Franz Wins NCRA Modified Season Finale at 81 Speedway

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Franz Wins NCRA Modified Season Finale

 

Powers Garners First Career Series Championship

 

 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – October 09, 2010 - Brian Franz continued his domination of 81 Speedway has he picked up the lead early, then cruised to yet another O’Reilly/NCRA modified north feature victory in Park City, Kansas on Saturday night during the tracks annual running of the “Wix Filters/Bumper to Bumper Fall Classic.” But the real story of the final event on the 2010 race schedule was that long-time series veteran Brian Powers picked up his first career series championship in thirteen years of trying.

 

Powers and Franz started on the front row for the twenty-five lap feature with Franz jumping out into the lead as the green flag fell. Only one lap was complete when the first of three caution flags fell when Kirk Coleman came to a stop entering turn one.

 

Powers got a good jump on the restart and held a three car length advantage over Franz before the former five time series champion began to make his move on early lap four. Entering turns three and four, Franz got underneath the leader and over took the top spot coming down the front stretch. Franz would open up to a ten car length advantage throughout the event, withstood two cautions later in the feature and go on to collect his second series victory of the season and 32nd of his career aboard the Shadow Racing Engines powered Billsbuilt chassis.

 

Sixth starting Greg Stephens made his way towards the front around the races midway point and survived a four car battle between Powers, Bill Siemers, series rookie of the year Tyler Davis and Brent Burkhart throughout the middle portions of the event to come home second. Davis capped off a successful rookie season on the O’Reilly National Championship Racing Association to finish third and garnish rookie of the year honors with Siemers coming home fifth.

 

But the story of the night was Powers first ever series championship after being a series mainstay from back when the division held its first event thirteen years ago. After battling for the lead in the early portions of the event, Powers, aboard the KBS powered Hoffman Race Car chassis took a conservative approach later in the race and would finish fourth. It was his sixth top five finish in the six events that were held this season. This, coupled with his fourth heat race victory earlier in the evening helped propel him to his first series championship. He also won the 81 Speedway season track championship, a feat that had never been accomplished. Powers will be officially crowned series champion at the yearend banquet, to be held on Saturday night, January 29, 2011.

 

2008 series champion Marc Hurd, who came into the event second in the point standings, made a valiant effort for his second career series championship. Hurd had to transfer out of the “B” feature just to make the finale. The 2010 feature win leader with the series then started fifteenth in the “A” and would come home with a strong sixth place finish.

 

The ten, eight lap heat races for the 35 cars were won by Franz, Powers, Siemers and Davis while Kevin Newell took home the eight lap “C” feature. It was a start the alphabet climb as he would then compete in the “B” feature where he would finish ninth and transfer into the finale. His run would end with a sixteenth place finish in the season finale.

 

Joie of Seating 2nd Place= Stephens

 

Rod End Supply 3rd Place=Tyler Davis

 

BMS 4th Place= Powers

 

Hooker Harness 8th Place=Howell

 

C&E Performance 12th Place= Shipman

 

The O’Reilly Auto Parts National Championship Racing Association, celebrating their 40th year, would like to thank the following for their involvement with the modified north during their 13th season:

 

2010 NCRA Official Sponsors: O’Reilly Auto Parts, Hoosier Racing Tires, Sunoco Race Fuels, Hard Rock Hotel-Casino

 

2010 NCRA modified north contingency partners: Arizona Sports Shirts, Bassett Wheels, Belleville Motor Sports, C&E Performance, Hooker Harness, M&M Custom Graphics, On Another Level Designs, Racing Optics, Rod End Supply, Saldana Racing Products, Schoenfeld Headers, Taylor Cable Products, The Joie of Seating, Ultra-Shield.

 

A Feature: 1) Brian Franz 2) Greg Stephens 3) Tyler Davis 4) Brian Powers 5) Bill Siemers 6) Marc Hurd 7) Jim Johnson 8) Chad Howell 9) Dan Powers 10) Tad Davis 11) Brent Burkhart 12) Ross Shipman 13) Kirk Coleman 14) Shane Campbell 15) Justin Moler 16) Kevin Newell 17) Jason McGee 18) Harley Perry 19) Shawn Langhover, Jr. 20) Cecil Dymond

 

C Feature: 1) Kevin Newell 2) Daryl Towne 3) Jace Wedel 4) Cecil Dymond 5) Josh Loffland 6) Marlin Farr 7) Brad Johnston 8) Ted Tolin 9) Gary Whitmore 10) Shawn Langhover, jr. 11) Richard Leatherman 12) Jason Laymon 13) Casey McClaskey DNS: Carson McKeen, Ryan McAninch

 

B Feature: 1) Tad Davis 2) Brent Burkhart 3) Justin Moler 4) Kirk Coleman 5) Marc Hurd 6) Chad Howell 7) Cecil Dymond 8) Shawn Langhover, Jr. 9) Kevin Newell 10) Harley Perry 11) Gary Kilbourne 12) Clint Smith 13) Shawn Langhover 14) Josh Loffland 15) Brad Johnston 16) Ted Tolin 17) Daryl Towne 18) Marlin Farr 19) Gary Whitmore 20) JaceWedel

 

1st Heat: 1) Brian Franz 2) Jason McGee 3) Dan Powers 4) Shane Campbell 5) Marc Hurd 6) Jace Wedel 7) Kevin Newell 8) Marlin Farr 9) Brad Johnston

 

2nd Heat: 1) Brian Powers 2) Ross Shipman 3) Kirk Coleman 4) Harley Perry 5) Clint Smith 6) Daryl Towne 7) Ted Tolin 8) Jason Laymon 9) Shawn Langhover, Jr.

 

3rd Heat: 1) Bill Siemers 2) Jim Johnson 3) Chad Howell 4) Shawn Langhover 5) Brent Burkhart 6) Cecil Dymond 7) Gary Whitmore 8) Richard Leatherman 9) Ryan McAninch

 

4th Heat: 1) Tyler Davis 2) Greg Stephens 3) Justin Moler 4) Tad Davis 5) Gary Kilbourne 6) Josh Loffland 7) Carson Mckeen 8) Casey McClaskey