LIGUORI WINS ON THE DIRT AT GAS CITY

Gas City, Ind…….Joe Liguori of Tampa, Fla. won Friday night’s 20-lap USAC Midwest Ford Focus feature at the Gas City I-69 Speedway. He passed teammate John Heydenreich on the seventh lap and led the rest of the way to put his Pit Stop Bar-B-Q and Grill Beast in victory lane. Erick Rankine finished second ahead of Jake Blackhurst, Toby Alfrey and Tyler Cottongim.


 


 


USAC MIDWEST DIRT FORD FOCUS RACE RESULTS: April 16, 2010 – Gas City, Indiana – Gas City I-69 Speedway


 


FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Joe Liguori (#22 Givens), 2. John Heydenreich (#22x Givens), 3. Jessica Bean (#3 Stigall), 4. Kyle O’Gara (#4 Beast), 5. Bill Kriegbaum (#12 Kriegbaum). 1:53.43


 


SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Jake Blackhurst (#25 Blackhurst), 2. Toby Alfrey (#4x Alfrey), 3. Tyler Cottongim (#28 Cottongim), 4. Josh Staten (#2 Staten), 5. Ronnie Wuerdeman (#33 Wuerdeman). 1:54.18


 


ALSO AT THE TRACK: Eric Rankine (#39 Rankine).


 


FEATURE: (20 laps) 1. Joe Liguori, 2. Eric Rankine, 3. Jake Blackhurst, 4. Toby Alfrey, 5. Tyler Cottongim, 6. Kyle O’Gara, 7. Ronnie Wuerdeman, 8. John Heydenreich, 9. Josh Staten, 10. Bill Kriegbaum, 11. Jessica Bean. NT


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**Bean flipped during the feature.


 


FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-6 Heydenreich, Laps 7-20 Liguori.


 


NEW MIDWEST FORD FOCUS SERIES POINTS: 1-Blackhurst-170; 2-Scott Hunter-136; 3-Liguori-127; 4-Nick Drake-112; 5-Chris Lamb-107; 6-Bradley Riethmeyer-98; 7-Cottongim-93; 8-Justin Hommel-79; 9-O’Gara-77; 10-Jeremy Frankoski-72.


NEW MIDWEST DIRT FORD FOCUS SERIES POINTS: 1-Liguori-68; 2-Blackhurst-62; 3-Alfrey-58; 4-Rankine-57; 5-Cottongim-54; 6-O’Gara-50; 7-Heydenreich-46; 8-Wuerdeman-46; 9-Staten-41; 10-Kriegbaum-37.


 


NEXT MIDWEST FORD FOCUS RACE: April 17 – Montpelier (IN) Motor Speedway