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Way to go JS!!!

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COONS TAKES INDIANA MIDGET WEEK OPENER AT GAS CITY

Gas City, IN…….Jerry Coons Jr. of Tucson, Ariz. won Wednesday night’s “Indiana Midget Week” opener for the USAC Mopar National Midgets at Gas City I-69 Speedway and also took over the series point lead as a result. Coons led all 30 laps in his Speedway Motors/Toyota Spike/Stanton Toyota to beat Brad Kuhn, Darren Hagen, Bryan Clauson and Ryan Kaplan. “Indiana Midget Week” continues Thursday night at Twin Cities Raceway Park in North Vernon, Ind., where the USAC Midwest Ford Focus Midgets will also contest their historic 500th race. Steve Buckwalter was Wednesday night’s fastest qualifier.

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Jerry Coons Jr., 2. Brad Kuhn, 3. Darren Hagen, 4. Bryan Clauson, 5. Ryan Kaplan, 6. Brad Loyet, 7. Tracy Hines, 8. Josh Wise, 9. Matt Sherrell, 10. Bobby East, 11. Shane Hmiel, 12. Chad Boat, 13. Nathan High, 14. Kevin Swindell, 15. Cole Whitt, 16. Zach Daum, 17. Ricky Ehrgott, 18. Dene McAllan, 19. Kody Swanson, 20. Caleb Armstrong, 21. Levi Jones, 22. Dakoda Armstrong, 23. Steve Buckwalter, 24. Brad Sweet. NT

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COONS TAKES INDIANA MIDGET WEEK OPENER AT GAS CITY

Gas City, IN…….Jerry Coons Jr. of Tucson, Ariz. won Wednesday night’s “Indiana Midget Week” opener for the USAC Mopar National Midgets at Gas City I-69 Speedway and also took over the series point lead as a result. Coons led all 30 laps in his Speedway Motors/Toyota Spike/Stanton Toyota to beat Brad Kuhn, Darren Hagen, Bryan Clauson and Ryan Kaplan. “Indiana Midget Week” continues Thursday night at Twin Cities Raceway Park in North Vernon, Ind., where the USAC Midwest Ford Focus Midgets will also contest their historic 500th race. Steve Buckwalter was Wednesday night’s fastest qualifier.

USAC MOPAR NATIONAL MIDGET CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: June 10, 2009 – Gas City, Indiana – Gas City I-69 Speedway – “Indiana Midget Week”

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Steve Buckwalter, 25, Buckwalter-12.975; 2. Brad Sweet, 49, Kahne/Curb-12.990; 3. Chad Boat, 30, Boat-13.026; 4. Chase Barber, 90, Barber-13.037; 5. Josh Wise, 75, Pedregon-13.060; 6. Jerry Coons Jr., 11, Wilke-Pak-13.139; 7. Darren Hagen, 3, RFMS-13.168; 8. Kevin Swindell, 67, Kunz-13.189; 9. Thomas Meseraull, 2, Bush-13.207; 10. Brad Kuhn, 17B, RW-13.220; 11. Bryan Clauson, 39, Tucker-13.221; 12. Dene McAllan, 29, Berry-13.252; 13. Zach Daum, 5D, Daum-13.261; 14. Levi Jones, 20, Stewart-13.285; 15. Ryan Kaplan, 27, Kaplan-13.289; 16. Ricky Ehrgott, 8, Rev 1-13.312; 17. Brad Loyet, 05, Loyet-13.331; 18. Nathan High, 12J, Allen-13.337; 19. Cole Whitt, 1, Kunz-13.348; 20. Shane Hmiel, 56, Hmiel-13.364; 21. Tracy Hines, 21, Stewart-13.394; 22. Andrew Deal, 15D, Deal-13.403; 23. A.J. Fike, 69, RFMS-13.426; 24. Dakoda Armstrong, 7A, C & A-13.438; 25. Mark Brown, 1x, Rinkin-13.448; 26. Henry Clarke, 97, Kunz-13.453; 27. Caleb Armstrong, 7C, C & A-13.478; 28. Matt Sherrell, 35, Sherrell-13.520; 29. Jonathan Hendrick, 68, Hendrick-13.553; 30. Kody Swanson, 19k, Team 6R/TK-13.583; 31. Matt Westfall, 14, Bordner-13.597; 32. Bobby East, 4, Klatt-13.660; 33. Wes Gutierrez, 07, Walker-13.665; 34. Miranda Throckmorton, 54, Burke-14.042; 35. Billy Wease, 92, Burrow-NT; 36. Buddy Lowther, 31, Lowther-NT.

