BRL DSS S10 R6 Recap
11 Feb 2022
Bootleg Racing League | Season 10 | Round 6
Dirt Street Stock Series | Lernerville Speedway
Brandyn Proudfoot of Jim Beaver eSports takes his second win of the season tonight in the Bootleg Racing League Dirt Street Stock Series at Lernerville Speedway beating Lon Franks and William Hargreaves to the line. Hargreaves struggled as he was caught out of the preferred line on restarts and wasn’t able to battle with Proudfoot often, while Proudfoot was forced to drive defensively to hold off Franks at the end.
Proudfoot ran the top through the majority of the race but decided to change it up at the end. “I didn’t have the tires really to run the bottom because I stayed on the top real hard”, Proudfoot commented as he started running a slider line through turns one and two while the rest of the field ran high or mid lines around track. “A little bit of a defense, but also that’s where I thought the line was going there at the end.” Being able to read the track is a strong advantage that Proudfoot exploits each week for sure.
The season is now officially half completed, and Proudfoot takes the lead back from Hargreaves with 448 points over Hargreaves’ 437 points. Billy Northcutt, who didn’t compete tonight, still holds onto 3rd place with 341 points, but may be too far behind at this point in the season to battle for the championship without a serious upset for the two leading drivers. Proudfoot and Hargreaves head into the seventh round being the only drivers to have multiple wins so far this season.
C2CRL Hometown Heroes W9 Recap
09 Feb 2022
Coast 2 Coast Racing League | Week 9
Hometown Heroes Series | Charity Event
Josh Gerlach won the night’s opening 30 lap event at the Dirt Track at Charlotte in the 360 Sprints “King of the Wing” Steve King Foundation Charity Event with the Coast 2 Coast Racing League ahead of Steve Goldner and Ross Korynta with Keith Jackson claiming the last transfer spot with a 10th place finish to move to the main event at Knoxville Speedway. Gerlach commented after his win, “We had a couple of close calls there. I think we were three wide a couple times, but, you know, came out all good.” Gerlach was able to masterfully run both top and bottom lines as he took away the lead in the first half of the event and ran away from the field through the remaining laps.
Blake Chapman took the win in a GWC finish at Knoxville Speedway ahead of Kyle Moonen and Randy Shreves in the 27-car field. Moonen started on the pole tonight and was the driver to beat as he has won the last two charity events. Shreves challenged for the lead early on and had taken it away from Moonen for a majority of the race, but Chapman surprised everyone when he dove to the bottom in the last moments of the race and jumped from 4th to 1st. “That bottom was really fast there at the end and I’m glad I found it before the other guys did.”, Chapman shared after the win. Patrick Spangler, who came home in 4th, took home the Gambler Motorsports’ Hard Charger Award moving up a shocking 19 positions through the night.
Proceeds from tonight’s action were donated to the Steve King Foundation who provides assistance to race car drivers, pit crew members, racing officials and track operating personnel or the immediate families of those individuals who are involved in dirt track racing and are seriously ill, severely injured or killed. The foundation will also contribute to organizations and facilities dedicated to improving the safety of the sport, when additional funds are available. Learn more about or donated to this foundation at http://www.stevekingfoundation.org
ASC S11 R7 Recap
07 Feb 2022
Autobahn Sportscar Challenge | Season 11 | Round 7
LMP2/GT3 Multiclass Event | Watkins Glen
Jeffrey Ooms has absolutely dominated for the third straight week in a row in the Prototype Class with the Autobahn Sportscar Challenge at Watkins Glen ahead of Carter Kundinger and Billy Smith II. Ooms crossed the finish line over 10 seconds ahead of Kundinger and at this point the other drivers don’t seem to have a response for his driving abilities. Ross Booth won the GT Pro Class ahead of Ryan Washeleski and Paul Gibson while Ryan Robertson took home the win for the GT AM Class beating out Kevin O’Keefe and Franco Margarella.
