DARLAND FLAWLESS IN “STANLEY CLASSIC” ISW VICTORY
 

Lawrenceburg, IN…….Dave Darland of Lincoln, Ind., drove a flawless race Friday night at the Lawrenceburg Speedway, leading all 30 laps of the “Robbie Stanley Classic” to kick off the 2009 USAC Indiana Sprint Week. The victory in the Rotondo Weirich/Benic Enterprises Maxim/Chevy was Darland’s 12th in ISW competition, tying him with Cory Kruseman for the all-time lead in that category. Dave started next to pole starter Damion Gardner but got the jump at the start and withstood repeated challenges from Bryan Clauson in the closing laps to win the USAC National Sprint Car race. Clauson finished second ahead of Chad Boat, Levi Jones and Jon Stanbrough. Indiana Sprint Week continues Saturday night at Gas City I-69 Speedway.


 


USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: July 10, 2009 – Lawrenceburg, Indiana – Lawrenceburg Speedway – 22nd “Indiana Sprint Week” – “Robbie Stanley Classic”


 


QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Nic Faas, 17F, Faas-13.583; 2. Jon Stanbrough, 53, Fox-13.747; 3. Chad Boat, 30, Boat-13.814; 4. Bryan Clauson, 7, Tucker-13.899; 5. Dave Darland, 2B, RWB-13.981; 6. Damion Gardner, 71, DG-13.988; 7. Levi Jones, 20, Stewart-14.016; 8. Jerry Coons Jr., 69, Dynamics-14.027; 9. Hud Cone, 11, Walker-14.076; 10. Josh Wise, 37x, Indiana Underground-14.083; 11. Henry Clarke, 67x, Kunz-14.098; 12. Blake Fitzpatrick, 10F, Fitzpatrick-14.102; 13. Shawn Westerfeld, 89, Westerfeld-14.173; 14. Cole Whitt, 67k, Kunz-14.174; 15. Hunter Schuerenberg, 2, Epperson-14.182; 16. Shane Hmiel, 10, R & B-14.189; 17. Ryan Kaplan, 27, Kaplan-14.218; 18. Tracy Hines, 21, Stewart-14.234; 19. Kyle Robbins, 17R, Robbins-14.290; 20. Brady Short, 36, Short-14.294; 21. Ted Hines, 12H, Hines-14.369; 22. Casey Shuman, 21x, Roberts-14.396; 23. Casey Riggs, 37R, Indiana Underground-14.432; 24. Robert Ballou, 13, Buch/VKCC-14.440; 25. Jeff Bland Jr., 12x, R & B-14.442; 26. Kevin Thomas Jr., 9k, Thomas-14.448; 27. Shane Cottle, 10E, Edison-14.503; 28. Russ Gamester, 46, Gamester-14.521; 29. Darren Hagen, 67, Kunz-14.521; 30. Caleb Armstrong, 11D, Walker-14.567; 31. Joss Moffatt, 5J, Moffatt-14.584; 32. J.R. Douglas, 3R, Beal-14.653; 33. John Memmer, 4m, Memmer-14.715; 34. Tim Spindler, 2c, Byram-14.718; 35. Keith Bloom Jr., 27k, Braund-14.721; 36. Trey Robb, 12, Bell-14.728; 37. Kyle Cummins, 3c, Cummins-14.728; 38. Josh Spencer, 56, Batcheldor-14.736; 39. Jonathan Vennard, 26x, CGR-14.747; 40. Matt Goodnight, 39, Goodnight-14.764; 41. Jerry Bell, 85, Bell-14.883; 42. Dustin Morgan, 93, M & M-15.080; 43. Jason Souprette, 44s, Souprette-15.429; 44. Mike Weber, 22w, Weber-18.947; 45. Anthony Peterman, 7p, Peterman-NT; 46. Kurt Gross, 1x, Gross-NT; 47. Ryan Pace, 44, Pace-NT.


 


QUALIFYING RACE: (8 laps) 1. Spindler, 2. Cummins, 3. Robb, 4. Bloom, 5. Spencer, 6. Goodnight, 7. Vennard, 8. Bell, 9. Morgan, 10. Souprette, 11. Weber. 2:01.39


 


FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Hagen, 2. Bland, 3. Faas, 4. Cone, 5. Westerfeld, 6. Darland, 7. Ted Hines, 8. Spindler, 9. Spencer, 10. Kaplan. 2:26.90


SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Thomas, 2. C.Armstrong, 3. Tracy Hines, 4. Wise, 5. Whitt, 6. Shuman, 7. Gardner, 8. Stanbrough, 9. Cummins, 10. Goodnight. 2:24.17


THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Cottle, 2. Moffatt, 3. Schuerenberg, 4. Jones, 5. Boat, 6. Riggs, 7. Robbins, 8. Vennard, 9. Clarke, 10. Robb. 2:26.95


FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Short, 2. Coons, 3. Clauson, 4. Hmiel, 5. Gamester, 6. Fitzpatrick, 7. Bell, 8. Douglas, 9. Ballou, 10. Bloom. NT


 


SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Boat, 2. Stanbrough, 3. Gardner, 4. Darland, 5. Fitzpatrick, 6. Whitt, 7. Clarke, 8. Kaplan, 9. Westerfeld, 10. Ted Hines, 11. Robbins, 12. Bloom, 13. Cummins, 14. Riggs, 15. Douglas, 16. Spencer, 17. Spindler, 18. Goodnight, 19. Gamester, 20. Bell,  21. Robb, 22. Shuman. 2:54.11


 


FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Dave Darland, 2. Bryan Clauson, 3. Chad Boat, 4. Levi Jones, 5. Jon Stanbrough, 6. Henry Clarke, 7. Nic Faas, 8. Jeff Bland Jr., 9. Darren Hagen, 10. Cole Whitt, 11. Blake Fitzpatrick, 12. Hud Cone, 13. Shane Cottle, 14. Brady Short, 15. Josh Wise, 16. Caleb Armstrong, 17. Damion Gardner, 18. Kevin Thomas Jr., 19. Joss Moffatt, 20. Shane Hmiel, 21. Hunter Schuerenberg, 22. Tracy Hines, 23. Jerry Coons Jr. NT



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**Peterman flipped during qualifications and was treated and released from Dearborn County Hospital. Gross flipped during qualifications and was also transported to Dearborn County Hospital for obervation. Pace flipped during qualifications. Coons flipped on lap 3 of the feature.


 


FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-30 Darland.


 


NEW NATIONAL SPRINT CAR STANDINGS: 1-Jones-847; 2-Darland-840; 3-Whitt-783; 4-Coons-761; 5-Hines-679; 6-Jesse Hockett-647; 7-Gardner-635; 8-Hagen-605; 9-Brad Sweet-508; 10-Chris Windom-412.


NEW “INDIANA SPRINT WEEK” STANDINGS: 1-Clauson-66; 2-Darland-63 2-Boat-62; 4-Jones-56; 5-Stanbrough-56.


NEXT NATIONAL SPRINT CAR RACE: – July 11 – Gas City (IN) I-69 Speedway – 22nd “Indiana Sprint Week”