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Gardner Wins at Manzanita
VALVOLINE USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR SERIES
RACE RESULTS: September 24, 2005 - Phoenix, Arizona - Manzanita
Speedway
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Damion Gardner, 50, Chaffin-19.103; 2. Seth
Wilson, 17, Racing Optics-19.166; 3. Nathan High, 6A,
Pritchett-19.246; 4. Rip Williams, 3, Jory-19.284; 5. Cory
Kruseman, 38, Crossno-19.320; 6. Jordan Hermansader, 5,
Keller-19.348; 7. Mike Spencer, 44, Engstrom-19.362; 8. Josh
Ford, 73, Ford-19.374; 9. J. Hicks, 66, Miller-19.385; 10. Mike
Leslie, 76AZ, Montgomery-19.485; 11. Danny Sheridan, 18,
Kittle-19.497; 12. Rickie Gaunt, 2A, Smiley-19.519; 13. Troy
Rutherford, 7, Priestley-19.611; 14. Charles Davis Jr, 8A,
Smiley-19.660; 15. Danny Ebberts, 77, Acosta-19.698; 16. Jeremy
Sherman, 4, Alexander-19.756; 17. J.T. Imperial, 4J,
Tuttle-19.834; 18. Tom Ogle, 5AZ, Turner-19.925; 19. Marty
Miller 3W, WWs Racing-19.944; 20. R.J. Johnson, 15AZ,
Martin-20.060; 21. Mike Martin, 57, Martin-20.089; 22. Bob Ream
Jr, 8, B.R.A.T-20.164; 23. Brandon Lane, 97H, Lane-20.393; 24.
Shon Deskins, 5X, Deskins-20.489; 25. Ricky Hood, 33,
Cushman-20.536; 26. Nadine Keller, 16, Keller-21.567; 27. Keith
Williamson,
95, Williamson-NT.
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Miller, 2. Ream, 3. Rutherford, 4.
R.Williams, 5. Gardner, 6, Sherman, 7. Spencer, 8. Leslie, 9.
Hood. 3:16.86
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Davis, 2. Johnson, 3. Sheridan, 4.
Ford, 5. Kruseman, 6. Lane, 7. Wilson, 8. Imperial, 9. Keller.
3:18:44
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Ebberts, 2. Gaunt, 3. High, 4. Hicks,
5. Hermansader, 6. Deskins, 7. Ogle, 8. Martin. NT
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Wilson, 2. Spencer, 3. Leslie, 4. Sherman, 5.
Imperial, 6, Hood, 7. Keller, 8. Deskins, 9. Lane, 10. Ogle, 11.
Williamson. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Damion Gardner, 2. Josh Ford, 3. Danny
Sheridan, 4. Troy Rutherford, 5. Jeremy Sherman, 6. Cory
Kruseman, 7. J. Hicks, 8. Seth Wilson, 9. Nathan High, 10. Mike
Spencer, 11. Bob Ream Jr, 12. Ricky Hood, 13. Rip Williams, 14.
R.J. Johnson, 15. Jordan Hermansader, 16. Rickie Gaunt, 17. Mike
Leslie, 18. Danny Ebberts, 19. J.T. Imperial, 20. Charles Davis
Jr, 21. Nadine Keller, 22. Shon Deskins. NT
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**Charles Davis Jr., Shon Deskins & Nadine Keller all flipped
during the feature.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-5 Hicks, Laps 6-22 Sheridan, Laps
23-27 Ford, Laps 28-30 Gardner.
NEW USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR STANDINGS: 1-R.Williams-1,550;
2-Gardner-1,530; 3-Kruseman-1,441; 4-Mike Kirby-1,329;
5-Davis-1,185; 6-Gaunt-1,086; 7-Spencer-1,011; 8-Ford-949;
9-Sheridan-818; 10-Wilson-808.
NEXT USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR RACE: October 1 - Perris (CA) Auto
Speedway
Williams Gets Number 101 with
Perris Win
By Ken Wagner
Rip Williams, of nearby Yorba Linda,
won the Valvoline USAC/CRA 30 lapper at Perris Auto Speedway
this week to move with-in two of tying all time leader Dean
Thompson for most victories on the west coast. Rip drove the
John Jory Corporation – Weld Wheels, Stinger, Shaver # 3, to
overcome early leader, Cory Kruseman, on lap 21 and pulled away
for his second win of the season. It was his 8th USAC/CRA win
along with 61 SCRA wins and 32 CRA wins from the Ascot days for
his 101 total.
In perhaps one of the most exciting
races of the year, any one of the top five could have won this
race as they mixed it up lap after lap. Cory got sideways on one
lap and with Rip so close they banged together, thus
straightening the leader out and they continued on. The Ripper
took charge midway in the race and left them to fight for
second. In the process he increased his point lead over Damion
Gardner to 55 after Gardner had two flat tires in separate
incidents and was out early in the race.
Charles Davis Jr was the runner-up
for the second race in a row after battling with teammate Rickie
Gaunt like the week before. Super Rickie was in the thick of it
until he dropped to 12th the last few laps with an
injured motor. After leading 20 laps, Kruseman settled for third
with Danny “Showtime” Sheridan lighting up the track for fourth
followed by Mike Spencer. With a few laps to go Sheridan’s motor
became a light show as it was losing cylinders, but it held on
to the checkered flag.
Rookie Ryan Devitt had his best
outing so far this season. He made his first main event starting
last on the grid and finishing tenth for the hard charger award
of the week. Jerry Coons Jr came in from his National USAC
schedule to drive the Alexander Trucking # 4 car after Mike
Kirby left the team last week, and was seventh coming from his
16th starting spot. Kirby will have a new car coming
out in two weeks. Bill Rose, also a National USAC runner, drove
his own car to 13th as he dropped in for the week
also.
Wally Pankratz continued his
“fairwell tour” in racing by jumping in the Ripper’s back-up car
this week. He put on a good show until he pulled in early in the
Semi and was done for the night. He plans on returning to run at
least one more race as he celebrates his recent 60th
birthday. There were 39 cars in the pits this week as many
prepare for the upcoming Oval Nationals at the PAS.
VALVOLINE USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR SERIES
RACE RESULTS: September 17, 2005 Perris, California Perris
Auto Speedway
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Rickie Gaunt, 2A,
Smiley-16.512; 2. Damion Gardner, 50, Chaffin-16.638; 3. Seth
Wilson, 17, Racing Optics-16.702; 4. Mike Spencer, 44,
Engstrom-16.705; 5. Danny Sheridan, 18, Kittle-16.731; 6. Josh
Ford, 73, Ford-16.742; 7. Rip Williams, 3, Jory-16.803; 8. Cory
Kruseman, 38, Crossno-16.832; 9. Charles Davis Jr., 8A,
Smiley-16.837; 10. Bill Rose, 6R, Rose-16.839; 11. Wally
Pankratz, 3X, Jory-16.842; 12. Rodney Argo, 19, Argo-16.844; 13.
Tony Jones, 87, Vermeer/Ferreira-16.850; 14. Davey Pombo, 3P,
Pombo-16.883; 15. Bobby Cody, 92, Sertich-16.957; 16. Steve
Ostling, 0, Shoemaker-17.003; 17. Danny Ebberts, 77,
Acosta-17.071; 18. Jordan Hermansader, 5, Keller-17.140; 19.
David Cardey, 59, Giardina-17.140; 20. Jerry Coons Jr., 4,
Alexander-17.168; 21. Alan Ballard, 97, Ballard-17.221; 22.
Danny Faria, 17V, Faria-17.228; 23. R. J. Johnson, 15AZ,
Martin-17.232; 24. J.Hicks, 66, Miller-17.240; 25. Greg Bragg,
33, Blair-17.275; 26. Adam Mitchell, 14, Lancaster-17.323; 27.
Tom Stansberry, 48, Bach-17.578; 28. Ryan Devitt, 35R,
Blenkarn-17.592; 29. Joshua Williams, 34, Williams-17.597; 30.
Jack Hawley, 1J, Hawley-17.625; 31. Jack DeArmond Jr., 9,
DeArmond-17.672; 32. Mark Heidenreich, 22, Heidenreich-17.682;
33. Randy Waitman, Y69, Waitman-17.788; 34. Nadine Keller, 16,
Keller-17.955; 35. Matt Stewart, 85, Stewart-18.048; 36. Todd
Hunsaker, 75, Hunsaker-18.061; 37. Nate Ziegler, N8,
Ziegler-18.325; 38. Dan Tedrick, 88, Tedrick-19.137; 39. Mel
Murphy, 57, Gunderson NT.
TROPHY DASH: (3 laps) 1. Wilson, 2. Spencer, 3. Gaunt, 4.
Gardner. :51.26
CONSI: (8 laps) 1. Waitman, 2. Keller, 3. Hunsaker, 4. Stewart.
2:24.66
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Bragg, 2. Ebberts, 3. Davis, 4. Gaunt,
5. J.Williams, 6. Sheridan, 7. Jones. 8. Ballard, 9. Waitman. NT
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Mitchell, 2. Hermansader, 3. Faria, 4.
Gardner, 5. Pombo, 6. Ford, 7. Rose, 8. Hawley, 9. Keller.
2:55:14
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Johnson, 2.
R.Williams, 3. Wilson, 4. Stansberry, 5. Pankratz, 6. Cody, 7.
