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22 cars in the pits.

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Bryan Clauson takes the pole for tonight's "Hoosier Hundred" at the Indiana State Fairgrounds!

Actually K. Swanson is starting on the pole. The top 6 redrew.
Swanson Hines
Coons Kaeding
Clauson Darland
Hollingsworth East
Cockrum Fike
Tyler Urish
Daum Jones
T. Swanson Grant
Adams

Fike pulls in. Lap 7?

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Dave is done. :13::(

What happened to Dave?

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He just stopped on front stretch. Got it going again but the next thing Deb said he was done. So I don't know exactly what went wrong. Dang it!!

Sorry to hear that. Thanks for the info Susan!

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Thanks! And you're welcome!

Coons Jr running strong!

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Coondog with the win!!!!!!!!

Go Coon Dog!

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Jerry Coons, Jr. wins his second-straight "Hoosier Hundred" over Kaeding Jones East K.Swanson Hines Clauson T.Swanson Daum Hollingsworth...

How was the race? Surprised there was not many posts from the race.

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Rubbered up and Jerry ran away with it.

One of the more boring races in a while... Like the fact they ran all 100 laps without the break. Sad that the Indiana Underground and the Keith Kunz cars weren't there. There was a passed out guy in front of us and that was the best things of the night.

Dirt Champ Car races are supposed to be run 100 laps.
Wish we coulda been there. Congrats to Jerry and the RW team.:32:

Congrats to Jerry on 2 in a row, couldn't happen to a nicer guy & family

Anyone know what happened to Southern Illinois guy, Shane Cockrum in the 114? Qualified 9th, finished next to last... must have broke I assume

I thought it was really good. Coons ran away about the last 60 or so laps run straight through, but they had several of the double file restarts early. Levi made some big moves in every one including taking Clauson and another car three wide on the outside going into one. He must have passed half the field on his restarts. Coons and Tyler really helped themselves on the restarts as well. Joey Kramer won the mods by a huge margin too over Schrader.

Originally Posted by miledirt:
Anyone know what happened to Southern Illinois guy, Shane Cockrum in the 114? Qualified 9th, finished next to last... must have broke I assume

Is Shane Cockrum any relation to Cliff Cockrum ?

Originally Posted by rdzsprint:
Is Shane Cockrum any relation to Cliff Cockrum ?

Pretty sure that Shane is his son

COONS GOES BACK-TO-BACK WITH "HOOSIER HUNDRED" VICTORY

Indianapolis, Indiana…….Jerry Coons, Jr. of Tucson, Arizona counted last year’s win in the “Hoosier Hundred” at the Indiana State Fairgrounds as one of the biggest of his career. He came back on Friday night to back it up with his second-straight victory in the 100-mile event aboard the RW Motorsports – Joe Gibbs Driven Racing Oil #27 Beast/Wallace Toyota.

"Winning this race just once and joining that list of names, that was a huge deal in itself. To come back and join the group of guys who have won it more than once, and won it back-to-back, it’s just amazing,” Coons said of his romp that accounted for 87 laps led.

Tracy Hines jumped from the front row to lead at the start, but a cluster of cautions slowed the pace and set up multiple double-file restarts. Those proved pivotal, as Coons used a restart on lap 14 to leap past Hines and take a lead he would never relinquish.

Hines, who had trouble in particular on restarts, lost a few positions as Bud Kaeding became the sole threat to Coons’ domination. Kaeding kept pace throughout much of the race, even as they left the rest of the field far behind, but a small mistake late in the race cost the Campbell, California driver any chance at the win.

“We hung right with him there a good part of the race, and then I hit the fence down on the inside of turn-four and shot myself up the track. I lost a lot of ground there and picked up a vibration, so just under-drove it from there trying to hang on. I’m not sure we had a better car than him, but we definitely have made progress, especially on restarts. It’s gonna be a learning curve year, but I’m glad we’re on the front end of it,” Kaeding said of his pursuit of a fourth series championship aboard the BK Motorsports – Alviso Rock #29 DRC/Speedway Mopar.

Back-to-back and defending series champion Levi Jones had a huge hill to climb, but after qualifying 14th, the Olney, Illinois driver climbed to a podium finish aboard the Tony Stewart/Curb-Agajanian Racing – Chevrolet Performance #10 Maxim/Kistler.

“We’re just trying to figure everything out with the fuel and everything. We thought we had a pretty good handle on everything, but obviously we were terrible early. We got it to where it restarted pretty well and didn’t get hot, but I think we hurt it a little at the beginning of the night. To get that far, we just had to hit some restarts and put ourselves in a decent position, and we got a good finish out of it,” Jones said.

Bobby East followed his teammate home to finish fourth aboard the Tony Stewart/Curb-Agajanian Racing – Chevrolet Performance #22 Maxim/Kistler. Kody Swanson rounded out the top-five in the Jet Star – Toyota #19 Beast/Claxton.

