[Stocko23]

Getting ready to come out now

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[oldbutnew]

I hope that Tim Wolffrum aka “cowboyhar69” will put his excellent summery of tonight on this thread.

[Dannypollock24]

Gary Taylor wins Heat 1 over Ballou Stanbrough Short...Windom Bell Armstrong. Bernal DNF.

Shane Cottle wins Heat 2 over Schuerenberg McIntyre Leary...Coons Hayden Smith Moore.

Kevin Thomas, Jr. wins Heat 3 over Clauson Stockon Courtney...Shuman Mattox Gabbard. Grant DNF.

Dave Darland wins Heat 4 over Hines Bacon Simmons...Gross Jarrett Drake Chambers.

Semi Lineup: Coons Windom Shuman Gross Mattox Jarrett Bernal Hayden Bell Smith Drake Armstrong Moore Gabbard Chambers Rose. Grant scratched.

Coons Bell Windom Shuman Bernal & Rose transfer from Semi over Hayden Armstrong Jarrett Drake Gabbard Chambers...


Feature Lineup: Bacon Leary Short Darland Thomas Stanbrough Coons Ballou McIntyre Stockon Hines Windom Schuerenberg Shuman Taylor Cottle Bernal Clauson Simmons Bell Courtney Rose

Rolling cars out onto the track for tonight's 30-lap "Don Smith Classic" at the Terre Haute Action Track!

Ready to go green for 30 laps here at Terre Haute!

Justin Grant took a provisional to join the field. Here we go...

25 laps to go ktjr leads over bacon darland coons short Ballou

Top 6 pretty evenly spread out

15 to go KTjr bacon darland coon short Ballou

Ballou passes short for 5th

Coons pulls in running 4th

8 to go - KTjr bacon darland Ballou

Top 3 running close together - 5 to go

Bacon shows a nose can't do it

Yellow flag with 4 to go


4 to go - Courtney stops - Thomas leads Bacon Darland Ballou Short Stanbrough Stockon Schuerenberg McIntyre Windom Leary Bernal Bell Cottle

Stanbrough working bottom for 3rd

Darland slides for lead Kt gets it back

Darland stops on white flag!

KTjr Ballou Bacon with one lap to settle it..

White flag lap didn't count so two to go at restart

2 to go - Thomas leads Ballou Bacon Stanbrough Stockon Short Schuerenberg McIntyre Windom Bernal Bell Cottle Clauson Leary...

Stanbrough to 2nd on restart

Kevin Thomas, Jr. wins tonight's "Don Smith Classic" at Terre Haute over Stanbrough Bacon Ballou Stockon Schuerenberg Short McIntyre Windom



Danny 24

[rebel46short]

kick some ass sweet feet!

[Midget 89]

Dave Darland may have just given away the Sprint Week title.

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Wes Stafford

[Sprints!]

3 races left, doubt it's over for Double D just yet!!

[Midget 89]

Originally Posted by Sprints! 3 races left, doubt it's over for Double D just yet!!

Time will tell.

[Dannypollock24]

THOMAS TURNS “SPRINTWEEK” HAT TRICK AT TERRE HAUTE

Terre Haute, Indiana…….Kevin Thomas, Jr. is on his second three-race win streak of the season, this time in the middle of the ultra-competitive “Indiana Sprintweek” after leading all 30 laps in Wednesday’s “Don Smith Classic” AMSOIL National Sprint Car event at the Terre Haute Action Track.

Thomas started fifth but it took him no time to get to the front, as he nailed a great start and pulled even for the lead off turn-two on the opening lap, clearing the top spot as the field completed lap one.

The race went 26 consecutive green laps, as Thomas led comfortably early over Brady Bacon, Dave Darland, Jerry Coons, Jr., and Brady Short. Bacon moved in on Thomas just as Coons retired from the event. From the halfway point on, Bacon inched in on the leader as both ran the high line all the way around.

As they encountered traffic, Bacon ran all over Thomas while Darland moved in on both of them. Behind them, Robert Ballou was on the move into the top-five, and ProSource “Fast Qualifier” Jon Stanbrough was recovering from an early backslide from sixth to as low as 12th.

Bacon and Darland both readied for attack just as the caution waved with four laps to go. Darland slid past Bacon on the restart and set his sights on Thomas. He slid past Thomas on lap 28, but Thomas countered off turn-two and drove back by him. Darland squared up one final move for the win into turn-one after the white flag, but his move fell short and he spun backwards into the outside wall.

With one final restart, Ballou took his turn as the challenger to Thomas, but he jumped the cushion in turn-two after the restart, setting up a wild three-wide battle behind Thomas. It was the sixth win of the season for the Cullman, Alabama driver in the Mike Dutcher/RW/Tri-Star Motorsports – Black Jack Oil Company #17RW Maxim/Fisher.

“I never would have guessed that I’d get a feature win here, but I had to drive my ass off for that one. I just knew a big one was coming from Darland on that last lap, and I guess he got in the wall. This thing was hooked right from the start. We got a great start on the bottom and moved up top with the lead. I really thought I was gonna throw it away, messing up in three and four and almost tagged the wall. It was tough getting through traffic, and that slowed me up a lot. We got lucky to get that caution with four to go, and I just had to be smart those last couple laps,” Thomas said.

Stanbrough battled all the way back in the Marion Underground Construction – Shane Wade Enterprises #66 DRC/Dynotech to come home second.

“We were just too tight early, shooting for the end of the race, and the track was just a little too good early. Our goal was to be a little too tight at the beginning but not lose sight of the leaders, and they were gone in a hurry. We were fortunate for the late caution to help us. I coulda used a caution a little earlier in the race; it was good at the end, obviously. I’m a little disappointed with second, just as I or anyone who wants to win is, but I guess we should be pretty happy to get back to second,” Stanbrough said.

