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USAC Honda National Midget News – June 14, 2015
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Lawrenceburg, Indiana...Just like last year, Rico Abreu stood in victory lane at Lawrenceburg Speedway after a spirited 30-lap "Indiana Midget Week" feature on the high banks. The reigning Honda National Midget champion used a lap 21 restart for his first win of the season, making it four feature wins for Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports with four different drivers this season.
Kevin Thomas, Jr. grabbed the early lead and led a high-speed breakaway on the cushion in the early circuits, as Jerry Coons, Jr. and Abreu stayed with him while Bryan Clauson moved from seventh to fourth in the early going.
On lap 12, Tracy Hines got turned over in turn-four to bring out the red flag. Hines walked to the ambulance. Coons used that restart to his advantage, as he fired a slide-job on Thomas for the top spot, with Abreu and Clauson scrambling to come along with him. By the caution for Isaac Chapple on lap 14, Thomas had been kicked back to fourth.
Just a lap later, Alex Bright went high in the air in turn-one, landing a monster flip in the middle of turns one and two. He took his time exiting the #56, but walked away.
Abreu tried his first slider on Coons at that restart, but Coons was ready for a battle. He fought off Abreu a couple times and put some distance between them, but Abreu regrouped and came back at him, finally able to hold off Coons' crossover on lap 21. Coons lost some distance to Abreu and slowed on lap 24 with a flat left-rear tire. He visited the work area and restarted from the tail.
By that point, 15th-starting Tyler Thomas had passed two cars in one lap to enter the top-five and lined up behind Clauson in third for the restart with seven to go. He nailed the top and took second, but it appeared Abreu was too far out front. That changed with two to go as Ryan Bernal, who had been running inside the top-ten all race, nailed the turn-four wall, bringing out the final yellow.
Abreu got a good restart, and his teammate Kevin Thomas, Jr. threw a slider on Tyler Thomas for second, allowing Rico to pull away. Tyler Thomas crossed over, and Clauson hit the bottom to go back by Thomas, Jr., but it was all Abreu out front as he scored his ninth-career series win to tie Chuck Gurney, Tony Elliott & Billy Boat for 72nd on the all-time list. He also set the ProSource "Fast Time" earlier in the night aboard the Toyota TRD - Curb Records #67 Bullet/Speedway Toyota.
"I love the big moments, and it looks like we're headed for another one tomorrow going against Bryan at his favorite track for the Midget Week title. It's cool to come out on top tonight and hang in there with him; I know how much it would mean to me to win it, and I'm looking forward to tomorrow night. We've been a top-three car all week and late-race restarts have been killing me, honestly. We got racing with Jerry and Bryan, and it was hard to tell who was gonna win the thing," Abreu said.
Tyler Thomas finished off his fine run to earn another B&W Auto Mart "Hard Charger Award" while posting his best-career USAC National Midget finish aboard the American Racing Custom Wheels - BT Machine #91T Spike/Esslinger.
"I had an absolute blast tonight. We had an awesome race track to race on, and we have all week, to allow us to race our way up through the pack. We were good up on the curb and could go down and run the bottom a little bit too. We got to racing too hard with Clauson and Thomas to be able to make a run at the lead, but that was some of the most fun racing I've gotten to do. We couldn't quite get away from them on the last restart to get our momentum up to try to make a run at Rico. I'm proud of how much better we've made our car after switching to Spike Chassis this year, and we've got it rolling now and I'm comfortable. We're looking forward to Kokomo tomorrow and couldn't be happier with how everything is going so far, but I'm ready for that first win," Thomas said.
Clauson rounded out the podium in the Curb Records - Dooling Machine #63 Spike/Stanton Mopar and trails Abreu by one point going into the Midget Week finale at Kokomo Speedway on Sunday.
"We weren't quite good enough to battle for the win tonight, and we had to pull out all the tricks to put ourselves up on the podium. The DNF in the heat race hurt us in the Midget Week points, but we're going to Kokomo tomorrow with a shot at it. There's no place I'd rather have a winner-take-all race for the Midget Week crown," Clauson said.
Kevin Thomas, Jr. ended up fourth in the Toyota TRD - Bakken Concrete #67K Bullet/Speedway Toyota, and Chase Stockon rounded out the top-five with a late charge aboard the Jerome Rodela - Trench Shoring #25 Breka/Pink Toyota.
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USAC HONDA NATIONAL MIDGET RACE RESULTS: June 13, 2015 - Lawrenceburg, IN - Lawrenceburg Speedway - "Indiana Midget Week"
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Rico Abreu, 67, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-14.824; 2. Bryan Clauson, 63, RKR/Curb-Agajanian-14.938; 3. Spencer Bayston, 39, Clauson-14.956; 4. Andrew Felker, 11A, Felker-15.152; 5. Ryan Bernal, 2, Taylor-15.161; 6. Jerry Coons Jr., 27, Heffner-15,206; 7. Kevin Thomas Jr., 67k, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-15.227; 8. Shane Cottle, 57, Ecker-15,228; 9. Brad Mosen, 1NZ, Buckley- 15.256; 10. Tracy Hines, 24, Parker-15.268; 11. Brenden Bright, 92, Bright-15.274; 12. Chett Gehrke, 37, Felker-15.333; 13. Alex Bright, 56, Hmiel-15.379; 14. Chase Stockon, 25K, Rodela-15.404; 15. Tyler Thomas, 91T, Thomas-15.424; 16. Tyler Courtney, 7K, Irwin-15.430; 17. Hayden Williams, 27NZ, HLR-15.526; 18. Ronnie Gardner, 37x, Felker-15.605; 19. Isaac Chapple, 52, Chapple-15.789; 20. Brett Thomas, 69, Thomas-16.028; 21. Nick Rowe, 5F, Daum-16.370; 22. Ted Hines, 51, Bailey-16.567; 23. David Budres, 31, Manic-16.741; 24. Darren Hagen, 17, Brown-NT.
FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. A.Bright, 2. K.Thomas Jr., 3. Courtney, 4. Abreu, 5. Felker, 6. Tracy Hines, 7. Chapple, 8. Budres. 2:06.65
SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. S.Cottle, 2. Stockon, 3. B.Bright, 4. Bernal, 5. Williams, 6. Hagen (#69), 7. Rowe, 8. Clauson. 2:06.31
THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. T.Thomas, 2. Mosen 3. Bayston, 4. Coons, 5. Gardner, 6. Gehrke, 7. Ted Hines. 2:08.40
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Rico Abreu, 2. Tyler Thomas, 3. Bryan Clauson, 4. Kevin Thomas Jr., 5. Chase Stockon, 6. Andrew Felker, 7. Hayden Williams, 8. Brad Mosen, 9. Darren Hagen, 10. Shane Cottle, 11. Jerry Coons Jr., 12. Ronnie Gardner, 13. Chett Gehrke, 14. Brenden Bright, 15. Tyler Courtney, 16. Isaac Chapple, 17. Nick Rowe, 18. David Budres, 19. Ryan Bernal, 20. Alex Bright, 21. Spencer Bayston, 22. Tracy Hines, 23. Ted Hines. NT
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**Tracy Hines flipped on lap 12 of the feature. A.Bright flipped on lap 15 of the feature.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-11 K.Thomas, Laps 12-20 Coons, Laps 21-30 Abreu.