TRAXXAS USAC SILVER CROWN RACE RESULTS: May 25, 2012 – Indianapolis, Indiana – Indiana State Fairgrounds – 59th Running of “Hoosier Hundred”

QUALIFYING: 1. Bryan Clauson, 17, RW/Curb-Agajanian-34.768; 2. Bud Kaeding, 29, BK-34.847; 3. Jerry Coons, Jr., 27, RW-34.942; 4. Tracy Hines, 16, Lightfoot-35.025; 5. Kody Swanson, 19, Six-R-35.126; 6. Dave Darland, 56, Foxco-35.397; 7. Shane Hollingsworth, 20, Nolen-35.407; 8. Bobby East, 22, Stewart/Curb-Agajanian-35.451; 9. Shane Cockrum, 114, Hardy-35.502; 10. A.J. Fike, 3, RFMS-35.518; 11. Brian Tyler, 21, Six-R-35.565; 12. Chris Urish, 77, Urish-35.697; 13. Zach Daum, 50, Daum-35.789; 14. Levi Jones, 10, Stewart/Curb-Agajanian-36.033; 15. Tanner Swanson, 23, Six-R-36.258; 16. Justin Grant, 63, DePalma-36.453; 17. Steve Adams, 500, Adams-36.978; 18. Jimmy Kite, 25, Sachs-38.360; 19. Todd Kane, 78, Kane-NT; 20. Aaron Pierce, 26, Pierce-NT; 21. Robert Ballou, 43, Nix-NT; 22. Russ Gamester, 51, Gamester-NT (time of 35.884 disallowed).

FEATURE: (100 laps) 1. Jerry Coons, Jr., 2. Bud Kaeding, 3. Levi Jones, 4. Bobby East, 5. Kody Swanson, 6. Tracy Hines, 7. Bryan Clauson, 8. Tanner Swanson, 9. Zach Daum, 10. Shane Hollingsworth, 11. Chris Urish, 12. Todd Kane, 13. Justin Grant, 14. Brian Tyler, 15. Steve Adams, 16. Jimmy Kite, 17. Russ Gamester, 18. Dave Darland, 19. Shane Cockrum, 20. A.J. Fike.
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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-13 Hines, Laps 14-100 Coons.

NEW TRAXXAS SILVER CROWN POINTS: 1-Kaeding-111; 2-K.Swanson-108; 3-Jones-93; 4-T.Swanson-90; 5-Hines-90; 6-Coons-88-; 7-East-82; 8-Santos-63; 9-Daum-63; 10-Gamester-52.

NEXT TRAXXAS SILVER CROWN RACE: June 22 – Newton, IA – Iowa Speedway

Tim Wolffrum aka Cowboy

Saddest thing I've seen in years. I could've thrown hand grenades in the stands and not hit anybody. The series appears to be a mere shadow of its former self of 10 yeas ago. USAC has tried to kill this series before and just may pull it off this time.

Talking to many teams after the race , I'd call last night the great ethanol burn down. A large amount of teams had temperature problems with there cars, and as a lot of them said, we just have to change nozzles, right !

People say I keep living in the past with my attitude about this series , but dang it, when you were drawing 40 to 50 cars a race, and putting crowds in the stands, why ruin it.There aren't alot of these cars around, and it is very exclusive, and all the young guys would love to drive them. Unfortunately the organization that runs them treats them like a red headed step child. Do I wish Bob Sargeant would just grab this series and run it right. He has all the dirt tracks but 1, and there is no way he can treat worse then it is now.

As to Jerry Coons and team R&W, congrats. That was a great performance by you guys.You have your act together.

Really think that there aren't a good number of cars sitting idle in garages? You're right, wasn't that long ago they were running two semi's at DuQuoin!

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Originally Posted by racephoto1:
saddest thing i've seen in years. I could've thrown hand grenades in the stands and not hit anybody. The series appears to be a mere shadow of its former self of 10 yeas ago. Usac has tried to kill this series before and just may pull it off this time.

talking to many teams after the race , i'd call last night the great ethanol burn down. A large amount of teams had temperature problems with there cars, and as a lot of them said, we just have to change nozzles, right !

people say i keep living in the past with my attitude about this series , but dang it, when you were drawing 40 to 50 cars a race, and putting crowds in the stands, why ruin it.there aren't alot of these cars around, and it is very exclusive, and all the young guys would love to drive them. Unfortunately the organization that runs them treats them like a red headed step child. Do i wish bob sargeant would just grab this series and run it right. He has all the dirt tracks but 1, and there is no way he can treat worse then it is now.

As to jerry coons and team r&w, congrats. That was a great performance by you guys.you have your act together.

amen!

Another sad point in my book is that they only ran like 60 green flag laps since they counted caution laps. JMO

I hope more cars figure out the fuel as many didn't sound good. The second half was the worst silver crown race I've seen in 30 years. Maybe they could run the 100 miler first, then run time trials and then do hot laps on the rubber. They just don't get it as far as track prep goes. 22 cars with only a handful running good just doesn't cut it. This series is in dire straits and could be the final season. 12 modifieds with only 4 of them running competetively put on an even worse show. Apparently hardly anyone wants to run the miles anymore. USAC lost several of it's regular teams just like when they went to that ugly pavement car and they never got them back. And by the way, Brian Tyler's car had the ugliest paint job I've ever seen on a champ car. Do they really think fans want to pay $30 for that kind of ugliness? I was praying that Jerry Nemire would decide to run the race in Foyt's old car! This event left a sour taste in my mouth after a fantastic Freedom 100 at the speedway. Somebody shoot me! It's time!