DeArmond, 8. Hunsaker, 9. Cardey. NT
FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Kruseman, 2. Devitt, 3. Argo, 4.
Coons, 5. Spencer, 6. Hicks, 7. Ostling, 8, Heidenreich, 9.
Stewart. NT
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Sheridan, 2. Spencer, 3. Jones, 4. Ford, 5.
Rose, 6. Cody, 7. Pombo, 8. Ostling, 9. Ballard, 10. Hicks, 11.
J.Williams, 12. Waitman, 13. Keller, 14. Heidenreich, 15.
Stewart, 16. Hunsaker, 17. Pankratz, 18. Hawley. 3:29:05
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Rip Williams, 2. Charles Davis Jr., 3.
Cory Kruseman, 4. Danny Sheridan, 5. Mike Spencer, 6. Josh Ford,
7. Jerry Coons Jr., 8. Bobby Cody, 9. Tony Jones, 10. Ryan
Devitt, 11. R.J. Johnson, 12. Rickie Gaunt, 13. Bill Rose, 14.
Danny Ebberts, 15, Seth Wilson, 16. Tom Stansberry, 17. Danny
Faria, 18. Adam Mitchell, 19. Greg Bragg, 20. Damion Gardner,
21. Jordan Hermansader, 22. Rodney Argo. NT
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**DeArmond flipped during the third heat. Hermansader flipped
during the feature,
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-20 Kruseman, Laps 21-30 R.Williams.
NEW USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR STANDINGS: 1-R.Williams-1,515;
2-Gardner-1,460; 3-Kruseman-1,390; 4-Kirby-1,329; 5-Davis-1,166;
6-Gaunt-1,058; 7-Spencer-975; 8-Ford-887; 9-Jones-781;
10-Wilson-760.
NEXT USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR RACE: September 24 Phoenix, AZ
Manzanita Speedway
Kruseman Wins at Ventura
By Ken Wagner
Local favorite, Cory Kruseman,
started seventh in the Valvoline USAC/CRA 30 lap feature at
Ventura Raceway this week and took the lead from Rodney Argo on
lap four to run away with his seventh win of the season in the
ITI Performance, Sander Engineering, Bullet, Downing # 38. It
was his 75th lifetime west coast win, putting him 25
behind active driver leading Rip Williams 100 total.
On a perfect night, teammates
Charles Davis Jr and Rickie Gaunt fought for a shot at the
winner with Charles getting second by a wheel over Super Rickie.
They were followed by Williams and Steve Ostling.
The Ripper took back the USAC/CRA
championship points lead, now holding an eleven point lead over
Damion Gardner as Mike Kirby in third place holds an eleven
point lead over Cory Kruseman as the battle heats up!
Jordan Hermansader had to take a
provisional for the main event and came from 21st
starting spot up to 13th for the hard charger award
of the night and an extra $100 in his pocket. With thirty five
cars gracing the small oval, it was a fast paced night with the
feature over by 9:15 PM to make the usual 10 PM complaint calls
humorous.
The heats were won by Greg Bragg,
Rodney Argo, Kruseman and Tony Jones. Steve Ostling won the Semi
after encountering problems in his heat. He was driving former
Car Owner Champion, Harlan Willis, black # 45 sprinter once
driven by Kruseman.
VALVOLINE USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR SERIES
RACE RESULTS: September 10, 2005 Ventura, California Ventura
Raceway
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Mike Kirby, 4,
Alexander-12.076; 2. Charles Davis Jr., 8A, Smiley-12.174; 3.
Cory Kruseman, 38, Crossno-12.182; 4. Rip Williams, 3,
Jory-12.186; 5. Rickie Gaunt, 2A, Smiley-12.271; 6. Kevin
Kierce, 2K, Kierce-12.303; 7. Mike Spencer, 44, Engstrom-12.361;
8. Tony Jones, 87, Vermeer/Ferreira-12.370; 9. Jordan
Hermansader, 5, Keller-12.376; 10. Steve Ostling, 45,
Willis-12.432; 11. Damion Gardner, 50, Chaffin-12.508; 12. Adam
Mitchell, 14, Lancaster-12.522; 13. Josh Ford, 73, Ford-12.572;
14. Rodney Argo, 19, Argo-12.614; 15. Seth Wilson, 17, Racing
Optics-12.622; 16. Alan Ballard, 97, Ballard-12.673; 17. Steve
Conrad, 91X, Conrad-12.674; 18. Danny Sheridan, 18,
Kittle-12.701; 19. Shawn Kautz, 29, Kautz-12.722; 20. J. Hicks,
66, Miller-12.744; 21. R.J. Johnson, 15AZ, Martin-12.756; 22.
Ronnie Case, 8, Case-12.794; 23. Jimmy Crawford, 17C,
Crawford-12.880; 24. Tom Stansberry, 48, Bach-12.922; 25. Greg
Bragg, 33, Blair-12.969; 26. Ryan Devitt, 35R, Blenkarn-13.060;
27. Dan Tedrick, 88, Tedrick-13.089; 28. Joshua Williams, 34,
Williams-13.173; 29. Kevin Mahoney, 5S, Kruseman-13.177; 30. Wes
Richardson, 47, Bach-13.869; 31. Jeremy Ellerston, 98,
Ellerston-13.910; 32. Ron Tjaarda, 4X, Kruseman-13.942; 33.
Bobby Ferro, 91, Ferro-13.965; 34. Matt Stewart, 85,
Stewart-14.106; 35. Nadine Keller, 16, Keller NT.
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Bragg, 2. Johnson, 3. Ford, 4. Gaunt,
5. Kirby, 6. Conrad, 7. Hermansader, 8. Ferro, 9. Mahoney. NT
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Argo, 2. Davis , 3. Case, 4. Sheridan,
5. Richardson, 6. Devitt, 7. Stewart, 8. Ostling, 9. Kierce. NT
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Kruseman, 2. Wilson, 3. Spencer, 4.
Crawford, 5. Gardner, 6. Tedrick, 7. Ellerston, 8. Kautz.
2:20:56
FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Jones, 2. Stansberry, 3. Hicks, 4.
R.Williams, 5. Ballard, 6. J.Williams, 7. Mitchell. NT
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Ostling, 2. Kirby, 3. Ballard, 4. Gardner, 5.
Kierce, 6. Conrad, 7. Kautz, 8. J.Williams, 9. Mitchell, 10.
Hermansader,
11. Richardson, 12. Tedrick, 13. Ferro, 14. Stewart, 15. Devitt,
16. Mahoney, 17. Ellerston. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Cory Kruseman, 2. Charles Davis Jr., 3.
Rickie Gaunt, 4. Rip Williams, 5. Steve Ostling, 6. Mike
Spencer, 7. Tony Jones, 8. Damion Gardner, 9. Danny
Sheridan, 10, Alan Ballard, 11. Seth Wilson, 12. Jimmy Crawford,
13. Jordan Hermansader, 14. Mike Kirby, 15. J. Hicks, 16. Ronnie
Case, 17. Rodney Argo, 18. Greg Bragg, 19. Josh Ford, 20 Tom
Stansberry, 21. R.J. Johnson. NT
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**Tjaarda flipped during qualifying.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-3 Argo, Laps 4-30 Kruseman.
NEW USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR STANDINGS: 1-R.Williams-1,448;
2-Gardner-1,437; 3-Kirby-1,329; 4-Kruseman-1,328; 5-Davis-1,103;
6-Gaunt-1,018; 7-Spencer-921; 8-Ford-840; 9-Jones-743;
10-Wilson-727.
NEXT USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR RACE: September 24 Phoenix, AZ
Manzanita Speedway
Gardner Wins at Perris
By Ken Wagner
On a night that the tires became a
major issue, Damion Gardner of Concord, California took the lead
from Cory Kruseman on lap 17 and ran away with his eleventh
Valvoline USAC/CRA victory of the year and took over the points
lead from Rip Williams in the process. Damion said in the
winners circle“ It was tough in the beginning and we took
some chances going to the front. As soon as it laid rubber down,
it was beautiful!”
Josh Ford led the first seven laps
until Kruseman went by him and took a big lead until Damion
quickly reeled him in. The lead pack was running the high groove
exclusively, but the Demon found a sweet spot just barely below
that where no one else could run and wheeled by with ease.
Driving the Temecula Valley Pipe &
Supply, Arizona Race Mart, Eagle, Shaver # 50, Damion had plenty
of rubber left at the end, unlike many of his pursuers. Most
notably Rip Williams tires were “showing their underwear” as he
said later looking at two bald tires on his car, and was lucky
to even finish as he dropped back to seventh and slipped into
second in points only eight behind the new leader.
Josh Ford held on for third followed
by Mike Kirby, Danny Sheridan, who came from 20th
starting spot, and Steve Oslting who crashed on lap 33 and came
back up to get sixth. The race pushed the curfew just a tad, but
it finished with a flourish and will send them to Ventura
Raceway for the 26th race in the series.
Perris Auto Speedway (September 3,
2005) QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Charles Davis Jr, 8A, Smiley - 17.334;
2. Rickie Gaunt, 2A, Smiley - 17.460; 3. Cory Kruseman, 38,
Crossno - 17.580; 4. Mike Spencer, 44, Engstrom - 17.639; 5.