“It was mostly a survival race. The past couple of races have not been super good for me.”, Robertson, tonight’s GT AM winner shared with us, “This race was just trying to get the car home clean, not really fighting the [GT Pro] guys, like if I had the speed on them fine, but using them as a drafting partner.” Tonight’s winner in the GT Pro Class, Ross Booth, puts in a lot of work on and off the track. “I’m pretty confident going into each race. A lot of prep behind the scenes and just trying to put my best foot forward every single week.” Whatever he’s doing, you can’t deny the results.
Kundinger holds the lead in the points standings in the Prototype Class with a total of 134 points ahead of Smith trailing by only 5 points going into the next round. Ooms, who has only raced in the last three rounds, has already climbed up to 7th in the points with 81 and could potentially be in contention for the championship if his current winning streak continues through the rest of the season. Ross leads in the GT Pro Class with 237 points overall ahead of Paul Gibson and Bradlee Haley, who are tied for 2nd place with 218 points each. Robertson took the points lead away from O’Keefe tonight with his win, now leading by 3 points.
BRL GN S9 R5 Recap
05 Feb 2022
Bootleg Racing League | Season 9 | Round 5
Grand National Series | South Boston Speedway
Mathew Thunhorst took home his third season victory tonight in the Bootleg Racing League Grand National Series at South Boston Speedway beating J R Shepherd and Justin Morton to the line after a close battle between the top four drivers to include James Lowe, who caught the lead battle two separate times throughout the race. Morton took the lead early on in the race and held off Shepherd and Thunhorst for 94 laps until Thunhorst was able to take advantage of a mistake to jump from 3rd to the lead in a three wide battle.
“That was really intense”, Thunhorst exclaimed after the event. Tonight’s winner says it’s all about knowing when to make moves and when to hold back, “You try to take opportunities when they show and when they don’t show you don’t try to send it and that’s kind of the big lesson I’ve learned over the seasons.” That showed tonight as he patiently waited in 3rd behind Shepherd to take advantage late in the race.
Thunhorst holds the points lead with his win tonight with 198 points, now 2 points over Shepherd and 9 points over Kenny Kibbey, who finished in 5th. Morton holds onto 4th place with 183 points and Austin Boelke, who came away with a 6th place finish, slides back to 5th in the standings 3 points behind. With a very close call between Shepherd, Thunhorst, and Lowe almost taking all of them out of the race near the end, we’ve seen how quickly any of these drivers could potentially fall out of championship contention with one mistake.
BRL DSS S10 R5 Recap
04 Feb 2022
Bootleg Racing League | Season 10 | Round 5
Dirt Street Stock Series | Cedar Lake Speedway
Screenshot by Billy Northcutt
William Hargreaves with the Dirt Panda racing team takes home his second win in a row tonight leading every lap in the Bootleg Racing League Dirt Street Stock Series at Cedar Lake Speedway ahead of Shawn Hayes and Billy Northcutt. Brandyn Proudfoot seemed to struggle early on, starting in 14th, but found the speed later on as he climbed up to 5th at the end.
As the season is coming up on the halfway point next weekend, when asked if his focus is on the championship and are things starting to favor his way, Hargreaves commented, “I don’t know if I’d say that for sure. Anything can happen in a blink of an eye. We’ve all seen it week in and week out. I had a little bit of bad luck a few weeks back and now the last two weeks I’m the winner. It changes just that fast. I’m just honestly here to have fun. This is by far the best league I’ve ran in.”
With his win tonight, Hargreaves took the lead in the point standings with 366 points. Brandyn Proudfoot, who finished 5th tonight, moved back to 2nd place trailing behind the lead by 2 points. Northcutt holds onto 3rd place with 241 points. As the season moves on to the next round, it becomes clear that the battle for the championship is going to come down to one of these three drivers without a shocking upset to knock one of them out on contention before then.
