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2012 Indiana Sprint Week |
| July 13 2012 - Gas City I-69 Speedway |
Gas City, Indiana…….Noblesville, Indiana driver Bryan Clauson kicked off
AMSOIL “Indiana Sprintweek” in style with a commanding victory in Friday’s
30-lap Main Event at Gas City I-69 Speedway. The win marked the third visit to
victory lane for the Curb Records – R&B Trucker’s #7 Maxim/Fisher.
It was a race-long duel with five-time series champion Levi Jones, who led early
in the Tony Stewart/Curb-Agajanian Racing – Chevrolet Performance #20 Maxim/Kistler.
Clauson split two cars off turn-two and jumped to the cushion to grab second
quickly. From there, it was a high-low battle with Clauson screaming on the top
while Jones tried to hold him off on the bottom.
Clauson powered around the outside to take the lead on lap five, but he gave it
right back on lap eight after slipping over the edge of turns three and four.
Jones adjusted his line with a second chance at the lead, heading to the top in
turns one and two. Clauson changed his game, though, and dove across the bottom
looking for the lead. The two nearly made contact on multiple occasions off
turn-two as Clauson slid up and Jones darted by to protect his lead.
Finally, Clauson grabbed the lead for good with a slide-job on lap 19 that
cleared Jones easily in turn-two. It was the second-career Sprintweek win for
Clauson, and the 14th National Sprint Car win of his career.
“I had to be patient there with Levi on the bottom. I knew if I could hang with
the top long enough and not make mistakes, we’d be good. You can’t count on him
to make too many mistakes, so we had to force the issue as much as possible to
put pressure on him. We finally were able to clear him there. He had kinda taken
the line away up top there, so I tried to check out the bottom in one and two,
and kinda had to slide him to get clear,” Clauson said.
As Clauson pulled away, a great three-car battle unfolded for the runner-up
spot, as Jon Stanbrough slid by Jones for the the position in the final laps
aboard the Roberts/Tate Racing – Leer Racing #21x DRC/Speedway.
“At the end, the left-rear was going flat and the right-rear was sealed over. I
was just trying to roll through there. We had a heckuva battle toward the end
with Levi there. We had to work at it tonight. It might have been good to miss
the transfer in the heat, as we won the B and learned a little bit about the
race track,” Stanbrough said.
Jones held off Dave Darland to round out the podium.
“We were good early in the race. We got to where we were draggin’ the left rear
around there and didn’t have quite enough drive. We raced Bryan pretty hard for
a while, and Stanbrough was coming pretty hard at the end. We just gave up a
little too much and ended up third,” Jones said.
Darland finished fourth in the Jeff’s Jam-It-In Storage – AMSOIL #11
Maxim/Claxton, while Shane Cottle ended up fifth in the Epperson Painting #2
DRC/Claxton.
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AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: July 13, 2012 – Gas City, IN – Gas
City I-69 Speedway – “Indiana Sprint Week”
QUALIFYING: 1. Brent Beauchamp, 11B, Beauchamp-11.901; 2. Bryan Clauson, 7,
Tucker/BCI/Curb-Agajanian-11.931; 3. Hunter Schuerenberg, 35, Byram-11.983; 4.
Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-12.063; 5. Dave Darland, 11, Walker-12.103; 6. Darren
Hagen, 69, Dynamics-12.111; 7. Chase Stockon, 32, Stockon-12.130; 8. Levi Jones,
20, Stewart/Curb-Agajanian-12.135; 9. Shane Cottle, 2, Epperson-12.206; 10. Jon
Stanbrough, 21x, Roberts/Tate-12.212; 11. Ted Hines, 12, Hines-12.247; 12.
Scotty Weir, 77, Wingo-12.266; 13. Jon Sciscoe, 57, Hazen-12.271; 14. Kevin
Thomas, Jr., 9K, BlackJack-12.288; 15. Damion Gardner, 71, DG-12.291; 16. Robert
Ballou, 81, MPHG-12.292; 17. Bobby East, 5E, East-12.301; 18. Andrew Elson, 27A,
Elson-12.303; 19. Thomas Meseraull, 41, Stensland-12.322; 20. C.J. Leary, 30,
Leary-12.342; 21. Matt Goodnight, 39, Goodnight-12.342; 22. Chris Gurley, 12G,
Team Automotive-12.347; 23. Josh Clemons, 71c, Pederson-12.384; 24. Dakota
Jackson, 3, Jackson-12.403; 25. Chris Windom, 5, Baldwin-13.404; 26. Wes
McIntyre, 83, McIntyre-12.411; 27. Chad Boespflug, 98, Boespflug-12.414; 28.
Matt Mitchell, 37, Mitchell-12.425; 29. Jerry Coons, Jr., 71P, Phillips-12.462;
30. Jonathan Hendrick, 68, Hendrick-12.473; 31. Justin Grant, 40, Hery-12.478;
32. Logan Jarrett, 29, Jarrett-12.501; 33. Coleman Gulick, 14, Gulick-12.508;
34. Chase Briscoe, 5B, Briscoe-12.537; 35. A.J. Hopkins, 42G, Jackson-12.560;
36. Seth Parker, 38P, Parker-12.588; 37. Brady Short, 36, Short-12.617; 38. Kyle
Cummins, 3c, Cummins-12.641; 39. Josh Burton, 04, Burton-12.646; 40. Casey
Shuman, 10E, Edison-12.717; 41. Richard VanderWeerd, 10, VanderWeerd-12.743; 42.
Travis Welpott, 18, Welpott-12.773; 43. Wesley Gordon, 23H, Harner-12.881; 44.
Tyler Hewitt, 21H, Hewitt-12.888; 45. Jace VanderWeerd, 88, VanderWeerd-12.889;
46. Garrett Abrams, 32x, Abrams-12.940; 47. Kevin Studley, 57x, Studley-13.045.
NON-QUALIFIERS RACE: (8 laps) 1. Gulick, 2. Parker, 3. Short, 4. Hopkins, 5.
Shuman, 6. Cummins, 7. Briscoe, 8. Burton, 9. Gordon, 10. Welpott, 11. J.
VanderWeerd, 12. Hewitt, 13. Studley, 14. R. VanderWeerd, 15. Abrams. NT
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Cottle, 2. Coons, 3. Darland, 4. Gulick, 5. Windom, 6.
Beauchamp, 7. Shuman, 8. Sciscoe, 9. Goodnight, 10. East. NT
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Thomas, 2. Clauson, 3. Hagen, 4. Gurley, 5. Elson, 6.
Stanbrough, 7. Hendrick, 8. McIntyre, 9. Cummins, 10. Parker. 2:17.68
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Schuerenberg, 2. Meseraull, 3. Gardner, 4. Boespflug,
5. Short, 6. Stockon, 7. Grant, 8. Ted Hines, 9. Briscoe, 10. Clemons. NT
FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Ballou, 2. Jones, 3. Weir, 4. Tracy Hines, 5. Jackson,
6. Mitchell, 7. Leary, 8. Jarrett, 9. Hopkins, 10. Burton. NT
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Stanbrough, 2. Stockon, 3. Beauchamp, 4. East, 5. Elson, 6.
Sciscoe, 7. Jackson, 8. Clemons, 9. Ted Hines, 10. McIntyre, 11. Hendrick, 12.
Mitchell, 13. Leary, 14. Short, 15. Hopkins, 16. Shuman, 17. Jarrett, 18. Grant,
19. Burton, 20. Briscoe, 21. Goodnight, 22. Parker, 23. Windom, 24. Cummins. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Bryan Clauson, 2. Jon Stanbrough, 3. Levi Jones, 4. Dave
Darland, 5. Shane Cottle, 6. Jon Sciscoe, 7. Damion Gardner, 8. Scotty Weir, 9.