NEW HONDA NATIONAL MIDGET POINTS: 1-Hines-304, 2-K.Thomas Jr.-295, 3-T.Thomas-295, 4-Coons-287, 5-Hagen-266, 6-Abreu-257, 7-Bayston-250, 8-Tanner Thorson-218, 9-Dave Darland-159, 10-Christopher Bell-151.
NEW INDIANA MIDGET WEEK POINTS: 1-Abreu-2578, 2-Clauson-256, 3-T.Thomas-202, 4-K.Thomas Jr.-198, 5-Coons-197, 6-Stockon-182, 7-Hines-173, 8-Bayston-170, 9-Christpher Bell-152, 10-Mosen-137.
NEXT HONDA NATIONAL MIDGET RACE: June 14 - Kokomo, IN - Kokomo Speedway - "Indiana Midget Week"
USAC Honda National Midget News – June 13, 2015
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Bloomington, Indiana...Christopher Bell duplicated his Bloomington Speedway "Indiana Midget Week" win from 2014 on Friday night, as the Norman, Oklahoma knocked off his first Honda National Midget victory of the season. The 2013 National Midget champion flipped in Wednesday night's IMW opener before rebounding to second on Thursday night, but he was not to be denied as he took the Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports - Toyota TRD #67 Bullet/Speedway Toyota to victory while subbing for teammate Tanner Thorson, who sat out after a wild flip on Thursday night at Lincoln Park.
Jerry Coons, Jr. and Davey Ray brought the field to green, and Ray jumped down in front of Coons on the bottom as Kevin Thomas, Jr. roared by them off turn-two with the lead. He brought teammate Rico Abreu with him. A red flag on lap three for Hayden Williams saw the two Kunz cars out front over Ray, Coons, Brad Mosen, Bryan Clauson, and Bell.
Coons took care of Ray on the restart and hung with the lead duo as they stretched it out over the rest of the field. Bell and Clauson came along as they made it a five-car breakaway up front, while a hive of cars battled two-wide for sixth on back. As Coons tried to slide past Abreu for second, Abreu crossed back over and Bell took the opportunity to sneak by both of them.
Bell carved into Thomas' lead as they reeled in traffic, and he pulled alongside on lap 21, though Thomas held the top spot by .023 seconds at the line. The next time by, Bell had taken over the lead while Abreu crossed just inches ahead of Clauson for third in a side-by-side battle. Clauson went by both Abreu and Thomas on lap 23, but the yellow appeared for a stalled car and moved him back to the fourth spot on the restart.
Bell was untouchable in the final eight laps, leading Thomas on the cushion and stretching it to 1.465-seconds at the finish for his 15th-career series victory.
"I really like this place! If I'm not winning, I'm not happy, so it's good to get back to winning with these guys. The surface was great, and you could move around really well. We got a terrible start and I found myself running seventh in the first few laps. Once we got going and I could choose my line, I was able to get back up through there. I was pretty good up top in three and four, but I was really, really good on the bottom down there. We had options on where to go, for sure. It was a relief to get the lead and some open race track with the caution at the end," Bell said.
Thomas rebounded from a tough two nights to start the week as he held the runner-up position in the Toyota TRD - Bakken Concrete #67K Bullet/Speedway Toyota.
"I was committed to the top throughout, and I got to traffic and guys were all over the place racing each other. I got schooled in lapped traffic there, got passed for the lead, but it is what it is. It's a major improvement from the last two nights, but I'm sure not happy about it, losing the lead in the last ten laps," Thomas said.
Clauson's bid for the front ended as he searched around for a little more to challenge Thomas, ending up third in the Curb Records - Dooling Machine #63 Spike/Stanton Mopar.
"I was really upset to see that late caution. It not only took away our advantage of being in traffic, but it took us from second to fourth. Once we were in clear track, all of us were pretty equal. Again, our car was tight enough to move around and traffic played into our hand, but it just didn't fall our way at the end. We were able to beat Rico, and our goal is to win the week, so we'll move on to Lawrenceburg tomorrow," Clauson said.
Abreu, who set ProSource "Fast Time" for the night with a new Bloomington Speedway midget track record, wound up fourth in the Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports - Toyota TRD #97 Bullet/Speedway Toyota, and Coons rounded out the top-five in the Heffner Racing Enterprises - Lelands.com #27 Triple X/Esslinger.
Tyler Thomas drove from 17th to finish seventh and earn the B&W Auto Mart "Hard Charger Award," while Chett Gehrke took another right-rear tire courtesy of the American Racing Ministries "Perseverance Award" as the last transfer from the Semi-Feature.
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USAC HONDA NATIONAL MIDGET RACE RESULTS: June 12, 2015 - Bloomington, IN - Bloomington Speedway - "Indiana Midget Week"
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Rico Abreu, 97, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-11.551; 2. Bryan Clauson, 63, RKR/Curb-Agajanian-11.663; 3. Kevin Thomas Jr., 67k, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-11.681; 4. Christopher Bell, 67, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-11.750; 5. Tracy Hines, 24, Parker-11.768; 6. Davey Ray, 33, Team RAYPRO-11.854; 7. Jerry Coons Jr., 27, Heffner-11.856; 8. Brad Mosen, 1NZ, Buckley-11.894; 9. Darren Hagen, 17, Brown-11.924; 10. Chase Stockon, 25k, Rodela-11.944; 11. Spencer Bayston, 39, Clauson-11.956; 12. Isaac Chapple, 52, Chapple-11.966; 13. Trey Marcham, 73, Ford-11.970; 14. Tyler Courtney, 7K, Irwin-11.971; 15. Alex Bright, 56, 5IVE-6IX-11.980; 16. Hayden Williams, 27NZ, HLR-11.992; 17. C.J. Leary, 11, Gray-12.003; 18. Brenden Bright, 92, Bright-12.005; 19. Tyler Thomas, 91T, Thomas-12.026; 20. Brock Maskovich, 5D, Daum-12.039; 21. Brett Thomas, 69, Thomas-12.045; 22. Chett Gehrke, 37, Felker-12.050; 23. Nathan Smee, 7AU, Cooper-12.064; 24. Ryan Bernal, 2, Taylor-12.070; 25. Ronnie Gardner, 37x, Felker-12.071; 26. Gage Walker, 7, Walker-12.079; 27. Justin Peck, 5x, Peck-12.096; 28. Jake Neuman, 3N, Neuman-12.104; 29. Austin Nemire, 91, Nemire/Yager-12.119; 30. Andrew Felker, 11A, Felker-12.141; 31. Andy Malpocker, 22, Malpocker-12.155; 32. Anton Hernandez, 51, Bailey-12.178; 33. Shane Cottle, 57, Ecker-12.190; 34. Nick Rowe, 5F, Daum-12.205; 35. Tucker Klaasmeyer, 27k, Klaasmeyer-12.297; 36. Chris Cochran, 7c, Klaasmeyer-12.301; 37. Clinton Boyles, 98, Boyles-12.317; 38. Tony DiMattia, 50, DiMattia-12.353; 39. Justin Dickerson, 7R, Dickerson-12.379; 40. Chase Briscoe, 33D, Davis-12.403; 41. Cole Fehr, 15, Live Loud-12.438; 42. Michael Koontz, 17k, Koontz-12.459; 43. Dave Darland, 2x, Bush-12.465; 44. David Budres, 31, Manic-12.614.
