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Loyet Lands First ASCS Win in Warrior Go at LA!
by: Lonnie Wheatley
LA MONTE, Mo. (June 24, 2011) – Brad Loyet snared his first career winged
Sprint Car feature win by racing to victory lane in Friday night’s 25-lap
Speedway Motors ASCS Warrior Region main event at LA Raceway.
The multi-time
Midget champion from Sunset Hills, MO, gunned into the lead at the outset
and never looked back en route to the win aboard the Don Ott-powered Loyet
Landscape/Vacuworx International No. 05 Maxim, padding his series points
lead in the process.
“It feels real good
to get this win out of the way, they always say the first one is the
hardest,” Loyet explained afterward. “I think we’ve got what it takes to
click off a couple more.”
For the second ASCS
Warrior feature in a row, it was Loyet and Kyle Bellm leading the feature
field to the green flag. Loyet outdueled Bellm for the point on the opening
circuit and, after a pair of cautions in the initial four rounds, the
23-year-old Sprint Car rookie checked out on the field.
Loyet raced on to
the checkered flag unchallenged as the final 21 circuits ran off in non-stop
fashion, while four-time Warrior champion Randy Martin worked his way past
Bellm for second by the 15th round and then edged a surging Tyler
Blank for runner-up honors at the stripe.
Blank settled for
the show position, with Bellm in fourth. Bryan Grimes picked off a handful
of positions to round out the top five, while Tony Bruce, Jr., bounced back
from an early spin while running third to salvage sixth aboard the Clifford
Young No. 7 entry.
After winning the
“B” Main, 16-year-old Miranda Arnold raced from 17th to seventh,
with Cody Baker, Josh Stephens and Matt Fox completing the top ten.
Loyet, Randy Hibbs,
Bruce, Jr., and Blank topped heat race action for the 31-car field before
Arnold won the “B” Main.
Speedway Motors
ASCS Warrior Results from LA Raceway:
First Heat (8
Laps): 1. 05-Brad Loyet, 2. 14-Randy Martin, 3. 5m-Miranda Arnold, 4.
24-Lanny Carpenter, 5. 10-Mike Trent, 6. 33-Austin Alumbaugh, 7. 19s-Steven
Cross, 8. 11c-Dakota Carroll.
Second Heat (8
Laps): 1. 2a-Randy Hibbs, 2. 9m-Cody Baker, 3. 65-T.J. Muths, 4. 23F-Matt
Fox, 5. 72-Curtis Boyer, 6. 4-Evan Martin, 7. 28-Jonathan Cornell, 8.
14T-Andrew Turley
Third Heat (8
Laps): 1. 7-Tony Bruce, Jr., 2. 86-Kyle Bellm, 3. 165-Haley Arnold, 4.
85s-Forrest Sutherland, 5. 09-Josh Stephens, 6. 92j-J.R. Topper, 7. 1x-Brad
Ryun, 8. 48-David Brown.
Fourth Heat (8
Laps): 1. 75-Tyler Blank, 2. 3-Mark Shirshekan, 3. 6-Bryan Grimes, 4.
5-Matt Close, 5. 3z-Zach Davis, 6. 3p-Rusty Potter, 7. 9c-Tony Crank.
“B” Main (12
Laps): 1. 5m-Miranda Arnold, 2. 10-Mike Trent, 3. 3z-Zach Davis, 4. 4-Evan
Martin, 5. 33-Austin Alumbaugh, 6. 92j-J.R. Topper, 7. 1x-Brad Ryun, 8.
72-Curtis Boyer, 9. 19s-Steven Cross, 10. 11c-Dakota Carroll, 11. 48-David
Brown, 12. 14T-Andrew Turley, 13. 9c-Tony Crank, 14. 3p-Rusty Potter. DNS:
28-Jonathan Cornell.
"A" Feature (25
Laps): 1. 05-Brad Loyet, 2. 14-Randy Martin, 3. 75-Tyler Blank, 4. 86-Kyle
Bellm, 5. 6-Bryan Grimes, 6. 7-Tony Bruce, Jr., 7. 5m-Miranda Arnold, 8.
9m-Cody Baker, 9. 09-Josh Stephens, 10. 23F-Matt Fox, 11. 24-Lanny
Carpenter, 12. 165-Haley Arnold, 13. 65-T.J. Muths, 14. 10-Mike Trent, 15.
2a-Randy Hibbs, 16. 3z-Zach Davis, 17. 5-Matt Close, 18. 3-Mark Shirshekan,
19. 85s-Forrest Sutherland, 20. 4-Evan Martin.
Speedway Motors
ASCS Warrior Region Points (Top Ten): 1. Brad Loyet 711, 2. Randy Martin
652, 3. Kyle Bellm 587, 4. Cody Baker 557, 5. Mark Shirshekan 544, 6.
Jonathan Cornell 539, 7. Josh Stephens 529, 8. Austin Alumbaugh 512, 9.
Tyler Blank 506, 10. Evan Martin 423.
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