HINES GRABS GAS CITY 30-LAPPER

Gas City, Ind………Tracy Hines of New Castle, Ind. led the final 23 laps to win Friday night’s 30-lap USAC AMSOIL National Sprint car feature at the Gas City I-69 Speedway. Driving the MP Environmental Services Maxim/Shaver, Hines caught early leader Jerry Coons Jr. on lap eight and led the rest of the way to beat Jon Stanbrough, fast qualifier Damion Gardner, Levi Jones and Scotty Weir. Gardner emerged with a 63-point lead over Coons in the new series standings going into Saturday’s race at Lawrenceburg Speedway.



AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT RACE RESULTS: April 16, 2010 – Gas City, Indiana – Gas City I-69 Speedway


 


QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Damion Gardner, 71, DG-12.357; 2. Scotty Weir, 22, Simon-12.395; 3. Ted Hines, 12, Hines-12.426; 4. Jon Stanbrough, 53, Fox-12.443; 5. Jerry Coons Jr., 69, Dynamics-12.450; 6. Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-12.506; 7. Brandon Petty, 42G, Jackson-12.590; 8. Bryan Clauson, 2B, RWB-12.610; 9. Levi Jones, 20, Stewart-12.634; 10. Henry Clarke, 67, Kunz-12.705; 11. Hunter Schuerenberg, 2c, Rock Steady-12.710; 12. Shane Hmiel, 17s, 56 Inc.-12.716; 13. Matt Westfall, 54, Westfall-12.735; 14. Shane Cottle, 10E, Edison-12.745; 15. Kyle Robbins, 17R, Robbins-12.784; 16. Darren Hagen, 1G, Gorby-12.846; 17. Bobby East, 5, Klatt-12.865; 18. Ricky Williams, 11w, Williams-12.867; 19. Billy Puterbaugh Jr., 71p, Phillips-12.895; 20. Robert Ballou, 81, MPHG-12.946; 21. Thomas Meseraull, 57, Hazen-12.964; 22. Caleb Armstrong, 7, Tucker-12.965; 23. Chris Windom, 11, Walker-13.001; 24. Steve Ott, 41, SST-13.051; 25. J.J. Hughes, 76, Hughes-13.159; 26. Jonathan Hendrick, 68, Hendrick-13.169; 27. Blake Fitzpatrick, 10F, Fitzpatrick-13.190; 28. Dave Darland, 67k, Kunz-13.243; 29. Critter Malone, 7m, CM-13.342; 30. Cole Carter, 7x, Carter-13.361; 31. A.J. Francis, 21, Francis-13.584; 32. Kyle Cummins, 4u, Wild Ride-13.802; 33. Dallas Hewitt, 2H, Hewitt-14.502.


 


FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. East, 2. Jones, 3. Gardner, 4. Coons, 5. Westfall, 6. Meseraull, 7. Hewitt, 8. Hughes, 9. Malone. 2:10.52


 


SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Cottle, 2. Tracy Hines, 3. Armstrong, 4. Weir, 5. Carter, 6. Clarke, 7. Williams, 8. Hendrick. 2:14.13


 


THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Puterbaugh, 2. Windom, 3. Ted Hines, 4. Schuerenberg, 5. Fitzpatrick, 6. Petty, 7. Francis, 8. Robbins. NT


 


FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Ballou, 2. Stanbrough, 3. Hagen, 4. Clauson, 5. Darland, 6. Ott, 7. Cummins, 8. Hmiel. 2:15.05


 


SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Clarke, 2. Petty, 3. Westfall, 4. Hmiel, 5. Williams, 6. Darland, 7. Hendrick, 8. Carter, 9. Cummins, 10. Robbins, 11. Hughes, 12. Francis, 13. Hewitt, 14. Meseraull, 15. Ott, 16. Fitzpatrick. NT


 


FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Tracy Hines, 2. Jon Stanbrough, 3. Damion Gardner, 4. Levi Jones, 5. Scotty Weir, 6. Jerry Coons Jr., 7. Bryan Clauson, 8. Henry Clarke, 9. Robert Ballou. 10. Chris Windom, 11. Darren Hagen, 12. Ted Hines, 13. Dave Darland, 14. Bobby East, 15. Caleb Armstrong, 16. Hunter Schuerenberg, 17. Shane Hmiel, 18. Shane Cottle, 19. Ricky Williams, 20. Matt Westfall, 21. Billy Puterbaugh Jr., 22. Brandon Petty. NT


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**Malone flipped during the first heat.


 


FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-7 Coons, Laps 8-30 Tracy Hines.


 


NEW AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT POINTS: 1-Gardner-390; 2-Coons-324; 3-Jones-305; 4-Tracy Hines-297; 5-Clauson-284; 6-Ballou-276; 7-Clarke-275; 8-Windom-232; 9-Darland-230; 10-Hmiel-165.


 


NEXT AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT RACE: April 17 – Lawrenceburg, IN – Lawrenceburg Speedway