Scherer Breaks Through at PSC Brawl in Blackwell
November 10th, 2012 – Blackwell, TX: The Nitto Tire National Championship Series came to a finale last weekend at the PSC Brawl in Blackwell, Texas. The race was held at Texana Ranch and brought together the top 50 Ultra4 drivers from the 4WD Hardware Eastern Regional Series and the Trail-Gear Western Regional Series in a head to head race that had fans on the edge of their seat. The top four finishers completed the 176 miles within 4 minutes of each other with third place Chris Hoyt and fourth place Mike Colville coming in literally nose to tail across the finish line.
2009 King of The Hammers Winner and PSC driver, Jason Scherer started the race in the pole position and maintained a significant lead throughout the first few laps. However, issues with clogged fuel injectors saw him slip into 5th place on the 3rd lap. After replacing four of his eight injectors, Scherer had 65 miles left and needed to not only overtake the four cars that had passed him, but also to finish five minutes ahead of Chris Hoyt and three minutes ahead of 2nd place Jason Shipman to be declared the winner of the PSC Brawl in Blackwell. With his fastest lap time of the entire race – 1 hour and 2 minutes, Scherer was able to overtake the physical lead and have an overall finish time that was more than two minutes ahead of 2nd place Ultra4 driver, Jason Shipman.
Ultimately, it would be 1st place, Jason Scherer, 2nd Place Jason Shipman, 3rd place Chris Hoyt, 4th Place Mike Colville and 5th place, Ultra4 Nitto Tire National Champion, Nick Nelson. The top 5 drivers were a true mix of east meets west; Shipman and Colville both gaining entry into the race from 4WD Hardware Eastern Regional Series and Scherer, Hoyt and Nelson all part of the Trail-Gear Western Regional Series.
Blackwell, Texas was also the last race in 2012 that would grant entry to 2012 Ultra4 drivers into the 2013 Griffin King of The Hammers race. 25 of the 48 drivers competing in the PSC Brawl in Blackwell had not yet qualified to compete in Johnson Valley in February. After this weekend’s race, 11 teams qualified by successfully completing the PSC Brawl in Blackwell and an additional 5 teams qualified based on series points and having raced a minimum of 3 races including Texas in the Ultra4 Series.
The following is the complete list of drivers and their finishing order.
Place
Car#
Driver Name
Final Time
KOH Qual
1
76
Jason Scherer
4:45:34 (1)
*
2
4414
Jason Shipman
4:47:54 (2)
*
3
53
Chris Hoyt
4:48:21 (3)
*
4
4418
Mike Colville
4:49:26 (4)
*
5
4404
Nick Nelson
5:00:57 (5)
*
6
4428
Loren Healy
5:08:51 (6)
*
7
4481
Alex Hardaway
5:11:37 (7)
t
8
4403
Ben Dinkins
5:12:36 (8)
*
9
4446
Gary Ferravanti Sr
5:25:33 (9)
*
10
26
Clay Gilstrap
5:26:34 (10)
t
11
4429
Travis Watford
5:33:54 (11)
t
12
4580
Jordan Townsend
5:34:46 (12)
t
13
4419
Jeremy Dickenson
5:46:14 (13)
*
14
4441
Darren Henke
5:49:25 (14)
*
15
321
Tom Wayes
5:49:41 (15)
*
16
4471
TJ Flores
6:03:02 (16)
*
17
4476
Kevin Gamble
6:03:18 (17)
t
18
524
Mark Danzo
6:07:25 (18)
t
19
4472
Dustin Isenhour
6:13:22 (19)
t
20
4444
Jason Pickett
6:24:02 (20)
*
21
69
Toby Harrell
6:25:11 (21)
t
22
81
Levi Shirley
6:28:15 (22)
*
23
927
Doug Kahlstrom
6:37:32 (23)
t
24
890
Jonathan Terhune
6:39:03 (24)
*
25
4456
Mike Feagins
6:46:34 (25)
t
26
4469
Jack Childers
6:50:13 (26)
t
DNF
429
Troy Stone
s
DNF
104
Jim Brown
s
DNF
4470
Clint Ellett
s
DNF
701
Greg Lundeen
s
DNF
338
Matt Peterson
s
DNF
4455
Andy Brown
*
DNF
4343
Tim Diekmann
*
DNF
4436
Kim Matzen
DNF
595
Tony Arledge
DNF
18
Brian Shirley
*
DNF
33
Spencer Murphy
DNF
4433
Adam Carter
DNF
4420
Derek West
*
DNF
4421
Erik Miller
*
DNF
9
Scott Decker
DNF
49
Matt Burkett
DNF
63
Nathan Unruh
DNF
5252
Bill Baird
*
DNF
4407
Cottin Rodd
*
DNF
5
Shannon Campbell
*
DNF
42
Aaron Peters
DNF
4452
Will Carter
*
DNS
366
John Sweet
*
DNS
4
Mike Odom
S = Series Qualified
T = Texas Qualified
* Already Qualified