SWINDELL #1 AT LAWRENCEBURG; COONS EXPANDS IMW POINT LEAD
Sunday, 12 August 2007
Lawrenceburg, Ind.......Kevin Swindell of Germantown, Tenn. outran Darren hagen to win Saturday night's 30-lap Torco Racing Fuels "Indiana Midget Week" feature at the Lawrenceburg Speedway presented by Pro Source Consultants.
Swindell led the final 11 laps in his Kasey Kahne Racing Mopar/Team ASE Spike/Mopar to beat Hagen, Jerry Coons Jr., Brent Beauchamp and Brad Sweet.
Beauchamp led the first two laps, then Hagen moved to the front. He and Swindell traded the lead back and forth until Swindell's final charge on lap 20.
Coons has bolted to a 26-point IMW lead over Swindell and Brady Bacon going into Sunday's finale at Kokomo Speedway. Defending two-time IMW Champ Shane Cottle escaped injury in a vicious barrel-roll during the third heat race.
USAC NATIONAL MIDGET CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: August 11, 2007 - Lawrenceburg, Indiana - Lawrenceburg Speedway - Torco Racing Fuels "Indiana Midget Week"
FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Jonathan Hendrick (#85x Hendrick), 2. Dave Darland (#9 Nine Racing), 3. Brad Mosen (#71 Kunz), 4. Jerry Coons Jr. (#11 Wilke-Pak), 5. Bryce Townsend (#3nz Townsend), 6. Levi Jones (#20 Stewart), 7. Dakoda Armstrong (#7a C & A), 8. A.J. Fike (#69 RFMS), 9. Kellen Conover (#76 Conover). 1:54.36
SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Brent Beauchamp (#112 Beauchamp), 2. Bobby East (#4 Klatt), 3. Chuck Gurney Jr. (#51 Gurney), 4. Cory Kruseman (#41 Scelzi), 5. Brady Bacon (#99 Kahne), 6. Russ Harper (#09 Harper), 7. Lance Beale (#05nz Loyet), 8. Chris Windom (#17 Windom), 9. Scott Buckley (#25nz Buckley). 1:54.54
THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Darren Hagen (#32 RFMS), 2. Kevin Swindell (#79 Kahne), 3. Tom Hessert III (#5 Hessert), 4. Danny Stratton (#75 Pedregon), 5. Shaun Insley (#77nz Buckley), 6. Kent Schmidt (#4m Meents), 7. Lynsey Tilton (#18 Tilton), 8. Chase Scott (#14 Real Race Cars), 9. Shane Cottle (#1st Saucier). 1:56.21
FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Brad Kuhn (#43 Quin), 2. Zach Daum (#5D Daum), 3. Shane Hollingsworth (#85 Hollingsworth), 4. Brad Loyet (#05L Loyet), 5. Dave Ely (#1J Yeley), 6. Davey Ray (#91 Nine Racing), 7. Donnie Ray Crawford (#299 Tel-Star), 8. A.J. Felker (#37 Felker), 9. Matt Westfall (#14w Bordner). NT
FIFTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Brad Sweet (#67 Kunz), 2. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. (#21 Stewart), 3. Jon Stanbrough (#24 Parker), 4. Gary Taylor (#999 Tel-Star), 5. Joe Liguori (#28 Owen), 6. Matt Sherrell (#22J Tel-Star),7. Brandon Wagner (#92 Wagner), 8. Dene McAllan (#2 Bush). NT
ALSO AT THE TRACK: (#5H Hessert), (#6 East), (#20s Stewart), (#21s Stewart), (#93 Wagner), (#97 Kunz), (#05 Loyet), (#132 RFMS).
SEMI #1: (10 laps) 1. Gurney, 2. Kruseman, 3. Taylor, 4. Harper, 5. Fike, 6. Wagner, 7. Tilton, 8. Sherrell, 9. Beale, 10. Felker, 11. Conover. NT
SEMI #2: (10 laps) 1. Stanbrough, 2. Armstrong, 3. Bacon, 4. Ray, 5. Jones, 6. Insley, 7. Windom, 8. Crawford, 9. Stratton, 10. McAllan, 11. Schmidt. 2:37.33
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Kevin Swindell, 2. Darren Hagen, 3. Jerry Coons Jr., 4. Brent Beauchamp, 5. Brad Sweet, 6. Ricky Stenhouse Jr., 7. Bobby East, 8. Dakoda Armstrong, 9. Dave Darland, 10. Jonathan Hendrick, 11. Brady Bacon, 12. Brad Mosen, 13. Gary Taylor, 14. Davey Ray, 15. Shane Hollingsworth, 16. Chuck Gurney Jr., 17. Zach Daum, 18. Tom Hessert III, 19. Brad Kuhn, 20. Brad Loyet, 21. Chris Windom, 22. Cory Kruseman, 23. Jon Stanbrough, 24. Bryce Townsend. NT
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**Cottle flipped during the third heat. Scott flipped during the third heat.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-2 Beauchamp, Laps 3-9 Hagen, Laps 10-11 Swindell, Laps 12-19 Hagen, Laps 20-30 Swindell.
NEW NATIONAL MIDGET CAR STANDINGS: 1-Coons-796; 2-Hagen-717; 3-Kuhn-664; 4-Stenhouse-660; 5-Swindell-588; 6-Darland-585; 7-Jones-573; 8-Bacon-550; 9-East-387; 10-Windom-387.
"INDIANA MIDGET WEEK" STANDINGS: 1-Coons-179; 2-Swindell-153; 3-Bacon-153; 4-Sweet-152; 5-Taylor-133; 6-Darland-123; 7-Kuhn-121; 8-Cottle-118; 9-Hagen-114; 10-Stenhouse-104.
NEXT NATIONAL MIDGET RACE: August 12 - Kokomo (IN) Speedway - "Indiana Midget Week"