By Dick Jordan, image courtesy of David Sink
Indianapolis, IN — Brothers Kody and Tanner Swanson finished 1-2 in Thursday night’s debut of “Thursday Night Thunder” at Lucas Oil Raceway Park but not before a spectacular three-way battle with Jacob Wilson that had the fans on their feet during the final laps. Tracy Hines led the first 11 laps before Wilson moved to the front on lap 12. The final 10 laps saw the three leaders race under a viurtual blanket until Kody caught Wilson on lap 28. He then paced the final three circuits in his Lyons Transportation/Wawona Packing and Frozen Foods Wysong/Losorwith Brodix. Tanner took second ahead of Wilson, Bobby Santos III and fast qualifier Kyle Larson. Kody’s victory left him with a 15-point lead over Santos in the new Pavement Sprint standings going into a June 16 race at Lucas Oil Raceway.
AMSOIL USAC PAVEMENT SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: May 12, 2011 – Indianapolis, Indiana – Lucas Oil Raceway – “Thursday Night Thunder”
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Kyle Larson, 67, Kunz-20.191; 2. Jacob Wilson, 07, WRB-20.319; 3. Kody Swanson, 75, TK-20.529; 4. Tanner Swanson, 17T, TK-20.532; 5. Brian Gerster, 27, Davis/Gerster-20.618; 6. Caleb Armstrong, 7A, C & A-20.730; 7. Aaron Pierce, 26, Pierce-20.768; 8. Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-20.858; 9. JoJo Helberg, 7, Helberg-20.878; 10. Chris Windom, 17, Windom-20.898; 11. Bobby East, 5, Klatt-20.901; 12. Brian Olson, 59, Powell-20.951; 13. Bobby Santos III, 98s, Santos-20.978; 14. Russ Gamester, 35, Gamester-21.085; 15. Mario Marietta, 85, Marietta-21.145; 16. A.J. Fike, 3, RFMS-21.177; 17. Luis Ramos III, 21, Kaplan-Gennuso-21.580; 18. Joe Swanson, 7s, Swanson-21.719; 19. Jeremy Frankoski, 98, Santos-21.940.
FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Fike, 2. Pierce, 3. Santos, 4. T.Swanson, 5. Windom, 6. Larson, 7. Frankoski. 2:48.98
SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Hines,. 2. East, 3. Wilson, 4. Gamester, 5. Gerster, 6. Ramos. 2:47.17
THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Helberg, 2. K.Swanson, 3. Marietta, 4. Olson, 5. C.Armstrong, 6. J.Swanson. 2:49.46
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Kody Swanson, 2. Tanner Swanson, 3. Jacob Wilson, 4. Bobby Santos III, 5. Kyle Larson, 6. Tracy Hines, 7. Aaron Pierce, 8. Bobby East, 9. Brian Gerster, 10. JoJo Helberg, 11. Caleb Armstrong, 12. Chris Windom, 13. Russ Gamester, 14. Brian Olson, 15. Luis Ramos III, 16. Joe Swanson, 17. A.J. Fike, 18. Jeremy Frankoski, 19. Mario Marietta. 10:33.38
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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-11 Hines, Laps 12-27 Wilson, Laps 28-30 K.Swanson.
NEW AMSOIL PAVEMENT SPRINT POINTS: 1-K.Swanson-136; 2-Santos-121; 3-Wilson-117; 4-T.Swanson-111; 5-East-110; 6-Gerster-91; 7-Windom-90; 8-Pierce-83; 9-Fike-79; 10-Gametser-75.
NEXT AMSOIL PAVEMENT SPRINT RACE: June 16 – Indianapolis, IN – Lucas Oil Raceway
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