“From USAC: Jerry Coons Jr. drove to a $10,000 payday Saturday night at the Dick Gaines Memorial at Lawrenceburg Speedway. Following Coons was Dave Darland, Brady Short, Chad Boat and Bobby East.

USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR SERIES SPECIAL EVENT RACE RESULTS: August 22, 2009 – Lawrenceburg, Indiana – Lawrenceburg Speedway – “Dick Gaines Classic”

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Chad Boespflug (#98 Gatten), 2. Jerry Coons Jr. (#69 Dynamics), 3. Chad Boat (#30 Boat), 4. Shane Cottle (I#10E Edison), 5. Joss Moffatt (#2c Byram), 6. Dickie Gaines (#9 Hurst), 7. J.R. Douglas (#3R Beal), 8. Blake Fitzpatrick (#10F Fitzpatrick). NT

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Levi Jones (#20 Stewart), 2. Dave Darland (#2B RWB), 3. Tracy Hines (#21 Stewart), 4. Jon Sciscoe (#7 Sciscoe), 5. Kevin Studley (#57 Studley), 6. Dwayne Spille (#71 Spille), 7. Andrew Prather (#59p Powell), 8. Mike Weber (#22w Weber). 2:21.00

THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Bobby East (#5 Klatt), 2. Scotty Weir (#1G Gorby), 3. Hunter Schuerenberg (#2 Epperson), 4. Henry Clarke (#67 Kunz), 5. Brady Short (#36 Short), 6. Kevin Thomas Jr. (#9k Thomas), 7. Brandon Whited (#31 French), 8. Ethan Barrow (#15 Barrow). NT

FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Jeff Bland Jr. (#36R Short), 2. Jonathan Hendrick (#68 Hendrick), 3. Andrew Elson (#27A Elson), 4. Nic Faas (#17F Faas), 5. Shawn Westerfeld (#89 Westerfeld), 6. J.J. Hughes (#76 Hughes), 7. Lance Grimes (#87 Grimes), 8. A.J. Francis (#21x Francis). NT

FIRST QUALIFIER: (8 laps) 1. Short, 2. Bland, 3. Hines, 4. Coons, 5. Douglas, Gaines, 7. Jones. NT

SECOND QUALIFIER: (8 laps) 1. Darland, 2. East, 2. Schuerenberg, 4. Hughes, 5. Elson, 6. Prather, 7. Weber, 8. Moffatt. NT

THIRD QUALIFIER: (8 laps) 1. Faas, 2. Weir, 3. Sciscoe, 4. Boespflug, 5. Studley, 6. Whited, 7. Spille. NT FOURTH QUALIFIER: (8 laps) 1. Boat, 2. Cottle, 3. Thomas, 4. Clarke, 5. Westerfeld, 6. Hendrick, 7. Francis, 8. Grimes. NT

ALSO AT THE TRACK: Drew Ikerd (#4D Ikerd).

SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Westerfeld, 2. Douglas, 3. Prather, 4. Weber, 5. Spille, 6. Francis, 7. Gaines, 8. Moffatt, 9. Whited. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Jerry Coons Jr., 2. Dave Darland, 3. Brady Short, 4. Chad Boat, 5. Bobby East, 6. Jeff Bland Jr., 7. Tracy Hines, 8. Nic Faas, 9. Hunter Schuerenberg, 10. Levi Jones, 11. Henry Clarke, 12. Chad Boespflug, 13. Shane Cottle, 14. Jonathan Hendrick, 15. Kevin Thomas Jr., 16. Jon Sciscoe, 17. Kevin Studley, 18. J.J. Hughes, 19. Mike Weber, 20. J.R. Douglas, 21. Andrew Prather, 22. Scotty Weir, 23. Andrew Elson, 24. Dickie Gaines, 25. Shawn Westerfeld, 26. Joss Moffatt. NT

Rod Henning sets his sights on AMSA Point lead with fourth win

at Lawrenceburg! 

