Lawrenceburg, IN – Damion Gardner of Concord, Calif. earned a paycheck for $10,000 Friday night at the Lawrenceburg Speedway, leading the final nine laps to win the 30-lap “Fall Nationals” USAC National Sprint race at the 3.8-mile dirt oval.
Driving the Pace Lighting Eagle/Shaver, Gardner ran down leader Chris Windom on lap 22 and led the rest of the way to beat Cole Whitt, Windom, fast qualifier Jon Stanbrough and Kyle Cummins.
Cummins led the first two laps and Windom led the next 19 before yielding to Gardner. Series point leader Levi Jones finished sixth and Dave Darland was 11th, leaving Jones with a 30-point lead going into Sunday’s “Oldtimers Weekend” race at the Winchester (Ind.) Speedway.
USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: October 2, 2009 – Lawrenceburg, Indiana – Lawrenceburg Speedway – “Fall Nationals”
QUALIFYING RACE #1: (8 laps) 1. Thomas, 2. Studley, 3. Boespflug, 4. Hughes, 5. Shuman, 6. Nedderman, 7. Cone, 8. Mattox, 9. Barrow. 2:00.72
QUALIFYING RACE #2: (8 laps) 1. Clarke, 2. Hendrick, 3. Gross, 4. Clayton, 5. Hampton, 6. Malone, 7. Nigg, 8. Creech, 9. Weber. 1:57.51
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. East, 2. Riggs, 3. Whitt, 4. Darland, 5. Stanbrough, 6. Fitzpatrick, 7. Clauson, 8. Boat, 9. Thomas. 2:26.63
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Bland, 2. Schuerenberg, 3. Stockon, 4. Windom, 5. Hockett, 6. Bacon, 7. Gurley, 8. Christian, 9. Hughes, 10. Studley. 2:26.29
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Ballou, 2. Short, 3. Jones, 4. Coons, 5. Deckard, 6. Tracy Hines, 7. Clarke, 8. Cummins, 9. Ted Hines, 10. Gross. 2:24.43
FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Hagen, 2. Weir, 3. Gardner, 4. Faas, 5. Clayton, 6. Kuhn, 7. Hmiel, 8. Hendrick, 9. Gullick, 10. Memmer. 2:26.57
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Stanbrough, 2. Bacon, 3. Memmer, 4. Tracy Hines, 5. Clauson, 6. Cummins, 7. Hmiel, 8. Kuhn, 9. Christian, 10. Deckard, 11. Clarke, 12. Hendrick, 13. Hughes, 14. Gullick, 15. Ted Hines, 16. Boespflug, 17. Boat, 18. Studley, 19. Fitzpatrick, 20. Hockett, 21. Gurley. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Damion Gardner, 2. Cole Whitt, 3. Chris Windom, 4. Jon Stanbrough, 5. Kyle Cummins, 6. Levi Jones, 7. Jerry Coons Jr., 8. Tracy Hines, 9. Hunter Schuerenberg, 10. Scotty Weir, 11. Dave Darland, 12. Jeff Bland Jr., 13. Nic Faas, 14. Bobby East, 15. Darren Hagen, 16. Casey Riggs, 17. Brady Short, 18. Bryan Clauson, 19. Jesse Hockett, 20. Brady Bacon, 21. John Memmer, 22. Chad Boat, 23. Robert Ballou, 24. Chase Stockon. NT
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-2 Cummins, Laps 3-21 Windom, Laps 22-30 Gardner.
NEW NATIONAL SPRINT CAR STANDINGS: 1-Jones-1,489; 2-Darland-1,459; 3-Whitt-1,388; 4-Coons-1,297; 5-Hines-1,173; 6-Gardner-1,080; 7-Hagen-937; 8-Boat-862; 9-Brad Sweet-784; 10-Clauson-766.
NEXT NATIONAL SPRINT RACE: October 4 – Winchester (IN) Speedway – “Oldtimers Weekend”