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Abreu, 2. Leary, 3. Hagen, 4. Gardner, 5. B.Thomas, 6. Nemire, 7. Boyles, 8. Marcham, 9. Hines, 10. S.Cottle, 11. Fehr. NT
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Stockon, 2. B.Bright, 3. Clauson, 4. Ray, 5. Gehrke, 6. Courtney, 7. Felker, 8. Walker, 9. Rowe, 10. DiMattia, 11. Koontz. 2:04.58
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Smee, 2. A.Bright, 3. K.Thomas Jr., 4. Coons, 5. Bayston, 6. Peck, 7. Darland, 8. T.Thomas, 9. Klaasmeyer, 10. Malpocker, 11. Dickerson. 2:03.38
FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Bell, 2. Bernal, 3. Williams, 4. Mosen, 5. Chapple, 6. Neuman, 7. Briscoe, 8. Hernandez, 9. Budres, 10. Maskovich, 11. Cochran. NT
C MAIN: (10 laps) 1. S.Cottle, 2. Rowe, 3. Darland, 4. DiMattia, 5. Boyles, 6. Koontz, 7. Briscoe, 8. Budres, 9. Dickerson.
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Hines, 2. Bayston, 3. T.Thomas, 4. Courtney, 5. Neuman, 6. Gehrke, 7. Felker, 8. Chapple, 9. Hernandez, 10. Peck, 11. Darland, 12. S.Cottle, 13. Malpocker, 14. B.Thomas, 15. DiMattia, 16. Nemire, 17. Walker, 18. Rowe, 19. Marcham, 20. Maskovich. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Christopher Bell, 2. Kevin Thomas Jr., 3. Bryan Clauson, 4. Rico Abreu, 5. Jerry Coons Jr., 6. Spencer Bayston, 7. Tyler Thomas, 8. Tracy Hines, 9. Chase Stockon, 10. Brad Mosen, 11. Davey Ray, 12. Brenden Bright, 13. Nathan Smee, 14. C.J. Leary, 15. Hayden Williams, 16. Tyler Courtney, 17. Ryan Bernal, 18. Gage Walker, 19. Chett Gehrke, 20. Darren Hagen, 21. Ronnie Gardner, 22. Jake Neuman, 23. Alex Bright, 24. Isaac Chapple. NT
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**Hines flipped during the first heat. Maskovich flipped during the fourth heat. Marcham flipped during the semi. Williams flipped on lap 3 of the feature.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-21 K.Thomas Jr., Laps 22-30 Bell.
NEW HONDA NATIONAL MIDGET POINTS: 1-Hines-288, 2-Coons-250, 3-K.Thomas Jr.-237, 4-T.Thomas-230, 5-Hagen and Bayston-227, 7-Tanner Thorson-218, 8-Abreu-186, 9-Darland-159, 10-Bell-152.
NEW INDIANA MIDGET WEEK POINTS: 1-Clauson-196, 2-Abreu-186, 3-Coons-160, 4-Hines-157, 5-Bell-152, 5-Bayston-147, 7-K.Thomas Jr.-140, 8-T.Thomas-137, 9-Stockon-127, 10-Bernal-99.
NEXT HONDA NATIONAL MIDGET RACE: June 13 - Lawrenceburg, IN - Lawrenceburg Speedway - "Indiana Midget Week"
USAC Honda National Midget News – June 12, 2015
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Putnamville, Indiana...Bryan Clauson used every inch of Lincoln Park Speedway on Thursday night to drive from tenth for the win in Round 2 of "Indiana Midget Week." The two-time Honda National Midget champion made it 34 career wins in the division with the 30-lap winning drive.
Tyler Thomas got to the early lead from the pole, but Rico Abreu was building steam on the high side and roared by on the cushion to take the lead on lap three. His teammate and the night's ProSource "Fast Qualifier" Tanner Thorson, fresh off his first National Midget win on Wednesday night, was coming along with Abreu as they took over the 1-2 spots.
Clauson was on the move to fourth as the first caution hit, with Christopher Bell showing he was on the charge, too, as he sat ninth after starting 16th. Clauson disposed of Thorson for second on the restart, and it appeared an Abreu-Clauson duel was shaping up for the top spot. Behind them, Tracy Hines and Darren Hagen both got by Thorson and were racing for third.
Thorson got turned around on lap seventeen to bring out the next caution, and Bell had just broken into the top-five with a slick move to split two cars down the frontstretch. On the restart, Clauson began to work Abreu hard for the lead as Bell moved up to third. Clauson finally had the momentum he needed on lap 22 as he threw a big slider into turn-three for the lead. At the same time, Bell crossed under Abreu and had the runner-up spot.
On lap 23, as he was racing back through the field, Thorson got pinched into the frontstretch wall and flipped wildly up and over turn-one. He crawled out of the car but was held for observation. From there, Clauson held Bell at bay as Hines took over third down the stretch.
Bell looked to have a run at Clauson as they came to the white, trying to gain enough momentum on the high side to mount a charge, but he pushed slightly in turn-two, ending his bid at the win. Clauson made it win number one on the year for himself and the Curb Records - Dooling Machine #63 Spike/Stanton Mopar.
"This week is special to anybody, but especially to somebody like me who grew up here, the Midget Week and Sprintweek wins mean a lot. I don't get to race full-time in this series now, but we're trying to get this team an owner's championship, too. Rusty (Kunz) has these things good, especially when things get slick and technical. We weren't quite as good as those guys at the top of three and four, but we could move around and that gave us the chance to go by them. This place can get so technical, and you have to be close to perfect to have a chance. It's a fun place, and a real driver's race track," Clauson said.
Bell, who crashed violently last year at Lincoln Park and was nursing some bruises from Wednesday night's crash at Gas City, came home second in the Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports - Toyota TRD #71 Bullet/Speedway Toyota. He earned the B&W Auto Mart "Hard Charger Award" for his drive to the front.
"It was a really tough deal tonight. It was so technical, and you couldn't run it too hard and make mistakes with that curb being so firm. I didn't get a good lap down in qualifying, and that buried us, but Bryan was back there pretty far too. I could use the bottom through one and two to get some guys, and we could roll the cushion nicely on the other end. We've had to pass a ton of cars in the last week, but we just have to be better early in the night," Bell said.
Hines gave himself a 25-point gap in the National Midget standings with another podium finish aboard the Parker Machinery - Turbines, Inc. #24 Spike/Stanton Toyota.
"Tonight was a difference between making good laps down low and trying to wait out the mistakes they made up high. They were a bit better, and we got back to about fifth at one point before taking advantage of some bobbles to get back to third. We had some things off for the race last night, but we got those fixed and had another good night tonight," Hines said.
Abreu wound up fourth in the Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports - Toyota TRD #97 Bullet/Speedway Toyota, and Jerry Coons, Jr. rounded out the top-five in the Heffner Racing Enterprises - Lelands.com #27 Triple X/Esslinger.
