Stanbrough Outruns Terre Haute KISS
Field
Earns Second Crown
After the victory ceremonies, Stanbrough explained what winning a second KISS
title meant to him. “I’ve won a few championships here and there and
never repeated,” he said. “It’s really exciting to be a two-time champion
and even more exciting to have gotten the most wins in the series.
Hopefully I can continue with that.”
Starting fifth for the 30-lap feature, Stanbrough hugged the bottom through
turn two and grabbed the lead when the front cars slid up. He admitted
that he was surprised, “I always kind of have in mind what I’m going to do and
if somebody opens the door for me, then I’m going to go for it. If it’s
somewhere I can get through - my car was hooked up, I got to it and it just
took off.”
At the completion of the first lap, Stanbrough had the Fox Brothers DRC a dozen
car-lengths ahead of Cottle, with pole-sitter Bryan Stanfill ahead of Hud Cone,
Sciscoe, Sweet and Shane Hollingsworth. Clearly Brad and Steve Fox had
found the car’s sweet spot, as Stanbrough kept the FOXCO powerplant wound up,
as he smoothly negotiated the cushion at each end. He owned a two-second
lead and had just caught the tail-enders by lap 13 when the yellow came out for
Hunter Schuerenberg, who had come to a stop while running in the top ten.
Stanfill challenged Cottle for second at the restart, grabbing the spot in turn
four. But Cottle battled back and Stanfill began falling back and dropped
out several laps later when his engine began overheating. At 20 laps,
Stanbrough was a half-straightaway ahead and extended his advantage to a full
straightaway while negotiating slower cars with just a handful of laps
remaining. Cottle closed the gap to two seconds at the end, but no one
had been able to challenge Stanbrough.
“I have to give credit to the guys who put a great setup on it,” Stanbrough
said. “They got the tire pressures and the stagger and everything
right. I’m just the guy turning the wheel and they make me look
good. I definitely have to give all of the credit to Brad and Steve
Fox. They build the motor and take care of the car. They do a great
job, obviously. It showed tonight.”
For the third time, Cottle finished second to Stanbrough in a KISS race.
If not for missing the Lawrenceburg round when he was competing in the Little
500, he certainly would have been in the thick of the point fight. After
the feature, he candidly noted, “Down in three and four it was up on the high
side, that was about the only place to run. Coming off of two on the high
side, it was real slow. So I got down on the bottom and I was a little
bit faster than he was, but I just couldn’t keep the momentum up on the
straightaway. I was kind of hard on my tires early and burned them off
when I was trying to get out in front of him and I used up a lot of my
tires. I was kind of just hanging around there at the end.”
Brad Sweet had a strong run in Jack Yeley’s DRC. He finished a strong
third after starting seventh. “It looks like we finally got the car kind
of figured out. It took us a few weeks, but we’re starting to run
better. The track was definitely hooked up tonight. We started in
the fourth row, and just kind of picked them off as we went along. But
once we got up to Stanbrough and Cottle, I don’t think we had anything for
them. It was a good run for our team and we definitely needed it.”
As in the 30-lap finale, Stanbrough grabbed the KISS point lead with
back-to-back victories in the opening races and no one was able to mount a
credible challenge. With a fifth place finish at Lawrenceburg, and third
at Paragon, the
Results: King of
Heat 1 (5
transfer): 1. Hud
Cone (2), 2. Bryan Stanfill (1), 3. Brad Sweet (6), 4. Jeff Davis (3), 5. Chase
Stockon (5), 6. A.J. Anderson (4), 7. Hunter Schuerenberg (9), 8. Alex Shanks
(10), 9. Randy Bateman (8), 10. Patrick Bruns (7)
Heat 2: 1. Shane Cottle (3), 2. Jon Stanbrough (6), 3. Critter Malone
(7), 4. Chris Windom (5), 5. Chris Gentry (1), 6. Mitch Wissmiller (10), 7.
Kyle Wissmiller (9), 8. Jerry Ruble (8), 9. Bob Botts (4), 10. Jonathan Vennard
(2)
Heat 3: 1. Kyle Cummins (1), 2. Jon Sciscoe (2), 3. Shane Hollingsworth
(6), 4. Chris Urish (3), 5. Danny Brackett (4), 6. Justin Marvel (5), 7. Derek
O’Dell (7), 8. Matt Westfall (9), 9. Dale Christian (8), 10. Sam Stockon (10)
Semi (5 transfer): 1. M. Wissmiller (2), 2. Marvel (3), 3. Shanks
(7), 4. Schuerenberg (4), 5.
Feature (30 laps): 1. Stanbrough (5), 2. Cottle (4), 3. Sweet (7), 4.
Sciscoe (2), 5. M. Wissmiller (14), 6. Windom (11), 7. Hollingsworth (9), 8.
Marvel (17), 9. Vennard (20), 10. Malone (8), 11. Cone (3), 12. Shanks (16),
13. Brackett (15), 14.
Final Points: Stanbrough 645, Vennard 510, Windom 495, Cottle 485,
Marvel 484
2006 King Of Indiana Sprint Series Winners
Gas City I-69Speedway
Bloomington Speedway
Lincoln Park Speedway
Lawrenceburg Speedway
Kokomo Speedway
Paragon Speedway
Terre Haute Action Track