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CMRA Championship Roadracing Series: Round seven
Hallett Motor Racing Circuit
Hallett, OK
July 16-18

By Shan Moore

Unlike past events this season, where one or two riders dominated the action, several riders claimed Expert-class wins and took home a share of CMRA purse money at round seven of the CMRA Championship Roadracing Series, held at Hallett Motor Racing Circuit near Hallett, Oklahoma.

Of the Expert winners, Phillip Lawlis was the most consistent, winning the B Superstock, A Superbike and Formula 1 Expert races. But, while Lawlis won the most races, Joe Prussiano took home the most money, as the Houstonite took home $1750 in CMRA purse and Honda contingency money for winning the C Superstock Expert event, his only race of the day.

Veteran CMRA competitor Ronnie Lunsford took home a sizable share of CMRA purse money as well after dominating the Heavyweight Twins Expert race and the Mr. Corder Racing Formula 40 Heavyweight Expert races, taking flag-to-flag wins in both races.

Jason Pirtle was another double winner, taking the Lightweight Twins and D Superbike Expert events, while first-year CMRA Expert Bryan West claimed the A Superstock Expert and B Superbike Expert races.

Dustin Dominguez, a Roadracing World Young Gun, took wins in the D Superstock Expert and the Formula CMRA Heavyweight race.

Craig Montgomery came back from a nasty crash in the C Superstock Expert event to claim first place in the C Superbike Expert race.

Tyler McDonald, 15, won the Unlimited Motard race and the 125cc GP race, which features a $500 purse, while K&N Racing-teammate Will Gruy came home with first place in the Formula CMRA Lightweight division and the Formula 2 Expert races.

Jon Francis won the Formula CMRA Middleweight event and Robert Bradlaw won the Classic Superbike race.

In the Novice ranks, Jacob Chapman won the Junior Motard race. Cory Burleson had a good day, claiming wins in the C Superstock and C Superbike Novice events, while Kyle Rivers topped the B Superstock race.

Despite the fact than several racers had skipped the event in order to make the trip to Mid-Ohio, 453 sprint entries filled the Hallett grids and 78 teams competed in Saturday’s endurance races.

In the Pace American Trailer CMRA Endurance Presented by Shogun Motorsports event, Northwest Honda Racing took a long overdue win in the Smith Cycle Center-sponsored 5-hour race. Northwest Honda Racing ran fast and consistent times and avoided the bad luck that has plagued them throughout the year to top second-place finishers Vinyl Edge Racing, who limped home with transmission problems, by a 1-lap margin.

Desert-Rats.net, the winners of the last event of the endurance series at Texas World Speedway, took third overall and first in the Unlimited Superstock division, while Big Air Racing was fourth overall and first in Middleweight Superstock.

Village Idiots, who were leading the overall endurance series standings going into the Hallett weekend, suffered a crash and assorted mechanical problems which dropped them to a disappointed sixth overall, but they gained valuable class points by placing first in the Middleweight Superbike class, and so maintain the points lead in that class.

Faltless Racing continues to lead the Lightweight Superbike point standings after posting yet another win in the division, but only after trailing Team K&N early in the race.

In the Mini Endurance 2-hour race, held Saturday morning, Team K&N topped Sum of All Parts Racing by 1:23.400 to claim the overall and Formula 4 wins, while AF1 Racing ran a strong race to win the Formula 5 division over 2Wheelz.com.

STD Racing won the Formula 6 class while Speed Demonz were tops in the Formula 7 class.

In the Mini Sprint races, Will Gruy bested Tyler McDonald for the Formula 4 win, while Bill Hirstius was first in the Formula 6 race, ahead of Laura Browning.

Anthony Smith won the AF1 Racing Formula 5 race, which features a $250 purse, topping Jayme Jernigan and Kyle Rivers in the process, while Derek Wagnon won the Formula 7 event.

The CMRA continues its season of championship events with round 8 of the series at MotorSport Ranch, near Cresson, Texas on August 28-29.