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Heat Winners: 4J Jamie Passmore, 80 Brett Thompson, 82 Keith Bolton, 22 David Stephenson
B Feature (top 4 transfer to the A Main):1. 97 Kevin Cummins 2. 19 Matt Caudle 3. 17 Brent Bates 4. 13 Len Larkin 5. 24 Kevin Risley 6. 16 Robbie Sherrell 7. 54x Will Scribner 8. 3 Tom Deckard 9. 51m Ron Murphy 10. 2 Clay Cherry 11. 00 Kacee Frazier (DNS)
20 Lap A Feature: 1. 7F Brian McClelland 2. 94L Layne Heimbaugh 3. 82 Keith Bolton 4. 69 Len Plassmore 5. 22 David Stephenson 6. 9$ Kyle Clark 7. 80 Brett Thompson 8. 8 Shane Pace 9. 5$ Danny Smith 10. 51 Jackie York 11. 17 Brent Bates 12. 11z Zach Beeler 13. 54 Michael Gossman 14. 1 Robert Claunch 15. 11 Philip Davis 16. 97 Kevin Cummins 17. 13 Len Larkin 18. 56 Jamie McDonald 19. 4J Jamie Passmore 20. 19 Matt Caudle
Scary start to the main event. Jamie Passmore caught in wild melee and flipped along the front straightaway wall into turn one. He was ok, but car was very much done. Great battle for lead for much of the first 10 laps between McClelland, Stephenson, and Bolton.
McClelland would ultimately retain the point and build a big advantage in the final laps before taking Creek County reopening checks aboard Kelly Fode's 7F.
Collinsville native and mini sprint grad Layne Heimbaugh advanced to the runner up spot from his 11th starting spot. Heimbaugh also ran 3rd in the Lucas Oil ASCS EcoTec Midget main event.
Pretty good racing throughout the night. A little dusty at the end, but not much can be done about that with a somewhat stout east wind. Track conditions were very good and racy. The heats saw what appeared to be the beginning of a couple of ruts in turn 1 and 3, but they ironed out nicely as the event progressed. Multiple grooves for the vast majority of the night.
Enjoyed it both as a fan and a writer and look forward to September 17th for more quality open wheel racing with the Lucas Oil ASCS EcoTec Midgets, as well as the ASCS2 Outlaw, Non Wing, and Restricted divisions. The micro classes will be a non point show, just ASCS2 rules. Champ Sprints will be running that night as well. Very good racing in the champ sprints tonight.
Also, ASCS Sooner Region sprints will be back at Creek County Saturday, October 1st.
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Not this season. If they did it would have to be next year.
I don't want to say it isn't possible, but it's pretty expensive to run a National Tour show. purse is pretty big. I think it could be done and to a profit, but it would be hard to pull a 2 day show off with that 6k to win on the 2nd night - which then begs the question where else to run em. But I don't want to dismiss the possibility entirely.
Best answer is Matt Ward will work his ass off to make it the best it can possibly be. Any notion to the contrary is just foolishness. It was an EXCELLENT move to make him Director of Competition for the National Tour. He's a good guy and really knows the business more than most. He has lived and breathed it since he was born.
I would really like to see some National Tour shows closer to this area.....but you have to take into account the tracks. You know ASCS will put on a hell of a show. The car count and fan count would be great - but many tracks lack the capacity, others....might lack the vision.
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