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Cody Coughlin claims JEGS Tour victory at Toledo

After a 13-year hiatus, the JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour returned to the site of the Tour’s inaugural event – Toledo Speedway and the event saw Cody Coughlin cleaned house between qualifying and the Pro Late Model main event.

Friday night, the HB Concerts Promenade Pavillions 100 did not disappoint as fans saw close racing and dramatic moments around the half-mile oval in the Glass City.

The day started with a new track record being laid down after over a decade in the book since 2011. Brian Campbell held the original record of 15.738 and Coughlin found just enough speed time trials to set the new record at 15.716.

After the redraw, Barrett Polhemus and Kyle Steckly led the 23-car field to the green flag.

Polhemus was able to point his No.79 to the front of the field for the first four laps before multi-time JEGS Tour Champion, Cody Coughlin took the lead on the fifth lap. On lap 31 the first slowdown of the race occurred when suddenly while running second, Brian Campbell’s No.47 erupted into a ball of flames drawing the caution. Whatever the issue was, the fire went out under the yellow flag period and Campbell was able to continue.

On the restart, Coughlin appeared to miss a shift and staked up the inside line resulting in Chase Burda, Barrett Polhemus, and Brandon Varney all spinning to the inside wall in turn one and ultimately going to the tail. Varney’s night came to an end due to brake failure.

Coughlin took control again on the next restart holding Steckly and Blake Rowe at bay. Meanwhile, Burda and Polhemus were on a mission to come through the field. Working their way back into the top-10, Burda and Polhemus both became contenders again for the win.

A fourth caution flew with just 13 laps to go while Coughlin appeared to be well on his way to another JEGS Tour triumph. Steven Ulman got sideways out of turn four and never could catch up with the No.45 before it spun to the inside of the race track and up onto a tractor tire. This set up a memorable restart.

Coughlin couldn’t shake Steckly on the start which allowed Rowe to stay in tow as well. The threesome nearly went three-wide at the exit of turn four with 11 to go. Then, Coughlin was able to pull away while Steckly and Rowe decided who would finish runner-up. Coughlin would get the nod by 1.255 seconds at the line over Steckly, Rowe, Burda, and Polhemus. The win gives Coughlin his 12th career JEGS/CRA All-Stars Tour victory and puts him in sole possession of the All-Time Wins List category over Brian Campbell.

The next event for the JEGS Tour is Saturday, August 3rd for the richest Pro Late Model Event in the country, the $15K to win Masters of the Pros 185 at Owosso Speedway.

CRA JEGS Tour
Toledo Speedway
July 26 2014

  1. Cody Coughlin
  2. Kyle Steckly
  3. Blake Rowe
  4. Chase Burda
  5. Barrett Polhemus
  6. Kevin Cremonesi
  7. Chase Pinsonneault*
  8. Jeff Vrsek
  9. Ethan Stadniczuk
  10. Greg Stilwell Jr.*
  11. Guy Fire
  12. Evan Varney
  13. Steve Ulman
  14. Keegan Sobilo*
  15. David Liaeff
  16. Justin Schroeder
  17. Brian Demland
  18. Will Sahutske*
  19. Brian Campbell
  20. Brandon Varney
  21. Brandon Oakley
  22. Dan Potts
  23. Jimmy Tucker

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