Blake Fitzpatrick Flies to Sprint Week Finale

From Dick Jordan

Blake Fitzpatrick made his initial career USAC National Sprint Car victory a big one. He picked up the finale of the 23rd “Indiana Sprint Week ” at Tri-State Speedway Saturday night. Following Fitzpatrick was Jon Stanbrough, Dave Darland, Bryan Clauson and Damion Gardner.

USAC AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: July 17, 2010 – Haubstadt, Indiana – Tri-State Speedway – 23rd “Indiana Sprint Week”

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Justin Grant, 5B, Baldwin-13.137; 2. Daron Clayton, 92, Clayton-13.142; 3. Blake Fitzpatrick, 10F, Fitzpatrick-13.204; 4. Kurt Gross, 1x, Gross-13.243; 5. Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-13.278; 6. Jon Stanbrough, 53, Fox-13.332; 7. Dave Darland, 39, Goodnight-13.372; 8. John Memmer, 4m, Memmer-13.395; 9. Damion Gardner, 71, DG-13.429; 10. Brady Short, 36, Short-13.440; 11. Kyle Cummins, 3c, Cummins-13.473; 12. Chris Windom, 11, Walker-13.474; 13. Jerry Coons Jr., 69, Dynamics-13.497; 14. Bryan Clauson, 2B, RWB-13.522; 15. Hud Cone, 14, Cone-13.562; 16. Ted Hines, 12, Hines-13.572; 17. Levi Jones, 20, Stewart-13.663; 18. Hunter Schuerenberg, 35, Byram-13.679; 19. Ricky Williams, 11w, Williams-13.680; 20. Danny Holtsclaw, 3 Holtsclaw-13.702; 21. J.J. Hughes, 76, Hughes-13.751; 22. Henry Clarke, 67, Kunz-13.768; 23. Casey Riggs, 37, Indiana Underground-13.811; 24. Matt Mitchell, 37x, Mitchell-13.837; 25. Robbie Shuttleworth, 11x, Shuttleworth-13.861; 26. Kevin Thomas,
9k, Thomas-13.908; 27. Jeff Bland Jr., 38s, Bland-13.915; 28. Gary Rooke, 42a, Rooke-14.012; 29. Kyle Robbins, 17R, Robbins-14.080; 30. J.C. Bland, 98, Bland-14.382; 31. Jonathan Hendrick, 68, Hendrick-14.477; 32. Caleb Armstrong, 7, Tucker-NT; 33. Robert Ballou, 81, MPHG-NT.

FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Jones, 2. Coons, 3. Tracy Hines, 4. Gardner, 5. Grant, 6. Shuttleworth, 7. Robbins. 2:17.28

SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Schuerenberg, 2. Clauson, 3. Clayton, 4. Stanbrough, 5. Short, 6. Clarke, 7. Thomas, 8. J.C. Bland. 2:15.03

THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Williams, 2. Fitzpatrick, 3. Darland, 4. Riggs, 5. Cummins, 6. Jeff Bland Jr., 7. Hendrick, 8. Cone. 2:15.41

FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Gross, 2. Holtsclaw, 3. Windom, 4. Ted Hines, 5. Memmer, 6. Mitchell, 7. Rooke. 2:18.07

SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Short, 2. Jeff Bland Jr., 3. Grant, 4. Cummins, 5. Clarke, 6. Thomas, 7. Hendrick, 8. J.C. Bland, 9. Cone, 10. Mitchell, 11. Rooke, 12. Robbins, 13. Shullteworth. 2:48.99

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Blake Fitzpatrick, 2. Jon Stanbrough, 3. Dave Darland, 4. Bryan Clauson, 5. Damion Gardner, 6. Tracy Hines, 7. Kurt Gross, 8. Chris Windom, 9. Hunter Schuerenberg, 10. Danny Holtsclaw, 11. Ted Hines, 12. Jerry Coons Jr., 13. Brady Short, 14. Jeff Bland Jr., 15. Casey Riggs, 16. Henry Clarke, 17. Ricky Williams, 18. Kyle Cummins, 19. Justin Grant, 20. Matt Mitchell, 21. Kyle Robbins, 22. Kevin Thomas Jr., 23. Daron Clayton, 24. Levi Jones. NT

**Ballou fipped during qualifying. Cone flipped during the semi. Short and Jones flipped on lap 2 of the feature.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Lap 1 Stanbrough, Laps 2-26 Darland, Laps 27-30 Fitzpatrick.

NEW AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT CAR STANDINGS: 1-Jones-1,459; 2-Gardner-1,368; 3-Clauson-1,359; 4-Coons-1,282; 5-Windom-1,261; 6-Hines-1,214; 7-Clarke-1,143; 8-Darland-919; 9-Shane Hmiel-816; 10-Stanbrough-690.
NEW NATIONAL SPRINT CAR DIRT STANDINGS: 1-Jones-1,242; 2-Gardner-1,121; 3-Clauson-1,100; 4-Windom-1,072; 5-Coons-1,023.
FINAL “INDIANA SPRINT WEEK” STANDINGS: 1-Stanbrough-384; 2-Jones-349; 3-Clauson-327; 4-Darland-319; 5-Windom-309; 6-Short-309; 7-Fitzpatrick-276; 8-Gardner-269; 9-Coons-263; 10-Schuerenberg-243.

NEXT AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT CAR RACE: – July 24 – Putnamville, IN – Lincoln Park Speedway