Bronco Dan hittin' 2 wheel motion!
Round 15 FINAL ROUND
Best Lap TM 47.802
In Lap 6
Best Speed 82.841
by ROBERT VANBEEKUM
Pos No. Name Laps Total time Diff Best time In lap Best speed
1 1 CHAD GEORGE 14 12:22.390 47.966 14 82.558
2 848 DOUG MITTAG 14 12:26.564 4.174 47.829 4 82.795
3 824 DAN KELLY 14 12:28.005 5.615 47.918 11 82.641
4 855 JOHN DEMPSEY 14 12:38.762 16.372 48.358 5 81.889
5 854 BRYAN OSBORN 14 12:53.404 31.014 49.595 6 79.847
6 816 CODE RAHDERS 14 12:59.708 37.318 48.816 5 81.121
7 664 ROBERT VANBEEKUM 13 11:34.980 1 Lap 47.802 6 82.841
8 810 CORRY WELLER 13 13:15.062 1:40.082 55.332 13 71.568
9 637 RJ ANDERSON 9 8:20.103 5 Laps 49.498 5 80.003
10 851 RYAN BEAT 8 7:28.803 6 Laps 47.971 5 82.550
11 894 TYLER WINBURY 6 5:01.545 8 Laps 48.461 6 81.715
Lucas Oil UTV report by Scott Neth
First out onto the full-length track were the UTVs, and on the opening lap, a scary moment led to what must have been a heart-in-her-throat race for SR1 points leader Corry Weller. While battling for the lead with Doug Mittag, Weller tried to make the step-up jump, caught her rear tires on the lip of the landing, and came down hard, bending her chassis and pushing her right front a-arm back. This made steering very difficult, and sent her straight towards the outside barrier at turn four. With a point gap of 19 points over John Dempsey coming into today's finale, there weren't enough starters to make a big enough points gap to allow Dempsey to catch Weller, but she continued to limp her wounded ride along, just to be safe. Up front, Mittag was leading in his #848 Monster Energy/Gear One Kawasaki, with Robert Vanbeekum second (and the leading Unlimited UTV) in his #664 Monster Energy/Muzzys Kawasaki. Dan Kelly ran third in the #824 OffRoadMagnet.com/Maxxis Kawasaki, followed by Tyler Winbury in the #894 4130 Clothing/Black Rhino Yamaha, and Ryan Beat in the #851 Hart and Huntington/Black Rhino Kawasaki. On lap four, Kelly bicycled in turn three and dropped back to fifth, and on lap seven, Winbury lost a front wheel, ending his first run in the SR1 class. At the Competition Yellow, Mittag was still out front, with Beat now second, Vanbeekum third, Kelly fourth, and John Dempsey fifth in the #855 Custom Off Road Design/Dempsey Construction Kawasaki. On the restart lap, Beat went for it over the step-up, a move that ended even worse for him than it did for Weller, as he clipped his rear tires on the landing lip and went for an ugly tumble, ending his race. Mittag maintained his lead, despite running at a reduced pace with a broken shock, as Vanbeekum, Chad George, Kelly, and Code Rahders were all in hot pursuit. Rahders fell away on lap eleven, but up front, with his spotters telling him to drive his machine for everything it was worth, George had now gotten around Vanbeekum and moved into second in his #1 Monster Energy/Funco Kawasaki. George and Vanbeekum were now closing on Mittag for the overall lead, and just short of the white flag, both drivers moved by and into the top two spots. Unfortunately for Vanbeekum, a heating issue dropped him out on the final lap, but up front, George came home the big winner in Unlimited UTV, and was the first Unlimited UTV driver to win the UTV race overall this season! Second overall and first in SR1 was Mittag, with Kelly taking third overall, second in SR1. Dempsey finished third in SR1, fourth overall after driving the entire race without power steering, while Vanbeekum and RJ Anderson rounded out the Unlimited UTV podium. In the championship chases, Weller's incident wasn't enough to deny her the title, as she improved on her runner-up spot last year to take the SR1 UTV championship this year- congratulations Corry! Anderson had a tough day today, but came in with enough of a cushion that the title couldn't go to anyone else. Anderson managed a pretty tough feat, as he knocked off perennial Unlimited UTV champion Chad George to take the Unlimited UTV title this year- way to go RJ!
As far as championships go, Weller and Anderson were the big winners in their respective classes. Behind Weller in SR1, it was teammates Mittag and Dempsey (separated by just one point) in second and third, Rahders in fourth, and Bryan Osborn in fifth. In Unlimited UTV, Vanbeekum finished second, George third, Winbury fourth, and Hans Waage fifth.
