1. Give Brady Bacon the deed to Grandview
Yes, winning five of six races is not as impressive as winning all six, but Brady Bacon’s flag-to-flag win in Tuesday’s USAC Eastern Storm opener at Grandview Speedway marked just that, his fifth Eastern Storm win in six races at Grandview.
.@BradyBacon WINS NIGHT ☝🏼 OF #EASTERNSTORM @gviewspeedway! @AMSOILINC | @NosEnergyDrink | @GSP_NA | @CookOut | @FloRacing pic.twitter.com/2bBUqKsxuN
— USAC Racing (@USACNation) June 15, 2022
The defending USAC national sprint car champion never lost the lead, but he had to earn Tuesday’s win, with a determined home-state driver in Briggs Danner keeping pace with him for much of the feature race.
What’s more, Grandview was the clear winner in tour kickoff races this Tuesday. The Eastern Storm opener featured two classes and ran crisply, with the headline USAC feature done before 10 p.m. local time.
That was a stark contrast from the DIRTcar Summer Nationals opener at Kankakee County Speedway in Illinois that same night, a bloated four-class program that started hours late after a hauler knocked down a power line at the track, then hosted a parade of a super late model feature on a visibly rubbered-down surface.
We’re all patiently waiting @SummerNationals for cars to run the track in @KankakeeSpdwy An earlier power outage at the facility is the reason for the delay. In the meantime, we’re currently showing last year’s race at Kankakee
— DIRTVision (@dirtvision) June 14, 2022
2. Briggs Danner breakout no fluke
Let’s go back to Mr. Danner for a second. Yes, Wednesday’s Eastern Storm feature at Bridgeport Motorsports Park was the only one of the series not to take place in Danner’s home state of Pennsylvania, but it was also here where Danner proved that his runner-up finish to Brady Bacon at Grandview was no fluke.
Danner again proved a dogged challenger for the race leader, this time Thomas Meseraull, for much of the early part of the feature. Then, out of nowhere, a fuel pickup problem for T-Mez left Danner to inherit the race lead in the closing laps.
The 20 was on rails tonight just ran out of fuel. New guy messed up on the fuel. Probably the 5th time in my career I ran out leading. Shit happens but man that F-ing sucked!
— Thomas Meseraull (@TMezdriftz) June 16, 2022
It wouldn’t pan out as a breakout win, with Danner yielding the lead and win to eventual Eastern Storm points champion Logan Seavey. But two top-five finishes…
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