Jason Hughes recorded the most amount of wins during the USMTS National Tour earlier this season before the Hunt for the Championship began. Hughes took the checkers six times, and tonight he recorded his second consecutive Hunt feature as he led every lap of the forty-lap feature event at the Caney Valley Speedway in Caney, Kansas.
The final night of a five-night swing saw fifty-five cars check into the pits once again as the USMTS made their inaugural visit to the Caney facility. Once again, local favorite John Allen would have the lucky draw as he and Jason Hughes sat on the front row. Allen has had a tough week as he has blown up two motors and had his car upside down in recent events. Tonight he hopped behind the wheel of Scott Green's backup car and made the redraw.
It would be Hughes, however, getting the jump and taking command of the race. Hughes opened up a comfortable lead as Morgan Bagley challenged Allen for the runner up spot. A caution slowed the action down just once as Scott Green spun in turn one and collected a couple cars. Bagley took advantage of the restart as he snuck under Allen to take over the second position. Allen would lose two more spots as Dereck Ramirez and point leader Kelly Shryock both got by on the inside. Bagley closed in on Hughes for the lead and even got to the inside at one point, but Hughes was able to keep his momentum up and pull ahead. Hughes would change his line a little bit from that point on to keep Bagley behind him the rest of the race.
Behind them Dustin Boney was setting sail on the top side as he passed Shryock for the fourth spot. A lap later Boney used the same line to motor by Ramirez for third. Shryock challenged Ramirez on the low side as they raced for the fourth spot in which Shryock would win. Tim Donlinger was slowly making his way to the front as he climbed inside the top five, but he ran out of time as Jason Hughes took home his second straight win. Morgan Bagley finished second, Dustin Boney third, Kelly Shryock fourth, and Tim Donlinger rounded out the top five.
1. 12 Jason Hughes
2. 5R Morgan Bagley
3. 22 Dustin Boney
4. 3 Kelly Shryock
5. 3D Tim Donlinger
6. 4R Dereck Ramirez
7. 98 John Allen (driving Scott Green's backup #25 car)
8. 51 Eddie Martin
9. 4R Ron VerBeek
10. 20R Bryan Rowland
11. 14 Jon Tesch
12. 19R Ryan Gustin
13. 2 Grant Junghans
14. 7K Jason Krohn
15. 20 Rodney Sanders
16. 12T Tyler Townsend
Rodney Sanders and Tommy Myer used provisionals. Sanders finished finished one spot out of his bmain event, which meant he was unable to accumulate passing points in the feature. That should mean that Shryock extended his lead as he passed one car and finished fourth.
The USMTS officials will head back home and get things rounded up as they get ready for a three-race swing next weekend covering three states. Next Thursday they will invade the Steele County Speedway in Owatonna, MN as part of the Steele County Fair. Then they travel to the Mississippi Thunder Speedway in Fountain City, Wisconsin before finishing the swing at the Upper Iowa Speedway in Decorah, Iowa on Saturday. For complete results and updated point standings, be sure to check out their website at www.usmts.com.
The Caney Valley Speedway also run three other support classes Saturday night, but the USMTS feature was the first to hit the track. With that being said, I decided to take off at that point so I was able to get a head start on the lengthy trip home. Plan to get up early Sunday to finish the trip and hopefully make it to another race Sunday night if Mother Nature allows.
- Racing may be a hobby, but it's DEFINITELY addictive!!
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