Jonathan Hendrick, 10. Chase Stockon, 11. Jerry Coons, Jr., 12. Kevin Thomas,
Jr., 13. Bobby East, 14. Chad Boespflug, 15. Darren Hagen, 16. Hunter
Schuerenberg, 17. Chris Gurley, 18. Thomas Meseraull, 19. C.J. Leary, 20.
Coleman Gulick, 21. Brent Beauchamp, 22. Tracy Hines, 23. Robert Ballou, 24.
Andrew Elson. NT
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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-4 Jones, Laps 5-7 Clauson, Laps 8-18 Jones, Laps
19-30 Clauson.
**Elson flipped during the Feature.
NEW AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT POINTS: 1-Stanbrough-828; 2-Jones-802; 3-Darland-759;
4-Gardner-744; 5-Tracy Hines-694; 6-Clauson-640; 7-Windom-610; 8-Hagen-609;
9-Schuerenberg-599; 10-Ballou-592.
AMSOIL INDIANA SPRINT WEEK POINTS: 1-Clauson-72; 2-Stanbrough/Jones-61;
4-Darland-59; 5-Cottle-56; 6-Gardner-48; 7-Sciscoe-46; 8-Weir-45; 9-Coons-38;
10-Thomas-37.
NEXT AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT RACE: July 14 – Kokomo, IN – Kokomo Speedway –
“Indiana Sprint Week”
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| July 14 2012 - Kokomo Speedway |
KOKOMO HALTED BY RAIN, RESCHEDULED FOR MONDAY
Rain interrupted Saturday night’s AMSOIL “Indiana Sprint Week” racing program at
the Kokomo Speedway after practice had been completed. The program has been
rescheduled for Monday night, July 16. A field of 44 cars was on hand prior to
the rain.
AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: July 14, 2012 – Kokomo, Indiana –
Kokomo Speedway – 25th AMSOIL “Indiana Sprint Week"
RACING PROGRAM HALTED BY RAIN AND RESCHEDULED FOR MONDAY NIGHT, JULY 16
**Ballou flipped during practice.
NEXT AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT RACE: July 15 – Lawrenceburg (IN) Speedway – 25th
AMSOIL “Indiana Sprint Week”
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| July 15 2012 - Lawrenceburg Speedway |
Lawrenceburg, Indiana…….Ione, California driver Justin Grant survived a crazy
30-lap Main Event on Saturday to pick up his first-career USAC AMSOIL National
Sprint Car win at Lawrenceburg Speedway, capping off Night 2 of AMSOIL “Indiana
Sprintweek.”
Grant started 11th, but he could only watch as the battle raged up front. Bryan
Clauson jumped to the early lead but was quickly joined by Chris Windom, who
moved to the lead on lap 5. Windom stretched out his lead, but that came to an
abrupt halt on lap 8 as he hit the turn-three wall and flipped. He climbed out
unscathed.
Dave Darland assumed the lead, but Clauson came calling again. Using the extreme
upper regions of the speedway, Clauson finally circled Darland in turn-two for
the lead on lap 19 as Grant was moving into the top-five. Just a lap later,
Jonathan Hendrick’s fine run up to third after setting fast time ended as he
slowed to a stop.
After a caution two laps later for Shane Cottle, who went up in smoke while in
third, Clauson checked out on the field. Grant was on the move and stole second
from Darland, who made contact with Grant the next lap and spun in turn one.
With just two laps to go, Clauson’s right-rear tire deflated under yellow and he
was forced to head for the work area. With Clauson restarting, Grant ran two
mistake-free laps to notch the popular victory in the Sunset Meats – S&H Nerf
Bars #40 DRC/Claxton.
“My driver got lost on the way here, and we showed up after hot laps. It worked
out alright. I could see Clauson’s right-rear going flat, and I love to get a
win any way I can, but you hate to see that for him. It’s incredible to win our
first USAC feature. I gotta thank Mark Hery so much for letting me run this
thing all the time. He just wants to race all the time, which is great,” Grant
said.
Damion Gardner came home second after starting 12th in the DG Racing – Pace
Lighting #71 Eagle/Shaver.
“The car was good in the main. My guys are working really hard. We just gotta
get a little better start. It’s hard to start 12th and beat these guys. It’s
about being there and maybe having a shot at the end. I tried to be smooth, and
I was hoping for him to make a mistake. I just wasn’t comfortable enough to
throw any banzai move at him,” Gardner said.
Coleman Gulick capped off and eventful night with his best career finish, a
third aboard the Hazardous Sports – Rob’s Market #14 DRC/Claxton.
“It’s a great night for us. I gotta thank Fred Click, our new head wrench. My
crew has been on me about being patient and hitting my marks. It’s ok to run the
bottom every once in a while. I kinda stuck with that and it worked out for us
tonight. Maybe you’ll see me down there a little more,” Gulick said.
Hunter Schuerenberg made a comeback late in the feature to pick off a few spots
and finish fourth in the Fatheadz Eyewear – R&B Trucker’s #35 Spike/Rider, and
Levi Jones picked up the “Hard Charger Award” after coming from 21st to finish
fifth in the Tony Stewart/Curb-Agajanian Racing – Chevy Performance #20 Maxim/Kistler.
AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: July 15, 2012 – Lawrenceburg, IN –
Lawrenceburg Speedway – 25th AMSOIL “Indiana Sprint Week”
QUALIFYING: 1. Jonathan Hendrick, 68, Hendrick-13.703; 2. Tracy Hines, 4,
Hines-13.716; 3. C.J. Leary, 30, Leary-13.794; 4. Dave Darland, 11,
Walker-13.815; 5. Jon Stanbrough, 21x, Roberts/Tate-13.912; 6. Chris Windom, 5,
Baldwin-13.913; 7. Coleman Gulick, 14, Gulick-13.918; 8. Bryan Clauson, 7,
Tucker/BCI/Curb-Agajanian-13.921; 9. Matt Mitchell, 37, Mitchell-13.948; 10.
Shane Cottle, 2, Epperson-13.956; 11. Chase Stockon, 32, Stockon-13.965; 12.
Justin Grant, 40, Hery-14.030; 13. Damion Gardner, 71, DG-14.031; 14. Hunter
Schuerenberg, 35, Byram-14.071; 15. Bobby East, 5E, East-14.092; 16. Kyle
Cummins, 3c, Cummins-14.131; 17. Logan Hupp, 9H, Hupp-14.137; 18. Chad Boespflug,
98, Boespflug-14.158; 19. Scotty Weir, 77, Wingo-14.161; 20. Wes McIntyre, 83,
McIntyre-14.170; 21. Jerry Coons, Jr., 71P, Phillips-14.188; 22. Brady Short,
36, Short-14.214; 23. Dakota Jackson, 3, Jackson-14.232; 24. Robert Ballou, 81,
MPHG-14.237; 25. Jace Vander Weerd, 88, Vander Weerd-14.237; 26. Logan Jarrett,
29, Jarrett-14.249; 27. Brett Burdette, 17B, Burdette-14.256; 28. Levi Jones,
20, Stewart/Curb-Agajanian-14.260; 29. Ted Hines, 12, Hines-14.278; 30. Darren
Hagen, 69, Dynamics-14.284; 31. Richard Vander Weerd, 10, Vander Weerd-14.294;
32. Andrew Elson, 27A, Elson-14.312; 33. Thomas Meseraull, 18, Keen-14.317; 34.
Kevin Thomas, Jr., 9K, BlackJack-14.355; 35. Brent Beauchamp, 11B,
Beauchamp-14.492; 36. Chase Briscoe, 5B, Briscoe-14.558; 37. Jeff Bland, Jr.,
38, Bland-14.604; 38. Kevin Studley, 57, Studley-14.725; 39. Drew Abel, 04,
Abel-15.145.