Ronnie Clark, 33X, Clark - 17.662; 6. Tony Jones, 87,
Vermeer/Ferreira - 17.675; 7. Alan Ballard, 97, Ballard -
17.710; 8. Damion Gardner, 50, Chaffin - 17.755; 9. Seth Wilson,
17, Racing Optics - 17.770; 10. Dan Hillberg, 82, Hillberg -
17.833; 11. Mike Kirby, 4, Alexander -17.852; 12. Josh Ford, 73,
Ford - 17.865; 13. Bill Rose, 11, Wilkerson - 17.867; 14. Danny
Ebberts, 77, Acosta - 17.873; 15. Bobby Cody, 92, Sertich -
17.895; 16. Jason York, 25N, York - 17.916; 17. Rip Williams, 3,
Jory - 17.947; 18. Davey Pombo, 3P, Pombo - 17.960; 19. Keith
Williamson, 95, Williamson - 17.977; 20. Tom Stansberry, 48,
Bach - 18.011; 21. R. J. Johnson, 15AZ, Martin - 18.097; 22.
Johnny Rodreguez, 7, Priestley - 18.120; 23. Greg Bragg, 33,
Blair - 18.203; 24. Adam Mitchell, 14, Lancaster - 18.357; 25.
David Cardey, 59, Giardina - 18.360; 26. Steve Ostling, 0,
Shoemaker - 18.399; 27. Jack DeArmond Jr, 24, DeArmond - 18.420;
28. Danny Sheridan, 18, Kittle - 18.540; 29. Jordan Hermansader,
5, Keller - 18.550; 30. Chris D'Arcy, 77C, D'Arcy - 18.600; 31.
Rick Becker, 67, Becker - 18.779; 32. Ryan Devitt, 35R, Blenkarn
- 18.956; 33. Robert Ellis, 43, Ellis - 19.046; 34. Nadine
Keller, 16, Keller - 19.062; 35. Mark Heidenreich, 22,
Heidenreich - 19.128; 36. ® Joshua Williams, 34, Williams -
19.177; 37. ® Matt Stewart, 85, Stewart - 19.380; 38. Jim
Giardina, 58, Giardina - 19.420; 39. Eric Severson, 36, Severson
- 19.495; 40. Dan Tedrick, 88, Tedrick - 20.026; 41. Jeremy
Ellerston, 98. Ellerston - 25.070; 42. Jimmy Evans.
TROPHY DASH: (3 laps) 1. Kruseman, 2. Spencer, 3. Davis, 4.
Gaunt. Time 53.95
CONSI: (8 laps) 1. Keller, 2. J Williams, 3. Heidenreich, 4.
Stewart, 5. Severson, 6, Tedrick, 7. Ellis, 8 Giardina,
Ellerston DNS. No Time Seversom crashed hard to end the race
early.
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. R Williams, 2. Cardey, 3. Hermansader,
4. Davis, 5. Rose, 6. Johnson, 7. Clark, 8. Keller, 9. Wilson.
Time 3:05:09
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1.Pombo, 2. Ostling, 3. Jones, 4.
Rodreguez, 5. Ebberts, 6. Hillberg, 7. J Williams, 8. D'Arcy, 9.
Gaunt. No Time
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Kruseman, 2. Kirby, 3. Becker, 4.
Bragg, 5. Williamson, 6. Heidenreich, 7. Cody, 8, Ballard, 9.
Dearmond. No Time
FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Gardner, 2. Sheridan, 3. Spencer, 4.
Ford, 5. York, 6. Mitchell, 7. Stansberry, 8. Devitt, 9.
Stewart. Time 3:16:77
SEMI: (12 laps) 1.Gaunt, 2. Rose, 3.Cody, 4. Ballard, 5.
Stansberry, 6. Mitchell, 7. Williamson, 8. D'Arcy, 9. Johnson,
10. Dearmond, 11. Keller, 12. York, 13. Hillberg, 14. Wilson,
15. Devitt, 16. Ebberts, 17. J Williams, 18. Stewart, 19. Clark,
20. Heidenreich. No Time
FEATURE: (50 laps) 1. Damion Gardner, 2. Cory Kruseman, 3. Josh
Ford, 4. Mike Kirby, 5. Danny Sheridan, 6. Steve Ostling, 7. Rip
Williams, 8. Rickie Gaunt, 9. Bill Rose, 10. Johnny Rodreguez,
11. Seth Wilson, 12. Charles Davis Jr, 13. Alan Ballard, 14.
Davey Pombo, 15. Bobby Cody, 16. Greg Bragg, 17. Jordan
Hermansader, 18. Tom Stansberry, 19. Mike Spencer, 20. Tony
Jones, 21. Rick Becker, 22 Adam Mitchell, 23. Keith Williamson.
No Time
MIKE KIRBY TAMES SANTA MARIA OVAL FOR WIN NUMBER
TWO OF YEAR
By Ken Wagner
Mike Kirby used something he rarely has at Santa
Maria Speedway, a little luck, and won his second Valvoline
USAC/CRA event of the year. After a spinning car took out
leaders, Mike Spencer and local favorite Danny Sheridan, Kirby
took over and led the final 11 laps of the 30 lap Main Event,
with Damion Gardner as his shadow, for his second win of the
year and 10th
lifetime with the club.
Gardner set his 17th fast time of the
season as he claimed second followed by Rip Williams, Rickie
Gaunt and Rodney Argo. Gardner now trails the point leader
Williams by only 10 points with 10 weekends of racing left in
the season. Hard Charger was Charles Davis Jr who came
from 18th
to 9th.
VALVOLINE USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE
RESULTS: August 27, 2005 – Santa Maria, California – Santa Maria
Speedway
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Damion Gardner, 50,
Chaffin-13.992; 2. Josh Ford, 73, Ford-14.143; 3. Rip Williams,
3, Jory-14.150; 4. Rodney Argo, 19, Argo-14.207; 5. Mike Kirby,
4, Alexander-14.238; 6. Davey Pombo, 3P, Pombo-14.277; 7. Danny
Sheridan, 18, Kittle-14.410; 8. Rickie Gaunt, 2A, Smiley-14.463;
9. Mike Spencer, 44, Engstrom-14.484; 10. Cory Kruseman, 38,
Crossno-14.580; 11. Evan Suggs, 33e, Suggs-14.582; 12. Jordan
Hermansader, 5, Keller-14.765; 13. Danny Ebberts, 77,
Acosta-14.777; 14. Darren Simas, 12, Simas-14.786; 15. Alan
Ballard, 97, Ballard-14.790; 16. Seth Wilson, 17, Racing
Optics-14.841; 17. Rusty Carlile, 36X, Carlisle-14.881; 18.
Charles Davis Jr, 8A, Smiley-15.143; 19. Nadine Keller, 16,
Keller-15.280; 20. Ryan Devitt, 35R, Blenkarn-15.317; 21. Peter
Murphy, 21, Tarlton-15.462; 22. R.J. Johnson, 15AZ,
Martin-15.462; 23. Matt Stewart, 85, Stewart-15.700; 24. Jeff
Fiscus, 90, Dean-15.748.
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Wilson, 2. Gardner, 3. Kruseman,
4. Johnson, 5. Sheridan, 6. Keller, 7. Argo, 8. Ebberts.
2:35:75
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Suggs, 2. Gaunt, 3. Ford, 4.
Kirby, 5. Carlile, 6. Simas, 7. Devitt, 8. Stewart. 2:33:00
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Murphy, 2. Williams, 3.
Hermansader, 4. Spencer, 5. Davis, 6. Pombo, 7. Ballard, 8.
Fiscus. 2:28;97
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Argo, 2. Pombo, 3. Ebberts, 4. Simas,
5. Ballard, 6. Keller, 7. Stewart, 8. Devitt.
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Mike Kirby, 2. Damion Gardner, 3.
Rip Williams, 4. Rickie Gaunt, 5. Rodney Argo, 6. Josh Ford, 7.
Davey Pombo, 8. Jordan Hermansader. 9. Charles Davis Jr. 10.
Peter Murphy, 11. Danny Sheridan 12. Evan Suggs, 13. Randy
Carlile, 14. R.J. Johnson, 15. Mike Spencer, 16. Alan Ballard,
17. Seth Wilson, 18. Danny Ebberts, 19. Darren Simas, 20. Cory
Kruseman. NT
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**Ballard flipped during the feature.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-19 Spencer, Laps 20-30 Kirby.
NEW USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR STANDINGS: 1-Williams-1,339;
2-Gardner-1,329; 3-Kirby-1,237; 4-Kruseman-1,187; 5-Davis-994;
6-Gaunt-909; 7-Spencer-846; 8-Ford-760; 9-Tony Jones-673;
10-Wilson-658.
NEXT USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR RACE: September 3 – Perris (CA) Auto
Speedway
Kruseman Cruises to Perris Win; Wins
Bagley Classic For The Third Time!
By Ken Wagner
Cory Kruseman of Ventura, California
won the 5th Annual Jeff Bagley Classic at Perris Auto
Speedway this week. Driving the ITI Performance – Sander
Engineering, Bullet, Downing Engines # 38, Cory took the lead of
the Valvoline USAC/CRA 30 lapper on lap five and led Danny
Sheridan to the checkered flag. It was Cory’s second win in a
row and sixth on the season. In the winner’s circle Cory said “I
was just hanging on in the race car and I had three guardians
that were up there with me the whole race” referring to Jeff,
Paul and Helen Bagley family that he had been very close to in
his career.
