Whitt Wins 57th Hut Hundred Midget Race
Terre Haute, IN - Cole Whitt of Alpine, Calif. won Saturday’s 57th First Financial Bank “Hut Hundred” USAC Mopar National Midget race at the Terre Haute Action Track, presented by Dorsett Mitsubishi.
Whitt started alongside pole winner Brad Sweet and led the first 45 laps in his Red Bull/MMI Bullet/Esslinger Ford.
Shane Cottle, who was involved in a multi-car tangle on lap one and restarted at the back of the field, raced through the pack to take the lead on lap 46 in his Tony Stewart Racing machine. Cottle was given the opportunity to drive Levi Jones’ backup car to give TSR 3 entries in the race.
On lap 79, Whitt regained the lead and led the final 22 laps for the victory. Cottle finished second ahead of Sweet, series point leader Tracy Hines and Bobby East.
If this is an example of what Cottle can do do driving a backup car, maybe TSR should think of adding a third car to the team.
QUALIFICATIONS:
1. Brad Sweet, 49, Kahne-22.389; 2. Cole Whitt, 71, Kunz-22.563; 3. Darren Hagen, 9, Nine Racing-22.755; 4. Shane Cottle, 20s, Stewart-22.758; 5. Tracy Hines, 21, Stewart-22.771; 6. Bobby East, 4, Klatt-22.951; 7. Cole Carter, 7, Carter-22.992; 8. Brady Bacon, 99, Kahne-23.023; 9. Levi Jones, 20, Stewart-23.140; 10. Jerry Coons Jr., 11, Wilke-Pak-23.263; 11. Jason Leffler, 32, RFMS-23.518; 12. Chad Boat, 30, Boat-23.572; 13. Brad Loyet, 05s, Loyet-23.591; 14. Dakoda Armstrong, 7a, C & A-23.691; 15. Brad Kuhn, 07, Mentgen-23.772; 16. Dustin Morgan, 67, Kunz-23.876; 17. Davey Ray, 16, Sandy-23.989; 18. Joe Liguori, 28, Owen-23.990; 19. Chase Barber, 90, Barber-24.097; 20. Ricky Ehrgott, 8, Rev 1-24.127; 21. Kody Swanson, 19, Nine Racing-24.217; 22. Justin Grosz, 39, Grosz-NT.
FEATURE:
(100 laps) 1. Cole Whitt, 2. Shane Cottle, 3. Brad Sweet, 4. Tracy Hines, 5. Bobby East, 6. Dustin Morgan, 7. Darren Hagen, 8. Jerry Coons Jr., 9. Chase Barber, 10. Kody Swanson, 11. Ricky Ehrgott, 12. Davey Ray, 13. Dakoda Armstrong, 14. Brady Bacon, 15. Brad Kuhn, 16. Joe Liguori, 17. Levi Jones, 18. Brad Loyet, 19. Cole Carter, 20. Chad Boat, 21. Jason Leffler, 22. Justin Grosz. NT
FEATURE LAP LEADERS:
Laps 1-45 Whitt, Laps 46-78 Cottle, laps 79-100 Whitt.
NEW NATIONAL MIDGET POINTS:
1-Hines-1,113; 2-Whitt-1,047; 3-Sweet-982; 4-East-947; 5-Bacon-936; 6-Jones-935; 7-Hagen-875; 8-Coons-749; 9-Dave Darland-717; 10-Kuhn-688.