LAWRENCEBURG, Ind. — Chad Blonde earned his third O’Reilly All Star Circuit of Champions victory of the season in Friday night’s opener for the Hoosier Fall Classic at Lawrenceburg Speedway.
Blonde shared the front row with Danny Smith and immediately took the lead and began working traffic on the quarter-mile oval. Kraig Kinser, who started in the second row, followed in second.
After a red flag and successive yellows at the halfway point in the 30-lap run, Blonde pulled away from the field and easily beat Kinser to the checkered flag.
Smith, Greg Wilson and Dale Blaney rounded out the top five.
The finish left Smith and Wilson tied atop the standings heading into Saturday night’s point-paying finale.
The summary:
Fast time: Dale Blaney, 9.942 seconds (41 cars).
First Heat: Greg Wilson, Kody Kinser, Chad Blonde, Dale Blaney, Brad Stevens, Geoff Dodge, Scotty Williams, Ty Deckard, Miranda Throckmorton, Mike Miller.
Second Heat: Brock Mayes, Danny Smith, Craig Mintz, Brian Paulus, Todd Kane, Kent Wolters, Neil Shepherd, Matt Westfall, Kyle Simon, Dallas Hewitt.
Third Heat: Paul May, Keith Baxter, Jimmy Stinson, Kraig Kinser, Dean Jacobs, John Memmer, Lee Stark, Chris Nabor, Wayne Mcpeek, Joss Moffat.
Fourth Heat: Brian Ellenberger, Jesse Hockett, Brandon Martin, Nick Nabor, Tom Busch, Ryan Myers, Luke Hall, Hud Horton, Jimmy Light, Josh Davis.
B Main: Shepherd, Miller, Westfall, Myers, Mcpeek, Memmer, Dodge, Hall, Deckard, Stark, Light, Simon, Williams, Hewitt, Horton, Throckmorton, Wolters, C. Nabor.
Feature: Blonde, Kr. Kinser, Smith, Wilson, Blaney, Hockett, Jacobs, May, Shepherd, Miller, Myers, N. Nabor, Stinson, Mayes, Busch, Ko. Kinser, Kane, Baxter, Westfall, Martin, Ellenberger, Paulus, Stevens, Mintz.