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GRATEFUL GRANT GETS THE SPRINT WIN AT ELDORA'S "4-CROWN NATIONALS"

Rossburg, Ohio September 24, 2016 - Eldora Speedway has provided the highest of highs and lowest of lows to Justin Grant over the last couple of seasons.

Just a little over four months after his most recent visit to Eldora Speedway, Grant, a 2015 Eldora USAC Sprint Car winner, found himself without a full-time sprint car ride.

Throughout the summer the Ione, California driver bounced around between a handful of different teams searching for consistent success, but since joining forces with the Sam McGhee Motorsports team in mid-August, the pair have jelled to become a force night-in, night-out.

Saturday night at Eldora, it all finally came together for the team and the driver as they both recorded their biggest wins to date in the USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car portion of the 35th running of the "4-Crown Nationals."

On the opening lap, outside front row starter Matt Westfall held off a Thomas Meseraull slider in the first turn to secure the lead early on. Instantly, Grant followed Westfall on the outside to fall in line in the second spot.

Westfall, an Eldora USAC Sprint Car winner back in 2006, looked solid in the early going, leading the first third of the feature. But Grant was on a mission that saw him dive to the bottom of turn three on lap 11, sliding up in front of Westfall to claim the lead as Westfall began to fade.

Eighth starting Chris Windom began to ascend by the midway point of the 30-lapper as he reeled in Grant just before a lap 13 caution fell for the stopped car of Scotty Weir, who was caught up in a back straightaway kerfuffle that involved a few cars, with Weir being the unluckiest one of the bunch.

The yellow placed Windom on the tail of Grant for the lap 13 restart, providing a prime opportunity for Windom to challenge Grant.

Windom hurried to the bottom for a slide job on Grant, momentarily nosing ahead between turns one and two, but with little room to spare with Windom underneath him and the concrete wall to his outside, but Grant kept his foot on the gas to escape through the narrow alley left open to reclaim the lead.

Grant would extend his lead to a full second over Windom, and by the time he would reach lapped traffic with ten to go, Grant would gladly accept all the extra breathing room he could get.

The two continued to engage in a high-speed, high-wire act through the back of the field as they came upon the car of Jerry Coons, Jr. with five laps to go. Grant had to briefly step out of the throttle, allowing Windom to pull alongside the inside of Grant momentarily, but was unable to rip the lead away from Grant.

Windom remained within striking distance of Grant in the final circuits as Grant threaded the needle, going for the jugular as he squeezed his way between the lapped cars of Bret Mellenberndt and Jarett Andretti at the entrance of turn one.

Grant manufactured a little bit of space between himself and Windom that might've made all the difference. And Grant certainly knows all too well how quickly things can happen at Eldora for better or worse, having stolen a victory from C.J. Leary's grasp at Eldora during the 2015 "Mother of All Sprint Car Weekends."

On the final corner of the final lap, Windom was close, but not close enough for any last lap heroics on this night, as Grant hung on to win his fourth career USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car feature and the first ever for the Sam McGhee Motorsports Team over Windom, Brady Bacon, Dave Darland and Tyler Courtney.

"I don't know what it was like behind me, but it was exciting looking out of the front of the 17 car," the exuberant Grant said in victory lane after taking the Sam McGhee Motorsports/Brown & Miller Racing Solutions - Mike McGhee & Associates/Maxim/Foxco to the victory. "The holes in one and two were a handful. It seemed like it was fastest just to run right through them. (Turns) three and four were real tricky. I had to be careful not to get into the fence down there. When you get in lapped traffic, you're just kind of on a hope and a prayer."

"I can't thank the McGhee family enough," Grant continued. "Sam McGhee does an amazing job with this racecar. He's 16 years old. He does all the work on this thing, sets it up and calls all the shots; he's incredible! This race has always been one of the big ones to me, if not the biggest one. I've won at Eldora before, but the "4-Crown" is a whole other level of special."

Contingency award winners Saturday night at Tri-State Speedway included Chase Stockon (ProSource Fast Qualifier), Kody Swanson (Simpson Race Products First Heat Winner), Aaron Farney (Competition Suspension, Inc. (CSI) Second Heat Winner), Matt Goodnight (Benic Enterprises Third Heat Winner), C.J. Leary (Indy Race Parts Fourth Heat), Josh Hodges (KSE Racing Products/Larry Rice High Performance Hard Charger) and Bret Mellenberndt (Wilwood Brakes 13th Place Feature Finisher).

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USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: September 24, 2016 - Rossburg, Ohio - Eldora Speedway - 35th "4-Crown Nationals"

PROSOURCE QUALIFYING: 1. Chase Stockon, 32, 32 TBI-16.514; 2. Brady Bacon, 69, Dynamics-16.612; 3. Chris Windom, 5, Baldwin-16.612; 4. Tyler Courtney, 23c, TOPP-16.705; 5. Chad Boespflug, 98E, NineEight/EZR-16.901; 6. Dave Darland, 11, Walker/Curb-Agajanian-16.918; 7. Justin Grant, 17, McGhee-17.048; 8. Dallas Hewitt, 18x, Keen-17.105; 9. Matt Westfall, 33m, Marshall-17.113; 10. Nick Bilbee, 17N, Bilbee-17.172; 11. Thomas Meseraull, 9x, SC-17.190; 12. Bret Mellenberndt, 97, Mellenberndt-17.193; 13. Kevin Thomas, Jr., 1, Ballou-17.248; 14. Jarett Andretti, 18, Andretti-17.249; 15. Shane Cottle, 57, Hazen-17.283; 16. Scotty Weir, 22s, Simon-17.301; 17. Landon Simon, 24, LSR-17.314; 18. Aaron Farney, 17GP, Dutcher-17.320; 19. Matt Goodnight, 39, Goodnight-17.354; 20. C.J. Leary, 30, Leary-17.355; 21. Kody Swanson, 63, DePalma-17.398; 22. Brandon Whited, 15, Whited-17.433; 23. Josh Hodges, 74x, Hodges-17.440; 24. Isaac Chapple, 52, LNR-17.451; 25. Tony DiMattia, 50, DiMattia-17.459; 26. Jerry Coons Jr., 20N, Nolen-17.542; 27. Corey Smith, 66s, Smith-17.552; 28. Mitch Wissmiller, 1w, Wissmiller-17.557; 29. Carson Short, 66, Amati-17.609; 30. Bill Rose, 320, Kissel-17.719; 31. Logan Hupp, 7x, Gindling-17.730; 32. Luke Hall, 9N, Nelson-17.741; 33. Jake Blackhurst, 37, Felker-17.836; 34. Drew Rader, 74, Seven-Four-17.847; 35. Travis Hery, 21, Hery-17.852; 36. Tim Creech, 2c, Creech-17.856; 37. Lee Underwood, 24L, Underwood-17.883; 38. Kyle Wissmiller, 3, Simmons-18.036; 39. Dustin Ingle, 2DI, DPI-18.203; 40. Joe Bares, 19, TEST-18.259.

