[cmiracingvids]

Whatever happened to Christopher Bell??

[slick01]

Originally Posted by cmiracingvids Whatever happened to Christopher Bell??

He was at Attica.

[Eatin Dirt]

How in the world does JS go from lead to 5th in 3 laps?

[NOSTINKINWINGS]

Drove right into the holes in the middle lane in turns 1 and 2. Biked and got all crossed up and they drove by him. Very un "Stache" like but it happened....

[AustinSprinter]

Originally Posted by cmiracingvids Whatever happened to Christopher Bell??

He wasn't in Berryman#31 at Battleground Gulf South ither!!...Sam Herfertape,Jr was fin 3rd,Seth Bergman WINS!!..........
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[johnnythunderhead]

you da man Justin grant, congratulations on a great run and on beating some of sprint cars finest, who started ahead of you! Hats off to management and crew for beating the odds and giving us a good track and a great bunch of racers for coming in to give us a great nite of racing!

[cowboyhar69]

Lawrenceburg, Indiana…….Justin Grant’s lone previous AMSOIL National Sprint Car win came in 2012 at Lawrenceburg Speedway, and the Ione, California driver returned to victory lane on Saturday night. Taking advantage of a late-race restart, Grant used the extreme upper reaches of the three-eighths mile oval to shoot to the lead and claim a popular win.

Dave Darland began from the pole on an extremely heavy race track. Darland worked the lower side of the speedway as Thomas Meseraull moved up the track, and Chris Windom quickly climbed from tenth to third while also up in the thick cushion. A caution on lap-five slowed the pace, and both Meseraull and Windom went to the pits. Windom returned after replacing a left-rear tire.

After a couple quick skirmishes on laps seven and eight, a long green-flag stretch saw Jon Stanbrough, the night’s Fast Qualifier, pressure Darland for the lead. He made the move stick on lap-ten and raced away with traffic approaching. Stanbrough weeded his way through slower cars and built up a massive lead as all eyes turned to a great battle between Grant, Jerry Coons, Scotty Weir, Brady Bacon, Chase Stockon, and C.J. Leary. Grant finally cleared that pack and ran down Darland, taking second with a handful of laps to go.

Stanbrough’s huge lead was going to be insurmountable for Grant, who appeared to be faster, until Leary appeared to break and hit the turn-one wall on lap 28. That set up a three-lap run to the checkered.

On the restart, Stanbrough bounced through turns one and two as Darland looked underneath and Grant came swooping in from the top to steal the lead down the backstretch. Grant held back a run by Darland and pulled away, taking the win after starting 11th aboard the Mark Hery Racing – Dick’s Paint & Body #40 DRC/Claxton.

“It felt great to be up there back in this car. It felt like old times, and maybe even a little better. As soon as it got rough and hard to hang onto, I knew we had something. Running for Mark just feels like home, and we both seem to bring out the best in each other. I thought I was closing on him after we got to second, and when I saw the yellow come on, I knew it was on,” an excited Grant said.

Darland held on for second, claiming the point lead after three rounds aboard the Phillips Motorsports – Racer’s Advantage Store #71P DRC/Foxco.

“I felt like I was worn out on the second lap!” Darland quipped, adding, “I maybe should have tried to move up at some point, but Justin runs this place well, especially up there, and I just didn’t see it being worth the risk. I was trying to squeeze the gap on the restart, but I didn’t want to crash us all, either. The Phillips bunch gave me a good car all night, and we’re content with second.”

Coons finished off a night spent battling within the top-five, as he took a strong podium finish in the Edison Motorsports – Crume Evans Insurance #10E Spike/Chevy.

“I got to the top from the beginning, and it was good for a while, but mainly in three and four we couldn’t run up there as well anymore. I had to drop down some there, and it wasn’t quite enough. It’s good to get back together in our first race of the year and start off strong at a place where we weren’t great last season,” Coons said.