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Coons, 2. Stanbrough, 3. Hupp, 4. J. Vander Weerd, 5.
Mitchell, 6. Hendrick, 7. Ted Hines, 8. Meseraull, 9. Bland, 10. Gardner.
2:25.68
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Schuerenberg, 2. Tracy Hines, 3. Cottle, 4. Windom, 5.
Boespflug, 6. Thomas, 7. Jarrett, 8. Hagen, 9. Studley, 10. Short. NT
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Jackson, 2. East, 3. Stockon, 4. Beauchamp, 5. Leary,
6. Burdette, 7. R. Vander Weerd, 8. Abel, 9. Weir, 10. Gulick. 2:27.99
FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. McIntyre, 2. Ballou, 3. Darland, 4. Clauson, 5. Jones,
6. Elson, 7. Grant, 8. Cummins, 9. Briscoe. NT
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Hendrick, 2. Gulick, 3. Grant, 4. Leary, 5. Jones, 6.
Gardner, 7. Mitchell, 8. Boespflug, 9. Elson, 10. Meseraull, 11. Jarrett, 12.
Weir, 13. Short, 14. R. Vander Weerd, 15. Hagen, 16. Thomas, 17. Ted Hines, 18.
Briscoe, 19. Burdette, 20. Abel, 21. Studley, 22. Cummins. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Justin Grant, 2. Damion Gardner, 3. Coleman Gulick, 4.
Hunter Schuerenberg, 5. Levi Jones, 6. Robert Ballou, 7. Tracy Hines, 8. Jon
Stanbrough, 9. Chase Stockon, 10. Bobby East, 11. Matt Mitchell, 12. Jerry
Coons, Jr., 13. Darren Hagen, 14. Kevin Thomas, Jr., 15. Brent Beauchamp, 16.
Logan Hupp, 17. C.J. Leary, 18. Wes McIntyre, 19. Dave Darland, 20. Jace Vander
Weerd, 21. Dakota Jackson, 22. Bryan Clauson, 23. Shane Cottle, 24. Jonathan
Hendrick, 25. Chris Windom. NT
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-4 Clauson, Laps 5-7 Windom, Laps 8-18 Darland, Laps
19-28 Clauson, Laps 29-30 Grant.
**Windom flipped on lap 8 of the Feature.
NEW AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT POINTS: 1-Stanbrough-876; 2-Jones-851; 3-Gardner-802;
4-Darland-783; 5-Hines-748; 6-Clauson/Schuerenberg-658; 8-Ballou-644;
9-Hagen-636; 10-Windom-629.
NEW AMSOIL INDIANA SPRINT WEEK POINTS: 1-Jones-110; 2-Stanbrough-109;
3-Gardner-106; 4-Schuerenberg-92; 5-Clauson-90; 6-Darland-83; 7-Stockon-78;
8-Gulick/Tracy Hines/Coons/Cottle-75.
NEXT AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT RACE: July 16 – Kokomo, IN – Kokomo Speedway – 25th
AMSOIL “Indiana Sprint Week”
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| July 16 2012 - Kokomo Speedway |
Kokomo, Indiana…….Dave Darland of Lincoln, Indiana returned to victory lane
at his hometown track as he ran the mean cushion of Kokomo Speedway to Monday
night’s 30-lap Feature win. It was Darland’s record 16th-career AMSOIL “Indiana
Sprintweek” victory.
Local youngster Logan Jarrett shot to the early lead, but it was Jon Stanbrough
flexing his muscle on lap two to grab the lead and check out on the field. The
fast pace set by Stanbrough left a gaggle of cars fighting for top-five spots
while he put many lapped cars in between them.
Meanwhile, Bryan Clauson was on a tear through the field. With Stanbrough way
out front, Clauson sliced through Darland, Tracy Hines, and Levi Jones to take
the second spot, but he was well behind the leader.
With just nine laps remaining, the caution flew for Kyle Cummins, and leader Jon
Stanbrough had to pit with a flat right-rear tire. Clauson assumed the lead, and
after a restart with six laps remaining, Darland made his move for the lead.
After Darland stalked him on the cushion, Clauson jumped to the top on the
restart. But Darland was ready, and he fired a slider into the first corner.
Clauson countered him, but the following lap saw Darland find his line against
the cushion in turns one and two, and he flashed by Clauson down the backstretch
for the lead.
Darland survived one more restart to take the win in the Jeff Walker Racing #11
Maxim/Claxton Chevy sponsored by Jeff’s Jam-It-In Storage and Parker Store.
“To race here at Kokomo and run that cushion like that, up close to the wall all
the way around is just a blast. I gotta thank Jeff Walker and everybody who
helps us. I didn’t want to see that yellow when I was gaining on him, but we got
a good restart and got going up on the top,” Darland said in front of an
energized crowd.
Clauson fended off Jones for the second spot in the Curb Records – R&B Trucker’s
#7 Maxim/Fisher.
“The boys had it hooked up again. When it gets up on the fence like that,
though, you’re gonna have a hard time beating Darland. You saw that, he drove
right by us. It’s a good bounce back from last night, and hopefully we can keep
the momentum going. We feel like we’ve had the best car all three nights, but
Darland just got me tonight,” Clauson said.
Jones ended up third after starting ninth in the Tony Stewart/Curb-Agajanian
Racing – Chevy Performance #20 Maxim/Kistler Chevy.
“Bryan and I were having a pretty good race there for a while. Then all of a
sudden, Dave got rolling on the top. He’s won 170,000 races here around the top,
it seems like. He’s still the best running the cushion here. We hate to lose,
and we’ve been really close every night. We’ve got a day to work on our car and
looking forward to four more nights,” Jones said.
Hunter Schuerenberg finished fourth in the Fatheadz Eyewear – R&B Trucker’s #35
Spike/Rider, while Darren Hagen rounded out the top-five in the Mean Green –
Oxydol #69 Chalk/Stanton Mopar.
AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: July 16, 2012 – Kokomo, IN –
Kokomo Speedway – 25th AMSOIL “Indiana Sprint Week”
QUALIFYING: 1. Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-12.825; 2. Bobby East, 5E, East-12.891; 3.
Brent Beauchamp, 11B, Beauchamp-12.905; 4. Dave Darland, 11, Walker-12.952; 5.
Levi Jones, 20, Stewart/Curb-Agajanian-13.030; 6. Richard VanderWeerd, 10,
VanderWeerd-13.031; 7. Hunter Schuerenberg, 35, Byram-13.034; 8. Darren Hagen,
69, Dynamics-13.040; 9. Chad Boespflug, 98, Boespflug-13.041; 10. Matt Mitchell,
37, Mitchell-13.043; 11. Jon Stanbrough, 21x, Roberts/Tate-13.046; 12. C.J.
Leary, 30, Leary-13.057; 13. Logan Jarrett, 29, Jarrett-13.071; 14. Justin
Grant, 40, Hery-13.093; 15. A.J. Hopkins, 14H, Hopkins-13.112; 16. Scotty Weir,
77, Wingo-13.126; 17. Bryan Clauson, 7, Tucker/BCI/Curb-Agajanian-13.154; 18.
Damion Gardner, 71, DG-13.165; 19. Jerry Coons, Jr., 71P, Phillips-13.184; 20.
Casey Shuman, 10E, Edison-13.247; 21. Coleman Gulick, 14, Gulick-13.266; 22.
