FIKE 1ST ILLINOIS “TONY BETTENHAUSEN” WINNER IN 29 YEARS!


Springfield, IL……..A.J. Fike of Galesburg, Ill. became the first Illinois driver in 29 years to capture the “Tony Bettenhausen 100” USAC Traxxas Silver Crown race at the Illinois State Fairgrounds, leading the final 65 laps of the 100-mile race at the Illinois State Fairgrounds in his Liberty Village/McGladrey & Pullen Beast/Foxco. Gary Bettenhausen was the last Illinois driver to win the race, in 1983. Defending race winner Brian Tyler finished second in Saturday’s race, ahead of Tanner Swanson, Levi Jones and Bryan Clauson. Kody Swanson led the first 19 laps but encountered mechanical problems and failed to finish. Jones then led 16 laps before Fike went to the front on a restart.


TRAXXAS USAC SILVER CROWN RACE RESULTS: August 18, 2012 – Springfield, Illinois – Illinois State Fairgrounds – “Tony Bettenhausen 100”


QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Brian Tyler, 21, Six-R Racing-30.948; 2. Rich Tobias Jr., 39, Aquilini-31.204; 3. A.J. Fike, 3 RFMS-31.213; 4. Levi Jones, 10, Stewart/Cub-Agajanian-31.215; 5. Bud Kaeding, 29, BK-31.372; 6. Kody Swanson, 19, Six R Racing-31.587; 7. Bobby East, 22, Stewart/Curb-Agajanian-31.661; 8. Shane Hollingsworth, 20, Nolen-31.667; 9. Bryan Clauson, 17, RW/Curb-Agajanian-31.783; 10. Chris Urish, 77, Urish-31.817; 11. Jerry Coons Jr, 27, RW-31.896; 12. Shane Cottle, 14, McQuinn-31.953; 13. Randy Bateman, 55, Bateman-32.190; 14. Tracy Hines, 16, Lightfoot-32.269; 15. Shane Cockrum, 114, Hardy-32.567; 16. Russ Gamester, 51, Gamester-32.759; 17. Tanner Swanson, 23, Six-R Racing-32.978; 18. Steve Adams, 500, Adams-33.224; 19. Joey Moughan, 141, McQuinn-33.756; 20. Bobby Santos, 7, RW-33.875; 21. Justin Grant, 63, DePalma-NT.


FEATURE: (100 laps) 1. A.J. Fike, 2. Brian Tyler, 3. Tanner Swanson, 4. Levi Jones, 5. Bryan Clauson, 6. Jerry Coons Jr, 7. Bud Kaeding, 8. Bobby East, 9. Rich Tobias Jr., 10. Chris Urish, 11. Bobby Santos, 12. Steve Adams, 13. Tracy Hines, 14. Russ Gamester, 15. Kody Swanson, 16. Randy Bateman, 17. Shane Hollingsworth, 18. Shane Cottle, 19. Shane Cockrum, 20. Joey Moughan. NT


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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-19 K.Swanson, Laps 20-35 Jones, Laps 36-100 Fike.


NEW TRAXXAS SILVER CROWN POINTS: 1-K.swanson-302; 2-East-298; 3-Coons-289; 4-Jones-270; 5-T.Swanson-259; 6-Kaedin g-259; 7-Santos-253; 8-Fike-221; 9-Hines-217; 10-Tyler-192.


NEXT TRAXXAS SILVER CROWN RACES: September 2 – DuQuoin (IL) State Fairgrounds – “Ted Horn 100”