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USAC HONDA NATIONAL MIDGET RACE RESULTS: June 11, 2015 - Putnamville, IN - Lincoln Park Speedway - "Indiana Midget Week"
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Tanner Thorson, 67, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.130; 2. Jerry Coons Jr., 27, Heffner-13.203; 3. Rico Abreu, 97, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.237; 4. Tracy Hines, 24, Parker-13.272; 5. Tucker Klaasmeyer, 27k, Klaasmeyer-13.282; 6. Darren Hagen, 17, Brown-13.319; 7. Isaac Chapple, 52, Chapple-13.328; 8. Kevin Thomas Jr., 67k, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.336; 9. Tyler Thomas, 91T, Thomas-13.340; 10. Brad Mosen, 1NZ, Buckley-13.343; 11. Spencer Bayston, 39, Clauson-13.349; 12. Alex Bright, 56, Hmiel-13.369; 13. Trey Marcham, 73, Ford-13.372; 14. Bryan Clauson, 63, RKR/Curb-Agajanian-13.379; 15. Ryan Bernal, 2, Taylor-13.431; 16. Hayden Williams, 27NZ, HLR-13.431; 17. Colten Cottle, 5c, Cotle-13.442; 18. Steve Buckwalter, 25, Buckwalter-13.448; 19. Christopher Bell, 71, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-13.458; 20. Andy Malpocker, 22, Malpocker-13.488; 21. Tyler Courtney, 7K, Irwin-13.492; 22. Brenden Bright, 92, Bright-13.530; 23. Brett Thomas, 69, Thomas-13.541; 24. Gage Walker, 7, Walker-13.554; 25. Chett Gehrke, 37, Felker-13.574; 26. Chase Stockon, 25k, Rodela-13.579; 27. Dave Darland, 2x, Bush-13.657; 28. Brock Maskovich, 5D, Daum-13.659; 29. Tony DiMattia, 50, DiMattia-13.674; 30. Ronnie Gardner, 37x, Felker-13.675; 31. Davey Ray, 33, Team RAYPRO-13.840; 32. Ryan Criswell, 11R, R & C-13.843; 33. Nathan Smee, 7AU, Cooper-13.846; 34. Anton Hernandez, 51, Bailey-13.852; 35. Chris Cochran, 7c, Klaasmeyer-13.932; 36. Katlynn Leer, 77, Leer-13.981; 37. Nick Rowe, 5F, Daum-14.011; 38. Austin Nemire, 91, Nemire/Yager-14.035; 39. Ross Rankine, 39R, Rankine-14.061; 40. Cole Fehr, 15, Live Loud-14.474; 41. Justin Peck, 5x, Peck-18.259; 42. Cody Weisensel, 20, Weisensel-NT.
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. C.Cottle, 2. Courtney, 3. Thorson, 4. T.Thomas, 5. Marcham, 6. Peck, 7. Klaasmeyer, 8. Smee, 9. Rowe, 10. Gehrke, 11. DiMattia. NT
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Buckwalter, 2. Clauson, 3. Mosen, 4. Stockon, 5. Coons, 6. B.Bright, 7. Hagen, 8. Gardner, 9. Hernandez, 10. Nemire. 2:15.02
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Bell, 2. Bernal, 3. Abreu, 4. Darland, 5. Ray, 6. B.Thomas, 7. Chapple, 8. Bayston, 9. Cochran, 10. Rankine. NT
FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Walker, 2. A.Bright, 3. Hines, 4. K.Thomas Jr., 5. Maskovich, 6. Criswell, 7. Leer, 8. Fehr, 9. Williams, 10. Malpocker. 2:20.08
C MAIN: (10 laps) 1. Smee, 2. Hernandez, 3. Peck, 4. Nemire, 5. Leer, 6. Cochran, 7. Fehr, 8. Rowe, 9. Rankine. 2:22.63
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Coons, 2. Hagen, 3. Bayston, 4. Williams, 5. Klaasmeyer, 6. DiMattia, 7. Peck, 8. Gardner, 9. Smee, 10. Maskovich, 11. B.Bright, 12. Malpocker, 13. Ray, 14. Nemire, 15. Chapple, 16. Criswell, 17. Marcham, 18. B.Thomas, 19. Gehrke, 20. Hernandez. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Bryan Clauson, 2. Christopher Bell, 3. Tracy Hines, 4. Rico Abreu, 5. Jerry Coons Jr., 6. Darren Hagen,7. Tyler Thomas, 8. Chase Stockon, 9. Spencer Bayston, 10. Kevin Thomas Jr., 11. Davey Ray, 12. Gage Walker, 13. Hayden Williams, 14. Dave Darland, 15. Tony DiMattia, 16. Nathan Smee, 17. Alex Bright, 18. Brad Mosen, 19. Colten Cottle, 20. Tucker Klaasmeyer, 21. Tanner Thorson, 22. Ryan Bernal, 23. Tyler Courtney, 24. Steve Buckwalter. NT
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**Bayston flipped during qualifying. DiMattia flipped during the first heat. Thorson flipped on lap 24 of the feature. Mosen flipped on lap 26 of the feature.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-2 T.Thomas, Laps 3-21 Abreu, Laps 22-30 Clauson.
NEW HONDA NATIONAL MIDGET POINTS: 1-Hines-243, 3-Thorson-218, 3-Hagen-208, 4-Coons-197, 5-T.Thomas-186, 6-Bayston-179, 7-K.Thomas Jr.-170, 8-Darland-158, 9-Abreu-121, 10-Buckwalter-119.
NEW INDIANA MIDGET WEEK POINTS: 1-Clauson-131, 2-Abreu-121, 3-Hines-112, 4-Coons-107, 5-Bayston-99, 6-Thorson and T.Thomas-93, 8-Stockon-83, 9-Bernal and K.Thomas Jr.-73.
NEXT HONDA NATIONAL MIDGET RACE: June 12 - Bloomington, IN - Bloomington Speedway - "Indiana Midget Week"
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Gas City, Indiana...Tanner Thorson finally broke through with his first-career Honda National Midget Series feature victory in Wednesday night's "Indiana Midget Week" opener at Gas City I-69 Speedway. The Minden, Nevada youngster had experienced many close calls over two seasons campaigning for Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports, but he survived a late fluid clean-up and a red flag to seal the deal with win number one.
Thorson began from the pole and beat Ryan Bernal into the first corner, and those two scrapped for the top spot in the early going, with Bernal coming as close as .042-seconds of the lead at the stripe on lap eight. Bryan Clauson was on the move from row-four, however, and he went by Bernal for the second spot on lap nine.
Clauson went right after Thorson, coming with a full head of steam on lap thirteen to peek inside for the lead. Thorson had Clauson in his shadow with ten laps to go as the caution flew for eighth-running Brady Bacon, who dropped oil from turn-four all the way around to turn-two. The leaders nearly caught the fence as they slid through the slick spot in turn-four, but they continued on under yellow. A quick bit of track work to clean up the mess got everything back in order, and the race resumed.
And when it did, Christopher Bell immediately hit the high side of one and two with a ton of momentum, flashing to the outside of Spencer Bayston for the third spot as the duo hit turn-three. They ran out of real estate, though, and Bell got the worst of it, flipping to a stop. He was uninjured.
From there, all eyes were on Clauson, as he tried to find an avenue around Thorson. With three to go, he jumped to the high side of one and two and ran Thorson down for the top spot, pulling nearly to his tailtank as they took the white. Clauson couldn't get through turn-two cleanly on the final lap, though, and Thorson took the .683-second victory in the Toyota TRD - Abreu Vineyards #67 Bullet/Speedway Toyota.
"It's pretty unreal to get the first USAC win. It couldn't have come at a better time. I've been trying so hard to finish one of these off. Keith (Kunz) gives me a great car every time out, and it's up to us to finish it on the track. I can't thank David Abreu enough for the opportunities he's given me, and putting me in a position like this. I hit the oil slick there and about put it in the wall, and I was a little worried with those guys back there, but the top probably got even a little bit faster and kinda played my way a little bit more," Thorson said.
