Alberson Takes Pole Position in USA Nationals at Cedar Lake
Photo by Emily Schwanke
NEW RICHMOND, Wis.—When Garrett Alberson makes his second USA Nationals Feature start on Saturday night, he’ll do so from the front of the field.
It was a strong night from start to finish for the Roberts Motorsports camp, as Alberson qualified second in his group and won his Heat Race from the pole to make the Heat Race Winners Dash. He pulled the four in the Redraw, putting him on the outside of Row 2 for the six-lap sprint behind Tyler Bruening, Jake Timm and Chris Madden.
The front row stayed side-by-side through Turns 1 and 2 on the opening lap, but Timm got enough of a run up high to pull ahead down the backstretch. While the No. 49 led the way, Bruening stayed on the bottom and left the top open for Alberson to squeak by and into second a lap later.
Alberson wasn’t done making hay on the cushion, as he quickly caught the back of Timm’s car and went to his outside in Turn 3. Exiting the corner, Timm came too far up the track off Turn 4, and with Alberson beside him, the two made contact and Timm pounded the frontstretch wall to end his race.
That gave the second spot to Bruening for the restart with three to go, but Alberson went straight back to the cushion and left the field in his dust to earn the Bilstein Pole Award for Saturday night.
“This stuff’s really hard, and it means a lot to start up front there,” Alberson said regarding the incident with Timm. “We’re trying hard and I want it really bad. I’m sorry to Jake and all his fans. I pushed too hard right there, I really did. I had a run, I was just trying to make it exciting, I hoped I could make it through there and we just didn’t. Sorry to them guys.”
Gustin, Madden, Jonathan Davenport, Bruening and Timm completed the finishing order to set the first three rows for Saturday.
The night ended with the FANS Fund Dash, which saw 11 drivers voted in by the fans battle it out for a guaranteed spot in the USA Nationals main event. Devin Moran made his way from sixth to second in the first half of the 12-lap contest, got to the outside of Gordy Gundaker and never looked back to punch his ticket to the Saturday Feature.
“We just threw a couple things at it right there,” Moran said. “That’s the cleanest the track’s been all weekend. I tried running the very bottom and it wasn’t quite as good, I moved up a little bit and I could roll right through the middle really, really good. Huge thank you and shoutout to the FANS Fund for doing this. We’re locked into the race tomorrow, so that’s a little bit relieving.”
RACE NOTES:
Cade Dillard set the Dirt King Simulators Fastest Hot Lap.
Tyler Bruening won the Simpson Quick Time Award.
Tyler Bruening won Real American Beer Heat 1.
Jonathan Davenport won STAKT Products Heat 2.
Chris Madden won Keyser Manufacturing Heat 3.
Ryan Gustin won Jarrett Rifles Heat 4.
Garrett Alberson won Real American Beer Heat 5.
Jake Timm won Real American Beer Heat 6.
Garrett Alberson won the Bilstein Pole Award.
UP NEXT: The USA Nationals concludes on Saturday, Aug. 2, with the 100-lap, $100,000-to-win, Feature for the World of Outlaws Real American Beer Late Model Series presented by DIRTVision. Tickets will be available at the gate.
If you can’t make it to the track, stream every lap live on DIRTVision.
WOORLD OF OUTLAWS LATE MODEL RESULTS
Real American Beer Heat Race 1 (10 Laps): 1. 16-Tyler Bruening[1]; 2. 96-Tanner English[3]; 3. 25F-Jason Feger[4]; 4. 60-Dan Ebert[5]; 5. 99-Devin Moran[2]; 6. 3S-Brian Shirley[6]; 7. 22*-Drake Troutman[7]; 8. 1*-Chub Frank[8]; 9. 38-Thomas Hunziker[9]
