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“SWEET” VICTORY IN “COPPER ON DIRT” MIDGETS

“SWEET” VICTORY IN “COPPER ON DIRT” MIDGETS

Tucson, AZ…….Brad Sweet of Grass Valley, Calif. captured Sunday’s 30-lap Rosemont Copper “Copper on Dirt” USAC Mopar National/Western Midget race at USA Raceway. He led the first 21 laps and the last three in his Kasey Kahne Racing Ollie’s Bargain Outlet/Auto Value Spike/Mopar after passing Tracy Hines on lap 28. Bobby East took second ahead of Hines, Dave Darland and Brad Kuhn in the 2010 series opener. Sweet, Friday’s fastest Midget qualifier, becomes the early point leader in both the National and Western Midget series heading into Thursday night’s “Las Vegas Super Sprint Classic” events in Nevada. Saturday’s scheduled events at Tucson were rained out and delayed until Sunday.

MOPAR USAC NATIONAL & WESTERN MIDGET RACE RESULTS: February 19-21, 2010 – Tucson, Arizona – USA Race Park - Rosemont Copper “Copper on Dirt”

 

QUALIFICATIONS: (Held Feb. 19) 1. Brad Sweet, 49, Kahne/Curb-16.606; 2. Alex Bowman, 55, Cline-16.649; 3. Gary Taylor, 12, Allen-16.798; 4. Tracy Hines, 8x, Guardian-16.851; 5. Dave Darland, 71, Kunz-`6.872; 6. Bryan Clauson, 39, Tucker/BCI-16 .916; 7. Bobby East, 4, Klatt-16.927; 8. Zach Daum, 5, Daum-16.929; 9. Darren Hagen, 3, RFMS-16.958; 02. Josh Pelkey, 12jr, Allen-17.000; 11. Jerry Coons Jr., 11, Wilke-Pak-17.047; 12. Brad Loyet, 05, Loyet-17.054; 13. Brad Kuhn, 17B, RW-17.066; 14. Chad Boat, 30, Boat-17.090; 15. Mike Hess, 51, Hess-17.184; 16. Tanner Swanson, 23, Team 6R/TK-17.217; 17. Kody Swanson, 19k, Team 6R/TK-17.257; 18. Henry Clarke, 67, Kunz-17.297; 19. R.J. Johnson, 51s, Martin-17.350; 20. Matt Rossi, 02, Rossi-17.366; 21. Alex Schutte, 25, Rodela-17.429; 22. Robby Josett, 2 Josett-17.540; 23. Brian Postle, 22, Postle-17.790; 24. Terry Goodwin, 2G, Goodwin-17.808; 25. Mario Clouser, 06, Clouser-17.905; 26. Dennis Carrier Jr., 2D, Carrier-18.246; 27. Kenny Warren, 78, Warren-20.020; 28. Buddy Lowther, 31, Lowther-NT; 29. Jake Swanson,. 05x, Swanson-NT; 30. Murray Erickson, 8, Guardian-NT.

 

FIRST HEAT: (10 laps – Held Feb. 19) 1. Hagen, 2. Sweet, 3. Schutte, 4. Darland, 5. Kuhn, 6. Clouser, 7. K.Swanson. NT

 

SECOND HEAT: (10 laps – Held Feb. 19) 1. Clarke, 2. Bowman, 3. Clauson, 4. Pelkey, 5. Boat, 6. Josett, 7. Carrier, 8. Erickson. NT

 

THIRD HEAT: (10 laps – Held Feb. 19) 1. Coons, 2. Johnson, 3. East, 4. Taylor, 5. Hess, 6. Postle, 7. Warren. NT

 

FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps – Held Feb. 19) 1. T.Swanson, 2. Loyet, 3. Hines, 4. Goodwin, 5. Rossi, 6. Daum, 7. Lowther. NT

 

DASH: (8 laps – Held Feb. 19) 1. Clauson, 2. Hines, 3. Sweet, 4. Taylor, 5. Darland, 6. Bowman. NT

 

SEMI: (12 laps – Held Feb. 21) 1. Kuhn, 2. Hess, 3. Postle, 4. Erickson, 5. Carrier, 6. Warren, 7. Boat, 8. Josett, 9. Daum, 10. Rossi, 11. Clouser, 12. K.Swanson. NT

 

FEATURE: (30 laps – Held Feb. 21) 1. Brad Sweet, 2. Bobby East, 3. Tracy Hines, 4. Dave Darland, 5. Brad Kuhn, 6. Bryan Clauson, 7. Brad Loyet, 8. Darren Hagen, 9. Jerry Coons Jr., 10. Mike Hess, 11. Tanner Swanson, 12. Henry Clarke, 13. Alex Schutte, 14. Dennis Carrier, 15. Josh Pelkey, 16. Murray Erickson, 17. Brian Postle, 18. Terry Goodwin, 19. R.J. Johnson, 20. Zach Daum, 21. Robby Josett, 22. Alex Bowman, 23. Kody Swanson, 24. Gary Taylor, 25. Chad Boat, 26. Kenny Warren. NT

 

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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-21 Sweet, Laps 22-27 Hines, Laps 28-30 Sweet.

 

NEW MOPAR NATIONAL MIDGET POINTS: 1-Sweet-73; 2-East-63; 3-Hines-63; 4-Darland-58; 5-Kuhn-52; 6-Clauson-52; 7-Loyet-49; 8-Hagen-47; 9-Coons-44; 10-T.Swanson-39.

 

NEW WESTERN MIDGET POINTS: 1-Sweet-73; 2-East-63; 3-Hines-64; 4-Darland-58; 5-Kuhn-52; 6-Clauson-52; 7-Loyet-49; 8-Hagen-47; 9-Coons-44; 10-T.Swanson-39.

 

NEXT MOPAR NATIONAL MIDGET RACE: February 25 – Las Vegas (NV) Motor Speedway Dirt Track – “Las Vegas Super Sprint Classic”

 

NEXT WESTERN MIDGET RACE: February 25 – Las Vegas (NV) Motor Speedway Dirt Track – “Las Vegas Super Sprint Classic”