Hull Handles Lucas Oil ASCS at Tri-City!
by: Lonnie Wheatley
PONTOON BEACH, Ill. (August 27, 2010) – Jerrod Hull took full advantage of
every little opportunity that presented itself in Friday night’s Lucas Oil
ASCS presented by K&N Filters National debut at Tri-City Speedway to pull
off a stunning upset victory from the 19th starting position.
The Sikeston, MO,
shoe steered clear of some opening lap carnage, snuck by some battling
contenders on the low side in the middle portion of the race and then took
the lead away from Brian Brown on the 21st circuit before
checking out in the final rounds of the 30-lapper for the $6,000 victory,
his second career ASCS National triumph and first since a Benton, MO, win on
July 4, 1996.
“I’m not believing
this at all, I won one of these races back in ’95 or something, a long time
ago,” Hull explained in victory lane. “We’ve tried a lot of times, this is
by far my biggest win.”
While Hull gridded
the feature field inside the tenth row after advancing from “B” Main action,
he picked up ten spots before a lap was completed when front row starters
Danny Wood and Matt Covington tangled and flipped entering turn one,
collecting the likes of leading title contenders Jason Johnson and Shane
Stewart along with Gary Wright, Justyn Cox, Dustin Barks, Tim Crawley, Ricky
Logan and more.
When the mess was
cleared and the field reset, Hull restarted in ninth as only Wood, Covington
and Barks were unable to make the call for the restart.
“It was close, I
drove it in there and seen ‘em piling up and we were able to get it slowed
down,” Hull explained of the crash. “I was amazed we restarted ninth.
That’s pretty cool we won it from ninth though, they didn’t just give it to
us.”
With Hull working
forward from the fifth row aboard the Heartland Trailer Manufacturing No. 12
Maxim instead of the tenth row on the second start, Brian Brown led the way
to the green flag after originally starting in sixth and gunned into the
early lead ahead of Darren Long.
While Brown
apparently cruised out front over the first half of the race, the action in
his wake was intense with wild sliders for position in virtually every
corner amongst Long, Dustin Morgan, Kyle Hirst and Brady Bacon among
others.
While all that was
going on, Hull found some rubber on the low side of the track and began
working forward, getting between the battling duo of Hirst and Bacon for
fourth by the midway point. Hirst and Hull slid past Long for second and
third by the 19th lap and then quickly closed the gap on Brown,
who had been struggling with a sticking throttle throughout while out
front.
Hull raced past
both Hirst and then Brown for the lead on the 21st lap, one round
before the yellow flag flew for Long, who spun to a stop in turn one with a
cut tire after battling among the top positions throughout.
After Brown stopped
with race-ending woes three rounds later, Hull checked out over the final
six circuits to snare the victory with a full straightaway advantage over 13th-starter
Hirst, who posted a Lucas Oil ASCS National career-best finish of second
aboard Gary Perkins’ Shark-powered GP Development No. 6 A.R.T.
“We’ll take it,”
the Loomis, CA, shoe that ranks as the leading Brodix Rookie of the Year
contender commented afterward. “That start got us a lot of spots and then I
found the rubber before the guys up front did, but ol’ Jerrod Hull found it
way lower than I did and got by us all.”
Fifteenth-starter
Zach Chappell worked forward over the final circuits to claim the show
position aboard David Chappell’s Wesmar-powered Legend’s Bar-B-Que No. 50z
Maxim, while three-time series champion Tim Crawley rebounded from the
opening lap melee to claim fourth in Mike Ward’s McCarver-powered Boater
Sports No. 88 Maxim.
Brady Bacon rounded
out the top five in Mike and Megan Eubank’s Wesmar-powered Tel-Star
Communications No. 99 Triple-X, with Jonathan Cornell crossing the stripe in
seventh.
Reigning series
champion Shane Stewart recovered from the opening lap incident and then a
lap eight spin in turn four to finish seventh, with Dustin Morgan, current
Lucas Oil ASCS National points leader Jason Johnson and Gary Wright
completing the top ten.
Brown, Long, Wood
and Crawley topped heat race action for the 38-car field, with Adam Jones
and Mark Shirshekan winning the twin “B” Mains.
Lucas Oil ASCS
Sprint Cars presented by K&N Filters
Tri-City Speedway
Results:
Heat Races (Top 16
in Passing Points to "A" Main; Balance to 2 "B" Mains):
Heat One (8 Laps):
1. 21-Brian Brown, 2. 95-Matt Covington, 3. 6-Kyle Hirst, 4. 10a-Ricky
Logan, 5. 21T-Eric Todd, 6. 44-Jon Corbin, 7. 18x-Mike Hess, 8. 84-Ben
Wagoner, 9. 11c-Dakota Carroll. DNS: 53-Jack Dover.
