LEFFEL EXTENDS POINT LEAD WITH MONTPELIER SCORE

Montpelier, IN……..Aaron Leffel of Springfield, Ohio extended his lead in the USAC Midwest Thunder Speed2 Midget series standings with Saturday night’s 20-lap feature victory at Montpelier Motor Speedway. He grabbed the lead from Alex Watson on lap nine and never looked back as Watson came home second ahead of Stratton Briggs, Jon Steed and Gunnar Lucius.

USAC SPEED2 MIDWEST THUNDER MIDGET RACE RESULTS: September 1, 2018 – Montpelier, Indiana – Montpelier Motor Speedway

FEATURE: (20 laps) 1. Aaron Leffel (#11L Taylor), 1. Alex Watson (#3 Watson), 3. Stratton Briggs (Briggs #71) ,4.  Jon Steed (#11T Taylor), 5. Gunnar Lucius (#22L Lucius), 6. Taylor Cox (#7x Cox), 7. Kevin Blue ($DW7 Blue), 8. Brent Watson (#17k Watson), 9. Don Bigelow (#4B Bigelow), 10. Tommy Bigelow (#2B Bigelow), 11. Kenny Key (#5c Key), 12. Zach Guingrich (#11G Guingrich), 13. Ben Taylor (#11T Taylor), 14. Kyle Kriegbaum (#12 Kriegbaum), 15. Tom Hunt (#12 Hunt). NT

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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-4 A.Watson, Lap 5 Leffel, Laps 6-8 A.Watson, Laps 9-20 Leffel.

NEW USAC SPEED2 MIDWEST THUNDER POINTS: 1-Leffel-652, 2-A.Watson-501, 3-Briggs-495, 4-Steed-437, 5-Chett Gehrke-432, 6-Cory Guingrich-395, 7-Jon Watson-384, 8-Trey Osborne-278, 9-Kriegbaum-273, 10-John Heydenreich-268.

NEXT USAC SPEED2 MIDWEST THUNDER RACE: September 8 – Canton, Ill. – Spoon River Speedway – w/IMRA