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Loyet, 2. Hines, 3. Buckwalter, 4. Wise, 5. Meseraull, 6. Daum, 7. Brown, 8. Gutierrez, 9. Hendrick. 1:46.93

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. High, 2. Coons, 3. Kuhn, 4. Sweet, 5. Jones, 6. Deal, 7. Clarke, 8. Swanson, 9. Throckmorton. 1:45.13

THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Whitt, 2. Kaplan, 3. Clauson, 4. Hagen, 5. Boat, 6. C.Armstrong, 7. Fike, 8. Westfall, 9. Wease. NT

FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Hmiel, 2. Swindell, 3. McAllan, 4. Sherrell, 5. D.Armstrong, 6. Ehrgott, 7. East, 8. Barber, 9. Lowther. 1:43.93

SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Boat, 2. Ehrgott, 3. Daum, 4. East, 5. Jones, 6. Swanson, 7. Hendrick, 8. C.Armstrong, 9. Meseraull, 10. Fike, 11. Throckmorton, 12. Brown, 13. Clarke, 14. Lowther, 15. Barber, 16. D.Armstrong, 17. Westfall, 18. Deal, 19. Gutierrez. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Jerry Coons Jr., 2. Brad Kuhn, 3. Darren Hagen, 4. Bryan Clauson, 5. Ryan Kaplan, 6. Brad Loyet, 7. Tracy Hines, 8. Josh Wise, 9. Matt Sherrell, 10. Bobby East, 11. Shane Hmiel, 12. Chad Boat, 13. Nathan High, 14. Kevin Swindell, 15. Cole Whitt, 16. Zach Daum, 17. Ricky Ehrgott, 18. Dene McAllan, 19. Kody Swanson, 20. Caleb Armstrong, 21. Levi Jones, 22. Dakoda Armstrong, 23. Steve Buckwalter, 24. Brad Sweet. NT

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**Boat flipped on lap 28 of the feature.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-30 Coons.

NEW USAC MOPAR NATIONAL MIDGET CAR POINTS: 1-Coons-478; 2-Hagen-476; 3-Kuhn-459; 4-East-435; 5-Hines-413; 6-Sweet-410; 7-Swindell-378; 8-Whitt-373; 9-Boat-355; 10-Jones-317.

NEW USAC “INDIANA MIDGET WEEK” POINTS: 1-Coons-68; 2-Kuhn-63; 3-Hagen-59; 4-Clauson-57; 5-Kaplan-55.

NEXT USAC MOPAR NATIONAL MIDGET CAR RACE: June 11 – North Vernon, IN – Twin Cities Raceway Park - “Indiana Midget Week”

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Hello

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Any further Sprint results? Thanks!!

jon who......great job guys
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i'm happy:2: that he won hopeful more to come good night

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Hi, Susan!

When I saw Chad Boat's name as driver of car#30, I thought that was the sprint entry list, since that is the car he has been driving.

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I planned on all but tomorrow night but Dad is in the hospital. I guess sometimes real life gets in the way of the racing season. Small complication after knee replacement he will hopefully be fine in a few days.

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Oh! I don't know which car Dave was in! Do you happen to know how he finished though?

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Best wishes to your Dad on a complete recovery.

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just got on here...anyone now how the Trucker's #10 & #12 did?

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The only result I know is what was posted on here, that Jon Stanbrough won.

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Dang!! Thank you!! Hopefully we'll see you at THAT again this summer!!:6:

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Cindi,

I got a call from up there, said Jerry ran like 4th or 5th, and that Shane pulled off during the Main.

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Susan,

I just got a call from a friend at the track who said Dave finished fifth or sixth. Dave's car appeared to not be set up properly for the craters in the track. He was in the #7 Peterbilt car.

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Thank you very much!! Fifth or sixth is not too dang shabby then!!!:6:

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Good for Jon. He put his bad luck at Haubstadt behind him and is now picking up wins left and right.:6:

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A little birdie told me that Dave will have a midget ride for Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

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1. Jon Stanbrough
2. Cole Whitt
3. Shane Cottle
4. Jerry Coons, Jr
5. Matt Westfall
6. Dave Darland
7. Marc Arnold
8. Kent Christian
9. Scotty Weir
10. Jason Holt
11. Josh Spencer
12. Kyle Robbins
13. Sammy Imel
14. Matt Goodnight
15. Ryan Hamilton
16. Jeff Wimmenauer
17. Randy Donelson
18. Shane Hmiel
19. Ryan Pace
20. Andrew Elson

Complete race results at http://www.gascityi69speedway.com

We will NOT race on June 12. Next race is The Hastings Law Firm Mid-Season Doubler--all purses are doubled for all four classes of cars. Admission is same price--grandstand $12 for ages 13 and up and $25 in pits. This is also HARF and DARF night--current members receive 50% off grandstand admission.

