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POWRi Midgets - Pickens Edges Anderson For Victory At ValleySpeedway GRAIN VALLEY, June 9, 2012: New Zealand star Michael Pickensfinished two car lengths ahead of Brett Anderson to win thecombined POWRi Lucas Oil National/West Midget Series event Fridayat Valley Speedway. It was the third straight POWRi victory over the past two seasonsfor Pickens, a four-time New Zealand Midget champion. The29-year-old went two-for-two in 2011, winning at Fayette CountySpeedway in Brownstown, Ill., and Peoria (Ill.) Speedway. Pickensalso has POWRi victories in 2005 and 2007 and has additionalvictories in major series in Australia and the United States. Pickens and Anderson, the 2008 POWRi champion and 2012 pointsleader, dueled furiously following a restart with two lapsremaining on the fast one-third mile track. Pickens, driving hisBreka-Esslinger that was shipped from New Zealand, started on theoutside of the front row next to Tyler Thomas and passed the polesitter for the lead on the eighth of 30 laps. Anderson'sFontana-powered XXX had started seventh, the inside of the fourthrow, and had passed Thomas for second on the 27th lap. Anderson, of Belleville, Ill., tried to pass Pickens on the finallap, diving low in Turn Three and sliding briefly in front at theentrance to Turn Four. But Pickens was able to put the power downand accelerate out of the corner to the checkered flag in front ofAnderson. "It was an awesome finish," Pickens said. "I thought we had him, but I couldn't' make itstick," Anderson said. Pickens was able to overtake Thomas by changing lines from theoutside to the inside. He had a tremendous restart on the sixth lapto stay inches behind Thomas, who was running the outside line, fortwo laps before gong into the lead exiting Turn Two on the inside. "The track changed," Pickens said. "We went fromthe top to the middle to the bottom. I chose to run the bottom onthe restart and it's how I got past him." Anderson was attempting to win his third straight race at Valley. "I wanted to get it, but second is not bad," Andersonsaid. "There was a lot of tough competition here." Thomas was third for the final restart, but had lost his brakes.Rico Abreu of Rutherford, Calif., driving a Toyota-powered Bulletfor Keith Kunz Motorsports, passed Thomas exiting Turn Two andfinished third. Abreu had started 11th, the inside of the sixthrow. "I searched the race track and when the track got slicker, Istarted driving a lot straighter and passed," Abreu said."I got a big run off the top in Turn Two on the final lap andpassed Thomas." Jonathan Beason of Broken Arrow, Okla, finished fourth and BlakeHahn of Sapulpa, Okla., was fifth. Thomas, of Collinsville, Okla., faded to ninth. "I had an awesome race car," he said. "You needbrakes to turn it. We've been fast a lot this season and oneof these days, I'm going to close the deal." The POWRi National/West Midget Series races tonight (Saturday, June9) at Springfield (Mo.) Raceway. Pickens says he'll be therefor his final POWRi event of the season. POWRi Lucas Oil National/West Midget Series results (30 laps): 1.Michael Pickens, 2. Brett Anderson, 3. Rico Abreu, 4. JonathanBeason, 5. Blake Hahn, 6. Chett Gehrke, 7. Ryan Criswell, 8. AustinBrown, 9. Tyler Thomas, 10. Brad Kuhn, 11. Tyler Robbins, 12. RyanBernal, 13. Chris Bell, 14. Cameron Hagin, 15. Andrew Felker, 16.Riley Emmel, 17. Gavin Galbraith, 18. Todd McVay, 19. AndyMalpocker, 20. Tim Siner, 21. Jake Blackhurst, 22. Dillon Welch. I am an expert from ledlightfitting.com, while we provides the quality product, such as China Motion Sensor Led Night Light , Led Candle Light Bulbs Manufacturer, Flexible Led Ribbon Light,and more.
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