BOSWELL, Ind. — Jerry Coons, Jr. cruised to victory in the fifth race of Indiana Sprint Week Thursday night at Kamp Motor Speedway. 
Leading every lap, Coons finished a straightaway ahead of Tracy Hines, Shane Cottle, Jesse Hockett and Levi Jones in the USAC National Sprint Car Series event.
It was Coons’s second-consecutive win at the Boswell oval, having also captured the Sprint Week event in 2007. During the break in Sprint Week, the Hoffman Racing crew prepared the car that they won with last year. It was a winning move. 
Coons emphasized the importance of the victory. 
“We really needed a good run, especially when the guys go back and put a car together from a bare frame in three days,” he explained. “It’s good for those guys because if you worked that hard and came out and just struggled more, it would be more frustrating. Just from a personal team standpoint, it’s a real good win.”
Starting from the pole, Coons quickly built a half-straightaway advantage. The track allowed cars to run two and three wide at nearly every point, and when the Kroger/Tide/Mopar F-5 began to catch and pass cars on lap 12, Hines cut the gap to just 10 car lengths as the two raced around the very top lip. 
Just past the mid-race mark, Coons lapped Hunter Schuerenberg and the Walker-Guiducci machine moved up to the top groove, ahead of Hines. While Hines spent the next several laps trying to negotiate past, Coons extended his lead to a straightaway length. Without any cautions, he was able to waltz to the checkers, moving around the track as needed to lap cars and maintain a comfortable margin. 
“I’ve been in that position and I give guys the room to race,” Hines maintained. His Chevy-sponsored Tony Stewart Racing Maxim started fourth. “They gave him the layover every lap. He didn’t cost me the race, but he didn’t help me none.”
Shane Cottle’s run from 12th to third was almost unnoticed as he found a lane that wasn’t being used. With others running the top and the bottom, Cottle kept the Contos Racing Chalk between the two lanes. He said, “They were really either high or low and I kind of had my own little groove and it made it nice.”
The summary:
Qualifications: 1. Jon Stanbrough, Fox 53, 12.790; 2. Jesse Hockett, VKCC 75, 12.940; 3. Tracy Hines, Stewart 21, 12.998; 4. Cole Whitt, Kunz 67k, 13.035; 5. Thomas Meseraull, R & B 10t,13.100; 6. Jerry Coons, Jr., Dynamics 69, 13.126; 7. Chad Boat, Boat 30, 13.142; 8. Brady Bacon, Kahne 99, 13.162; 9. Rex Norris, Norris 63, 13.181; 10. Neil Shepherd, Shepherd 4n, 13.196; 11. Levi Jones, Stewart 20, 13.224; 12. Brad Sweet, Kahne 9, 13.239; 13. Dave Darland, 2B Racing 2b, 13.249; 14. Shane Cottle, Contos 4, 13.287; 15. Ryan Pace, Pace 44, 13.331; 16. Austin Mero, Kruseman 71k, 13.349; 17. Robert Ballou, MPHG 81, 13.350; 18. Bret Mellenberndt, Mellenberndt 97, 13.380; 19. Jeff Bland, Jr., Bland 21s, 13.391; 20. Kyle Cummins, Cummins 3c, 13.445; 21. Brady Short, Short 36, 13.460; 22. Blake Fitzpatrick, Fitzpatrick 10f, 13.462; 23. Hunter Schuerenberg, Walker/Guiducci 11, 13.462; 24. Daron Clayton, R & B 10, 13.480; 25. Chris Windom, Triple Crown 1h, 13.489; 26. Brett Burdette, Burdette 17b, 13.500; 27. Damion Gardner, Leffler 71, 13.528; 28. A.J. Anderson, Baldwin 5, 13.548; 29. Darren Hagen, Kunz 67, 13.627; 30. Bryan Clauson, Kahne 199, 13.658; 31. Hud Cone, Cone 14, 13.717; 32. Kent Christian, Christian 1c, 13.718; 33. Kevin Thomas, Thomas 9k, 13.718; 34. Scotty Weir, Edison 10e, 13.761; 35. Casey Shuman, Barnhill 4b, 13.782; 36. Dustin Morgan, M & M 93, 13.873; 37. Zach Martini, Rose 6, 13.909; 38. Chris Gurley, Gurley 12g, 13.987; 39. John Memmer, Memmer 4m, 13.991; 40. Chris Urish, Urish 77u, 14.033; 41. Dale Christian, Christian 83, 14.137; 42. Anthony Peterman, Peterman 7p, 14.146; 43. Ted Hines, Hines 12, 14.170; 44. Ray Kenens, Kenens 9x, 14.177; 45. Cory Kruseman, Kruseman 21k, 14.266; 46. Henry Clarke, Kruseman 5k, 14.309; 47. Kyle Robbins, Robbins 17r, 14.312; 48. Jerry Ruble, Ruble 17j, 14.384; 49. Josh Spencer, Batcheldor 66, 14.414; 50. Sammy Imel, Imel 35, 14.497; 51. Jimmy Light, Light 23, 14.660; 52. Steve Thomas, Thomas 20t, 15.473; 53. Stephanie Tuttle, Olson 34t, 15.504; 54. Kevin Studley, Studley 57, no time.
First Qualifying Race (8 laps): K. Thomas, Memmer, Martini, Te. Hines, Shuman, Spencer, Robbins, Light, D. Christian, Tuttle.
Second Qualifying Race (8 laps): Weir, Urish, Morgan, Gurley, Peterman, Clarke, Ruble, Imel, Kenens, S. Thomas, Studley.
First Heat (10 laps): Hagen, Windom, Darland, Stanbrough, Meseraull, Short, Martini, Norris, K. Thomas, Ballou.
Second Heat (10 laps): Clauson, Coons, Cottle, Hockett, Burdette, Fitzpatrick, Memmer, Mellenberndt, Shepherd, Te. Hines.
Third Heat (10 laps): Jones, Cone, Gardner, Schuerenberg, Bland, Pace, Weir, Boat, Morgan, Tr. Hines.
Fourth Heat (10 laps): Sweet, Anderson, Bacon, Cummins, Whitt, K. Christian, Urish, Gurley, Mero, Clayton.
Semi (12 laps): Tr. Hines, Whitt, Boat, Short, Meseraull, Ballou, Pace, Weir, Clayton, Gurley, K.Christian, Mero, Burdette, Memmer, Te. Hines, Martini, Urish, K. Thomas, Mellenberndt, Norris, Fitzpatrick.
Feature (30 laps): Coons, Tr. Hines, Cottle, Hockett, Jones, Whitt, Sweet, Short, Stanbrough, Dave Darland, Meseraull, Ballou, Bacon, Hagen, Gardner, Cummins, Clayton, Anderson, Boat, Clauson, Schuerenberg, Windom, Mero, Cone.