SIMPSON RACE PRODUCTS FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Swanson, 2. Simon, 3. K.Thomas, 4. Westfall, 5. Boespflug, 6. Stockon, 7. C.Short, 8. DiMattia, 9. Blackhurst, 10. Underwood. 2:14.65

COMPETITION SUSPENSION (CSI) SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Farney, 2. Bacon, 3. Darland, 4. Whited, 5. Bilbee, 6. Coons, 7. Andretti, 8. Rose, 9. K.Wissmiller, 10. Rader. 2:12.50

BENIC ENTERPRISES THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Goodnight, 2. Hodges, 3. Grant, 4. Meseraull, 5. Cottle, 6. Hery, 7. Hupp, 8. Smith, 9. Ingle, 10. Windom. 2:13.81

INDY RACE PARTS FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Leary, 2. Chapple, 3. Weir, 4. Hewitt, 5. Mellenberndt, 6. Hall, 7. Bares, 8. Creech, 9. Courtney. NT

SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Stockon, 2. Courtney, 3. Windom, 4. Boespflug, 5. Mellenberndt, 6. Andretti, 7. Coons, 8. Bilbee, 9. Cottle, 10. C.Short, 11. Rose, 12. Hall, 13. Hupp, 14. Rader, 15. Bares, 16. Blackhurst, 16. Hery, 18. Creech, 19. K.Wissmiller, 20. Underwood, 21. Ingle, 22. DiMattia. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Justin Grant, 2. Chris Windom, 3. Brady Bacon, 4. Dave Darland, 5. Tyler Courtney, 6. Dallas Hewitt, 7. Chase Stockon, 8. Matt Westfall, 9. Josh Hodges, 10. Nick Bilbee, 11. Brandon Whited, 12. Kevin Thomas Jr., 13. Bret Mellenberndt, 14. Jarett Andretti, 15. Isaac Chapple, 16. Thomas Meseraull, 17. Jerry Coons Jr., 18. Matt Goodnight, 19. Carson Short, 20. Aaron Farney, 21. Chad Boespflug, 22. Kody Swanson, 23. Scotty Weir, 24. Landon Simon, 25. C.J. Leary. NT
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**Courtney flipped during the fourth heat. DiMattia flipped during the semi.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-10 Westfall, Laps 11-30 Grant.

KSE RACING PRODUCTS/LARRY RICE HIGH PERFORMANCE HARD CHARGER AWARD: Josh Hodges (22nd to 9th)

NEW USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS: 1-Bacon-2,214, 2-Stockon-1,979, 3-Robert Ballou-1,919, 4-Meseraull-1,910, 5-Darland-1,855, 6-Boespflug & Leary-1,774, 8-Windom-1,708, 9-Max McGhee-1,264, 10-Farney-1,209.

NEXT USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: October 1 - Lawrenceburg (IN) Speedway -"Fall Nationals"

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A LONG-TIME COMIN'; CUMMINS FINALLY BREAKS THROUGH FOR FIRST HAUBSTADT USAC WIN

Haubstadt, Indiana September 17, 2016 - It took Kyle Cummins a decade to kick open the door that separated him from his first career USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car win back in July at Kokomo Speedway's "Indiana Sprint Week" round.

It would only take another two months for the Princeton, Indiana native to break through for that elusive first USAC victory at his home track - Tri-State Speedway.

Just one year after he saw his bid for a first USAC victory at Tri-State slip through his fingers after being caught up in an accident with a stopped car just five laps from the end, Cummins refused to let this one get away after taking the lead near the halfway point.

Cummins was then able to gracefully navigate his way through traffic without incident and withstood a late caution that bunched up the field to take the victory in his Rock Steady Racing/ProGlide Bearings - Tim Mason ReMax/Mach-1/Cummins in Saturday night's "Haubstadt Hustler" co-sanctioned by MSCS.

"We had the car a little looser than we planned on," Cummins said. "I knew I couldn't get Tyler (Courtney) off the middle to bottom. I ran with him up top and adjusted on the shocks and tried the bottom again. I could hang with him, but I couldn't pass him. I just started hammering the top and, when he made a mistake, we were there to pounce."

"The track was tricky," Cummins added. "The cushion was built up probably a foot tall, so I backed the corner up a lot and tried to just catch it on the exit. As soon as it hit on exit, the car would launch and I knew there was no way somebody was going to get around us. I just kept trying to hit my marks and get through the lapped cars. I got into a rhythm for a little bit and just tried to keep clicking them off. I've had a yellow with one to go on both races I've won, so that makes it nerve-racking, but tonight was great and we took home a little bit of money. I can't complain."

Cummins would start fifth in the 23-car starting field for the series' second 40-lap feature of the season while Carson Short, Tri-State's "Indiana Sprint Week" winner two months prior, began the race from the pole position and shot out to the early lead.

It was smooth sailing for Short early on as he looked to replicate his most recent USAC visit to the southwestern Indiana quarter mile paperclip after cruising to a healthy ten-car-length lead in the opening laps over Tyler Courtney in the second spot.

But on the eighth lap, Short's dream of a repeat performance came to a rest upside down in the second turn after he bicycled on the high side of the racetrack, making slight wall contact with his right rear tire that tipped him over. Incredibly, Short restarted from the tail and worked his way back to a strong seventh place finish at the checkered!

Courtney inherited the lead at that point, but he had a hungry Cummins right on his tail tank for the lap eight restart. Cummins went low while Courtney utilized the top side to pull away a bit from Cummins initially, but a bobble on the cushion in turns three and four by Courtney allowed Cummins to close, initiating an intense side-by-side duel between the two that lasted lap-after-lap.

Each time Cummins was able to edge ahead underneath Courtney exiting turns two and four, Courtney was able to successfully use the downhill momentum off the banking to beat Cummins to the stripe by a half-car length on laps 9-11.

