BALLOU ESCAPES WITH WIRE-TO-WIRE ELDORA TRIUMPH

Rossburg, Ohio…….Robert Ballou of Rocklin, Calif. led all 30 laps of Wednesday night’s “Coca-Cola Classic” USAC AMSOIL National Sprint car race at the Eldora Speedway, but he escaped a last-lap challenge from Bryan Clauson to do it. Clauson and Ballou were side-by-side as the entered turn four but Clauson’s car tagged the wall and flipped. On the restart, Ballou pulled away from Levi Jones to post the victory in his Behavior Consultants/J.C. Plew Triple X/Ott. The race also carried the title of “Don Branson/Jud Larson Classic.” Chris Windom finished third, ahead of Damion Gardner and Hunter Schuerenberg.



AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT RACE RESULTS: May 12, 2010 – Rossburg, Ohio – Eldora Speedway - “Coca-Cola Spring Classic” - “Don Branson/Jud Larson Classic”


 


QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Bryan Clauson, 2B, RWB-16.246; 2. Casey Riggs, 37, Indiana Underground-16.250; 3. Levi Jones, 20, Stewart-16.298; 4. Jerry Coons Jr., 69, Dynamics-16.422; 5. Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-16.431; 6. Damion Gardner, 71, DG-16.495; 7. Robert Ballou, 81, MPHG-16.600; 8. Ricky Williams, 11w, Williams-16.632; 9. Chris Windom, 11, Walker-16.635; 10. Scotty Weir, 12B, RWB-16.639; 11. Shane Hmiel, 17s, 56 Inc.-16.646; 12. Jon Stanbrough, 53, Fox-16.652; 13. Hunter Schuerenberg, 1G, Gorby-16.726; 14. Bud Kaeding, 29, BK-16.771; 15. Dave Darland, 67k, Kunz-16.817; 16. Matt Goodnight, 39, Goodnight-17.008; 17. Casey Shuman, 10x, Barnhill-17.082; 18. Bill Rose, 8, Wood-17.125; 19. Matt Westfall, 54, Westfall-17.146; 20. Henry Clarke, 67, Kunz-17.305; 21. Steve Ott, 41, SST-17.329; 22. Kevin Studley, 57, Studley-17.369; 23. Dallas Hewitt, 2H, Hewitt-17.888; 24. Brandon Ferguson, 15, Ferguson-18.158; 25. Chase Stockon, 32, Stockon-NT.


 


FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Westfall, 2. Schuerenberg, 3. Ballou, 4. Clauson, 5. Coons, 6. Weir, 7. Goodnight, 8. Stockon, 9. Studley. NT


 


SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Clarke, 2. Kaeding, 3. Hines, 4. Hmiel, 5. Shuman, 6. Riggs, 7. Hewitt, 8. Williams. NT


 


THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Rose, 2. Darland, 3. Jones, 4. Windom, 5. Ott, 6. Stanbrough, 7. Gardner, 8. Ferguson. 2:14.75


 


SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Riggs, 2. Gardner, 3. Williams, 4. Stanbrough, 5. Weir, 6. Stockon, 7. Goodnight, 8. Hewitt, 9. Ferguson. 3:23.98


 


FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Robert Ballou, 2. Levi Jones, 3. Chris Windom, 4. Damion Gardner, 5. Hunter Schuerenberg, 6. Tracy Hines, 7. Casey Riggs, 8. Jon Stanbrough, 9. Shane Hmiel, 10. Dave Darland, 11. Scotty Weir, 12. Ricky Williams, 13. Bryan Clauson, 14. Matt Westfall, 15. Bill Rose, 16. Chase Stockon, 17. Bud Kaeding, 18. Henry Clarke, 19. Matt Goodnight, 20. Steve Ott, 21. Casey Shuman, 22. Brandon Ferguson, 23. Jerry Coons Jr., 24. Dallas Hewitt. NT


 


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**Studley flipped during the first heat. Goodnight flipped during the feature. Clauson flipped on lap 30 of the feature.


 


FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-30 Ballou.


 


NEW AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR SERIES POINTS: 1-Gardner-514; 2-Jones-471; 3-Coons-467; 4-Ballou-442; 5-Hines-433; 6-Clauson-429; 7-Windom-420; 8-Clarke-384; 9-Darland-306; 10-Stanbrough-284.


 


NEXT AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT RACE: May 22 – Newton, Iowa – Iowa Speedway – Casey’s General Stores USAC Triple Crown Pride of Iowa