AMSOIL USAC PAVEMENT SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: May 12, 2011 – Indianapolis, Indiana – Lucas Oil Raceway – “Thursday Night Thunder”

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Kyle Larson, 67, Kunz-20.191; 2. Jacob Wilson, 07, WRB-20.319; 3. Kody Swanson, 75, TK-20.529; 4. Tanner Swanson, 17T, TK-20.532; 5. Brian Gerster, 27, Davis/Gerster-20.618; 6. Caleb Armstrong, 7A, C & A-20.730; 7. Aaron Pierce, 26, Pierce-20.768; 8. Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-20.858; 9. JoJo Helberg, 7, Helberg-20.878; 10. Chris Windom, 17, Windom-20.898; 11. Bobby East, 5, Klatt-20.901; 12. Brian Olson, 59, Powell-20.951; 13. Bobby Santos III, 98s, Santos-20.978; 14. Russ Gamester, 35, Gamester-21.085; 15. Mario Marietta, 85, Marietta-21.145; 16. A.J. Fike, 3, RFMS-21.177; 17. Luis Ramos III, 21, Kaplan-Gennuso-21.580; 18. Joe Swanson, 7s, Swanson-21.719; 19. Jeremy Frankoski, 98, Santos-21.940.

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Fike, 2. Pierce, 3. Santos, 4. T.Swanson, 5. Windom, 6. Larson, 7. Frankoski. 2:48.98

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Hines,. 2. East, 3. Wilson, 4. Gamester, 5. Gerster, 6. Ramos. 2:47.17

THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Helberg, 2. K.Swanson, 3. Marietta, 4. Olson, 5. C.Armstrong, 6. J.Swanson. 2:49.46

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Kody Swanson, 2. Tanner Swanson, 3. Jacob Wilson, 4. Bobby Santos III, 5. Kyle Larson, 6. Tracy Hines, 7. Aaron Pierce, 8. Bobby East, 9. Brian Gerster, 10. JoJo Helberg, 11. Caleb Armstrong, 12. Chris Windom, 13. Russ Gamester, 14. Brian Olson, 15. Luis Ramos III, 16. Joe Swanson, 17. A.J. Fike, 18. Jeremy Frankoski, 19. Mario Marietta. 10:33.38
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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-11 Hines, Laps 12-27 Wilson, Laps 28-30 K.Swanson.

NEW AMSOIL PAVEMENT SPRINT POINTS: 1-K.Swanson-136; 2-Santos-121; 3-Wilson-117; 4-T.Swanson-111; 5-East-110; 6-Gerster-91; 7-Windom-90; 8-Pierce-83; 9-Fike-79; 10-Gametser-75.

NEXT AMSOIL PAVEMENT SPRINT RACE: June 16 – Indianapolis, IN – Lucas Oil Raceway

Just got home from Thursday Night Thunder. Enjoyed the race so much that at one point, I thought to myself "Why is there any other type of race car?" LOL!!!

I thought the feature was great 3 way battle for the lead almost the entire time. No problem with doing the updates. I just don't know alot of the guys that run pavement so it was a battle to get the names right. If I am home for anymore I will definitely be going back, awesome racing. First race I have seen there. Now time to watch the rest of the redwings game, if they win tonight they will be only the fourth team in history to come back from an 0-3 start in the playoffs.

That was a great race. Probably one of the best I have seen there. That is why I never get hung up on car counts and who is going to be there. It's about quality, not quantity. Sure there were some guys I would like to have seen, but didn't matter.
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I noticed on Fred's breakdown that all races had times listed. Apparently all the heats and the feature were green to checkers?

It was pretty awesome racing except for the vintage driver that I think left a piece of his car on the track after hitting the wall.

Couple of bad starts in the sprints and a spin by the leader in the thunder roadsters were the only yellows we saw all night.

How about Kyle Larson,he is the real deal. Go Kyle,from your Cal. fans.

Is he even a "pavement guy" Jerry? One thing that I like already about this driver is that he seems to be aggressive with his race schedule. If there's a race somewhere, he's either gotten himself a ride or is trying to get one. Sprint, midget, dirt, pavement, nonwinged, winged, it seems to make no difference to him.

Jerry

Being a USAC race why do you figure Clausen,Darland,Clayton wasnt there or are they just running the dirt portion of USAC's races?