and comfortable line and then stretched his lead out again over the final five orbits to take his second $2,000 win in as many nights.
Malchus and Hughes crossed beneath the checkered flags side by side with
Malchus nipping the defending USMTS National Champion by 2/100ths of a second to
secure a career-best runner-up finish.
Johnny Scott passed ten cars on
his way to grabbing the fourth spot and Shane Hebert got by eleven competitors
en route to a fifth-place finish.
Sixth through tenth were Bryan Rowland, Randy Timms, Rodney Sanders, Sean Jones and Jason Grimes. Grimes, who started 26th, earned the PBM Performance Products Hard Charger Award.
Tomorrow night (Saturday, May 7) the scene will be at Virgil Page's Lake Country Speedway in Ardmore, Okla., and the 3/8-mile semi-banked clay oval promises to be one of the best passing tracks on the schedule this season as both fans and drivers alike have heralded the racing surface at ‘Devil’s Backbone’ as one of the smoothest and best-prepared in the country right now.
Pit gates open at 4 p.m., grandstand gates open at 5, hot laps begin at 7 and the first heat race takes the green flag at 8:00. Also on the racing card will be HotMods/B-Mods, Late Models and Hobby Stocks.
Lake Country Speedway is a 3/8-mile semi-banked clay oval located just off of I-35 at exit 29, then 0.7 mile east on US 70, then 1.8 miles south on US 77. For race day information, call 580-220-7565 or visit www.lakecountryspeedwayok.com online.
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OFFICIAL RESULTS
USMTS 2nd Annual Event
Cowtown Speedway, Kennedale,
Texas
Friday, May 6, 2011
Showing finishing position, starting position in parentheses, car number, driver, hometown, chassis/engine builder, laps completed, reason out (if any) and money won. The top 12 drivers in passing points accumulated in the heat races are locked into the WIX Filters “A” Main, with the top 8 re-drawing for starting positions 1-8.
HEAT RACE #1 (8 laps):
1. (2) 88xx Bobby
Malchus, Red Oak, Texas.
2. (3) 12 Jason Hughes, Watts, Okla.
3. (9) 19r
Ryan Gustin, Marshalltown, Iowa.
4. (6) 87 Justin McCoy (R), Ovilla,
Texas.
5. (1) 6* Dillon Pike, Waxahachie, Texas.
6. (7) 1st Johnny Scott,
Las Cruces, N.M.
7. (4) 151 Tommy Williams, Mansfield, Texas.
8. (5) 717
George Egbert IV (R), Salado, Texas.
9. (8) 12g Jeremy Green (R), Enid,
Okla.
HEAT RACE #2 (8 laps):
1. (1) 20r
Bryan Rowland, Woodward, Okla.
2. (4) 76 Jeff Rowland (R), Pauls Valley,
Okla.
3. (6) 15 Jared Webb, McKinney, Texas.
4. (5) 99 Jason Grimes (R),
Jamestown, N.D.
5. (7) 156 Steve Pugh (R), Anderson, Texas.
6. (3) 76
Jesse Manning (R), Brazoria, Texas.
7. (2) 8 Steve Miller, Georgetown,
Texas.
8. (8) 88xxx Clyde Dunn Jr. (R), Sunnyville, Texas.
9. (9) 82
Brandon Houk (R), Venus, Texas.
HEAT RACE #3 (8 laps):
1. (4) 7x Rory
Jordan, Victoria, Texas.
2. (6) 5t Randy Timms, Wheatland, Okla.
3. (8) 41
Jacob Pirkle, Venis, Texas.
4. (7) 9 Jimmy Ray (R), Las Cruces, N.M.
5.
(3) 24 Sean Jones, Mansfield, Texas.
6. (5) 20 Rodney Sanders, Happy,
Texas.
7. (1) 2 Kenny Gaddis, Hallsville, Texas.
8. (2) 4r Dereck Ramirez,
Woodward, Okla.
HEAT RACE #4 (8 laps):
1. (1)
763 Tony Keigley (R), Kennedale, Texas.
2. (3) 81 Daniel Caldwell, Princeton,
Texas.
3. (8) 14t Tristan Dycus, Midlothian, Texas.
4. (7) 01 Colby Smith,
Greenville, Texas.
5. (6) 71h Philip Houston (R), Odessa, Texas.
6. (5) 30
Chase Allen, Midlothian, Texas.
7. (4) 3 Kelly Shryock, Fertile, Iowa.
8.
(2) 11 Wesley Hamilton (R), Killeen, Texas.
HEAT RACE #5 (8 laps):
1. (2) 78 Trevor Egbert (R),
Salado, Texas.
2. (1) 9 Shane Hebert, Lafayette, La.
3. (3) 87 John Webb
(R), Pauls Valley, Okla.
4. (6) 51 Tracy Denby Jr., Vidor, Texas.
5. (8)
12 Scooter Bates, Killeen, Texas.
6. (7) 707 P.J. Egbert (R), Copperas Cove,
Texas.
7. (5) 45t Eric Tomlinson (R), Robinson, Texas.
8. (4) 7 Kelly
Gorham, Colleyville, Texas.
REAL RACING WHEELS “B” MAIN #1 (15 laps, top 7
advance):
1. (2) 9 Jimmy Ray (R), Las Cruces, N.M.
2. (8) 707
P.J. Egbert (R), Copperas Cove, Texas.
3. (9) 20 Rodney Sanders, Happy,
Texas.
4. (6) 71h Philip Houston (R), Odessa, Texas.
5. (7) 24 Sean Jones,
Mansfield, Texas.
