Thomas Scores First Career USAC Victory at Bloomington

Kevin Thomas, Jr. - T.J. Buffenbarger Photo
From Dick Jordan

Bloomington, IN — (July 20, 2012) — Kevin Thomas, Jr. scored his first career AMSOIL USAC National Sprint Car Series victory Friday night during Indiana Sprint Week at Bloomington Speedway. Dave Darland, Brent Beauchamp, Jerry Coons, Jr. and Bryan Clauson rounded out the top five.

Levi Jones holds an 11 point lead over Clauson in the Indiana Sprint Week point standings with two rounds remaining.

AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: July 20, 2012 – Bloomington, Indiana – Bloomington Speedway – 25th “Indiana Sprint Week”

QUALIFYING: 1. Shane Cottle, 2, Epperson-11.307; 2. Kevin Thomas, 9k, Black Jack-11.326; 3. Darren Hagen, 69, Dynamics-11.333; 4. Damion Gardner, 71, DG-11.373; 5. Chase Stockon, 32, Stockon-11.385; 6. C.J. Leary, 30, Leary-11.390; 7. Dave Darland, 11, Walker-11.391; 8. Jerry Coons Jr., 71p, Phillips-11.421; 9. Levi Jones, 20, Stewart/Curb-Agajanian-11.423; 10. Logan Jarrett, 29, Jarrett-11.434; 11. Bryan Clauson, 7, CTR/BCI/Curb-Agajanian-11.436; 12. Justin Grant, 40, Hery-11.438; 13. Jon Stanbrough, 21x, Roberts/Tate-11.449; 14. Daron Clayton, 92, Clayton-11.468; 15. Casey Shuman, 10E, Edison-11.475; 16. Dakota Jackson, 3, Jackson-11.475; 17. Bobby East, 5E, East-11.481; 18. Brent Beauchamp, 11B, Beauchamp-11.509; 19. Chad Boespflug, 98, Boespflug-11.521; 20. Robert Ballou, 81, MPHG-11.527; 21. Hunter Schuerenberg, 35, Byram-11.528; 22. Danny Holtsclaw, 3H, Holtsclaw-11.537; 23. Jonathan Hendrick, 68, Hendrick-11.541; 24. Jon Sciscoe, 57, Hazen-11.556; 25. Tracy Hines, 4,
Hines-11.644; 26. Thomas Meseraull, 41, SST-11.646; 27. Wes McIntyre, 83, McIntyre-11.657; 28. Josh Burton, 04, Burton-11.695; 29. Jeff Bland Jr., 38, Bland-11.743; 30. Jared Fox, 56, Fox-11.750; 31. Travis Welpott, 18, Gorman-11.764; 32. Logan Hupp, 9H, Hupp-11.772; 33. Scotty Weir, 77, Wingo-11.785; 34. Seth Motsinger, 44, Motsinger-11.785; 35. Ted Hines, 12, Hines-11.796; 36. Chase Briscoe, 5B, Briscoe-11.825; 37. Seth Parker, 38p, Parker-11.882; 38. Brady Short, 36, Short-11.956; 39. Jace Vander Weerd, 88, Vander Weerd-12.095; 40. Richard Vander Weerd, 10, Vander Weerd-12.180; 41. Josh Clemons, 71c, Pedersen-12.210; 42. A.J. Hopkins, 14H, Hopkins-NT; 43. Chris Windom, 5, Baldwin-NT.

QUALIFYING RACE: (8 laps) 1. Weir, 2. Briscoe, 3. Ted Hines, 4. Hopkins, 5. Windom, 6. R. Vander Weerd, 7. Parker, 8. Clemons, 9. J.Vander Weerd, 10. Motsinger, 11. Short. NT

FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Scheurenberg, 2. Stanbrough, 3. East, 4.Stockon, 5. Bland, 6. Windom, 7. Tracy Hines, 8. Weir, 9. Cottle, 10. Jones. NT

SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Beauchamp, 2. Holtsclaw, 3. R.Vander Weerd, 4. Leary, 5. Briscoe, 6. Jarrett, 7. Fox, 8. Clayton, 9. Thomas, 10. Meseraull.

THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Darland, 2. Clauson, 3. Boespflug, 4. Hagen, 5. Shuman, 6. McIntyre, 7. Ted Hines, 8. Welpott, 9. Hendrick, 10. Parker. 2:04.81

FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Sciscoe, 2. Coons, 3. Jackson, 4. Gardner, 5. Hopkins, 6. Burton, 7. Clemons, 8. Hupp, 9. Ballou, 10. Grant. NT

SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Thomas, 2. Cottle, 3. Jones, 4. Ballou, 5. Clayton, 6. Meseraull, 7. Shuman, 8. Jarrett, 9. Tracy Hines, 10. Bland, 11. McIntyre, 12. Windom, 13. Burton, 14. Hopkins, 15. Clemons, 16. Hendrick, 17. Ted Hines, 18. Welpott, 19. Briscoe, 20. Fox, 21. Weir, 22. Grant. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Kevin Thomas Jr., 2. Dave Darland, 3. Brent Beauchamp, 4. Jerry Coons Jr., 5. Bryan Clauson, 6. Chase Stockon, 7. Jon Stanbrough, 8. Levi Jones, 9. Shane Cottle, 10. Robert Ballou, 11. Bobby East, 12. Daron Clayton, 13. Chad Boespflug, 14. Darren Hagen, 15. Damion Gardner, 16. Jace Vander Weerd, 17. Jon Sciscoe, 18. C.J. Leary, 19. Tracy Hines, 20. Danny Holtsclaw, 21. Dakota Jackson, 22. Chris Windom, 23. Thomas Meseraull, 24. Richard Vander Weerd, 25. Hunter Schuerenberg. NT
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**Meseraull flipped on lap 22 of the feature.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-5 Darland, Laps 6-30 Thomas.

NEW AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT POINTS: 1-Stanbrough-1,017, 2-Jones-1,006, 3-Darland-948, 4-Gardner-912, 5-Hines-847, 7-Clauson-822, 7-Schuerenberg-762, 8-Ballou-757, 9-Hagen-755, 10-Stockon-744.

NEW INDIANA SPRINT WEEK POINTS: 1-Jones-265, 2-Clauson-254, 3-Stanbrough-250, 4-Schuerenberg-248, 5-Coons-222, 6-Gardner-216, 7-Stockon-213, 8-Schuerenberg-196, 9-Thomas-169, 10-Hines-160.

NEXT AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT RACE: July 21 – Haubstadt, IN – Tri-State Speedway – 25th “Indiana Sprint Week”