David Gravel earned $50,000
David Gravel made a steady move toward the front throughout the High Limit Sprint Car Series feature at Lernerville Speedway putting himself in position to take advantage of mistakes by Kyle Larson and Brad Sweet to earn a big payday in the Commonwealth Clash.
The Big Game Motorsports driver from Watertown, Connecticut earned $50,000 for his efforts on the track located in Sarver, Pennsylvania in a race aired live by FloRacing.com.
A total of 56 cars were signed in for competition
Qualifying Results:
Group A Results- 1. Brad Sweet(12.300), 2. Justin Sanders, 3. Tyler Courtney, 4. Brent Marks, 5. Rico Abreu, 6. Aaron Reutzel, 7. Tanner Thorson, 8. Brian Brown, 9. Sam Hafertepe Jr., 10. Kerry Madsen
Group B Results- 1. Ryan Timms(12.342), 2. David Gravel, 3. James McFadden, 4. Justin Peck, 5. Zeb Wise, 6. Cory eliason, 7. Austin McCarl, 8. Kyle Larson, 9. Cap Henry, 10. Kasey Kahne
Non Qualifiers Finish: 1. Jeremy Weaver, 2. Dan Shetler, 3. David Kalb, 4. Cameron Nastasi
Heat 1 Results: 1. Brad Sweet, 2. Tyler Courtney, 3. Rico Abreu, 4. Tim Shaffer, 5. Anthony Macri
Heat 2 Results: 1. Justin Sanders, 2. Brian Brown, 3. Aaron Reutzel, 4. Sye Lynch, 5. Kerry Madsen
Heat 3 Results: 1. James McFadden, 2. Ryan Timms, 3. Austin McCarl, 4. Zeb Wise, 5. Cap Henry
Heat 4 Results: 1. David Gravel, 2. Kyle Larson, 3. Justin Peck, 4. Cory Eliason, 5. Kraig Kinser
Dash Race Results: 1. Brad Sweet, 2. Kyle Larson, 3. Justin Sanders, 4. David Gravel, 5. James McFadden, 6. Ryan Timms, 7. Brian Brown, 8. Tyler Courtney
C-main Finish: 1. Brandon Spithaler, 2. Jeremy Weaver, 3. Matt Farnham, 4. David Kalb
B-main Finish: 1. Brent Marks, 2. Kasey Kahne, 3. Tanner Thorson, 4. Skylar Gee
Feature Re-cap: At the start of the 35-lap feature it was Sweet who took the lead over Larson, Sanders, McFadden and Gravel. On the second circuit it was Gravel who would get around McFadden for fourth on the lightning fast track.
Larson closed in on Sweet to challenge for the lead as the top-3 worked through heavy traffic until Timms crashed hard to bring out a red flag on lap 8. The driver walked away from the incident under his own power.
Sweet held the lead on the restart after trading sliders with Larson. Further back, Abreu burst into the top-5. But on lap 16, Larson moved by Sweet after a bobble by the No. 49 for the top spot just before a caution came out on lap 16 for the third place car of Sanders slamming the turn four wall.
At the time of the caution, it was Larson leading Sweet, Gravel, Abreu and McFadden. On the restart, Abreu jumped all the way to the runner-up spot behind Larson but a red flag for a flip by Shaffer negated the move.
Larson got away from the pack on the lap 16 restart building a relatively comfortable lead over a battle for second between Sweet and Gravel. On lap 27, Larson bicycled on the cushion dropping him well back. That elevated Sweet to the lead with Gravel and Abreu trailing.
Gravel made a pass for the lead on lap 30 with Abreu moving to second pushing Sweet to third coming to the white flag. At the checkered flag Gravel held off a late bid by Abreu to claim the lucrative win.
Feature Results: 1. David Gravel, 2. Rico Abreu, 3. Brad Sweet, 4. James McFadden, 5. Cory Eliason, 6. Aaron Reutzel, 7. Tyler Courtney, 8. Kyle Larson, 9. Zeb Wise, 10. Justin Peck, 11. Cap Henry, 12. Anthony Macri, 13. Brian Brown, 14. Kerry Madsen, 15. Brent Marks, 16. Kraig Kinser, 17. Austin McCarl, 18. Tanner Thorson, 19. Skyler Gee, 20. Tim Shaffer, 21. Justin Sanders, 22. Sye Lynch, 23. Ryan Timms, 24. Kasey Kahne
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