Bacon snuck back by Ballou in a three-wide finish at the line for third in the Hoffman Auto Racing – Mean Green #69 Triple X/Stanton Mopar, making it his second-straight podium finish.

“I was probably just a little too cautious with him in the beginning. Just a couple little mistakes by me probably kept us from winning. These last two races are a big improvement for us, so hopefully we can just put it all together and me not mess up so we can win one,” Bacon said.

Ballou finished fourth in the Dale & Cindy Dewar – Farney Motorsports #12x Maxim/Ott, and Chase Stockon finished fifth after starting tenth in the Superior Tank & Trailer – Crescent Electric Supply #32 DRC/Fisher. Chris Bell took the ProSource “Hard Charger Award” for climbing from 20th to 11th.

AMSOIL USAC SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: July 17, 2013 – Terre Haute, Indiana – Terre Haute Action Track – “Indiana Sprintweek”

QUALIFYING: 1. Jon Stanbrough, 66, Wade-19.947; 2. Jerry Coons Jr., 10E, Edison-20.053; 3. Kevin Thomas, 17RW, Dutcher-RW/Tri-Star-20.067; 4. Dave Darland, 71p, Phillips-20.226; 5. Brady Short, 11p, Pottorff-20.302; 6. C.J. Leary, 30, Leary-20.341; 7. Justin Grant, 21x, Pollock-20.412; 8. Brady Bacon, 69, Dynamics-20.415; 9. Robert Ballou, 12x, Ballou-20.419; 10. Wes McIntyre, 83, McIntyre-20.450; 11. Chase Stockon, 32, 32 TBI-20.514; 12. Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-20.533; 13. Chris Windom, 11, Walker-20.662; 14. Hunter Schuerenberg, 35, Byram-20.795; 15. Casey Shuman, 21k, Krockenberger-20.800; 16. Kurt Gross, 1x, Gross-20.862; 17. Gary Taylor, 40, Hery-20.914; 18. Shane Cottle, 2, Epperson-20.926; 19. Brandon Mattox, 28, Mattox-20.952; 20. Logan Jarrett, 29, Jarrett-21.025; 21. Ryan Bernal, 73, Ford-21.122; 22. Brian Hayden, 77, Wingo-21.160; 23. Bryan Clauson, 20, Stewart-21.206; 24. Jake Simmons, 3x, Simmons-21.226; 25. Christopher Bell, 67, Kunz-21.257; 26. Mark Smith, 1m, Smith-21.378; 27. Tyler Courtney, 23c, Courtney-21.573; 28. Nick Drake, 55, Cline-21.725; 29. Caleb Armstrong, 11J, Yeley-21.746; 30. Nathan Moore, 48, Moore-22.211; 31. Dalten Gabbard, 77x, Walker-22.305; 32. Daylan Chambers, 4c, Chambers-23.052; 33. Bill Rose, 6, Rose-NT.

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Taylor, 2. Ballou, 3. Stanbrough, 4. Short, 5. Windom, 6. Bell, 7. Armstrong, 8. Bernal. NT

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Cottle, 2. Schuerenberg, 3. McIntyre, 4. Leary, 5. Coons, 6. Hayden, 7. Smith, 8. Moore. 2:49.16

THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Thomas, 2. Clauson, 3. Stockon, 4. Courtney, 5. Shuman, 6. Mattox, 7. Gabbard, 8. Grant, NT

FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Darland, 2. Hines, 3. Bacon, 4. Simmons, 5. Gross, 6. Jarrett, 7. Drake, 8. Chambers. 2:48.82

SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Coons, 2. Bell, 3. Windom, 4. Shuman, 5. Bernal, 6. Rose, 7. Hayden, 8. Armstrong, 9. Jarrett, 10. Drake, 11. Gabbard, 12. Chambers, 13. Smith, 14. Gross, 15. Mattox. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Kevin Thomas Jr., 2. Jon Stanbrough, 3. Brady Bacon, 4. Robert Ballou, 5. Chase Stockon, 6. Hunter Schuerenberg, 7. Brady Short, 8. Wes McIntyre, 9. Chris Windom, 10. Shane Cottle, 11. Christopher Bell, 12. Bryan Clauson, 13. Ryan Bernal, 14. C.J. Leary, 15. Bill Rose, 16. Tyler Courtney, 17. Dave Darland, 18. Gary Taylor, 19. Jerry Coons Jr., 20. Casey Shuman, 21. Jake Simmons, 22. Tracy Hines, 23. Justin Grant. NT
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**Grant flipped during the third heat.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-30 Thomas.

NEW AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT POINTS: 1-Darland-1,028, 2-Thomas-992, 3-Clauson-970, 4-Bacon-935, 5-Schuerenberg-912, 6-Stockon-899, 7-Hines-820, 8-Ballou-817, 9-Cottle-663, 10-Windom-604.

NEW INDIANA SPRINT WEEK POINTS: 1-Thomas-238, 2-Darland-224, 3-Stanbrough-211, 4-Cottle-198, 5-Bacon-197, 6-McIntyre-186, 7-Schuerenberg-184, 8-Bell-183, 9-Clauson-181, 10-Stockon-155.

NEXT AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT RACE: July 18 – Putnamville, Indiana – Lincoln Park Speedway – “Indiana Sprintweek”


Danny 24

[racegal]

Praying and hoping that Dave's back is not hurt too bad. Please everyone keep Dave in your prayers.
Midget89, Dave didn't 'give' the lead away, his throttle stuck.

[Honest-Sam]

Track prep aid?

https://www.indianaopenwheel.com/att...1&d=1374126394

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