By Dick Jordan
Haubstadt, IN……..Chris Windom of Canton, Ill. and Damion Gardner of Concord, Calif. celebrated in victory lane Saturday night at Tri-State Speedway at the conclusion of the 2011 AMSOIL USAC Indiana Sprint Week championship. Windom claimed the seven-race series title with a 10th-place finish in the 30-lap finale, while Gardner sped to victory in the feature event, passing Tracy Hines on lap five and leading the rest of the way in his Pace Lighting Eagle/Shaver. Windom’s Baldwin Brothers team also claimed the $3,500 Bridgeport Rocker from John Youngs as the car owner champions. Windom’s point tally was 29 better than Bryan Clauson’s as Clauson claimed second in the standings after his seventh-place finish in the finale. Daron Clayton took second in the final feature ahead of fast qualifier Jon Stanbrough, Casey Riggs and Brady Short. AMSOIL National point leader Levi Jones was sixth.
AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: July 16, 2011 – Haubstadt, Indiana – Tri-State Speedway – 24th “Indiana Sprint Week”
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Jon Stanbrough, 53, Fox-13.233; 2. Blake Fitzpatrick, 10, Fitzpatrick-13.334; 3. Daron Clayton, 69, Dynamics-13.342; 4. Chris Windom, 5x, Baldwin-13.360; 5. Damion Gardner, 71, DG-13.377; 6. Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-13.406; 7. Levi Jones, 20, Stewart-13.466; 8. Kyle Cummins, 3c, Cummins-13.482; 9. Brady Short, 36, Short-13.484; 10. Hunter Schuerenberg, 35, Byram-13.490; 11. Bryan Clauson, 7, CTR-BCI-Curb-Agajanian-13.492; 12. Casey Riggs, 37, Indiana Underground-13.548; 13. Dave Darland, 21x, Roberts/Tate-13.554; 14. Coleman Gulick, 14, Gulick-13.638; 15. Mike Spencer, 50, Chaffin-13.712; 16. Chase Stockon, 32, Stockon-13.719; 17. Chad Boespflug, 98x, Gatt-13.721; 18. Andrew Elson, 27a, Elson-13.731; 19. Kevin Thomas Jr., 9k, Thomas-13.753; 20. Jerry Coons Jr., 71p, Phillips-13.794; 21. Shane Cottle, 11, Walker-13.804; 22. Critter Malone, 7x, CM-13.938; 23. J.J. Hughes, 76, Hughes-13.965; 24. Robert Ballou, 81, MPHG-14.071; 25. Chase Briscoe, 5B, Briscoe-14.130; 26. Jonathan Vennard, 2x, Gentry-14.358; 27. Donnie Brackett, 4B, Brackett-15.190; 28. Wes McIntyre, 83, McIntyre-15.929; 29. Kyle Robbins, 17R, Robbins-NT.
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Darland, 2. Gardner, 3. Boespflug, 4. Stanbrough, 5. Short, 6. Cottle, 7. Briscoe. 2:17.30
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Fitzpatrick, 2. Schuerenberg, 3. Elson, 4. Hines, 5. Gulick, 6. Malone, 7. Vennard. 2:16.49
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Spencer, 2. Thomas, 3. Clayton, 4. Clauson, 5. Jones, 6. Hughes, 7. Brackett. NT
FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Riggs, 2. McIntyre, 3. Cummins, 4. Windom, 5. Ballou, 6. Coons, 7. Stockon. 2:18.99
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Jones, 2. Short, 3. Gulick, 4. Stockon, 5. Coons, 6. Cottle, 7. Hughes, 8. Ballou, 9. Malone, 10. Briscoe, 11. Brackett, 12. Vennard.
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Damion Gardner, 2. Daron Clayton, 3. Jon Stanbrough, 4. Casey Riggs, 5. Brady Short, 6. Levi Jones, 7. Bryan Clauson, 8. Blake Fitzpatrick, 9. Chad Boespflug, 10. Chris Windom, 11. Coleman Gulick, 12. Robert Ballou, 13. Chase Stockon, 14. Kyle Cummins, 15. Mike Spencer, 16. Kevin Thomas Jr., 17. Wes McIntyre, 18. Hunter Schuerenberg, 19. Dave Darland, 20. Tracy Hines, 21. Shane Cottle, 22. Andrew Elson, 23. Jerry Coons Jr. NT
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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-4 Hines, Laps 5-30 Gardner.
NEW AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT CAR STANDINGS: 1-Jones-823; 2-Windom-785; 3-Stanbrough-768; 4-Clauson-742; 5-Ballou-717; 6-Schuerenberg-702; 7-Gardner-673; 8-Darland-660; 9-Bobby East-577; 10-Hines-563.
FINAL “INDIANA SPRINT WEEK” STANDINGS: 1-Windom-371; 2-Clauson-342; 3-Darland-302; 4-Stanbrough-301; 5-Coons-299; 6-Ballou-266; 7-Jones-253; 8-Spencer-251; 9-Boespflug-249; 10-Schuerenberg-244.
NEXT AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT CAR RACE: – August 5 – Lincoln, NE – Eagle Raceway