Bacon rallied to finish fourth in the Hoffman Auto Racing – Mean Green #69 Triple X/Stanton Mopar, and Stanbrough held on to round out the top-five in the MP Environmental Services – Indiana Underground Construction #37RW Maxim/Fisher.

AMSOIL USAC SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: April 5, 2014 – Lawrenceburg, Indiana – Lawrenceburg Speedway

QUALIFYING: 1. Jon Stanbrough, 37RW, Dutcher-13.727; 2. Scotty Weir, 18x, Keen-13.823; 3. Jerry Coons Jr., 10E, Edison-13.851; 4. C.J. Leary, 30, Leary-13.902; 5. Thomas Meseraull, 41, Stensland-13.924; 6. Brady Bacon, 69, Dynamics-13.955; 7. Dave Darland, 71p, Phillips-13.955; 9. Chris Gurley, 12G, Team Automotive-14.076; 9. Bryan Clauson, 20, Stewart/Curb-Agajanian-14.107; 10. Chris Windom, 11, Walker-14.122; 11. Justin Grant, 40, Hery-14.158; 12. Chase Stockon, 32, 32/TBI-14.203; 13. Kody Swanson, 63, DePalma-14.251; 14. Kevin Thomas Jr., 17RW, Dutcher-14.269; 15. Brady Short, 11P, Pottorff-14.271; 16. Parker Price-Miller, 9P, Ronk-14.300; 17. Jeff Bland Jr., 04, Burton-14.323; 18. Robert Ballou, 12x, Ballou-14.340; 19. Hunter Schuerenberg, 20N, Schuerenberg/Nolen-14.343; 20. Travis Hery, 21H, Hery-14.401; 21. Shane Cockrum, 66, Amati-14.405; 22. Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-14.413; 23. Wes McIntyre, 83, McIntyre-14.443; 24. Jarett Andretti, 18, Andretti-14.444; 25. Dalten Gabbard, 5, Baldwin-14.454; 26. Chad Boespflug, 98, Boespflug-14.478; 27. Logan Hupp, 94, Hupp-14.558; 28. Daron Clayton, 3R, Byram-14.570; 29. Ted Hines, 12, Hines-14.626; 30. Logan Jarrett, 29, Jarrett-14.631; 31. Aaron Farney, 15F, Farney-14.731; 32. Landon Simon, 24, Simon-14.810; 33. Bradley Sterrett, 90, Sterrett-14.833; 34. Mike Terry Jr., 85, Terry-14.940; 35. Dustin Webber, 9x, Webber-15.051; 36. Bobby East, 5E, Klatt-15.061; 37. Mitch Wissmiller, 1, Wissmiller-15.364; 38. Chad Wilson, 14, Wilson-15.455; 39. Eric Semple, 25, Semple-15.926; 40. Adam Cruea, 83x, Cruea-16.489; 41. Nathan Moore, 48, Moore-NT; 42. Matt Westfall, 54, Best Performance-NT.

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Clauson, 2. Meseraull, 3. Swanson, 4. Stanbrough, 5. Cockrum, 6. Gabbard, 7. Bland, 8. Ted Hines, 9. Sterrett. 10. Moore. 1:58.42

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Ballou, 2. Windom, 3. Tracy Hines, 4. Weir, 5. Bacon, 6. Thomas, 7. Jarrett, 8. Boespflug, 9. Terry, 10. Wilson. 1:55.15

THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Grant, 2. Schuerenberg, 3. Coons, 4. Darland, 5. Hupp, 6. Short, 7. McIntyre, 8. Farney, 9. Webber, 10. Semple. 1:57.00

FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Stockon, 2. Andretti, 3. Hery, 4. Leary, 5. Clayton, 6. Simon, 7. Gurley, 8. Price-Miller, 9. East, 10. Cruea. 1:57.95

SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Bacon, 2. Thomas, 3. Gurley, 4. Cockrum, 5. Price-Miller, 6. Jarrett, 7. Simon, 8. Bland, 9. Short, 10. Gabbard, 11. Farney, 12. Sterrett, 13. Terry, 14. Wilson, 15. Webber, 16. Cruea, 17. Semple, 18. Hupp, 19. McIntyre, 20. Ted Hines, 21. Clayton, 22. Boespflug, 23. Moore. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Justin Grant, 2. Dave Darland, 3. Jerry Coons Jr., 4. Brady Bacon, 5. Jon Stanbrough, 6. Chase Stockon, 7. Scotty Weir, 8. Hunter Schuerenberg, 9. Bryan Clauson, 10. Logan Jarrett, 11. Robert Ballou, 12. Kody Swanson, 13. Chris Windom, 14. Travis Hery, 15. Jarett Andretti, 16. Shane Cockrum, 17. Parker Price-Miller, 18. C.J. Leary, 19. Tracy Hines, 20. Chris Gurley, 21. Kevin Thomas Jr., 22. Thomas Meseraull. NT
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Ted Hines flipped during the semi. Thomas flipped on the 8th lap of the feature.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-9 Darland, Laps 10-28 Stanbrough, Laps 29-30 Grant.

NEW AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT POINTS: 1-Darland-183, 2-Grant-182, 3-Stockon-171, 4-Clauson-169, 5-Bacon-167, 6-Stanbrough-146, 7-Tracy Hines-138, 8-Windom-118, 9-Ballou-113, 10-Schuerenberg-108

NEXT AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT RACE: April 19 – Rossburg, Ohio – Eldora Speedway – “Don Branson/Jud Larson Classic”

[staggerman]

Originally Posted by AustinSprinter He wasn't in Berryman#31 at Battleground Gulf South ither!!...Sam Herfertape,Jr was fin 3rd,Seth Bergman WINS!!.......... ________________ Brucer'

Bell was in the Fox #53 at Attica

[mc/rider]

Nice driving Logan Jarrett.LB staff & crew,great show.Thank you.Justin Grant will be replacing Jim Nabors at Indy

[Charles Nungester]

If you didn't get your money's worth tonight, You just don't like racing. I'll admit, Im not a driver, But i've watched the sport for 40 years and I noticed a couple things.

In the old days some drivers would go up and wheel pack under yellow, Maybe if it only gave them a couple good laps after the green flew but there would be a smooth fast lane to run for a couple laps that the others weren't. Not one did it in the consi. Nadda one, Some went up there under green and most of them broke. Coondog did it in the feature and it moved him from about fourth and dueling with Darland for the lead after a restart before Clauson, Thomas and Gurley (Who ran well for not being at Burg much) got together.

JG did what I've seen only a handful of drivers do at LBurg and thats go search for something the others weren't finding. I've seen Gullick do it, T-Mez, JG and occasionally Windom and Leary. As I said, Im not a driver and either one or two things happened on that lap 27 restart, JRS either hit the hole by accident or knew Grant was faster and attempted to move up to his lane and hit the hole. Announcer said JG was running 4/10ths faster before the caution. I doubt without the caution with two to go Grant would have caught him. Stanbrough had a straight and did what he had to do early to get the lead.

Coondog ran a great race, had a oil leak somewhere but at times was as fast as anyone. Darland was leading, Back to third and finished second in his never give up style. Bacon lost about four spots in the first seven laps from his seventh starting possition but found a way to put them ponys on the ground and fought back up and gained a few to finish fourth.

JRS gathered it up to finish fifth. Knowing the type of racer Stanbrough is, Im sure he's upset as he had em covered and one that got away. However IMHO it's just a glimpse at what that team is capable of. Im sure theres going to be many races he isn't touched!

It was cold by feature time, However I wasn't cold at all till about halfway through the Mod Race which Kramer picked up his 400th in Johnny's terms win

Thanks to the track crew, Officials, Teams, Drivers, Safety Crew etc for coming out!

Chuck, had a ball seeing tons of racing peeps tonight. Was told Shortbus was yelling at me everytime I went by, But when I went looking for him, He must have been hiding. Oh well, I feel better than I have since October's Sprintacular. WINTERS OVER, Even if the chill ain't gone!