Clauson took home the second spot in the Curb Records - Dooling Machine #63 Spike/Stanton Mopar.
"We can go to bed tonight knowing we tried everything. Obviously, the plan was to try to hit one and two perfect on the final lap to try a big move for the win, but it was a fine line up there. We slid a little bit, and I had to abort it. Who knows if it would have worked. I really wanted to get to traffic, because I thought we'd be more maneuverable than he was, mostly because we had to try stuff the whole race. We just couldn't quite get the top cleaned off the way it needed to be in one and two, but it was a good run from eighth to start the week," Clauson said.
Young Bayston captured his best-career USAC finish, as well, as he rounded out the podium in the Bryan Clauson Racing - Priority Aviation Services #39 Spike/Esslinger.
"It was pretty cool to realize I was racing with my car owner, but I knew on that last restart, he was probably the guy to beat and I'd probably be best to follow him. That was my first thought, and we ended up going with different lines, but it worked out. Tim (Clauson) nailed the setup tonight, and keeping up with Bryan and racing with those guys made for a fun night. We were a strong third tonight, and I have to thank Priority Aviation for the help they give us," Bayston said.
Justin Grant came home fourth in the Larry Gardner - Speedcraft Prototypes #38 Stealth/Gaerte, and Rico Abreu rounded out the top-five in the Keith Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports - Toyota TRD #97 Bullet/Speedway Toyota.
Tracy Hines topped qualifying for the ProSource "Fast Time Award" before finishing ninth, and Tyler Thomas charged from 17th to finish eighth, garnering the B&W Auto Mart "Hard Charger Award."
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USAC HONDA NATIONAL MIDGET RACE RESULTS: June 10, 2015 - Gas City, IN - Gas City I-69 Speedway - "Indiana Midget Week"
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Tracy Hines, 24, Parker-12.390; 2. Rico Abreu, 97, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.424; 3. Spencer Bayston, 39, Clauson-12.532; 4. Bryan Clauson, 63, RKR/Curb-Agajanian-12.609; 5. Christopher Bell, 71, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.630; 6. Justin Grant, 38, Gardner-12.637; 7. Tyler Courtney, 7K, Irwin-12.677; 8. Chase Stockon, 25k, Rodela-12.685; 9. Ryan Bernal, 2, Taylor-12.686; 10. Tanner Thorson, 67, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.691; 11. Brad Mosen, 1NZ, Buckley-12.696; 12. Brady Bacon, 73x, Ford-12.700; 13. Hayden Williams, 27NZ, HLR-12.706; 14. Darren Hagen, 17, Brown-12.706; 15. Kevin Thomas Jr., 67k, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-12.745; 16. Jerry Coons Jr., 27, Heffner-12.749; 17. Trey Marcham, 73, Ford-12.751; 18. Brenden Bright, 92, Bright-12.767; 19. Isaac Chapple, 52, Chapple-12.781; 20. Tyler Thomas, 91T, Thomas-12.787; 21. Chett Gehrke, 37, Felker-12.915; 22. Brock Maskovich, 5D, Daum-12.919; 23. Alex Bright, 56, 5IVE-6IX-12.989; 24. Brett Thomas, 69, Thomas-13.059; 25. Dave Darland, 2x, Bush-13.100; 26. Justin Peck, 5x, Peck-13.101; 27. Steve Buckwalter, 25, Buckwalter-13.106; 28. Andy Malpocker, 22, Malpocker-13.117; 29. Chris Cochran, 7c, Klaasmeyer-13.119; 30. Tony DiMattia, 50, Brandywine-13.129; 31. Anton Hernandez, 51, Bailey-13.158; 32. Ronnie Gardner, 37x, Felker-13.164; 33. Nick Rowe, 5F, Daum-13.202; 34. Nathan Smee, 7AU, Cooper-13.218; 35. Tucker Klaasmeyer, 27k, Klaasmeyer-13.234; 36. Austin Nemire, 91, Nemire/Yager-13.431; 37. Justin Dickerson, 21D, Dickerson-13.506; 38. Katlynn Leer, 77, Leer-13.707; 39. Gary Gipson, 5, Byers-13.741; 40. Cole Fehr, 15, Live Loud-13.935; 41. Gage Walker, 7, Walker-NT (time of 13.327 disallowed).
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Bernal, 2. Hines, 3. Darland, 4. Williams, 5. Marcham, 6. Walker, 7. Bell, 8. Gehrke, 9. Rowe, 10. Cochran, 11. Dickerson. NT
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Thorson, 2. Abreu, 3. Grant, 4. Smee, 5. B.Bright, 6. Peck, 7. DiMattia, 8. Leer, 9. Hagen, 10. Maskovich. NT
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. K.Thomas Jr., 2. Mosen, 3. Buckwalter, 4. A.Bright, 5. Bayston, 6. Courtney, 7. Chapple, 8. Klaasmeyer, 9. Hernandez, 10. Gipson. NT
FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Coons, 2. T.Thomas, 3. Stockon, 4. Bacon, 5. Clauson, 6. Gardner, 7. Malpocker, 8. B.Thomas, 9. Nemire, 10. Fehr. NT
C MAIN: (10 laps) 1. Gardner, 2. Rowe, 3. Walker, 4. Klaasmeyer, 5. Nemire, 6. Fehr, 7. Leer, 8. Dickerson. 2:17.57
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Clauson, 2. Bayston, 3. B.Bright, 4. Courtney, 5. Bell, 6. Gehrke, 7. Chapple, 8. Walker, 9. Hagen, 10. Hernandez, 11. Gardner. 12. Rowe, 13. DiMattia, 14. Cochran, 15. Maskovich, 16. Klaasmeyer, 17. Malpocker, 18. Marcham, 19. Peck, 20. B.Thomas. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Tanner Thorson, 2. Bryan Clauson, 3. Spencer Bayston, 4. Justin Grant, 5. Rico Abreu, 6. Ryan Bernal, 7. Jerry Coons Jr., 8. Tyler Thomas, 9. Tracy Hines, 10. Chase Stockon, 11. Darren Hagen, 12. Tyler Courtney, 13. Kevin Thomas Jr., 14. Alex Bright, 15. Brad Mosen, 16. Nathan Smee, 17. Hayden Williams, 18. Gage Walker, 19. Brenden Bright, 20. Christopher Bell, 21. Brady Bacon, 22. Dave Darland, 23. Steve Buckwalter, 24. Chett Gehrke. NT
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**Bell flipped on lap 21 of the feature.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-30 Thorson.
NEW HONDA NATIONAL MIDGET POINTS: 1-Thorson-193, 2-Hines-180, 3-Hagen-159, 4-Bayston-141, 5-Coons-140, 6-T.Thomas-139, 7-K.Thomas Jr.-132, 8-Darland-128, 9-Buckwalter-98, 10-Walker-83.
INDIANA MIDGET WEEK POINTS: 1-Thorson-68, 2-Clauson-64, 3-Bayston-61, 4-Abreu-60, 5-Grant-58, 6-Bernal-53, 7-Coons-50, 8-Hines-49, 9-T.Thomas-46, 10-Stockon-39.