Damion Gardner finished third and
pulled to within 15 points of USAC/CRA point leader Rip Williams
who finished ninth. Damion was followed by Mike Spencer and Mike
Kirby to round out the top five. On the full moon night, there
were six yellow flag stops for various incidents.
Josh Ford
won the Snap-on Tools trophy dash plus his heat. The other heat
winners were Jason York, Greg Bragg and Tony Jones. The Semi was
won by Mike Spencer. The hard charger of the night was Danny
Faria.
VALVOLINE USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR SERIES
RACE RESULTS: August 20, 2005 Perris, California Perris Auto
Speedway
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Mike Spencer, 44, Engstrom-16.971; 2. Cory
Kruseman, 38, Crossno-16.985; 3. Troy Cline, 0,
Shoemaker-17.006; 4. Josh Ford, 3, Ford-17.066; 5. Troy
Rutherford, 7, Priestley-17.066; 6. Damion Gardner, 50,
Chaffin-17.113; 7. Tony Jones, 87, Vermeer/Ferreira-17.142; 8.
Mike Kirby, 4, Alexander-17.235; 9. Rip Williams, 3,
Jory-17.349; 10. David Cardey, 59, Giardina-17.378; 11. Danny
Sheridan, 18, Kittle-17.425; 12. Adam Mitchell, 14, Lancaster -
17.451; 13. Danny Ebberts, 77, Acosta-17.473; 14. Jason York,
25N, York-17.494; 15. Rodney Argo, 19, Argo-17.534; 16.
Danny Faria, 17V, Faria-17.575; 17. Jordan Hermansader, 5,
Keller-17.642; 18. J.Hicks, 66, Miller-17.645; 19. R.J. Johnson,
15AZ, Martin-17.660; 20. Seth Wilson, 17, Racing Optics-17.670;
21. Greg Bragg, 33, Blair-17.730; 22. Joshua Williams, 34,
Williams-18.006; 23. Nadine Keller, 16, Keller-18.067; 24. Dan
Hillberg, 82, Hillberg-18.067; 25. Randy Waitman, Y69,
Waitman-18.085; 26. Jim Giardina, 58. Giardina-18.125; 27. Mark
Heidenreich, 22, Heidenreich-18.142; 28. Davey Pombo, 11,
Wilkerson-18.267; 29. Larry Lloyd, 87L, Lloyd-18.555; 30. Jack
DeArmond Jr, 24, DeArmond-18.660; 31. Dan Tedrick, 88,
Tedrick-18.845; 32. Matt Stewart, 85, Stewart-19.033; 33. Terry
Foster, 19X, Foster - 19.067; 34. Nate Ziegler, N8,
Ziegler-19.073.
TROPHY DASH: (3 laps) 1. Ford, 2.
Kruseman, 3. Cline, 4. Spencer. 54:15
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Bragg, 2. R.Williams, 3. Ebberts, 4.
Hermansader, 5. Rutherford, 6. Spencer, 7. Waitman, 8. Lloyd, 9.
Foster. 2:58:04
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. York, 2. Gardner, 3. Kruseman, 4. J
Williams, 5. Dearmond, 6. Hicks, 7. Giardina, 8. Ziegler. NT
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Jones, 2. Heidenreich, 3. Argo, 4.
Sheridan, 5. Johnson, 6. Cline, 7. Keller, 8. Tedrick. 3:00:54
FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Ford, 2. Pombo, 3. Wilson, 4.
Hillberg, 5. Kirby, 6. Mitchell, 7. Faria, 8. Stewart. 2:58:76
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Spencer, 2. Cline, 3. Kirby, 4. Rutherford,
5. Mitchell, 6. Faria, 7. Waitman, 8. Dearmond, 9. Lloyd, 10.
Ziegler, 11. Giardina, 12. Tedrick, 13. Stewart, 14. Hicks, 15.
Foster. 3:33:30
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Cory Kruseman,
2. Danny Sheridan, 3. Damion Gardner, 4, Mike Spencer, 5. Mike
Kirby, 6. Troy Cline, 7.Danny Faria, 8. Rodney Argo, 9. Rip
Williams, 10. Greg Bragg, 11. Troy Rutherford, 12. Jason York,
13. Josh Williams, 14. Dan Hillberg, 15. Mark Heidenreich, 16.
Seth Wilson, 17. R.J. Johnson, 18. Josh Ford, 19. Jordan
Hermansader, 20. Adam Mitchell, 21. Tony Jones, 22. Danny
Ebberts, 23. Davey Pombo. NT
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Cardey flipped during heat 2. Danny Faria flipped during heat 4.
Josh Ford and R.J. Johnson flipped during the feature.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-4 Ebberts, Laps 5-30 Kruseman.
NEW USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR STANDINGS: 1-R.Williams-1,274;
2-Gardner-1,259; 3-Kirby-1170; 4-Kruseman-1,168; 5-Charles Davis
Jr.-954; 6-Rickie Gaunt-851;
7-Spencer-818; 8-Josh Ford-704; 9-Jones-673; 10-Wilson-631.
NEXT USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR RACE: August 27 Santa Maria (CA)
Speedway
Kruseman Wins at the PAS
VALVOLINE USAC/CRA
SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: August 6, 2005 – Perris,
California – Perris Auto Speedway
QUALIFICATIONS: 1.
Damion Gardner, 50, Chaffin-16.918; 2. Charles Davis, Jr., 8A,
Smiley-17.122; 3. Seth Wilson, 17, Racing Optics-17.265; 4. Mike
Spencer, 44, Engstrom-17.281; 5. Rip Williams, 3, Jory-17.307;
6. Rickie Gaunt, 2A, Smiley 17.358; 7. Cory Kruseman, 38,
Crossno-17.415; 8. Troy Rutherford, 7, Priestley-17.442; 9.
Rodney Argo, 19, Argo-17.452; 10. Mike Kirby, 4,
Alexander-17.526; 11. Bobby Graham, 14, Lancaster-17.598; 12.
David Cardey, 59, Giardina-17.602; 13. J Hicks, 66,
Miller-17.695; 14. Jordan Hermansader, 5, Keller-17.705; 15.
Steve Ostling, 45, Willis 17.839; 16. R.J. Johnson, 15AZ,
Martin-17.879; 17. Alan Ballard, 97, Ballard-17.892; 18. Josh
Ford, 73, Ford-17.977; 19. Jason York, 25N, York-18.001; 20.
Bobby Cody, 41, Cody-18.013; 21. Dan Hillberg, 82,
Hillberg-18.209; 22. Joshua Williams, 34, Williams-18.213; 23.
Greg Bragg, 33, Blair-18.296; 24. Mark Heidenreich, 22,
Heidenreich-18.305; 25. Nadine Keller, 16, Keller-18.324; 26.
Brandon Springstead, 36, Springstead-18.452; 27. Nate Ziegler,
N8, Ziegler-18.854; 28. Jim Thomson, 91, Thomson-18.938; 29.
Robert Ellis, 43, Ellis-19.028; 30. Matt Stewart, 85,
Stewart-19.177; 31. Brandon Thomson, 24, Thomson-19.548; 32.
Tony Everhart, 55, Everhart-19.998; 33. Jimmy Evans, 76, Evans
NT.
FIRST HEAT: (10
laps) 1. Gardner, 2. Keller, 3. R.Williams, 4. Ballard, 5. Argo,
6. Hicks, 7. Ellis, 8. Hillberg. NT
SECOND HEAT: (10
laps) 1. Gaunt, 2. J.Williams, 3. Kirby, 4. Ford, 5. Davis, 6.
Hermansader, 7. Stewart, 8. Springstead. NT
THIRD HEAT: (10
laps) 1. Kruseman, 2. York, 3. Bragg, 4. Graham, 5. Wilson, 6.
Ostling, 7. B.Thomson, 8. Ziegler. 3:01:55
FOURTH HEAT: (10
laps) 1. Cardey, 2. Spencer, 3. Rutherford, 4. Heidenreich, 5.
Cody, 6. Johnson, 7. J.Thomson, 8. Everhart. NT
SEMI: (12 laps) 1.
Hermansader, 2. Davis, 3. Wilson, 4. Argo, 5. Hicks, 6. Ostling,
7. Hillberg, 8. Johnson, 9. Stewart, 10. Ziegler, 11. B.Thomson.
3:37:64
FEATURE: (30 laps)
1. Cory Kruseman, 2. Mike Spencer, 3. Mike Kirby, 4. David
Cardey, 5. Troy Rutherford, 6. Charles Davis, Jr., 7. Jordan
Hermansader, 8. Steve Ostling, 9. Bobby Graham, 10. Damion
Gardner, 11. Rickie Gaunt, 12. Joshua Williams, 13. J.Hicks, 14.
Nadine Keller, 15. Rip Williams, 16. Seth Wilson, 17. Josh Ford,
18. Jason York, 19. Mark Heidenreich, 20. Alan Ballard, 21.
Rodney Argo, 22. Greg Bragg. NT
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**Springstead flipped during the second heat. R.J. Johnson and
Cody flipped during the fourth heat.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS:
Laps 1-12 Kirby, Laps 13-26 R.Williams, Laps 27-30 Kruseman.
