WHITT TAKES 2ND STRAIGHT BIG DIAMOND FEATURE Minersville, PA…….Cole Whitt of Alpine, Calif. repeated his 2008 victory at Big Diamond Raceway, leading all 30 laps of Thursday night’s “Eastern Storm” Thunder & Lightning Tour feature for USAC National Sprint cars. Whitt piloted the Red Bull/Ferguson Bullet/Brannan Chevy to the win over series point leader Dave Darland, Levi Jones, Damion Gardner and Darren Hagen. The “Eastern Storm” tour concludes Saturday night at Mercer Raceway Park.


USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: June 4, 2009 – Minersville, Pennsylvania – Big Diamond Raceway – “Eastern Storm” Thunder & Lightning Tour


 


QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Bryan Clauson, 7, Tucker-15.785; 2. Tracy Hines, 21, Stewart-15.828; 3. Levi Jones, 20, Stewart-16.171; 4. Damion Gardner, 71, DG-16.175; 5. Dave Darland, 2B, RWB-16.241; 6. Cole Whitt, 67k, Kunz-16.259; 7. Jesse Hockett, 13, VKCC-16.362; 8. Chris Windom, 17, Windom-16.385; 9. Darren Hagen, 67, Kunz-16.400; 10. Chad Boat, 30, Boat-16.430; 11. Billy Pauch, 1z, Zemaitis-16.487; 12. Bud Kaeding, 29, BK-16.586; 13. Jerry Coons Jr., 69, Dynamics-16.611; 14. Scotty Weir, 5, Baldwin-16.728; 15. Kevin Swindell, 1J, Triple Crown-16.839; 16. Robert Ballou, 81, MPHG-16.841; 17. Brad Sweet, 9, Kahne/Curb-16.886; 18. Henry Clarke, 67x, Kunz-17.003; 19. Mark Bitner, 15, Bitner-17.282; 20. Ryan Smith, 5x, Yermel-18.149; 21. Chad Trout, 7c, Trout-18.363; 21. Steve Petry, 8, Petry-19.148.


 


FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Clauson, 2. Gardner, 2. Ballou, 4. Boat, 5. Bitner, 6. Hockett, 7. Petry, 8. Coons. NT


 


SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Sweet, 2. Pauch, 3. Hines, 4. Windom, 5. Darland, 6. Weir, 7. Smith.2:14.94


 


THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Swindell, 2. Clarke, 3. Hagen, 4. Kaeding, 5. Whitt, 6. Jones, 7. Trout. NT


 


FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Cole Whitt, 2. Dave Darland, 3. Levi Jones, 4. Damion Gardner, 5. Darren Hagen, 6. Jesse Hockett, 7.; Bryan Clauson, 8. Chad Boat, 9. Chris Windom, 10. Brad Sweet, 11. Bud Kaeding, 12. Jerry Coons Jr., 13. Scotty Weir, 14. Kevin Swindell, 15. Henry Clarke, 16. Robert Ballou, 17. Mark Bitner, 18. Ryan Smith, 19. Billy Pauch, 20. Tracy Hines, 21. Chad Trout, 22. Steve Petry. NT


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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-30 Whitt.


 


NEW USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR POINTS: 1-Darland-559; 2-Jones-541; 3-Hockett-536; 4-Coons-470; 5-Whitt-453; 6-Gardner-420; 7-Sweet-419; 8-Hines-386; 9-Windom-372; 10-Boat-334.


 


NEXT USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR RACE: June 6 – Mercer (PA) Raceway Park