5/29/2021
WSS - Wingless Sprint Series
There's A New Lindsey In Town
19 Wingless sprints would pack into the pits for opening night of the Modern Machinery Salute to Indy weekend.
First up would be King of the Harbor knockout qualifying which would have multiple rounds of qualifying in a last man standing format. Beginning with the Semi Finals these would become 1v1 for quickest lap in each round. Semi final 1 would have Lindsay Barney vs Chad Lindsey, which would see Barney victorious. Semi final 2 would be Shawn Rice vs Tim Alberding, with Rice victorious. That would leave Barney and Rice to go at it for 3 laps. To tell you how close these two were. In the opening round, they tied for fastest overall all the way to the thousandth of a second. Rice would have the fastest lap on the opening lap, but Barney would take over the top spot on her lap 2 time and hold on to be claimed the Queen of the Harbor.
From there, we’d head to 3 heat races. Heat 1 would have Lindsay Barney holding off a strong Mitch Hoffses for the win. Heat 2 would have Kinzer Cox get to front and not look back for the win. Heat 3 was domination from Rob Lindsey as he cruised the 23 to a easy win.
Heading into the dash, no one wanted to claim the front row as the first 6 to redraw would claim the 2nd-4th rows, leaving number 7 and 8 in points the 1 and 2 pills. That would give Chad Lindsey the inside pole and Nate Geister starting p2. Chad would get the early jump and not look back on a difficult track condition as passing became very difficult. Him and Nate would capitalize though, earning them both front row starting spots in the main.
In the 30 lap Main, we’d see Chad Lindsey get the early jump but he wasn’t alone long. Kinzer Cox would start the pressure early on lap 4, getting to the top spot on lap 7. Cox would unfortunately see mechanical issues take him from the race leading on lap 12, handing the lead back to Chad. With a new chance to hold on for his first career win, Chad would take full advantage. Through multiple timely yellows as he reached traffic for him, and great restarts over and over again. Chad would finish the last 18 laps virtually unchallenged holding off what at the end what was a Proud Dad in Rob Lindsey watching right behind in 2nd. Tim Alberding would finish 3rd with Shawn Rice 4th, and a string WSS debut for Mitch Hoffses rounding out the top 5.
This would be career win number 1 for Chad Lindsey. We continue tonight for 40 laps and $1,500 on the line at GHR.
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