EAST PREVAILS IN “EASTERN STORM” FEATURE AT BECHTELSVILLE

 


Bechtelsville, PA……..Bobby East of Brownsburg, Ind. roared to victory in Tuesday night’s 40-lap AMSOIL USAC National Sprint race at Grandview Speedway. The second round of the 2011 “Eastern Storm” found Levi Jones leading the first 24 laps but East caught him exiting turn two and led the rest of the way in his Klatt Enterprises Brownsburg Mufflers/East Enterprises Beast/Chevy. Chris Windom and 16th-place starter Robert Ballou pressured East to the flag, while Casey Shuman came from 19th starting spot to take fourth ahead of Dave Darland. Windom leads the “Eastern Storm” standings going into Wednesday night’s race at Lincoln Speedway in New Oxford, Pa., while Jones continues atop the AMSOIL National standings, 28 ahead of Jon Stanbrough.


 


AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT RACE RESULTS: May 31, 2011 – Bechtelsville, Pennsylvania – Grandview Speedway – “Eastern Storm”


 


QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Coleman Gulick, 14, Gulick-13.767; 2. Bryan Clauson, 7, CTR/BCI/Curb-Agajanian-13.813; 3. Bobby East, 5, Klatt-13.883; 4. Daron Clayton, 69, Dynamics-13.899; 5. Dave Darland, 21x, Roberts/Tate-13.955; 6. Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-13.959; 7. Levi Jones, 20, Stewart-13.986; 8. Hunter Schuerenberg, 35, Byram-13.999; 9. Jon Stanbrough, 53, Fox-14.007; 10. Damion Gardner, 71, DG-14.043; 11. Travis Rilat, 50, Rilat-14.067; 12. Chris Windom, 5x, Baldwin-14.080; 13. Keith Bloom Jr., 27k, Bloom-14.125; 14. Kyle Robbins, 17R, Robbins-14.220; 15. Justin Grant, 40, Grant-14.227; 16. J.J. Hughes, 76, Hughes-14.369; 17. Robert Ballou, 81, MPHG-14.410; 18. Wes McIntyre, 83, McIntyre-14.475; 19. Kevin Thomas Jr., 11, Walker-14.515; 20. Casey Shuman, 4G, Cook-14.543; 21. Mark Bitner, 15, Bitner-14.543; 22. Jonathan Swanson, 17J, Swanson-14.699; 23. Steve Storrie, 2k, Storrie-14.704; 24. Kyle Moody, 99m, Moody-14.743; 25. Joey Biasi, B1, S & B-14.748; 26. Blake Fitzpatrick, 10, Fitzpatrick-14.767; 27. Brent Marks, 19M, Marks-14.779; 28. Tracy Readinger, 73, Berry-15.168; 29. Jeff Geiges, 67x, Pietrofitta-15.170; 30. Jake Simmons, 7s, Simmons-15.630; 31. J.R. Berry, 74, Berry-NT.


 


FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Stanbrough, 2. Bitner, 3. Ballou, 4. Darland, 5. Bloom, 6. Gulick, 7. Simmons, 8. Fitzpatrick. 1:56.79


 


SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. McIntyre, 2. Hines, 3. Gardner, 4. Clauson, 5. Robbins, 6. Marks, 7. Swanson. 1:57.86


 


THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Jones, 2. Thomas, 3. Moody, 4. East, 5. Grant, 6. Rilat, 7. Readinger. 1:57.83


 


FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Windom, 2. Shuman, 3. Schuerenberg, 4. Clayton, 5. Biasi, 6. Geiges, 7. Hughes. 1:56.42


 


SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Gulick, 2. Bloom, 3. Rilat, 4. Grant, 5. Robbins, 6. Marks, 7. Hughes, 8. Readinger, 9. Swanson, 10. Biasi, 11. Geiges, 12. Simmons, 13. Fitzpatrick. NT


 


FEATURE: (40 laps) 1. Bobby East, 2. Chris Windom, 3. Robert Ballou, 4. Casey Shuman, 5. Dave Darland, 6, Jon Stanbrough, 7, Levi Jones, 8. Mark Bitner, 9. Tracy Hines, 10. Damion Gardner, 11. Bryan Clauson, 12. Travis Rilat, 13. Keith Bloom Jr., 14. Justin Grant, 15. Kevin Thomas Jr., 16. Kyle Moody, 17. Daron Clayton, 18. Kyle Robbins, 19. Brent Marks, 20. Hunter Schuerenberg, 21. Wes McIntyre, 22. Coleman Gulick. NT


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**Storrie flipped during qualifying.


 


FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-24 Jones, Laps 25-40 East.


 


NEW AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT POINTS: 1-Jones-404; 2-Stanbrough-376; 3-Windom-367; 4-Gardner-346; 5-East-313; 6-Ballou-299; 7-Schuerenberg-297; 8-Clauson-294; 9-Darland-277; 10-Fitzpatrick-255.


NEW “EASTERN STORM” POINTS: 1-Windom-130; 2-Stanbrough-122; 3-East-121; 4-Ballou-115; 5-Jones-115.


 


NEXT AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT RACE: June 1 – New Oxford, PA – Lincoln Speedway – “Eastern Storm”