NEXT HONDA NATIONAL MIDGET RACE: June 11 - Putnamville, IN - Lincoln Park Speedway - "Indiana Midget Week"
USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car News – June 8, 2015
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Newberrytown, Pennsylvania...Robert Ballou is officially en fuego. He made it a sweep of the "Eastern Storm" on Sunday night at Susquehanna Speedway Park, edging into the lead just before halfway and going relatively unchallenged over the final stages of the evening's 30-lap AMSOIL Sprint Car Feature to take his seventh victory of the young season.
Shane Cottle got the jump from the pole to take the lead over Justin Grant, but Grant was fast early and closed to Cottle's tailtank as they completed lap one. Grant tried a slidejob into turn-one, but he looped it in the middle of the corner, bringing out the first caution.
Three more cautions followed in the first five laps with nothing changing among the top-five runners. Cottle was strong on the high side as Kevin Thomas, Jr. ran second, racing three-wide with Jon Stanbrough and Chase Stockon, who tried the bottom and middle. It didn't take long for Ballou to start moving, as he ducked low and moved all the way to Stockon and started chasing down Cottle.
He finally squirted underneath Cottle for the lead on lap 14, coming to the line just .038-seconds ahead. A lap later, the final caution of the event appeared, but Ballou was strong and the bottom and marched away from a top-five battle including Cottle, Stanbrough, Stockon, and a charging Chad Boespflug.
Up front, it was all Ballou as he nailed down the bottom to take home his 16th career series victory in the Tom Buch - Blakesley Auto #12 Maxim/Ott. Ballou also posted the night's ProSource "Fast Time" award.
"This is what we've been trying to build this team up to. We wanted to contend for a championship this year, and we've gotten people to put the pieces in place, so if we just keep winning races, everything will work out. They love sprint car racing out here in Pennsylvania, so I love winning out here. Tom Buch makes this trip possible for us, and I'm happy to get some wins for him. We were pretty darn good on the bottom tonight, and I pushed too hard in the heat race and made a mistake, so I knew I couldn't screw it up," Ballou said.
Stanbrough was charging on the bottom, as well, in the latter stages and rolled to the second spot aboard the MP Environmental Services - AED Motorsports Products #81 Spike/J&D. "Tonight, I made some mistakes and lost some spots, and then gained some back too. I finally committed myself to the bottom just because I hadn't been going anywhere. I don't know if I had anything towards the end for Robert - I felt like I was gaining on him a little, but it woulda taken a long, long race to ever catch him. I'm never happy with second, but I feel like we're making more and more gains. It's been a lot of work to get this team going and make our stuff better, so we'll try to make ourselves a little bit better and try to win some races back home," Stanbrough said.
Stockon was again on the move in the Superior Tank & Trailer - Crescent Electric Supply #32 DRC/Fisher, and he rounded out the podium, as he tries to keep up with Ballou in the point race for the AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship.
"The yellows again tonight hurt us really bad. The first part of the race, we could go pretty good through the middle, but every time we were going forward and getting away from Robert, we caught a yellow. As the middle slicked off some, it got harder for me to make ground. I had to move around as the race went on and ran those guys down, and it's good to be on the podium again. We've had a couple good nights out here and ready to get back home," Stockon said.
Dave Darland came from tenth to snag the fourth spot in the Phillips/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports - Trench Shoring #71P DRC/Foxco, and Cottle held on to round out the top-five in the Specialty Rigging - Viper Risk Management #3 Spike/Rider.
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AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: June 7, 2015 - Newberrytown, Pennsylvania - Susquehanna Speedway Park - "Eastern Storm"
QUALIFYING: 1. Robert Ballou, 12, Ballou-17.251; 2. Chase Stockon, 32, 32/TBI-17.623; 3. Chris Windom, 21x, Pollock-17.648; 4. Kevin Thomas, Jr., 17RW, Dutcher-17.839; 5. Jon Stanbrough, 81, Stanbrough-17.973; 6. Justin Grant, 40, Hery-18.070; 7. C.J. Leary, 5, Baldwin-18.129; 8. Shane Cottle, 3, Franckowiak-18.174; 9. Chad Boespflug, 66, Amati-18.201; 10. Dave Darland, 71P, Phillips/Curb-Agajanian-18.307; 11. Tracy Hines, 4, THR-18.349; 12. Aaron Farney, 15F, Farney-18.445; 13. Brady Bacon, 69, Dynamics-18.519; 14. Kyle Cummins, 3R, Byram-18.576; 15. Jarett Andretti, 18, Andretti Autosport Short Track-18.715; 16. Casey Shuman, 75, Barnhill/Hockett-18.882; 17. Richard Vander Weerd, 39, Hogue-18.952; 18. J.R. Berry, 74JR, Berry-19.055; 19. Landon Simon, 24, LSR-19.207; 20. Rick Horn, 01, Horn-19.301; 21. Logan Jarrett, 29, Jarrett-19.407; 22. Harris Kohen, 0, Kohen-19.412; 23. Trevor Kobylarz, 14, RT-19.420; 24. Brett Arndt, 1A, Biasi-19.466; 25. Dick Mahoney, 79, Mahoney-19.858; 26. Tony DiMattia, 50, DiMattia-20.210; 27. Robert Bell, 71, Bell-20.431; 28. Michael Hamer, 47, Hamer-NT.
FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Bacon, 2. Boespflug, 3. Stanbrough, 4. Jarrett, 5. Ballou, 6. Mahoney, 7. Vander Weerd. NT
SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Darland, 2. Grant, 3. Stockon, 4. Berry, 5. Cummins, 6. DiMattia, 7. Kohen. NT
THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Simon, 2. Hines, 3. Andretti, 4. Windom, 5. Leary, 6. Kobylarz, 7. Bell. 2:35.19
FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Shuman, 2. Thomas, 3. Farney, 4. Cottle, 5. Arndt, 6. Hamer, 7. Horn. NT
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Ballou, 2. Leary, 3. Cummins, 4. Kobylarz, 5. Vander Weerd, 6. Arndt, 7. DiMattia, 8. Hamer, 9. Bell, 10. Mahoney. 3:43.10
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Robert Ballou, 2. Jon Stanbrough, 3. Chase Stockon, 4. Dave Darland, 5. Shane Cottle, 6. Chad Boespflug, 7. Justin Grant, 8. Jarett Andretti, 9. Chris Windom, 10. Kevin Thomas, Jr., 11. Aaron Farney, 12. Brady Bacon, 13. Landon Simon, 14. Tracy Hines, 15. Brett Arndt, 16. J.R. Berry, 17. Logan Jarrett, 18. Trevor Kobylarz, 19. C.J. Leary, 20. Kyle Cummins, 21. Casey Shuman, 22. Richard Vander Weerd. NT
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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-13 Cottle, Laps 14-30 Ballou.
NEW AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT POINTS: 1-Ballou-950, 2-Stockon-926, 3-Darland-905, 4-Stanbrough-832, 5-Bacon-828, 6-Hines-762, 7-Thomas-753, 8-Leary-688, 9-Windom-575, 10-Grant-571.
FINAL EASTERN STORM POINTS: 1-Ballou-207, 2-Sytanbrough-186, 3-Stockon-185, 4-Darland-177, 5-Hines-150, 6-Cottle-136, 7-Thomas-134, 8-Grant-131, 9-Bacon-130, 10-Windom-129.