NEW USAC/CRA SPRINT
CAR STANDINGS: 1-R.Williams-1,231; 2-Gardner-1,197;
3-Kirby-1,120; 4-Kruseman-1,097; 5-Davis-954; 6-Gaunt-851;
7-Spencer-757; 8-Ford-676; 9-Tony Jones-652; 10-Ostling-619.
NEXT USAC/CRA SPRINT
CAR RACE: August 20 – Perris (CA) Auto Speedway
Gardner Completes Skagit Sweep
7-30-05 Andrew Kunas:
It’s safe to say that Damion Gardner
knows his way around Skagit Speedway. The Concord, California
won Saturday’s USAC/CRA wingless sprint car event at the
Washington clay oval to complete a weekend sweep, having also
won Friday’s event. He has now won three straight USAC/CRA races
at Skagit Speedway.
Starting fourth, Gardner quickly moved to second on the first
lap of a 40-lap feature race. A caution on lap two gave him a
chance to pass initial leader Cory Kruseman of Ventura, Calif.
Gardner delivered, getting around Kruseman, the winner of the
inaugural USAC/CRA event at Skagit last year, in turn two on the
restart.
Gardner quickly pulled away, while Kruseman, Mike Kirby and Bud
Kaeding gave chase. Kruseman, who recently won the Indiana
Sprint Week title on the USAC National Sprint Car circuit, kept
pace with Gardner as they worked through traffic. Kruseman’s
shot at victory disappeared on lap 20. After 18 straight laps of
green flag racing, Kruseman tangled with the badly struggling
series champion Rip Williams in turn one. Unable to evade, local
racer Roy Blumenhagen tagged Kruseman and flipped his machine to
bring out the red flag.
Lap 23 saw the scariest moment of the evening when Tony Jones
flipped violently down the front stretch. After being tended to
by medical personnel, Jones was able to climb out of the car
under his own power. Complaining of pain, Jones was still taken
away in an ambulance as a precaution.
Inheriting the second position after Kruseman’s mishap, Kirby
had four lapped cars between himself and Gardner. Kirby got
around two of them, but still had to contend with the car of
Dave Pombo, who later surprised everyone by passing Gardner and
getting back on the lead lap. Another caution came on lap 28
when local star Brock Lemley, who had earlier won the 1200cc
mini-sprint feature, came to a stop in turn four. With Pombo out
of the way, Kirby was on Gardner’s rear end on the restart and
others that followed, but Gardner never made a mistake and
pulled away for the win.
Eighth-starting Kaeding wound up third after holding off both
Mike Spencer and Danny Sheridan for the position. Jordan
Hermansader, Josh Ford, J Hicks, Steve Ostling and Pombo rounded
out the top ten. The highest finishing local driver was Robby
Vaughn of Everett, Washington.
Williams, the USAC/CRA points leader entering the event,
finished 18th after a variety of problems during the feature
race. Kruseman was 19th.
Finishing behind Lemley in the 15-lap mini-sprint feature was
Evan Funk. Ironically, each driver won his heat race also. Jason
Bloodgood, the other driver pulling double-duty Saturday night,
finished fourth in the mini-sprint feature and 13th in the
USAC/CRA B-Main.
Bud Kaeding set fast time in USAC/CRA qualifying with a time of
13.673 seconds around the 3/10-mile clay oval. Funk was fastest
in the mini-sprints, taking just 14.381 seconds to drive around
the track, which is large and very fast for a mini-sprint of any
size. Winning the USAC/CRA heat races were Hicks, Alan Ballard,
Lemley, and Alan Munn.
USAC/CRA wingless sprint cars
Skagit Speedway – Alger, WA
July 30, 2005
UNOFFICIAL RESULTS
35 cars
Fast qualifier: 26 Bud Kaeding, 13.673 seconds.
Heat 1 (10 laps): 1. 66 J Hicks, 2. 38 Cory Kruseman, 3. 26 Bud
Kaeding, 4. 3 Rip Williams, 5. 9 Jeff Bell, 6. 21 Robby Vaughn,
7. 47 Jason Bloodgood, 8. 5 Steve Ostling, 9. 75x Kevin Smith.
Heat 2 (10 laps): 1. 40 Brock Lemley, 2. 17 Seth Wilson, 3. 16
Jordan Hermansader, 4. 23 Seth Bergman, 5. 8 Ronnie Case, 6. 7
Tony Jones, 7. 57 Bud Ashe, 8. 99e Alex Hantell, 9. 14r R.J.
Johnson.
Heat 3 (10 laps): 1. 97 Alan Ballard, 2. 50 Damion Gardner, 3.
3p Dave Pombo, 4. 73 Josh Ford, 5. 14 Danny Sheridan, 6. 1 Jimmy
Dietz, 7. 63 Axel Walker, 8. 67 Rick Becker.
Heat 4 (10 laps): 1. 42 Alan Munn, 2. 75 Roy Blumenhagen, 3. 4
Mike Kirby, 4. 78t Kelsey Carpenter, 5. 8r Jim Richardson, 6. 44
Mike Spencer, 7. 76e Josh Edson, 8. 13r Glenn Reinstra.
B-Main (12 laps): 1. 7 Tony Jones, 2. 44 Mike Spencer, 3. 8r Jim
Richardson, 4. 5 Steve Ostling, 5. 14 Danny Sheridan, 6. 67 Rick
Becker, 7. 99e Alex Hantell, 8. 21 Robby Vaughn, 9. 9 Jeff Bell,
10. 14r R.J. Johnson, 11. 57 Bud Ashe, 12. 1 Jimmy Dietz, 13. 47
Jason Bloodgood, 14. 75x Kevin Smith, 15. 8 Ronnie Case, 16. 76e
Josh Edson, 17. 13r Glenn Reinstra, 18. 63 Axel Walker.
A-Main (40 laps): 1. 50 Damion Gardner, 2. 4 Mike Kirby, 3. 26
Bud Kaeding, 4. 44 Mike Spencer, 5. 14 Danny Sheridan, 6. 16
Jordan Hermansader, 7. 73 Josh Ford, 8. 66 J Hicks, 9. 5 Steve
Ostling, 10. 3p Dave Pombo, 11. 17 Seth Wilson, 12. 67 Rick
Becker, 13. 21 Robby Vaughn, 14. 40 Brock Lemley, 15. 97 Alan
Ballard, 16. 78t Kelsey Carpenter, 17. 23 Seth Bergman, 18. 3
Rip Williams, 19. 38 Cory Kruseman, 20. 8r Jim Richardson, 21. 7
Tony Jones, 22. 75 Roy Blumenhagen, 23. 99e Alex Hantell, 24. 42
Alan Munn.
Gardner Tops Skagit Opener
by Andrew Kunas
Picking up where he left off last
year, Damion Gardner drove the wheels off his wingless sprint
car and won Friday’s USAC/CRA wingless sprint car event at
Skagit Speedway.
The Concord, California driver, who
won last year’s USAC/CRA event at the Washington clay oval, took
the lead from defending series champion Rip Williams on a lap 13
restart after starting the 30-lap race on the outside of the
fourth row. Five laps earlier, Gardner made a spectacular move,
passing both Rick Becker and Steve Ostling in turns one and two
to move from fourth to second.
Williams, out of Yorba Linda,
Calif., fought back after Gardner took the lead, but Gardner
dropped from the high groove to the low groove in turns three
and four to keep Williams behind him. Cory Kruseman of Ventura,
Calif. moved from his seventh starting position to finish
second, after jumping from fourth to second around both Norco,
Calif. driver Tony Jones and Williams on lap 28.
Jones, who started sixth, settled
for third with Williams behind him in fourth. Bud Kaeding of
Campbell, Calif. finished fifth aboard the Kevin Rudeen owned
sprinter. Mike Kirby, Josh Ford, Davey Pombo, Mike Spencer and
Rick Becker rounded out the top ten.
Before being passed by Gardner,
Williams had led since lap three when he passed Becker, the
initial leader.
Everett, Washington’s Alex Hantell
was the highest finishing local racer, taking 11th
place. Canadian transplant Roy Blumenhagen was 12th.
The race was slowed five times,
including two times for red flags. Langley, British Columbia’s
Travis Rutz and Mount Vernon, Wash.’s Kelly Barnett both rolled
their machines in separate incidents.
Winning the 12-lap B-Main race was
Mike Spencer, who made a last lap pass around race long leader
Davey Pombo in traffic. Transferring to the A-Main with Spencer
and Pombo were Josh Ford, Alan Ballard, J. Hicks, and Alex
Hantell. Hicks, however, could not start, allowing seventh place
finisher Bud Ashe to start in the A-Main.
Gardner started the evening by
setting a new track record for wingless sprint cars in
qualifying when he navigated the 3/10-mile, high-banked, clay
oval in 13.387 seconds. Picking up ten-lap heat race victories
were Blumenhagen, Seth Wilson, Jones, and Ronnie Case.
Thirty-eight sprint cars were on
hand for the tour’s second annual visit to Skagit. The USAC/CRA
sprint cars return to action Saturday night at Skagit Speedway,
joined by the 1200cc mini-sprints, who regularly compete on
Friday nights at Deming Speedway near Bellingham.
United States Auto Club / California
Racing Association wingless sprint cars, Skagit Speedway –
Alger, WA, July 29, 2005
UNOFFICIAL RESULTS
38 cars
Fast qualifier: 50 Damion Gardner,
13.387 seconds (New track record for wingless sprint cars).
