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Stanbrough Captures Fourth KISS Crown With Paragon Victory |
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June 21, 2008 –- Just call him “King Jon”. Brownsburg’s Jon Stanbrough retained the throne of the King of Indiana as he brought the curtain down on the 2008 King of Indiana Sprint Series season with a dominating victory at Paragon Speedway on Saturday. The win was Stanbrough’s 14th in KISS series competition and secured his fourth championship, as he continues to write the KISS record book. Taking the lead on the third lap, Stanbrough took the checkers a half-straightaway ahead of Kyle Cummins, Hunter Schuerenberg, Hud Cone and Jesse Hockett. “I was really good right off the bat,” Stanbrough said of his Fox Brothers DRC. “I got a little bit loose right at the end and at that last red they snugged it up a little bit more. That helped us. We’ve been getting better and better on slick race tracks, so that was a good night for Brad and Steve and the whole team, because we hadn’t won down here since we’ve been together.” Cone paced the first two circuits, until Stanbrough charged from fourth into the lead. Once out front, he quickly stretched his advantage to three seconds while Cummins raced from eighth into the top three. At ten laps, Stanbrough had a straightaway advantage and was quickly beginning to lap slower cars. Two red flags and a caution were the only things that could slow Stanbrough’s torrid pace. On lap 14, Shain Matthews made contact with Schuerenberg on the front stretch, veered into the outside wall and somersaulted to the first turn. He was not injured. While Stanbrough used a clear track to rebuild a comfortable lead, the racing was tight from second back as Cummins, Cone, Jeff Bland Jr., Schuerenberg and Danny Holtsclaw contended for the top five slots. While Stanbrough showed that his line around the bottom was quick, Cummins, Bland and Schuerenberg worked the whole track, from the inside to the rim. Schuerenberg, who captured the previous KISS round at Kokomo Speedway, grabbed third just after a caution on lap 21, but Bland claimed the spot a lap later, only to be re-passed. On the 27th circuit, Tony Reed and Scott Hampton got together just under the flagstand and both cars flipped, bringing another red flag. Later, as he worked to get his car into his trailer, Reed explained, “We were coming down the front stretch and Scott Hampton had a run on the top and going down into one he all of a sudden just turned from the wall and just turned to the bottom. I locked it up and threw it sideways to try to keep from hitting him but I had too much momentum. I told him that these don’t stop on a dime but he started yelling at me over there. I hit him in the left rear of the tail tank with the right side of my car. It spun me around and the car just started flipping. It’s pretty much junk. I liked that car, too.” Bland headed to the pits under caution, but Cummins and Schuerenberg continued their duel over the final three laps as Stanbrough ran ahead. Schuerenberg worked inside of Cummins, for second, through the second turn on lap 27, but Cummins reclaimed the position with a strong run around the top of turn four. At the finish, Stanbrough held a half-straightaway lead, over Cummins and Schuerenberg, earning his third KISS victory of the season. While the racing at the front was tight, it was Hockett’s run that had fans talking at the end of the night. Wheeling the Indy Race Parts machine, Hockett had gotten caught up in an incident at the start of the second heat, and took the green for the C-Main from the tenth row. Capturing the final transfer on the last lap, he lined up 20th for the B-Main. Again he was mostly on the top, passing cars wherever he could, and when there was a tangle in turn four on the last lap, he snagged the fifth finishing spot. For the third consecutive race, he lined up on the tail and with the same all-out effort, passed all except the top four finishers. It was Stanbrough’s first victory on the Paragon oval in