By lap 20, Courtney was able to extend his lead to six-car-lengths over Cummins, but he would suffer nearly the same fate as did early race leader Short, banging his right rear Hoosier off the turn one cushion, biking the car off of its left side wheels before all four pieces of rubber came back to Earth.

As Courtney scrambled to regain control of his machine, that's when Cummins saw the light peeking through the cracked-open door as he darted to the bottom of Courtney to sprint into the lead off of the second turn.

One lap later, at the halfway point, ProSource Fast Qualifier Tyler Hewitt escaped injury after getting upside down in turn two. The damage was minimal to Hewitt's car, allowing him to restart from the tail of the field.

Closing in on ten laps to go, Cummins found himself with a fairly comfortable lead up front, but that certainly didn't present an opportunity to relax as lapped traffic beckoned.
Opposed to last year's "Haubstadt Hustler," luck would play into Cummins' hands this time around as misfortune found Brady Short, whose night went up in a plume of smoke in the second turn on lap 31.

The caution gave Cummins a clear field of vision void of obstacles, leaving just him vs. the racetrack to settle their longstanding score. Additional assistance was found with the lapped car of Dakota Jackson serving as a buffer between Cummins and second-running Courtney on the restart with ten laps to go, thus allowing Cummins to make a clean getaway out of the gate as soon as Tom Hansing's green flag flew.

In the late stages, a new player emerged near the front of the pack in Sikeston, Missouri's Daron Clayton, who was making his first start since the 2015 "Haubstadt Hustler." Clayton, a five-time USAC Sprint winner at Tri-State, had steadily moved his way to third with five laps to go, climbing his way forward from the 17th starting spot in his patented thrilling style.

Yet, Clayton's ride to the front ended nearly as soon as he entered the top-three, getting way out of shape in turn two with three laps to go, thus allowing Shane Cottle to capitalize and rip the third spot away to reclaim the final spot on the podium.

As Cummins eyed a surefire victory on the final lap, fourth-running Clayton encountered trouble, sliding sideways through the second turn once again, but this time coming to a stop to bring out the yellow.

Cummins would have to survive one last round before this fight was over, having to withstand a green-white-checkered race to the finish.

Cummins dug down deep on the lap 39 restart, hammering the throttle to pull away from Courtney at the drop of the green. As Cummins cruised away to his second career USAC victory, the battle was on for second as Courtney and Cottle waged war for the final pair of laps.

As the two came out of turn four locked wheel-to-wheel for the checkered, Courtney was able to muster up enough power on the outside to beat Cottle to the line by less than a tenth of a second to grab the runner-up spot over Cottle with Kevin Thomas, Jr. and Chase Stockon rounding out the top-five.

It was yet another solid result for second-place finisher Tyler Courtney of Indianapolis, Indiana, who drove the TOPP Motorsports/Maxim/Chevy to his seventh top-five and 13th top-ten finish in 14 USAC Sprint starts during the 2016 season.

"This is my fourth year coming here and this is the most frustrating place I've ever ran," Courtney lamented. "It's almost more of a relief to have a good run here. We usually have fast cars, but it's taken me a while to figure it out as a driver. To nail it both on the setup and as a driver tonight is really rewarding. It gives me confidence that when we come back here next year, we're going to be in the hunt. I've never even finished a race on the lead lap here, so running second to Kyle Cummins - one of the best ever down here - is nothing to hang our heads about."

Shane Cottle came within mere feet of taking second away from Courtney on the final lap, but settled for a fine third-place run in his Paul Hazen/Kercher Engines - Physical Medicine Consultants/DRC/Kercher. It was the Kokomo, Indiana driver's best run in the series since scoring a third at Putnamville, Indiana's Lincoln Park Speedway in July of 2014.

"I was too tight to run the top, so we committed to the bottom," Cottle explained. "Then, it got technical down there too as the moisture kept creeping down towards the tires. It feels great to have a good run. We've had a handful of issues this year with motors and other things breaking; we've just been having all-around bad luck. To run strong tonight is a great morale booster as we get ready to head to Eldora next weekend."

Contingency award winners Saturday night at Tri-State Speedway included Tyler Hewitt (ProSource Fast Qualifier), Shane Cottle (Simpson Race Products First Heat Winner), Dakota Jackson (Competition Suspension, Inc. (CSI) Second Heat Winner), Aaron Farney (Benic Enterprises Third Heat Winner), C.J. Leary (Indy Race Parts Fourth Heat), Jon Stanbrough (KSE Racing Products Hard Charger) and Brian Karraker (Wilwood Brakes 13th Place Feature Finisher).

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USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: September 17, 2016 - Haubstadt, Indiana - Tri-State Speedway - "Haubstadt Hustler" (Co-Sanctioned by MSCS)

PROSOURCE QUALIFYING: 1. Tyler Hewitt, 97x, One More Time-13.368; 2. Kyle Cummins, 3R, Rock Steady-13.423; 3. Dave Darland, 11, Walker/Curb-Agajanian-13.466; 4. Shane Cottle, 57, Hazen-13.474; 5. Kevin Thomas, Jr., 1, Ballou-13.477; 6. Thomas Meseraull, 66, Amati-13.573; 7. Chase Stockon, 32, 32 TBI-13.637; 8. Donny Brackett, 4B, Brackett-13.648; 9. Carson Short, 21, Short-13.651; 10. Justin Grant, 17, McGhee-13.652; 11. Brady Bacon, 69, Dynamics-13.677; 12. Brandon Mattox, 28, Mattox-13.725; 13. Brian Wallace, 27, Wallace-13.737; 14. Tyler Courtney, 23c, TOPP-13.754; 15. Kent Schmidt, 5K, Schmidt-13.775; 16. Dakota Jackson, 3, Jackson-13.778; 17. Chris Windom, 5, Baldwin-13.786; 18. Aaron Farney, 17GP, Dutcher-13.789; 19. Daron Clayton, 11D, Walker/Curb-Agajanian-13.817; 20. Bradley Sterrett, 21K, Krockenberger-13.853; 21. Critter Malone, 7, Seven-13.861; 22. C.J. Leary, 30, Leary-13.869; 23. James Lyerla, 11x, Lyerla-13.882; 24. Tyler Thomas, 04, Burton-13.890; 25. Brady Short, 11p, Pottorff-13.895; 26. Bret Mellenberndt, 97, Mellenberndt-13.919; 27. Jon Stanbrough, 81, Stanbrough-13.997; 28. Brandon Morin, 98, Morin-14.038; 29. Chad Boespflug, 98E, NineEight/EZR-14.043; 30. Nate McMillin, 24, McMillin-14.099; 31. Collin Ambrose, 11N, Ambrose-14.114; 32. Chet Williams, 38, Williams-14.119; 33. J.T. Stapp, 74, JDS-14.159; 34. Chris Babcock, 35, Babcock-14.276; 35. Brian Karraker, 23K, Karraker-14.326; 36. Jared Chastain, 52c, Chastain-14.409; 37. Daylan Chambers, 4c, Chambers-14.487; 38. Jim Shelton, 41, Shelton-15.401; 39. Jeff Pritchett, 2J, Pritchett-15.594; 40. Cody Leohr, 46L, Leohr-15.719; 41. Isaac Chapple, 52, LNR-NT.

