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| Chris Windom Earns First KISS Victory |
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MAY 29, 2009 --- No one was surprised when Chris Windom captured the King of Indiana Sprint Series feature at Bloomington Speedway Friday night. It was only a matter of time before the young charger added his name to the record of KISS winners. After diving under Brady Short for the lead, the young racer from Canton, IL, built a straightaway advantage over Shane Cottle, Short and Jon Stanbrough at the finish. Scotty Weir outran Casey Shuman through the first turn to take the early lead, while just behind them, Bryan Clauson made contact with another car in the second turn and lost nearly a dozen spots as he gathered his machine back up. Weir quickly built a half-straightaway lead before the caution came out on lap 5, when Shuman was knocked sideways in turn two and collected Jon Sciscoe. The fighting behind Weir was fierce, with Stanbrough, Short, Windom, Cottle and Jeff Bland Jr. scrapping for positions in the top five. Windom took second on the seventh circuit and began reeling in Weir. Following a lap 11 restart, Short moved up the track, found good footing and battled past Windom and Stanbrough, then passed Weir for the lead on lap 14. With two wins on the Bloomington quarter-mile already this season, Short’s Indiana Stone Works Maxim looked ready to pull away. But a caution flag at the halfway mark bunched the field again, with Windom, in his first race at the wheel of Jeff Walker’s Jam-It-In Storage Maxim, on Short’s tail. When Short slid up the track coming through turn one on the restart, Windom charged into the hole, running even until they exited the fourth turn, where he smoothly drove into the lead. Windom built a straightaway lead by the checkers, as Cottle grabbed second from Short on lap 20. After the victory lane ceremony, Windom explained, “We had to be patient. I knew we were good on the bottom, we just kept getting caught up behind a couple guys who were in front of us and that gave other guys runs on the outside. I knew if I stuck down there, I’d eventually get around them. I just had to be patient.” “It’s awesome to get to drive for Jeff Walker,” he added. “The first night that he let me drive his car we came out with a win. It was awesome.” Cottle earned second after starting eleventh in the Crume – Evans Insurance Chalk. He said, “We were all bunched up there for a little while. Brady went up high and lost his momentum up there and we got underneath of him. Little Windom was just a little too fast for us.” Several pits away, Short noted that they had been working on getting the car to where he could drive it harder, but this time that is what bit him. “I just knew that the way I was driving the race track and kind of sliding my rear tires, I was going to glaze them over and that’s eventually what happened. I should have just tried to slow down and run the bottom, but my car was just a little too tight getting in and it was killing me off. So I just kept trying and trying, but my tires never did come back in.” Dave Darland held onto his KISS point lead, by just 3 points over Short, with a run through the C and B mains, and 19th starting slot, to seventh. Defending four-time champion Jon Stanbrough sits third, with Bland and Shuman separated by a single point for fourth. King of Indiana Sprint Series Bloomington Speedway, May 29, 2009 (49 cars) HEAT 1 1. Casey Shuman 21x (1), 2. Brent Beauchamp 11 (2), 3. Shane Cottle 10e (6), 4. Kurt Gross 1x (4), 5. Chase Briscoe 5b (3), 6. Ty Deckard 48 (7), 7. Blake Fitzpatrick 10f (5), 8. Nic Faas 17F (8), 9. John Dick 68 (9), 10. Brian Lake 39l (DNS) HEAT 2 1. Jon Sciscoe 7 (2), 2. Brady Short 36 (4), 3. Shane Hmiel 10 (5), 4. Mark Perry III 3M (9), 5. Chris Gentry 26x (8), 6. Bill Rose 6 (10), 7. Kevin Thomas Jr.9k (1), 8. Dickie Gaines 11p (3), 9. Todd Kimmel 33 (6), 10. Jonathan Hendrick 68 (7) HEAT 3 1. Jon Stanbrough 53 (1), 2. Chris Windom 11 (4), 3. Jonathan Vennard 12 (2), 4. Kyle Cummins 3c (5), 5. Kent Christian 1c (8), 6. AJ Anderson 34 (10), 7. Dave Darland 7r (6), 8. Coleman Gulick 14 (9), 9. Ted Hines 12 (7), 10. Scott Hampton 42 (3) HEAT 4 1. Scotty Weir 5 (3), 2. Jeff Bland Jr. 21s (8), 3. Ethan Barrow 15b (1), 4. Jeff Wimmenauer 15w (2), 5. Jesse Cramer 12t (5), 6. Ryan Kaplan 27 (6), 7. Bobby Stines 9t (9), 8. Bub Cummings 71 (4), 9. Kyle Robbins 17r (10), 10. Anthony Peterman 7p (7) HEAT 5 1. Bryan Clauson 7 (2), 2. Hunter Schuerenberg 07 (9), 3. Nick Bilbee 17b (3), 4. Gary Altig 67 (1), 5. Ricky Williams 11w (5), 6. Kevin Chambers 18 (4), 7. Ray Humphrey 1h (8), 8. Chris Babcock 35 (7), 9. Andrew Prather 8 (6) C MAIN 1. Darland (3), 2. Fitzpatrick (1), 3. Stines (4), 4. Faas (6), 5. Thomas (2), 6. Cummings (7), 7. Gulick (8), 8. Robbins (14), 9. Hines (11), 10. Humphrey (5), 11. Hampton (15), 12. Babcock (10), 13. Dick (9), 14. Prather (13), 15. Lake (17), 16. Peterman (DNS), 17. Kimmel (DNS), 18. Hendrick (DNS), 19. Gaines (DNS) B MAIN 1. Gross (1), 2. Cummins (3), 3. Christian (8), 4. Darland (16), 5. Perry (2), 6. Cramer (9), 7. Briscoe (6), 8. Anderson (13), 9. Wimmenauer (4), 10. Gentry (7), 11. Williams (10), 12. Deckard (11), 13. Faas (19), 14. Chambers (15), 15. Rose (12), 16. Kaplan (14), 17. Altig (5), 18. Fitzpatrick (17), 19. Stines (18), 20. Thomas (20) FEATURE (30 laps) 1. Chris Windom (3), 2. Shane Cottle (11), 3. Brady Short (8), 4. Jon Stanbrough (7), 5. Shane Hmiel (12), 6. Scotty Weir (1), 7. Dave Darland (19), 8. Brent Beauchamp (10), 9. Bryan Clauson (4), 10. Jeff Bland, Jr. (9), 11. Jon Sciscoe (6), 12. Ethan Barrow (14), 13. Nick Bilbee (15), 14. Kent Christian (18), 15. Kyle Cummins (17), 16. Hunter Schuerenberg (5), 17. Casey Shuman (2), 18. Kurt Gross (16), 19. Jonathan Vennard (13), 20. Mark Perry III (20) KISS Points (after May 29) – 1. Dave Darland 383, 2. Brady Short 380, 3. Jon Stanbrough 354, 4. Jeff Bland Jr. 344, 5. Casey Shuman 343, 6. Nic Faas 305, 7. Shane Cottle 290, 8. Bryan Clauson 264, 9. Chris Windom 260, 10. Jonathan Hendrick 254 The KISS series will continue on Sunday at Kokomo Speedway. Adult general admission is $15, and kids aged 10 and under are free with a paying adult. Pit passes are priced at $30. The racing program includes street stocks and thunder cars. The pit gate opens at 3:30 pm and grandstand gates at 4:30. The first race will start at 6:15. Directions are available at http://www.kokomospeedway.net . All KISS races follow the rules of the host track. Teams need to check with the specific track to answer questions regarding track rules. 2009 King Of Indiana Sprint Series Schedule Gas City I-69 Speedway Friday, May 15 Bryan Clauson Lawrenceburg Speedway Saturday, May 23 Nic Faas Bloomington Speedway Friday, May 29 Chris Windom Kokomo Speedway Sunday, May 31 Tri-State Speedway Saturday, June 6 Paragon Speedway Saturday, June 20 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. Many thanks to the series sponsors, including Indiana Stone Works for the B-Main, Simpson Performance Products, Sprint Car & Midget Magazine and Eagle Graphix for the champion’s helmet, Elliottbrand Web Designs, in Westport, IN, and Kiva Networking in Bloomington for the KISS website ( www.kissracing.com). |
