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Adds To Record Book With Bloomington Victory May 31, 2008 –- Looking for his third consecutive King of Indiana Sprint Series crown, Jon Stanbrough scored his second KISS feature victory of the 2008 campaign at Bloomington Speedway Friday night. Stanbrough led the second half of the race, taking the lead from A.J. Anderson on a restart just after the halfway mark. Brady Short grabbed second from Levi Jones on the last lap, as Hunter Schuerenberg and Anderson filled the top five. With a car that was able to make passes anywhere on the Bloomington quarter-mile oval that Stanbrough put it, he credited the Fox Brother’s team, “Maybe experience paid off tonight. Definitely Brad and Steve and Tim, and all of their experience and all of my years of experience, especially trying to race on a slick race track, probably had a little bit to do with it. But I think no matter what condition the race track was in, I’m sure we would have been able to get pretty close to where we were.” Starting 15th, Stanbrough was in heavy traffic early, as Cole Whitt pushed his Red Bull F-5 machine into the lead from the pole. Anderson was working the bottom, followed by Kenny Niflis, as they battled past Brett Mellenberndt for second. On the 12th circuit, Anderson charged into the lead when Whitt slipped out of the inside lane in turn two. As they went through three and four, Niflis tried to follow Anderson past Whitt. But as they came off turn four wheel-to-wheel, they ran out of room and the Axsom Body Shop Competition Welding car climbed a wheel and somersaulted down the front straight. “It just seemed to start going away a little bit there and I was trying to play with some cockpit adjustments,” Whitt said later. “I just got off the bottom and A.J. got by me. I was kind of working through the race track. I don’t know who got into me, but someone got into me and flipped over the top of us and split the tail. I was just in the wrong spot at the wrong time. Maybe if we were a little bit better, we wouldn’t have been able to get ran over.” Stanbrough picked off cars methodically, one after the other, giving a clinic on how to handle race traffic. When the race restarted after the red flag, the Fox DRC was already fifth. While Mellenberndt back to slip back, he took second from Jesse Cramer just two circuits later. Staying on the top, he quickly caught Anderson and drove around him going into the first turn, but a yellow stopped the action and Anderson retained the point. But it was short-lived as Stanbrough again took Anderson’s DRC at the same spot, a lap into the green. While Stanbrough built a straightaway lead, Jones, wheeling a new Viper chassis, claimed second from Anderson, with Short right on his tail. A spin by Jimmy Light bunched the field, but Jones and Short continued their battle while Stanbrough put a half-straightaway between them. With a pair of wins at Bloomington already this season, Short hounded Jones, running inside, outside, and side-by-side, lap after lap. Driving the Indiana Stone Works Maxim, he finally claimed the spot as they took the checkered flag. A key to Stanbrough’s record 13th KISS series victory was being able to negotiate passes quickly. He explained, “I didn’t have much choice but to run everywhere on the race track while I was in traffic. Once I got clear, I thought we were pretty good anywhere we wanted to run so I just found a line and stuck with it. There’s not a whole lot you can do once you’re out in front unless someone sticks a nose under you, then you have to change your line or try to do something different. But I never saw anybody, so I just stuck with what I was doing and it worked.” While Anderson looked uncatchable after taking the lead, he said that the bottom went away near the midpoint of the race. “It kept getting slower and slower. I probably should have moved up, it’s easy to say now.” With 60 sprint cars in the pits, Jeff Bland Jr., Mellenberndt, Short, Light, Niflis and Whitt captured heat race