EAST FLIES TO IOWA SILVER CROWN WIN!

 


Newton, IA……..Bobby East of Brownsburg, Ind. repeated his dominance of USAC’s TRAXXAS Silver Crown Championship Series with another virtuoso performance in Friday night’s 100-lap Casey’s General Stores USAC Triple Crown” race at Iowa Speedway presented by Pioneer Hi-Bred First Class Credit Union & Boyer Petroleum. East started third but caught Tanner Swanson on lap 33 and motored away from the field. After winning last week’s race at Milwaukee, Wisc. by a half-lap, he won this race by three-quarters of a lap in his Klatt Motorsports/East Enterprises Beast/Ford. Bobby Santos III came from 16th starting spot to take second ahead of Kyle Larson, Swanson and Bud Kaeding.  The victory leaves East 11 points behind Jerry Coons Jr. in the new series standings going into the July 3 “Sumar Classic 100” at Terre Haute, Ind. Cooatns finished seventh in Friday’s race. Brad Sweet won the pole for Friday’s race at 144.039 mph. and East averaged 135.220 mph for the 100 laps which were run without a caution flag! Sweet finished 10th after leading the first 24 laps.


 


TRAXXAS USAC SILVER CROWN RACE RESULTS: June 24, 2011 – Newton, Iowa – Iowa Speedway


 


QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Brad Sweet, 67, Zarounian-21.869; 2. Tanner Swanson, 23, Team 6R/TK-21.876; 3. Bobby East, 6, Klatt-21.984; 4. Bryan Clauson, 22, Stewart/Curb-Agajanian-21.993; 5. A.J. Fike, 3, RFMS-22.067; 6. Kyle Larson, 71, Kunz-22.087; 7. Shane Hollingsworth, 20, Nolen-22.107; 8. Jacob Wilson, 07, WBR/Team 6R-22.176; 9. Levi Jones, 10, Stewart/Curb-Agajanian-22.254; 10. Jerry Coons Jr., 27, RW-22.264; 11. Bud Kaeding, 29, BK-22.270; 12. Dave Steele, 99, Edwards/RE-22.273; 13. David Byrne, 40, Byrne-22.293; 14. Tracy Hines, 17, RW-22.404; 15. Brian Tyler, 21, Team 6R-22.467; 16. Bobby Santos III, 98, Santos-22.613; 17. Zach Daum, 50, Daum-22.791; 18. Derek Hagar, 91, Hagar-22.879; 19. Mike Larrison, 06, Hamilton-22.944; 20. Jeff Mitrisin, 46, Mitrisin-23.033; 21. Michael Ford, 122, Chandler-24.111; 22. Todd Kane, 63, DePalma-24.262; 23. Aaron Pierce, 26, Pierce-NT; 24. #19, Team Six-R-NT.


 


FEATURE: (100 laps) 1. Bobby East, 2. Bobby Santos III, 3. Kyle Larson, 4. Tanner Swanson, 5. Bud Kaeding, 6. Levi Jones, 7. Jerry Coons Jr., 8. Zach Daum, 9. Jacob Wilson, 10. Brad Sweet, 11. Dave Steele, 12. A.J. FIke, 13. David Byrne, 14. Tracy Hines, 15. Mike Larrison, 16. Brian Tyler, 17. Shane Hollingsworth, 18. Derak Hagar, 19. Michael Ford, 20. Bryan Clauson, 21. Jeff Mitrisin, 22. Todd Kane. 38:49.53


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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-24 Sweet, Laps 25-32 T.Swanson, Laps 33-100 East.


 


NEW TRAXXAS USAC SILVER CROWN POINTS: 1-Coons-159; 2-East-148; 3-T.Swanson-147; 4-Kaeding-144; 5-Jones-141; 6-Larson-125; 7-Tyler-111; 8-Santos-108; 9-Hines-92; 10-Daum-87.


 


NEXT TRAXXAS USAC SILVER CROWN RACE: July 3 – Terre Haute (IN) Action Track - “Sumar Classic 100”