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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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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Yes, Shane is his son.

---------- Post added at 12:21 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:17 PM ----------

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.

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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