[Vukie]

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14 Pavement Sprint Cars checked in today - Practice hitting the track now!
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Tracy Hines leads 1st Practice over Armstrong East Pierce Windom Gerster Santos T.Swanson Helberg Larson Gamester K.Swanson Wilson Olson
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Brian Gerster makes hard contact with the wall in Final Practice. He's OK. Tough break - he's always fast here!
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Tracy Hines fastest in Final Practice at 14.321 seconds over K.Swanson Pierce Larson Windom T.Swanson East Olson Wilson Santos...
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Problems for Jojo Helberg in Practice & then Caleb Armstrong loses a wheel and pounds the wall in qualifying.
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Tracy Hines sets Fast Time at 14.015 seconds over T.Swanson K.Swanson Windom Santos East Wilson Larson Pierce Olson Gamester...
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Aaron Pierce wins Heat 1 over Wilson Hines K.Swanson Santos. Gamester DNF.
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Kyle Larson wins Heat 2 over Windom Olson T.Swanson East

jacobwilson07 Jacob Wilson
2nd in the heat race. The Winchester wiggle is over the top today. Very slick

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30 Laps the distance! Bobby East leads Lap 1!

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18 to go - T.Swanson stops - Hines leads East Santos Windom K.Swanson Larson Pierce Wilson Olson Gamester

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12 to go - Hines leads East Windom Santos K.Swanson Larson Wilson Pierce Olson T.Swanson

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Tracy Hines wins another "Rich Vogler Classic" over East Windom K.Swanson Larson Santos Wilson Pierce Olson T.Swanson..

[Fred Zirzow]

AMSOIL USAC PAVEMENT SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: September 18, 2011 – Winchester, Indiana – Winchester Speedway – “Rich Vogler Classic”

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-14.015; 2. Tanner Swanson, 17T, TK-14.458; 3. Kody Swanson, 75, TK-14.570; 4. Chris Windom, 17, Windom-14.661; 5. Bobby Santos III, 98s, Santos-14.842; 6. Bobby East, 5, Klatt-14.868; 7. Jacob Wilson, 07, WRB-14.941; 8. Kyle Larson, 67, Kunz-15.046; 9. Aaron Pierce, 26, Pierce-15.079; 10. Brian Olson, 59, Powell-15.172; 11. Russ Gamester, 35, Gamester-15.209; 12. Caleb Armstrong, 7A, C & A-NT; 13. JoJo Helberg, 7, Helberg-NT; 14. Brian Gerster, 27, Davis/Gerster-NT.

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Pierce, 2. Wilson, 3. Hines, 4. K.Swanson, 5. Santos, 6. Gamester. 2:01.34

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Larson, 2. Windom, 3. Olson, 4. T.Swanson, 5. East. 2:01.89

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Tracy Hines, 2. Bobby East, 3. Chris Windom, 4. Kody Swanson, 5. Kyle Larson, 6. Bobby Santos III, 7. Jacob Wilson, 8. Aaron Pierce, 9. Brian Olson, 10. Tanner Swanson, 11. Russ Gamester. NT
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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-11 East, Laps 12-30 Hines.

NEW AMSOIL PAVEMENT SPRINT POINTS: 1-Santos-304; 2-T.swanson-290; 3-East-286; 4-Windom-280; 5-K.Swanson-265; 6-Wilson-256; 7-Hines-246; 8-Gerster-227; 9-Olson-177; 10-Pierce-161.

NEXT AMSOIL PAVEMENT SPRINT RACE: September 22 – Indianapolis, IN – Lucas Oil Raceway at Indianapolis

Holy Crap! Larson is Human??

[Vukie]

Originally Posted by mortboyz Holy Crap! Larson is Human??

RT@kylelarsonracin Kyle Larson
5th at Winchester in the pavement sprint.. Wouldn't hurt my feelings if I never ran here again lol

[racefan20]

It didnt look like he ever got comfortable, kept trying different lines but never found one that worked for him. Funny thing was I was telling Mrs Vogler about him on the drive up and said, "You will be meeting him in victory lane later" boy was I wrong, Instead she got to meet someone she already knew

[Mud Packer]

Originally Posted by racefan20 It didnt look like he ever got comfortable, kept trying different lines but never found one that worked for him. Funny thing was I was telling Mrs Vogler about him on the drive up and said, "You will be meeting him in victory lane later" boy was I wrong, Instead she got to meet someone she already knew

The learning curve at Winchester, Salem, Toledo, etc can be quite steep. You are right, he never looked comfortable in the car. The "hills" can be very difficult to conquer for new drivers. A couple of trips and I am sure he will figure it out. Certainly not for the faint of heart.

Tracey has been there, done that a number of times. A very deserving winner and I enjoyed hearing his comments in victory lane. The quantity of cars was down but the quality was very good. I just wish that somehow, someway this problem can be fixed.

With the DARF/HARF discount it was a very good day of racing. An excellent modified race and the front wheel drives are always entertaining. Maybe not an instant classic, but certainly worth the price of admission.

[harrisracing]

Originally Posted by racefan20 It didnt look like he ever got comfortable, kept trying different lines but never found one that worked for him. Funny thing was I was telling Mrs Vogler about him on the drive up and said, "You will be meeting him in victory lane later" boy was I wrong, Instead she got to meet someone she already knew

Larson said this was his first time at Winchester and didnt get any practice/testing before race day. Hopefully Mrs. Vogler will meet him in victory lane next time.

[duel]

Larson got 5th by inches over Santos coming to the checkers. great battle with 3 or 4 cars for 3rd. Congrats to Tracy Hines for the win.

[ASPHALT24]

How was the crowd?

[Mud Packer]

Originally Posted by ASPHALT24 How was the crowd?

Not as good as I would have thought. Maybe a 1/3 full. A great day weather wise but many are reluctant to show with the state of the USAC pavement series. Also, the "new" (old) promotional team at Winchester isn't getting it done. When Glen Luckett, RJ Scott & Greg Wood (CRA) didn't come back, I felt that this place would suffer again. Winchester won't be any better until they get an agressive promotional team in place. The old "open the gates and they will come" just won't work anymore.