NEXT AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT RACE: July 4 - Putnamville, IN - Lincoln Park Speedway
BALLOU HEATING UP, POCKETS PORT ROYAL EASTERN STORM
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Port Royal, Pennsylvania...It's beginning to look like a record-breaking season for Robert Ballou, as the Rocklin, California native continued his sensational season with his sixth victory of the year on Saturday night at Port Royal Speedway. He made it two-in-a-row during "Eastern Storm," banking $6,000 for each trip to victory lane.
Landon Simon out-gunned Logan Jarrett down the frontstretch to take the lead, as the Tipp City, Ohio driver tried to stay out front for his first ever USAC feature win. Tracy Hines pressured Jarrett as Ballou and Chase Stockon traded the fourth spot in the early circuits. Hines went to second on lap four and was all over Simon.
As Ballou fought off Jon Stanbrough, Stockon took third on lap nine and joined a developing three-car fray for the top spot. Simon was holding on for dear life as the veteran Hines peeked under him, pulling completely alongside on lap ten. Simon repelled all advances, however, before the only caution flag of the race flew on lap fifteen.
On the restart, Ballou attacked the top as Hines and Stockon dogged Simon on the bottom half of the track. Ballou snuck past Hines right up against the outside guardrail on lap eighteen and went right at Simon, using the high side to drive to the lead as they came to complete lap nineteen.
Ballou seemed to be untouchable out front, but Stockon wasn't done. He drove by Hines for the third spot and took off after Simon for second. Behind the top-four, it was a frenzy from fifth through ninth as Stanbrough, 12th-starting Dave Darland, 13th-starting Brady Bacon, Justin Grant, and Jarrett all battled. Stanbrough fell to seventh with ten to go before rallying to drive back by Bacon and Darland.
Up front, Stockon was closing slightly on Ballou in the final five laps as Stockon took second on lap 27. In the final five laps, Stockon trimmed nearly 1.4 seconds off Ballou's lead, but it wasn't enough as the Tom Buch - Blakesley Auto #12 Maxim/Ott went back to victory lane now for the 15th time in his career, tied for 27th all-time.
"I really wanted to win this one tonight for my guys and Tom Buch, who helps me and has hosted us this week. I messed up in qualifying - I knew we were better than our time showed. I did a lot of second-guessing on our changes for the feature, and we really went the wrong way. We had to earn it tonight - it wasn't easy at all. At one point, I was back to fifth and pretty sure somebody was about to drive by me for that spot, too. The yellow helped us, and I knew I had to go where they weren't, so I hit the top and got rolling up there as it was the smoothest way around. We freed up a little as it went, and it got better. I honestly thought someone would be coming, but luckily we finished it off," Ballou said.
Stockon finished a phenomenal night with his runner-up finish aboard the Superior Tank & Trailer - Crescent Electric Supply #32 DRC/Fisher, ending up 1.072-seconds behind Ballou.
"We were definitely happy with the car tonight. We were gaining on him at the end, working the middle of one and two and top of three and four. We were inching away at his lead, but just not fast enough. I was a little frustrated to see the yellow. I think it cost us our best shot to win it, as we were already on those guys. We've had to change a lot of things lately, and it's getting more comfortable again. I really like these big, sweeping places and happy to be back on the podium," Stockon said.
Simon held on for his best-career finish in the third spot aboard the Mount Baker Vapor - Snap21 #24 DRC/Rider.
"It's a dream come true to be competing with these guys. That's all I've ever wanted to do, and tonight is an awesome feeling. To get it on the podium, I don't know what more to say. I gotta thank Mount Baker Vapor and Snap21 for making this possible. It's just my dad and I out here, and it's pretty cool to have such a good night. I was trying to keep a good pace out front and seemed to be okay whenever I felt pressure, but the caution at halfway definitely wasn't what I needed. We got a little free towards the end and I made a couple mistakes - these guys were good enough to capitalize on them," Simon said.
Hines wound up in the fourth spot aboard his The Carolina Nut Company - MPHG Promotions #4 DRC/Stanton Chevy. Stanbrough came out on top of the war for the fifth spot in the MP Environmental Services - AED Motorsports Products #81 Spike/J&D.
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AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: June 6, 2015 - Port Royal, Pennsylvania - Port Royal Speedway - "Eastern Storm"
QUALIFYING: 1. Shane Cottle, 3, Franckowiak-18.896 (New Track Record); 2. Jon Stanbrough, 81, Stanbrough-18.997; 3. Kevin Thomas, Jr., 17RW, Dutcher-19.007; 4. Chase Stockon, 32, 32/TBI-19.019; 5. Robert Ballou, 12, Ballou-19.019; 6. Tracy Hines, 4, THR-19.069; 7. Logan Jarrett, 29, Jarrett-19.086; 8. Landon Simon, 24, LSR-19.175; 9. Kyle Cummins, 3R, Byram-19.184; 10. Justin Grant, 40, Hery-19.198; 11. Trevor Kobylarz, 14, RT-19.240; 12. Dave Darland, 71P, Phillips/Curb-Agajanian-19.242; 13. Brady Bacon, 69, Dynamics-19.251; 14. Casey Shuman, 2x, Barnhill-19.263; 15. Chad Boespflug, 66, Amati-19.316; 16. Joey Biasi, B1, Biasi-19.393; 17. Chris Windom, 21x, Pollock-19.428; 18. C.J. Leary, 5, Baldwin-19.439; 19. Richard Vander Weerd, 39, Hogue-19.498; 20. Isaac Chapple, 7G, Goacher-19.515; 21. Aaron Farney, 15F, Farney-19.694; 22. Jarett Andretti, 18, Andretti Autosport Short Track-19.964; 23. Brett Arndt, 1A, Biasi-20.298; 24. J.R. Berry, 74JR, Berry-20.793; 25. Michael Hamer, 47, Hamer-20.912; 26. Dick Mahoney, 79, Mahoney-21.321; 27. Rick Horn, 01, Horn-21.422; 28. Robert Bell, 71, Bell-NT.
FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Bacon, 2. Stockon, 3. Jarrett, 4. Grant, 5. Biasi, 6. Cottle, 7. Andretti, 8. Vander Weerd, 9. Hamer. NT
SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Ballou, 2. Shuman, 3. Simon, 4. Kobylarz, 5. Chapple, 6. Stanbrough, 7. Windom, 8. Arndt, 9. Mahoney. NT
THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Darland, 2. Boespflug, 3. Hines, 4. Leary, 5. Thomas, 6. Farney, 7. Berry, 8. Cummins. NT
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Stanbrough, 2. Cottle, 3. Windom, 4. Farney, 5. Cummins, 6. Andretti, 7. Berry, 8. Arndt, 9. Hamer, 10. Mahoney, 11. Vander Weerd, 12. Horn. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Robert Ballou, 2. Chase Stockon, 3. Landon Simon, 4. Tracy Hines, 5. Jon Stanbrough, 6. Dave Darland, 7. Brady Bacon, 8. Justin Grant, 9. Logan Jarrett, 10. Shane Cottle, 11. C.J. Leary, 12. Chris Windom, 13. Aaron Farney, 14. Kevin Thomas, Jr., 15. Kyle Cummins, 16. Trevor Kobylarz, 17. Chad Boespflug, 18. Jarett Andretti, 19. J.R. Berry, 20. Joey Biasi, 21. Casey Shuman, 22. Isaac Chapple.
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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-18 Simon, Laps 19-30 Ballou.
