Back-To-Back " Tony Hulman Classic." Wins For Ballou
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TERRE HAUTE, IN......... Robert Ballou slid his way into the record books Wednesday night, surpassing A. J. Foyt and Roger McCluskey on the all-time USAC AMSOIL National Sprint Car win list with his 24th career series win and becoming just the third driver in the 46-year history of the " Tony Hulman Classic " to win in back-to-back years after out dueling Thomas Meseraull in a torrid race-long battle to collect the coveted rifle at the Terre Haute( Ind.) Action Track.
" We haven ' t finished as well as we ' d have liked to recently," Ballou admitted. " But we ' ve been really fast and we don ' t give up. We had to put a motor in this car at 1:30 this morning, and then I was late for qualifying, and it just made me furious for the rest of the night. This car keeps
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going up and down the road based on our winnings, so it ' s great that we got another one tonight. I slid Meseraull and knew I didn ' t have him cleared, and then the last time, we both slid the same corner and he was trying to protect himself; thankfully, we ' re both standing up here on the front stretch."