Rod “Hot Rod” Henning found his way to victory lane on Saturday

 night at The Lawrenceburg Speedway.  It was his fourth win at

the track in 2009, and his fifth this year in his quest for the 2009

AMSA championship.  Rod was coming off of a feature win the

night before at Moler Raceway, and was closing in on the point

lead after his two feature wins this past weekend.  33 AMSA mini

 sprints checked in back in the pit area to race at the Burg.  The

20 lap feature would take the green with Andy Bradley and Rod

Henning on the front row.  Bradley’s car would break at the start

causing a chain reaction accident which would eliminate 6 cars

including Bradley.  The red flag would wave as the safety crew

attended to all the drivers involved including Nathan

Mensendiek who had to be removed from his car.  He was

transported to a local hospital for treatment.  After the track

was cleaned up, the lineup, down to 13 cars would take the

green.  Rod Henning took the lead into turn 1 and would never

look back.  Ryan Broughton would race as hard as he could to

keep up with Henning, but Henning was just too strong and led

all 20 laps.  Broughton finished second, followed by Sam

Ashworth, Collin Ambrose, and Scott Fasse.  Heat race winners

were Broughton, Mensendiek, Henning and Bradley.  Boyd Wolff

won the semi feature.  With the AMSA point standings starting

to get tight, the series returns to the track on August 29 at KC

raceway, near Chillicothe, Ohio.  They will return to

Lawrenceburg on Friday September 11.

AUGUST 22, 2009

AMSA MINI SPRINTS (33 cars)

HEAT 1
1- 22 Ryan Broughton
2- 1 Nick Roberts
3- 22R Kevin Roberts, Jr.
4- 56 Doug Jones
5- 24T TJ Heil
6- 29 Rusty Strausbaugh
7- 31 Greg Nicholas
8- 15 Mike Hummel
DNS- 37W Boyd Wolff

HEAT 2
1- 67 Nathan Mensendiek
2- 8F Scott Fasse
3- 22A Collin Ambrose
4- 27 Beau Stewart
5- 42 Boyd Wolff
6- 53 Jacob Wilson
7- 4S Chris Smalley
8- 22W Lisa Coors

HEAT 3
1- 28 Rod Henning
2- 1A Lynn Ambrose
3- 2 Austin Archdale
4- 26 Howard McCormick
5- 66W Mike Willis
6- 9F Kyle Dugan
7- 34W Luke Wolff
8- 4 Jeremy Perdue

HEAT 4
1- 86 Andy Bradley
2- 92 Sam Ashworth
3- 4R Kevin Roberts, Sr.
4- 5 Drew Pollock
5- 35 Merrill Calvert
6- 1H Herschel Wills
7- 18E Evan Gindling
DNS- 43 Ron Durrer

B MAIN
1- 42 Boyd Wolff
2- 24T TJ Heil
3- 66W Mike Willis
4- 1W Herschel Wills
5- 35 Merrill Calvert
6- 31 Greg Nicholas
7- 34W Luke Wolff
8- 29 Rusty Strausbaugh
9- 4 Jeremy Perdue
10- 4S Chris Smalley
11- 15 Mike Hummel
12- 22W Lisa Coors
13- 9F Kyle Dugan
14- 53 Jacob Wilson
DNS- 18E Evan Gindling

FEATURE
1- 28 Rod Henning
2- 22 Ryan Broughton
3- 92 Sam Ashworth
4- 22A Collin Ambrose
5- 8F Scott Fasse
6- 4R Kevin Roberts, Sr.
7- 26 Howard McCormick
8- 1 Nick Roberts
9- 1W Herschel Wills
10- 42 Boyd Wolff
11- 27 Beau Stewart
12- 24T TJ Heil
13- 5 Drew Pollock
14- 86 Andy Bradley
15- 67 Nathan Mensendiek
16- 1A Lynn Ambrose
17- 22R Kevin Roberts, Jr.
18- 2 Austin Archdale
19- 56 Doug Jones
DNS- 66W Mike Willis

Lap Leaders:
1-20 28 Rod Henning


NEXT EVENT:
Lawrenceburg Speedway - Friday August 28th
Lucas Oil Late Models ($10,000 to win) & Budweiser UMP Modifieds

  Babcock wins! thinks of winning big! 

Wayne, Ohio native, Jeff Babcock looked like he would finish

second in the 20 lap Budweiser UMP modified feature.  That’s

because Chuck Griffis was looking to get rid of his bad luck and

put his modified in victory lane.  Griffis started on the pole and

jumped to the lead.  Babcock followed him for most of the race. 

