From Dick Jordan
It took Shane Hmiel 12 laps to get to the front but after he arrived, he didn’t stick around long as he dominated the 30 lap feature at ORP Thursday night. Rounding out the top five in the USAC Sprint car feature was Jerry Coons Jr., Kody Swanson, Damion Gardner and Brian Gerster
AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT RACE RESULTS: July 1, 2010 – Indianapolis, Indiana – O’Reilly Raceway Park
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Shane Hmiel, 17s, RWB-20.348; 2. Damion Gardner, 71, DG-20.356; 3. Chris Windom, 11, Walker-20.408; 4. Henry Clarke, 67, Kunz-20.441; 5. Jerry Coons Jr., 69, Dynamics-20.461; 6. Kody Swanson, 75, TK-20.463; 7. A.J. Fike, 3, RFMS-20.508; 8. JoJo Helberg, 7, Helberg-20.560; 9. Tracy Hines, 2v, Vance-20.626; 10. Brian Gerster, 27, Davis/Gerster-20.644; 11. Jacob Wilson, 07, WBR/Team 6R-20.675; 12. Bryan Clauson, 2B, RWB-20.713; 13. Tanner Swanson, 17, TK-20.713; 14. Levi Jones, 20, Stewart-20.725; 15. Tony Hunt, 56, Phulps-20.815; 16. Bobby East, 5, Klatt-20.837; 17. Aaron Pierce, 26, Pierce-20.843; 18. Eric Gordon, 51, Bowman/Canine-20.955; 19. Ricky Williams, 11w, Williams-21.146; 20. Casey Riggs, 37, Indiana Underground-21.438; 21. Blaze Martin, 5x, Martin-NT.
FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. East, 2. Hmiel, 3. T.Swanson, 4. Clarke, 5. Gerster, 6. Fike, 7. Williams.
SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Jones, 2. Helberg, 3. Gardner, 4. Coons, 5. Pierce, 6. Wilson, 7. Riggs.
THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Hines, 2. Gordon, 3. K.Swanson, 4. Windom, 5. Hunt, 6. Clauson.
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Shane Hmiel, 2. Jerry Coons Jr., 3. Kody Swanson, 4. Damion Gardner, 5. Brian Gerster, 6. Chris Windom, 7. Bryan Clauson, 8. A.J. Fike, 9. Levi Jones, 10. Eric Gordon, 11. JoJo Helberg, 12. Tracy Hines, 13. Tanner Swanson, 14. Aaron Pierce, 15. Casey Riggs, 16. Henry Clarke, 17. Ricky Williams, 18. Tony Hunt, 19. Bobby East, 20. Jacob Wilson, 21. Blaze Martin. NT
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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-4 K.Swanson, Laps 5-12 Coons, Laps 13-30 Hmiel.
NEW AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT POINTS: 1-Gardner-1,072; 2-Jones-1,052; 3-Clauson-982; 4-Coons-951; 5-Windom-945; 6-Hines-883; 7-Clarke-811; 8-Hmiel-650; 9-Dave Darland-600; 10-Williams-547.
NEW NATIONAL SPRINT PAVEMENT POINTS: 1-Hmiel-222; 2-Gardner-222; 3-Coons-221; 4-Clauson-209; 5-Windom-183; 6-Hines-170; 7-Clarke-170; 8-East-161; 9-Jones-155; 10-Fike-154.
NEXT AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT RACE: July 2 – Toledo (OH) Speedway