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Terre Haute is ALL WINDOM!!.......
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AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: September 10, 2011 – Terre Haute, Indiana – Terre Haute Action Track – “Jim Hurtubise Classic”
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-19.337; 2. Coleman Gulick, 14, Gulick-19.365; 3. Casey Shuman, 69, Dynamics-19.397; 4. Jon Stanbrough, 53, Fox-19.405; 5. Bryan Clauson, 7, CTR/BCI/Curb-Agajanian-19.482; 6. Jerry Coons Jr., 71p, Phillips-19.513; 7. Hud Cone, 21, Pollock-19.597; 8. Blake Fitzpatrick, 10, Fitzpatrick-19.613; 9. Robert Ballou, 81, MPHG-19.625; 10. Bobby East, 5, Klatt-19.652; 11. Keith Bloom Jr., 27, Abreu-19.671; 12. Hunter Schuerenberg, 35, Byram-19.704; 13. Jonathan Hendrick, 68, Hendrick-19.717; 14. Chris Windom, 5x, Baldwin-19.724; 15. Daron Clayton, 92, Clayton-19.732; 16. Damion Gardner, 71, DG-19.759; 17. Wes McIntyre, 83, McIntyre-19.786; 18. Levi Jones, 20, Stewart-19.833; 19. Chase Stockon, 32, Stockon-19.848; 20. Shane Cottle, 11, Walker-19.934; 21. Dave Darland, 21x, Roberts/Tate-20.000; 22. J.J. Hughes, 76, Hughes-20.025; 23. Brandon Mattox, 28, Mattox-20.397; 24. Kevin Studley, 57x, Studley-20.660; 25. Steve Thomas, 20T, Thomas-21.482; 26. Patrick Budde, 90, Budde-21.725. FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Stockon, 2. Gardner, 3. Hughes, 4. Cone, 5. Hines, 6. Stanbrough, 7. East, 8. Thomas, 9. Hendrick. NT SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Cottle, 2. Windom, 3. Mattox, 4. Bloom, 5. McIntyre, 6. Budde, 7. Fitzpatrick, 8. Gulick, 9. Clauson. NT THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Darland, 2. Jones, 3. Clayton, 4. Schuerenberg, 5. Coons, 6. Ballou, 7. Shuman, 8. Studley. NT SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Stanbrough, 2. Shuman, 3. Clauson, 4. Fitzpatrick, 5. Ballou, 6. East, 7. Studley, 8. Mattox, 9. Budde, 10. Thomas. 4:02.90 FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Chris Windom, 2. Levi Jones, 3. Hunter Schuerenberg, 4. Keith Bloom Jr., 5. Robert Ballou, 6. Tracy Hines, 7. Casey Shuman, 8. Dave Darland, 9. Bobby East, 10. Blake Fitzpatrick, 11. Chase Stockon, 12. Jerry Coons Jr., 13. Jon Stanbrough, 14. Daron Clayton, 15. Hud Cone, 16. J.J. Hughes, 17. Damion Gardner, 18. Wes McIntyre, 19. Shane Cottle, 20. Brandon Mattox, 21. Bryan Clauson, 22. Kevin Studley. NT -------------------------------------------------------- **Hendrick flipped during the first heat. Gulick flipped during the second heat. Clauson flipped over the wall in turn 1 on the first lap of the feature. Gardner flipped on lap 29 of the feature. FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-30 Windom. NEW AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT CAR STANDINGS: 1-Jones-1,149; 2-Windom-1,233; Jones-1,149; 2-Windom-1,133; 3-Stanbrough-1,081; 4-Schuerenberg-993; 5-Ballou-982; 6-Darland-934; 7-Hines-883; 8-Gardner-852; 9-Clauson-830; 10-East-727. NEXT AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT CAR RACE: – September 17 – Haubstadt, IN – Tri-State Speedway |
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Man, Baldwin Bros. got that joint figured out. Levi one hell of a run to finish 2Nd. Hope Gulick is ok. That was a nasty tumble. He will be sore tomorrow. Excellent night at THAT except for the long wait for the B to run.....Dont have any idea what was up w/ that.
