
COONS COMPLETES KAMP "SWEEP" WITH "IMW" VICTORY
Friday, 10 August 2007
Boswell, Ind.......Jerry Coons Jr. completed a "sweep" of the 2007 USAC race sat Kamp Motor Speedway Thursday night, winning the opening event in the Torco Race Fuels "Indiana Midget Week" presented by Pro Source Consultants.
Coons, who also won the Lucas Oil "Indiana Sprint Week" race at the Indiana oval, led the final 20 laps of Thursday's race in his Wilke-Pak Racers Speedway Motors/K & N Filters Spike/Stanton Mopar to beat Kevin Swindell, Brady Bacon, Gary Taylor and Brad Mosen.
Bryce Townsend led the first lap and Bacon led the next nine before yielding to Coons. A mid-race tangle put Indiana Sprint Week champ Dave Darland and National Midget point leader Darren Hagen out of the race, while defending two-time Indiana Midget Week Champ Shane Cottle finished eighth. The series continues Friday at Gas City, Saturday at Lawrenceburg and Sunday at Kokomo.
USAC NATIONAL MIDGET CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: August 9, 2007 - Boswell, Indiana - Kamp Motor Speedway - Torco Racing Fuels "Indiana Midget Week"
FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Bryce Townsend (#3nz Townsend), 2. Danny Stratton (#75 Pedregon), 3. Brady Bacon (#99 Kahne), 4. Chris Windom (#17 Windom), 5. Chase Scott (#14 Real Race Cars), 6. Joe Liguori (#28 Owen), 7. Scott Buckley (#25nz Buckley), 8. Jake Slotten (#57 RAB Racing), 9. Jonathan Hendrick (#68 Hendrick), 10. Brad Paris (#36 Paris). 1:57.44
SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Dave Darland (#9 Nine Racing), 2. Cole Carter (#7 Carter), 3. Tom Hessert III (#5 Hessert), 4. Daron Clayton (#71x Pedregon), 5. Brad Loyet (#05L Loyet), 6. Brad Sweet (#67 Kunz), 7. Levi Jones (#20 Stewart), 8. Critter Malone (#7m Seven), 9. Matt Westfall (#14w Bordner), 10. Dene McAllan (#2 Bush). 1:57.26
THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Shane Cottle (#1s Saucier), 2. Brad Kuhn (#43 Quin), 3. Jon Stanbrough (#24 Parker), 4. Donnie Ray Crawford (#299 Tel-Star), 5. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (#21 Stewart), 6. Shaun Insley (#77nz Buckley), 7. Cory Kruseman (#41 Scelzi), 8. Chuck Gurney Jr. (#51 Gurney), 9. Kurt Mayhew (#21k Mayhew), 10. Kent Schmidt (#4m Meents). 1:57.13
FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Jerry Coons Jr. (#11 Wilke-Pak), 2. Brandon Wagner (#92 Wagner), 3. Bobby East (#4 Klatt), 4. Davey Ray (#91 Nine Racing), 5. Shane Hollingsworth (#85 Hollingsworth), 6. Russ Harper (#09 Harper), 7. Dave Ely (#1J Yeley), 8. Lance Beale (#05nz Loyet), 9. Chase Barber (#90 Barber). NT
FIFTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Gary Taylor (#999 Tel-Star), 2. A.J. Fike (#69 RFMS), 3. Brad Mosen (#71 Kunz), 4. Kevin Swindell (#79 Kahne), 5. Darren Hagen (#32 RFMS), 6. Brent Beauchamp (#112 Beauchamp), 7. Thomas Meseraull (#35 Gardner), 8. Zach Daum (#5D Daum), 9. Nick Lundgreen (#41x Jones), 10. Tony Elliott (#16 Sandy). 1:58.94
SEMI #1: (10 laps) 1. Hagen, 2. Windom, 3. Sweet, 4. Stenhouse, 5. Malone, 6. Westfall, 7. Beauchamp, 8. Elliott, 9. Scott, 10. Jones, 11. Liguori, 12. Lundgreen, 13. Slotten, 14. Mayhew, 15. Ray, 16. Meseraull. NT
SEMI #2: (10 laps) 1. Clayton, 2. Hollingsworth, 3. Loyet, 4. Daum, 5. Ely, 6. Kruseman, 7. Harper, 8. Crawford, 9. Gurney, 10. Insley, 11. Schmidt, 12. Barber, 13. Paris, 14. Beale, 15. Hendrick, 16. Sherrell. NT
ALSO AT THE TRACK: Matt Sherrell (#22J Tel-Star), (#5H Hessert), (#6 East), (#19 Nine Racing), (#20s Stewart), (#21s Stewart), (#93 Wagner), (#97 Kunz), (#05 Loyet), (#132 RFMS), (#143 Quin).
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Jerry Coons Jr., 2. Kevin Swindell, 3. Brady Bacon, 4. Gary Taylor, 5. Brad Mosen, 6. Brad Kuhn, 7. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (#51), 8. Shane Cottle, 9. Cole Carter, 10. Brandon Wagner, 11. Shane Hollingsworth, 12. Davey Ray, 13. Brad Sweet, 14. A.J. Fike, 15. Bobby East, 16. Bryce Townsend, 17. Tom Hessert III, 18. Dave Darland, 19. Darren Hagen, 20. Daron Clayton, 21. Brad Loyet. 22. Chris Windom, 23. Danny Stratton, 24. Jon Stanbrough. NT
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**Hendrick flipped during the second semi.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Lap 1 Townsend, Laps 2-10 Bacon, Laps 11-30 Coons.
NEW NATIONAL MIDGET CAR STANDINGS: 1-Coons-685; 2-Hagen-621; 3-Stenhouse-599; 4-Kuhn-595; 5-Jones-540; 6-Swindell-497; 7-Darland-487; 8-Bacon-457; 9-Windom-340; 10-East-335.
"INDIANA MIDGET WEEK" STANDINGS: 1-Coons-68; 2-Swindell-62; 3-Bacon-60; 4-Taylor-59; 5-Mosen-54; 6-Kuhn-52; 7-Cottle-47; 8-Stenhouse-43; 9-Carter-43; 10-Wagner-40.
NEXT NATIONAL MIDGET RACE: August 10 - Gas City (IN) I-69 Speedway - "Indiana Midget Week"