Heat 1 (10 laps): 1. 75 Roy
Blumenhagen, 2. 50 Damion Gardner, 3. 4 Mike Kirby, 4. 17b Kelly
Barnett, 5. 44 Mike Spencer, 6. 8r Jim Richardson, 7. 75x Kevin
Smith, 8. 99e Alex Hantell, 9. 21 Robby Vaughn, 10. 63 Axel
Walker.
Heat 2 (10 laps): 1. 17 Seth Wilson,
2. 67 Rick Becker, 3. 38 Cory Kruseman, 4. 14 Danny Sheridan, 5.
78t Kelsey Carpenter, 6. 3P Davey Pombo, 7. 5D Josh Dewitt, 8.
14r Robert McNulty, 9. 9x Jeff Bell. DNS – 44h Michael Harris.
Heat 3 (10 laps): 1. 7 Tony Jones,
2. 42 Alan Munn, 3. 3 Rip Williams, 4. 8x Travis Rutz, 5. 57 Bud
Ashe, 6. 66 J Hicks, 7. 97 Alan Ballard, 8. 9 Mark Hinkle, 9.
76e Josh Edson.
Heat 4 (10 laps): 1. 8 Ronnie Case,
2. 5 Steve Ostling, 3. 26 Bud Kaeding, 4. 16 Jordan Hermansader,
5. 14j R.J. Johnson, 6. 1 Jimmy Deitz, 7. 73 Josh Ford, 8. 23b
Kelly Barnett, 9. 01 Bert Johnson.
B-Main (12 laps): 1. 44 Mike
Spencer, 2. 3P Davey Pombo, 3. 73 Josh Ford, 4. 97 Alan Ballard,
5. 66 J Hicks, 6. 99e Alex Hantell, 7. 57 Bud Ashe, 8. 14j R.J.
Johnson, 9. 1 Jimmy Deitz, 10. 21 Robby Vaughn, 11. 8r Jim
Richardson, 12. 14r Robert McNulty, 13. 23 Seth Bergman, 14. 5D
Josh Dewitt, 15. 75x Kevin Smith, 16. 63 Axel Walker, 17. 78t
Kelsey Carpenter, 18. 9 Mark Hinkle.
A-Main (30 laps): 1. 50 Damion
Gardner, 2. 38 Cory Kruseman, 3. 7 Tony Jones, 4. 3 Rip
Williams, 5. 26 Bud Kaeding, 6. 4 Mike Kirby, 7. 73 Josh Ford,
8. 3P Davey Pombo, 9. 44 Mike Spencer, 10. 67 Rick Becker, 11.
99e Alex Hantell, 12. 75 Roy Blumenhagen, 13. 17 Seth Wilson,
14. 16 Jordan Hermansader, 15. 42 Alan Munn, 16. 8 Ronnie Case,
17. 57 Bud Ashe, 18. 14 Danny Sheridan, 19. 17b Kelly Barnett,
20. 5 Steve Ostling, 21. 97 Alan Ballard, 22. 8x Travis Rutz,
DNS – 66 J Hicks.
Gardner Wins at Perris
By Ken Wagner
Damion Gardner returned
from Indiana Speedweek to capture his 8th Valvoline
USAC/CRA event of the year in a car he once drove, and sold to
Kevin Urton several years ago. The Demon, driving the Temecula
Valley Pipe & Supply, Arizona Race
Mart, Eagle, Shaver # 50,
set fast time for the 14th time this season and
started eighth in the 30 lap feature. He took the lead from Rip
Williams on lap 27 and won going away. The team’s familiar red
car was still in Indiana for more racing, so they acquired the
old silver and green version Damion had driven to numerous wins,
and he didn’t skip a beat. In the winner’s circle he said “Kevin
had all my old green stuff and I knew if I was patient, I could
win as they were all over the track.”
Rip Williams finished
second and still maintains over a 100 point leader over Gardner
as the club hits the half way point in the season the next race
at Skagit. Rip won his third Snap-on Tools Trophy Dash of the
year as he leads that category. He was followed in the A Main by
Danny “Showtime” Sheridan, Mike Kirby and Mike Spencer to round
out the top five.
Early leader, Cory
Kruseman, and new 2005 Indiana Sprint Week Champion, was pulling
away when his car quit running on lap 16. It was a reported
electrical problem. He finished 18th. Mike Kirby was
the hard charger of the night coming form 13th to get
4th officially, but had to restart at the back after
an opening lap shunt.
The heats were won by
Cory Kruseman, Charles Davis Jr, Jordan Hermansader and Tony
Jones. The Semi was taken by Rickie Gaunt. The full moon racing
only had two flips on the night as the large crowd enjoyed the
great racing.
PERRIS AUTO SPEEDWAY - PERRIS, CA
JULY 23, 2005
25 CARS
QUALIFICATIONS:
1. Damion Gardner, 50, Chaffin - 16.637, 2. Rickie Gaunt, 2A,
,Smiley - 16.747, 3. Rip Williams, 3, Jory - 16.768, 4. Mike
Spencer, 44, Engstrom - 16.830, 5. Steve Ostling, 5, Keller -
16.961 6. Josh Ford, 73, Ford - 17.000, 7. Bobby Graham, 14,
Lancaster - 17.070, 8. Danny Sheridan, 18, Kittle - 17.135, 9.
Cory Kruseman, 38, Crossno - 17.167, 10. Troy Rutherford, 11,
Wilkerson - 17.169, 11. Bobby Cody, 41, Cody - 17.198, 12. R. J.
Johnson, 15AZ, Martin - 17.238, 13. Mike Kirby, 4, Alexander -
17.316, 14. Charles Davis Jr., 8A, Smiley - 17.332, 15. Jordan
Hermansader, 92, Sertich - 17.424, 16. Tony Jones, 87,
Vermeer/Ferreira - 17.433, 17. J Hicks, 66, Miller - 17.490, 18.
David Cardey, 59, Giardina - 17.506, 19. Greg Bragg, 33, Blair -
17.654, 20. Tom Stansberry, 48, Bach - 17.978, 21. Josh
Williams, 34, Williams - 18.070, 22. Brandon Springstead, 36,
Springstead - 18.493, 23. Robert Ellis, 43, Ellis - 18.703, 24.
Matt Stewart, 85, Stewart - 18.883, 25. Seth Wilson, 17, Racing
Optics - 20.544.
TROPHY DASH: (3 laps)
1. Rip Williams, 2. Damion Gardner, 3. Mike Spencer, 4. Rickie
Gaunt. 51:30.
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps)
1. Cory Kruseman, 2. Mike Kirby, 3. Damion Gardner, 4. Steve
Ostling, 5. Josh Williams, 6. J Hicks, 7. Seth Wilson (DNS).
2:57:28.
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps)
1. Charles Davis Jr., 2. Josh Ford, 3. David Cardey, 4. Troy
Rutherford, 5. Brandon Springstead, 6. Rickie Gaunt. 2:56:50.
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps)
1. Jordan Hermansader, 2. Rip Williams, 3. Bobby Cody, 4. Greg
Bragg, 5. Bobby Graham, 6. Robert Ellis. 2:56:46.
FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps)
1. Tony Jones, 2. Danny Sheridan, 3. R.J. Johnson, 4. Mike
Spencer, 5. Tom Stansberry, 6. Matt Stewart (DNF). 2:56:73.
SEMI: (12 laps)
1. Rickie Gaunt, 2. Bobby Graham, 3. Seth Wilson, 4. Josh
Williams, 5. Tom Stansberry, 6. J Hicks, 7. Brandon Springstead,
8. Robert Ellis, 9. Matt Stewart. NT.
FEATURE: (30 laps - With Starting Positions)
1. Damion Gardner (8th), 2. Rip Williams (7th), 3. Danny
Sheridan (3rd), 4. Mike Kirby (13th), 5. Mike Spencer (6th), 6.
Josh Ford (4th), 7. Rickie Gaunt (9th), 8. Bobby Graham (10th),
9. David Cardey (18th), 10. R.J. Johnson (12th), 11. Greg Bragg
(19th), 12. Troy Rutherford (1st), 13. Josh Williams (21st), 14.
Seth Wilson (22nd), 15. Jordan Hermansader (15th), 16. Bobby
Cody (11th), 17. Tony Jones (16th), 18. Cory Kruseman (2nd), 19.
J Hicks (17th), 20. Steve Ostling (5th), 21. Tom Stansberry
(20th), 22. Charles Davis Jr. (14th). NT.
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NEXT USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR RACE: July 29-30 Skagit (WA) Speedway
Kruseman Wins "Firecracker 50"
Cory Kruseman, from Ventura,
California, took the lead on lap 19 and “kruised” to a 50 lap
victory in front of a packed house at Perris Auto Speedway this
week. The eighteenth Valvoline USAC/CRA series race of the
season was racy from the start as Danny Sheridan took the lead
and drove a hard line maintaining it until Cory caught up. The
battle between them wasn’t settled for several laps as they
swapped the lead until Kruseman surged ahead for good. Cory
drove the ITI Performance, Sander Engineering, Bullitt, Downing
# 38 to a heat race win before starting sixth in the main event.
He quickly moved in to second and worked hard to take the lead.
