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AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: August 23, 2013 – Kokomo, Indiana – Kokomo Speedway – “Sprint Car Smackdown 2”
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Dave Darland, 71p, Phillips-12.618; 2. Brady Bacon, 69, Dynamics-12.798; 3. Scotty Weir, 18, Keen-12.844; 4. Nick Drake, 55, Cline-12.851; 5. Chad Boespflug, 57, Hazen-12.863; 6. Chase Stockon, 32, 32 TBI-12.938; 7. Christopher Bell, 67, Kunz-12.953; 8. Wes McIntyre, 83, McIntyre-13.037; 9. Gary Taylor, 40, Hery-13.047; 10. Daron Clayton, 35, Byram-13.092; 11. Kevin Thomas Jr., 17RW, Dutcher/RW/Tri-Star-13.130; 12. Bryan Clauson, 20, Stewart/Curb-Agajanian-13.173; 13. Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-13.177; 14. Robert Ballou, 12x, Ballou-13.189; 15. Casey Shuman, 21k, Krockenberger-13.195; 16. Dakota Jackson, 3, Jackson-13.201; 17. Jon Stanbrough, 66, Tate/Wade-13.204; 18. Hunter Schuerenberg, 41, SST-13.206; 19. Chris Windom, 11, Walker-13.271; 20. Logan Jarrett, 29, Jarrett-13.299; 21. Thomas Meseraull, 5, Baldwin-13.301; 22. C.J. Leary, 30, Leary-13.331; 23. Jerry Coons Jr., 10E, Edison-13.337; 24. Tyler Courtney, 23c, Courtney-13.370; 25. Blake Fitzpatrick, 10, Fitzpatrick-13.384; 26. Kyle Robbins, 17R, Robbins-13.431; 27. Darren Hagen, 21x, Pollock-13.476; 28. Chris Gurley, 12G, Team Automotive-13.482; 29. Todd Keen, 18x, Keen-13.562; 30. Braylon Fitzpatrick, 3F, Fitzpatrick-13.585; 31. Dustin Smith, 77s, Smith-13.708; 32. Josh Spencer, 66J, Spencer-13.950; 33. Jarett Andretti, 18a, Andretti-14.278; 34. Ray Kenens, K9, Kenens-14.793; 35. Billy Wease, 59p, Powell-14.411; 36. Shane Cottle, 2, Epperson-NT.
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Stanbrough, 2. Hines, 3. Darland, 4. Braylon Fitzpatrick, 5. Taylor, 6. Robbins, 7. Boespflug, 8. Meseraull, 9. Wease. NT
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Schuerenberg, 2. Bacon, 3. Stockon, 4. Leary, 5. Clayton, 6. Ballou, 7. Smith, 8. Hagen, 9. Kenens. 2:15.42
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Thomas, 2. Windom, 3. Bell, 4. Courtney, 5. Cottle, 6. Weir, 7. Gurley, 8. Shuman, 9. Spencer. NT
FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Blake Fitzpatrick, 2. Clauson, 3. Jackson, 4. McIntyre, 5. Jarrett, 6. Drake, 7. Andretti, 8. Keen. 2:16.33
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Cottle, 2. Weir, 3. Shuman, 4. Ballou, 5. Boespflug, 6. Meseraull, 7. Jarrett, 8. Drake, 9. Keen, 10. Taylor, 11. Gurley, 12. Andretti, 13. Robbins, 14. Hagen, 15. Kenens, 16. Clayton, 17. Spencer, 18. Smith, 19. Wease. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Dave Darland, 2. Chase Stockon, 3. Brady Bacon, 4. Bryan Clauson, 5. Shane Cottle, 6. Tracy Hines, 7. Chris Windom, 8. Casey Shuman, 9. Scotty Weir, 10. Robert Ballou, 11. Chad Boespflug, 12. Tyler Courtney, 13. Wes McIntyre, 14. Jon Stanbrough, 15. Dakota Jackson, 16. Blake Fitzpatrick, 17. C.J. Leary, 18. Thomas Meseraull, 19. Hunter Schuerenberg, 20. Daron Clayton, 21. Christopher Bell, 22. Braylon Fitzpatrick, 23. Kevin Thomas Jr. NT
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**Bell flipped on lap 18 of the feature. Meseraull flipped on lap 26 of the feature.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-18 Thomas, Laps 19-30 Darland.
NEW AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT POINTS: 1-Darland-1,262, 2-Clauson-1,246, 3-Bacon-1,229, 4-Thomas-1,153, 5-Stockon-1,142, 6-Ballou-1,005, 7-Hines-991, 8-Schuerenberg-975, 9-Windom-823, 10-Cottle-798.
NEXT AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT RACE: August 24 – Kokomo (IN) Speedway – “Sprint Car Smackdown 2”
USAC NEWS
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BETTENHAUSEN LEGACY LIVES ON AT SPRINGFIELD
Tony Bettenhausen was among inductees into the USAC Hall of Fame this year. This Saturday’s TRAXXAS USAC Silver Crown race at the Illinois State Fairgrounds continues his legacy, one which resulted in numerous major racing triumphs and titles, including the 1951 AAA and 1958 USAC National Driving Championship.
