Gardner Wins Opening Night at Ocala

Damion Gardner taking the checkered flag for winning the Amsoil USAC National Sprint Car Series feature at Bubba Raceway Park. - Lonnie Wheatley Photo
Ocala, FL — (February 9th, 2012) — Damion Gardner won the opening night feature event of the 2012 season with the USAC Amsoil Natiional Sprint Car Series. Jon Stanbrough, Brady Bacon, Bryan Clauson, and Bud Kaeding roudned out the top five.

AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: February 9, 2012 – Ocala, Florida – Bubba Raceway Park – 3rd “Bubba’s Winter Dirt Games” presented by eBay Motors

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Bryan Clauson, 7, CTR/RW/Curb-Agajanian-14.409 (New Track Record); 2. Darren Hagen, 69OT, Dynamics- 14.589; 3. Blake Fitzpatrick, 10, Fitzpatrick-14.691; 4. Chase Stockon, 32, Stockon-14.746; 5. Justin Grant, 40, Grant-14.877; 6. Jon Stanbrough, 21x, Roberts/Tate-14.974; 7. Damion Gardner, 71, DG-14.975; 8. Scotty Weir, 21H, Hery-15.024; 9. Brady Bacon, 69, Dynamics-15.031; 10. Bud Kaeding, 29, BK-15.085; 11. Chris Windom, 5, Baldwin-15.109; 12. Kevin Thomas Jr., 9K, Thomas-15.134; 13. Dave Darland, 11, Walker-15.136; 14. Wes McIntyre, 83, McIntyre-15.140; 15. Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-15.175; 16. Levi Jones, 20, Stewart-15.192; 17. Jonathan Hendrick, 68, Hendrick-15.264; 18. Hunter Schuerenberg, 35, Byram-15.282; 19. Bobby East, 2B, Benic-15.303; 20. Casey Shuman, 21, Pollock-15.305; 21. Mitch Wissmiller, 1, Wissmiller- 15.346; 22. Kyle Cummins, 3c, Cummins- 15.360; 23. Kody Swanson, 19, Slinkard- 15.445; 24. Robert Ballou, 81, MPHG- 15.513; 25. Coleman Gulick, 14, Gulick-15.712; 26. C.J. Leary, 30, Leary-15.771; 27. Matt Goodnight, 39, Goodnight- 16.098; 28. Logan Jarrett, 29x, Jarrett-16.176; 29. Jake Simmons, 3, Simmons- 16.798; 30. Mike Weber, 22w, Weber- NT (time of 15.830 disallowed)

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Bacon, 2. Darland, 3. Clauson, 4. Gulick, 5. Hendrick, 6. Wissmiller, 7. Grant. NT

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Stanbrough, 2. Schuerenberg, 3. Kaeding, 4. Hagen, 5. McIntyre, 6. Cummins, 7. Leary, 8. Weber. 2:21.32

THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Gardner, 2. East, 3. Fitzpatrick, 4. Hines, 5. Swanson, 6. Goodnight, 7. Windom. NT

FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Shuman, 2. Jones, 3. Thomas, 4. Ballou, 5. Stockon, 6. Weir, 7. Jarrett. 2:16.59

SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Grant, 2. Stockon, 3. Weir, 4. Wissmiller, 5. Swanson, 6. Cummins, 7. Windom, 8. Leary, 9. McIntyre, 10. Goodnight, 11. Hendrick, 12. Jarrett, 13. Weber. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Damion Gardner, 2. Jon Stanbrough, 3. Brady Bacon, 4. Bryan Clauson, 5. Bud Kaeding, 6. Dave Darland, 7. Casey Shuman, 8. Kevin Thomas, Jr., 9. Justin Grant, 10. Chris Windom, 11. Levi Jones, 12. Tracy Hines, 13. Robert Ballou, 14. Blake Fitzpatrick, 15. Scotty Weir, 16. Coleman Gulick, 17. Kody Swanson, 18. Chase Stockon 19. Jonathan Hendrick, 20. Mitch Wissmiller, 21. Hunter Schuerenberg, 22. Bobby East, 23. Kyle Cummins, 24. Darren Hagen. NT
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**Simmons flipped during qualifications. Windom flipped during Heat 3. McIntyre flipped during the Semi.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-5 Bacon, Laps 6-30 Gardner.

NEW AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT POINTS: 1- Gardner-68; 2-Stanbrough-66; 3-Clauson-63; 4-Darland-52; 5-Shuman-50; 6-Thomas, Jr.-45; 7-Grant-42; 8-Jones-38; 9-Fitzpatrick-35; 10-Hines-34.

NEXT AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT RACE: February 10 – Ocala, FL – Bubba Raceway Park – 3rd “Bubba’s Winter Dirt Games” presented by eBay Motors

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