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Look at the qualifying times! 20 out of the 26 cars had qualifying times that had a 19 on the left side of the decimal point. That's unbelievable. I don't know that I've ever seen the Action Track this fast! Once again, Bob and Reese prepared the track beautifully. Qualifying alone was worth the price of admission. Especially as so many drivers just shot out of turn two and went screaming down the backstretch. Several were still on the gas so deep into turn three that you just had to hold your breath. Tracy Hines was within eight one-thousandths of a second of JJ Yeley's track record (even though everybody knows that Shane Cottle is the REAL track record holder). Coleman Gulick then went out, found the cushion and stood on the gas in yet another demonstration of his bravery. That guy's fearless and tough, too. He took a nasty looking tumble right in front of the grandstand, during the heat race and popped right out and walked to the ambulance under his own power. It's too bad he was done for the night, as he had already made a statement that he was going to be a serious threat tonight. As far as the racing went, the track was probably too fast and we all know what that means. Since everybody's fast, passing is very difficult and that it was. Levi Jones finished second, after starting sixteenth. But that is Levi Jones and this was Terre Haute. He pretty much picked em off one by one, in workman-like fashion and most impressively snatched second away from a very strong Hunter Schuerenberg, right after the last restart with two laps to go. The hard luck awards go to Jerry Coons and Hud Cone. Coons was in third and all over Hunter, trying to take second from him when he got a flat. Man, what a fun summer that Phillips Racing Team must be having, compliments of Jerry Coons, Jr. Coons isn't going to win the sprint title this year, but he has proven a very important point. That he will be among the class of the field whether he's driving for a team with a big budget or not. This has been one of his most impressive driving years, IMO. Hud was a strong top five runner the whole race, until he too had to go to the work area with a flat right rear. And what can you say about Chris Windom? What a year he's had. Not only has he had two powerhouse performances in a row at Terre Haute, where he was never seriously challenged. But he also won the Little 500, won Sprint Week and finished third in an ARCA race at Springfield. He also has a serious chance at dethoning Levi for the USAC Sprint title. If those aren't Driver of the Year accomplishments, I don't know what would be.
It wasn't the best racing I've seen this year, but there sure were a lot of really good moments in tonight's program. Jerry |
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Bunch of flats tonight. Stanbrough, Cone, Coons and I think someone else. I thought Coons was going to get to second in the 71P until he got the flat. Both Stanbrough and Cone were well in the top 10 until their flats also. Don't know if there was something on the track from the wrecks or what. Tough tire night.
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Levi has the experience over windom, but I honestly think windom will take the title this year. This has been his year..his break out year if last year wasnt, he won't be here much longer unfortunately
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Guess I didn't pay that much attention until tonight on how much the rule change of having to transfer in your heat to get your time back effects the feature starting lineup...tonight we had the 12th and 14th fastest qualifiers on the front row!!
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Cowboy, I was looking for you in the pit area. The Hoffman's thought you might be hiding out in the grandstand.
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Danny...sorry I missed you...I was sitting under the covered grandstand right past the flagstand. See ya at the next race.
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wonderin if cshu was able ta get comfortable in the HAR#69 at THAT??.........
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Not meaning to be critical here, as we got to see a very entertaining feature. But USAC's invert format needs to be tweaked when they have relatively short fields like they had last night. I don't want to suggest that anyone was gaming the system, but it sure seemed like a number of drivers were taking it kind of easy in their heats or the semi, knowing they would get their times back. The semi was a total formality, and one could tell most of the drivers weren't taking any chances, knowing they would get their times back. And why spend the better part of a half-hour debating whether or not to run the semi? You only had 26 cars sign in, just go ahead and start everyone. I know they wanted to give Hendrick and Gulick time to get their cars put together after their flips. Fine, but rather than tick off the fans in the stands by making them wait 30 minutes wondering why the !@#$ the semi still isn't in the push off chute, go ahead and announce to everyone that's the plan, and have the announcer fill some time.
One more thing about the format: They really need to do a better job of explaining to casual fans about the invert and giving times back. I understand the setup, but I've got to think there's a lot of casual fans wondering how drivers who run near the back of their heat race start up near the front of the semi, and drivers who come out of the semi start the feature ahead of ones who transferred out of the heats. Now, all that said, we ultimately got to see a pretty darn good main event. |
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John...I didn't get there til almost 5...being a senile old man I forgot about the I-70 construction backups...got to see Bob & Monica, Eldora Mark, Dirt Chaser Dave, Kevin & Pam, Charles Nungester and Spridge's dad Jim though...Bob, Dave, Mark and I solved a few of the worlds problems though over a couple of cold ones!!! We need to plan an early afternoon get together at the 4 Crown.
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Since I don't go to races and only talk about em. I'll talk about this one of the TWO events I seen last night as I *In my mind mozzied over to Puttnamville after THAT and seen complete features of the Mod and Sprints.
