WINDOM ENDS DROUGHT, BEATS JONES BY .028 AT BIG DIAMOND!

Minersville, PA……..Chris Windom of Canton, Ill. finally found the winners circle Friday night at Big Diamond Raceway as he beat Levi Jones to the checkered flag by .028 seconds to win the final race in the 2010 USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car “Eastern Storm” series. Windom passed Jones on lap 38 and led the final three laps in his Jeff Walker Racing Hoosier Tire/Jam-It-In Storage Maxim/Claxton. Jones, who had won the first three “Eastern Storm” features, had passed Ricky Williams on Lap 36 after Williams had led the first 35 laps. Tracy Hines ended up third, ahead of Williams and fast qualifier Bryan Clauson. Windom’s victory was his first in 68 career series starts after six runnerup finishes! Jones wound up as the champion of the "Racer's Challenge" presented by RW and our Partners as the top point scorer in the four Eastern Storm events.



AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT RACE RESULTS: June 4, 2010 – Minersville, Pennsylvania – Big Diamond Raceway – “Eastern Storm”


 


QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Bryan Clauson, 2B, RWB-15.312; 2. Henry Clarke, 67, Kunz-15.392; 3. Levi Jones, 20, Stewart-1.569; 4. Damion Gardner, 71, DG-15.650; 5. Ricky Williams, 11w, Williams-15.687; 6. Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-15.747; 7. Chris Windom, 11, Walker-15.808; 8. Dave Darland, 39, Goodnight-15.912; 9 .Chase Stockon, 32, Stockon-15.944; 10. Jerry Coons Jr., 69, Dynamics-16.084; 11. Kyle Robbins, 17R, Robbins-16.163; 12. Casey Shuman, 4G, Cook-16.390; 13. Shane Hmiel, 17s, 56 Inc.-16.713; 14. J.C. Bland, 98, Bland-16.731; 15. J.R. Berry, 74, Berry-16.790; 16. Johnny Mackison, 65, Mackison-16.898; 19. Mark Bitner, 15, Bitner-16.946; 20. Kyle Moody, 99m, Moody-17.000; 21. Landon Simon, 24, LSR-17.381; 22. Steve Petry, 8, Petry-18.193; 23. Beau Binder, 10x, Barnhill-NT.


 


FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Windom, 2. Clauson, 3. Coons, 4. Gardner, 5. Mackison, 6. Simon. 2:10.33


 


SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Bitner, 2. Darland, 3. Clarke, 4. Williams, 5. Robbins, 6. Bland, 7. Perry. 2:18.25


 


THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Stockon, 2. Jones, 3. Hines, 4. Moody, 5. Shuman, 6. Berry. 2:12.47


 


FEATURE: (40 laps) 1. Chris Windom, 2. Levi Jones, 3. Tracy Hines, 4. Ricky Williams, 5. Bryan Clauson, 6. Damion Gardner, 7. Henry Clarke, 8. Jerry Coons Jr., 9. Mark Bitner, 10. Kyle Robbins, 11. Chase Stockon, 12. Kyle Moody, 13. J.R. Berry, 14. J.C. Bland, 15. Dave Darland, 16. Johnny Mackison, 17. Steve Petry, 18. Landon Simon, 19. Casey Shuman, 20. Beau Binder, 21. Shane Hmiel. NT


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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-35 Williams, Laps 36-37 Jones, Laps 38-40 Windom.


 


NEW AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT POINTS: 1-Jones-872; 2-Gardner-830; 3-Clauson-797; 4-Hines-742; 5-Coons-742; 6-Windom-729; 7-Clarke-627; 8-Darland-559; 9-Robert Ballou-470; 10-Williams-443.


FINAL RACER’S CHALLENGE (Presented by RW & Our Partners) SPRINT POINTS: 1-Jones-286; 2-Windom-260; 3-Clauson-255; 4-Gardner-217; 5-Hines-201; 6-Darland-195; 7-Clarke-193; 8-Williams-192; 9-Bitner-155; 10-Stockon-154.


 


NEXT AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT RACE: June 10 – Indianapolis, IN – O’Reilly Raceway Park