WINDOM TAKES “HULMAN/SMITH” CLASSIC & EXTENDS ISW POINT LEAD
Terre Haute, IN……..Chris Windom of Canton, Ill. has a 40-point lead in the new Indiana Sprint Week point standings after winning Wednesday night’s 30-lap 41st Annual First Financial Bank “Tony Hulman/Don Smith Classic” at the Terre Haute Action Track. Windom started seventh and grabbed the lead from pole starter Dustin Morgan on lap two. He relinquished the lead to a hard-chaging Keith Bloom Jr. on lap 15 but regained it three laps later and held off repeated challenges from Bloom to post the win in his Fox Paving/Claxton Engines Maxim/Mopar. Windon had finished second in the three preceeding ISW features! Jon Stanbrough took third ahead of Robert Ballou and Shane Cottle. ISW continues Thursday night at the Brownstown Speedway.
AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: July 13, 2011 – Terre Haute, Indiana – Terre Haute Action Track – 24th “Indiana Sprint Week” – “Tony Hulman/Don Smith Classic”
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Keith Bloom, 27, Abreu-20.640; 2. Levi Jones, 20, Stewart-20.724; 3. Chris Windom, 5x, Baldwin-20.767; 4. Jerry Coons Jr., 71p, Phillips-20.824; 5. Daron Clayton, 69, Dynamics-20.892; 6. Jonathan Hendrick, 68, Hendrick-20.902; 7. Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-20.930; 8. Jon Stanbrough, 53, Fox-21.022; 9. Gary Rooke, 42a, Rooke-21.022; 10. J.J. Hughes, 76, Hughes-21.032; 11. Chase Stockon, 32, Stockon-21.064; 12. Dustin Morgan, 2x, M & M-21.258; 13. Critter Malone, 7x, CM-21.306; 14. Mike Spencer, 50, Chaffin-21.388; 15. Robert Ballou, 81, MPHG-21.421; 16. Bryan Clauson, 7, CTR-BCI-Curb-Agajanian-21.458; 17. Kyle Robbins, 17R, Robbins-21.506; 18. Justin Grant, 40, Grant-21.531; 19. Wes McIntyre, 83, McIntyre-21.720; 20. Dave Darland, 21x, Roberts/Tate-21.799; 21. Damion Gardner, 71, DG-21.893; 22. Chad Boespflug, 98x, Gatt-21.998; 23. Blake Fitzpatrick, 10, Fitzpatrick-22.141; 24. Andrew Elson, 27a, Elson-22.263; 25. Coleman Gulick, 14, Gulick-22.558; 26. Shane Cottle, 11, Walker-22.670; 27. J.C. Bland, 98, Bland-23.082; 28. Jake Simmons, 7s, Simmons-23.944; 29. Kevin Studley, 57x, Studley-24.139; 30. Eric Krockenberger, 21E, Krockenberger-NT; 31. Seth Parker, 38p, Parker-NT; 32. Hunter Schuerenberg, 35, Byram-NT; 33. Brandon Mattox, 28, Mattox-NT.
FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Gardner, 2. Bloom, 3. Gulick, 4. Malone, 5. Robbins, 6. Studley, 7. Rooke, 8. Clayton. NT
SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Boespflug, 2. Schuerenberg, 3. Jones, 4. Grant, 5. Cottle, 6. Spencer, 7. Hughes, 8. Hendrick. 3:06.59
THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Ballou, 2. Stockon, 3. Hines, 4. Fitzpatrick, 5. Windom, 6. McIntyre, 7. Bland, 8. Krockenberger. NT
FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Darland, 2. Coons, 3. Morgan, 4. Clauson, 5. Stanbrough, 6. Elson, 7. Simmons. 3:08.42
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Windom, 2. Stanbrough, 3. Clayton, 4. Hendrick, 5. Spencer, 6. Cottle, 7. Elson, 8. McIntyre, 9. Robbins, 10. Rooke, 11. Simmons, 12. Studley, 13. Bland, 14. Hughes. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Chris Windom, 2. Keith Bloom, 3. Jon Stanbrough, 4. Robert Ballou, 5. Shane Cottle, 6. Damion Gardner, 7. Bryan Clauson, 8. Dave Darland, 9. Mike Spencer, 10. Levi Jones, 11. Jerry Coons Jr., 12. Wes McIntyre, 13. Dustin Morgan, 14. Chad Boespflug, 15. Critter Malone, 16. Blake Fitzpatrick, 17. Tracy Hines, 18. Hunter Schuerenberg, 19. Chase Stockon, 20. Justin Grant, 21. Jonathan Hendrick, 22. Daron Clayton, 23. Coleman Gulick. NT
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**Mattox flipped during qualifying. Malone flipped after the first heat had concluded. Hughes flipped during the semi. Schuerenberg flipped on lap 25 of the feature.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Lap 1 Morgan, Laps 2-14 Windom, Laps 15-17 Bloom, Laps 18-30 Windom.
NEW AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT CAR STANDINGS: 1-Jones-683; 2-Windom-676; 3-Ballou-629; 4-Clauson-621; 5-Stanbrough-606; 6-Schuerenberg-576; 7-Darland-549; 8-Gardner-542; 9-Bobby East-501; 10-Hines-453.
NEW “INDIANA SPRINT WEEK” STANDINGS: 1-Windom-262; 2-Ballou-222; 3-Clauson-221; 4-Coons-208; 5-Darland-191.
NEXT AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT CAR RACE: – July 14 – Brownstown (IN) Speedway – 24th “Indiana Sprint Week”