STAKT Products Heat Race 2 (10 Laps): 1. 49D-Jonathan Davenport[1]; 2. 19-Dustin Sorensen[2]; 3. 71-Hudson O'Neal[8]; 4. 40B-Kyle Bronson[7]; 5. 111-Max Blair[4]; 6. 99B-Boom Briggs[5]; 7. 1X-Aaron Marrant[3]; 8. 77-Jordan Yaggy[6]; 9. 43-Derrick Stewart[9]
Keyser Mfg Heat Race 3 (10 Laps): 1. 44-Chris Madden[2]; 2. B1-Brent Larson[7]; 3. 32-Bobby Pierce[4]; 4. 97-Cade Dillard[1]; 5. 9-Nick Hoffman[3]; 6. 75M-Dillon McCowan[5]; 7. 0-Jake O'Neil[6]; 8. 19J-Justin Green[8]
Jarrett Rifles Heat Race 4 (10 Laps): 1. 19R-Ryan Gustin[1]; 2. 1-Brandon Sheppard[2]; 3. 76-Brandon Overton[3]; 4. 11-Gordy Gundaker[4]; 5. 11G-Trevor Gundaker[5]; 6. 10C-AJ Diemel[7]; 7. 90-Lance Matthees[8]; 8. 9T-Tim Isenberg[6]; 9. 21X-Joel Collins[9]
Real American Beer Heat Race 5 (10 Laps): 1. 58-Garrett Alberson[1]; 2. 9M-Tim McCreadie[4]; 3. 157-Mike Marlar[3]; 4. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr[9]; 5. 18-Chase Junghans[7]; 6. 1T-Tyler Erb[5]; 7. 20TC-Tristan Chamberlain[2]; 8. 74X-Ethan Dotson[6]; 9. 21-Billy Moyer Sr[8]
Real American Beer Heat Race 6 (10 Laps): 1. 49-Jake Timm[1]; 2. 28-Dennis Erb Jr[3]; 3. 2-Cody Overton[2]; 4. 38T-Dylan Thornton[4]; 5. 75-Daniel Adam[5]; 6. 8-Matthew Larson[7]; 7. 74-Mitch McGrath[8]; 8. 28M-Sam Mars[6]
Real American Beer LM Qual A (2 Laps): 1. 16-Tyler Bruening, 00:13.644[8]; 2. 49D-Jonathan Davenport, 00:13.805[2]; 3. 97-Cade Dillard, 00:13.932[7]; 4. 99-Devin Moran, 00:13.965[16]; 5. 19-Dustin Sorensen, 00:13.973[5]; 6. 44-Chris Madden, 00:14.019[25]; 7. 96-Tanner English, 00:14.107[17]; 8. 1X-Aaron Marrant, 00:14.166[1]; 9. 9-Nick Hoffman, 00:14.167[15]; 10. 25F-Jason Feger, 00:14.202[13]; 11. 111-Max Blair, 00:14.215[4]; 12. 32-Bobby Pierce, 00:14.217[20]; 13. 60-Dan Ebert, 00:14.249[18]; 14. 99B-Boom Briggs, 00:14.263[9]; 15. 75M-Dillon McCowan, 00:14.267[10]; 16. 3S-Brian Shirley, 00:14.331[22]; 17. 77-Jordan Yaggy, 00:14.340[3]; 18. 0-Jake O'Neil, 00:14.387[26]; 19. 22*-Drake Troutman, 00:14.395[12]; 20. 40B-Kyle Bronson, 00:14.444[21]; 21. B1-Brent Larson, 00:14.469[14]; 22. 1*-Chub Frank, 00:14.513[19]; 23. 71-Hudson O'Neal, 00:14.707[23]; 24. 19J-Justin Green, 00:15.185[24]; 25. 38-Thomas Hunziker, 00:15.576[11]; 26. (DQ) 43-Derrick Stewart, 00:14.346[6]
Real American Beer LM Qual B (2 Laps): 1. 19R-Ryan Gustin, 00:14.234[8]; 2. 58-Garrett Alberson, 00:14.264[9]; 3. 49-Jake Timm, 00:14.295[3]; 4. 1-Brandon Sheppard, 00:14.326[14]; 5. 20TC-Tristan Chamberlain, 00:14.327[2]; 6. 2-Cody Overton, 00:14.331[16]; 7. 76-Brandon Overton, 00:14.386[5]; 8. 157-Mike Marlar, 00:14.396[10]; 9. 28-Dennis Erb Jr, 00:14.399[19]; 10. 11-Gordy Gundaker, 00:14.433[12]; 11. 9M-Tim McCreadie, 00:14.467[24]; 12. 38T-Dylan Thornton, 00:14.496[25]; 13. 11G-Trevor Gundaker, 00:14.528[6]; 14. 1T-Tyler Erb, 00:14.543[4]; 15. 75-Daniel Adam, 00:14.585[20]; 16. 9T-Tim Isenberg, 00:14.610[18]; 17. 74X-Ethan Dotson, 00:14.641[22]; 18. 28M-Sam Mars, 00:14.658[15]; 19. 10C-AJ Diemel, 00:14.661[11]; 20. 18-Chase Junghans, 00:14.691[17]; 21. 8-Matthew Larson, 00:14.745[13]; 22. 90-Lance Matthees, 00:14.813[7]; 23. 21-Billy Moyer Sr, 00:14.890[23]; 24. 74-Mitch McGrath, 00:14.892[1]; 25. 21X-Joel Collins, 00:15.570[26]; 26. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr, 00:15.570[21]
Feature Dash (6 Laps): 1. 58-Garrett Alberson[4]; 2. 19R-Ryan Gustin[5]; 3. 44-Chris Madden[3]; 4. 49D-Jonathan Davenport[6]; 5. 16-Tyler Bruening[1]; 6. 49-Jake Timm[2]
