CLAUSON TAKES NIGHT 1 OF “DUEL IN DODGE CITY

 


Dodge City, KS……..USAC National Drivers Champion Bryan Clauson of Noblesville, Ind. won Friday night’s 30-lap :Duel in Dodge City” opener at Dodge City Raceway Park, taking the lead from Bobby East on lap 12 and never looking back. Trailing Clauson’s Tucker/BCI/Curb-Agajanian Parker Stone Spike/Esslinger Ford at the checkered flag were fast qualifier East, Brady Bacon, Darren Hagen and Gary Taylor. Hagen led the first eight laps and East led the next three before Clauson passed them both on lap 12. The two-night “Duel in Dodge City” concludes with another complete racing program for the Mopar USAC National Midgets on Saturday night at the 3/8-mile dirt oval.


 


MOPAR USAC NATIONAL MIDGET RACE RESULTS: April 22, 2011 – Dodge City, Kansas – Dodge City Raceway Park – “Duel in Dodge City”


 


QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Bobby East, 4, Klatt-15.769; 2. Gary Taylor, 4J, James-15.794; 3. Brady Bacon, 11w, Wilke-Pak-15.801; 4. Kyle Larson, 67, Kunz-15.840; 5. Bryan Clauson, 39, Tucker/BCI/Curb-Agajanian-15.841; 6. Tanner Swanson, 19k, Team 6R/TK-15.904; 7. Dalton Armstrong, 71k, Kunz-15.925; 8. Darren Hagen, 3, RFMS-15.957; 9. Keith Rauch, 27, Petauro-16.014; 10. Levi Roberts, 2D, Roberts-16.034; 11. Jerry Coons Jr., 3nz, JCJ-16.123; 12. Brad Kuhn, 17B, RW-16.153; 13. Caleb Armstrong, 71, Kunz-16.172; 14. Chris Coker, 45, Young-16.192; 15. Mario Clouser, 06, MCM-16.212; 16. Chris Deshon, 51, JP-16.234; 17. Tony Rossi, 14, Rossi-16.251; 18. Zach Daum, 5, Daum-16.275; 19. Tracy Hines, 24, Parker-16,293; 20. C.J. Johnson, 45x, Martin-16.317; 21. Kody Swanson, 11, Wilke-Pak-16.317; 22. Jimmy Simpson, 21, RacePro-16.411; 23. Jeff Stasa, 91, Stasa-16.524; 24. Todd Plemons, 17, Mentgen-16.569; 25. Troy DeCaire, 12D, Acceleration Racing-16.588; 26. Patrick Stasa, 19s, Stasa-16.610; 27. Bob Harr, 2H, Halarr-16.657; 28. Chett Gehrke, 11c, Matteson-16.756; 29. Chris Shiel, 47, Mason-16.845; 30. Chad Frewaldt, 4F, Frewaldt-16.845; 31. Doug McCune, 9, Urbansky-16.862; 32. Cody Brewer, 96, Brewer-16.907; 33. Andy Shouse, 27s, Bishop-16.951; 34. Mike Boesel, 77, Boesel-17.075; 35. Christopher Bell, 21B, Ruston-17.092; 36. Scott Fennell, 33, Clark-17.420; 37. Rick Montgomery, 32, Dunlap-NT (time of 16.404 disallowed due to rules infraction).


 


FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. East, 2. Clauson, 3. Rossi, 4. K.Swanson, 5.DeCaire, 6. Montgomery, 7. C.Armstrong, 8. Shouse. 9. Rauch, 10. Shiel, NT


 


SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Daum, 2. Simpson, 3. Roberts, 4. T.Swanson, 5. Coker, 6. Taylor, 7. P.Stasa, 8. Boesel, 9. Frewaldt. 2:10.40


 


THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Hines, 2. Coons, 3. Bacon, 4. Clouser, 5. D.Armstrong, 6. J.Stasa, 7. Harr, 8. McCune, 9. Bell. 2:11.32


 


FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Hagen, 2. Johnson, 3. Larson, 4. Kuhn, 5. Deshon, 6. Gehrke, 7. Plemons, 8. Fennell, 9. Brewer. 2:14.28


 


SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Taylor, 2. C.Armstrong, 3. D.Armstrong, 4. Rauch, 5. Gehrke, 6. Deshon, 7. Coker, 8. Shiel, 9. Boesel, 10. McCune, 11. Fennell, 12. J.Stasa, 13. DeCaire, 14. P.Stasa, 15. Harr, 16. Montgomery, 17. Shouse. 18. Frewaldt, 19. Brewer. NT


 


FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Bryan Clauson, 2. Bobby East, 3. Brady Bacon, 4. Darren Hagen, 5. Gary Taylor, 6. Jerry Coons Jr., 7. Levi Roberts, 8. Brad Kuhn, 9. Zach Daum, 10. Kody Swanson, 11. Mario Clouser, 12. C.J. Johnson, 13. Tanner Swanson, 14. Keith Rauch, 15. Chris Deshon, 16. Jimmy Simpson, 17. Dalton Armstrong, 18. Tony Rossi, 19. Kyle Larson, 20. Chett Gehrke, 21. Caleb Armstrong, 22. Tracy Hines. NT


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**DeCaire flipped during the semi.


 


FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-8 Hagen, Laps 9-11 East, Laps 12-30 Clauson.


 


NEW MOPAR USAC NATIONAL MIDGET POINTS: 1-East-71; 2-Clauson-69; 3-Hagen-59; 4-Coons-52; 5-Roberts-48; 6-Kuhn-44; 7-Daum-44; 8-K.Swanson-38; 9-Clouser-36; 10-T.Swanson-33.


 


NEXT MOPAR USAC NATIONAL MIDGET RACE: April 23 – Dodge City (KS) Raceway Park – “Duel in Dodge City”