CLAUSON ENDS GARDNER’S FLORIDA “STREAK” IN OCALA SPRINTS ROUND 2

 


Ocala, FL…….USAC National Drivers Champion Bryan Clauson of Noblesville, Ind. led the final eight laps of Friday night’s “Bubba Army Sprint Nationals” USAC AMSOIL National Sprint race at Ocala Speedway, halting Damion Gardner’s Sunshine State dominance. Clauson passed Blake Fitzpatrick on lap 23 in his Curb Records/R & B Truckers Spike/Chevy and led the rest of the way to beat Fitzpatrick, Scotty Weir, Gardner and Hunter Schuerenberg. The win stopped Gardner’s three-race Florida winning streak dating back to last year. In victory lane to congratulate Clauson was Shane Hmiel, continuing his recovery from injuries suffered late last year. The win put Clauson one point ahead of Gardner in the 2011 series standings.


 


AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: February 18, 2011 – Ocala, Florida – Ocala Speedway – 2nd “Bubba Army Sprint Nationals”


 


QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Levi Jones, 20, Stewart-15.211; 2. Bryan Clauson, 7, Tucker/BCI/Curb-Agajanian-15.288; 3. Damion Gardner, 71, DG-15.391; 4. Scotty Weir, 1G, Gorby-15.424; 5. Blake Fitzpatrick, 10, Fitzpatrick-15.473; 6. Justin Grant, 40, Hery-15.590; 7. Hunter Schuerenberg, 35, Byram-15.605; 8. Robert Ballou, 81, MPHG-15.729; 9. Bud Kaeding, 29, BK-15.753; 10. Chase Stockon, 32, Stockon-15.762; 11. Casey Shuman, 4G, Cook-15.764; 12. Shane Cottle, 10E, Edison-15.777; 13. Bill Rose, 10T, R & B-15.779; 14. Kyle Robbins, 17R, KR-15.787; 15. Bobby East, 5, Klatt-15.791; 16. Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-15.804; 17. Dave Darland, 39, Goodnight-15.856; 18. Wes McIntyre, 83, McIntyre-15.861; 19. Jon Stanbrough, 53, Fox-15.884; 20. Coleman Gulick, 14, Gulick-15.924; 21. Casey Riggs, 37, Indiana Underground-15.929; 22. Chris Windom, 5x, Baldwin-15.956; 23. Brady Short, 36, Short-15.981; 24. Kurt Gross, 1x, Gross-16.197; 25. Steve Irwin, 42G, R & M-16.283; 26. Kent Christian, 1c, Christian-16.342; 27. Jerry Coons Jr., 69, Dynamics-16.362; 28. Mike Weber, 22w, Weber-17.537; 29. Steve Thomas, 20T, Thomas-NT.


 


FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Riggs, 2. Kaeding, 3. Fitzpatrick, 4. Jones, 5, Darland, 6. Rose, 7. Irwin. 2:09.00


 


SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Windom, 2. McIntyre, 3. Clauson, 4. Robbins, 5. Grant, 6. Stockon, 7. Christian. 2:14.00


 


THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Stanbrough, 2. East, 3. Short, 4. Schuerenberg, 5. Coons, 6. Gardner, 7. Shuman. 2:08.00


 


FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Weir, 2. Gulick, 3. Cottle, 4. Hines, 5. Ballou, 6. Gross, 7. Weber. 2:09.00


 


SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Gardner, 2. Stockon, 3. Ballou, 4. Grant, 5. Coons, 6. Rose, 7. Shuman, 8. Darland, 9. Gross, 10. Christian, 11. Irwin, 12. Weber. 3:16.00


 


FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Bryan Clauson, 2, Blake Fitzpatrick, 3. Scotty Weir, 4. Damion Gardner, 5. Hunter Schuerenberg, 6. Robert Ballou, 7. Shane Cottle, 8. Jon Stanbrough, 9. Levi Jones, 10. Bud Kaeding, 11. Casey Riggs, 12. Tracy Hines, 13. Chris Windom, 14. Bobby East, 15. Justin Grant, 16. Bill Rose, 17. Brady Short, 18. Coleman Gulick, 19, Jerry Coons Jr., 20. Chase Stockon, 21. Wes McIntyre, 22. Kyle Robbins. 8:27,00


 


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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-22 Fitzpatrick, Clauson 23-30.


 


NEW AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT POINTS: 1-Clauson-130; 2-Gardner-129; 3-Stanbrough-112; 4-Jones-105; 5-Schuerenberg-98; 6-Kaeding-95; 7-Weir-92; 8-East-84; 9-Fitzpatrick-81; 10-Ballou-77.


 


NEXT AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT RACE: February 19 – Ocala, FL – Ocala Speedway – 2nd “Bubba Army Sprint Nationals”