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20th Annual Firecracker 500
$1000 to win          July 4th
Regular 270's and 600 micros
Sponsors
ESP Concrete Pumping
Perchak Trucking
Weinert Racing Team

A special appearance by the Old Timers Midget Cars will be on hand for you to see.  These midgets from way back will be making a couple laps to show you what it was like when this all began back in the early 1900's

Anyone interested in adding to the sponsorship in any way, wether it be product or monetary would be greatly appreciated by the drivers.

We will be starting our program a half hour early.  Gates will open at 2:30/ warm-ups at 4:00/  racing at 5:00.  We will be going back to our normal program of splitting the karts and micros.

Top 2 qualifiers from the 270 division

Ross Perchak and Sean Stolz

Top 2 qualifiers from the 600 division

Sean Stolz and Jimmy Glenn

Saturday night was another night of some of the best side by side racing to see. At times you would experience the sight of 3 and 4 wide racing.  Along with that sometimes comes the mishaps of being the one on the outside.  After taking 2 extremely hard hits Shane Penny and Jake Starr(who knocked over a piece of the wall) were able to walk away with minimal damage to their bodies, unfortunatley the same can't be said for their equipment.  Glad to see both are ok!!


Feature winners in the kart divisions:

Heavy  Randy Boston
Rookie Blue   Casey Steinhoff
Kid Kart   Brayden Spencer
Rookie Purple  Matthew Danneker
Juniors  Brenden McNutt
Adult Cage  Jonathan Cromley


In the micro divisions your winner of the mini micros was Danny Roberts with Chris Warnig Doc Roberts Dave Roberts and John VanBuskirk top 5.

With 15 rookie micros on hand John Vreeland drove his car from a 5th place starting spot to take home the win followed by CJ Heinig, Jacob Hendershot, Danny Roberts and Denny Faus rounding out the top 5.

The fastest growing class at GVAT right now is the 125's.  And along with new drivers comes some good racing.  Mason Peters has got it figured out now as he was able to bring home another win with Eric Leonard, Jess Miller, Thomas Hovenstine and Dana Christman chasing him down.

When it was time for the regulars to line up it was Greg Walters and Nathan Ritter setting the pace for one of the 2 features that would qualify top 2 for next weeks race.  At the drop of the green it was Walters who took to an early lead only to be taken away by Ross Perchak who would go on to be the first of 4 to have a guaranteed starting spot.  Coming from 7th to claim the 2nd guaranteed spot was Sean Stolz with Nathan Ritter, Rob Pajauis(who spun early in the race and came back up through) and Greg Walters to give your top 5 finishers.  The hard charger award goes to Greg Steward this week for starting 22nd and finishing 10th.

The final 25 laps of the night were being paced by Sean Stolz and Jimmy Glenn in the 600 division.  That's how they started the race and that's how they finished the race.  Sean took the lead on the first lap and was able to hold off Jimmy who was right on his tail.  Mike Koehler who started 9th was able to get up along side of Jimmy giving it everything he had to e over 2nd,  with no success Koehler finished 3rd over Mike Weinert and Tom Kohler with a top 5 finish. Tom also earned the Hard Charger of the night after having to qualify through the consi to start 20th and finish 5th.  Also Shawn Light and Dan Wykes were able to gain 12 spots from start to finish.  Good racing guys!!


See you all next week at the Action Tracks for a night of good, fun, family entertainment night of racing!

 

 
 

If Green we are racing

If Red we are cancelled

Gates open - 3:00

Warm-ups - 4:30

Racing - 5:00

Pit Pass  $13

Spectator  $8

Kart entry - $12

Micro entry - $20

 

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