KOFOID’S SECOND CONSECUTIVE POWRi SUCCESS

Belleville, ILLINOIS: Michael “Buddy” Kofoid notched his second straight Lucas Oil POWRi National and West Midget League feature victory at I-44 Riverside Speedway, leading every lap on the way to wrapping up the Ninth Annual Turnpike Challenge presented by Super Clean.

Checking in a stout field of twenty-two Lucas Oil POWRi National and West Midget League competitors for the final night of the season-opening weekend of racing, Chance Crum clocked quickest hot-lap time with an 11.325-second lap as Jade Avedisian, Michael Kofoid, and Cannon McIntosh each earned a heat race victory while Kofoid notched the high-point award using a monstrous sixth-to-first passing-point heat race run.

Kofoid shot straight to the lead at the start of the feature race over the outside front-row starter Jade Avedisian. Seeing Kofoid racing in the lead,.

Surviving the onslaught of late-race restarting runs by a close contending McIntosh, Kofoid maintained the lead for the entire thirty-lap feature event and captured his eighteenth career POWRi National Midget victory tying his with Tanner Thorson for seventh on the All-Time Victory list.

“Going into one I felt like I was relatively unchallenged, so on the restarts, I tried to keep doing the same things to build up enough of a gap down the back straight and doing that I knew I would be okay” stated a very happy Kofoid in victory lane. Adding, “This KKM team continues to give me a great midget night in and night out and I love coming here to I-44 Riverside Speedway.”

Closely racing behind the leader, Cannon McIntosh earned the runner-up position and Bryant Weideman made a late-race surge to place third. Brenham Crouch and Jade Avedisian broke out into a slider-fest by exchanging spots several times during the event with Crouch placing fourth, leaving Avedisian to round out the feature’s top-five finishers.

Lucas Oil A Feature (30 Laps): 

1. 67-Michael Kofoid[1]; 2. 08-Cannon McIntosh[3]; 3. 01-Bryant Wiedeman[4]; 4. 97-Brenham Crouch[5]; 5. 84-Jade Avedisian[2]; 6. 11A-Andrew Felker[7]; 7. 87-Jace Park[11]; 8. 71-Kaylee Bryson[6]; 9. 83-Dominic Gorden[20]; 10. 17-Tanner Berryhill[14]; 11. 26-Chance Crum[9]; 12. 25K-Taylor Reimer[10]; 13. 71E-Mariah Ede[22]; 14. 7U-Kyle Jones[15]; 15. 40-Chase McDermand[12]; 16. 21-Emilio Hoover[19]; 17. 44-Branigan Roark[13]; 18. 32-Trey Marcham[8]; 19. 17B-Austin Barnhill[17]; 20. 19U-Pierce Urbanosky[16]; 21. 15-Corey Joyner[18]; 22. 29K-Brian Harvey[21].