wins. Dickie Gaines won the D Main, Chris Babcock the C, and Robert Ballou the B Main. Results: King of Indiana Sprint Series, Bloomington Speedway, May 30, 2008 Heat 1: Jeff Bland Jr. 21s (9), Shain Matthews 67 (2), Levi Jones 38 (7), Andrew Prather 8p (5), Chase Stockon 32 (4), Coleman Gulick 14g (8), Kevin Briscoe 5 (6), Kyle Robbins 17r (10), Ted Hines 12h (3), Ricky Williams 11w (1) Heat 2: Bret Mellenberndt 97 (1), Jesse Cramer 12t (2), Danny Holtsclaw 3 (6), Kenny Carmichael 92 (4), Jon Sciscoe 7s (5), Jason Holt 99 (9), Scott Hampton 42 (3), Mike Weber 22w (8), Jake Cook 18c (7), Blake Fitzpatrick 10f (10) Heat 3: Brady Short 36 (2), Todd Kimmel 33 (1), Jon Stanbrough 53 (6), Kyle Cummins 3c (9), Neil Shepherd 4n (7), Kenny Carmichael Jr. 92c (3), Chris Babcock 35 (4), Rex Norris III 63 (10), Brett Burdette 17b (8), Kevin Thomas Jr. 9k (5) Heat 4: Jimmy Light 23 (10), Arin McIntosh 34m (5), Matt Goodnight 39g (8), Caleb Armstrong 71 (9), Brian Lake 39 (1), Kevin Chambers 18 (2), Dakoda Armstrong 7a (7), Jonathan Hendrick 68 (3), Dickie Gaines 11c (4), A.J. Clark 3ac (6) Heat 5: Kenny Niflis 11a (1), Hunter Schuerenberg 11 (5), Ty Deckard 48 (3), Robert Ballou 81 (7), Scotty Weir 22 (8), Thomas Messeraull 10t (2), Trey Robb 12r (4), Daron Clayton 10 (6), Ryan Pace 44 (10), Steve Barth 14b (9) Heat 6: Cole Whitt 29w (1), A.J. Anderson 34 (3), John Memmer 4m (8), Eric Smith 14 (2), Marc Arnold 57 (9), Jesse Hockett 11p (10), Bobby Stines 9 (5), Chase Briscoe 5b (6), Ryan Tusing 16 (4), Kenny Biro 22k (DNS) D Main: 1. Gaines (4), 2. Hines (1), 3. Cook (2), 4. Barth (8), 5. Tusing (6), 6. Brudette (3), 7. Pace (5), 8. Williams (7), Fitzpatrick, Biro, Thomas, Clark (DNS) C Main: 1. Babcock (1), 2. Robbins (3), 3. Stines (6), 4. Clayton (7), 5. Hampton (2), 6. C. Briscoe (10), 7. Cook (11), 8. Barth (14), 9. Tusing (13), 10. D. Armstrong (4), 11. Hines (12), 12. Gaines (9), 13. Norris (5), 14. Weber (8), Robb, Burdette, K. Briscoe, Hendrick (DNS) B Main: 1. Ballou (5), 2. Cummins (3), 3. Carmichael (2), 4. Stockon (7), 5. Sciscoe (8), 6. Weir (11), 7. Hockett (18), 8. Smith (6), 9. Meseraull (17), 10. Arnold (12), 11. Babcock (19), 12. Gulick (13), 13. Robbins (20), 14. Holt (14), 15. C. Armstrong (4), 16. Lake (10), 17. Chambers (16), 18. Carmichael Jr. (15), 19. Prather (1), Shepherd (DNS) Feature: 1. Stanbrough (15), 2. Short (11), 3. Jones (13), 4. Schuerenberg (8), 5. Anderson (3), 6. McIntosh (10), 7. Ballou (19), 8. Deckard (17), 9. Cramer (6), 10. Bland (9), 11. Cummins (20), 12. Holtsclaw (14), 13. Mellenberndt (2), 14. Whitt (1), 15. Memmer (18), 16. Kimmel (12), 17. Goodnight (16), 18. Light (5), 19. Stockon (22), 20. Matthews (4), 21. Niflis (7), 22. Carmichael Sr. (21) KISS Points: 1. Stanbrough 320, 2. Short 287, 3. Cummins 242, 4. Anderson 240, 5. Hockett 235, 6. Weir 227, 7. Bland Jr. 222, 8. Messeraull 212, 9. Matthews 210, 10. Goodnight 207 SCHEDULE. Next up will be a double-header of KISS racing, with Haubstadt’s Tri-State Speedway running a KISS/MSCS Shootout Saturday night, June 7, followed by Kokomo Speedway’s KISS show on Sunday, June 8. The series will then celebrate the first day of summer by crowning the 2008 King Of Indiana on Saturday, June 21 at Paragon Speedway. 2008 King Of Indiana Sprint Series Schedule Gas City I-69 Speedway Friday, May 16 Stanbrough Lawrenceburg Speedway Saturday, May 24 canceled Bloomington Speedway Friday, May 30 Stanbrough Tri-State Speedway Saturday, June 7 Kokomo Speedway Sunday, June 8 Paragon Speedway Saturday, June 21 SPONSORS. Bedford’s Indiana Stone Works, Elliottbrand Web Designs, in Westport, IN, and Kiva Networking in Bloomington are returning sponsors for the KISS series. The 2008 KISS Championship Helmet is sponsored by Simpson Performance Products, Sprint Car & Midget Magazine and Eagle Graphix. The King of Indiana Sprint Series is organized and conducted by the individual Indiana sprint car race track promoters to provide the best sprint car racing. More information is available on our website, www.kissracing.com. |
