First time ever i made the trip to the Musco Lighting Front Row Challenge presented by Casey's General Stores for the ASCS Sprint Cars because i was asked to run the scoreboard for Jen Turner, who had a prior commitment to score the Hawkeye Dirt Tour Races at the Independence Motor Speedway, I had fun and enjoyed it. Thanks to Jen for asking me to fill in for her, Thanks to Terry and Lori McCarl for letting me do i had a blast.
After 6 heats, 2 b-features and a king of the hill settled the starting line up it was time to go 30 laps in the Front Challenge. Before a lap could be completed the caution waved when Kevin Swindell came to a stop in turn two. When the race fired up it was local driver Tasker Phillips grabbing the lead from his pole position after choosing to not take the challenge.
Phillips continued to lead through a caution on lap nine for Mike Houseman Jr. coming to a stop on the backstretch. Phillips still manage to hold off any challengers when the next caution came out on lap twelve. Phillips looked so calm out front and held off any challenges from Tony Shilling, Tony Stewart, Brian Brown, Jason Johnson and Kyle Larson.
Stewart finally caught up to Phillips and grabbed the lead away on lap twenty-two. However just after the completion of lap twenty-five the red flag came out when Stewart made contact with a lap car in turn four that saw him go for a tumble. Stewart was taken to a near by hospital for further observation where it was deteremined he broke his leg and need surgery. Meanwhile Phillips, Shilling and Higday all would be involved and Jason Johnson experienced a flat tire.
On the restart the top five was Brian Brown, Kyle Larson, Kevin Swindell, Brandon Wimmer and Tim Crawley. Brown lead the remaining laps to take the win. Larson finished 2nd after starting 18th because he had to come from a b-main. Swindell came home in third after going to the back after a quick fix on the initial caution. Wimmer was fourth and meanwhile Tony Bruce Jr. chose to go to the tail and get $85 per car he passed found his way in fifth.
17th Annual Musco Sports Lighting Front Row Challenge Results
A main (started), 30 laps: 1. 21, Brian Brown, Grain
Valley, MO (5) 2. 1K, Kyle Larson, Elk Grove, CA (18) 3. 71, Kevin
Swindell, Germantown, TN (12) 4. 9w, Brandon Wimmer, Fairmount, IN (8)
5. 18, Tony Bruce Jr., Liberal, KS (24) 6. 4c, Tim Crawley, Benton, AR
(6) 7. 12, Tyler Drueke, Eagle, NE (7) 8. 45x, Johnny Herrera,
Albuquerque, NM (22) 9. 14M, Randy Martin, California, MO (10) 10. 9x,
Brooke Tatnell, Sans Souci, NSW, Aust. (19) 11. 17w, Cole Wood, Auburn,
CA (15) 12. 41, Jason Johnson, Eunice, LA (9) 13. 7TAZ, Tasker Phillips,
Pleasantville, IA (1) 14. 14, Tony Stewart, Rushville, IN (3) 15. 22,
Tony Shilling, Knoxville, IA (4) 16. 24, Josh Higday, Des Moines, IA
(11) 17. 3, Nate Van Haaften, Otley, IA (13) 18. 1A, Sam Hafertepe Jr.,
Sunnyvale, TX (20) 19. 82, Scott Winters, Butterfield, MN (16) 20. 68,
Mike Houseman Jr., Des Moines, IA (23) 21. 28, Jonathan Cornell,
Sedalia, MO (2) 22. o5, Brad Loyet, Sunset Hills, MO (21) 23. 4J, Lee
Grosz, Harwood, ND (14) 24. 5H, Justyn Cox, Clarksburg, CA (17). Lap Leaders: Phillips 1-21, Stewart 22-25, Brown 26-30. Hard-charger: Larson.
Heat one (started, *qualified for feature), 8 laps: 1.
Tony Shilling (2*) 2. Tony Bruce Jr. (4*) 3. Jonathan Cornell (6*) 4.
9P, Parker Price-Miller, Kokomo, IN (1) 5. 21K, Lou Kennedy Jr.,
Winnipeg, MB, Can. (3) 6. Johnny Herrera (7) 7. 45c, Russ Hall, Pleasant
Hill, IA (9) 8. 01, Paul Morris, Gold Coast, QLD, Aust. (8) 9. 17x,
Jack Dover, Springfield, NE (5)
Heat two (started, *qualified for feature), 8 laps: 1.