F.A.N.S Fund Dash (12 Laps): 1. 99-Devin Moran[6]; 2. 11-Gordy Gundaker[4]; 3. 1*-Chub Frank[1]; 4. 20RT-Ricky Thornton Jr[10]; 5. 25F-Jason Feger[5]; 6. 11G-Trevor Gundaker[3]; 7. 76-Brandon Overton[11]; 8. 99B-Boom Briggs[7]; 9. 21-Billy Moyer Sr[2]; 10. 44-Chris Madden[8]; 11. 58-Garrett Alberson[9]
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Late Models
Sabre Heating Air Conditioning A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 81-Ashley Anderson[10]; 2. 44-Adam Hensel[3]; 3. 22P-Nick Panitzke[2]; 4. 4TW-Tim Ward[4]; 5. 29F-Dave Flynn[1]; 6. 11G-James Giossi[13]; 7. 7X-Jesse Glenz[7]; 8. 44B-Darrell Nelson[12]; 9. 11-Pat Doar[5]; 10. 27-Jake Redetzke[11]; 11. 1M-Chad Mahder[16]; 12. 22E-Kevin Eder[23]; 13. F50-Ryan Corbett[6]; 14. 3-Brett Swedberg[20]; 15. 07-Cory Crapser[21]; 16. 7A-Shane Sabraski[9]; 17. 71-Rick Hanestad[15]; 18. 4G-Bob Gardner[18]; 19. 155-Gavin Shaw[22]; 20. 32-Jordan Tollakson[19]; 21. 37X-Skeeter Estey[8]; 22. 4C-Brandon Corbett[24]; 23. 18X-Shawn Meyer[17]; 24. (DNF) 5E-Shane Edginton[14]
Sabre Heating Air Conditioning B Feature 1 (12 Laps): 1. 32-Jordan Tollakson[5]; 2. 07-Cory Crapser[4]; 3. 22E-Kevin Eder[16]; 4. 68-Mike Prochnow[2]; 5. 71JR-Buddy Hanestad[3]; 6. 15X-Blake Boelens[11]; 7. 99-Sawyer Specht[7]; 8. 42-Johnny Emerson[12]; 9. 44*-Cole Schill[8]; 10. 2-Rusty Kollman[6]; 11. 4-Cory Bruggeman[13]; 12. 51-Chris Oertel[1]; 13. 90T-Gavin Tarras[9]; 14. 34-Jordan Langer[10]; 15. 23-Steve Vizer[14]; 16. (DNS) 70-Jesse Teunis
Sabre Heating Air Conditioning B Feature 2 (12 Laps): 1. 3-Brett Swedberg[6]; 2. 155-Gavin Shaw[4]; 3. 4C-Brandon Corbett[1]; 4. 22-Brett Shafer[2]; 5. 90-Lance Matthees[3]; 6. 7C-Jim Carlson[12]; 7. 15*-Ryan Mikkelson[15]; 8. 04JR-Adam Ayotte[11]; 9. 85-John Kaanta[5]; 10. 1-Lukas Koski[7]; 11. 9T-Tim Isenberg[10]; 12. 88-Steve Hucovski[16]; 13. 73-Brandon Englund[13]; 14. (DNF) 14-Robbie Johnson[8]; 15. (DNS) 28-Sam Mars; 16. (DNS) 55N-Greg Nippoldt
Sabre Heating Air Conditioning Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 44-Adam Hensel[2]; 2. 44B-Darrell Nelson[1]; 3. 27-Jake Redetzke[6]; 4. 4C-Brandon Corbett[3]; 5. 07-Cory Crapser[4]; 6. 90-Lance Matthees[9]; 7. 1-Lukas Koski[8]; 8. 28-Sam Mars[10]; 9. 7C-Jim Carlson[5]; 10. 73-Brandon Englund[7]
Sabre Heating Air Conditioning Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 22P-Nick Panitzke[1]; 2. 4TW-Tim Ward[6]; 3. 71-Rick Hanestad[2]; 4. 37X-Skeeter Estey[10]; 5. 155-Gavin Shaw[3]; 6. 2-Rusty Kollman[5]; 7. 44*-Cole Schill[7]; 8. 9T-Tim Isenberg[4]; 9. (DNF) 55N-Greg Nippoldt[8]; 10. (DNF) 15*-Ryan Mikkelson[9]
Sabre Heating Air Conditioning Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 29F-Dave Flynn[1]; 2. 7A-Shane Sabraski[3]; 3. 1M-Chad Mahder[2]; 4. 11G-James Giossi[8]; 5. 22-Brett Shafer[7]; 6. 3-Brett Swedberg[5]; 7. 85-John Kaanta[10]; 8. 15X-Blake Boelens[4]; 9. (DNF) 70-Jesse Teunis[9]; 10. (DNF) 22E-Kevin Eder[6]
Sabre Heating Air Conditioning Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 11-Pat Doar[4]; 2. 81-Ashley Anderson[3]; 3. 18X-Shawn Meyer[2]; 4. 51-Chris Oertel[5]; 5. 4G-Bob Gardner[9]; 6. 32-Jordan Tollakson[7]; 7. 14-Robbie Johnson[1]; 8. 04JR-Adam Ayotte[6]; 9. 4-Cory Bruggeman[8]; 10. 23-Steve Vizer[10]
Sabre Heating Air Conditioning Heat 5 (8 Laps): 1. 7X-Jesse Glenz[1]; 2. F50-Ryan Corbett[8]; 3. 5E-Shane Edginton[4]; 4. 68-Mike Prochnow[2]; 5. 71JR-Buddy Hanestad[6]; 6. 99-Sawyer Specht[5]; 7. 90T-Gavin Tarras[7]; 8. 34-Jordan Langer[9]; 9. 42-Johnny Emerson[10]; 10. (DNF) 88-Steve Hucovski[3]
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