Damion Gardner Wins Thriller at Ocala

From USAC

Damion Gardner won a thrilling feature after taking the lead on the final lap at Ocala Speedway Thursday night. Following Gardner was Jon Stanbrough, Bryan Clauson, Levi Jones and Bud Kaeding.

AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: February 17, 2011 – Ocala, Florida – Ocala Speedway – 2nd “Bubba Army Sprint Nationals”

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Hunter Schuerenberg, 35, Byram-14.801; 2. Casey Riggs, 37, Indiana Underground-14.941; 3. Damion Gardner, 71, DG-15.028; 4. Bobby East, 5, Klatt-15.109; 5. Levi Jones, 20, Stewart-15.186; 6. Jon Stanbrough, 53, Fox-15.216; 7. Chase Stockon, 32, Stockon-15.220; 8. Bryan Clauson, 7, Tucker/BCI/Curb-Agajanian-15.258; 9. Justin Grant, 40, Hery-15.296; 10. Brady Short, 36, Short-15.299; 11. Coleman Gulick, 14, Gulick-15.307; 12. Shane Cottle, 10E, Edison-15.349; 13. Bud Kaeding, 29, BK-15.478; 14. Blake Fitzpatrick, 10, Fitzpatrick-15.510; 15. Casey Shuman, 4G, Cook-15.514; 16. Bill Rose, 10T, R & B-15.529; 17. Chris Windom, 5x, Baldwin-15.534; 18. Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-15.572; 19. Jerry Coons Jr., 69, Dynamics-15.677; 20. Scotty Weir, 1G, Gorby-15.784; 21. Robert Ballou, 81, MPHG-15.822; 22. Dave Darland, 39, Goodnight-15.857; 23. Steve Irwin, 42G, R & M-15.933; 24. Kurt Gross, 1x, Gross-15.979; 25. Kyle Robbins, 17R, KR-16.032; 26. Kent Christian, 1c,
Christian-16.188; 27. Wes McIntyre, 83, McIntyre-16.240; 28. Steve Thomas, 20T, Thomas-16.806; 29. Mike Weber, 22w, Weber-17.165; 30. Jimmy Simpson, 21, RacePro-NT.

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Windom, 2. Kaeding, 3. Schuerenberg, 4. Jones, 5. Ballou, 6. Robbins, 7. Weber, 8. Grant. NT

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Hines, 2. Stanbrough, 3. Darland, 4. Short, 5. Riggs, 6. Fitzpatrick, 7. Christian. 2:21

THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Coons, 2. Gulick, 3. Gardner, 4. Shuman, 5. Stockon, 6. McIntyre, 7. Irwin. NT

FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Cottle, 2. East, 3. Weir, 4. Clauson, 5. Rose, 6. Gross, 7. Thomas. 2:08

SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Riggs, 2. Fitzpatrick, 3. Rose, 4. Ballou, 5. Grant, 6. McIntyre, 7. Robbins, 8. Gross, 9. Christian, 10. Stockon, 11. Thomas, 12. Weber. NT

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

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**Grant flipped during the first heat. Riggs flipped on lap 6 of the feature.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-29 Stanbrough, Lap 30 Gardner.

NEW AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT POINTS: 1-Gardner-70; 2-Stanbrough-65; 3-Clauson-59; 4-Jones-58; 5-Kaeding-55; 6-East-52; 7-Short-50; 8-Gulick-46; 9-Schuerenberg-45; 10-Windom-39.

NEXT AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT RACE: February 18 – Ocala, FL – Ocala Speedway – 2nd “Bubba Army Sprint Nationals”