Tony won at Springfield in 1947, 1950 and 1951 and his son Gary was the 1978 and 1983 winner.
This year, four-time race winner Brian Tyler will try to become only the second driver to win five “Tony Bettenhausen 100” classics. Chuck Gurney won seven between 1994 and 1996. A.J. Foyt and Jack Hewitt each won four times, while Dave Darland, Mario Andretti, Al Unser, Rodger Ward and the aforementioned Tony Bettenhausen himself each recorded three wins in the race which dates all the way back to 1934.
Tracy Hines, who won at Springfield in 2006, will lead the series to the 100-miler, holding a tenuous four-point lead over Bobby East in the latest standings. Hines won the most recent race, August 2 at Belleville, Kans.
Kody Swanson and Jerry Coons Jr., each like East seeking a Springfield first, stand just eight and 12 points behind Hines with 66 points on the line in Saturday’s race.
A.J. Fike, the defending race winner, and Russ Gamester, the 1998 race winner, complete the quintet of former “Bettenhausen” champions in Saturday’s field.
Last year, Fike became the first Illinios driver to win the “Tony Bettenhausen 100” since Gary Bettenhausen’s 1983 victory.
2013 TRAXXAS USAC Silver Crown Point Standings: 1-Tracy Hines-247, 2-Bobby East-243, 3-Kody Swanson-239, 4-Jerry Coons Jr.-235, 5-Chris Windom-213, 6-Brian Tyler-204, 7-Shane Hollingsworth-182, 8-A. J. Fike-155, 9-David Byrne-127, 10-Bobby Santos-108.
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KOKOMO SPRINT “SMACKDOWN” AUGUST 22-24;
STANBROUGH TAKES “SHORTENED” OSKY “CHALLENGE”
The AMSOIL USAC National Sprint Car series is preparing for the second annual “Sprint Car Smackdown” at the Kokomo (Ind.) Speedway and the event promises to be pivotal in the battle for the 2013 championship.
Dave Darland of Lincoln, Ind. returned to the point lead after Tuesday night’s “Casey’s General Stores Ultimate Challenge” at Oskaloosa, Iowa where he finished 14th. He emerged from that race with a five-point cushion as his closest pursuers, Bryan Clauson and Brady Bacon, finished 20th and third respectively.
The Oskaloosa race was halted by rain after 20 of the 30 scheduled laps and Jon Stanbrough of Avon, Ind. was declared the winner in his Marion Underground Construction/DND Oil Company DRC/Dynotech. He led all of the 20 laps to beat Kyle Larson, Bacon, Chase Stockon and Jerry Coons Jr.
Clauson won last year’s inaugural “Sprint Car Smackdown” as well as the opening-night prelim. Chris Windom also won a prelim in the three-night spectacular at the one-third mile dirt oval.
Kevin Thomas Jr., who was 15th at Oskaloosa after an earlier heat-race flip, is only 41 points behind Darland in the standings, with Stockon just 76 back. More than 200 championship points will be available during the Kokomo events.
2013 AMSOIL USAC National Sprint Car Point Standings: 1-Dave Darland-1,125; 2-Bryan Clauson-1,120; 3-Brady Bacon-1,105; 4-Kevin Thomas Jr.-1,084; 5-Chase Stockon-1,049; 6-Hunter Schuerenberg-947; 7-Robert Ballou-922; 8-Tracy Hines-919; 9-Chris Windom-739; 10-Shane Cottle-707.
BLOOMINGTON AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT RESULTS
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AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: July 19, 2013 – Bloomington, Indiana – Bloomington Speedway – 26th “Indiana Sprint Week”
QUALIFYING: 1. Chris Windom, 11, Walker-11.357; 2. Brady Bacon, 69, Dynamics-11.368; 3. Bryan Clauson, 20, Stewart-11.397; 4. Chase Stockon, 32, 32 TBI-11.480; 5. Kevin Thomas, 17RW, Dutcher-RW/Tri-Star-11.506; 6. Ryan Pace, 44, Pace-11.564; 7. Ryan Bernal, 73, Ford-11.573; 8. Justin Grant, 21x, Pollock-11.589; 9. C.J. Leary, 30, Leary-11.613; 10. Wes McIntyre, 83, McIntyre-11.685; 11. Mark Smith, 1m, Smith-11.715; 12. Tyler Courtney, 23c, Courtney-11.733; 13. Christopher Bell, 67, Kunz-11.766; 14. Dave Darland, 71p, Phillips-11.775; 15. Jon Stanbrough, 66, Wade-11.815; 16. Kyle Cummins, 3c, Cummins-11.826; 17. Chris Gurley, 12G, Team Automotive-11.838; 18. Danny Holtsclaw, 3H, Holtsclaw-11.847. 19. Blake Fitzpatrick, 10F, Fitzpatrick-11.861; 20. Chad Boespflug, 56, Fox-11.871; 21. A.J. Hopkins, 14H, Hopkins-11.884; 22. Jace Vander Weerd, 88, Vander Weerd-11.899; 23. Shane Cottle, 2, Epperson-11.909; 24. Nick Drake, 55, Cline-11.911; 25. Kevin Studley, 57x, Studley-11.916; 26. Richard Vander Weerd, 10, Vander Weerd-11.924; 27. Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-11.928; 28. Robert Ballou, 12x, Ballou-11.956; 29. Kent Schmidt, 5k, Schmidt-12.002; 30. Bobby East, 5E, East-12.010; 31. Jeff Bland, 38, Bland-12.036; 32. Logan Jarrett, 29, Jarrett-12.109; 33. Nick Bilbee, 17N, Bilbee-12.116; 34. Nathan Moore, 48, Moore-12.127; 35. Dalten Gabbard, 77x, Walker-12.139; 36. Chad Shields, 81, Shields-12.217; 37. Hunter Schuerenberg, 35, Byram-12.348; 38. Brady Short, 11p, Pottorff-12,387; 39. Aaron Farney, 15F, Farney-12.414; 40. Chris Babcock, 35x, Babcock-12.561; 41. Dakota Jackson, 3, Jackson-12.591; 42. Jake Simmons, 3x, Simmons-12.742; 43. Brian Hayden, 77, Wingo-NT; 44. Carson Short, 21c, Short-NT; 45. Ethan Barrow, 15, Barrow-NT; 46. Casey Shuman, 21k, Krockenberger-NT.