Brian Brown (2*) 2. Lee Grosz (1*) 3. Jason Johnson (6*) 4. 11, Roger
Crockett, Medford, OR (3) 5. Kyle Larson (7) 6. 94, Jeff Swindell,
Bartlett, TN (5) 7. 25M, Kaley Engstrom, Rome, TX (4) 8. 7K, Dustin
Selvage, Indianola, IA (8) 9. Ryan Bickett, Ramona, SD (9)
Heat three (started, *qualified for feature), 8 laps: 1.
Josh Higday (1*) 2. Kevin Swindell (2*) 3. Scott Winters (3*) 4. Tony
Stewart (9*) 5. Mike Houseman Jr. (4) 6. 17J, Josh Baughman, Odessa, TX
(6) 7. 5J, Jamie Ball, Knoxville, IA (5) 8. 2K, Kevin Ingle, Huron, SD
(7) 9. 2L, Logan Forler, Lake Havasu City, AZ (8)
Heat four (started, *qualified for feature), 8 laps: 1.
Tim Crawley (5*) 2. Tyler Drueke (6*) 3. 4x, Shawn Petersen, Irving, TX
(3) 4. Nate Van Haaften (7*) 5. 95, Matt Covington, Glenpool, OK (1) 6.
31B, Christopher Bell, Norman, OK (2) 7. 93L, Derrik Lusk, Jackson, MN
(4) DNS – 23, Seth Bergman, Snohomish, WA
Heat five (started, *qualified for feature), 8 laps: 1.
Tasker Phillips (2*) 2. Brooke Tatnell (1) 3. Brandon Wimmer (6*) 4.
17, Blake Hahn, Sapulpa, OK (4) 5. Brad Loyet (7) 6. 74x, Josh Hodges,
Tijeras, NM (3) 7. 14s, Jarrod Schneiderman, West Burlington, IA (5) 8.
29, Brandon Hahn, Tulsa, OK (8)
Heat six (started, *qualified for feature), 8 laps: 1.
Randy Martin (1*) 2. Cole Wood (2*) 3. Sam Hafertepe Jr. (4) 4. Justyn
Cox (6) 5. 93, Dustin Morgan, Broken Arrow, OK (3) 6. 44, Chris Martin,
Ankeny, IA (5) 7. 1x, Don Droud Jr., Lincoln, NE (7) 8. 53, Joe Beaver,
Knoxville, IA (8)
“King of the Hill” Match Race, 2 laps:
Round one: Jonathan Cornell over Tim Crawley, Tasker
Phillips over Brian Brown, Tony Bruce Jr. over Tyler Drueke, Tony
Stewart over Tony Shilling
Round two: Tasker Phillips over Jonathan Cornell, Tony Bruce Jr. over Tony Stewart
Final: Tasker Phillips over Tony Bruce Jr.
B main #1 (started), 12 laps: 1. Justyn Cox (2) 2.
Brooke Tatnell (1) 3. Brad Loyet (4) 4. Mike Houseman Jr. (6) / 5. Russ
Hall (8) 6. Roger Crockett (5) 7. Chris Martin (10) 8. Shawn Petersen
(3) 9. Lou Kennedy Jr. (7) 10. Josh Baughman (9) 11. Kaley Engstrom (11)
12. Paul Morris (12) 13. Kevin Ingle (13) DNS – Christopher Bell, Jamie
Ball, Brandon Hahn, Logan Forler, Matt Covington
B main #2 (started), 12 laps: 1. Scott Winters (2)
2. Kyle Larson (3) 3. Sam Hafertepe Jr. (1) 4. Johnny Herrera (4) / 5.
Jeff Swindell (9) 6. Jack Dover (14) 7. Josh Hodges (6) 8. Parker
Price-Miller (5) 9. Jarrod Schneiderman (8) 10. Don Droud Jr. (11) 11.
Dustin Selvage (10) 12. Joe Beaver (13) 13. Dustin Morgan (7) 14. Ryan
Bickett (12) 15. Seth Bergman (15) DNS – Blake Hahn, Derrik Lusk
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Side Note:
We
all know the risk of racing when we sign in as a driver, crew, fan or
official but to say a driver shouldn't do what he or she loves to do is
wrong......Since last night that is all i have heard or read about how they shouldn't do what they love because they are in NASCAR!
