7/21/11 - Two youngsters picked up main event wins on Preliminary night #1 of the 2011 Clay Cup Nationals at Deming Speedway. Brad Hannum bested the 54 car field in the 600 division and Liam Ryan took his first career 1200 win with a late race pass.
In the 600 class, Brad Hannum and Phil Schemenauer waged an epic war for thirty laps in the A Main. With Schemenauer bird dogging him around the track in the low groove, Hannum had his right rear tire virtually scraping the clay off the fence for the first 24 laps of the 30 lap A Main. Following a red flag for Derek Torkelson, the Hannum crew made a strategic call on their setup, altering their car to roll the bottom during the open red. The move paid off for Brad, as on the restart, he pinned Schemenauer behind him and blocked his groove en route to picking up his first Deming Speedway win in the Pace Chassis #13h. Michael Faccinto raced from deep in the field to pickup second place in the last few laps. Schemenauer was the lone Washingtonian on the podium as the Stanwood native took third. Torkelson was the fast time qualifier on the night. Heat race wins went to Nate Vaughn, Jacob Brown, JR Thomas, Faccinto, Derek Holmwood and Lance Sargent. Brandon Turner won the C feature and Heath Duinkerken won the B.
Liam Ryan put on quite the show in the 1200 class, completing his run from 17th to the front on lap 28 with a low pass on Eric Turner entering turn three. The Langley, BC native and his crew nailed the setup and Liam drove away from Turner to pick up his first win in the 1200 division on the Thursday preliminary night of the 28th annual Clay Cup Nationals. Turner would hang on to second and Duane Mackey picked up third. Aaron Fell set quick time on the night and heat race wins went to Clennon Holloway, Steven Hendrickson and Tyson Cross.
Michael Faccinto was the top point scorer on night one in the 600 class, followed by Dustin O’Brien, Brock Lemley, Heath Duinkerken and Hayden Schmidt. In the 1200s, Liam Ryan scored the best on night one followed by Brock Lemley, Aaron Fell, Duane Mackey and Jared Gunderson.
Night two of the 28th annual Clay Cup Nationals kicks off on Friday night at Deming Speedway, with the gates opening at 5pm, Time Trials at 6p and Racing at 7p. If you can’t make it to the track, listen to the live call of the races 100% free of charge online at www.demingspeedway.com.
1200sFast Time – Aaron Fell 10.282
Heat 1 – Clennon Holloway, Jason Bloodgood, Fell, Jared Gunderson, Eric Drake, Randy Price, Zach Keefe
Heat 2 – Steven Hendrickson, Brock Lemley, Frosty Metcalfe, Tom Waggoner, Brad Davison, Kenzi Thomas
Heat 3 – Tyson Cross, Duane Mackey, Eric Turner, Liam Ryan, Ryan Cully, Derek Holmwood
Main – Liam Ryan, Turner, Mackey, Hendrickson, Lemley, Fell, Gunderson, Drake, Thomas, Holloway, Cross, Price, Waggoner, Bloodgood, Keefe, Holmwood, Metcalfe, Davison, Cully
Lap Leaders – Cully 1-2 Keefe 3 Thomas 4-8 Turner 9-28 Ryan 29-30
600s
Fast Time – Derek Torkelson 10.474
Heat 1 – Nate Vaughn, Chad Sinner, Hayden Schmidt, Chase Schmidt, Shaun Holtorf, Torkelson, Matt Peterson, Mike Volbrecht, Annie DeRemer
Heat 2 – Jacob Brown, Brayden Planko, Brock Lemley, Brandon Turner, Kiwi Alexander, Austin Stone, Jerrod Saddler, Robie Price, Stan Yockey
Heat 3 – JR Thomas, Dustin O’Brien, Phil Schemenauer, Koen Shaw, Larry Jenne, Dylan Black, Spud Allen, Cody Broulett, Tyler Thompson
Heat 4 – Michael Faccinto, Madison Hess, Alex Gauthier, Landon Hurst, Kyle Oman, Cory Samuelson, Sean Ramey, Steven Hendrickson, Jason Bloodgood
Heat 5 – Derek Holmwood, Jake Benson, Brandon Benson, Ryan Fischer, Heath Duinkerken, Eric Turner, Greg Hamilton, Reece Goetz
Heat 6 – Lance Sargent, Brad Hannum, Liam Ryan, Austin Sheridan, Kelly Mauck, Joe Constance, Kevin Wilkinson, Jesse Whitney, Dougie James
C Main – Brandon Turner, Hamilton, Sheridan, Black, E Turner, Volbrecht, Peterson, Thompson, Price, Fischer, Hendrickson, DeRemer, Ramey, Constance, Wilkinson, Broulett, Saddler, Bloodgood
B Main – Heath Duinkerken, Torkelson, C Schmidt, Hurst, Mauck, Stone, Yockey, Allen, Shaw, Holtorf, Alexander, Oman, Hamilton, Sheridan, Samuelson, B Turner, James, Goetz
A Main – Brad Hannum, Faccinto, Schemenauer, B Benson, O’Brien, Holmwood, Lemley, C Schmidt, Thomas, H Schmidt, Hess, Duinkerken, Brown, Planko, Hurst, Vaughn, Torkelson, J Benson, Gauthier, Sargent, Sinner, Ryan
Lap Leaders – Schemenauer 1 Hannum 2-30