Gas City/USAC results

[DannyB]

USAC VALVOLINE NATIONAL SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE
RESULTS: April 30, 2004 –
Gas City, Indiana – Gas City I-69 Speedway –
“Border Wars X”

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. John Wolfe, 3m,
Botkin-13.145; 2. Josh Wise, 67,
Kunz-13.164; 3. Mat Neely, 17, Neely-13.244; 4.
Shane Cottle, 10E,
Edison-13.351; 5. Tracy Hines, 69,
Dynamics-13.355; 6. Shane Hollingsworth,
21H, Hajduk-13.441; 7. Levi Jones, 62,
BWB-13.446; 8. Jay Drake, 20,
Stewart-13.453; 9. Michael Burthay, 21B,
Burthay-13.494; 10. Cory Kruseman,
21, Stewart-13.512; 11. A.J. Anderson, 34,
Anderson-13.518; 12. Jon
Stanbrough, 57, Hazen-13.534; 13. Dave Darland,
2, Reid-13.542; 14. Bud
Kaeding, 29, BK-13.571; 15. Tony Elliott, 11,
Walker-13.584; 16. Brian
Gerster, 42G, Jackson-13.604; 17. Bryan Stanfill,
21x, Roberts-13.615; 18.
Steve Barth, 14B, Barth-13.630; 19. Brian Lee,
2H, MPHG-13.656; 20. Josh
Ford, 73, Ford-13.688; 21. Troy Cline, 11c,
Cline-13.695; 22. Scotty Weir,
22, Weir-13.698; 23. Dickie Gaines, 69x,
Dynamics-13.746; 24. Brandon
Petty, 30, Petty-13.750; 25. John Scott, 83,
Scott-13.756; 26. Boston Reid,
2B, 2B Racing-13.810; 27. Kevin Newton, 77,
Law-13.819; 28. Kyle
Wissmiller, 2k, Wissmiller-13.838; 29. Derek
Scheffel, 10T, R & B-13.841;
30. Matt Hardin, 95x, Ahern-13.880; 31. Brian
Tyler, 6,
Davis/Bowman-13.880; 32. Tom Hessert, 5H,
Hessert-13.886; 33. Mark Hall,
2L, Hall-13.891; 34. Justin Marvel, 47,
MPHG-13.908; 35. Chad Compton, 15c,
Compton-13.944; 36. Ted Hines, 12, Hines-13.965;
37. Tony Beaber, 3T,
Toth-13.970; 38. Matt Westfall, 23s,
Simon-13.975; 39. Kevin Besecker, 15,
Besecker-14.016; 40. Kris Deckard, 97,
Deckard-14.028; 41. Larry Bontrager,
96B, Bontrager-14.094; 42. Don Droud, 21D,
Hajduk-14.112; 43. Derek Crasi,
95, CNC-14.289; 44. Josh Spencer, 66J,
Spencer-14.306; 45. Tyler Pearce,
26x, Pearce-14.309; 46. Rex Norris III, 63,
Norris-14.342; 47. John
Heydenreich, 57B, Burkey-14.481; 48. Greg Vogel,
4V, Vogel-14.503; 49.
Stephanie Mockler, 55, Zinger-14.642.

QUALIFYING RACE #1: (6 laps) 1. Hall, 2.
Compton, 3. Beaber, 4.
Pearce, 5. Besecker, 6. Heydenreich, 7. Mockler,
8. Bontrager, 9. Crasi.
1:22.96
QUALIFYING RACE #2: (6 laps) 1. Ted Hines,
2. Deckard, 3. Marvel, 4.
Westfall, 5. Droud, 6. Norris, 7. Spencer, 8.
Vogel. NT

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Darland, 2.
Scheffel, 3. Scott, 4. Wolfe, 5.
Cline, 6. Stanfill, 7. Hall, 8. Tracy Hines, 9.
Burthay. NT

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Hardin, 2.
Kruseman, 3. Reid, 4. Wise, 5.
Kaeding, 6. Hollingsworth, 7. Barth, 8. Weir. 9.
Compton. NT

THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Elliott, 2. Lee,
3. Jones, 4. Gaines, 5.
Tyler, 6. Neely, 7. Anderson, 8. Ted Hines, 9.
Newton. NT

FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Wissmiller, 2.
Ford, 3. Cottle, 4. Drake,
5. Stanbrough, 6.Deckard, 7. Hessert, 8. Gerster,
9. Petty. NT

SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Tracy Hines, 2. Neely,
3. Kaeding, 4.
Hollingsworth, 5. Deckard, 6. Stanbrough, 7. Ted
Hines, 8. Anderson, 9.
Hessert, 10. Petty, 11. Barth, 12. Newton, 13.
Hall, 14. Gerster, 15.
Compton, 16. Stanfill, 17. Tyler, 18. Cline. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Tracy Hines, 2.
Shane Cottle, 3. Shane
Hollingsworth, 4. Jay Drake, 5. Levi Jones, 6.
Josh Wise, 7. Dave Darland,
8. Brian Lee, 9. Jon Stanbrough, 10. Bud Kaeding,
11. Cory Kruseman, 12.
John Wolfe, 13. Josh Ford, 14. Tony Elliott, 15.
Dickie Gaines, 16. Brian
Tyler, 17. Boston Reid, 18. Mat Neely, 19. John
Scott, 20. Matt Hardin, 21.
Kris Deckard, 22. Derek Scheffel, 23. Kyle
Wissmiller. NT
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**Weir flipped during the second heat race.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-30 Tracy Hines.

NEW NATIONAL SPRINT CAR POINTS: 1-Drake-189;
2-Jones-174; 3-Elliott-135;
4-Darland-129; 5-Tyler-121; 6-Reid-115;
7-Kruseman-113;
8-Hollingsdworth-93; 9-Kaeding-84; 10-Ford-81.

NEXT NATIONAL SPRINT CAR RACE: May 1 – Rossburg,
OH – Eldora Speedway –
“Border Wars X”


Greetings from downtown Monroe, Indiana...DB

[Smoke Johnsonrod]

What wasn't on the results was the wind and the dust that covered the great racing. The two Shane's Cottle and Hollingsworth raced up to 2nd & 3rd and pulled away from 4th place chasing Hines. Very good job by both and names you will see in the win postion. Back in the pack a group of 6 to 8 cars battled the whole race for 4th on back. Jon Stanbrough had to race all night with a car tight and trying to tip over. Chris Deckard was fun to watch as he has no fear of running hard and wheel to wheel with anybody! USAC monitered the weather channel and Jiggs and the track busted ass to get as much in as the did. For some reson the track was very dusty with the sprint cars but it's still racin'.

[DannyB]

I'll add that is was a good thing that the wind was coming out of the south. Otherwise we'd have eaten a lot more dust than we did.

The Deckard kid also came from last in the B Main to easily transfer into the feature.