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Gurley, 2. Hopkins, 3. Windom, 4. Thomas, 5. Schuerenberg, 6. Jackson, 7. Bilbee, 8. Schmidt, 9. Leary, 10. Studley, 11. Bell. NT
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Holtsclaw, 2. McIntyre, 3. Darland, 4. Bacon, 5. Pace, 6. East, 7. J.Vander Weerd, 8. Moore, 9. B.Short, 10. Simmons, 11. R.Vander Weerd. NT
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Fitzpatrick, 2. Cottle, 3. Bernal, 4. Clauson, 5. Stanbrough, 6. Hines, 7. Gabbard, 8. Smith, 9. Bland, 10. Farney. 2:02.08
FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Grant, 2. Courtney, 3. Ballou, 4. Stockon, 5. Drake, 6. Jarrett, 7. Cummins, 8. Babcock, 9. Boespflug, 10. Shields, 11. C.Short. NT
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Leary, 2. Pace, 3. Bell, 4. Smith, 5. Cummins, 6. R.Vander Weerd, 7. East, 8. Boespflug, 9. Stanbrough, 10. Drake, 11. Schuerenberg, 12. Gabbard, 13. Moore, 14. Farney, 15. C.Short, 16. Bilbee, 17. Jarrett, 18. Schmidt, 19. Jackson, 20. Hines, 21. B.Short, 22. Babcock, 23. Shields. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Bryan Clauson, 2. Chase Stockon, 3. Brady Bacon, 4. Chris Windom, 5. Ryan Bernal, 6. Dave Darland, 7. Justin Grant, 8. Christopher Bell, 9. Wes McIntyre, 10. C.J. Leary, 11. Ryan Pace, 12. Kyle Cummins, 13/ Tracy Hines, 14. Richard Vander Weerd, 15. Chris Gurley, 16. Kevin Thomas Jr., 17. ‘A.J. Hopkins, 18. Blake Fitzpatrick, 19. Hunter Schuerenberg, 20. Tyler Courtney, 21. Danny Holtsclaw, 22. Mark Smith, 23. Shane Cottle, 24. Robert Ballou. NT
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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-17 Thomas, 18-30 Clauson.
NEW AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT POINTS: 1-Clauson-1,107, 2-Darland-1,100, 3-Thomas-1,061, 4-Bacon-1,050, 5-Stockon-998, 6-Schuerenberg-946, 7-Ballou-879, 8-Hines-877, 9-Windom-722, 10-Cottle-707.
NEW INDIANA SPRINT WEEK POINTS: 1-Clauson-338, 2-Bacon-312, 3-Thomas-307, 4-Darland-296, 5-Bell-288, 6-Stanbrough-272, 7-Windom-268, 8-McIntyre-258, 9-Stockon-254, 10-Cottle-242.