CUP RACE
Best Lap Tm 45.492
In Lap 7
Best Speed 87.048
by DOUG MITTAG
Pos No. Name Laps Total time Diff Best time In lap Best speed
1 851 RYAN BEAT 14 13:50.950 46.589 12 84.999
2 824 DAN KELLY 14 13:54.590 3.640 46.680 6 84.833
3 816 CODE RAHDERS 14 13:52.872 1.922 46.269 10 85.586
4 854 BRYAN OSBORN 14 13:59.398 8.448 47.202 7 83.895
5 637 RJ ANDERSON 14 13:59.605 8.655 46.857 13 84.512
6 810 CORRY WELLER 9 9:59.071 5 Laps 46.907 5 84.422
7 848 DOUG MITTAG 7 5:39.898 7 Laps 45.492 7 87.048
8 894 TYLER WINBURY 0 15.457 14 Laps --:--:--.--- 0 -
Lucas Oil UTV Challenge Cup Report by Scott Neth
The first of today's Lucas Oil Challenge Cup races was the UTV race, and while it seems like the two classes, SR1 UTV and Unlimited UTV, have been racing each other all season long, this is the first and only race of the year in which the two classes were actually competing against one another for the same prize: gift certificates for driving instruction at the Cory Kruseman's Sprint Car and Midget Driving School, the same school which has helped improve the skills of none other than 2011 dual class champion Brian Deegan. With a slight difference in average lap times between the two classes, the slower Unlimited UTVs were given a head start of approximately ten seconds over the SR1s, and with RJ Anderson being the only driver who decided to represent the Unlimited UTVs today, he had the track all to himself in his bid to hold off the SR1s. In the early laps, Anderson ran what amounted to a time trial out front in his #637 Walker Evans Racing/South Point Las Vegas Polaris, while the SR1s gradually closed in by a little under one second per lap, with Ryan Beat leading the charge from behind in his #851 Hart and Huntington/Black Rhino Kawasaki. Behind Beat, it was Doug Mittag who was up to third by lap three in his #848 Monster Energy/Custom Off Road Design Kawasaki, with Dan Kelly fourth in the #824 OffRoadMagnet.com/Muzzys Kawasaki, and Code Rahders fifth in the #816 SuperChips/K&N Yamaha. As the field closed in on the halfway mark, Beat was now really being hounded by Mittag for second place, and Mittag managed to get a nose on Beat into turn three, taking the lead as the two headed towards the step-up jump and turn four. Just after making the pass, though, smoke began puffing, then billowing out the back of Mittag's machine, and as the field crossed the start/finish for the Competition Yellow, things weren't looking good for Mittag. His crew was hoping it might be a shock that had gotten too hot, but when fire could be seem coming from his engine bay while the field paraded under yellow, it became evident that Mittag's day was done. Mittag got out, and ran to the side of the track to give a big thumbs up to Anderson and Beat as they paraded by for another lap under yellow, and when racing resumed, it was Anderson who really had a challenge at hand to try and hold off the faster SR1s. Anderson managed to do so for a lap, but on lap 11, Beat used his SR1's superior top speed up the long straight from turn one to turn two to get past Anderson and into the lead. On the next lap, Rahders slid into Anderson as the two entered turn two, forcing Anderson way high and up towards the wall, and dropping him back to last place. Rahders moved into second place, and really began hounding Beat for the lead. On the penultimate lap, Rahders got inside of Beat and briefly held the lead at turn three, but Beat managed to hold him off, and after losing some ground with a near-spin coming out of turn two on the final lap, Rahders' run at the win was over, as Beat went clear on his way to his second consecutive Challenge Cup win. Second went to Rahders, but he was then penalized one spot for his incident with Anderson, which dropped him to third, and gave second to Kelly. Fourth went to Bryan Osborn in the #854 Black Rhino/Rigid Industries LED Lighting Yamaha, and Anderson rounded out the top five.
Corry Weller claims her first SR1 Championship
Chad George Overalls Round 15 in his UTV Unlimited
Ryan Beat Takes hom the BIG Check and the Challenge Cup!
Doug Mittag Grabs a WIN in Round 15
Cody Rahders Grabs 3rd and another check in the Challenge Cup race
Robert VanBeekum took home a second in Round 15 and fastest Lap honors in his UTV Unlimited
Bronco Dan Kelley takes a BIG 2nd Place finish and check during the Challenge Cup race
More pics to come........
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Oh, and thanks for the laps, I truly appreciate that very generous gesture, first class move.