THAT Got there about three in the afternoon with a storm cloud hanging over and around the track. Couple sprinkles fell but nothing to worry about. Saw several people I knew and walked over to see the old cars over by turn one. Many were still in their trailers, So I walked back over when they brought em out up to the main grandstand. Several nice pieces of Equipment. including someones homemade replica of a Watson Roadster. So good in fact I had to ask where he got it from and know that several people have mega bucks tied up in the real existing ones that are out there.. Races. I really don't know how to read THAT as when I looked at it at 4 it looked like it might be kinda hard. Boy was I wrong. That track was perfect and I only seen one little spoof of dust all night very low in 3/4. Most weren't running there anyway in Qualifying and they put to rest anything that might even show trouble before it ever happened. Qualifying was a blast. When Tracy and Gullick hit within a tenth second of the record. I swore it was going down last night. Just gotta say, Qualifying at THAT is a total joy to watch. One man, one car and the track and all the little things that they have to do right to be that fast. Heats were ok, Heat 1 I was cheering for JJ as he started up front. The kid can run, Down a bit on motor so his QT didn't show his tallent. He was passed by Hendicks but Hendricks got upside down in 3/4 a couple laps later. Damion got him later on in the heat but he transfered and looked good :) I was loving heat two and was darn near standing when Gulick went from sixth to fourth out of two in a no guts, no glory outside move that was GLORIOUS to watch followed by him getting a run on Fitz going down the front stretch. I didn't see what happened but someone said Fitz' car jumped a bit sideways and Gulick had nowhere to go but over him. Hard flip. Bad enough he was done for the night. Also in heat two and this was the only example of POSSIBLY LAYING DOWN A BIT I seen all night. Windom and Cottle were racy for the lead, HOWEVER this is not the time to make a move that could take either out and they knew it! Track was perfect, In fact so perfect that doing the same thing everyone else was doing would get you nowhere. Like Gulick going in high in 1-2 and passing two cars coming off it. Or Coons hauling it in forty yards deeper going into one and making it stick. This was the way to go forward. This is what makes the ACTION TRACK to me, TOTALLY unique as the moves made to make the pass on which the cushion is the fast way around. Are BREATHTAKING! as in, HOW'D they do that and make it work? type moves. Feature, Windom had em covered but I learned to watch Terre in a different way, Keep track of the leaders and when they are close to each other, Pay attention but watch the pack as great runs are made all through it. Coons was very fast, I watched him put a slider on Bloom in three that would have had me cleaning my shorts if I was Bloom. That happened again later by Levi to Bloom. WOW is all i can say. Levi's run from 17th to second, Worth every penny of traveling 200 miles and all the expenses that go with it. 80 bucks in gas to get there for a 20 dollar race thats better than any 200 dollar Napcar ticket I've ever seen. Glad all are safe including Damion who in two of the six races I've seen there in the last three years hit the wall in 3-4 pretty hard. Hope he's ok. as I've seen him run to five as well and win one I wasn't at there. THAT is the place to race, A sprint only show and worth every bit of effort to see. This also completed my goal of seeing all tracks that hold a sprint race in Indiana on dirt in the same year. Sans Lawrenceburg Everyone of them are over 100 miles to see. Several I hit two or three times including my second trip over to Puttnamville after the USAC show 7 mile detour on the drive home to see 125 laps of feature racing. PRICELESS! |
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Others have summed it up better than I could have. Just a couple of comments. First of all, a big round of :8: needs to go out to Reece O'Connor & Bob Sargent for another excellent track prep job. If this doesn't tell the world that it CAN BE DONE, I don't know what will. How many promoters has Terre Haute had and none of them can figure out how to make that place racey. Well Reece & Bob sure have.
If this was the last race of the season at THAT, I certainly hope that the fairboard will take the time to get this place in the right hands to promote. We don't need a revolving door on promoters year in and year out. Make the right decision and let's go forward. |
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Great night. I thought the racing was even better than some have described. A near perfect night that doesn't require any complaining. My thanks to Jason McCord and the other guys for providing an awefully good surface. Gardner is very lucky, his down-tube was broke in two from contact with the wall when he snap rolled on top of it. I wish someone would put a guard rail back in or remove the upper row of cement blocks and install a foam cushion of some sort on top of the remaining wall. USAC is a perfectly fine promoter and the current track crew is great. I see many local supporters still helping out and we are anxiously looking forward look forward to next year.
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Would sitting some of those big Dump truck tires on top of that wall soften the impact of hitting that hard edge? and maybe keep some of these track leavers in? Just remembering KAMP a little here and don't want to see another Hmiel type incident.[COLOR="Black"]
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i think if action track going to be around 5 more years they need to invest into a catch fence. think i have seen two in two years last year grant and bc the other night way too many!!
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I think you're way off. With THAT's configuration it's much safer for the cars to go over the wall. It has sharper corners than Knoxville so the cars flip at it at a different angle. Ascot had a low wall with padding on top and a soft catch fence about a car length behind to slow down flips. I believe they used tires on top of the wall. That was designed over 30 years ago and worked perfect. The original guard rail at THAT never seemed to hurt anybody either. It would be good for them to do one or the other.
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I don't think it is safer to flip out of the track. I was in turn 1 the night mark Cassella flip over the guard rail and rolled several times hitting a tree. The old guard rail had to be replaced as it was less than a foot high in places and two thirds of the post had rotted away. It was just waiting to cut a car in half.
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Typically, "Armco" Steel Barriers are not a good idea.
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u put up a catch fence puts the top of the wall to a rest and fixes two problems in one. cars landing on wall and going over wall
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