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USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: July 31, 2009 - Newton, Iowa - Iowa Speedway - "Casey's General Stores Challenge"

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Jerry Coons Jr., 69, Dynamics-21.728; 2. Shane Hmiel, 17, RW-21.779; 3. Cole Whitt, 67k, Kunz-21.840; 4. Brad Sweet, 9, Kahne/Curb-21.876; 5. Levi Jones, 20, Stewart-21.921; 6. Jacob Wilson, 07, WBR/Team 6R-21.960; 7. Darren Hagen, 67, Kunz-22.005; 8. Dave Darland, 2B, RWB-22.127; 9. Bobby East, 5, Klatt-22.133; 10. Billy Wease, 98s, Santos-22.144; 11. Henry Clarke, 67x, Kunz-22.167; 12. Tracy Hines, 21, Stewart-22.194; 13. Brian Gerster, 27, Davis/Gerster-22.197; 14. Bobby Santos III, 98, Santos-22.433; 15. Russ Gamester, 46, Gamester-22.444; 16. Damion Gardner, 71, DG-22.702.

FEATURE: (50 laps) 1. Shane Hmiel, 2. Bobby Santos III, 3. Dave Darland, 4. Tracy Hines, 5. Jacob Wilson, 6. Bobby East, 7. Cole Whitt, 8. Damion Gardner, 9. Levi Jones, 10. Darren Hagen, 11. Henry Clarke, 12. Brian Gerster, 13. Brad Sweet, 14. Jerry Coons Jr., 15. Billy Wease, 16. Russ Gamester. NT
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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-50 Hmiel.

NEW USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR POINTS: 1-Jones-1,243l 2-Darland-1,193; 3-Whitt-1,107; 4-Coons-1,024; 5-Hines-907; 6-Gardner-861; 7-Hagen-811; 8-Sweet-722; 9-Chad Boat-721; 10-Bryan Clauson-690.

NEXT USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR RACE: August 9 - Knoxville (IA) Raceway - "Knoxville Non-Wing USAC Nationals"
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USAC K & N SILVER CROWN CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES RACE RESULTS: July 31, 2009 - Newton, Iowa - Iowa Speedway - "Casey's General Stores Cha;;enge"

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Jacob Wilson, 07, WBR/Team 6R-22.123; 2. Cameron Dodson, 991, Edwards/RE-22.239; 3. Shane Hmiel, 17, RW-22.245; 4. Bobby East, 6, Klatt-22.341; 5. Tracy Hines, 22, Stewart-22.392; 6. Bud Kaeding, 29, BK-22.486; 7. Jerry Coons Jr., 27, RW-22.526; 8. Zach Daum, 50, Daum-22.635; 9. Kody Swanson, 19, Team Six-R-22.678; 10. A.J. Fike, 32, RFMS-22.731; 11. Eric Gordon, 2, Bowman/Canine-22.742; 12. Michael Annett, 3, East-22.750; 13. Brian Tyler, 21, Team Six-R-22.765; 14. Josh Wise, 199, Edwards/RE-22.789; 15. Levi Jones, 10, Stewart-22.996; 16. Russ Gamester, 51, Gamester-23.167; 17. Bobby Santos III, 98, Santos-23.247; 18. Coleman Gullick, 114, Deuel-24.010; 19. Rodney Weesner, 96, Weesner-24.685; 20. Mario Marietta, 15, Beach-NT.

FEATURE: (100 laps) 1. Cameron Dodson, 2. Levi Jones, 3. Kody Swanson, 4. Bobby East, 5. Bud Kaeding, 6. Jacob Wilson, 7. Eric Gordon, 8. Zach Daum, 9. Coleman Gullick, 10. Shane Hmiel, 11. A.J. Fike, 12. Bobby Santos III, 13. Russ Gamester, 14. Jerry Coons Jr., 15. Josh Wise, 16. Tracy Hines, 17. Michael Annett, 18. Brian Tyler, 19. Rodney Weesner.
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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Lap 1 Dodson, Laps 2-88 Wilson, Laps 89-100 Dodson.

NEW SILVER CROWN POINTS: 1-Kaeding-249; 2-Hines-180; 3-East-171; 4-Jones-170; 5-Fike-163; 6-Swanson-155; 7-Daum-150; 8-Tyler-150; 9-Coons-142; 10-Hmiel-139.

NEXT USAC SILVER CROWN RACE: August 6 - Oswego (NY) Speedway - Kasey Kahne "Steel Palace Classic"

Congrats Coleman!! Nice 1st run with the crown cars!!! Hope to see you Sat. Dave

Setting the schedule conflicts aside for a moment.....
It is important for USAC to race at Iowa with the Nationwide series at Iowa Speedway for USAC and the competitors because it provides exposure for both the organization and the drivers. The Silver Crown cars and sprint car teams are competing with the "Nationwide Series" not the All-American Challenge Series, or NASCAR Silver Cup Series. Racing with this series allows a driver to demonstrate their talent and perhaps secure a ride to enhance their earnings- and for the series to perhaps gain the attention of a industry executive wanting to be a title sponsor. On the personal level some of this doesn't matter a darn to me - I sometimes think racing was a whole lot better when the sponsors were Fike Plumbing, Windmill Truckers, and Talk of Town Tavern etc. However, I'm trying to race for a living nor trying to field a team. The problem is that USAC is stuck in a middleworld - if it swims too far from one shore it will drown and yet sees fruit tantalizing hanging from trees on an island at present beyond its reach - that creates some of the hassles being discussed here.

Nice job Colman. This kid is a gasser

What happened to Bobby Santos car as he was looking for the lead? anyone?:........

He ran out of fuel

Thats too bad.......It looked to me he was gonna win too. They are a young team and will learn from their mistakes. He had a great run going tho....he certainly was the only one doing the passing....

Anyone know what happened to Hines last night ??