Pro 4 write up about Round 4 in Lucas Oil: The final race of the weekend was Pro 4 Unlimited, and in a tremendous show of good will and sportsmanship, Eric Barron was back out on track thanks to fellow competitor Jerry Daugherty. After Barrons truck was burned badly in his horrific crash last night, Daugherty stepped in and handed Barron his backup truck for the night. At the head of the field, Kyle LeDuc took the early lead in his #99 Monster Energy/Toyo Tires Ford, ahead of Carl Renezeder in the #17 Lucas Oil/General Tire Nissan, Rob MacCachren in the #21 Rockstar/Makita Ford, Ricky Johnson in the #48 Red Bull/KMC Wheels Ford, and Doug Fortin in the #96 Fortin Racing, Inc./Tilton Toyota. On lap two, Todd LeDuc got by Fortin for fifth going into turn two, and on lap four, a rollover by Rob MacCachren in turn three led to a red flag after his truck had a brief but nonetheless alarming flash fire. MacCachren had landed on his wheels, and started to jump out when the fire hit, but wound up staying in after the fire flamed out, and was able continue once the field got rolling again, though he now ran down in tenth spot. Racing resumed on lap six, with Kyle LeDuc, Renezeder, Johnson, Todd LeDuc, and Fortin now running in the top five. Todd LeDuc broke his right front suspension and was therefore suddenly quite slow coming out of turn one on lap seven, and as the field scrambled to get by without hitting him, a charging Rob MacCachren moved all the way back up to fourth. At the end of the lap, Fortin kissed the wall on the right side of the track just before the start/finish line, and while he managed to save it, the incident was a scary reminder of the event that triggered Barrons crash last night. Greg Adler got by Fortin thanks to that error and moved up to fifth in his #10 ProComp/G2 Ford, but then spun at turn three on the next lap, and dropped back to last place before he was able to re-fire and continue. Several laps followed without any change of positions within the top five, but by lap 15, Renezeder was starting to make a little headway on Kyle LeDuc, after LeDuc had gone basically unchallenged up to that point. Renezeder closed in quickly over the final three laps, and although he was still a bit too far back to make a realistic move on LeDuc, he did dive very deep into the final corner to try and make something happen. Unfortunately for Renezeder, something did happen: his steering broke. Coming out of the corner, Renezeder stood on the gas, and his truck went straight ahead, sending him veering towards the catch fence. Renezeder was able to get on the brakes, but after nosing against the wall, he suffered a somewhat embarrassing slow rollover, one from which he emerged unharmed, giving the crowd in the far grandstands a bow for his part in the incident. Up front, LeDuc got his second win in as many races, making him the second driver to sweep the weekend in his respective class. Johnson came home second, and MacCachren recovered very well from his early rollover to round out the podium in third. Fortin stuffed his front end into a hole and suffered front suspension damage on the penultimate lap, which slowed him substantially, and allowed Adler to move up to fourth, with Brandon Bailey also getting by on the last lap to finish fifth in the #72 MavTV/Solar World Ford.
Posted on: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 17:54:45 +0000
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