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Gustin Gusts to $5000 NCRA Modified Victory!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Park City, Kansas – April 6, 2013 - Ryan Gustin of Marshalltown, Iowa took the lead near the races midway point and never looked back in claiming the inaugural “Modified Spring Scramble” that kicked off the 2013 race season for the National Championship Racing Association of Park City, Kansas presented by Precise Racing Products modified division as the tour made their stop at 81 Speedway in Park City.

By drawing the number one pill out of the top ten drivers in points from Friday night’s double heat race action, Tanner Mullens started on the pole for the fifty lap championship feature event and quickly took the lead from outside front row starter John Allen as the green flag fell.

Mullens kept the pace up front using the bottom of the three-eighths mile oval and led the first three laps before former three-time series champion Allen drove around the leader entering turns one and two on lap four.

Allen began to pull away from the field and by lap eight had opened an eight car length lead over Mullens as the early leader had his hands full with former two-time series late model champion Al Purkey for the runner up position.

Coming from this tenth starting position Gustin, aboard the Ed and Cinde Gressel owned, Mullens Racing Engines powered Hughes Racing chassis #19r, began pressuring Purkey for third on lap eleven and would take over that position just as Allen began working lapped traffic on lap fifteen. Just one lap later Gustin worked on Mullens for the runner up position and would take over second one lap later.

With Allen working slower traffic, Gustin took advantage and cut the leaders half stretch lead down to just five car lengths on lap eighteen. Gustin followed Allen for several laps before making his move down low coming down the front stretch on lap 22 to take the lead.

The mandatory red flag for fuel only on lap twenty-five allowed Allen to cling on the leaders rear bumper with Mullens, eighth starting Darron Fuqua, Johnny Bone, Jr. and Purkey all close behind but Gustin once again pulled away and quickly built a half stretch lead by lap 30.

Bone began to pressure Mullens for the third position on lap 32 and one lap later took over that spot and was setting his sights on Allen for second when Allen suddenly retired to the pit area with a broken air filter stud on lap 37.

Gustin was beginning to hit lapped traffic again on lap 40 but a spin by Josh Lanterman brought out the features only caution flag and gave the leader a clear track once racing action resumed.

On the final restart, Gustin pulled away from Bone and despite reaching lapped traffic with five laps to go, he received no challenge whatsoever to claim the $5000 check. This, coupled with a $10,000 pay check last weekend in Humboldt, Kansas has earned the Iowa driver $15,000 in one week of racing action.
Bone settled for second while Purkey survived a ruckus with a couple of cars in the final laps to come home third. Former five-time division champion Brian Franz ended strong after a rough start to the weekend as he started eighteenth and worked his way up to a fourth place finish while Fuqua’s strong rounded out the top five.

Two, ten lap last chance qualifiers were run with Jon Thompson and Tyler Davis picking up the victories while two-time and defending tour champion Marc Hurd claimed the twenty lap “B” feature.
During intermission 81 Speedway track owner and NCRA president C Ray Hall announced their will be a second annual “Spring Scramble” for both the modified and sport mod tours to open the 2014 race season.

The next scheduled event for the NCRA of Park City, Kansas presented by Precise Racing Products modified division will take place on Friday of Memorial Day weekend, May 24th at Mid-America Speedway in South Coffeyville, Oklahoma.

1st Last Chance: 1) Jon Thompson, 2) Kirby Robe, 3) Joe Adams, 4) Josh Everhart, 5) Nic Bidinger, 6) Mike Lawrence, 7) Jason Hilliard, 8) Bill Siemers, 9) Ross Shipman, 10) John Schwab, 11) Gary Johnston, 12) Bob Lane, 13) Chris Cole, DNS) Jerry Eveland

2nd Last Chance: 1) Tyler Davis, 2) Jimmy Brozek, 3) Bobby McGehee, 4) Richard Wilson, 5) Justin Moler, 6) Patrick McManus, 7) Don Hodge, 8) Dustin Lawrence, 9) Darin Busch, 10)  Jeremy Green, 11) Gary Kilbourn, 12) Jim Graves, 13) Richie Wilson, 14) Craig Crossette

B Feature: 1) Marc Hurd, 2) A.J. Brochu, 3) Brian Franz, 4) Jeremy Rausmussen, 5) Joe Adams, 6) Josh Everhart, 7) Nic Bidinger, 8) Tyler Schmidt, 9) Jon Thompson, 10) Tyler Davis, 11) Jason McGehee, 12) Grant Junghans, 13) Kirk Coleman, 14) Kirby Robe, 15) Justin Moler, 16) Jay Purkey, 17) Carson McKeen, 18) Mickey Lassiter, 19) Dustin Belcher, 20) Richard Wilson, 21) Jimmy Brozek, 22) Don Hodge, 13) Dustin Johnson, 24) Jimmie Hobbs

A Feature: 1) Ryan Gustin, 2) Johnny Bone, Jr., 3) Al Purkey, 4) Brian Franz, 5) Darron Fuqua, 6) Dan Powers, 7) Justin Rexwinkle, 8) Marc Hurd, 9) Darren Moses, 10) Ken Sweet, 11) Josh Lanterman, 12) Tanner Mullens, 13) Rick Beebe, 14) Josh Everhart, 15) Tyler Schmidt, 16) Tyler Davis, 17) Jon Thompson, 18) A.J. Brochu, 19) Brian Powers, 20) John Allen, 21) Jerry Rausmussen, 22) Gene Weaver, 23) Nic Bidinger, 24) Joe Adams  

David Smith, Jr.

