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USAC AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: July 11, 2010 – Kokomo, Indiana – Kokomo Speedway – 23rd “Indiana Sprint Week”

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Daron Clayton, 92, Clayton-12.620; 2. Blake Fitzpatrick, 10F, Fitzpatrick-12.668; 3. Damion Gardner, 71, DG-12.700; 4. Jerry Coons Jr., 69, Dynamics-12.707; 5. Jonathan Hendrick, 68, Hendrick-12.817; 6. Hunter Schuerenberg, 35, Byram-12.870; 7. Levi Jones, 20, Stewart-12.917; 8. Justin Grant, 5B, Baldwin-12.923; 9. Bobby East, 5, Klatt-12.935; 10. Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-12.939; 11. Mike Spencer, 15m, Pierce/Ellis-12.989; 12. Chris Windom, 11, Walker-12.992; 13. Chase Stockon, 32, Stockon-13.019; 14. Jeff Bland Jr., 38s, Bland-13.020; 15. Bud Kaeding, 29, BK-13.050; 16. Matt Mitchell, 37x, Mitchell-13.065; 17. Brady Short, 36, Short-13.071; 18. Robert Ballou, 81, MPHG-13.076; 19. Bryan Clauson, 2B, RWB-13.098; 20. Dave Darland, 39, Goodnight-13.154; 21. Caleb Armstrong, 7, Tucker-13.182; 22. Jon Stanbrough, 53, Fox-13.208; 23. Coleman Gulick, 14x, Gulick-13.221; 24. Kurt Gross, 1x, Gross-13.255; 25. Shane Cottle, 10E, Edison-13.261; 26. Andrew Elson, 27a,
Elson-13.284; 27. Darren Hagen, 71p, Phillips-13.376; 28. Keith Bloom, 1k, Braund-13.382; 29. Brandon Petty, 42G, Jackson-13.408; 30. Scotty Weir, 1G, Gorby-13.418; 31. Ted Hines, 12, Hines-13.428; 32. J.J. Hughes, 76, Hughes-13.435; 33. Greg Bragg, 1B, Deskovick-13.477; 34. Shane Hmiel, 17s, 56 Inc.-13.534; 35. Kyle Robbins, 17R, Robbins-13.553; 36. Henry Clarke, 67, Kunz-13.554; 37. Casey Riggs, 37, Indiana Underground-13.588; 38. Anthony Peterman, 7p, Peterman-13.609; 39. Ricky Williams, 11w, Williams-13.662; 40. Josh Spencer, 66J, Spencer-13.747; 41. Gary Rooke, 42a, Rooke-13.972.

FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Short, 2. East, 3. Stockon, 4. Clayton, 5. Armstrong, 6. Hendrick, 7. Cottle, 8. Riggs, 9. Bragg, 10. Rooke, 11. Petty. 2:15.83
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Stanbrough, 2. Bland, 3. Tracy Hines, 4. Ballou, 5. Fitzpatrick, 6. Elson, 7. Hmiel, 8. Peterman, 9. Weir, 10. Schuerenberg. NT
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Gardner, 2. Clauson, 3. Kaeding, 4. Hagen, 5. Jones, 6. Gulick, 7. M.Spencer, 8. Robbins, 9. Ted Hines, 10. Williams. 2:13.87
FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Darland, 2. Windom, 3. Grant, 4. Gross, 5. Coons, 6. Clarke, 7. J.Spencer, 8. Bloom, 9. Hughes, 10. Mitchell. NT

SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Jones, 2. Coons, 3. Cottle, 4. Fitzpatrick, 5. Mitchell, 6. Hendrick, 7. M.Spencer, 8. Armstrong, 9. Hmiel, 10. Hughes, 11. Elson, 12. Ted Hines, 13. Bloom, 14. Bragg, 15. Robbins, 16. Rooke, 17. Riggs, 18. Peterman, 19. Petty, 20. Schuerenberg, 21. Gulick, 22. J.Spencer. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Levi Jones, 2. Brady Short, 3. Chris Windom, 4. Shane Cottle, 5. Jerry Coons Jr., 6. Dave Darland, 7. Bryan Clauson, 8. Blake Fitzpatrick, 9. Tracy Hines, 10. Henry Clarke, 11. Shane Hmiel, 12. Matt Mitchell, 13. Jonathan Hendrick, 14. Bud Kaeding, 15. Daron Clayton, 16. Justin Grant, 17. Chase Stockon, 18. Mike Spencer, 19. Darren Hagen, 20. Robert Ballou, 21. Jeff Bland Jr., 22. Jon Stanbrough, 23. Kurt Gross, 24. Bobby East, 25. Damion Gardner. NT

**Schuerenberg flipped during the semi. East & Gardner flipped on lap 19 of the feature. Stanbrough flipped on lap 24 of the feature. Hagen flipped on lap 29 of the feature.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-10 Windom, Laps 11-18 Coons, Laps 19-30 Jones.

NEW AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT CAR STANDINGS: 1-Jones-1,295; 2-Gardner-1,218; 3-Clauson-1,175; 4-Coons-1,121; 5-Windom-1,075; 6-Hines-1,075; 7-Clarke-940; 8-Darland-749; 9-Hmiel-747; 10-Williams-619.
NEW NATIONAL SPRINT CAR DIRT STANDINGS: 1-Jones-1,078; 2-Gardner-969; 3-Clauson-916; 4-Windom-886; 5-Coons-862.
NEW “INDIANA SPRINT WEEK” STANDINGS: 1-Jones-185; 2-Short-153; 3-Darland-149; 4-Clauson-143; 5-Hines-138; 6-Clayton-135; 7-Windom-123; 8-Stanbrough-122; 9-Gardner-119; 10-Fitzpatrick-111.

NEXT AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT CAR RACE: – July 14 – Terre Haute (IN) Action Track – 23rd “Indiana Sprint Week”
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Originally Posted by Geoff Kaiser:
Was Ballou taunting the crowd to come over and meet him at the turn 1 opening as he walked off the track??

That's what we will refer to as the ugly part. There was some of that. Like I said, it was all interesting to stand and watch.

Originally Posted by EKracing:
Are you kidding me? Robert Ballou is awesome. He is allowed to express his opinion and he felt as if DD made a bonehead move. Just because it happend at Kokomo he is not allowed to confront him? Thats a bunch of BS.. What's the crowd going to do? Beat him up? I doubt it. Keep racin hard Robert!

I never said he couldn’t/shouldn’t say anything if he feels he needs to. All I said was time and place. Go to the car, say something and then finish it later in the pits if want to. Don’t stand there for a minute and tell everybody to f-off that says anything about getting away from the car. Had nothing to do with who it was or where it was to me. Has nothing to do with the crowd beating him up either. I’m thinking an f-off to anybody in the crowd isn’t really want you are wanting to do when looking back at the end of the night. I have no beef with him being mad....you can't give an inch out there....too many good drivers. Just think it could have been handled better. That's just how I saw it.....

What kind of a show do you want? Racers just followin each other around the track. My Guess is your answer is no. You want to see hard competitive racing. End results of some hard fun racing aren't good. But I don't know anyone who would want it different. As far as ballou or any other racer goes. If you find an opening the ony way to get around someone is to try it. No one knows if it will work or whether you stick or not. Sometimes it just ends up looking bad. DD has been on the bad end of those chances too this year. Everyone is out to try to win. How else you going to do that without driving hard. I'm rambling but Just racing IMO

Standing near Cripe & DD's crew at the pit entrance I saw the deal. Maybe it's BS to let a driver speak to the other about what happened on the track.
BUT!
What if Ballou had talked to DD in the pits instead of a controled 1 on 1 on the track? The DD fans & crew and Ballou fans would of had heated words and actions that probally lead to a major pit fight!
The way it happened nobody threw punches only words and the crowd got to see it all. Besides DD is the hometown hero and the fans were on his side.
How many people are talking about this today at work and the watercooler?? A bunch.
Not that ISW tracks need to worry about selling seats but I'm sure a lot of fans will think about going to a race now to see great racing and maybe a talk or two.
The USAC offical rode the 4 wheeler over and parked near by and yes he watched, not that he was going to be able to control the deal if DD had climbed out of his car. But USAC was there, finally Bill Carey rolled that way and the discussion was over.
This is why we all love ISW, it is the most intense USAC racing on the schedule.

