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“I kind of thought someone was closer to me than they were so I wanted to really get going at the start,” McGraw, 22, said. “The kart worked pretty good and we finally got the tires right today. I’d like to thank John Hall for the motor, Brandon Burr for the kart and Greg Vanburg for helping me out a little bit and my dad for the tires.”Sunday’s Stock Medium required two rounds of qualifying to get a full 30-racer field. McGraw earned the pole with a 14.220-seconds effort. From there he led the filed flawlessly with Allen Michael Lester chasing him the entire trip. Lester trailed by 0.634-seconds. Ethan Nipper, Mullis and Chris Thompson.
The event’s first feature, Junior 1 Purple Plate, was a 15-lap crash fest. Caution flags waved seven times before a winner was chosen. These young drivers learned from having their first feature cut by five laps. Sunday’s feature was only stopped twice by caution flags.
Davis dominated qualifying with a 15.433-seconds rounding. Nick Long was second fastest at 15.515-seconds. When the green flag flew crashing commenced. Long dove low into turn one for the lead. He was blasting down the back straight when karts behind him were tangling in turns one and two. That put Davis back on the pole. On the next start mid and backpack racers were line up single file as the top three diced up the lead until Davis settled into it.
Davis enjoyed less than lap of comfort as the third caution flag flew on lap three. Davis led the restart, but Greene got the jump on him and took the lead. Davis battled back, recaptured the lead, opened it up again only to watch it evaporate again as caution returned on lap five tightening the field into another restart. Caution waved two more times before the field got going.
Once they returned to racing Hunter Lee took the lead as the passed the 14-lap mark and next time around caution returned. With 15 laps complete AKRA officials called the race naming Lee the leader. Filling in the remaining top five of 29 were Ethan Prosser, Mason Ledbetter and Austin Sprinks.
Super Heavy’s competition was all fans and racers could expect. Returning veteran kart racer Jamie Capehart, who’s been out of the seat several seasons, out raced former favored competitor Tommy Townsend in a down to the wire match up. Joey Pierce produced the pole-winning lap. His 14.692-seconds rounding was 0.15-seconds faster than Capehart’s 14.842-seconds effort. Behind them in row two were Brian Danforth and Townsend.
Capehart led them in a single-file start. Instead of tucking in behind Capehart, Townsend powered past him. Townsend led them to the mid race mark with Capehart threatening down every straight and around every corner. Just after they got the halfway signal Capehart saw the opening he’d been looking for and took advantage of it.
Capehart crossed the stripe comfortably 2.123-seconds ahead of Townsend. Trailing Townsend in the top five were Danforth, Zach Powell and Mile Eller.
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