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June 17, 2006...Jon Stanbrough of
Jamestown
,
Ind.
leads the “Indiana Sprint Week” standings after four of the seven scheduled
races following back-to-back feature wins at Haubstadt and
Kokomo
. The series resumes Wednesday at Gas City I-69 Speedway and concludes with
races Thursday at Lawrenceburg Speedway and Friday at the Terre Haute Action
Track. Thursday’s race at Lawrenceburg is the “Robbie Stanley Classic.”
Wednesday night’s
Gas
City
race is the 100th in “Indiana Sprint Week” competition dating
back to 1988. Cory Kruseman won last year’s
Gas
City
outing, while Dickie Gaines won at Lawrenceburg in 2005 and Levi Jones is the
defending winner at
Terre Haute
.
Stanbrough was second in the “Indian Sprint Week” opener at
North Vernon
Thursday and 11th at
Bloomington
Friday and leads Mat Neely by 28 points in the standings going into
Wednesday’s
Gas
City
race.
Neely won last Thursday’s race at
Twin
Cities
Raceway
Park
in
North Vernon
, passing Shane Cottle on lap 26 and leading the final five laps in his Lucas
Oil/Karavan Trailer Maxim/Gaerte. Stanbrough, Cottle, Jones and Darren Hagen
rounded out the “top-five.”
Brady Short of Bedford, Ind. earned his initial USAC feature win Friday
at
Bloomington
, leading the last 15 laps in his Indiana Stone Works/Athenia Mason Supply
Maxim/Scott’s Performance machine to beat Neely, Jerry Coons Jr., Kevin
Briscoe and Brad Sweet.
Stanbrough and his Jarvis Enterprises/AED Motorsports DRC/Foxco were
spectacular at Tri-State Speedway in Haubstadt Saturday and at Kokomo Speedway
Sunday, winning both 30-lappers. He led the last eight laps at Haubstadt and the
final 14 at
Kokomo
. Bryan Clauson, Jones, Coons and Cory Kruseman trailed at Haubstadt, while
Neely, Clauson, Scotty Weir and Dave Darland completed the “top-five” in
Kokomo
’s “Bob Darland Classic.”
Feature lap leaders in the four races included Stanbrough, Short, Neely,
Darland, Jones, Cottle, Sweet, Dickie Gaines, Kent Christian and Bobby Stines.
Jones emerged from the four races with a three-point lead over Tony
Stewart Racing teammate Josh Wise in the National standings.
USAC NATIONAL
SPRINT CAR SERIES STANDINGS
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1.
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Levi
Jones
|
1,006
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6.
|
Darren
Hagen
|
862
|
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2.
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Josh
Wise
|
1,003
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7.
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Jerry
Coons Jr.
|
685
|
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3.
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Bryan
Clauson
|
941
|
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8.
|
Jay
Drake
|
581
|
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4.
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Mat
Neely
|
932
|
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9.
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Jon
Stanbrough
|
577
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5.
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Dave
Darland
|
911
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10.
|
Bud
Kaeding
|
570
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“
INDIANA
SPRINT WEEK” STANDINGS (Prior to
7/19
Gas
City
race)
|
1.
|
Jon
Stanbrough
|
242
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6.
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Bryan
Clauson
|
188
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2.
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Mat
Neely
|
214
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7.
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Shane
Cottle
|
183
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3.
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Jerry
Coons Jr.
|
203
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8.
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Brad
Sweet
|
176
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4.
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Levi
Jones
|
196
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9.
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Darren
Hagen
|
156
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5.
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Dave
Darland
|
193
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10.
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Scotty
Weir
|
152
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