SIMPSON RACE PRODUCTS FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Cottle, 2. Cummins, 3. Brackett, 4. Mattox, 5. B. Short, 6. Ambrose, 7. Malone, 8. Chapple, 9. Pritchett. 2:17.86

COMPETITION SUSPENSION, INC. (CSI) SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Jackson, 2. Windom, 3. Meseraull, 4. Williams, 5. Schmidt, 6. Stapp, 7. Wallace, 8. Babcock. 2:18.01

BENIC ENTERPRISES THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Farney, 2. Darland, 3. Grant, 4. Hewitt, 5. Clayton, 6. Lyerla, 7. Sterrett, 8. Chastain. 2:17.57

INDY RACE PARTS FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Leary, 2. K. Thomas, 3. Stockon, 4. Karraker, 5. Stanbrough, 6. Morin, 7. McMillin, 8. Shelton. 2:19.76

FIFTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Courtney, 2. C. Short, 3. T. Thomas, 4. Bacon, 5. Boespflug, 6. Chambers, 7. Leohr, 8. Mellenberndt. NT

C-MAIN: (10 laps) 1. Malone, 2. Sterrett, 3. Chapple, 4. Mellenberndt, 5. Babcock, 6. McMillin, 7. Wallace, 8. Chastain, 9. Shelton, 10. Pritchett, 11. Leohr. NT

SEMI: (12 laps) 1. B. Short, 2. Clayton, 3. Mattox, 4. Karraker, 5. Bacon, 6. Boespflug, 7. Stanbrough, 8. Ambrose, 9. Stapp, 10. Malone, 11. Schmidt, 12. Williams, 13. Babcock, 14. Lyerla, 15. Morin, 16. Sterrett, 17. Mellenberndt, 18. Chambers, 19. Chapple, 20. Hewitt. NT

FEATURE: (40 laps) 1. Kyle Cummins, 2. Tyler Courtney, 3. Shane Cottle, 4. Kevin Thomas, Jr., 5. Chase Stockon, 6. Chris Windom, 7. Carson Short, 8. Justin Grant, 9. Brady Bacon, 10. Jon Stanbrough, 11. C.J. Leary, 12. Dave Darland, 13. Brian Karraker, 14. Tyler Hewitt, 15. Brandon Mattox, 16. Tyler Thomas, 17. Daron Clayton, 18. Dakota Jackson, 19. Brady Short, 20. Chad Boespflug, 21. Thomas Meseraull, 22. Donny Brackett, 23. Aaron Farney. NT
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**Mellenberndt flipped during the fifth heat. C. Short flipped on lap 8 of the feature. Hewitt flipped on lap 21 of the feature.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-7 C. Short, Laps 8-19 Courtney, Laps 20-40 Cummins.

KSE RACING PRODUCTS HARD CHARGER: Jon Stanbrough (22nd to 10th)

NEW USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS: 1-Bacon-2138, 2-Robert Ballou-1919, 3-Stockon-1917, 4-Meseraull-1874, 5-Darland-1787, 6-Boespflug-1748, 7-Leary-1743, 8-Windom-1635, 9-Max McGhee-1264, 10-Farney-1178.

NEXT USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: September 24 - Rossburg, Ohio - Eldora Speedway - 35th "4-Crown Nationals"

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BACON WINS AT HANFORD; GARDNER FLIPS, COMES BACK TO TAKE CALIFORNIA SPRINT WEEK TITLE!

Hanford, CA. September 10, 2016 – Brady Bacon of Broken Arrow, Okla. won Saturday’s 30-lap AMSOIL USAC/CRA Sprint race at Keller Auto Speedway at Kings Fairgrounds, but the fireworks were erupting long before the checkered flag! In one of the more spectacular battles in All Coast Construction California Sprint Week history, Damion Gardner outpointed Thomas Meseraull by 23 to win the title, but the script was straight out of Hollywood! Gardner started deep in the field and flipped on the fourth lap of the race. Able to fix the car, he rejoined the fray, pitted again later, and eventually finished 12th. Fortunately that was enough to keep Meseraull at bay, though, as Thomas was involved in a spin on lap 23 while running fourth, was unable to resume, and finished 14th. Bacon led all 30 laps in the Keith Ford Sun Valley AG Transport/Walker Filtration Systems Triple X/Claxton Mopar. Ryan Bernal took second ahead of Richard Vander Weerd, Brody Roa and Jace Vander Weerd.

USAC AMSOIL USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: September 10, 2016 – Hanford, California – Keller Auto Speedway at Kings Fairgrounds - All-Coast Construction California Sprint Week

WOODLAND AUTO DISPLAY QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Jake Swanson, 92, Sertich-15.548; 2. Chad Boespflug, 69. Kaiser-15.642; 3. Ryan Bernal. 56, Phulps-15.734; 4. Geoff Ensign, 3F, Finkenbinder-15.787; 5. Thomas Meseraull, 42X, Bates-15.793; 6. Austin Liggett, 83, Liggett-15.833; 7. Richard Vander Weerd, 10, Vander Weerd-15.851; 8. Austin Williams, 2, Jory-15.854; 9. Kyler Shaw, 92BC, Shaw-15.861; 10. Brady Bacon, 73, Ford-15.869; 11. Danny Faria Jr., 17V, Faria-15.950; 12. Stevie Sussex, 21AZ, Burkhart-15.954; 13. Brody Roa, 91R, BR-15.967; 14. Kevin Thomas Jr., 42, Cheney-16.041; 15, Chris Gansen, 4G, Gansen-16.098; 16. Max Adams, 5M, Adams-16.114; 17. Mike Spencer, 4S, Gansen-16.132; 18. Logan Williams, 5, Jory-16.141; 19. Jace Vander Weerd, 88, Vander Weerd-16.176; 20. Damion Gardner, 4, Alexander-16.183; 21. Cody Williams, 44, Jory-16.431; 22. Koen Shaw, 88BC, Shaw-16.459; 23. Jeremy Ellertson, 98, Ellertson-16.622; 24. Ryan Stolz, 56X, Stolz-16.851; 25. Matt Stewart, 84, Stewart-16.939; 26. Steven Garris, 58, Garris-24.767.