NEXT AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT RACE: July 20 – Haubstadt, IN – Tri-State Speedway - 26th “Indiana Sprint Week”
PUTNAMVILLE AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT RESULTS
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AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: July 18, 2013 – Putnamville, Indiana – Lincoln Park Speedway – 26th “Indiana Sprint Week”
QUALIFYING: 1. Kevin Thomas, 17RW, Dutcher-RW/Tri-Star-12.716; 2. Ryan Pace, 44, Pace-12.790; 3. Jon Stanbrough, 66, Wade-12.809; 4. Brady Bacon, 69, Dynamics-12.846; 5. Richard Vander Weerd, 10, Vander Weerd-12.846; 6. Bryan Clauson, 20, Stewart-12.935; 7. Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-12.943; 8. Christopher Bell, 67, Kunz-12.998; 9. Chase Stockon, 32, 32 TBI-12.999; 10. Hunter Schuerenberg, 35, Byram-13.010; 11. Nick Drake, 55, Cline-13.015; 12. Scotty Weir, 18, Keen-13.088; 13. Chris Windom, 11, Walker-13.151; 14. Kyle Cummins, 3c, Cummins-13.167; 15. A.J. Hopkins, 14H, Hopkins-13.179; 16. Dave Darland, 71p, Phillips-13.185; 17. Shane Cottle, 2, Epperson-13.214; 18. Chad Boespflug, 57, Hazen-13.215; 19. Brent Beauchamp, 34, Olson-13.223; 20. Seth Parker, 38p, Parker-13.297; 21. C.J. Leary, 30, Leary-13.297; 22. Chris Gurley, 12G, Team Automotive-13.301; 23. Brady Short, 11p, Pottorff-13.308; 24. Ethan Barrow, 15, Barrow-13.362; 25. Max McGhee, 17, McGhee-13.388; 26. Tyler Courtney, 23c, Courtney-13.408; 27. Kyle Robbins, 17R, Robbins-13.416; 28. Chase Briscoe, 5B, Briscoe-13.429;29. Ryan Bernal, 73, Ford-13.451; 30. Robert Ballou, 12x, Ballou-13.453; 31. Justin Grant, 21x, Pollock-13.481; 32. Logan Jarrett, 29, Jarrett-13.491; 33. Casey Shuman, 21k, Krockenberger-13.505; 34. Dakota Jackson, 3, Jackson-13.531; 35. Wes McIntyre, 83, McIntyre-13.536; 36. Jace Vander Weerd, 88, Vander Weerd-13.547; 37. Blake Fitzpatrick, 10F, Fitzpatrick-13.555; 38. Kent Schmidt, 5k, Schmidt-13.569; 39. Dalten Gabbard, 77x, Walker-13.575; 40. Nathan Moore, 48, Moore-13.623; 41. Carson Short, 21c, Short-13.637; 42. Brian Hayden, 77, Wingo-13.641; 43. Mike Terry, 85, Terry-13.651; 44. Bill Rose, 6, Rose-13.663; 45. Travis Welpott, 18x, Welpott-13.756; 46. Conner Donelson, 42, Donelson-13.785; 47. Daylan Chambers, 4c, Chambers-14.208; 48. Kent Christian, 1c, Christian-14.253; 49. Jake Simmons, 3x, Simmons-14.253; 50. Mark Smith, 1m, Smith-NT.
QUALIFYING RACE #1: (8 laps) 1. McIntyre, 2. Shuman, 3. Fitzpatrick, 4. C.Short, 5. Welpott, 6. Gabbard, 7. Chambers, 8. Simmons, 9. Terry. NT
QUALIFYING RACE #2: (8 laps) 1. Jackson, 2. J.Vander Weerd, 3. Hayden, 4. Schmidt, 5. Donelson, 6. Christian, 7. Moore, 8. Rose. NT
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Leary, 2. Windom, 3. R.Vander Weerd, 4. Cottle, 5. Stockon, 6. Fitzpatrick, 7. Thomas, 8. McIntyre, 9. Bernal, 10. McGhee. 2:12.39
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Boespflug, 2. Clauson, 3. Schuerenberg, 4. Cummins, 5. Ballou, 6. Courtney, 7. Pace, 8. Gurley, 9. C.Short, 10. Shuman. 2:13.20
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. B.Short, 2. Hines, 3. Beauchamp, 4. Stanbrough, 5. Grant, 6. Drake, 7. Hopkins, 8. Hayden, 9. Robbins, 10. Jackson. NT
FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Darland, 2. Bell, 3. Parker, 4. Weir, 5. Briscoe, 6. Barrow, 7. J.Vander Weerd, 8. Jarrett, 9. Schmidt, 10. Bacon. 2:15.21
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Thomas, 2. Bacon, 3. McIntyre, 4. Stockon, 5. Ballou, 6. Briscoe, 7. Drake, 8. Fitzpatrick, 9. Gurley, 10. Courtney, 11. Robbins, 12. Jarrett, 13. J.Vander Weerd, 14. Schmidt, 15. Hopkins, 16. Shuman, 17. C.Short, 18. Pace, 19. Barrow, 20. McGhee, 21. Grant, 22. Hayden. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Bryan Clauson, 2. Christopher Bell, 3. Brady Short, 4. Jon Stanbrough, 5. Chris Windom, 6. Brady Bacon, 7. Robert Ballou, 8. Chad Boespflug, 9. Brent Beauchamp, 10. Chase Stockon, 11. Kevin Thomas Jr., 12. Kyle Cummins, 13. Wes McIntyre, 14. Jace Vander Weerd, 15. Tracy Hines, 16. Seth Parker, 17. Shane Cottle, 18. C.J. Leary, 19. Nick Drake, 20. Richard Vander Weerd, 21. Dave Darland, 22. Chase Briscoe, 23. Hunter Schuerenberg, 24. Scotty Weir. NT
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**Terry flipped during the first qualifying race. Briscoe flipped on lap 12 of the feature.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-12 Bell, Lap 13-30 Clauson.
NEW AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT POINTS: 1-Darland-1,049, 2-Clauson-1,038, 3-Thomas-1,033, 4-Bacon-986, 5-Stockon-933, 6-Schuerenberg-931, 7-Ballou-860, 8-Hines-850, 9-Cottle-687, 10-Windom-659.
