Thomas Wins Wild Finish at Lawrenceburg

Kevin Thomas and crew celebrate winning the USAC Sprint feature at Lawrenceburg Speedway. - Mike Campbell Photo
Chase Stockton (32) and Kevin Thomas battle for the lead at Lawrenceburg Speedway. - Mike Campbell Photo
Chase Stockton (32) and Kevin Thomas battle for the lead at Lawrenceburg Speedway. – Mike Campbell Photo

Results from Dick Jordan

Lawrenceburg, IN — (April 6, 2013) — Kevin Thomas, Jr. survived multiple attempts at a green white checkered finish to win Saturday night’s AMSOIL United States Auto Club National Sprint Car Series feature at Lawrenceburg Speedway.  Thomas crossed the finish line first in a wild three wide finish over Chase Stockon and and Brady Bacon.  Hunter Schuerenberg and Bryan Clauson rounded out the top five.

AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: April 6, 2013 – Lawrenceburg, Indiana – Lawrenceburg Speedway

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-13.966; 2. Thomas Meseraull, 17, McGhee-13.978; 3. Chase Stockon, 32, Stockon-14.015; 4. Jerry Coons Jr., 10E, Edison-14.099; 5. Shane Cottle, 2, Epperson-14.130; 6. Dave Darland, 71P, Phillips-14.209;7. Coleman Gulick, 14, Gulick-14.215; 8. Hunter Schuerenberg, 35, Byram-14.248; 9. Chris Windom, 21x, Pollock-14.257; 10. Logan Jarrett, 29, Jarrett-14.280; 11. Kevin Thomas, Jr., 17RW, Dutcher/RW/TriStar-14.285; 12. Brady Bacon, 69, Dynamics-14.337; 13. Bryan Clauson, 20, Stewart/Curb-Agajanian-14.347; 14. Ted Hines, 12, Hines-14.381; 15. Landon Simon, 41, SST-14.415; 16. Tyler Courtney, 23c, Courtney-14.498; 17. Kyle Robbins, 17R, Dutcher/RW/Tri-Star-14.549; 18. C.J. Leary, 30, Leary-14.602; 19. Justin Grant, 11, Walker-14.608; 20. Christopher Bell, 67, Kunz-14.637; 21. Nick Drake, 55, Cline-14.741; 22. Dallas Hewitt, 2m, Marshall-14.746; 23. Matt Westfall, 54, Best Performance-14.756; 24. Robert Ballou, 5, Baldwin-14.761; 25. Scotty
Weir, 18, Keen-14.777; 26. Dakota Jackson, 3, Jackson-14.865; 27. David Applegate, 11x, Applegate-14.925; 28. Joss Moffatt, 5J, Moffatt-14.967; 29. Drew Abel, 04, Abel-15.033; 30. Pat Giddens, 2G, Giddens-15.156; 31. Gary Taylor, 40, Hery-15.255; 32. Derek Hastings, 32m, Marshall-15.375; 33. Mike Weber, 22w, Weber-15.527; 34. Cody Gardner, 46, Gardner-15.748; 35. Travis Hery, 21H, Hery-15.942; 36. Anthony Nicholson, 16, Nicholson-15.957; 37. Adam Cruea, 83, Cruea-16.214; 38. John Race, 42, Race-16.415; 39. Justin Owen, 26, Owen-NT (time of 14.965 disallowed); 40. Logan Hupp, 9H, Hupp-NT.

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Drake, 2. Clauson, 3. Tracy Hines, 4. Robbins, 5. Windom, 6. Cottle, 7. Weir, 8. Abel, 9. Cruea, 10. Weber. 2:01.32

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Darland, 2. Meseraull, 3. Leary, 4. Ted Hines, 5. Jarrett, 6. Hewitt, 7. Jackson, 8. Giddens, 9. Gardner, 10. Race. NT

THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Stockon, 2. Thomas, 3. Gulick, 4. Simon, 5. Grant, 6. Taylor, 7. Westfall, 8. Hery, 9. Applegate. NT

FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Ballou, 2. Bacon, 3. Schuerenberg, 4. Bell, 5. Hupp, 6. Coons, 7. Moffatt, 8. Courtney, 9. Hastings, 10. Nicholson. NT

SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Cottle, 2. Grant, 3. Coons, 4. Windom, 5. Westfall, 6. Hupp, 7. Hewitt, 8. Courtney, 9. Hastings, 10. Nicholson, 11. Jackson, 12. Giddens, 13. Abel, 14. Hery, 15. Weir, 16. Gardner, 17. Applegate, 18. Taylor, 19. Moffatt, 20. Cruea, 21. Race, 22. Jarrett, 23. Weber. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Kevin Thomas Jr., 2. Chase Stockon, 3. Brady Bacon, 4. Hunter Schuerenberg, 5. Bryan Clauson, 6. Coleman Gulick, 7. Thomas Meseraull, 8. Shane Cottle, 9. Landon Simon, 10. Jerry Coons Jr., 11. Dave Darland, 12. Tracy Hines, 13. Justin Grant, 14. Tyler Courtney, 15. Logan Hupp, 16. Ted Hines, 17. Nick Drake, 18. Kyle Robbins, 19. Christopher Bell, 20. Robert Ballou, 21. C.J. Leary, 22. Matt Westfall, 23. Chris Windom. NT
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**Windom flipped on lap 8 of the feature.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-11 Gulick, Lap 12 Stockon, Laps 13-21 Gulick, Laps 22-29 Stockon, Lap 30 Thomas.

NEW AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT POINTS: 1-Stockon-247, 2-Schuerenberg-239, 3-Clauson-230, 4-Bacon-228, 5-Hines-216, 6-Ballou-200, 7-Thomas-185, 8-Ballou-163, 9-Courtney-134, 10-Leary-131.

NEXT AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT RACE: April 20 – Rossburg, OH – Eldora Speedway – “Don Branson/Jud Larson Classic”