EXTREME MUFFLERS FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Roa, 2. R.Vander Weerd, 3. Bacon, 4. Swanson, 5. Ensign, 6. Adams, 7. Ko.Shaw, 8. J.Vander Weerd, 9. Stewart. NT

DJ SAFETY SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Spencer, 2. Faria, 3. Boespflug, 4. Thomas, 5. A.Wiliams, 6. Gardner, 7. Meseraull, 8. Ellertson. NT

CIRCLE TRACK PERFORMANCE / KEIZER ALUMINUM WHEELS THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Gansen, 2. Liggett, 3. Bernal, 4. L.Williams, 5. Ky.Shaw, 6. Sussex, 7. C.Williams, 8. Stolz. NT

BROWN & MILLER RACING SOLUTIONS SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Meseraull, 2. Ensign, 3. Gardner, 4. A.Williams, 5. Adams, 6. Sussex, 7. J.Vander Weerd, 8. Ky.Shaw, 9. Ellertson, 10. Ko.Shaw, 11. C.Williams, 12. Stewart, 13. Stolz. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Brady Bacon, 2. Ryan Bernal, 3. Richard Vander Weerd, 4. Brody Roa, 5. Jace Vander Weeerd, 6. Danny Faria Jr., 7. Geoff, Ensign, 8. Max Adams, 9. Kyler Shaw, 10. Jeremy Ellertson, 11. Koen Shaw, 12. Damion Gardner, 13. Stevie Sussex, 14. Thomas Meseraull, 15. Chris Gansen, 16. Austin Liggett, 17. Chad Boespflug, 18. Logan Williams, 19. Austin Williams, 20. Kevin Thomas Jr., 21. Mike Spencer, 22. Jake Swanson. NT
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**Gardner flipped during the feature.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-30 Bacon
BR MOTORSPORTS/KING RACING PRODUCTS HARD CHARGER: Jace Vander Weerd (19th to 5th)

FINAL ALL COAST CONSTRUCTION CALIFORNIA SPRINT WEEK POINTS: 1-Gardner-406, 2-Meseraull-383, 3-Bernal-362, 4-Ensign-342, 5-Boespflug-325, 6-R.Vander Weerd-316, 7-Thomas-304, 8-Swanson-299, 9-Bacon-284, 10-Roa-281.

NEW AMSOIL USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR POINTS: 1-Gardner-1,008, 2-R.Vander Weerd-902, 3-Swanson-893, 4-Roa-847, 5-A.Williams-806, 6-Spencer-721, 7-Adams-659, 8-J.Vander Weerd-560, 9-Ellertson-542, 10-L.Williams-541.

NEXT USAC AMSOIL USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR RACE: September 24 – Perris (CA) Auto Speedway – “Glenn Howard Classic”

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KTJ PARKS IT AGAIN AT KOKOMO IN "BRYAN CLAUSON'S CELEBRATION OF LIFE"

Kokomo, Indiana September 2, 2016 -Over the past nine days, there's been nobody hotter at Kokomo Speedway than Kevin Thomas, Jr.

After taking a preliminary win and the championship night feature during "Sprint Car Smackdown V" one week ago, Thomas continued his tear Friday night, leading the final 25 laps to win the "Bryan Clauson Celebration of Life" USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car non-points "Special Event" feature at the O'Connor family's ¼-mile dirt oval.

Tyler Courtney won the blind redraw prior to the night's feature by selecting the package of candy adorned with the #1 during a special pre-race ceremony. That put him on the pole position, his second consecutive start from the front at Kokomo in as many races.

The 27-lap feature represented each year of Bryan's life and, on the flagstand to wave the green flag for the night's event was Bryan's mom, Diana, as a full house of spectators had eyes on the front row of Courtney and Tyler Thomas.

As action began, T. Thomas shot out front to the advantage at the start on the topside as Courtney slipped back to third on the bottom after a slow start.

Just as it was one week ago, K. Thomas immediately began to mount a charge to the front, already gassing his way to second from his fourth-starting spot on the first lap past Jarett Andretti and Courtney.

On the third lap, a closing K. Thomas chased the unrelated T. Thomas into turn one, sliding up in front of the Oklahoma driver to grab the race lead off of turn two.

With K. Thomas taking over the lead and pulling away, the race for second became the show as fourth-running Dave Darland went to the high side, making it three-wide alongside Courtney on the bottom and T. Thomas in the middle before soaring past both in turn four to take the second spot.

By the tenth lap, K. Thomas' lead was in excess of one second over Darland, but a slight hiccup on the turn two cushion by K. Thomas on the 11th lap allowed Darland to shrink the gap, cutting the interval in half as he eyed the leader squarely within his crosshairs.
Yet, as the two began to enter traffic just a handful of laps later, K. Thomas was able to carve his way back to a 1.2 second advantage over Darland after blasting past a slew of lapped cars nearing 10 laps to go to provide himself some breathing room.

Justin Grant, making just his seventh start in the McGhee no. 17, made his presence known after picking his way near the front of the pack from his ninth-starting position. On lap 21, Darland diamonded his way off the turn three cushion as Grant slid through the middle. Suddenly, the right rear tire of Darland and the left rear of Grant made slight contact, sending a puff of smoke off the treads, thus, slowing down Grant's approach.

Just one lap later, Grant came right back into the fight, overtaking Darland for second off of the second turn. However, T. Thomas, running eighth, found himself facing backwards just in front of the flagstand to bring out the feature's only yellow flag. By rule, the lineup for the restart reverted to the running order on the last completed lap, sending Grant back to third behind Darland with just six laps remaining.

As K. Thomas led the train on the bottom on the lap 22 restart, the all-out war between Darland and Grant for second resumed. Darland stuck to the top into turn one, but Grant cut down off the banking midway between turns one and two to pull side-by-side with Darland off of turn two. The two remained shackled together for the next two circuits until Grant dove to the extreme inside off of turn four, encountering the lapped car of Travis Hery on his way, which forced him to fall in line behind Darland as he crossed the stripe with four laps to go.