Danny Sheridan hasn’t had a lot of
luck lately, but almost pulled a win out this week when he
finished second in the El Camino Pipe & Supply, Red Line Oil,
Stinger, Pick # 18. Danny tied his best ever 410 finish as he
was on his game to give Cory a tough road for his win. Danny was
followed by Steve Ostling, Rip Williams, who came from 18th
to 4th for hard charger kudos, and Mike Spencer.
Damion Gardner had rear end problems
early in the race and couldn’t get new gears installed before
the next restart and finished last. Tony Jones won his second
trophy dash in a row, started seventh and cruised up to third
before a muffler fell off and he had a flat tire. He too
couldn’t make it back on the next restart to be the second car
out. Mike Kirby started 18th, had a flat tire and
came from the back to get eighth.
VALVOLINE USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR SERIES
RACE RESULTS: July 2, 2005 Perris, California Perris Auto
Speedway "Firecracker 50"
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Johnny Rodriguez, 7R, Priestley-16.980; 2.
Damion Gardner, 50, Chaffin-16.992; 3. Tony Jones, 87,
Vermeer/Ferreira-17.024; 4. Davey Pombo, 3p, Pombo-17.120; 5.
Cory Kruseman, 38, Crossno-17.144; 6. Charles Davis, Jr., 8A,
Smiley-17.202; 7. Bobby Cody, 41, Cody-17.227; 8. Steve Ostling,
5, Keller-17.260; 9. Rickie Gaunt, 2A, Smiley-17.318; 10. Danny
Sheridan, 18, Kittle-17.345; 11. Josh Ford, 73, Ford-17.345; 12.
Mike Spencer, 44, Engstrom-17.349; 13. R.J. Johnson, 15az,
Martin-17.426; 14. J. Hicks, 66, Miller-17.437; 15. Greg Bragg,
33, Blair-17.476; 16. Bobby Graham, 14, Lancaster-17.550; 17.
Mike Kirby, 4, Alexander-17.580; 18. Jordan Hermansader, 92,
Sertich-17.600; 19. Rip Williams, 3, Jory-17.635; 20. Tom
Stansberry, 48, Bach-17.670; 21. Troy Rutherford, 11,
Wilkerson-17.690; 22. Jimmy Crawford, 17c, Crawford-17.733; 23.
Alan Ballard, 97, Ballard-17.957; 24. Rick Becker, 67,
Becker-17.977; 25. Jimmy Thornell, 25, Ruth-18.005; 26. Verne
Sweeney, 98, Zoriki-18.133; 27. David Cardey, 59,
Giardina-18.170; 28. Joshua Williams, 34, Williams-18.207; 29.
Richard Rose, 8N, Ziegler-18.209; 30. Seth Wilson, 17, Racing
Optics-18.232; 31. Ronnie Case, 8, Case-18.253; 32. Shawn Kautz,
29, Kautz-18.283; 33. Brandon Springstead, 36,
Springstead-18.423; 34. Dan Hillberg, 82, Hillberg-18.487; 35.
Nadine Keller, 16, Keller-18.548; 36. Jim Giardina, 58,
Giardina-18.657; 37. Ryan Devitt, 35R, Blenkarn-18.663; 38. Eric
Severson, 36x, Severson-18.915; 39. David Sinsley, 69,
Sinsley-19.179; 40. Matt Stewart, 85, Stewart-19.393.
DASH: (3 laps) 1. Jones, 2. Pombo,
3. Gardner, 4. Rodriguez. :55:10
CONSOLATION RACE: (8 laps) 1. Springstead, 2. Keller, 3. Devitt,
4. Hillberg, 5. Sinsley, 6. Giardina, 7. Severson, 8. Stewart.
2:32:30
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Kruseman, 2. Kirby, 3. Gaunt, 4.
Rutherford, 5. Johnson, 6. Thornell, 7. Rose, 8, Springstead, 9.
Rodriguez. NT
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Sheridan,
2. Gardner, 3. Davis, 4. Hermansader, 5. Crawford, 6. Hicks, 7.
Keller, 8. Wilson, 9. Sweeney. NT
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. R.Williams, 2. Jones, 3. Ford, 4.
Cardey, 5. Cody, 6. Devitt, 7, Ballard, 8.Case, 9. Bragg. NT
FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Spencer, 2. Ostling, 3. Becker, 4.
Graham, 5. J.Williams, 6. Pombo, 7. Stansberry, 8. Hillberg, 9.
Kautz. 3:07:41
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Pombo, 2.
Rodriguez, 3. Johnson, 4. Cody, 5. Crawford, 6. Bragg, 7.
Thornell, 8. Hicks, 9. Ballard, 10. J.Williams, 11. Kautz, 12.
Case, 13. Springstead, 14. Sweeney, 15. Rose, 16. Devitt, 17.
Keller, 18. Hillberg, 19. Stansberry, 20. Wilson. NT
FEATURE: (50 laps) 1. Cory Kruseman, 2. Danny Sheridan, 3. Steve
Ostling, 4. Rip Williams, 5. Mike Spencer, 6. Charles Davis,
Jr., 7. Rickie Gaunt, 8. Mike Kirby, 9. Josh Ford, 10. Johnny
Rodriguez, 11. Jordan Hermansader, 12. Troy Rutherford, 13.
David Cardey, 14. Greg Bragg, 15. Rick Becker, 16. Bobby Cody,
17. Davey Pombo, 18. Alan Ballard, 19. R.J. Johnson, 20. Bobby
Graham, 21. Jimmy Crawford, 22. Tony Jones, 23. Damion Gardner.
NT
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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-16 Sheridan, Lap 17 Kruseman, Lap 18
Sheridan, Laps 19-50 Kruseman.
NEW USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR STANDINGS: 1-R.Williams-1,051;
2-Gardner-938; 3-Kruseman-914; 4-Kirby-888; 5-Davis-880;
6-Gaunt-760; 7-Jones-537; 8-Spencer-535; 9-Ballard-519;
10-Ford-504.
NEXT USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR RACE: July 23 Perris (CA) Auto
Speedway
Gardner Wins at Perris
VALVOLINE USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR SERIES
RACE RESULTS: June 25, 2005 Perris, California Perris Auto
Speedway
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Damion Gardner, 50, Chaffin-17.276; 2.
Charles Davis, Jr., 8A, Smiley-17.473; 3. Rip Williams, 3,
Jory-17.495; 4. Tony Jones, 87, Vermeer/Ferreria-17.507; 5. Mike
Spencer, 44, Engstrom-17.564; 6. Rickie Gaunt, 2A,
Smiley-17.593; 7. Steve Ostling, 5, Keller-17.670; 8. Cory
Kruseman, 38, Crossno-17.672; 9. Alan Ballard, 97,
Ballard-17.679; 10. Bobby Cody, 41 Cody-17.800; 11. Danny
Ebberts, 77, Acosta-17.806; 12. Mike Kirby, 4, Alexander-17.808;
13. David Cardey, 59, Giardina-17.969; 14. Seth Wilson, 17,
Racing Optics-18.065; 15. Jordan Hermansader, 92,
Sertich-18.067; 16. R.J. Johnson, 15AZ, Martin-18.128; 17. Jason
York, 25N, York-18.131; 18. Jimmy Crawford, 17C,
Crawford-18.154; 19. Bobby Graham, 14, Lancaster-18.198; 20.
Jimmy Thornell, 25, Thornell-18.232; 21. Tom Stansberry, 48,
Bach-18.245; 22. Ryan Devitt, 35, Blenkarn-18.270; 23. Nadine
Keller, 16, Keller-18.440; 24. Ronnie Case, 8, Case-18.686; 25.
Randy Waitman, 64, Waitman-18.783; 26. Joshua Williams, 34,
Williams-18.822; 27. Shawn Kautz, 29, Kautz-19.002; 28. Richard
Rose, 8N, Ziegler-19.174; 29. Brandon Thomson, 24,
Thomson-19.192; 30. Jim Giardina, 58, Giardina-19.454; 31. Matt
Stewart, 85, Stewart-20.110; 32. Jim Thomson, 91,
Thomson-20.305; 33. Josh Ford, 73, Ford-NT.
DASH: (3 laps) 1. Jones, 2. R.Williams, 3. Davis, 4. Gardner.
:54.24
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Cardey, 2. Gardner, 3. Stansberry, 4.
York, 5. Spencer, 6. Ballard, 7. Waitman, 8. B.Thomson. NT
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Cody, 2.
Crawford, 3. Gaunt, 4. Davis, 5. Wilson, 6. J.Williams, 7.
Devitt, 8. Giardina. 3:06.11
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Ebberts, 2. Ostling, 3. Graham, 4.
Kautz, 5. Keller, 6. Hermansader, 7. R.Williams, 8. Stewart. NT
FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Kruseman, 2. Kirby, 3. Jones, 4.
Johnson, 5. Case, 6. Thornell, 7. Rose. 3:06.35
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. R.Williams, 2. Balalrd, 3. Spencer, 4.
Wilson, 5. Hermansader, 6. Thornell, 7. Case, 8. J.Williams, 9.
Keller, 10. Giardina, 11. Waitman, 12. Stewart, 13. Devitt, 14.
Rose, 15. Ford, 16. B.Thomson, 17. J.Thomson.
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Damion Gardner, 2. Tony Jones, 3. Mike
Kirby, 4. Tom Stansberry, 5. Danny Ebberts, 6. Mike Spencer, 7.
