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On my way over from Illinois.
Hows it looking? anybody know?

Per Monica they have a few puddles from a shower this morning. Track still wet but still good to go.

Updates please.

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28 cars, lighting fast surface. good times here at gas city.

Kevin Thomas, Jr. wins Heat 1 over Cottle Bacon Stanbrough...McGhee Gass Goodnight.

Chase Stockon wins Heat 2 over Robbins Jarrett Coons...Shuman Ketcham. Hines gets turned around at checkered

Chris Windom wins Heat 3 over Farney Darland Meseraull Donelson Flud Bell.

Landon Simon wins Heat 4 over Ballou Spencer Leary...Grant Gurley. Hanft DNF.

Semi-Feature Lineup:
Hines - Grant
McGhee - Donelson
Gurley - Gass
Shuman - Flud
Goodnight - Ketcham
Bell - Hanft

Semi finish
Grant Hines Shuman McGhee Goodnight & Donelson transfer from Semi over Flud Gass Gurley Ketcham Bell...

Feature Lineup:
Meseraull - Stanbrough
Ballou - Darland
Stockon - Bacon
Hines - Grant
Cottle - Robbins
Farney - Simon
McGhee - Coons
Windom - Leary
Thomas - Jarrett
Donelson - Shuman
Spencer - Goodnight

Features on track
Weather coming!!!

Bacon wins by a nose
Over Messersul!!

Unofficial Bacon
T mezz
Darland
Stanbro
Cj Leary
Ballou
Stockon
Hines
Cottle

OFFICIAL fromUSAC
Brady Bacon holds on to win a close one at Gas City over Meseraull Darland Stanbrough Leary Ballou Stockon Hines Cottle Thomas Grant Coons..

Officially from me
I Feel like I was posting to myself!
:):)
Goodnight!

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Thank you

Thank you

AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS:May 15, 2015 - Gas City, Indiana - Gas City I-69 Speedway - "May Meltdown"

QUALIFYING: 1. Brady Bacon, 69, Dynamics-11.855; 2. Chase Stockon, 32, 32/TBI-11.900;3. Dave Darland, 71P, Phillips/Curb-Agajanian-11.987; 4. Robert Ballou, 12, Ballou-12.018;
5. Jon Stanbrough, 81, Stanbrough-12.037; 6. Tracy Hines, 4, THR-12.093; 7. Thomas Meseraull, 18X, Keen-12.132; 8. Justin Grant, 40, Hery-12.147; 9. Shane Cottle, 57, Hazen-12.162; 10. Kyle Robbins, 17R, Robbins-12.173; 11. Aaron Farney, 15F, Farney-12.312; 12. Landon Simon, 24, LSR-12.312; 13. Max McGhee, 17, McGhee-12.318; 14. Jerry Coons, Jr., 10E, Edison-12.333; 15. Chris Windom, 21X, Pollock-12.348; 16. C.J. Leary, 30, Leary-12.426; 17. Kevin Thomas, Jr., 17RW, Dutcher-12.444; 18. Logan Jarrett, 29, Jarrett-12.465; 19. Conner Donelson, 42, Donelson-12.530; 20. Chris Gurley, 12G, Team Automotive-12.595; 21. Mike Gass, 17G, Gass-12.603; 22. Casey Shuman, 2X, Barnhill-12.604; 23. Frank Flud, 41, SST-12.618; 24. Josh Spencer, 66J, Spencer-12.688; 25. Matt Goodnight, 39, Goodnight-12.734; 26. Cole Ketcham, 41K, Ketcham-13.140; 27. Robert Bell, 71, Bell-13.270; 28. Stuart Hanft, 69H, Hanft-14.349.

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Thomas, 2. Cottle, 3. Bacon, 4. Stanbrough, 5. McGhee, 6. Gass, 7. Goodnight. 2:04.78

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Stockon, 2. Robbins, 3. Jarrett, 4. Coons, 5. Shuman, 6. Hines, 7. Ketcham. 2:06.17

THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Windom, 2. Farney, 3. Darland, 4. Meseraull, 5. Donelson, 6. Flud, 7. Bell. 2:03.84

FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Simon, 2. Ballou, 3. Spencer, 4. Leary, 5. Grant, 6. Gurley, 7. Hanft. NT

SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Grant, 2. Hines, 3. Shuman, 4. McGhee, 5. Goodnight, 6. Donelson, 7. Flud, 8. Gass, 9. Gurley, 10. Ketcham, 11. Bell, 12. Hanft. 2:29.95

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Brady Bacon, 2. Thomas Meseraull, 3. Dave Darland, 4. Jon Stanbrough, 5. C.J. Leary, 6. Robert Ballou, 7. Chase Stockon, 8. Tracy Hines, 9. Shane Cottle, 10. Kevin Thomas, Jr., 11. Justin Grant, 12. Jerry Coons, Jr., 13. Logan Jarrett, 14. Landon Simon, 15. Max McGhee, 16. Casey Shuman, 17. Chris Windom, 18. Aaron Farney, 19. Kyle Robbins, 20. Matt Goodnight, 21. Josh Spencer, 22. Conner Donelson. NT

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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-12 Meseraull, Laps 13-16 Darland, Laps 17-30 Bacon.