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Originally Posted by miledirt:
Pretty sure that Shane is his son

Yes, Shane is his son.

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How was the crowd? I intended to go, but due to time constraints I went to Bloomington and saw a great evening of racing, much better than the USAC show a week before. This is not meant as a criticism of USAC, but the track just seemed to be racier and every thing fell into place.

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What happened to Dave?

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dave tagged the rail with his left front pretty early in the race in turn 4, car did a squirrely little move. didnt go over to see how bad the car was but im sure something broke on it.

as far as alot of otheres said it was a sad show. the cars sounded horrible and many fought new fuel problems.

The stands were very empty.

heck they had more vintage cars show up than champs and mods.
I would love to see a 30-40 car methenoyl injected field show up again. just a little wishfull thinking

kinda wish i would have gone to bloom.

Was my first trip to the Hoosier 100. I enjoyed myself. Love watching the big cars on the dirt mile. Was it the best racing? No. But it was still fun to watch.

Frankly, considering how much it cost to get in, I thought the crowd was pretty good. Stands weren't full but there were a lot of people there.

Yeah, we could've made the 1 minute trip to Bloomington too, but we can go there any Friday. The SC series will be gone if people stop showing up. And those who don't even go to SC races will crab about that too.

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Why the switch to a failure like ethanol? It's way to expensive to produce yet the feds keep funding it's production. And people wonder why this country's broke.

Sounds very disappointing. Track had to be junk from the start with those kind of qualifying times. They used to be in the low 32s during day time quals for the Hoosier 100 back in the late 80s,early 90s. Car count is down again, due to USAC making another bad call. It sure is a shame! I love Champ Dirt Car racing, but it will never be the same!

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The president never wanted pavement sprint cars, there gone! He referred to SC as not Silver Crown but instead Senior Citizens, constantly asked "why do we have them?" Now they will soon be gone! There is no passion left on West 16th Street, USAC will never be the same, and that is a shame, a real shame! It is a shame there are no Roger McCluskey, Gary Sacola, Bill Marvel, Johny Capels, Dick King, Jack Beckly. Mike Devin, Rollie Bealle, Norm Shields, type REAL RACERS left!

Shane had clutch issues besides the fact the car was running 260 degrees after 13 laps. Definitely disappointed in the race. Looked like hot laps with all the cars not running right. Very few actually sounded like they were running right and it was sad to see such a sad car count and grandstands that were barely 1/4 full. As far as the fuel issue goes, it should be optional in my opinion. We only run the dirt tracks, so points aren't really of importance to us, but it is very difficult for low budget teams to spend hours of dyno time, thousands in motor changes, and countless hours that should be spent with our families and friends instead of worrying about the next goofy rule. Wish we could all get together to make them understand our point of view. We are a low budget team, and we just have the desire to compete, have a great time,, and a ton of laughs, and just maybe...just maybe work hard enough to maybe someday win a race. Congratulations to Jerry Coons though! He definitely had his car figured out.

This ones a cheers to all the little guys. The guys not running Toyota motors. The guys that don't have hundreds of thousands invested in their cars and rigs. The guys that just feel lucky to start a USAC Silver Crown race. The guys who do it for the enjoyment and the love for racing. Maybe it's time for some other people to get that!

Whoever at USAC who made the decision to go to that fuel should be fired effective immediately. If you were Bob Sargent would you still want them at Springfield and Du Quoin after this when you know you're guaranteed to loose money? I hope somehow the series survives but heads gotta roll.

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Whoever at USAC who made the decision to go to that fuel should be fired effective immediately. If you were Bob Sargent would you still want them at Springfield and Du Quoin after this when you know you're guaranteed to loose money? I hope somehow the series survives but heads gotta rol=1]Posted via Mobile Device[/size]

There is numerous champ cars sitting in garages because of USAC's lame rules. Be interesting to see an Outlaw USAC race

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There is numerous champ cars sitting in garages because of USAC's lame rules. Be interesting to see an Outlaw USAC race

Won't work without the Dirt Miles.

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Originally Posted by dirtcarfan:
One of the more boring races in a while... Like the fact they ran all 100 laps without the break. Sad that the Indiana Underground and the Keith Kunz cars weren't there. There was a passed out guy in front of us and that was the best things of the night.

While walking through the tunnel back to the infield after the race, the woman behind me said to her husband, "Well, that race stunk and the race cars smelled bad, too!"

Ignite Ethanol smells like bad paint thinner and burning it in a race motor doesn't improve it a bit!

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I think you might be able to get Sargent on board with the miles if he is loosing money with USAC and you could show him where the cars would come out.

I'm done. I'm one for history, but this is pathetic. Its time to move on. Its is very sad when 19 drivers, of which I have no clue who they are, put on 100 times a better show. Wish the series the best, but I will not be watching any races.:29: