LEYDIG #1 AT COLUMBUS; CLOUSE, LAMB SNARE TITLES
Columbus, OH……..Blaine Leydig of Carlisle, Pa. led all but one lap of Saturday night’s 30-lap HPD Ignite Midwest/Eastern Ignite Midget finale at Columbus Motor Speedway in his Leydig Racing Beast. Scott Hunter, Wil Raber, Austin Nemire and Gage Walker rounded out the “top-five.” Cooper Clouse of Ohio City, Ohio emerged as the Midwest Pavement champion, while Chris Lamb captured the Eastern title.
HPD IGNITE USAC EASTERN/MIDWEST PAVEMENT MIDGET RACE RESULTS: October 12, 2013 – Columbus, Ohio – Columbus Motor Speedway – “Battle in the Buckeye State”
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Gage Walker, 7, Walker-14.235; 2. Scott Hunter, 12a, Corriher-14.293; 3. Tyler Corriher, 12, Corriher-14.337; 4. Chris Lamb, 8, Radical-14.341; 5. Nick Hamilton, 1, Steele-14.363; 6. Cooper Clouse, 14, Clouse-14.390; 7. Austin Nemire, 91, Nemire-14.395; 8. Joey Greening, 17G, Greening-14.439; 9. Blaine Leydig, 21, Leydig-14.450; 10. Wil Raber, 3, Hocevar-14.475; 11. Billy Gaule, 22, Gaule-14.477; 12. Calvin Carroll, 24, Carroll-14.484; 13.Ricky Bowers, 42, Bowers-14.545; 14. Adam Thomason, 74, Thomason-14.576; 15. Natasha Cox, 19, Cox-14.625; 16. Toby Alfrey, 14a, Clouse-14.782; 17. Nikki Carroll, 5c, Carroll-14.882; 18. Nolan Allison, 16, Allison-14.976; 19. Jack Cross, 17c, Griffith-15.188.
FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Gaule, 2 Leydig, 3. N.Hamilton, 4. Nemire, 5. Walker, 6. Corriher, 7. Bowers, 8. Cox, 9. N.Carroll, 10. Cross. 1:55.97
SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Clouse, 2. C.Carroll, 3. Lamb, 4. Hunter, 5. Greening, 6. Thomason, 7. Alfrey, 8. Allison. 1:57.01
FEATURE: (30 Laps) 1. Blaine Leydig, 2. Scott Hunter, 3. Wil Raber, 4. Austin Nemire, 5. Gage Walker, 6. Cooper Clouse, 7. Billy Gaule, 8. Calvin Carroll, 9. Adam Thomason, 10. Joey Greening, 11. Nikki Carroll, 12. Chris Lamb, 13. Tyler Corriher, 14. Natasha Cox, 15. Ricky Bowers, 16. Toby Alfrey, 17. Nolan Allison, 18. Jack Cross, 19. Nick Hamilton. NT
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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-11 Leydig, Lap 12 Nemire, Laps 13-30 Leydig.
FINAL HPD IGNITE USAC MIDWEST PAVEMENT MIDGET POINTS: 1-Clouse-589, 2-Raber-530, 3-Nemire-476, 4-Cox-347, 5-Walker-313, 6-C.Carroll-281, 7-Cross-266, 8-N.Carroll-263, 9-Lamb-251, 20-Bowers-175.
FINAL HPD IGNITE USAC EASTERN MIDGET POINTS: 1-Lamb-1,393, 2-Raber-1,153, 3-Corriher-1,130, 4-Leydig-1,007, 5-C.Carroll-931, 6-Ryan Krachun-881, 7-N.Carroll-837, 8-Justin Whittall-684, 9-Gaule-681, 10-Matt Lundstrom-442.