C2CRL Hometown Heroes W8 Recap
02 Feb 2022
Coast 2 Coast Racing League | Week 8
Hometown Heroes Series | Volusia Speedway Park
Blake Chapman took home the win in the A&J Custom Creations 305 Sprints Series with the Coast 2 Coast Racing League Hometown Heroes Series feature race at Volusia Speedway after climbing up 10 positions through the field, earning the Gambler Motorsports’ Hard Charger Award for the night, to beat out Bob Everton and Chris Schaffer. “I just had the bottom working really, really well for me and at the end there I guess I kind of got lucky.”, Chapman commented.
Patrick Spangler ran his way to victory lane tonight in the ABR Setup Shop 360 Sprints Series crossing the line .116 ahead of Randy Shreves and Bob Everton that came down to a drag race out of the final turn. Brian Dickens took home the Gambler Motorsports’ Hard Charger Award from the event after moving up 12 positions finishing in 5th tonight. “I knew I could run the top pretty good here”, Spangler tells us, “[Turns] 3 and 4 I can usually get a good run off so I was just kind of seeing if I could make it stick.”
Brandon Templeton took home the feature win tonight in the COOLRAY Air Conditioning & Heating Pro Late Model Series Season Finale ahead of Nick Vickrey and Kurt Shatzer. Unfortunately, this win wasn’t enough to secure the championship as Vickrey held the lead in the point standings with Templeton finishing 2nd. Aiden Young took home the Gambler Motorsports’ Hard Charger Award after he advanced 11 positions in the field finishing in 4th tonight. Vickrey says the battle for the championship didn’t work out as he wanted with certain drivers being absent through most of the season, “Winning this one is kind of bittersweet. It’s almost like the quarterback from the opposing team was on the injured list because Stephen Spies couldn’t run the majority of the season.”
ASC S11 R6 Recap
31 Jan 2022
Autobahn Sportscar Challenge | Season 11 | Round 6
LMP2/GT3 Multiclass Event | Detroit’s Belle Isle
Jeffrey Ooms has led every lap and took the win for the Prototype class in the Autobahn Sportscar Challenge event at Detroit’s Belle Isle Street Circuit for the second week in a row ahead of Carter Kundinger and Billy Smith II. Joining the season with his win at Road America and now winning at Detroit, Ooms is proving to be the driver to beat this season. Ross Booth won for the GT Pro class ahead of Albert Jones and Paul Gibson while Trent Brown claimed the victory in the GT AM class beating out Franco Margarella and Bradley Salmon.
“I know [Ooms] is a fast driver, I mean he’s a 6K [iRating] driver and he definitely shows it.”, Kundinger, the current points leader in the Prototype class, commented after finishing in 2nd place tonight and is content with consistent podium finishes for now, “Second’s an awesome result especially at Detroit. I knew it was going to be pretty chaotic with all the traffic and the bumps which are pretty grueling.”
Kundinger continues to lead in the Prototype point standings, now with 112 points, ahead of Billy Smith II and Dan Neice after finishing in 2nd place tonight. Ross Booth, Bradlee Haley, and Paul Gibson further extend the gap between themselves and the rest of the GT Pro class standings. Kevin O’Keefe holds onto the lead in the GT AM class followed closely by Ryan Robertson and Trent Brown. Satellite Racing, consisting of Robert Tinsey, Ryan Washeleski, and Ryan Robertson, holds the lead in the team point standings for a second week.
BRL GN S9 R4 Recap
29 Jan 2022
Bootleg Racing League | Season 9 | Round 4
Grand National Series | Five Flags Speedway
Mathew Thunhorst got his second win of the season tonight in the Bootleg Racing League Grand National Series event at Five Flags Speedway ahead of Kenny Kibbey and J R Shepherd. Mark Hertzog led the first 64 laps until Thunhorst was able to get to the inside and pull ahead leading the remainder of the race and able to build a gap of over one second ahead of Kibbey and Shepherd by the final lap. Thunhorst and Shepherd have now each won two of the four races this season.