Darland and Grant briefly managed to close on leader K. Thomas to within six car lengths, but K. Thomas turned up the wick, firing up the afterburners to distance himself from second and third in the closing laps.

Though, with two laps to go, Grant continued to scrap his way toward the front, using a big run off of turn four to squeeze his way in front of Darland into turn one to take second.

Up front, no one was a challenge to Kevin Thomas, Jr., although Grant was able keep him honest by chopping a half-straightaway deficit to just six car lengths in the last two laps. But, in the end, K. Thomas took the victory by less than a half-second with Grant, Darland, Brady Bacon and Shane Cottle (from 20th) rounding out the top-five.

It was K. Thomas' third victory in his last four USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car starts at Kokomo during a highly-successful nine-day span for the Cullman, Alabama native who scored Friday night's victory in his 4J Motorsports/Franklin Equipment - CEP Concrete/DRC/Chevy.

"Bryan (Clauson), and everyone else here, would race here (at Kokomo Speedway) for one dollar," Thomas said. "I have to say this is now the biggest win, no matter what it pays. There's races you want to win because they pay big money, but this one you want to win for the right reasons."

Ione, California's Justin Grant sure made it interesting as he closed in on K. Thomas at the end of the 27-lap feature, making one wonder if he had had just three more laps, could he have won it in his Sam McGhee Motorsports/Brown & Miller Racing Solutions - Mike McGhee & Associates/Maxim/Foxco?

"This 17 car is awesome," Grant exclaimed after finishing second. "I can't thank the McGhee family enough and Sam for doing such a good job on the thing. We definitely had the best racecar; we just need to work on our sandbagging program in qualifying because being quick time every night and starting deep in a tough heat is just not getting us anywhere."

Dave Darland, of Lincoln, Indiana, settled for third in his Jeff Walker-Curb-Agajanian Racing/Jam-It-In Storage - Hoosier Tire/Maxim/Claxton after running second until being passed by Grant with just two laps to go.

"The car's getting better and better all the time," Darland said. "Jeff (Walker) works hard on it and tries everything he can think of to make it better. We've recently picked up a lot. We've gotten the thing a lot better; it's a lot easier to drive and a lot more comfortable to drive. But if we'd have to do over again right now, we'd make some changes. Jeff knows what to do."

Contingency award winners Friday night at Kokomo include Kevin Thomas, Jr. (Can't Thank the Guys Enough Award - $630), Justin Grant (BC Bad Ass of the Night - $630, Pass of the Night - $200 & Fast Qualifier - $200), Shane Cottle (BC Hard Charger Award - $630), Cole Smith (BC #GYATK Challenge Winner - $1000), Hunter O'Neal (BC #GYATK Challenge Runner-Up - $500) and Cody Clarkson (BC #GYATK Challenge 3rd Place - Right Rear Tire from Hoosier).

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USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP "SPECIAL EVENT" RACE RESULTS: September 2, 2016 - Kokomo, Indiana - Kokomo Speedway - "Bryan Clauson Celebration of Life"

QUALIFYING: 1. Justin Grant, 17, McGhee-12.957; 2. Jarett Andretti, 18, Andretti-12.978; 3. Chris Windom, 5, Baldwin-13.014; 4. Jon Stanbrough, 81, Stanbrough-13.020; 5. Josh Hodges, 74x, Hodges-13.026; 6. Jerry Coons, Jr., 10E, Edison-13.177; 7. Max McGhee, 4p, 4p Racing-13.178; 8. Tyler Courtney, 23c, TOPP-13.217; 9. Aaron Farney, 17GP, Dutcher-13.287; 10. A.J. Hopkins, 14H, Hopkins-13.346; 11. Colten Cottle, 1RL, Lambertson-13.385; 12. Tyler Thomas, 04, Burton-13.389; 13. Shane Cottle, 57, Hazen-13.435; 14. Casey Shuman, 75, DOW-13.436; 15. Kyle Robbins, 17R, Robbins-13.473; 16. Tony DiMattia, 50, DiMattia-13.616; 17. Josh Spencer, 66J, Spencer-13.643; 18. Kevin Thomas, Jr., 4J, 4J Motorsports-13.660; 19. Matt Goodnight, 39, Goodnight-13.721; 20. Travis Hery, 21H, Hery-13.767; 21. Brian Karraker, 23K, Karraker-13.827; 22. Logan Jarrett, 29, Jarrett-13.867; 23. Matt Westfall, 54, Westfall-13.909; 24. Ted Hines, 12, Hines-13.934; 25. Cole Smith, 29s, Smith-13.979; 26. Dave Darland, 11, Walker/Curb-Agajanian-14.069; 27. Dustin Ingle, 2DI, DPI-14.088; 28. Jadon Rogers, 66, Amati-14.150; 29. Jamie Frederickson, 58, Frederickson-14.173; 30. Josh Cunningham, 17c, Cunningham-14.233; 31. Cody Clarkson, 15, Clarkson-14.273; 32. Brady Bacon, 18x, Keen-14.286; 33. Travis Welpott, 18w, Welpott-14.356; 34. Tyler Hewitt, 97x, One More Time-14.387; 35. Steve Thomas, 20, Thomas-14.533; 36. Jake Scott, 3x, Tarr-14.630; 37. Lee Underwood, 24L, Underwood-14.708; 38. Jared Chastain, 52c, Chastain-14.936; 39. Hunter O'Neal, 56w, Waltz-15.012; 40. Ben McMurray, 1, McMurray-15.069; 41. Cole House, 95, House-15.081; 42. Drew Abel, 04x, PCA-15.335; 43. Matt Cooley, 19, Cooley-15.593; 44. David Hair, 44, Hair-15.689; 45. Parker Frederickson, 34, Frederickson-16.893; 46. Paul Dues, 87, Dues-15.689; 47. Dave Gross, 87, Gross-NT.

