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Hagar Starts Season With Podium in Sprint Car and Two Top 10s in Midget Action

(Photo by Jones Sports Media)

Inside Line Promotions – WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. (April 6, 2021) – Derek Hagar earned a runner-up result during his sprint car season debut as well as a pair of top 10s behind the wheel of a midget last weekend at Riverside International Speedway, which hosted the Ricky Stenhouse Jr. Hometown Challenge.

“It was an all right weekend,” Hagar said. “I was pleased with the results. It was certainly a hectic weekend, but we made the best of it.”

Hagar won a heat race and ran second throughout the sprint car main event on Saturday.

“We started second in the heat race and led it the distance to win,” he said. “That put us starting second in the feature. We ran second for a majority of the race. About halfway through I was better in traffic than the leader. I got by him, but the caution came out before we completed a lap. We didn’t get back in traffic the rest of the way.”

Hagar also enjoyed his time wheeling a midget for Shawn Wood. A third-place heat race result on Friday lined Hagar up on the inside of the fourth row for the main event.

“We had a battery cable come loose so we didn’t finish the feature,” he said. “We had to go to the back a couple of times because the brake pedal fell off. We came from the back and we were up to sixth. I hit the brakes going to the bottom of turn one. Everything is so tight it pulled the connector loose on the battery so we didn’t get to finish.”

Hagar was credited with a ninth-place result.

He won the dash and finished second in a heat race on Saturday. That gave Hagar the fourth starting position for the main event.

“We were running fifth and got roughed up,” he said. “We had to restart at the back and we got through there to finish seventh. It was a good rebound.”

Hagar plans to return to sprint car competition this Saturday at I-30 Speedway in Little Rock, Ark.

QUICK RESULTS –

April 2 – Riverside International Speedway in West Memphis, Ark. (Midget) – Heat race: 3 (1); Feature: 9 (7).

April 3 – Riverside International Speedway in West Memphis, Ark. (Midget) – Dash: 1 (3); Heat race: 2 (2); Feature: 7 (4).

April 3 – Riverside International Speedway in West Memphis, Ark. (Sprint Car) – Heat race: 1 (2); Feature: 2 (2).

SEASON STATS –

3 races, 0 wins, 1 top five, 3 top 10s, 3 top 15s, 3 top 20s

UP NEXT –

Saturday at I-30 Speedway in Little Rock, Ark.

MEDIA LINKS –

Website: http://www.DerekHagarRacing.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/HagarDerek

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