6. (1) 15 Jared Webb, McKinney, Texas.
7. (4) 51 Tracy
Denby Jr., Vidor, Texas.
8. (13) 88xxx Clyde Dunn Jr. (R), Sunnyville, Texas,
Hughes/Mullins, $80.
9. (3) 87 John Webb (R), Pauls Valley, Okla.,
Hughes/Shoulders, $80.
10. (12) 45t Eric Tomlinson (R), Robinson, Texas,
Hughes/Outlaw, $80.
11. (15) 12g Jeremy Green (R), Enid, Okla.,
Ramirez/Janes, $80.
12. (10) 151 Tommy Williams, Mansfield, Texas, Larson/,
$60.
13. (5) 12 Scooter Bates, Killeen, Texas, Pierce/Wayne Brooks,
$60.
14. (11) 2 Kenny Gaddis, Hallsville, Texas, Hughes/Gaddis, $80.
15.
(14) 11 Wesley Hamilton (R), Killeen, Texas, Pierce/Centex, $80.
REAL RACING WHEELS “B” MAIN #2 (15 laps, top 7
advance):
1. (7) 1st Johnny Scott, Las Cruces, N.M.
2. (1) 9
Shane Hebert, Lafayette, La.
3. (3) 87 Justin McCoy (R), Ovilla, Texas.
4.
(9) 30 Chase Allen, Midlothian, Texas.
5. (2) 01 Colby Smith, Greenville,
Texas.
6. (12) 4r Dereck Ramirez, Woodward, Okla.
7. (4) 99 Jason Grimes
(R), Jamestown, N.D.
8. (10) 8 Steve Miller, Georgetown, Texas,
Hughes/Cantrell, $60.
9. (6) 6* Dillon Pike, Waxahachie, Texas, /Kuntz,
$60.
10. (13) 7 Kelly Gorham, Colleyville, Texas, Allen/H&H, $60.
11.
(8) 76 Jesse Manning (R), Brazoria, Texas, Evolution/Hall, $80.
12. (5) 156
Steve Pugh (R), Anderson, Texas, Skyrocket/ProPower, $80.
13. (14) 82 Brandon
Houk (R), Venus, Texas, Harris/Lenmar, $80.
14. (11) 717 George Egbert IV
(R), Salado, Texas, DirtWorks/Centex, $80.
15. (15) 3 Kelly Shryock, Fertile,
Iowa.
WIX FILTERS “A” MAIN (40 laps):
1. (8) 19r Ryan Gustin,
Marshalltown, Iowa, Hughes/Mullins, 40, $2000.
2. (2) 88xx Bobby Malchus, Red
Oak, Texas, Hughes/Wells, 40, $1500.
3. (11) 12 Jason Hughes, Watts, Okla.,
Hughes/Mullins, 40, $1000.
4. (14) 1st Johnny Scott, Las Cruces, N.M.,
Hughes/ASI, 40, $800.
5. (16) 9 Shane Hebert, Lafayette, La., Hughes/ASI, 40,
$700.
6. (7) 20r Bryan Rowland, Woodward, Okla., Hughes/ProPower, 40,
$600.
7. (4) 5t Randy Timms, Wheatland, Okla., Hughes/Mullins, 40,
$550.
8. (17) 20 Rodney Sanders, Happy, Texas, Hughes/Geddes, 40, $500.
9.
(21) 24 Sean Jones, Mansfield, Texas, PCR/GMPP, 40, $450.
10. (26) 99 Jason
Grimes (R), Jamestown, N.D., Hughes/Dakota, 40, $525.
11. (9) 14t Tristan
Dycus, Midlothian, Texas, Kraft/Wells, 40, $400.
12. (24) 4r Dereck Ramirez,
Woodward, Okla., Ramirez/ProPower, 40, $400.
13. (6) 78 Trevor Egbert (R),
Salado, Texas, Hughes/Centex, 40, $350.
14. (20) 30 Chase Allen, Midlothian,
Texas, CAM/Allard, 40, $325.
15. (27) 3 Kelly Shryock, Fertile, Iowa,
Skyrocket/ProPower, 40, $400.
16. (1) 763 Tony Keigley (R), Kennedale, Texas,
Hoffman/Wells, 40, $300.
17. (23) 15 Jared Webb, McKinney, Texas,
DirtWorks/Wornhor, 40, $200.
18. (19) 71h Philip Houston (R), Odessa, Texas,
SRP/JR, 40, $300.
19. (3) 7x Rory Jordan, Victoria, Texas, Hughes/Mullins,
40, $200.
20. (15) 707 P.J. Egbert (R), Copperas Cove, Texas, Hughes/Lingo,
40, $300.
21. (10) 76 Jeff Rowland (R), Pauls Valley, Okla., Hughes/Boyd’s,
40, $300.
22. (18) 87 Justin McCoy (R), Ovilla, Texas, Skyrocket/KSP, 38,
mechanical, $300.
23. (25) 51 Tracy Denby Jr., Vidor, Texas,
Skyrocket/Harris, 31, crash, $300.
24. (5) 41 Jacob Pirkle, Venis, Texas,
D&M/KSP, 24, mechanical, $200.
25. (12) 81 Daniel Caldwell, Princeton,
Texas, Harris/Wells, 19, mechanical, $200.
26. (22) 01 Colby Smith,
Greenville, Texas, DirtWorks/Wells, 7, mechanical, $200.
27. (13) 9 Jimmy Ray
(R), Las Cruces, N.M., AOS/GMPP, 0, transmission, $400.