NEW INDIANA SPRINT WEEK POINTS: 1-Thomas-279, 2-Stanbrough-271, 3-Clauson-269, 4-Bacon-248, 5-Bell-247, 6-Darland-245, 7-Cottle-222, 8-McIntyre-215, 9-Windom-205, 10-Schuerenberg-203.
NEXT AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT RACE: July 19 – Bloomington (IN) Speedway - 26th “Indiana Sprint Week”
TERRE HAUTE AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT RESULTS
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AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: July 17, 2013 – Terre Haute, Indiana – Terre Haute Action Track – 26th “Indiana Sprint Week” – “Don Smith Classic”
QUALIFYING: 1. Jon Stanbrough, 66, Wade-19.947; 2. Jerry Coons Jr., 10E, Edison-20.053; 3. Kevin Thomas, 17RW, Dutcher-RW/Tri-Star-20.067; 4. Dave Darland, 71p, Phillips-20.226; 5. Brady Short, 11p, Pottorff-20.302; 6. C.J. Leary, 30, Leary-20.341; 7. Justin Grant, 21x, Pollock-20.412; 8. Brady Bacon, 69, Dynamics-20.415; 9. Robert Ballou, 12x, Ballou-20.419; 10. Wes McIntyre, 83, McIntyre-20.450; 11. Chase Stockon, 32, 32 TBI-20.514; 12. Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-20.533; 13. Chris Windom, 11, Walker-20.662; 14. Hunter Schuerenberg, 35, Byram-20.795; 15. Casey Shuman, 21k, Krockenberger-20.800; 16. Kurt Gross, 1x, Gross-20.862; 17. Gary Taylor, 40, Hery-20.914; 18. Shane Cottle, 2, Epperson-20.926; 19. Brandon Mattox, 28, Mattox-20.952; 20. Logan Jarrett, 29, Jarrett-21.025; 21. Ryan Bernal, 73, Ford-21.122; 22. Brian Hayden, 77, Wingo-21.160; 23. Bryan Clauson, 20, Stewart-21.206; 24. Jake Simmons, 3x, Simmons-21.226; 25. Christopher Bell, 67, Kunz-21.257; 26. Mark Smith, 1m, Smith-21.378; 27. Tyler Courtney, 23c, Courtney-21.573; 28. Nick Drake, 55, Cline-21.725; 29. Caleb Armstrong, 11J, Yeley-21.746; 30. Nathan Moore, 48, Moore-22.211; 31. Dalten Gabbard, 77x, Walker-22.305; 32. Daylan Chambers, 4c, Chambers-23.052; 33. Bill Rose, 6, Rose-NT.
FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Taylor, 2. Ballou, 3. Stanbrough, 4. Short, 5. Windom, 6. Bell, 7. Armstrong, 8. Bernal. NT
SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Cottle, 2. Schuerenberg, 3. McIntyre, 4. Leary, 5. Coons, 6. Hayden, 7. Smith, 8. Moore. 2:49.16
THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Thomas, 2. Clauson, 3. Stockon, 4. Courtney, 5. Shuman, 6. Mattox, 7. Gabbard, 8. Grant, NT
FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Darland, 2. Hines, 3. Bacon, 4. Simmons, 5. Gross, 6. Jarrett, 7. Drake, 8. Chambers. 2:48.82
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Coons, 2. Bell, 3. Windom, 4. Shuman, 5. Bernal, 6. Rose, 7. Hayden, 8. Armstrong, 9. Jarrett, 10. Drake, 11. Gabbard, 12. Chambers, 13. Smith, 14. Gross, 15. Mattox. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Kevin Thomas Jr., 2. Jon Stanbrough, 3. Brady Bacon, 4. Robert Ballou, 5. Chase Stockon, 6. Hunter Schuerenberg, 7. Brady Short, 8. Wes McIntyre, 9. Chris Windom, 10. Shane Cottle, 11. Christopher Bell, 12. Bryan Clauson, 13. Ryan Bernal, 14. C.J. Leary, 15. Bill Rose, 16. Tyler Courtney, 17. Dave Darland, 18. Gary Taylor, 19. Jerry Coons Jr., 20. Casey Shuman, 21. Jake Simmons, 22. Tracy Hines, 23. Justin Grant. NT
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**Grant flipped during the third heat.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-30 Thomas.
NEW AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT POINTS: 1-Darland-1,028, 2-Thomas-992, 3-Clauson-970, 4-Bacon-935, 5-Schuerenberg-912, 6-Stockon-899, 7-Hines-820, 8-Ballou-817, 9-Cottle-663, 10-Windom-604.
NEW INDIANA SPRINT WEEK POINTS: 1-Thomas-238, 2-Darland-224, 3-Stanbrough-211, 4-Cottle-198, 5-Bacon-197, 6-McIntyre-186, 7-Schuerenberg-184, 8-Bell-183, 9-Clauson-181, 10-Stockon-155.
