7 FOR GORDON AS HE TAKES 5TH
STRAIGHT "LITTLE 500" – By
International "Little 500"
USAC Special Event Sprint Car race Saturday
night at the Anderson (
Steele, who led 141 laps of the
500-lap race on the 1/4-mile paved oval,
blew an engine while leading on lap 461,
relinquishing the lead to Gordon,
who led the final 39 laps in his
PayLess/Print Express Conpetition
Welding/Gaerte.
Gordon's prize money topped $31,000
as he led 181 total laps and finished
five laps ahead of race runner-up Tim
Cox of
Defending USAC Western Sprint Car
Champ Tony Hunt led 29 laps and was
running third when he lost an engine on lap
412. Western Sprint veteran
Shauna Hogg became the first lady
driver in race history to lead the event,
pacing 17 laps and finishing 10th.
Pole starter Tom Fedewa
finished 24th, retiring from the race after 217 laps.
Tony Elliott led 32 laps but tangled
with Chris Hayes on lap 255. Elliott
hit the wall and Hayes crashed into a
pit barrier, suffering a minor knee
injury. Hayes was taken to
Dorman Snyder and Jason McCord rounded
out the "top-five" at the finish.
USAC SPRINT CAR SPECIAL EVENT RACE
RESULTS: May 26-28, 2005 Anderson,
QUALIFICATIONS: (Held May 26-27 - 4-Lap
Times) 1. Tom Fedewa, 42,
Nosal-45.394; 2. Dave Steele, 91,
Puglio-45.458; 3. Tim Barber, 14x,
Pierson-45.817; 4. Jeff Bloom, 26x,
Bloom-45.866; 5. Tony Hunt, 5G,
Goacher-45.937; 6. Dorman Snyder, 99x,
Stickney-45.975; 7. Levi Jones, 5,
Nolen-45.987; 8.
French-46.188; 10. Tracy Hines, 69,
Dynamics-46.217; 11. Jimmy McCune, 19,
Durnwald-46.227;
12. Jason McCord, 4, Contos-46.276; 13. Mat Neely, 6, K &
N-46.320; 14. Jonathan Vennard, 26, BWB-46.391; 15. Danny Holtsclaw, 3H,
Holtsclaw-46.452; (TOP 15 ON MAY 26
LOCKED IN), 16. Aaron Pierce, 26P,
Pierce-46.371; 17. Tony Elliott, 66,
Nowling-46.460; 18. Ryan Litt, 07,
Litt-46.460; 19. Jason Blonde, 61,
Carman-46.534; 20. Brad Armstrong, 162,
BWB-46.574; 21. Paul White, 62,
BWB-46.575; 22. Tim Cox, 40, B & D-46.596;
23. Donnie Adams,
Jr., 17, Adams-46.598; 24. Dave Durnwald, 19x,
Durnwald-46.769;
25. Sondi Eden, 15,
Correll-46.792; 26. Troy Underwood,
4x, Thunder-NT;
47.048; 27.
Shane Butler, 10x, Rice-47.051; 28. Shauna
Hogg, 5x,
Hogg-47.179; 29. Mike Ling, 55, Ling-47.208; 30.
Michael Tarlton,
9, Tarlton-47.436;
31. Chris Hayes, 11, C & H-47.737; 32. Mark Hall, 2H,
Hall-47.836; 33. Ron Koehler, 10,
Koehler-49.003; 34. Hud
Cone, 99c,
Stewart-49.783;
35. Don Johnson, 44, Johnson-49.931; 36. Aaron Mosley, 4A,
Contos-51.226; 37. Bill Eubank, 9E,
Eubank-55.172; 38. Adam Schuyler, 5H,
Hale-60.161.
ENTERED CARS POSTING NO OFFICIAL TIME:
Lee Boss, 8B, Boss-NT; Marc
Jessup, 14, Jessup-NT; Donny Schatz,
15x, Schatz-NT; Bud Kaeding, 29,
BK/Leffler-NT;
Jim Mills, 45, Mills-NT;
Blake, 81, Blake-NT; John Scott, 83,
Scott/Roberts-NT; Brad Armstrong, 99,
Armstrong-NT; #51,
Davis/Bowman-NT.
FEATURE: (500 laps - Held May 28) 1.
Eric Gordon, 2. Tim Cox, 3. Tim
Barber, 4. Dorman Snyder, 5. Jason McCord, 6. Mat Neely, 7. Ryan Litt, 8.
Levi Jones, 9. Shane Butler, 10.
Shauna Hogg, 11. Dave Steele, 12. Brad
Armstrong, 13. Mark Hall, 14. Tony Hunt, 15.
Jonathan Vennard, 16. Michael
Tarlton, 17. Paul White, 18. Jeff Bloom, 19.
Danny Holtsclaw, 20. Jason
Blonde, 21. Mike Ling, 22. Tony Elliott, 23., Chris Hayes, 24. Tom Fedewa,
25. Ron Koehler, 26. Sondi Eden, 27. Troy Underwood, 28.
Donnie Adams, Jr.,
29.
Dave Durnwald.
2:44:20.562
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**Hayes was transported to
a minor knee injury after hitting a
pit barrier on lap 255.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-65
Steele, Laps 66-188 Gordon, Laps 189-205
Hogg, Laps 206-237 Elliott, Laps
238-348 Gordon, Laps 349-377 Hunt, Laps
378-385 Gordon, Laps 386-461 Steele,
Laps 462-500 Gordon.