Short Track Nationals Night #1 Results and Stories

10/27/11

I-30 Speedway
Little Rock, AR

Short Track Nationals Night #1

51 cars

Heat one (started): 1. Paul McMahan 01x (3) 2. Brady Bacon 99 (5) 3. Brad Bowden 39 (1) 4. Cody Gardner 1G (6) 5. Tim Shaffer M1 (9) 6. Jeremy Newkirk 01 (8) 7. Brian McClelland 87M (4) 8. Miranda Arnold 5m (2) 9. Tommy Snellgrove 4T (7)

Arnold received contact from another car and spun. She got upside down and collected Snellgrove.

Heat two (started): 1. Seth Bergman 23 (2) 2. Wayne Johnson 77x (4) 3. Andy McElhannon 0m (1) 4. Andy Shouse 27 (3) 5. David Gravel 89G (5) 6. Mike Hess 51 (7) 7. Austin Alumbaugh 33A (6) 8. Chris Sweeney 93 (8) DNS – Jay Snellgrove 19

Heat three (started): 1. Mason Moore 5H (2) 2. Channin Tankersley 71 (4) 3. Aaron Reutzel 87 (8) 4. Ryan Beechler 6 (1) 5. Kyle Sager 9K (3) 6. Brandon Berryman 31 (6) 7. Charles Tankersley 32 (9) 8. Lee Sowell 51s (5) 9. Mark Huddleston 33H (7)

Huddleston tips over after Sowell spins in front of him and collects. The race continues after an hour and a half rain delay.

Heat four (started): 1. Shane Stewart 57 (1) 2. Derek Hagar 94 (2) 3. Tony Bruce Jr. 18 (3) 4. Claud Estes III 74E (4) 5. Gary Taylor 1x (8) 6. Jonathan Beason 36 (5) 7. Tyler Brown 14T (7) 8. Ryan Moore 38M (6)

Heat five (started): 1. Ray Allen Kulhanek 21T (8) 2. Travis Rilat 29 (7) 3. Ryan Kitchen 21K (3) 4. Jimmy Hurley 21x (2) 5. Scotty Thiel 64 (1) 6. Jerry Kamer 5K (6) 7. John Ricketts 76 (4) 8. Jonathan Cornell 28c (5)

Hurley and Thiel battled throughout for the win before Hurley blew a radiator hose in the last corner. Thiel swerved to avoid and Kulhanek, Rilat and Kitchen worked by to the checkers.

Heat six (started): 1. Matt Covington 11c (1) 2. Jason Martin 36M (6) 3. Tommy Worley Jr. 66 (2) 4. Anthony Nicolson 16 (8) 5. Jordon Mallett 14M (7) 6. Eric Baldaccini 4B (5) 7. John James 4J (3) 8. Frank Sudduth 52 (4)

Qualifier one (started): 1. Stewart (4) 2. Bacon (5) 3. Hurley (1) 4. Gardner (3) 5. Bowden (2) 6. Kulhanek (6) 7. Baldaccini (8) 8. Cornell (10) 9. Sager (7) 10. James (9) DNS – J. Snellgrove

Qualifier two (started): 1. Covington (4) 2. Bergman (5) 3. Rilat (6) 4. Taylor (3) 5. Sweeney (9) 6. Sudduth (10) 7. Newkirk (1) 8. Thiel (7) 9. McElhannon (2) 10. Brown (8)

Brown went backwards off the cliff in turn three and flipped hard. The rains came after the finish and the show will be picked up Friday night along with the Friday program.