COONS GIVES HOFFMAN TEAM WIN #73

Rossburg, Ohio…….Jerry Coons Jr. of Tucson, Ariz. won Saturday night’s 30-lap “Don Branson/Jud Larson Classic” at the Eldora Speedway in the Kroger/Tide, Bounty/Pringles F5 Gaerte Mopar, giving his Dynamics, Inc. Hoffman Auto Racing Team its 73rd career USAC Sprint car triumph. The race, part of the track’s “Coca Cola Spring Classic,” saw three feature leaders, Coons leading the first and the final six laps. Levi Jones led 12 laps and Brad Sweet led 11. Sweet flipped on the final lap while running second but escaped injury. Dave Darland finished second and leads the new series standings as a result. Jesse Hockett, Jones and Brady Short rounded out the “top-five” at the checkered flag. Darren Hagen was transported to Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio for treatment of two broken ribs and a partially collapsed lung after flipping during a heat race.

USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: April 11, 2009 – Rossburg, Ohio – Eldora Speedway – “Coca Cola Spring Classic” – “Don Branson/Jud Larson Classic”

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Dave Darland, 2B, RWB-15.033; 2. Bryan Clauson, 39x, Clauson-15.082; 3. Tracy Hines, 21, Stewart-15.117; 4. Levi Jones, 20, Stewart-15.185; 5. Brad Sweet, 9, Kahne-15.260; 6. Jerry Coons Jr., 69, Dynamics-15.310; 7. Chad Boat, 30, Boat-15.383; 8. Brady Short, 36, Short-15.546; 9. Bud Kaeding, 29, BK-15.552; 10. Critter Malone, 97x, Seeling-15.553; 11. Nic Faas, 17F, Faas-15.570; 12. Josh Wise, 37, Indiana Underground-15.571; 13. Trey Robb, 12T, Bell-15.573; 14. Mike Brecht, 9x, SC-15.584; 15. Damion Gardner, 71, DG-15.596; 16. Darren Hagen, 67, Kunz-15.616; 17. Cole Whitt, 67k, Kunz-15.718; 18. Jesse Hockett, 13, Hockett-15.724; 19. John Memmer, 4m, Memmer-15.782; 20. Robert Ballou, 81, MPHG-15.809; 21. Chris Windom, 17, Windom-15.857; 22. Blake Fitzpatrick, 10F, Fitzpatrick-15.882; 23. Casey Riggs, 37R, Indiana Underground-15.882; 24. Brett Burdette, 17B, Burdette-15.888; 25. Mike Miller, 82, Miller-15.943; 26. Brady Bacon, 10, R & B-16.062; 27. Thomas Meseraull, 5, Baldwin-16.147; 28. Kevin Thomas Jr., 9k, Thomas-16.216; 29. Hunter Schuerenberg, 07, Wilson-16.239; 30. Landon Simon, 24, Simon-16.279; 31. Matt Goodnight, 39, Goodnight-16.412; 32. Jimmy Light, 12, R & B-16.600; 33. Jerry Bell, 85, Bell-17.008; 34. Kevin Studley, 57, Studley-17.457.

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Sweet, 2. Windom, 3. Whitt, 4. Darland, 5. Kaeding, 6. Robb, 7. Miller, 8. Bell, 9. Schuerenberg. NT

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Bacon, 2. Malone, 3. Coons, 4. Clauson, 5. Brecht, 6. Hockett, 7. Fitzpatrick, 8. Simon, 9. Studley. NT

THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Hines, 2. Meseraull, 3. Gardner, 4. Faas, 5. Goodnight, 6. Boat, 7. Riggs, 8. Memmer. NT

FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Jones, 2. Ballou, 3. Wise, 4. Short, 5. Light, 6. Burdette, 7. Hagen, 8. Thomas. NT

SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Kaeding, 2. Hockett, 3. Boat, 4. Robb, 5. Burdette, 6. Memmer, 7. Riggs, 8. Fitzpatrick, 9. Goodnight, 10. Miller, 11. Light, 12. Bell, 13. Simon, 14. Studley, 15. Schuerenberg, 16. Thomas, 17. Brecht. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Jerry Coons Jr., 2. Dave Darland, 3. Jesse Hockett, 4. Levi Jones, 5. Brady Short, 6. Robert Ballou, 7. Bud Kaeding, 8. Chris Windom, 9. Bryan Clauson, 10. Nic Faas, 11. Josh Wise, 12. Tracy Hines, 13. Brady Bacon, 14. Chad Boat, 15. Brad Sweet, 16. Trey Robb, 17. John Memmer, 18. Brett Burdette, 19. Thomas Meseraull, 20. Damion Gardner, 21. Critter Malone, 22. Cole Whitt. NT

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**Hagen flipped during the fourth heat race and was transported to Miami Valley Hospital in Dayton, Ohio. Burdette and Whitt flipped on lap 2 of the feature. Gardner flipped on lap 12 of the feature. Burdette flipped on lap 25 of the feature. Sweet and Robb flipped on lap 30 of the feature.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Lap 1 Coons, Laps 2-13 Jones, Laps 14-24 Sweet, Laps 25-30 Coons.

NEW USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR POINTS: 1-Darland-242; 2-Hockett-226; 3-Coons-195; 4-Whitt-194; 5Jones-175; 6--Hines-170; 7-Sweet-169; 8-Gardner-163; 9-Jon Stanbrough-147; 10-Hagen-128.