Indiana Midget Week night four falls to Abreu.
Abreu at the Burg
Night four at Lawrenceburg and Rico Abreu bags another win for the Kunz/Toyota Team .The Team has already won this week with Thorson and Bell with only the Rusty Kunz/Joe Dooling Esslinger of Clauson breaking the domination
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Abreu had to deal first with team mate Kevin Thomas before using the slide on Jerry Coons Jr on lap 20 .Coons had held the race lead from lap 12 and maintained the race lead from two restarts following cautions for Tracy Hines and then a lap later after Alex Bright’s went skywards in turns one and two following a monster flip in his Great Clips Esslinger.Bright managed to walk away with injury despite the furry of accident.
Abreu always seemed to have control of the Feature although a serious dispute was raging between Tyler Thomas, Kevin Thomas Jr and Clauson for the second podium spot.
Tyler Thomas has had pace all week and with Abreu clear out front the American Custom Wheels Esslinger locked his runner up position while Clauson finally got the better of Thomas Jr for the final podium position
Rico Abreu scored his ninth- career series win to tie Chuck Gurney, Tony Elliott and Billy Boat for 72nd on the all time list.
The sight of the four Keith Kunz/Toyota/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports Team cars is intimidating at all the major midget shows.
Oh what a feeling !
Rico Abreu “I love the big moments, and it looks like we’re headed for another one tomorrow going against Bryan at his favorite track for the Midget Week title. It’s cool to come out on top tonight and hang in there with him; I know how much it would mean to me to win it, and I’m looking forward to tomorrow night. We’ve been a top-three car all week and late-race restarts have been killing me, honestly. We got racing with Jerry and Bryan, and it was hard to tell who was going to win the thing,” Abreu said.
A determined Abreu
Tyler Thomas“I had an absolute blast tonight. We had an awesome race track to race on, and we have all week, to allow us to race our way up through the pack. We were good up on the curb and could go down and run the bottom a little bit too. We got to racing too hard with Clauson and Thomas to be able to make a run at the lead, but that was some of the most fun racing I’ve gotten to do. We couldn’t quite get away from them on the last restart to get our momentum up to try to make a run at Rico. I’m proud of how much better we’ve made our car after switching to Spike Chassis this year, and we’ve got it rolling now and I’m comfortable. We’re looking forward to Kokomo tomorrow and couldn’t be happier with how everything is going so far, but I’m ready for that first win,” Thomas said.
Bryan Clauson “We weren’t quite good enough to battle for the win tonight, and we had to pull out all the tricks to put ourselves up on the podium. The DNF in the heat race hurt us in the Midget Week points, but we’re going to Kokomo tomorrow with a shot at it. There’s no place I’d rather have a winner-take-all race for the Midget Week crown,” Clauson said.
Race results
Clauson working the win at Lincoin Park
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FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. A.Bright, 2. K.Thomas Jr., 3. Courtney, 4. Abreu, 5. Felker, 6. Tracy Hines, 7. Chapple, 8. Budres. 2:06.65
SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. S.Cottle, 2. Stockon, 3. B.Bright, 4. Bernal, 5. Williams, 6. Hagen (#69), 7. Rowe, 8. Clauson. 2:06.31
THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. T.Thomas, 2. Mosen 3. Bayston, 4. Coons, 5. Gardner, 6. Gehrke, 7. Ted Hines. 2:08.40
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Rico Abreu, 2. Tyler Thomas, 3. Bryan Clauson, 4. Kevin Thomas Jr., 5. Chase Stockon, 6. Andrew Felker, 7. Hayden Williams, 8. Brad Mosen, 9. Darren Hagen, 10. Shane Cottle, 11. Jerry Coons Jr., 12. Ronnie Gardner, 13. Chett Gehrke, 14. Brenden Bright, 15. Tyler Courtney, 16. Isaac Chapple, 17. Nick Rowe, 18. David Budres, 19. Ryan Bernal, 20. Alex Bright, 21. Spencer Bayston, 22. Tracy Hines, 23. Ted Hines. NT
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**Tracy Hines flipped on lap 12 of the feature. A.Bright flipped on lap 15 of the feature.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-11 K.Thomas, Laps 12-20 Coons, Laps 21-30 Abreu.
NEW HONDA NATIONAL MIDGET POINTS: 1-Hines-304, 2-K.Thomas Jr.-295, 3-T.Thomas-295, 4-Coons-287, 5-Hagen-266, 6-Abreu-257, 7-Bayston-250, 8-Tanner Thorson-218, 9-Dave Darland-159, 10-Christopher Bell-151.
NEW INDIANA MIDGET WEEK POINTS: 1-Abreu-257, 2-Clauson-256, 3-T.Thomas-202, 4-K.Thomas Jr.-198, 5-Coons-197, 6-Stockon-182, 7-Hines-173, 8-Bayston-170, 9-Christopher Bell-152, 10-Mosen-137.
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