Don't forget tonight RacinwithDO show at Kelly's. Guest host helping us out tonight will be Sean Buckley of Jackshalsh fame and more.
Kevin Miller & Jason McCord will be there along with cars and drivers for this special outdoor show. ISW USAC highlights will be playing as well.

Enjoy ISW and hope to see you tonight.
D.O.
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Holy Cow what a night of racing! Because of a bum knee I sat 3 rows up by the flagstand and it was incredible. I liked the Robert Ballou show, added a little entertainment during the red flag. Wasn't there to hear the f bombs, but if I had been out there racing as hard as those guys last night I would have had enough adrenelin going to drop f bombs too. That was the passion that was behind all the great racing. Did I mention what a great night of racing yet? My congratulations to all the drivers and teams for a great show.

The o'connors did an excellent job on the track! the best night so far of sprint week!
The racing was awesome!
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Originally Posted by 3Cfan:
Kokomo was by far the best race of the week. As for Blands incident, "karma" strikes again!

"karma strikes again" Dude, grow up! Your comments are really getting more immature by the post.

Congrats to Brady for his 2nd runner up for the weekend!

I would also like to put a shout out to #37X Matt Mitchell

Dude drove his butt off in the Semi and passed two guys on the last corner of the last lap to transfer

pretty exciting stuff. He looks pretty darn brave to me!

Welp, this thread is kinda long but,didn't USAC confiscate the RR's of the top three finishers?What were they checking for and does anyone know the results of these "tests":18:

Originally Posted by Dirtfan:
Welp, this thread is kinda long but,didn't USAC confiscate the RR's of the top three finishers?What were they checking for and does anyone know the results of these "tests":18:

Yeah they took the right rears off of all of the top 3 cars they were checking for tire prep on there tires. I have not heard about any results from the test yet but my guess is that they will know something before Wednesday. Then again you may never here about this issue ever again.

If they took the top three tires would like to see a official statement on what the tests results showed could be interesting.Because last year at Kokomo after qualifying when the cars pulled into the infield they were punching tires then a couple times and everyone was okay, but I saw them punch one tire eight times and looked at one another and did nothing you could tell by there expression what the real answer was.

Originally Posted by Bigboy55:
Yeah they took the right rears off of all of the top 3 cars they were checking for tire prep on there tires. I have not heard about any results from the test yet but my guess is that they will know something before Wednesday. Then again you may never here about this issue ever again.

The tires have to be sent away to a laboratory. I doubt the lab will even get them until Wednesday.

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Originally Posted by Sprint63122:
If they took the top three tires would like to see a official statement on what the tests results showed could be interesting.Because last year at Kokomo after qualifying when the cars pulled into the infield they were punching tires then a couple times and everyone was okay, but I saw them punch one tire eight times and looked at one another and did nothing you could tell by there expression what the real answer was.

Legal or illegal, thats all you need to know.

Originally Posted by Onlydirt:
DD has given a wheel to many people this year, Ballou was another to the list of victims... DD had a careless move earlier in the night look like a days of thunder charge into 3 and 4, but mistakenly made it through clean. Seems to be loosing his patience a bit much lately.

Levi's I didnt block anyone coming from 10th to win comment was great!

They all do it and have done it. More often than not unintentional.

Isn't being impatient a big part of when many racing incidents happen? Does it really matter about a driver's greatness or ability to become impatient. No one is immune.