“There was a lot of good racing up front, there was a lot of tough racing. My heart was pounding the whole time and it’s just one of those that, it’s quite the intense race.”, Thunhorst commented about the battles happening toward the front. “There’s a lot on the line. One mistake can be the difference between leading and not leading the championship or, you know, getting a win and just being able to take advantage of the moments when they’re there and making sure you save up enough through the race that you can take advantage of them.”
With his win tonight, Thunhorst has taken the lead away from J R Shepherd with a total of 158 points, 1 point ahead of Shepherd. Kibbey holds his third-place position in the point standings only 5 points from the lead himself. Justin Morton and Austin Boelke are now tied for 4th place, both drivers with 145 points. The battle for the championship is still closely contested between all five drivers going into the next round.
BRL DSS S10 R4 Recap
28 Jan 2022
Bootleg Racing League | Season 10 | Round 4
Dirt Street Stock Series | Tulsa Chili Bowl
Screenshot by Billy Northcutt
William Hargreaves with the Dirt Panda racing team took home his first win of the season tonight in the Bootleg Racing League Dirt Street Stock Series 40 lap event at the Tulsa Chili Bowl holding off Brandyn Proudfoot and Carl Kilgore. The 24-car field had a hard time finding their way around the small track with caution after caution as the drivers quickly found themselves running out of room going into the turns. Strong restarts from Hargreaves and short green flag runs left Proudfoot with very few chances to challenge for the lead.
“I was just hanging on hoping that I would be the one to cross the finish line first.”, Hargreaves commented about tonight turning into a race of survival. Seeming to favor the high line, it worked out well for him as he led every lap. “On some of the restarts there I was kind of trying a few times a different line or two or whatever and as far as I saw there really was nothing anywhere else for me. [Kilgore] was running the bottom there looked like pretty decent. I just stuck with what was working.”
Hargreaves is now the fourth different winner of the season with only four races in. Proudfoot still holds the lead in the point standings, with a total of 305 points, ahead of Hargreaves with 282. Billy Northcutt fell back to 3rd place with 267 points after finishing in 9th tonight. Proudfoot has built a sizable gap between himself and his direct competitors, but his position in the standings is still within reach if his luck turns over the next few weeks.
C2CRL Hometown Heroes W7 Recap
26 Jan 2022
Coast 2 Coast Racing League | Week 7
Hometown Heroes Series | Volusia Speedway Park
Jeff Flaro takes the checkered flag in the A&J Custom Creations 305 Sprints Series with the Coast 2 Coast Racing League Hometown Heroes Series feature race at Volusia Speedway ahead of Christopher Berger and Jeffrey Kemper. Multiple cautions made smart restarts a critical strategy for the win and Flaro credited his ever-changing restart strategies to his past as a baseball pitcher, “Batter to pitcher is a little bit of a head game and I find it [to be] the same thing. So, if you’re always doing the same thing, you become predictable.”
Kyle Moonen took the win in the ABR Setup Shop 360 Sprints Series 25 lap feature beating out Blake Chapman and Nick Vickrey. Moonen created a big upset taking the lead away from Chapman with 2 laps to go, who had led every lap to that point. Coming out of turn 4 on lap 23, Moonen made hard contact with the outside wall and managed to pull ahead of Chapman as they came across the start/finish line. “I just actually kept it to the floor at that point and was like ‘Well, we’re either going to wreck or somehow make my way out of this and got lucky I guess.”
The Coast 2 Coast Racing League’s Hawkeye Challenge III event was a change of pace to say the least. The 22-car field consisted of drivers in street stocks, legends, UMPs, 358 modifieds, pro late models, and 305 sprints all battling together around 50 laps with each class winner going home tonight with a special custom made C2CRL dog tag as their prize. The class winners were Jeff Flaro in the legends, Kurt Shatzer in the street stocks, Aiden Young in the UMPs, Brandon Dittmer in the 358 modifieds, John Heyn in the pro late models, and Randy Shreves in the 305 sprints and tonight’s overall race winner.
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