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Darland, 2. Hewitt, 3. Welpott, 4. Abel, 5. Dues, 6. Cooley, 7. O'Neal, 8. P. Frederickson. NT

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. K. Thomas, 2. Bacon, 3. Westfall, 4. Robbins, 5. Underwood, 6. Cunningham, 7. Scott, 8. Chastain. 2:04.95

THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Coons, 2. Grant, 3. Jarrett, 4. Stanbrough, 5. Hery, 6. Ingle, 7. Hair, 8. S. Cottle. NT

FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Andretti, 2. McGhee, 3. Farney, 4. DiMattia, 5. Goodnight, 6. Hines, 7. S.Thomas, 8. Shuman. 2:00.86

FIFTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. T. Thomas, 2. Hodges, 3. C. Cottle, 4. Hopkins, 5. Spencer, 6. J. Frederickson, 7. Rogers, 8. House. 2:02.37

SIXTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Courtney, 2. Windom, 3. Karraker, 4. Smith, 5. Clarkson, 6. McMurray, 7. Gross. 2:03.31

FIRST SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Hery, 2. S. Cottle, 3. Stanbrough, 4. Abel, 5. Underwood, 6. O'Neal, 7. Ingle, 8. Cunningham, 9. Scott, 10. Hair, 11. Chastain, 12. Dues, 13. Cooley, 14. Robbins, 15. P. Frederickson. NT

SECOND SEMI: (12 laps) 1. DiMattia, 2. Hopkins, 3. Goodnight, 4. Smith, 5. Hines, 6. Shuman, 7. Clarkson, 8. J. Frederickson, 9. Rogers, 10. S. Thomas, 11. House, 12. McMurray, 13. Spencer, 14. Gross. NT

FEATURE: (27 laps) 1. Kevin Thomas, Jr., 2. Justin Grant, 3. Dave Darland, 4. Brady Bacon, 5. Shane Cottle, 6. Jerry Coons, Jr., 7. Jarett Andretti, 8. Tyler Courtney, 9. Josh Hodges, 10. A.J. Hopkins, 11. Jon Stanbrough, 12. Chris Windom, 13. Aaron Farney, 14. Colten Cottle, 15. Max McGhee, 16. Matt Westfall, 17. Tyler Thomas, 18. Travis Hery, 19. Tony DiMattia, 20. Matt Goodnight, 21. Brian Karraker, 22. Logan Jarrett, 23. Travis Welpott, 24. Tyler Hewitt. NT

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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-2 T. Thomas, Laps 3-27 K.Thomas.

NEXT USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE: September 16 - Terre Haute, Indiana - Terre Haute Action Track - "Jim Hurtubise Classic"

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THOMAS TAKES 2 IN SPECTACULAR SMACKDOWN WEEKEND; CASHES IN $10K SATURDAY NIGHT FINALE AT KOKOMO

Kokomo, Indiana August 27, 2016 - Kevin Thomas, Jr. closed his weekend the same way it all began back on Thursday night - with his car parked in Bryan Clauson's victory lane at Kokomo Speedway.

Thomas, of Cullman, Alabama, put in a masterful performance Saturday night, crafting 40 flawless laps around the ¼-mile dirt oval on his way to his 12th career USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car victory - his second at the track in the last three nights - in "Sprint Car Smackdown V."

It was a sight to behold as Thomas ripped around Kokomo lap-after-lap with pristine perfection, taking the lead in the early-going from Tyler Courtney, then leading the final 35 laps to earn his first "Smackdown" championship night trophy in his 4J Motorsports/Franklin Equipment - CEP Concrete/DRC/Chevy.

"It's remarkable that I was perfect for 40 laps," said a surprised Thomas. "It's a struggle for me to get through a heat race some days. Yesterday, we were really struggling and wondered what we were going to do. We were hoping we were going to make the top-eight and, luckily, we did. We got a good starting spot and got a clean track in front of us. I was just able to hit my marks. I actually need to thank Robert Ballou for showing me the way around the lapped cars. I think the bottom in turns three and four were going away and he started ripping the top up there."

Thomas began the 40-lap affair from the fourth position in front of a packed house who looked on as Lauren Stewart - Bryan Clauson's fiancée - waved the green flag.

Courtney, who started on the pole by virtue of defeating Thomas Meseraull in the two-car, three-lap B&W Auto Mart "King of the Hill" championship earlier in the night, would take the early advantage after sliding up in front of outside front row starter Mesearull entering turn one at the start.

After leading the first lap by a miniscule margin, Courtney dove into turn one on the second lap, hiking the left rear in the process, which allowed Meseraull to pull ahead briefly on the bottom. Courtney was able to gather his wits and blasted around the outside of Meseraull out of turn two to regain the lead.

After another near dead heat at the line at the conclusion of lap two, all signs pointed toward this being yet another classic Kokomo barnburner between Courtney and Meseraull.

However, that notion would be short-lived as Meseraull shadowed Courtney at the exit of turn four on lap three. Without warning, Meseraull's car suddenly veered right, plowing into the outside wall and putting a severe hurt on the front end of the Michael Dutcher Motorsports no. 17GP. Meseraull was uninjured, but would be finished for the remainder of the night.

On the lap three restart, Courtney shot out to the lead once again as Chad Boespflug, who, just last week, bagged $60,000 in winnings at Badlands Motor Speedway in South Dakota, began to peek his nose underneath Thomas for the second spot. Together, the two began to close the gap between themselves and leader Courtney and, on lap six, Thomas was able to sneak by Courtney to take the point with an outside pass on the back straightaway. One lap later, Boespflug also slipped by Courtney to grab second.
On the ninth lap, Zach Daum walked away from an end-over-end turn one flip that brought out the night's first red.

Working on the cushion in turns one and two and the bottom in turns three and four, Thomas put a little bit of distance between himself and the rest of the field as second-running Boespflug followed in suit nearly four car-lengths back when racing resumed.
Kyle Robbins barrel-rolled his machine into turn one to bring out the night's second red flag on the 15th lap. He was uninjured, but the stoppage erased the more than one second lead Thomas had constructed in the early stages.

Thomas snaked the field around the turn four infield tires for the lap 15 restart. Yet, it was on the opposite portion of the racetrack where fourth-running Chris Windom began to make his charge. Windom put all four of his wheels above the cushion in turns one and two and on the entry to turn three before diamonding off to charge down the turn four banking.

Windom was the only frontrunner to put "four in the fluff," propelling him into contention and, on lap 19, Windom cut to the inside of turn four to take the third spot from Courtney. But, by that point, Thomas and Boespflug had broken away by a near-straightaway over third-running Windom.

That would not deter Windom in any way whatsoever as he quickly ate away the interval and, with less than ten laps remaining, was running right with Thomas and Boespflug as the trio encountered lapped traffic.

Thomas would have to run the final circuits to perfection. Any false move could prove costly as he laid it all on the line in lapped traffic. The pressure mounted for Thomas with both Boespflug and Windom chomping at the bit like a bulldog who smells a pork chop, ready to pounce in an instant.