NEXT AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT RACE: July 18 – Putnamville, IN – Lincoln Park Speedway - 26th “Indiana Sprint Week”
COTTLE CLOSES “EASTERN STORM” WITH SUSQUEHANNA WIN; CLAUSON TAKES TITLE
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Newberrytown, Pennsylvania…….Shane Cottle of Kokomo, Indiana finished off the 2013 Rotondo Weirich “Eastern Storm” with a win for the hometown crowd as he put Pennsylvania car owner Gene Franckowiak and his tribute “City of Syracuse Special” in victory lane on Sunday night at Susquehanna Speedway Park. It was Cottle’s third career National Sprint Car win, and first in the state of Pennsylvania.
Cottle started from the front row and set the pace early as he and front-row mate Tracy Hines stretched it out over the rest of the field. The red came out on lap seven as Joey Biasi was caught up in a turn-three spin. That restart set up the longest green-flag section of the race, with early-race mover Dave Darland fading from a podium spot. Kevin Thomas, Jr. moved into the show position with a couple big slide-jobs, and he brought Bryan Clauson and Robert Ballou along past the halfway point.
With just 11 laps to go, Hines got a big run on Cottle and followed him into turn-three. Finding a strip of rubber through the middle, Hines flew by just as they exited turn-four, but the red flag was flying as Tim Glatfelter flipped in turn-one. Cottle retained the lead for the restart, giving him another chance to hold the lead.
On the restart, Thomas dove to the bottom of turn-one and bounced up in front of Hines, who was unable to turn back underneath him. Now with less than ten laps to go, Thomas reeled Cottle in and threw a succession of dive-bombs, with Cottle countering every one with a cross-over off the corner.
With the white flag waving, Thomas got a good run down the backstretch and tried one more monster slide-job but Cottle drove back underneath and nearly brought Hines with him. At the line, it was a .114-second win for Cottle in the Viper Risk Management – Specialty Rigging #65 Spike/Rider.
“This was kind of a throw-together deal, but Gene Franckowiak put together a good car for us. It took us a couple nights to figure it out, but we threw some things at it tonight, and it worked. It was hard to find where to be, and then I was sick as I saw Tracy go by. Luckily the red came out, and I got another chance. I figured that was where the rubber was, so I moved down a bit there. I knew he (Kevin Thomas, Jr.) was gonna blow through the rubber, so I just had to focus on hitting it and staying smooth with our tires going away there,” Cottle said.
Thomas held off Hines by .26 seconds to finish second in the Mike Dutcher/Rotondo Weirich/Tri-Star Motorsports – Black Jack Oil Company #17RW Maxim/Fisher.
“The restart gave us a chance at the top two. There was just a fine line, and it was hard to hit it on a slider. It was a pretty good race for us, and I’m happy to get back on the podium after kinda having a rough week out East here. I threw everything I had at him for the win. I drove it off in there the last lap pretty hard and it didn’t stick, but that’s a well-deserved win for those guys and I’m happy with our run,” Thomas said.
Hines just missed his opportunity at the win with an untimely red flag, but still held on for third in the Hansen’s Welding – Motor City Auto Transport #4 DRC/Stanton Mopar.
“I knew I showed everybody when I passed him for the lead where the track was. Kevin got us there with his slider on the restart, and I could get back to them, but there wasn’t much room to do anything. You really only get one shot at it on a track like that, but the red flag just got us there. The last two nights went pretty well for us, so I’m pretty excited to go back home and race again,” Hines said.
Clauson came home fourth in the Tony Stewart/Curb-Agajanian Racing – Chevy Performance #20 Beast/Kistler, locking up his second-straight Rotondo Weirich “Eastern Storm” championship by just one point over Darland.
“We were one of the first to find the clean groove tonight, and picked our way from eighth. The late red didn’t help us, but our car was good tonight. We had our work cut out for us tonight to win the week, but we ran our butts off and are really happy to pick up another Eastern Storm championship. It’s a lot like a basketball game, where if you win all four quarters you can’t lose, so it’s good to be as strong as we were out here and kinda get going well again,” Clauson said.
Ballou rounded out the top-five in the Baldwin Brothers Racing – Fox Paving #5 Maxim/Kercher Mopar.
AMSOIL USAC SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: June 9, 2013 – Newberrytown, Pennsylvania – Susquehanna Speedway Park – “Eastern Storm”
QUALIFYING: 1. Dave Darland, 71P, Phillips-17.187; 2. Kevin Thomas, Jr., 17RW, Dutcher/RW/TriStar-17.252; 3. Brady Bacon, 69, Dynamics-17.429; 4. Levi Jones, 39, Walker-17.451; 5. Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-17.525; 6. Shane Cottle, 65, Franckowiak-17.662; 7. Robert Ballou, 5, Baldwin-17.774; 8. Bryan Clauson, 20, Stewart/Curb-Agajanian-17.827; 9. Daron Clayton, 92, Clayton-17.841; 10. Chris Windom, 11, Walker-17.990; 11. Brent Marks, 19M, Marks-18.066; 12. Dalten Gabbard, 77, Gabbard-18.070; 13. Chase Stockon, 32, 32/TBI-18.156; 14. Nick Drake, 55, Cline-18.162; 15. Joey Biasi, B1, Biasi-18.192; 16. Landon Simon, 41, Stensland-18.259; 17. Hunter Schuerenberg, 35, Byram-18.315; 18. Tyler Courtney, 23c, Courtney/Anderson-18.360; 19. Mark Bitner, 15, Bitner-18.380; 20. Tim Glatfelter, 50, Strausbaugh-18.386; 21. Kyle Moody, 99M, Moody-18.499; 22. Mark Smith, 1M, Smith-18.793; 23. Billy Pauch, Jr., 175, Pietrofitta-18.836; 24. Ryan Smith, 69K, Kreitz-18.862; 25. Rick Horn, 01, Horn-19.367; 26. Denny Gross, 2, Gross-19.763; 27. Michael Hamer, 47, Hamer-19.778; 28. Tim Stallings, 59T, Stallings-19.879; 29. Dan Mazy, X, Mazy-20.374.
FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Clayton, 2. Darland, 3. Hines, 4. Courtney, 5. Stockon, 6. M. Smith, 7. Gross. NT
SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Thomas, 2. Cottle, 3. Bitner, 4. Windom, 5. Drake, 6. Pauch, 7. Hamer. 2:30.03
THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Marks, 2. Bacon, 3. Ballou, 4. Glatfelter, 5. Biasi, 6. Stallings, 7. R. Smith. NT
FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Schuerenberg, 2. Clauson, 3. Jones, 4. Gabbard, 5. Moody, 6. Horn, 7. Mazy.
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Biasi, 2. Moody, 3. M. Smith, 4. Pauch, 5. Hamer, 6. Mazy, 7. Gross, 8. Stallings, 9. Horn, 10. Stockon, 11. Drake. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Shane Cottle, 2. Kevin Thomas, Jr., 3. Tracy Hines, 4. Bryan Clauson, 5. Robert Ballou, 6. Dave Darland, 7. Levi Jones, 8. Brent Marks, 9. Daron Clayton, 10. Brady Bacon, 11. Chris Windom, 12. Hunter Schuerenberg, 13. Dalten Gabbard, 14. Mark Bitner, 15. Billy Pauch, Jr., 16. Chase Stockon, 17. Tyler Courtney, 18. Kyle Moody, 19. Dan Mazy, 20. Tim Glatfelter, 21. Michael Hamer, 22. Joey Biasi, 23. Mark Smith. NT
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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-30 Cottle.
**Simon flipped in Qualifying. Biasi flipped on Lap 7 of the Feature. Glatfelter flipped on Lap 20 of the Feature.
NEW AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT POINTS: 1-Darland-633; 2-Stockon-600; 3-Clauson-599; 4-Thomas-584; 5-Bacon-582; 6-Schuerenberg-560; 7-Hines-537; 8-Ballou-518; 9-Cottle-404; 10-Windom-366.
FINAL ROTONDO WEIRICH “EASTERN STORM” SPRINT POINTS: 1-Clauson-182; 2-Darland-181; 3-Clayton-180; 4-Hines-164; 5-Jones-163; 6-Cottle-158; 7-Thomas-146; 8-Bacon-143; 9-Schuerenberg-138; 10-Windom-120.
NEXT AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT RACE: June 21 – Terre Haute, Indiana – Terre Haute Action Track – “Tony Hulman Classic”
DARLAND DOMINATES PORT ROYAL “EASTERN STORM” SPRINT CARS
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Port Royal, Pennsylvania…….Saturday’s second leg of the Rotondo Weirich “Eastern Storm” for the AMSOIL National Sprint Car Series at Port Royal Speedway was never in much doubt as Lincoln, Indiana’s Dave Darland jumped from the front row and trounced the 22-car feature field. For Darland, it was the second win of the season and 42nd career score.
Darland quickly stretched a huge lead as battle ensued nearly all race long for top-five spots behind him. Point leader Chase Stockon snuck around the bottom to grab the second spot before Daron Clayton and Bryan Clauson made contact on the front-stretch while racing for third. The duo continued on and shadowed Stockon for much of the race.
Clayton finally moved back to second late in the race, as Darland had put five lapped cars between himself and the rest of the field. Brady Bacon was the big mover, as he slowly worked his way into the top-five with ten laps to go. A caution for Landon Simon’s flat right-rear tire with six laps to go gave the pack one more chance at Darland, whose lead of over six seconds was erased.
Clayton cleared traffic quickly and took off after Darland, but the veteran eased away from all pursuers to post a 3.003-second victory aboard the Phillips Motorsports – Racer’s Advantage #71P DRC/Foxco.
“We’re just having a lot of fun with this team. Steve & Carla Phillips have given me a great opportunity this season, and we’re happy to get some wins together. Tonight was a tough race track, but I like to run the high line. I was just concentrating on my entries, especially getting into turn-one. The restart wasn’t what I wanted to see, but I knew I had some lapped cars and just made sure I ran into one hard enough,” Darland said.
Clayton held on for second, taking a 12-point lead in “Eastern Storm” standings into Sunday’s mini-series finale in the Merry Go Round Restaurant – Advantage Machine #92 Spike/J&D.
“On a track like this was tonight, I’ll take a second behind Darland anytime. I couldn’t get into the corner on the cushion the way I wanted to, without throwing the nose, and I didn’t wanna stick it in the fence. We got a little better, and I got a good restart at the end behind Darland, but then I saw where he was entering and I just couldn’t get my car to enter up there like him. It might have been me, but we’ll say it was the car,” Clayton said with a laugh.