UPCOMING EVENT INFO
DATE: Sunday, June 7, 2015
SERIES: USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship
TRACK: Susquehanna Speedway Park (Newberrytown, PA)
EVENT: USAC National Sprints
STARTING TIMES:
The pit gates will open at 3:30 p.m.
Grandstand gates will open at 4:00 p.m.
Hot laps begin at 5:30 p.m.
Qualifying following at 6:00 p.m.
TICKETS:
Adult General Admission (ages 18-59): $25
Young Adult General Admission (ages 11-17): $20
Senior Adult General Admission (60 & Older): $20
Children General Admission (10 & under): FREE!!
Pit pass prices are $35 with a reduced price of $30.00 for all USAC license holders.
TRACK ADDRESS:690 York Rd, Newberrytown, PA 17370
TRACK PHONE: (717) 938-9170
TRACK WEBSITE: www.sspracing.net
BALLOU KNOCKS OFF NEW EGYPT TO OPEN “EASTERN STORM”
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New Egypt, New Jersey...Robert Ballou continued his sensational season on Thursday night as he tracked down race-long leader Jon Stanbrough just inside ten laps to go to win the New Egypt Speedway "Eastern Storm" feature. The Rocklin, California driver made it five wins on the season as he added to his point lead.
Tracy Hines got the jump on the initial start, but a spin in turn four before the lap could be completed brought about a complete restart. On that attempt, a chain-reaction stack-up in turn two collected seven cars, forcing a red flag and a very active work area before the race could be restarted.
When the race resumed, it went from green to checker, as this time Jon Stanbrough took the lead and tried to lock down his first USAC win of the season. Hines stayed with him, while Ballou moved to fifth early in the race.
Hines closed on Stanbrough through the mid-section of the race and tried to work a high line to take the lead. He lost ground to Stanbrough, though, and Ballou was on the move past both Dave Darland and Kevin Thomas, Jr. to take third.
Ballou tracked down Hines just past halfway and took the second spot, and then reeled in Stanbrough quickly as they approached lapped traffic. It only took one bobble from Stanbrough for Ballou to pounce, winning by 1.556 seconds in the Tom Buch - Blakesley Auto #12 Maxim/Ott to record his 14th career victory.
"This place has never been my specialty, by any means. It is just odd - it's kind of in-between in size and the tri-oval shape is really tricky. I spent some time helping Aaron Farney after the heat, and my crew chief Derrick Bye made the decisions for the feature and did some different things to try to be better. As guys started slipping and sliding, our car just seemed to stay the same. I could catch guys pretty easy, but it was tough to pass them at times. Traffic kinda helped me, I think, and I went to the bottom once and he slipped up at the same time. I don't really know what we've stumbled on, but we're gonna ride this wave for as long as we can," Ballou said.
Stanbrough held on for his best finish of the season in the second spot aboard the MP Environmental Services - AED Motorsports Products #81 Spike/J&D.
"Obviously, I'd rather win, especially after leading all those laps, but we keep working on this car and sneaking up on it. We're getting better and can hopefully get some wins soon. The race track got a little slick towards the end, and we were a little too free at that point. I like running different places and out on the road like this, and we've taken to this place, for sure," Stanbrough said.
Hines rounded out the podium in his The Carolina Nut Company - MPHG Promotions #4 DRC/Stanton Chevy.
"I'm happy with our run, and we'll keep plugging away. You gotta be there to have a chance to win, and we're at least showing that we can be there. The top seemed to never get cleaned up with the guys throwing dirt up from the bottom, especially at the exit of turn two. I couldn't figure out three and four, though, and that's where I struggled most," Hines said.
Darland, who set ProSource "Fast Time" with a new track record, came home fourth in the Phillips/Curb-Agajanian Motorsports - Trench Shoring #71P DRC/Foxco, and Thomas, Jr. rounded out the top-five in the Griffin's Propane - Indiana Underground Construction #17RW Maxim/Fisher.
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AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: June 4, 2015 - New Egypt, New Jersey - New Egypt Speedway - "Eastern Storm"
QUALIFYING: 1. Dave Darland, 71P, Phillips/Curb-Agajanian-15.579 (New Track Record); 2. Chris Windom, 21X, Pollock-15.655; 3. Kevin Thomas, Jr., 17RW, Dutcher-15.665; 4. Chase Stockon, 32, 32/TBI-15.688; 5. Jon Stanbrough, 81, Stanbrough-15.724; 6. Tracy Hines, 4, THR-15.779; 7. Shane Cottle, 3, Franckowiak-15.839; 8. Brady Bacon, 69, Dynamics-15.843; 9. Robert Ballou, 12, Ballou-15.890; 10. Trevor Kobylarz, 14, RT-15.900; 11. C.J. Leary, 5, Baldwin-15.930; 12. Casey Shuman, 2X, Barnhill-15.969; 13. Kyle Cummins, 3R, Byram-15.978; 14. Landon Simon, 24, LSR-16.025; 15. Chad Boespflug, 66, Amati-16.040; 16. Richard Vander Weerd, 39, Hogue-16.101; 17. Aaron Farney, 15F, Farney-16.243; 18. Logan Jarrett, 29, Jarrett-16.271; 19. Justin Grant, 40, Hery-16.484; 20. Isaac Chapple, 7G, Goacher-16.490; 21. Joey Biasi, B1, Biasi-16.580; 22. Kyle Moody, 99M, Moody-16.608; 23. Jarett Andretti, 18, Andretti Autosport Short Track- 16.732; 24. Brett Arndt, 1A, Biasi-16.793; 25. Tony DiMattia, 50, DiMattia-17.210; 26. J.R. Berry, 74JR, Berry-17.324; 27. Harris Kohen, 0, Kohen-17.765; 28. Robert Bell, 71, Bell-17.876; 29. Dick Mahoney, 79, Mahoney-NT.
FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Darland, 2. Ballou, 3. Biasi, 4. Stanbrough, 5. Farney, 6. Cummins, 7. DiMattia. NT
SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Simon, 2. Kobylarz, 3. Windom, 4. Hines, 5. Moody, 6. Berry, 7. Jarrett. NT
THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Grant, 2. Leary, 3. Thomas, 4. Boespflug, 5. Andretti, 6. Cottle, 7. Kohen. NT
FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Chapple, 2. Bacon, 3. Shuman, 4. Stockon, 5. Vander Weerd, 6. Arndt, 7. Bell. 2:30.29
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Cummins, 2. Vander Weerd, 3. Cottle, 4. Farney, 5. Andretti, 6. Moody, 7. DiMattia, 8. Jarrett, 9. Arndt, 10. Berry, 11. Bell, 12. Kohen. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Robert Ballou, 2. Jon Stanbrough, 3. Tracy Hines, 4. Dave Darland, 5. Kevin Thomas, Jr., 6. Chase Stockon,, 7. Chris Windom, 8. Shane Cottle, 9. Brady Bacon, 10. Chad Boespflug, 11. Aaron Farney, 12. Justin Grant, 13. Jarett Andretti, 14. Trevor Kobylarz, 15. Landon Simon, 16. Richard Vander Weerd, 17. Casey Shuman, 18. C.J. Leary, 19. Kyle Cummins, 20. Isaac Chapple, 21. Joey Biasi, 22. Kyle Moody. NT
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**Jarrett flipped during the second heat.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-20 Stanbrough, Laps 21-30 Ballou.
