6/14/2015
ASCS
Hoiness Doubles Up with ASCS Frontier
(Image Credit: Stephanie Bartimus-Manley)
Andrew Kunas - BILLINGS, Mont. (June 13, 2015) After a miserable first two weeks to open his 2015 season, it looks like David Hoiness has turned his year around big time. One night after ending a winless drought of nearly two years, Hoiness found victory lane for the second night in a row in ASCS Frontier Region sprint car action when he took the checkered flag at Billings Motorsports Park.
The Billings driver, piloting the Hoiness Racing No. 27DD Wesmar powered J&J, came from the third starting position to win the 25-lap feature at the same track where he won his first career main event in 2008. With his win, he moved up to sixth in the ASCS Frontier Region point standings.
Hoiness crashed while racing for the lead in the season opening main event at Billings on May 29th and had another crash the following week at Electric City Speedway, and also struggled on other nights, which Hoiness admitted had the team's spirits down. Hoiness, however, ran strong and won a wild main event Friday night at Gallatin Speedway before completing his weekend with another win at Billings. Before Friday, his last trip to victory lane came in August 2013 at Gallatin.
Series points leader J.J. Hickle of Quilcene, Wash. extended his run of podium finishes to start the year to six with a runner-up effort in the Peterson Racing No. 23n Ostrich-powered Rocket. Outside pole-sitter Josh Ostermiller of Billings had his best finish of the season, taking third in the Harvey Ostermiller No. 12 Wesmar-powered GF1.
Phil Dietz of Laurel, Mont. maintained his second place position in the point standings after coming from ninth to finish fourth in the Dietz Prevost Racing No. 72 Kistler-powered Maxim. Hickle and Dietz, who are separated by 46 points, are the only two drivers to have finished in the Top 5 every night so far this season.
Trever Kirkland of Helena, Mont. finished fifth in the Kirkland Racing No. 37 Shark-powered Triple X. Randy Pierce, Skylar Gee, Kelly Miller, pole-sitter Tyler Liebig and Bryan Brown rounded out the Top 10.
Utah's Chauncey Filler won the B-Feature, taking Seth Ostmiller, Junior Nelson and Johnny Nelson with him to the A-Feature. Heat races earlier in the evening were won by Hickle, Joe Ramaker and Miller.
The ASCS Frontier Region sprint car tour next returns to Electric City Speedway in Great Falls, Mont. for two nights of action on Friday and Saturday, June 19th and 20th.
The Frontier Region of the American Sprint Car Series, presented in part by Speedmart Inc. is a winged 360 dirt sprint car tour racing around the state of Montana and beyond. More information on the ASCS Frontier Region can be found online at frontier.ascsracing.com or you can follow the series on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ascsfrontier. The national website of the Lucas Oil ASCS National Tour presented by MAVTV American Real is www.ascsracing.com.
Race Reults:
ASCS Frontier Region
Billings Motorsports Park – Billings, Mont.
Saturday, June 13, 2105
Car Count: 24
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 23N-J.J. Hickle; 2. P12-Randy Pierce; 3. 38-Trevor Turnbull; 4. 12X-Josh Ostermiller; 5. 99-Skylar Gee; 6. 33-Travis Stortz; 7. 4-Cliff Nelson Jr.; 8. 4N-John Nelson
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 98-Joe Ramaker; 2. 27DD-David Hoiness; 3. 75-D.J. Brink; 4. 38B-Bryan Brown; 5. 2-Shad Peterson; 6. 00-Roger Cummings; 7. 24-Leroy Brush; 8. 6-Steve Nelson
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 2JR-Kelly Miller; 2. 55-Tyler Liebig; 3. 0J-Jeremy McCune; 4. 72-Phil Dietz; 5. 37-Trever Kirkland; 6. 18-Seth Ostermiller; 7. (DNF) 74U-Chauncey Filler; DNS 51T-Tristan Spiers
B Feature (12 Laps): 1. 74U-Chauncey Filler[3]; 2. 18-Seth Ostermiller[2]; 3. 4-Cliff Nelson Jr.[5]; 4. 4N-John Nelson[6]; 5. (DNF) 6-Steve Nelson[8]; 6. (DNF) 33-Travis Stortz[1]; 7. (DNF) 24-Leroy Brush[4]; 8. (DNF) 51T-Tristan Spiers[7]
A Feature (25 Laps): 1. 27DD-David Hoiness[3]; 2. 23N-J.J. Hickle[6]; 3. 12X-Josh Ostermiller[2]; 4. 72-Phil Dietz[9]; 5. 37-Trever Kirkland[14]; 6. P12-Randy Pierce[4]; 7. 99-Skylar Gee[10]; 8. 2JR-Kelly Miller[8]; 9. 55-Tyler Liebig[1]; 10. 38B-Bryan Brown[13]; 11. 38-Trevor Turnbull[7]; 12. 74U-Chauncey Filler[17]; 13. 18-Seth Ostermiller[18]; 14. 2-Shad Peterson[16]; 15. 4-Cliff Nelson Jr.[19]; 16. 00-Roger Cummings[15]; 17. 4N-John Nelson[20]; 18. (DNF) 98-Joe Ramaker[5]; 19. (DNF) 75-D.J. Brink[11]; 20. (DNF) 0J-Jeremy McCune[12]
Submitted By: Bryan Hulbert