Clauson used a late-race slide-job in turn-three to capture the final podium spot and place himself as Clayton’s nearest competitor in “Eastern Storm” points aboard the Tony Stewart/Curb-Agajanian Racing – Chevy Performance #20 Beast/Kistler.
“I started on the bottom and was trying to get to the top and had the little mishap with Daron (Clayton) there, and we were really pretty lucky to keep going after that. We gathered it up, and I think our group of cars were about as good as each other, and Stockon went away a little bit at the end and Clayton beat us by him. Tonight is probably not my best kind of race track, but tonight was another strong showing for us, and we’re happy to click off a couple podiums and hopefully start to find a rhythm,” Clauson said.
Bacon snuck into fourth at the line to wrap up “Hard Charger” honors after starting 12th in the Hoffman Auto Racing – Mean Green #69 Triple X/Stanton Mopar, while Stockon seemed to be ailing as he crossed the line fifth in the Superior Tank & Trailer – Crescent Electric Supply #32 DRC/Fisher. Fast qualifier Tracy Hines finished sixth in the Hansen’s Welding – Motor City Auto Transport #4 DRC/Stanton Mopar.
AMSOIL USAC SPRINT CAR NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP RACE RESULTS: June 8, 2013 – Port Royal, Pennsylvania – Port Royal Speedway – “Eastern Storm”
QUALIFYING: 1. Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-21.120; 2. Kevin Thomas, Jr., 17RW, Dutcher/RW/TriStar-21.212; 3. Daron Clayton, 92, Clayton-21.225; 4. Chase Stockon, 32, 32/TBI-21.406; 5. Dave Darland, 71P, Phillips-21.504; 6. Bryan Clauson, 20, Stewart/Curb-Agajanian-21.600; 7. Levi Jones, 39, Walker-21.663; 8. Robert Ballou, 5, Baldwin-21.715; 9. Shane Cottle, 65, Franckowiak-21.905; 10. Hunter Schuerenberg, 35, Byram-21.962; 11. Nick Drake, 55, Cline-21.973; 12. Chris Windom, 11, Walker-22.006; 13. Brady Bacon, 69, Dynamics-22.008; 14. Landon Simon, 41, Stensland-22.279; 15. Joey Biasi, B1, Biasi-22.642; 16. Kyle Moody, 99M, Moody-22.701; 17. Trevor Utt, U2, Utt-22.909; 18. Tyler Courtney, 23c, Courtney/Anderson-22.966; 19. Mark Bitner, 15, Bitner-23.149; 20. Billy Pauch, Jr., 175, Pietrofitta-23.233; 21. Tim Glatfelter, 50, Strausbaugh-23.238; 22. Dalten Gabbard, 77, Gabbard-23.272; 23. J.R. Berry, 74, Berry-23.924; 24. Mark Smith, 1M, Smith-NT; 25. Denny Gross, 2, Gross-NT; 26. Curt Stroup, 33, Ehrenzeller-NT.
FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Jones, 2. Schuerenberg, 3. Hines, 4. Stockon, 5. Bitner, 6. Gabbard, 7. Moody, 8. Gross, 9. Bacon. NT
SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Darland, 2. Ballou, 3. Thomas, 4. Simon, 5. Pauch, 6. Drake, 7. Utt, 8. Stroup, 9. Berry. NT
THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Clayton, 2. Windom, 3. Cottle, 4. Clauson, 5. Smith, 6. Courtney, 7. Biasi, 8. Glatfelter. 2:58.31
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Bacon, 2. Moody, 3. Biasi, 4. Courtney, 5. Gabbard, 6. Glatfelter, 7. Drake, 8. Berry, 9. Gross, 10. Utt, 11. Stroup. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Dave Darland, 2. Daron Clayton, 3. Bryan Clauson, 4. Brady Bacon, 5. Chase Stockon, 6. Tracy Hines, 7. Levi Jones, 8. Kevin Thomas, Jr., 9. Hunter Schuerenberg, 10. Shane Cottle, 11. Robert Ballou, 12. Chris Windom, 13. Mark Smith, 14. Kyle Moody, 15. Tyler Courtney, 16. Billy Pauch, Jr., 17. Dalten Gabbard, 18. Tim Glatfelter, 19. Mark Bitner, 20. Landon Simon, 21. Joey Biasi, 22. Nick Drake. NT
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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-30 Darland.
**Utt flipped in the Semi.
NEW AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT POINTS: 1-Stockon-579; 2-Darland-575; 3-Clauson-541; 4-Bacon-538; 5-Schuerenberg-523; 6-Thomas-514; 7-Hines-475; 8-Ballou-464; 9-Cottle-336; 10-Windom-330.
NEW ROTONDO WEIRICH “EASTERN STORM” POINTS: 1-Clayton-136; 2-Clauson-124; 3-Darland-123; 4-Stockon-113; 5-Jones-112; 6-Schuerenberg-101; 7-Bacon-99; 8-Hines-94; 9-Cottle-90; 10-Windom-84.
NEXT AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT RACE: June 9 – Newberrytown, Pennsylvania – Susquehanna Speedway Park – “Eastern Storm”