Chase Stockon, 32, Stockon-13.267; 23. Chris Windom, 5, Baldwin-13.289; 24.
Jonathan Hendrick, 68, Hendrick-13.306; 25. Kyle Cummins, 3c, Cummins-13.307;
26. Thomas Meseraull, 41, Stensland-13.323; 27. Robert Ballou, 81, MPHG-13.344;
28. Wesley Gordon, 23H, Harner-13.384; 29. Logan Hupp, 9H, Hupp-13.454; 30.
Dakota Jackson, 3, Jackson-13.471; 31. Kevin Thomas, Jr., 9K, Black Jack-13.479;
32. Shane Cottle, 2, Epperson-13.545; 33. Jace Vander Weerd, 88, Vander
Weerd-13.571; 34. Andrew Elson, 27A, Elson-13.592; 35. Josh Burton, 04,
Burton-13.662; 36. Drew Abel, 04x, Abel-13.738; 37. Chris Gurley, 12G, Team
Automotive-13.776; 38. Wes McIntyre, 83, McIntyre-13.910; 39. Seth Parker, 38P,
Parker-13.987; 40. Tyler Hewitt, 21H, Hewitt-14.427.
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Clauson, 2. Gulick, 3. Boespflug, 4. Jarrett, 5. Hines,
6. Jones, 7. Hupp, 8. Cummins, 9. Gurley, 10. J. Vander Weerd. 2:13.99
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Stockon, 2. Gardner, 3. East, 4. Mitchell, 5. Grant,
6. McIntyre, 7. Elson, 8. Meseraull, 9. R. Vander Weerd, 10. Jackson. NT
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Windom, 2. Stanbrough, 3. Thomas, 4. Coons, 5.
Schuerenberg, 6. Ballou, 7. Hopkins, 8. Beauchamp, 9. Parker, 10. Burton. NT
FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Shuman, 2. Hendrick, 3. Weir, 4. Darland, 5. Leary, 6.
Hagen, 7. Cottle, 8. Gordon, 9. Hewitt. 2:13.77
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Hines, 2. Jones, 3. Schuerenberg, 4. Beauchamp, 5. Cummins,
6. Hagen, 7. McIntyre, 8. Grant, 9. Cottle, 10. Leary, 11. Elson, 12. Jackson,
13. Hupp, 14. Meseraull, 15. Parker, 16. Hopkins, 17. J. Vander Weerd, 18.
Gurley, 19. Gordon, 20. Ballou, 21. Hewitt. 2:46.01
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Dave Darland, 2. Bryan Clauson, 3. Levi Jones, 4. Hunter
Schuerenberg, 5. Darren Hagen, 6. Casey Shuman, 7. Chase Stockon, 8. Jerry
Coons, Jr., 9. Kevin Thomas, Jr., 10. Bobby East, 11. Matt Mitchell, 12. Robert
Ballou, 13. Damion Gardner, 14. Chris Windom, 15. Scotty Weir, 16. Jonathan
Hendrick, 17. Jon Stanbrough, 18. Chad Boespflug, 19. C.J. Leary, 20. Logan
Jarrett, 21. Tracy Hines, 22. Coleman Gulick, 23. Jace Vander Weerd, 24. Kyle
Cummins, 25. Brent Beauchamp. NT
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1 Jarrett, Laps 2-21 Stanbrough, Laps 22-25 Clauson,
Laps 26-30 Darland.
**Abel flipped in Qualifying. R. Vander Weerd flipped in Heat 2.
NEW AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT POINTS: 1-Jones-910; 2-Stanbrough-902; 3-Darland-851;
4-Gardner-836; 5-Hines-771; 6-Clauson-723; 7-Schuerenberg-711; 8-Hagen-685;
9-Ballou-673; 10-Windom-662.
NEW AMSOIL INDIANA SPRINT WEEK POINTS: 1-Jones-169; 2-Clauson-155;
3-Darland-151; 4-Schuerenberg-145; 5-Gardner-140; 6-Stanbrough-135;
7-Stockon-128; 8-Coons-119; 9-East-112; 10-Hines-98.
NEXT AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT RACE: July 18 – Terre Haute, IN – Terre Haute Action
Track – “Don Smith Classic” – 25th AMSOIL “Indiana Sprint Week”
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| July 18 2012 - Terre Haute Action Track |
CLAYTON COMES OFF BENCH, WINS AT TERRE HAUTE
Terre Haute, Indiana…….Daron Clayton made just his third start of the season
with the AMSOIL National Sprint Car Series on Thursday night in the “Don Smith
Classic” at the Terre Haute Action Track, and he made it count. The Sikeston,
Missouri driver took advantage of his pole starting spot and endured thirty
grueling laps around the famed half-mile to take the win in front of a frenzied
crowd.
Clayton shot out to the lead over Sunday’s winner Justin Grant, and it was off
to the races. Coleman Gulick quickly showed himself as a contender to beat as he
moved to the second spot. He moved in on Clayton and nearly took the lead off
turn-four on one occasion before Clayton settled in and pulled away. As the
top-two raced together, Bryan Clauson and Dave Darland reeled them in. Darland
briefly looked for second before his left-rear shredded on lap 16 while running
third.
From there, Clauson became the hunter as he disposed of Gulick on the restart.
Clauson, who changed an engine after setting Fast Time, closed in on the leader
before fading late in the race as his right-rear tire was coming apart. Jon
Stanbrough jumped to the second spot and closed slightly, but no one would stop
Clayton from an emotional win, capped with wild victory donuts down the front
stretch in the Ray Morgan Motorsports #92 Spike/Chevy.
“The history here is phenomenal. I can’t even explain what it means to me to win
here. It’s my third win here. I’m still in shock a little bit at winning another
one here. I had Ray (Morgan) to keep me sane down in turn three, telling me how
my lead was. It’s so hard for me to start out front and stay there. I was
searching around, trying to find the best place to be. This place changes so
much during the race. It was a fine line up there trying to run the high line,
and it worked out well,” Clayton said of his seventh career USAC win.
Stanbrough soldiered home second in the Roberts/Tate Racing – Leer Racing #21x
DRC/Speedway.
“Once I got by Bryan, I tried to run the car a little harder and I think that
made it worse. We blistered both rear tires, and you just lose all your forward
bite when you do that. Hopefully we can dig out of sixth in Sprintweek points
and keep digging. Maybe we can still get there,” Stanbrough said.
After a battle with Levi Jones over the final few laps, Tracy Hines came away
with third in the MP Environmental Services – Support Esophagus Cancer Research
#4 DRC/Shaver.
“We fell back early a little bit. We finally got the top line going pretty good
and went back forward. I felt like we were staying with them at the very end,
but not any faster. It was a demanding track tonight. Track was really good. The
place is definitely hard on the engines, as ours got really hot. We were pretty
good at the end, though,” Hines said.
Jones brought it home fourth after starting 11th in the Tony Stewart/Curb-Agajanian
Racing – Chevy Performance #20 Maxim/Kistler Chevy. Gulick held on to score a
top-five in the Hazardous Sports – Rob’s Market #14 DRC/Claxton Chevy.
AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: July 18, 2012 – Terre Haute, IN –
Terre Haute Action Track – “Don Smith Classic” – 25th AMSOIL “Indiana Sprintweek”
QUALIFYING: 1. Bryan Clauson, 7, Tucker/BCI/Curb-Agajanian-19.538; 2. Jon
Stanbrough, 21x, Roberts/Tate-19.733; 3. Darren Hagen, 69, Dynamics-19.753; 4.
