{"id":631,"date":"2010-02-19T15:53:35","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T15:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/?p=631"},"modified":"2010-02-19T15:53:35","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T15:53:35","slug":"landis-musser-takes-opener-in-tusa-mod-lite-winter-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/front-page-news\/landis-musser-takes-opener-in-tusa-mod-lite-winter-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Landis Musser Takes Opener in TUSA Mod Lite Winter Nationals"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Landis Musser\u00a0TUSA Mod Lite Winner Thursday\u00a0 @\u00a0 East Bay Raceway Park\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2.18.10<\/p>\n

\u00a0By Charlie Brown<\/strong>, Tampa, FL \u2013 Landis Musser of Laurel, Del. barely made the starting grid for the \u201cB\u201d Main in Thursday night\u2019s TUSA Mod Lite Winter Nationals. His front brake broke just before the field took to the track and his crew just shut off the brake line and sent him out. Musser finished third to transfer to the \u201cA\u201d Main starting in 24th<\/sup> spot. The only lap he would lead was the important one as he took the lead from Apollo, Pa.\u2019s Rick Ament coming off the final turn for the checkered.<\/p>\n

Matt Hay started on the pole but Steve White quickly took control of the caution plagued 20 lap event. Fourteen year old James Hill went three wide to take second on lap two and then scrapped by White to take the lead on lap four. Hill\u2019s chances ended one lap later when he got around collecting Bud Grossenbacher.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Steve White was back out front for the restart with Curt Miles, Jr. in second and Landis Musser up from 24th<\/sup> to third. White seemed to be struggling with his car as Miles, Jr. took the lead on lap seven. Musser followed into second one lap later. White brought out the yellow on lap nine and was done for the night.<\/p>\n

\u00a0At the halfway sign the top five were Miles, Jr., Musser, Kevin McKinney, Ament and Tracy Fritter. Ament worked his way into third as cautions continued to keep the field tightly bunched. With five to go it was a five car battle up front with Miles, Jr. leading followed by McKinney, Musser, Ament and Tim White.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Musser got back by McKinney and with three laps to go crossed the line almost dead even with Miles. The two made contact in the fourth turn and Ament shot by both to take the lead. Hill got around bringing out the yellow with two laps to go. Ament held the lead on the restart with Jimmy Wills got by Paul McGinley for fourth.<\/p>\n

\u00a0McGinley got around on the final lap in the first turn collecting McKinney, Landon Cling and Scott Tessman. This set up a one lap shootout.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Ament controlled the single file restart with Musser following him down the back straight into three. Ament elected to stay in the high groove and Musser shot to the bottom of turn four to take the lead and the checkered.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cIt seemed like when I was running second they were pushing up in front of me,\u201d said Musser. \u201cI waited until the last lap then shoved it to the bottom to take it!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0Ament finished a close second with Miles, Jr. third. Fourth went to Wills and Erik McKinney rounded out the top five.<\/p>\n

\u00a0In the Junior Mod Lite 15-lap feature, Brandon Sturgis and Zac Weller picked up where they left off in the heat but this time it was Sturgis getting the upper hand early in the race. A late race caution would give Weller one more shot but Surgis would make no mistakes as he drove to the win followed by Weller, Nick Nash and Stacy Roberts.<\/p>\n

\u00a0RESULTS: (3 Transfer from each) Heat 1 \u2013 1. Matt Hay; 2. Paul McGinley; 3. Curt Miles, Jr.; 4. Jimmy Wills; 5. Matt Glanden; 6. Tex Myers; 7. Wally Billing; 8. Ken Gross.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Heat 2 \u2013 1. Steve White; 2. Ken Meadows; 3. Dylan Evans; 4. Scott Tessman; 5. Kirk Miles; 6. George Eglert; 7. Phil Asseff; 8. Jay Dye.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Heat 3 \u2013 1. James Hill; 2. Landon Cling; 3. Kevin McKinney; 4. Tim White; 5. Erik McKinney; 6. Rick Brubacher; 7. Mike Morrill; 8. Dusty Masolini<\/p>\n

\u00a0Heat 4 \u2013 1. Mark Marcucci; 2. Alan Knepper; 3. Shawn Sliter; 4. Bob Charland; 5. Chris Jestice; 6. Johnny Mordock; 7. James Parker; 8. Josh Sliter.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Heat 5 \u2013 1. Rick Ament; 2. Tracy Fritter; 3. Tim Hinneger; 4. Dallas Caldwell; 5. Jason Musser; 6. Mikey Hay; 7. Eric Hendrickson; 8. T.J. Williams.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Heat 6 \u2013 1. Bud Grossenbacher; 2. Ryan Charland; 3. Joel Huggins; 4. Landis Musser; 5. Lynn Knepper; 6. Shane Pfeuffer; 7. Scott Stenzel; 8. Ricky Yelle, Jr.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Junior Heat \u2013 1. Zac Weller; 2. Brandon Sturgis; 3. Nick Nash; 4. Stacy Roberts.<\/p>\n

\u00a0First \u201cB\u201d Main (4 to transfer): 1. Tim White; 2. Jimmy Wills; 3. Matt Glanden; 4. Erik McKinney; 5. Mikey Hay; 6. Dusty Masolini; 7. Dallas Caldwell; 8. Mike Morrill; 9. Rick Brubacher; 10. Tex Myers; 11. Jason Musser; 12. Wally Billing; 13. Kenny Gross; 14. T.J. Williams; DNS: Eric Hendrickson<\/p>\n

\u00a0Second \u201cB\u201d Main: 1. Lynn Knepper; 2. Chris Jestice; 3. Landis Musser; 4. Scott Tessman; 5. Kirk Miles; 6. Shane Pfeuffer; 7. George Eglert; 8. Jay Dye; 9. Josh Sliter; 10. James Parker; 11. Bob Charland; 12. Johnny Mordock; 13. Jason Musser; 14. Scott Stenzel; DNS: Phil Asseff<\/p>\n

\u00a0Junior \u201cA\u201d Main: 1. Brandon Sturgis; 2. Zac Weller; 3. Nick Nash; 4. Stacy Roberts.<\/p>\n

\u00a020-Lap TUSA Mod Lite \u201cA\u201d Main \u2013 1. Landis Musser; 2. Rick Ament; 3. Curt Miles, Jr.; 4. Jimmy Wills; 5. Erik McKinney; 6. Matt Hay; 7. Dylan Evans; 8. Tracy Fritter; 9. Tim White; 10. Ken Meadows; 11. Joel Huggins; 12. Kevin McKinney; 13. Landon Cling; 14. Paul McGinley; 15. Shawn Sliter; 16. Scott Tessman; 17. James Hill; 18. Steve White; 19. Mark Marcucci; 20. Bud Grossenbacher; 21. Ryan Charland; 22. Alan Knepper; 23. Matt Glanden; 24. Tim Henniger; 25. Lynn Knepper; 26. Chris Jestice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Landis Musser\u00a0TUSA Mod Lite Winner Thursday\u00a0 @\u00a0 East Bay Raceway Park\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2.18.10 \u00a0By Charlie Brown, Tampa, FL \u2013 Landis Musser of Laurel, Del. barely made […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"publish_to_discourse":"","publish_post_category":"","wpdc_auto_publish_overridden":"","wpdc_topic_tags":"","wpdc_pin_topic":"","wpdc_pin_until":"","discourse_post_id":"","discourse_permalink":"","wpdc_publishing_response":"","wpdc_publishing_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-east-bay-raceway-park","category-front-page-news","category-race-results"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":635,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions\/635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}