2010 Midget News
“THE BULLET” BRYAN CLAUSON WINS THE 58TH HUT HUNDRED
“THE BULLET” BRYAN CLAUSON WINS THE 58TH HUT HUNDRED
Haubstadt, IN…….Bryan Clauson of Noblesville, Ind. passed defending USAC Mopar and POWRI Midget champion Brad Kuhn on lap 88 and led the final 13 laps to win Saturday night’s 58th “Hut Hundred” at the Tri-State Speedway. Clauson set a new track record during qualifying and started on the pole in his Parker Stone/Esslinger Spike/Esslinger Ford but Kuhn led the opening lap. Clauson led the next three but Kuhn took over on lap five and led the next 83 laps. Clauson finally tracked him down and Kuhn faded in the closing laps. Jerry Coons Jr. finished second ahead of Caleb Armstrong, Shane Hmiel and Zach Daum. The win gives Clauson a “sweep” of the Belleville Midget Nationals, Turkey Night Grand Prix and Hut Hundred in just 10 months! The USAC Mopar National Midgets now prepare for the May 22 Casey’s General Stores USAC Triple Crown Pride of Iowa event at Iowa Speedway in Newton, Iowa.
USAC MOPAR NATIONAL MIDGET RACE RESULTS: May 8, 2010 – Haubstadt, Indiana – Tri-State Speedway – 58th “Hut Hundred” – (Co-sanctioned by POWRi)
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Bryan Clauson, 39, Tucker-13.629; 2. Shane Hmiel, 56, 56 Inc.-13.790; 3. Brad Kuhn, 17B, RW-13.816; 4. Caleb Armstrong, 7a, C & A-13.827; 5. Hud Cone, 14x, Cone-13.839; 6. Levi Jones, 2B, 2B Racing-13.856; 7. Jerry Coons Jr., 11, Wilke-Pak-13.906; 8. Thomas Meseraull, 2x, Bush-13.912; 9. Dereck King, 91, Harris-13.936; 10. Evan Lents, 14L, Lents-13.986; 11. Tracy Hines, 24, Parker-14.018; 12. Henry Clarke, 67, Kunz-14.052; 13. Davey Ray, 14, Fatt Fro-14.142; 14. Darren Hagen, 3, RFMS-14.142; 15. Zach Daum, 5, Daum-14.202; 16. Bobby East, 4, Klatt-14.211; 17. Dave Darland, 71, Kunz-14.225; 18. Brad Loyet, 05, Loyet-14.243; 19. Austin Brown, 7, Brown-14.287; 20. Shane Cockrum, 14c, Cockrum-14.358; 21. Kyle Hamilton, 33, Hamilton-14.412; 22. Kellen Conover, 76, Conover-14.421; 23. Daniel Adler, 401, Kirkpatrick-14.482; 24. Nick Knepper, 55k, Knepper-14.484; 25. Gavin Galbraith, 98G, Galbraith-14.505; 26. Tim Siner, 15, Siner-14.511; 27. Levi Roberts, 2D, Roberts-14.515; 28. Alex Bowman, 55, Cline-14.593; 29. Mario Clouser, 06, MCM-14.745; 30. Andrew Felker, 11a, Felker-14.756; 31. Tyler Robbins, 35, Robbins-15.115; 32. Travis Berryhill, 2A, Bush-15.392; 33. Kent Schmidt, 5k, Schmidt-15.591; 34. #401k Kirkpatrick-NT; 35. #3F RFMS-NT.
FIRST QUALIFYING RACE: (10 laps) 1. Bowman, 2. Loyet, 3. Siner, 4. Clarke, 5. Knepper, 6. Lents, 7. East, 8. Hagen, 9. Conover, 10. Berryhill, 11. Cockrum, 12. Felker. NT
SECOND QUALIFYING RACE: (10 laps) 1. Hines, 2. Ray, 3. Darland, 4. Daum, 5. Brown, 6. Galbraith, 7. Adler, 8. Roberts, 9. Robbins, 10. Schmidt, 11. Hamilton, 12. Clouser. NT
FEATURE: (100 laps) 1. Bryan Clauson, 2. Jerry Coons Jr., 3. Caleb Armstrong, 4. Shane Hmiel, 5. Zach Daum, 6. Dereck King, 7. Nick Knepper, 8. Dave Darland, 9. Brad Loyet, 10. Thomas Meseraull, 11. Henry Clarke, 12. Brad Kuhn, 13. Tim Siner, 14. Daniel Adler, 15. Shane Cockrum, 16. Kyle Hamilton, 17. Mario Clouser, 18. Tyler Robbins, 19. Levi Jones, 20. Kent Schmidt, 21. Hud Cone, 22. Bobby East, 23. Tracy Hines, 24, Austin Brown, 25. Davey Ray, 26. Evan Lents, 27. Alex Bowman, 28. Darren Hagen (#3F), 29. Gavin Galbraith, 30. Kellen Conover, 31. Andrew Felker, 32. Levi Roberts, 33. Travis Berryhill. NT
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**Conover flipped during the first qualifying race. Roberts flipped on lap 5 of the feature.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Lap 1 Kuhn, Laps 2-4 Clauson, Laps 5-87 Kuhn, Laps 88-100 Clauson.
NEW MOPAR NATIONAL MIDGET POINTS: 1-East-311; 2-Clauson-289; 3-Hines-289; 4-Darland-278; 5-Coons-268; 6-Hagen-267; 7-Brad Sweet-262; 8-Kuhn-212; 9-Daum-194; 10-Loyet-191.
NEXT MOPAR NATIONAL MIDGET RACE: May 22 – Newton, IA - Iowa Speedway – Casey’s General Stores USAC Triple Crown Pride of Iowa