From Dick Jordan
New Oxford, PA — (June 1, 2011) — Defending AMSOIL USAC National Sprint Car Champion Levi Jones, who nearly swept the 2010 “Eastern Storm,” returned to victory lane Wednesday night at Lincoln Speedway. He passed Travis Rilat on lap three and led the final 38 laps in his Tony Stewart Racing GM Performance Parts/Chevy Eagle. The win put him on top of the “Eastern Storm” standings entering Thursday night’s race at New Egypt (NJ) Speedway. Bryan Clauson pressured Jones at Lincoln but ended up second ahead of Hunter Schuerenberg, Tracy Hines and Mark Bitner. A flat tire sidelined Rilat just three laps into the race. Jones was also the fastest qualifier.
AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT RACE RESULTS: June 1, 2011 – New Oxford, Pennsylvania – Lincoln Speedway – “Eastern Storm”
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Levi Jones, 20, Stewart-15.658; 2. Blake Fitzpatrick, 10, Fitzpatrick-15.794; 3. Dave Darland, 21x, Roberts/Tate-15.814; 4. Damion Gardner, 71, DG-15.848; 5. Travis Rilat, 50, Rilat-15.854; 6. Keith Bloom Jr., 27k, Bloom-15.934; 7. Jon Stanbrough, 53, Fox-16.005; 8. Bobby East, 5, Klatt-16.022; 9. Chris Windom, 5x, Baldwin-16.061; 10. Kevin Thomas Jr., 11, Walker-16.082’ 11. Daron Clayton, 69, Dynamics-16.101; 12. Bryan Clauson, 7, CTR/BCI/Curb-Agajanian-16.107; 13. Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-16.130; 14. Justin Grant, 40, Grant-16.162; 15. Jonathan Hendrick, 68, Hendrick-16.175; 16. Hunter Schuerenberg, 35, Byram-16.216; 17. Casey Shuman, 4G, Cook-16.235; 18. Mark Bitner, 15, Bitner-16.269; 19. Robert Ballou, 81, MPHG-16.325; 20. J.J. Hughes, 76, Hughes-16.343; 21. Joey Biasi, B1, S & B-16.360; 22. Jeff Geiges, 67x, Pietrofitta-16.435; 23. Tracy Readinger, 73, Berry-16.573; 24. Wes McIntyre, 83, McIntyre-16.604; 25. J.R. Berry, 74, Berry-16.817; 26. Brent
Marks, 19M, Marks-16.932; 27. Kyle Moody, 99m, Moody-17.293; 28. Daryl Stimeling, 18, Bolger-17.357; 29. Johnny Mackison, 65, Mackison-17.429; 30. Jake Simmons, 7s, Simmons-18.039; 21. Brian Montieth, 21, Parrish-NT; 32. Coleman Gulick, 14, Gulick-NT.
FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Windom, 2. Jones, 3. Rilat, 4. Shuman, 5. Mackison, 6. Hines, 7. Biasi, 8. Berry. 2:10.14
SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Bitner, 2. Bloom, 3. Fitzpatrick, 4. Grant, 5. Marks, Thomas, 7. Geiges, 8. Simmons. NT
THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Stanbrough, 2. Hendrick, 3. Darland, 4. Clayton, 5. Ballou, 6. Moody, 7. Readinger. 2:13.97
FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Schuerenberg, 2. Clauson, 3. East, 4. Gardner, 5. Hughes, 6. Stimeling, 7. McIntyre, 8. Montieth. NT
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Ballou, 2. Thomas, 3. Hines, 4. Marks, 5. Biasi, 6. Moody, 7. Berry, 8. Stimeling, 9. Hughes, 10. Geiges, 11. Readinger, 12. Simmons, 13. Mackison. NT
FEATURE: (40 laps) 1. Levi Jones, 2. Bryan Clauson, 3. Hunter Schuerenberg, 4. Tracy Hines, 5. Mark Bitner, 6. Brent Marks, 7. Jon Stanbrough, 8. Robert Ballou, 9. Bobby East, 10. Kyle Moody, 11. Damion Gardner, 12. Travis Rilat, 13. Daron Clayton, 14. Dave Darland, 15. Kevin Thomas Jr., 16. Jonathan Hendrick, 17. Joey Biasi, 18. Keith Bloom Jr., 19. Casey Shuman, 20. Blake Fitzpatrick, 21. Justin Grant, 22. Chris Windom. NT
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**Gulick flipped during qualifying. Montieth flipped during the fourth heat.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-2 Rilat, Laps 3-40 Jones.
NEW AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT POINTS: 1-Jones-477; 2-Stanbrough-426; 3-Windom-388; 4-Gardner-385; 5-Schuerenberg-359; 6-Clauson-358; 7-East-354; 8-East-342; 9-Darland-312; 10-Fitzpatrick-279.
NEW “EASTERN STORM” POINTS: 1-Jones-188; 2-Stanbrough-172; 3-East-163; 4-Ballou-158; 5-Windom-151.
NEXT AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT RACE: June 2 – New Egypt (NJ) Speedway – “Eastern Storm”