 Restart after restart, Griffis was able to pull away from Babcock

and hold on to the lead.  Following a caution, on the restart,

Griffis opend up the inside allowing Babcock to pull alongside of

him and take the lead.  Griffis tried for several laps to re-take

the lead from Babcock, but Babcock was just too strong, and

lead the final 7 laps to take the checkered flag.  Babcock wants

to return to The Burg later this year and hopes to win some of

the bigger modified races still remaining on the Burg’s schedule.

Following Babcock and Griffis across the line were Ed Hounshell,

Ray Branscum, and Second place in points JD Largent.  Series

point leader and defending track champion Jeff Harris crashed

in his heat race, and had to transfer through the B main to make

the feature.  He charged from the back to front and was able to

finish a strong seventh place when the checkered flag fell.  Heat

race winners were Griffis, Rick Bingham, Babcock, and Rusty

Griffaw.  Pete Holt and Jeff Harris won the two B mains.  There

were 38 Budweiser UMP modifieds in competition at the track. 

The Budweiser UMP modifieds return to The Lawrenceburg

Speedway On Friday August 28.

BUDWEISER UMP MODIFIEDS (38 cars)

HEAT 1
1- 7G Chuck Griffis
2- 9 Scotty Mattlin
3- D1 JD Largent
4- K12 Scotty Kincaid
5- 11H Pete Holt
6- 70F Jim Fliehman
7- 12F Greg Fields
8- 95 Gary Rahe, Jr.
9- 10 Adam Whitten
10- S1 Shane McHenry

HEAT 2
1- 55B Rick Bingham
2- 9N Ted Nobbe
3- 9H Matt Hamilton
4- 28 Bill Wagner
5- 96 Sean Johnson
6- 97 Justin Westerfeld
7- 55 Denny Szekacs
8- 32 Kyle Herbert
9- 29C John Chase
DNS- 22 Bob Lanter

HEAT 3
1- 52 Jeff Babc ock
2- 15 Ray Branscum
3- 69M Doug McGahan
4- J1 Jason Largent
5- 00 Randy Moore
6- 91 Mike Marischen
7- 09 Jeremy Buck
8- 43 Danny Teegarden
9- 23D Steve Duty

HEAT 4
1- 16 Rusty Griffaw
2- 12C Ed Hounshell
3- 11X Jim Szekacs
4- 11 Adam Hutson
5- 14X John Martin
6- 3 Jeff Harris
7- D48 Derek Groomer
8- 07 Cory Skipton
9- 2B Tom Burdette

B MAIN 1
1- 11H Pete Holt
2- 00 Randy Moore
3- 23D Steve Duty
4- 43 Danny Teegarden
5- 95 Gary Rahe, Jr.
6- 12F Greg Fields
7- 10 Adam Whitten
8- 91 Mike Marischen
9- 70F Jim Fliehman
10- S1 Shane McHenry
11- 09 Jeremy Buck

B MAIN 2
1- 3 Jeff Harris
2- 14X John Martin
3- 22 Bob Lanter
4- 29C John Chase
5- 32 Kyle Herbert
6- 55 Denny Szekacs
7- 97 Justin Westerfeld
8- 07 Cory Skipton
9- 96 Sean Johnson
10- 2B Tom Burdette
DNS- D48 Derek Groomer

FEATURE
1- 52 Jeff Babc ock
2- 7G Chuck Griffis
3- 12C Ed Hounshell
4- 15 Ray Branscum
5- D1 JD Largent
6- 16 Rusty Griffaw
7- 3 Jeff Harris
8- 11H Pete Holt
9- K12 Scotty Kincaid
10- J1 Jason Largent
11- 9 Scotty Mattlin
12- 55B Rick Bingham
13- 11X Jim Szekacs
14- 14X John Martin
15- 28 Bill Wagner
16- 00 Randy Moore
17- 11 Adam Hutson
18- 69M Doug McGahan
19- 9H Matt Hamilton
20- 9N Ted Nobbe

Lap Leaders:
1-13 7G Chuck Griffis
14-20 52 Jeff Babc ock


NEXT EVENT:
Friday August 28th
Lucas Oil Late Models ($10,000 to win) & Budweiser UMP Modifieds