Like a fighter pilot with laser focus, Thomas was precise, never wavering in traffic for a single iota while steadily increasing his lead during the final laps from roughly seven-tenths of a second with two to go to eight-tenths as he sped underneath the white flag.

Thomas rose to the occasion at the end to take his first career "Smackdown" championship night victory, ending Dave Darland's stranglehold of the event over the last three years while also joining inaugural winner Bryan Clauson as a winner of the $10,000 prize over Boespflug, Windom, Darland and July's Kokomo "Indiana Sprint Week" winner Kyle Cummins.

Hanford's Boespflug came up just short of adding yet another big money triumph to his résumé in 2016, but had to settle for a solid second-place run in his NineEight Motorsports-EZR/AMSOIL - Creative Finishing - Midwest Shades/Maxim/Claxton.

"This is the place where you run the hardest laps of any track you go to," Boespflug explained. "Hats off to Kevin (Thomas, Jr.); he was flawless. I gave everything I had. My guys worked their butts off tonight. They found a problem after the "King of the Hill" and were able to get that fixed. I'm glad to be on the podium, but I would've liked to have been one spot further up. He (Thomas) was just too good. I thought I had a little something when he stumbled in turn two. Kevin's been tough here, but, hopefully, one day I'll be able to get a win here."

Windom, of Canton, Illinois, had a strong campaign throughout the weekend, grabbing second and sixth-place finishes on Thursday and Friday, respectively, before scoring a third in Saturday night's finale in his Baldwin Brothers Racing/Fox Paving - AMSOIL/Maxim/Claxton Mopar.

"They (Thomas and Boespflug) both ran almost perfect races," acknowledged Windom. "They never really bobbled. I was running my butt off trying to catch them up top. I think us three were so fast that we couldn't do much with each other. We caught lapped traffic and just had to follow each other. I want to thank everyone who helps us. They busted their butts all week. Thanks to the O'Connors and the fans for sticking it out in the rain. They did a hell of a job. I wouldn't want to be anywhere else four days in a row except here."

Contingency award winners Saturday night at Kokomo Speedway included Robert Ballou (Simpson Race Products First Heat Winner), Dave Darland (Competition Suspension, Inc. (CSI) Second Heat Winner), Brady Bacon (Benic Enterprises Third Heat Winner), Tyler Thomas (Indy Race Parts Semi Winner & KSE Racing Products Hard Charger), Tyler Courtney (B&W Auto Mart "King of the Hill" Winner) and Logan Jarrett (Wilwood Brakes 13th Place Feature Finisher).

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USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: August 27, 2016 - Kokomo, Indiana - Kokomo Speedway - "Sprint Car Smackdown V"

SIMPSON RACE PRODUCTS FIRST QUALIFYING RACE: (10 laps) 1. Robert Ballou (#1 Ballou), 2. Zach Daum (#5D Daum), 3. Kyle Cummins (#3R Rock Steady), 4. Logan Jarrett (#29 Jarrett), 5. Isaac Chapple (#52 LNR), 6. Tyler Thomas (#04 Burton), 7. Josh Spencer (#66J Spencer). 2:13.80

COMPETITION SUSPENSION (CSI) SECOND QUALIFYING RACE: (10 laps) 1. Dave Darland (#11 Walker/Curb-Agajanian), 2. Shane Cottle (#57 Hazen), 3. Jarett Andretti (#18 Andretti), 4. Aaron Farney (#15F Farney), 5. Tyler Hewitt (#97x One More Time), 6. Brian Karraker (#23K Karraker), 7. Tim Creech (#2c Creech). 2:13.45

BENIC ENTERPRISES THIRD QUALIFYING RACE: (10 laps) 1. Brady Bacon (#69 Dynamics), 2. Jon Stanbrough (#81 Stanbrough), 3. Brent Beauchamp (#34 Olson), 4. Colten Cottle (#1RL Lambertson), 5. Kyle Robbins (#17R Robbins), 6. Joe Bares (#19 TEST). 7. Cole Ketcham (#41K Ketcham). NT

ALSO AT THE TRACK: Hunter Schuerenberg (#2E Epperson).

B & W AUTO MART "KING OF THE HILL" 2-CAR SHOOTOUTS: (3 laps each) Round 1: Thomas Meseraull (#17GP Dutcher) defeated Chase Stockon (#32 32 TBI); Chad Boespflug (#98E NineEight/EZR) defeated C.J. Leary (#66 Amati); Tyler Courtney (#23c TOPP) defeated Chris Windom (#5 Baldwin); Kevin Thomas, Jr. (#4J 4J Motorsports) defeated Justin Grant (#17 McGhee). Semi-Final: Meseraull defeated Boespflug and Courtney defeated Thomas Jr. Final Round: Courtney defeated Meseraull.

INDY RACE PARTS SEMI: (15 laps) 1. T.Thomas, 2. Farney, 3. Jarrett, 4. C.Cottle, 5. Robbins, 6. Karraker, 7. Hewitt, 8. Chapple, 9. Spencer, 10. Bares, 11. Creech. 3:28.93

FEATURE: (40 laps) 1. Kevin Thomas Jr., 2. Chad Boespflug, 3. Chris Windom, 4. Dave Darland, 5. Kyle Cummins, 6. Justin Grant, 7. Tyler Courtney, 8. Brady Bacon, 9. C.J. Leary, 10. Tyler Thomas, 11. Shane Cottle, 12. Jon Stanbrough, 13. Logan Jarrett, 14. Robert Ballou, 15. Aaron Farney, 16. Chase Stockon, 17. Jarett Andretti, 18. Brent Beauchamp, 19. Kyle Robbins, 20. Colten Cottle, 21. Zach Daum, 22. Thomas Meseraull. NT
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**Ketcham flipped during the third heat. Daum flipped on lap 9 of the feature. Robbins flipped on lap 15 of the feature.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-5 Courtney, Laps 6-40 K.Thomas Jr.

KSE HARD CHARGER: Tyler Thomas (18th-10th)

NEW USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS: 1-Bacon-2,092, 2-Ballou-1,919, 3-Stockon-1,859, 4-Meseraull-1,851, 5-Darland-1,748, 6-Boespflug-1,725, 7-Leary-1,702, 8-Windom-1,580, 9-Max McGhee-1,264, 10-Farney-1,155.

NEXT USAC AMSOIL SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE (Special Event): September 2 - Kokomo (IN) Speedway - "Bryan Clauson Celebration of Life"