Heat Two (8 Laps):
1. 3g-Darren Long, 2. 93-Dustin Morgan, 3. 41-Jason Johnson, 4. 50z-Zach
Chappell, 5. 3-Mark Shirshekan, 6. 18-Tony Bruce, Jr., 7. 71-Channin
Tankersley, 8. 14-Randy Martin, 9. 5-Jerod Roller, 10. 51j-Ryan Jamison.
Heat Three (8
Laps): 1. 94-Danny Wood, 2. 9x-Gary Wright, 3. 99-Brady Bacon, 4.
28-Jonathan Cornell, 5. 12-Jerrod Hull, 6. 1a-Adam Jones, 7. 72-Curtis
Boyer, 8. 5m-Miranda Arnold, 9. 57c-Kyle Chady.
Heat Four (8
Laps): 1. 88-Tim Crawley, 2. 57-Shane Stewart, 3. 5h-Justyn Cox, 4.
22-Dustin Barks, 5. 88k-J. Kinder, 6. 89g-David Gravel, 7. 35-Matt Sherrell,
8. 165-Haley Arnold, 9. 75-Tyler Blank.
"B" Mains (Top 3
From Each Advance to "A" Main):
First "B" Feature
(10 Laps): 1. 1a-Adam Jones, 2. 12-Jerrod Hull, 3. 89g-David Gravel, 4.
18-Tony Bruce, Jr., 5. 71-Channin Tankersley, 6. 14-Randy Martin, 7. 35-Matt
Sherrell, 8. 5m-Miranda Arnold, 9. 11c-Dakota Carroll, 10. 51j-Ryan Jamison,
11. 5-Jerod Roller.
Second "B" Feature
(10 Laps): 1. 3-Mark Shirshekan, 2. 44-Jon Corbin, 3. 88k-J. Kinder, 4.
84-Ben Wagoner, 5. 75-Tyler Blank, 6. 18x-Mike Hess, 7. 72-Curtis Boyer, 8.
165-Haley Arnold, 9. 21T-Eric Todd, 10. 57c-Kyle Chady, 11. 53-Jack Dover.
Tri-City Speedway
“A” Main:
“A” Feature (30
Laps): 1. 12-Jerrod Hull, 2. 6-Kyle Hirst, 3. 50z-Zach Chappell, 4. 88-Tim
Crawley, 5. 99-Brady Bacon, 6. 28-Jonathan Cornell, 7. 57-Shane Stewart, 8.
93-Dustin Morgan, 9. 41-Jason Johnson, 10. 9x-Gary Wright, 11. 3-Mark
Shirshekan, 12. 89g-David Gravel, 13. 5h-Justyn Cox, 14. 18-Tony Bruce, Jr.,
15. 10a-Ricky Logan, 16. 88k-J. Kinder, 17. 1a-Adam Jones, 18. 72-Curtis
Boyer, 19. 21-Brian Brown, 20. 44-Jon Corbin, 21. 3g-Darren Long, 22.
53-Jack Dover, 23. 94-Danny Wood, 24. 95-Matt Covington, 25. 22-Dustin
Barks.
Lap Leaders: Brian
Brown 1-20, Jerrod Hull 21-30.
Note: Tony Bruce,
Jr., used his mid-season bonus full-point provisional to start the main
event; it was Bruce’s final provisional of the year. Jack Dover used his
first provisional of the year to start the main event; he still has a
mid-season bonus full-point provisional and two partial-points provisionals
remaining. Curtis Boyer utilized a WOW provisional to start the main
event.
Lucas Oil ASCS
Sprint Cars presented by K&N Filters Points (Top 20): 1. Jason Johnson
2,146, 2. Shane Stewart 2,085, 3. Brady Bacon 2,067, 4. Jack Dover 1,970, 5.
Zach Chappell 1,930, 6. Tim Crawley 1,899, 7. Tony Bruce, Jr. 1,874, 8. Kyle
Hirst 1,859, 9. Danny Wood 1,810, 10. Ricky Logan 1,743, 11. Matt Covington
1,693, 12. Dustin Morgan 1,536, 13. Darren Long 1,520, 14. Channin
Tankersley 1,482, 15. Justyn Cox 1,448, 16. Austen Wheatley 1,344, 17. Gary
Wright 1,209, 18. Travis Rilat 1,152, 19. Andrew Marshala 823, 20. Brian
Brown 752.
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