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NCRA Modified Spring Scramble Friday Night Results!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Park City, Kansas - April 5, 2013 - Fifty-six drivers from six different states took part in two sets of complete heat races during the opening night of the inaugural "Modified Spring Scramble" at 81 Speedway in Park City, Kansas on Friday night featuring the season opener for the National Championship Racing Association of Park City, Kansas presented by Precise Racing Products modified division.

Those total number of heat race finishing and passing points will make up last chance and the Championship feature finale for Saturday night.

The first set of ten lap heat races were won by Dustin Belcher, Al Purkey, Darren Moses, Tanner Mullens, Gene Weaver and Ryan Gustin. The second set of ten lap heat races were won by Johnny Bone, Jr., Josh Lanterman, Rick Beebe, Tanner Mullens, Darron Fuqua and Justin Rexwinkle.

After the points were tabulated after those heat races, the top ten drivers in points that will draw for starting positions for Saturday night's fifty lap Championship feature are, from highest in points to tenth: Darron Fuqua, Tanner Mullens, Rick Beebe, Ryan Gustin, John Allen, Al Purkey, Johnny Bone, Jr., Josh Lanterman, Justin Rexwinkle and Dan Powers. 

Championship Saturday night will see last chance qualifiers run to make up the final ten starting positions for Saturday nights twenty-four car feature finale.

Gates open at 5:30 PM with racing slated for a 8:00 PM start time.

1st Session Heat Races: 10 Laps

1st Heat: 1) Dustin Belcher, 2) Darron Fuquia, 3) Jimmie Hobbs, 4) Jon Thompson, 5) Tyler Davis, 6) Richard Wilson, 7) Don Hodge, 8) Tyler Schmidt, 9) Jason McGehee, 10) Nic Bidinger

2nd Heat: 1) Al Purkey, 2) Jay Purkey, 3) Johnny Bone, Jr., 4) Jeremy Rausmusson, 5) Craig Crossette, 6) Jerry Eveland, 7) Brian Franz, 8) Jim Graves, 9) Bob Lane, 10) Darin Busch

3rd Heat: 1) Darren Moses, 2) John Allen, 3) Ken Sweet, 4) Marc Hurd, 5) Mickey Lassiter, 6) Cory Johnston, 7) Jimmy Brozek, 8) Bill Siemers, 9) Gary Kilbourn

4th Heat: 1) Tanner Mullens, 2) Dan Powers, 3) Kirby Robe 4) Carson McKeen, 5) Kirk Coleman, 6) Mike Lawrence, 7) Dustin Lawrence, 8) Richie Wilson, 9) Jeremy Green

5th Heat: 1) Gene Weaver, 2) Justin Rexwinkle, 3) Grant Junghans, 4) Brian Powers, 5) Dean Brungardt, 6) Patrick McManus, 7) Ross Shipman, 8) Jason Hilliard, 9) Joe Adams

6th Heat: 1) Ryan Gustin, 2) Rick Beebe, 3) Josh Lanterman, 4) A, J. Brochu, 5) Chris Cole, 6) Josh Everhart, 7) Dustin Johnson, 8) Justin Moler, 9) John Schwab

Second Session Heat Races: 10 Laps

1st Heat: 1) Johnny Bone, Jr. 2) John Allen, 3) A.J. Brochu, 4) Jimmy Brozek, 5) Jay Purkey, 6) Jimmie Hobbs, 7) Josh Everhart, 8) Patrick McManus, 9) Jim Graves, 10) John Schwab

2nd Heat: 1) Josh Lanterman, 2) Brian Powers, 3) Ken Sweet, 4) Dustin Lawrence, 5) Bill Siemers, 6) Dustin Belcher, 7) Mike Lawrence, 8) Jason Hilliard, 9) Darin Busch

3rd Heat: 1) Rick Beebe, 2) Dustin Johnston, 3) Tyler Schmidt, 4) Dan Powers, 5) Tyler Davis, 6) Nic Bindinger, 7) Justin Moler, 8) Craig Crossette, 9) Ross Shipman

4th Heat: 1) Tanner Mullens, 2) Marc Hurd, 3) Brian Franz, 4) Mickey Lassiter, 5) Joe Adams, 6) Carson McKeen, 7) Richard Wilson, 8) Cory Johnston, 9) Grant Junghans

5th Heat: 1) Darron Fuquia, 2) Don Hodge, 3) Darren Mosses, 4) Kirk Coleman, 5) Richie Wilson, 6) Jerry Eveland, 7) Chris Cole, 8) Jeremy Green, 9) Jason McGehee,

6th Heat: 1) Justin Rexwinkle, 2) Ryan Gustin, 3) Gene Weaver, 4) Al Purkey, 5) Jeremy Rausmussan, 6) Jon Thompson, 7) Gary Kilbourn, 8) Bob Lane, 9) Dean Brumgardt