several years, which added to the enjoyment of the ceremonies. “I’m sure that the flooding down here had a little bit to do with the track conditions down here tonight,” he noted. “The race track was good, it wasn’t rough and it had a little more moisture in it than normal. I’m sure that probably helped. The guys have been working real hard on the car to try to get it tighter and tighter on the slick race tracks. I think we had a good setup. We got a little loose at the end, but we were still good enough to hang on.” In his pit, Cummins pointed out where he had cut the front end off his car and welded a bar front end in it’s place during the previous week. He and Schuerenberg had finished just a point apart in the final KISS standings, and he talked about their duel. “We tapped there a little bit. I laughed when it was over because he came by and just gave me a (wave) – we knew what was going on. He’s a clean racer, so I knew that there was no problem there. I was for sure that he was going to go to the top, and he left me just a tiny bit and I had to try it. I had been running second the whole time, I wasn’t going to get passed the last four laps.” Heat races were won by Schuerenberg, Holtsclaw, Jon Sciscoe, Cummins and Stanbrough; Jesse Cramer captured the C-Main, and Eric Smith took the B-Main win. Results KISS Paragon Speedway, June 21, 2008 Heat 1: 1. Hunter Schuerenberg 11 (6), 2. Hud Cone 14c (2), 3. Jeff Bland Jr. 21s (9), 4. Scott Hampton 42 (1), 5. Jared Harris 81h (5), 6. Kevin Thomas Jr. 9k (7), 7. Nick Johnson 15 (8), 8. Eric Edwards 44 (3), 9. Johnny Johnson 72j (4), DNF: Brady Short 36 (10) Heat 2: 1. Danny Holtsclaw 3 (1), 2. Josh Cunningham 6s (2), 3. Ty Deckard 48 (5), 4. Ray Kenens k9 (4), 5. A. J. Clark 3ac (8), 6. John Boyd 16b (7), DNF: Jesse Cramer 12t (9), Taryn Laskey 3t (3), Shawn Krockenberger 21k (10), Jesse Hockett 71 (6) Heat 3: 1. Jon Sciscoe 7 (6), 2. Shain Matthews 67 (2), 3. Kevin Briscoe 5 (9), 4. Chase Stockon 32 (4), 5. Chase Briscoe 5b (1), 6. Doug Heck 55 (5), 7. Donnie Gentry 51 (7), 8. Ethan Barrow 15 (3), 9. Brian Mattox (10), DNS: Arin McIntosh 34m (8) Heat 4: 1. Kyle Cummins 3c (4), 2. Steve Rone 22 (1), 3. Chris Babcock 35 (6), 4. A.J. Anderson 34 (8), 5. Jake Scott 1 (3), 6. Aric Gentry 10 (2), 7. Adam Beliles (9), 8. Brian Crawford 13 (7), DNS: Dustin Beliles 71b (5) Heat 5: 1. Jon Stanbrough 53 (3), 2. Lance Grimes 87 (2), 3. Tony Reed 8 (4), 4. Eric Smith 14s (1), 5. Jim Dugan 7d (5), 6. Dave Peperak 77p (6), 7. Nick Bilbee 17 (8), 8. Nevil Algieo 11a (9) C Main: 1. Cramer (2), 2. D. Gentry (3), 3. N. Johnson (1), 4. A. Beliles (4), 5. Hockett (17) B Main: 1. Smith (5), 2. Hampton (1), 3. Stockon (3), 4. Anderson (4), 5. Hockett (20), 6. Kenens (2), 7. Scott (9), 8. A. Beliles (19), 9. N. Johnson (18), 10. C. Briscoe (8), 11. Thomas (11), 12. Heck (13), 13. Dugan (8), 14. Boyd (12), 15. Harris (6), 16. Cramer (16), 17. Clark (7), 18. A. Gentry (14), 19. Peperak (15), 20. D. Gentry (17) Feature (30 laps): 1. Stanbrough (5), 2. Cummins (8), 3. Schuerenberg (6), 4. Cone (2), 5. Hockett (19), 6. Sciscoe (4), 7. Holtsclaw (7), 8. Grimes (9), 9. Deckard (12), 10. Anderson (18), 11. Rone (1), 12. Stockon (17), 13. Cunningham (10), 14. Scott (20), 15. Babcock (13), 16. Bland (11), 17. Smith (15), 18. Hampton (16), 19. Reed (14), 20. Matthews (3), DNS: K. Briscoe Final 2008 KISS Points: 1. Jon Stanbrough 717, 2. Hunter Schuerenberg 563, 3. Kyle Cummins 562, 4. Jeff Bland Jr. 547, 5. AJ Anderson 529, 6. Daron Clayton 405, 7. Scott Hampton 379, 8. Shain Matthews 359, 9. Jesse Hockett 345, 10. Thomas Meseraull 326, 11. Scotty Weir 314, 12. Brady Short 295, 13. Chase Stockon 273, 14. Hud Cone 270, 15. Robert Ballou 267, 16. Casey Shuman 256, 17. Jesse Cramer and Matt Goodnight 251 (tie), 19. Brett Burdette 240, 20. Kevin Thomas Jr. 239 2008 King Of Indiana Sprint Series 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 Clayton Kokomo Speedway Sunday, June 8 Schuerenberg Paragon Speedway Saturday, June 21 Stanbrough 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. |
