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Kentucky Indoor Dirt Track Series: Round 9 Short Track Shivers With frigid temperatures outside, the action was hot in the arena tonight in Sturgis. Thomas Goodnick started the action off by taking the hole-shot in the 50cc chain class and held off a late race challenge by Jacob Morris in the short track.
Morris went to the front of the TT to take the win while Luke Baird made a slick move in the right hander to move past Goodnick for second. Kenneth Brinkley was fourth each time.
Hayden Gillim nailed both 65cc wins along with the 160cc 4-stroke class. He worked past early 65cc leader Jake Lewis on the short track and Ethan Gillim on the TT. Ethan would finish second in each over Lewis, Goodnick, Nick McFadden, Morris and Baird.
Hayden hole-shot the 85cc short track and took a small led to the checkers over Lewis. Ethan held Frankie Lee to fourth by a wheel while Blake Tabor nipped Hayden Granda and McFadden for fifth.
Ethan led the 85cc TT until he and Hayden made contact putting both riders down bringing out the red flag. Lewis went to the front and held off Frankie Lee for the win while Hayden worked up to a close third. Ethan got by Granda for fourth off the last corner with McFadden, Tabor and Justin Skucko trailing.
The 200cc class saw full grids with two rows. Hayden added win number six in the Amateur TT with a hole-shot-to-checkers run with Lewis a close second. Nathaniel Vowell held off Frankie Lee and Jonathan Heiden for the top five. Nikki Spore, Michael Heiden, Ethan, Tabor and Granda rounded out the field.
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Lewis led the train across to win the short track. Jeff Carver ruled the 200 Pro-Am with wins on each track, then proceeded to take the Open Amateur short track final. He held Justin Hanna at bay for eight laps to take the close win. Chaz Landers worked through traffic into third past Jeremy Anderson and Kevin Grassel. 250cc Amateur winner Colby Chandler was the next across in sixth over Spencer Shoff, Kyle Snyder and Vowell. Hanna returned the favor to win the TT along with the Open Pro-Am TT and the Mad Dog short track. Mad Dog TT winner Stevie Nace went to the lead off of turn two in the Open Pro-Am oval and held Hanna to second. Snyder nipped Landers at the line for third over Grassel, Carver and Shoff. Aaron Ladd won every class he entered with the hardest one coming in the Open Pro short track. He held off Vet winner Kevin Snyder for the win with John Faulkner, Dean Faulkner and Sheldon Wenz battling for third. Randy Blackwell had a good night riding for wins in three classes. His strongest ride came in the Senior class where he rode on a rail to top Kelly Klynstra. Mike Ladd moved from the penalty row to third past Super Senior winner Ron Anderson and John Gilligan. |