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I am a Jerry Coons fan but he seems to act like it has become a job to him when he wins show a little more emotion for winning a race or has it become that it no big thing to you for winning races any more.:11;:10::9::8::7::14::15::32:

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Dave didn't look like he had the right set up. Guess I missed the "craters" in the track though.

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Ron,

I don't know who your friend is but I certainly didn't see any craters in the track. The surface was good tonight and with all the issues that Gas City has had the last couple of years it was a good track prep tonight. They didn't have to do any maintenance to the track and the show had only a couple of accidents. JMO but Dave's car looked to have a definite push and he had trouble in turns two and four. All in all a good night of racing at GC.

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:2:Great job by Brad Kuhn started 8th and finished second at Gas city tonight.

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Photos from the midgets at Gas City are up.



Jim Fisher
www.fscpictorial.com

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I have to commend everybody involved on one of the best run shows I've been to in a while. Being on the road for home around 9:30 is the way a weekday show should be run. I really liked the group qualifying. There is plenty of room to run midgets with group qualifying. Getting four laps on the clock ensures that you are going to at least get two good ones.

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Again, Hats off to the Fox Brothers Racing and Jon Stanbrough for fielding such a comptitive sprinter week after week !! The saga of the #53 Sprinter continues. Thanks for your dedication to the sport of open wheel racing. Steve & Christie Bloomington

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Congrats Jerry!!! Keep up the great work! :22: :8: Happy B-Day Amy!

Mike Cray

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Decent show. This is deffinatly a sprint car track. The only thing I do not understand.... its Midget week, and there Darland, Cottle, and Stanbrough are all there running sprinters and nobody throws them into a midget???? Say what you want, that Sprint feature was far better than the midgets. good luck doding the rain tonight.

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I would agree with this statement. Although I have left a couple of the tracks along the Midget Week path thinking that they were even better midget tracks, than they were for the sprints that run there weekly, I've never thought that about Gas City. The sprints definitely still reign supreme there. Don't get me wrong, the midget action was still really good, just that the real fireworks didn't begin till you saw Cole Whitt, Dave Darland, Shane Cottle and Jon Stanbrough lined up in the front of the sprint feature. You just knew that this thing was going to become a battle royale, right from the get go. And it did. You had Dave's car bouncing all over the place as he tried to hold off Cole and then Jon. Then there was the extended drama that built, as Jon reeled Cole in and the finale unfolded. Anybody that's watched these two guys race each other before knew that when Jon caught Cole, that the younger driver wasn't just going lay down and accept second place as his destiny for the day. And he didn't. It was an excellent battle. In fact, had Matt Goodnight not ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time, Cole looked to have Jon set up for a nice dive to the checker.

As far as the midgets go, JCJ was definitely the man on this day. He was never seriously challenged, once he grabbed the lead. Steve Buckwalter was fun to watch, but was never the same after the early race scramble that resulted in him spinning. The duel between Kuhn and Hagen was the best of the race and went on for a great deal of the race. Besides Buckwalter, Swindell gets the other bad luck award, with his last lap spin, sending him from 4th to 14th. And BC gets the "If Life Gives You Lemons, Make Lemonade" award by somehow ending up 4th, with a car that was ill handling qualifications through feature.

That ended up being a great program and it was definitely worth taking a chance and going most of the way across the state, with a 70% chance of rain.

Jerry

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Well said Jerry. I was in the stands thinking who I was gonna take in the next race besides Clauson for Fantasy points....Then in the last few laps he ended up 4th! His car was indeed handling as bad as Darlands sprint inthe feature, but he stayed with it working all over the track getting passed then passing some back. Great night of racing and I actually got there early to hang out at Bob and Monica's house for a bit of sit down chatter. :6:

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Mike,

He referred to them as "invisible craters". He said that several cars were really bouncing through them, but Dave's seemed especially bad. He was very complimentary of the racing in general and especially how quickly they ran the program.