NEW AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT POINTS: 1-Ballou-743, 2-Stockon-741, 3-Darland-728, 4-Bacon-698, 5-Stanbrough-646, 6-Thomas-619, 7-Hines-611, 8-Leary-610, 9-Windom-446, 10-Grant-440

NEXT AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT RACE: May 20 - Terre Haute (IN) Action Track -
45th "Tony Hulman Classic"

Great run for Bacon and the Hoffman team.Also congrats to csi shocks for another win

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Thank you Indy1808!! I just got home and I so appreciate finding your updates!! :9::8::8:

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A very good race. Track was great. Feature was over at 9:30. Good job Gas City and USAC. Congrats to bacon and the Hoffman team.

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It just goes to show you, never, ever give up on a racing program. Yesterday, it looked like Mother Nature would never even let this event happen. Tonight started with the track being so terribly sloppy wet that it couldn't even be hot lapped on, without a significant track rework and lengthy delay. Then the first heat wasn't real good. But then the last three were a harbinger of things to come, as they were action packed and thrilling. Come feature time, everything looked to be served up on a silver platter, as you had drivers like T-Mez, Jon Stanbrough, The Madman, Dave Darland, Stockon and Brady Bacon within the first three rows. Surely this thing would be great right off the bat, right? Ballou was the first aggressor, but after contact from Stanbrough, went over the berm in two and was shuffled back to 13th or 14th place and then everybody just pretty much settled in on the bottom and followed each other around for the longest time, with Meseraul leading the way. Then after a yellow Dave got underneath Thomas and grabbed the lead. We've all seen this before, game, set and match. It was a done deal, right? It looked like it, but then, as if some just flipped "The Top Is Now Open" switch, Leary started passing people like crazy. Robert Ballou was in full Madman Mode, both on the top and dive bombing people with sliders. But most significantly, Brady Bacon was a rocket on the top. It was obvious in a few laps Dave was going to have a serious problem. Then there was another yellow, with Darland in the lead, followed by Meseraul, then Bacon. Bacon took second and dove under Dave as he switched and went high to try to take Brady's momentum away. The as the laps wound down and they started getting into lapped traffic T-Mez came roaring back and passed Dave on the high side. And he was reeling the leader in. But would he run out of laps? He was right on his tail tank on the last lap and dove low as they came top the flag stand. It was close, but Brady just had too much momentum coming to the line. It didn't always look like it was going to be, but it ended up being one hell of a race!! And thanks to Dick Terrell for getting me a top row spot that I could stand and watch the race, I had a bird's eye view of this one. Thanks to the O'Connors for saving this place and giving everyone the opportunity to see such a great race. And the highlight for me was how Meseraul got passed by two champions like Darland and Bacon, regrouped, came charging back and actually outraced both through traffic. He almost snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. He's having such a good year, this year.

Jerry

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I've only missed a few races at Gas City since I got out of the Marines in 2011 and I have to say, last night was the best sprint car feature I've seen. I don't think many will disagree that in the past we've seen many races where only one line was working and a race becomes a "follow the leader" type affair. Last night was not one of those races.

The top was working, the bottom was working, we saw sliders. If you were there you got the full package. The show put on by the top 3 was something to be admired, especially in the closing laps. Even deep in the pack there was great racing. Two that really stood out were Kevin Thomas Jr and CJ Leary who started deep and raced their way up through the pack going from the bottom to the top, back to the bottom and then to the top again to weave their way through traffic to both get top 10s.

The only race that I can remember from recent memory that even comes close would have been 2012 ISW when Levi Jones and Bryan Clauson had quite a battle. The only thing that I left kind of disappointed with last night was the size of the crowd. As a racing community I think we still need to help support Gas City, the track has been great, drivers are showing up in force, but fans still need to come out to make this work. So PLEASE, if you haven't been to Gas City this season, come out, bring a friend, and tell them to ask friends if they'd like to come. I would really like to see the type of race I saw last night continue at Gas City.

Nate

I can't wait to make the trip for isw!!

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The only thing disappointing was the crowd. I think the weather hurt.

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Just wish it was closer to Evansville!

Yes. But tss is not bad. Lol

Just curious what happened to KROB in the feature? Saw that a caution came out for him in some posts but never heard exactly y.... Thanx for the info!! Was not able to attend cuz of OT at work...:(

If I remember correctly he just got sideways and just couldn't keep it going before he stalled out.

Thanx Nate.... Glad no damage.. Hope to c him run next weekend...

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I agree with ever one else it was like old times at gas city nice to see the place is back . the work done to the track made for great racing Thanks