Coleman Gulick, 14, Gulick-19.845; 5. Damion Gardner, 71, DG-19.855; 6. Levi
Jones, 20, Stewart/Curb-Agajanian-19.892; 7. Dave Darland, 11, Walker-19.912; 8.
Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-19.943; 9. Blake Fitzpatrick, 10, 19.949; 10. Justin
Grant, 40, Hery-19.984; 11. Matt Mitchell, 37, Mitchell-19.988; 12. Daron
Clayton, 92, Clayton-19.989; 13. Kevin Thomas, Jr., 9K, BlackJack-20.015; 14.
Robert Ballou, 81, MPHG-20.024; 15. Hunter Schuerenberg, 35, Byram-20.054; 16.
Braylon Fitzpatrick, 3F, Fitzpatrick-20.054; 17. Bobby East, 5E, East-20.090;
18. Chad Boespflug, 98, Boespflug-20.100; 19. Jerry Coons, Jr., 71P,
Phillips-20.104; 20. Chris Windom, 5, Baldwin-20.113; 21. Chase Stockon, 32,
Stockon-20.137; 22. Shane Cottle, 2, Epperson-20.216; 23. Wes McIntyre, 83,
McIntyre-20.254; 24. Kyle Cummins, 3c, Cummins-20.333; 25. C.J. Leary, 30,
Leary-20.338; 26. Scotty Weir, 77, Wingo-20.379; 27. Dakota Jackson, 3,
Jackson-20.505; 28. Thomas Meseraull, 41, Stensland-20.580; 29. Chase Briscoe,
5B, Briscoe-20.748; 30. Logan Jarrett, 29, Jarrett-20.767.
FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Stockon, 2. Thomas, 3. Blake Fitzpatrick, 4. Leary, 5.
Gardner, 6. East, 7. Briscoe, 8. Clauson. 2:41.99
SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Cottle, 2. Grant, 3. Boespflug, 4. Ballou, 5.
Stanbrough, 6. Jones, 7. Weir, 8. Jarrett. 2:45.94
THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. McIntyre, 2. Schuerenberg, 3. Coons, 4. Darland, 5.
Jackson, 6. Hagen, 7. Mitchell. 2:44.39
FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Windom, 2. Hines, 3. Clayton, 4. Gulick, 5. Cummins, 6.
Braylon Fitzpatrick, 7. Meseraull. 2:42.74
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Stanbrough, 2. Jones, 3. Clauson, 4. Hagen, 5. Gardner, 6.
Braylon Fitzpatrick, 7. Meseraull, 8. Jarrett, 9. Briscoe, 10. Jackson, 11.
Weir, 12. Cummins. 4:08.40
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Daron Clayton, 2. Jon Stanbrough, 3. Tracy Hines, 4. Levi
Jones, 5. Coleman Gulick, 6. Robert Ballou, 7. Damion Gardner, 8. Jerry Coons,
Jr., 9. Bryan Clauson, 10. Chris Windom, 11. Darren Hagen, 12. Shane Cottle, 13.
Dave Darland, 14. Chase Stockon, 15. Hunter Schuerenberg, 16. Blake Fitzpatrick,
17. Wes McIntyre, 18. Thomas Meseraull, 19. Chad Boespflug, 20. C.J. Leary, 21.
Kevin Thomas, Jr., 22. Justin Grant. NT
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-30 Clayton.
**Mitchell flipped in Heat 3.
NEW AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT POINTS: 1-Stanbrough-968, 2-Jones-965, 3-Darland-883,
4-Gardner-881, 5-Hines-832, 6-Clauson-767, 7-Schuerenberg-741, 8-Ballou-723,
9-Hagen-721, 10-Windom-703.
NEW INDIANA SPRINT WEEK POINTS: 1-Jones-224, 2-Stanbrough-201, 3-Clauson-199,
4-Gardner-185, 5-Darland-183, 6-Schuerenberg-175, 7-Coons-164, 8-Stockon-161,
9-Hines-159, 10-Gulick-151.
NEXT AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT RACE: July 19 – Putnamville, IN – Lincoln Park
Speedway – 25th AMSOIL “Indiana Sprint Week”
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| July 19 2012 - Lincoln Park Speedway |
| Rained Out - Rescheduled for July 22, 2012 |
| July 20 2012 - Bloomington Speedway |
KEVIN THOMAS, JR. TAKES FIRST CAREER WIN AT BLOOMINGTON
Bloomington, Indiana…….Kevin Thomas, Jr. from Cullman, Alabama captured his
first career win in Friday’s AMSOIL National Sprint Car Series 30-lapper at
Bloomington Speedway. The youngster narrowly missed winning four weeks ago at
Wilmot Raceway in Wisconsin, but he would not let this one slip away.
Dave Darland let at the outset, but it didn’t take long for Thomas to come
calling. While the leaders were bottled up on the bottom, Thomas flew to the top
shelf. From his starting position to eighth, Thomas tracked down Darland to take
the lead off turn-two on lap six.
From there, it was a test of mental strength. Thomas appeared to have a strong
car on restarts, but over a few laps, Darland would creep back in as they
approached slower cars. Each time, just as they entered traffic, a caution
appeared. Thomas used the final restart with nine laps remaining to stretch his
lead even larger. Darland closed as the white flag flew, but Thomas was not to
be denied as he took the win in the Black Jack Oil – Indy Metal Finishing #9K
Spike/Kistler.
“(Crew chief) Bubby (Jones) just gave me a great race car and told me to drive
the hell out of it. Everybody was huggy-poling at the beginning. Our car was a
little snug, and I could run hard up higher. It worked out great for us. I
didn’t really have a choice but to go for it. For the yellows to come out like
they did, I was really fortunate. We probably were not gonna be as good in
traffic, so those were big breaks for us. We’ve been struggling up here for a
few years, and now we’ve got a great sponsor and crew chief, and this is just a
dream come true right now,” Thomas said.
After the great battle throughout the race with Thomas, Darland held on for
second in the Jeff’s Jam-It-In Storage – Parker Store of Arizona #11
Maxim/Claxton.
“That was pretty physical out there for an old man. It’s hard to know where to
be when you’re in the lead. I figured the bottom would be tough to beat. He must
have found something up there and went by us. It’s unfortunate we couldn’t stay
green and get into traffic. I gotta thank my team and Bloomington Speedway for a
great track,” Darland said.
The other story of the race was the impressive climb of Fairland, Indiana driver
Brent Beauchamp, who also jumped to the top early in the race and put on a show
flying through the pack in the Competition Suspension – Concrete Connection #11B
Spike/Foxco. Beauchamp started 15th and finished third, picking up the “Hard
Charger Award” while notching his best-career finish with the National Series.
“Everybody just kinda was stuck on the bottom at the start. I had to just go
where they weren’t. This is just great. I’m just taking this week race-by-race.
If we run good one night, we’ll go to the next. We weren’t going to Terre Haute
from the beginning, but now I’m kinda wishing I had. We just haven’t been able
to put it together like this, so it’s just a huge confidence booster,” Beauchamp
said.
Jerry Coons, Jr. came home fourth in the R&B Trucker’s – Jockish Flowers #71P
DRC/Foxco for the Phillips Motorsports team, while Bryan Clauson rounded out the
top-five after starting tenth in the Curb Records – R&B Trucker’s #7
Maxim/Fisher.
AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: July 20, 2012 – Bloomington, IN –
Bloomington Speedway – “Indiana Sprint Week”
QUALIFYING: 1. Shane Cottle, 2, Epperson-11.307; 2. Kevin Thomas, 9k, Black
Jack-11.326; 3. Darren Hagen, 69, Dynamics-11.333; 4. Damion Gardner, 71,
DG-11.373; 5. Chase Stockon, 32, Stockon-11.385; 6. C.J. Leary, 30,
Leary-11.390; 7. Dave Darland, 11, Walker-11.391; 8. Jerry Coons Jr., 71p,
Phillips-11.421; 9. Levi Jones, 20, Stewart/Curb-Agajanian-11.423; 10. Logan
Jarrett, 29, Jarrett-11.434; 11. Bryan Clauson, 7, CTR/BCI/Curb-Agajanian-11.436;
12. Justin Grant, 40, Hery-11.438; 13. Jon Stanbrough, 21x, Roberts/Tate-11.449;
14. Daron Clayton, 92, Clayton-11.468; 15. Casey Shuman, 10E, Edison-11.475; 16.
Dakota Jackson, 3, Jackson-11.475; 17. Bobby East, 5E, East-11.481; 18. Brent
Beauchamp, 11B, Beauchamp-11.509; 19. Chad Boespflug, 98, Boespflug-11.521; 20.
Robert Ballou, 81, MPHG-11.527; 21. Hunter Schuerenberg, 35, Byram-11.528; 22.
Danny Holtsclaw, 3H, Holtsclaw-11.537; 23. Jonathan Hendrick, 68,
Hendrick-11.541; 24. Jon Sciscoe, 57, Hazen-11.556; 25. Tracy Hines, 4,
Hines-11.644; 26. Thomas Meseraull, 41, SST-11.646; 27. Wes McIntyre, 83,
McIntyre-11.657; 28. Josh Burton, 04, Burton-11.695; 29. Jeff Bland Jr., 38,
Bland-11.743; 30. Jared Fox, 56, Fox-11.750; 31. Travis Welpott, 18,
Gorman-11.764; 32. Logan Hupp, 9H, Hupp-11.772; 33. Scotty Weir, 77,
Wingo-11.785; 34. Seth Motsinger, 44, Motsinger-11.785; 35. Ted Hines, 12,
Hines-11.796; 36. Chase Briscoe, 5B, Briscoe-11.825; 37. Seth Parker, 38p,
Parker-11.882; 38. Brady Short, 36, Short-11.956; 39. Jace Vander Weerd, 88,
Vander Weerd-12.095; 40. Richard Vander Weerd, 10, Vander Weerd-12.180; 41. Josh
Clemons, 71c, Pedersen-12.210; 42. A.J. Hopkins, 14H, Hopkins-NT (time of 11.525
disallowed); 43. Chris Windom, 5, Baldwin-NT (time of 11.780 disallowed).
QUALIFYING RACE: (8 laps) 1. Weir, 2. Briscoe, 3. Ted Hines, 4. Hopkins, 5.
Windom, 6. R. Vander Weerd, 7. Parker, 8. Clemons, 9. J.Vander Weerd, 10.
Motsinger, 11. Short. NT
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Scheurenberg, 2. Stanbrough, 3. East, 4.Stockon, 5.
Bland, 6. Windom, 7. Tracy Hines, 8. Weir, 9. Cottle, 10. Jones. NT
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Beauchamp, 2. Holtsclaw, 3. R.Vander Weerd, 4. Leary,
5. Briscoe, 6. Jarrett, 7. Fox, 8. Clayton, 9. Thomas, 10. Meseraull. NT
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Darland, 2. Clauson, 3. Boespflug, 4. Hagen, 5. Shuman,
6. McIntyre, 7. Ted Hines, 8. Welpott, 9. Hendrick, 10. Parker. 2:04.81
FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Sciscoe, 2. Coons, 3. Jackson, 4. Gardner, 5. Hopkins,
6. Burton, 7. Clemons, 8. Hupp, 9. Ballou, 10. Grant. NT
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Thomas, 2. Cottle, 3. Jones, 4. Ballou, 5. Clayton, 6.
Meseraull, 7. Shuman, 8. Jarrett, 9. Tracy Hines, 10. Bland, 11. McIntyre, 12.
Windom, 13. Burton, 14. Hopkins, 15. Clemons, 16. Hendrick, 17. Ted Hines, 18.
Welpott, 19. Briscoe, 20. Fox, 21. Weir, 22. Grant. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Kevin Thomas Jr., 2. Dave Darland, 3. Brent Beauchamp, 4.
Jerry Coons Jr., 5. Bryan Clauson, 6. Chase Stockon, 7. Jon Stanbrough, 8. Levi
Jones, 9. Shane Cottle, 10. Robert Ballou, 11. Bobby East, 12. Daron Clayton,
13. Chad Boespflug, 14. Darren Hagen, 15. Damion Gardner, 16. Jace Vander Weerd,
17. Jon Sciscoe, 18. C.J. Leary, 19. Tracy Hines, 20. Danny Holtsclaw, 21.
Dakota Jackson, 22. Chris Windom, 23. Thomas Meseraull, 24. Richard Vander Weerd,
25. Hunter Schuerenberg. NT
**Meseraull flipped on lap 22 of the feature.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-5 Darland, Laps 6-30 Thomas.
NEW AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT POINTS: 1-Stanbrough-1,017, 2-Jones-1,006,
3-Darland-948, 4-Gardner-912, 5-Hines-847, 7-Clauson-822, 7-Schuerenberg-762,
8-Ballou-757, 9-Hagen-755, 10-Stockon-744.
NEW INDIANA SPRINT WEEK POINTS: 1-Jones-265, 2-Clauson-254, 3-Stanbrough-250,
4-Schuerenberg-248, 5-Coons-222, 6-Gardner-216, 7-Stockon-213,
8-Schuerenberg-196, 9-Thomas-169, 10-Hines-160.
NEXT AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT RACE: July 21 – Haubstadt, IN – Tri-State Speedway –
“Indiana Sprint Week”
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| July 21 2012 - Tri-State Speedway |
STANBROUGH SOARS TO HAUBSTADT "SPRINTWEEK" WIN
Haubstadt, Indiana…….It became six winners in six nights of the 25th AMSOIL
“Indiana Sprintweek” as Jon Stanbrough of Avon, Indiana picked up his second win
of the season on Saturday night at Tri-State Speedway.
Stanbrough led throughout, but the race was slowed on numerous occasions over
the first half of the race. After moving to second just before halfway, Bryan
Clauson used a lap 17 restart to go for the lead. The two exchanged slide-jobs
and cross-overs before Stanbrough cleared Clauson. The two both ran the cushion,
but Clauson nailed it in turn-two on lap 19 and flipped.
After Clauson changed a flat left-rear tire and restarted 17th, Stanbrough found
another gear out front and stretched out a monster lead over the final twelve
laps to win by a healthy margin in the Roberts/Tate Racing – Leer Racing #21x
DRC/Speedway.
“I was trying to save a little back and wasn’t running as hard as I could, but
then I saw Bryan come at me there around halfway and knew I had to pick it up a
notch. We had the red and I got a few signals from (crew chief) Daryl (Tate),
and I ran a pretty good pace after that. I gotta thank all of our sponsors and
the fans for helping us get through this week, and especially my crew,”
Stanbrough said.
Levi Jones started from row-two and raced within the top-five throughout the
race, finally clearing Jonathan Hendrick to safely put himself in the second
spot, where he finished in the Tony Stewart/Curb-Agajanian Racing – Chevy
Performance #20 Maxim/Kistler.
“We just hung in there and ripped the cushion the whole time and came up a
little bit short. We’re still in the hunt, and it’s always great to come here to
Haubstadt. I love to hear the cheers and the boos at this place,” Jones said.
Unbelievably, Clauson regrouped from his earlier mistake and put on a charge for
the ages over the final twelve laps. He was back into the top-ten in just a
couple laps and moved all the way to the third-spot without the aid of another
caution in the Curb Records – R&B Trucker’s #7 Maxim/Fisher.
“I pretty much just stepped on it there. I really thought our Sprintweek was
over because of me flipping like an idiot. But we rallied, and that’s what
championships are made of. It’s not the night we could have had, but we salvaged
and we’ll try to go to Putnamville tomorrow and knock one off,” Clauson said.
The trio has now solidified themselves as the contenders for this year’s
“Indiana Sprintweek” crown, as Jones holds a twelve-point over both Stanbrough
and Clauson, who are tied for second.
Hendrick finished off a solid night by recording his career-best finish of
fourth in the McAlister’s Deli – Hendrick Pool #68 Spike/Foxco. Chase Stockon
put on a show of his own, scoring the Schroeder Torsion Bars “Hard Charger
Award” by rallying from 20th to finish fifth in the Terre Haute First Financial
Bank – Superior Tank & Trailer #32 DRC/Fisher.
AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: July 21, 2012 – Haubstadt, IN –
Tri-State Speedway – 25th AMSOIL “Indiana Sprint Week”
QUALIFYING: 1. Dave Darland, 11, Walker-13.234; 2. Jerry Coons, Jr., 71P,
Phillips-13.267; 3. Brent Beauchamp, 11B, Beauchamp-13.306; 4. Jonathan Hendrick,
68, Hendrick-13.377; 5. Kevin Thomas, Jr., 9K, BlackJack-13.395; 6. Bryan
Clauson, 7, Tucker/BCI/Curb-Agajanian-13.408; 7. Chris Windom, 5,
Baldwin-13.435; 8. Dakota Jackson, 3, Jackson-13.454; 9. Levi Jones, 20,
Stewart/Curb-Agajanian-13.469; 10. Damion Gardner, 71, DG-13.498; 11. Jon
Stanbrough, 21x, Roberts/Tate-13.563; 12. Bobby East, 5E, East-13.597; 13. Tracy
Hines, 4, Hines-13.601; 14. Hunter Schuerenberg, 35, Byram-13.617; 15. Kyle
Cummins, 3c, Cummins-13.669; 16. Jeff Bland, Jr., 38, Bland-13.694; 17. Casey
Shuman, 10E, Edison-13.746; 18. C.J. Leary, 30, Leary-13.763; 19. Chad Boespflug,
98, Boespflug-13.768; 20. Robert Ballou, 81, MPHG-13.825; 21. Brady Short, 11P,
Pottorff-13.832; 22. Josh Burton, 04, Burton-13.836; 23. Thomas Meseraull, 18,
Keen-13.840; 24. Richard Vander Weerd, 10, Vander Weerd-13.862; 25. Darren
Hagen, 69, Dynamics-13.911; 26. Chase Stockon, 32, Stockon-13.988; 27. Scotty
Weir, 77, Wingo-14.032; 28. Jace Vander Weerd, 88, Vander Weerd-14.091; 29.
Chase Briscoe, 5B, Briscoe-14.114; 30. Justin Grant, 40, Hery-14.261; 31. Daron
Clayton, 92, Clayton-14.341; 32. Wes McIntyre, 83, McIntyre-14.345; 33. Donny
Brackett, 4B, Brackett-14.407.
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Burton, 2. Schuerenberg, 3. Thomas, 4. Stockon, 5.
Darland, 6. Leary, 7. Jackson, 8. Grant, 9. Gardner. NT
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Clauson, 2. Stanbrough, 3. Meseraull, 4. Cummins, 5.
Clayton, 6. Coons, 7. Boespflug, 8. Weir. 2:17.44
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. East, 2. Ballou, 3. McIntyre, 4. R. Vander Weerd, 5.
Windom, 6. J. Vander Weerd, 7. Bland, 8. Beauchamp. NT
FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Hagen, 2. Jones, 3. Hendrick, 4. Hines, 5. Shuman, 6.
Short, 7. Briscoe, 8. Brackett. 2:17.77
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Coons, 2. Darland, 3. Windom, 4. Beauchamp, 5. Gardner, 6.
Clayton, 7. Leary, 8. Shuman, 9. Briscoe, 10. J. Vander Weerd, 11. Brackett, 12.
Bland, 13. Boespflug, 14. Short, 15. Grant, 16. Weir. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Jon Stanbrough, 2. Levi Jones, 3. Bryan Clauson, 4.
Jonathan Hendrick, 5. Chase Stockon, 6. Bobby East, 7. Jerry Coons, Jr., 8.
Robert Ballou, 9. Chris Windom, 10. Kyle Cummins, 11. Wes McIntyre, 12. Darren
Hagen, 13. Dave Darland, 14. Richard Vander Weerd, 15. Thomas Meseraull, 16.
Kevin Thomas, Jr., 17. Hunter Schuerenberg, 18. Daron Clayton, 19. Tracy Hines,
20. Damion Gardner, 21. Brent Beauchamp, 22. Josh Burton. NT
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-30 Stanbrough.
**Jackson flipped in Qualifying. Gardner flipped in Heat 1. Gardner flipped on
lap 17 of the Feature. Clauson flipped on lap 19 of the Feature.
NEW AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT POINTS: 1-Stanbrough-1,084, 2-Jones-1,070,
3-Darland-984, 4-Gardner-926, 5-Clauson-885, 6-Hines-867, 7-Ballou-803,
8-Stockon-797, 9-Hagen-792, 10-Schuerenberg-788.
NEW INDIANA SPRINT WEEK POINTS: 1-Jones-329, 2-Stanbrough-317, 3-Clauson-317,
4-Darland-284, 5-Coons-273, 6-Stockon-266, 7-Gardner-230. 8-Schuerenberg-222,
9-Thomas-198, 10-Hines-180.
NEXT AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT RACE: July 22 – Putnamville, Indiana – Lincoln Park
Speedway – 25th AMSOIL “Indiana Sprintweek” Finale
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| July 22 2012 - Lincoln Park Speedway |
PUTNAMVILLE GOES TO DARLAND; JONES TAKES 4TH "SPRINTWEEK" TITLE
Putnamville, Indiana…….Dave Darland won the battle and Levi Jones won the war on
Sunday night at Lincoln Park Speedway, as the 25th AMSOIL “Indiana Sprintweek”
concluded with a great championship race and a fantastic battle for the win.
Darland was making his 500th career Sprint Car Feature start, and cashed that in
for his 37th career win, tying Sheldon Kinser for seventh on the all-time list.
While Darland was racking up his 17th “Indiana Sprintweek” race win, Levi Jones
capped off a consistent week to tie Kevin Thomas as the only drivers to ever
capture four “Sprintweek” championships.
Shane Cottle jumped to the lead from the pole position and was in command for
much of the race. A demanding track led to multiple stoppages early in the
event, but with the rhythm of a longer run, Cottle was pulling away. Behind him,
it was Darland holding down second while the “race within a race” took place
behind him with Jones, Bryan Clauson, and Jon Stanbrough racing for position and
a potential “Sprintweek” title, as Kevin Thomas, Jr. stuck his nose in running
the bottom from his 13th starting position.
After a restart with seven to go, Darland found his groove on the cushion. On
lap 26, with a monster run off turn-two he threw a turn-three slidejob on Cottle
for the top spot. Cottle was ready and turned back under him to lead the lap.
Darland came right back at him, though, and he made it stick on lap 27. From
there, he would not be challenged as he scored the win in the Jeff’s Jam-It-In
Storage – Parker Store of Arizona #11 Maxim/Claxton.
“The track was changing throughout the race so I just had to keep trying
different things until I found something that worked. I had to find a way to
out-do him somehow in one and two and have a chance to make a move in three and
four. KT (Kevin Thomas, Jr.) actually helped me a little bit to make Cottle
nervous on the bottom, I think. I was hoping when I had that run that we weren’t
gonna end up in the woods. We had him cleared plenty there and just had to keep
getting off the corner to beat him,” Darland said.
Thomas stuck to his line on the bottom and eventually moved by Cottle as well,
capping off a strong run to end his “Sprintweek” in the Black Jack Oil – Indy
Metal Finishings #9K Spike/Kistler with a runner-up finish and the Schroeder
Torsion Bars “Hard Charger” Award.
“I didn’t think I would ever be running the bottom like that. It just took a lot
of patience. That was a long race for me, and I just had to wait and wait for
people to mess up and try to hit it off the corner. For us to come on like this
in the biggest week of the year is a really great feeling,” Thomas said.
On the last lap, still looking for enough points to steal the “Sprintweek”
title, Clauson threw a massive turn-three slidejob on Cottle to take third in
the Curb Records – R&B Trucker’s #7 Maxim/Fisher.
“It was game on tonight. All we could do tonight is do our best and beat them
both, and we did that. Unfortunately, we didn’t have enough cars in between us
to do it. Came up a few points short again. It was a great week for us, and a
couple bad breaks undid us this week,” Clauson said.
Cottle held on for fourth in the Epperson Painting – Infinity Shocks #2
Spike/Claxton, while Jones cleared Stanbrough off turn-four to steal the fifth
spot and secure his week-long championship in the Tony Stewart/Curb-Agajanian
Racing – Chevy Performance #20 Maxim/Kistler.
“We definitely wanted to win races, but we were in the hunt every night and put
together a great week. It’s an awesome week with great fans, and it’s great to
drive for this race. Tonight, we were fast time and drove up through the heat
race. It was tough for us to go anywhere in the feature, but I kept the 7 and
the 21x right in front of us the whole race, and that was what we had to do to
win it,” Jones said.
AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: July 22, 2012 – Putnamville, IN –
Lincoln Park Speedway – 25th AMSOIL “Indiana Sprint Week” Finale
QUALIFYING: 1. Levi Jones, 20, Stewart/Curb-Agajanian-12.718; 2. Bryan Clauson,
7, Tucker/BCI/Curb-Agajanian-12.786; 3. Daron Clayton, 92, Clayton-12.807; 4.
Dave Darland, 11, Walker-12.893; 5. Jon Stanbrough, 21x, Roberts/Tate-12.916;6.
Jerry Coons Jr., 71P, Phillips-12.950; 7. Jace Vander Weerd, 88, Vander
Weerd-13.009; 8. Coleman Gulick, 14, Gulick-13.017; 9. Jon Sciscoe, 57,
Hazen-13.134; 10. Jonathan Hendrick, 68, Hendrick-13.135; 11. Shane Cottle, 2,
Epperson-13.177; 12. Kody Swanson, 19, Slinkard-13.208; 13. C.J. Leary, 30,
Leary-13.235; 14. Kevin Thomas Jr., 9k, BlackJack-13.264; 15. Thomas Meseraull,
18, Keen-13.270; 16. Chase Stockon, 32, Stockon-13.314; 17. Hunter Schuerenberg,
35, Byram-13.316; 18. A.J. Hopkins, 14H, Hopkins-13.398; 19. Chad Boespflug, 69,
Dynamics-13.399; 20. Brent Beauchamp, 34, Olson-13.416; 21. Logan Hupp, 9H,
Hupp-13.452; 22. Chris Gurley, 12G, Team Automotive-13.471; 23. Damion Gardner,
71, DG-13.498; 24. Seth Parker, 38p, Parker-13.560; 25. Robert Ballou, 81,
MPHG-13.565; 26. Richard Vander Weerd, 10, Vander Weerd-13.570; 27. Jeff Bland,
Jr., 38, Bland-13.572; 28. Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-13.575; 29. Bobby East, 5E,
East-13.582; 30. Josh Clemons, 71c, Pedersen-13.594; 31. Logan Jarrett, 29,
Jarrett-13.650; 32. Chris Windom, 5, Baldwin-13.660; 33. Casey Shuman, 22,
Batcheldor/Rice-13.677; 34. Dakota Jackson, 3, Jackson-13.700; 35. Josh Burton,
04, Burton-13.711; 36. Scotty Weir, 77, Wingo-13.752; 37. Joe Liguori, 6rr,
Liguori-13.964; 38. Kyle Cummins, 3c, Cummins-14.123; 39. Daylan Chambers, 4c,
Chambers-14.231; 40. Garrett Abrams, 32x, Abrams-16.994.
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Jones, 2. Stanbrough, 3. Schuerenberg, 4. Leary, 5.
Sciscoe, 6. Ballou, 7. East, 8. Liguori, 9. Hupp, 10. Shuman. NT
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Clauson, 2. Hopkins, 3. Gurley, 4. Thomas, 5. Coons,
6. Hendrick, 7. Clemons, 8. R.Vander Weerd, 9. Jackson, 10. Cummins. NT
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Cottle, 2. Gardner, 3. Meseraull, 4. Bland, 5. Clayton,
6. Boespflug, 7. J.Vander Weerd, 8. Burton, 9. Jarrett, 10. Chambers. 2:29.41
FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Darland, 2. Gulick, 3. Stockon, 4. Hines, 5. Parker,
6. Beauchamp, 7. Abrams, 8. Weir, 9. Swanson, 10. Windom. NT
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Sciscoe, 2. Clayton, 3. Boespflug, 4. J.Vander Weerd, 5.
Coons, 6. Hendrick, 7. Windom, 8. Beauchamp, 9. Ballou, 10. Shuman, 11. East,
12. Parker, 13. Hupp, 14. Jarrett, 15. Burton, 16. Jackson, 17. R.Vander Weerd,
18. Cummins, 19. Clemons, 20. Liguori, 21. Abrams, 22. Chambers. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Dave Darland, 2. Kevin Thomas, 3. Bryan Clauson, 4. Shane
Cottle, 5. Levi Jones, 6. Jon Stanbrough, 7. Coleman Gulick, 8. Hunter
Schuerenberg, 9. Jonathan Hendrick, 10. Thomas Meseraull, 11. Daron Clayton, 12.
Chad Boespflug, 13. Jeff Bland, Jr., 14. Chris Windom, 15. C.J. Leary, 16.
Robert Ballou, 17. Chris Gurley, 18. Damion Gardner, 19. Jon Sciscoe, 20. Chase
Stockon, 21. A.J. Hopkins, 22. Jace Vander Weerd, 23. Jerry Coons Jr., 24. Tracy
Hines, 25. Richard Vander Weerd. NT
**Hendrick flipped during practice on July 19. Swanson flipped during Heat 4.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-26 Cottle, Laps 27-30 Darland.
NEW AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT POINTS: 1-Stanbrough-1,138, 2-Jones-1,132;
3-Darland-1,047, 4-Clauson-952, 5-Gardner-950, 6-Hines-880, 7-Schuerenberg-833,
8-Ballou-824, 9-Thomas-817, 10-Stockon-810.
FINAL AMSOIL INDIANA SPRINT WEEK POINTS: 1-Jones-391, 2-Clauson-384,
3-Stanbrough-371, 4-Darland-352, 5-Coons-288, 6-Stockon-279, 7-Schuerenberg-267,
8-Thomas-260, 9-Gardner-254, 10-Cottle-217.
NEXT AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT RACE: July 28 – Rossburg, OH – Eldora Speedway –
“Summer Sprint Car Shootout”
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