COONS WIRE-TO-WIRE AT LAWRENCEBURG FOR HOFFMAN’S 75TH
Lawrenceburg, IN…….Jerry Coons Jr. of Tucson, Ariz. gave car owner Dynamics, Inc./Hoffman Auto Racing a historic 75th USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car feature victory Saturday night, leading all 30 laps at the Lawrenceburg Speedway. Coons was trailed at the checkered flag by Chris Windom, fast qualifier Jon Stanbrough, Brady Short and Robert Ballou. Damion Gardner finished eight and retained the series point lead going into Sunday night’s race at the Kokomo Speedway.
AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: April 17, 2010 – Lawrenceburg, Indiana – Lawrenceburg Speedway
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Jon Stanbrough, 53, Fox-14.097; 2. Blake Fitzpatrick, 10F, Fitzpatrick-14.227; 3. Henry Clarke, 67, Kunz-14.232; 4. Robert Ballou, 81, MPHG-14.261; 5. Jerry Coons Jr., 69, Dynamics-14.322; 6. Damion Gardner, 71, DG-14.359; 7. Casey Riggs, 37, Indiana Underground-14.386; 8. Shane Hmiel, 17s, 56 Inc.-14.402; 9. Shane Cottle, 10E, Edison-14.411; 10. Brady Short, 36, Short-14.440; 11. Chris Windom, 11, Walker-14.455; 12. Levi Jones, 20, Stewart-14.474; 13. Shawn Westerfeld, 89, Westerfeld-14.546; 14. Brett Burdette, 17B, Burdette-14.595; 15. Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-14.606; 16. Hunter Schuerenberg, 2c, Rock Steady-14.626; 17. Justin Grant, 5B, Baldwin-14.629; 18. John Memmer, 4m, Memmer-14.645; 19. Bryan Clauson, 2B, RWB-14.648; 20. Darren Hagen, 1G, Gorby-14.732; 21. Ricky Williams, 11w, Williams-14.773; 22. Dave Darland, 67k, Kunz-14.796; 23. Kyle Cummins, 4u, Wild Ride-14.917; 24. Kurt Gross, 1x, Gross-14.976; 25. Jason Soudrette, 44, Soudrette-15.115; 26. Jonathan Hendrick, 68, Hendrick-15.313; 27. Mike Weber, 22w, Weber-15.559.
FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Schuerenberg, 2. Darland, 3. Clauson, 4. Ballou, 5. Stanbrough, 6. Short, 7. Hendrick, 8. Westerfeld, 9. Riggs. NT
SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Hagen, 2. Grant, 3. Windom, 4. Coons, 5. Fitzpatrick, 6. Burdette, 7. Hmiel, 8. Cummins, 9. Soudrette. 2:02.53
THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Williams, 2. Hines, 3. Gardner, 4. Clarke, 5. Memmer, 6. Cottle, 7. Gross, 8. Weber, 9. Jones. NT
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Cottle, 2. Jones, 3. Hmiel, 4. Cummins, 5. Hendrick, 6. Burdette, 7. Short, 8. Westerfeld, 9. Gross, 10. Weber, 11. Soudrette. 3:08.70
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Jerry Coons Jr., 2. Chris Windom, 3. Jon Stanbrough, 4. Brady Short, 5. Robert Ballou, 6. Shane Cottle, 7. Levi Jones, 8. Damion Gardner, 9. Justin Grant, 10. Hunter Schuerenberg, 11. Bryan Clauson, 12. Darren Hagen, 13. Blake Fitzpatrick, 14. Shane Hmiel, 15. Tracy Hines, 16. Jonathan Hendrick, 17. Ricky Williams, 18. Brett Burdette, 19. Kyle Cummins, 20. Henry Clarke, 21. Dave Darland, 22. John Memmer. NT
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**Clarke flipped on lap 29 of the feature.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-30 Coons.
NEW AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT POINTS: 1-Gardner-436; 2-Coons-391; 3-Jones-350; 4-Ballou-332; 5-Hines-327; 6-Clauson-321; 7-Clarke-297; 8-Windom-295; 9-Darland-250; 10-Stanbrough-215.
NEXT AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT CAR RACE: April 18 – Kokomo, IN – Kokomo Speedway