Jason York, 8. Rip Williams, 9. Alan Ballard, 10. Bobby Graham,
11. Charles Davis, Jr., 12. Shawn Kautz, 13. Jimmy Thornell, 14.
David Cardey, 15. Cory Kruseman, 16. Rickie Gaunt, 17. Jimmy
Crawford, 18. Bobby Cody, 19. Steve Ostling, 20. Seth Wilson,
21. Jordan Hermansader, 22. R.J. Johnson. NT
----------------------------
**R.Williams flipped during the third heat. Waitman flipped
during the semi.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-5 Cody, Laps 6-18 Kruseman, Laps
19-30 Gardner.
NEW USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR STANDINGS: 1-R.Williams-992;
2-Gardner-913; 3-Kruseman-844; 4-Kirby-842; 5-Davis-828;
6-Gaunt-662; 7-Jones-513; 8-Ballard-502; 9-Spencer-479;
10-Wilson-476.
NEXT USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR RACE: July 2 Perris (CA) Auto
Speedway
Gaunt Sails at Santa Maria
VALVOLINE USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR SERIES
RACE RESULTS: June 18, 2005 Santa Maria, California Santa
Maria Speedway
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Rip Williams, 3, Jory-13.697; 2. Cory
Kruseman, 38, Crossno-13.790; 3. Charles Davis, Jr, 8A,
Smiley-13.820; 4. Davey Pombo, 3P, Pombo-13.850; 5. Damion
Gardner, 50, Chaffin-13.867; 6. Josh Ford, 73, Ford-13.884; 7.
Rickie Gaunt, 2A, Smiley-13.887; 8. Rodney Argo, 19,
Argo-13.895; 9. Danny Sheridan, 18, Kittle-13.939; 10. Jordan
Hermansader, 21A, Dorathy-13.997; 11. Alan Ballard, 97,
Ballard-14.102; 12. Mike Kirby, 4, Alexander-14.104; 13. Danny
Ebberts, 77, Acosta-14.205; 14. Bobby Cody, 41, Cody-14.233; 15.
Tom Stansberry, 48, Bach-14.342; 16. Jimmy Crawford, 17C,
Crawford-14.408; 17. Mike Knopf, 5K, Knopf 14.420; 18. Seth
Wilson, 17, Racing Optics-14.637; 19. Dennis Rodriguez, 20,
Rowher-14.940; 20. Nadine Keller, 16, Keller-15.008; 21. Thad
Bennett, 77x, Bennett-15.150.
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Crawford, 2. Ebberts. 3. Gaunt, 4.
Williams, 5. Hermansader, 6. Pombo, 7. Rodriguez. NT
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Cody, 2. Gardner, 3. Knopf, 4.
Ballard, 5. Kruseman, 6. Keller, 7. Argo. NT
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Wilson, 2. Sheridan, 3. Stansberry, 4.
Davis, 5. Ford, 6. Kirby, 7. Bennett. NT
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Pombo. 2. Kirby, 3. Keller, 4. Rodriguez, 5.
Bennett. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Rickie Gaunt, 2. Rip Williams, 3. Damion
Gardner, 4. Danny Ebberts, 5. Davey Pombo, 6. Alan Ballard, 7.
Bobby Cody, 8. Tom Stansberry, 9. Mike Kirby, 10. Jimmy
Crawford, 11. Josh Ford, 12. Mike Knopf, 13. Seth Wilson, 14.
Charles Davis, Jr., 15. Dennis Rodriguez, 16. Todd Bennett, 17.
Nadine Keller, 18, Cory Kruseman, 19. Jordan Hermansader, 20.
Danny Sheridan. NT
**Argo and Keller flipped during the second heat.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-8 Davis, Laps 9-30 Gaunt.
NEW USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR STANDINGS: 1-Williams-945;
2-Gardner-840; 3-Kruseman-813; 4-Davis-787; 5-Kirby-781;
6-Gaunt-684; 7-Ballard-463; 8-Wilason-462; 9-Ford-461; 10-Tony
Jones-447.
NEXT USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR RACE: June 25 Perris (CA) Auto
Speedway
Gaunt Wins at Perris
Story by Ken Wagner
In front
of a packed house, Rickie Gaunt won the 30 lap Valvoline
USAC/CRA feature this week at Perris Auto Speedway. It was his 2nd
win of the season in the Smiley Crane Service, Extreme
Chassis Co., Chargin, Extreme, # 2A sprinter. He passed Danny
Sheridan for the lead on lap twelve and led to the finish.
Rickie bobbled in front of the packed house with a lap to go and
with Rip Williams right behind him, but recovered and came home
the winner. He said in victory circle “I am such a jerk, I
almost didn’t win this son of a gun!
Rip Williams overcame an overheating
problem, with the help of a timely red flag stop when Sheridan
flipped, and made a strong challenge for his 101st
win, but came up a little short at the flag. Cory Kruseman
dropped out of the last race with a broken titanium bolt
that also ended up sending him to the pits in his heat this
week. He still ran third and climbed into 2nd in
points behind the leader Williams. R.J. Johnson continues to
impress as he ran fourth with Rickie’s teammate, Charles Davis
Jr, grabbing fifth for the “Blues Brothers” team.
On a racy
night with a lot of different car problems, Damion Gardner set
fast time for the 12th time and was running a close
second when his car veered into the wall sending him end over
end hard, but he was fine. Danny Sheridan led the first eleven
laps looking strong then caught a rut on lap 27 that sent him on
his head. Of the two, Danny’s car was more repairable.
VALVOLINE USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR SERIES
RACE RESULTS: June 11, 2005 Perris, California Perris Auto
Speedway
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Damion Gardner, 50, Chaffin-16.635; 2.
Charles Davis, Jr., 8A, Smiley-16.853; 3. Rip Williams, 3,
Jory-16.917; 4. Cory Kruseman, 38, Crossno-16.964; 5. R.J.
Johnson, 15AZ, Martin-16.986; 6. Mike Kirby, 4,
Alexander-17.007; 7. Alan Ballard, 97, Ballard-17.042; 8. Rodney
Argo, 19, Argo-17.045; 9. Seth Wilson, 17, Racing Optics-17.074;
10. Mike Spencer, 44, Engstrom-17.115; 11. David Cardey, 59,
Giardina-17.155; 12. Rickie Gaunt, 2A, Smiley-17.163; 13. Jason
York, 25N, York-17.179; 14. Danny Sheridan, 18, Kittle-17.285;
15. Steve Ostling, 5, Keller-17.295; 16. Josh Ford. 73.
Ford-17.359; 17. Jimmy Crawford, 17C, Crawford-17.407; 18. Danny
Ebberts, 77, Acosta-17.447; 19. Ronnie Clark, 33x, Clark-17.472;
20. Jordan Hermansader, 92, Sertich-17.473; 21. Johnny
Rodriguez, 7, Priestley-17.480; 22. Troy Cline, 11,
Cline-17.481; 23. Tony Jones, 87, Vermeer/Ferreira-17.535; 24.
Bobby Cody, 41 Cody-17.607; 25. Jimmy Thornell, 25x,
Ruth-17.680; 26. Randy Waitman, 64, Waitman-17.838; 27. Bobby
Graham, 14, Lancaster-17.875; 28. Joshua Williams, 34,
Williams-17.928; 29. Nadine Keller, 16, Keller-18.078; 30.
Brandon Springstead, 36, Springstead-18.103; 31. Richard Rose,
8N, Ziegler-18.411; 32. Robert Walters, 65, Walters-20.168.
DASH: (3 laps) 1. R.Williams, 2. Gardner, 3. Davis, 4. Kruseman.
:51.98
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Gardner, 2. Crawford, 3. Rodriguez, 4.
Johnson, 5. Thornell, 6. Wilson, 7. York, 8. Keller. NT
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Cline, 2. Sheridan, 3. Ebberts, 4.
Kirby, 5. Davis, 6. Spencer, 7. Springstead, 8. Waitman. 2:56.64
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Ostling, 2. Jones, 3. R.Williams, 4.
Cardey, 5. Clark, 6. Ballard, 7. Rose, 8. Graham. 2:55.90
FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Ford, 2. Hermansader, 3. Gaunt, 4.
Cody, 5. Argo, 6. Kruseman, 7. Walters, 8. J.Williams. NT
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Kruseman, 2.
Argo, 3. Davis, 4. Ballard, 5. Spencer, 6. York, 7. Wilson, 8.
Waitman, 9. J.Williams, 10. Thornell, 11. Keller, 12.
Springstead, 13. Rose, 14. Clark. 3:31.75. 3:31.75
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Rickie Gaunt, 2. Rip Williams, 3. Cory
Kruseman, 4. R.J. Johnson, 5. Charles Davis, Jr., 6. David
Cardey, 7. Steve Ostling, 8. Jason York, 9. Tony Jones, 10.
Jordan Hermansader, 11. Mike Spencer, 12. Josh Ford, 13. Johnny
Rodriguez, 14. Danny Sheridan, 15. Damion Gardner, 16. Rodney
Argo, 17. Mike Kirby, 18. Danny Ebberts, 19. Jimmy Crawford, 20.
Alan Ballard, 21. Seth Wilson, 22. Troy Cline, 23. Bobby Cody.
NT
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**Walters flipped during the fourth heat. Gardner flipped during
the feature. Sheridan flipped during the feature.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-11 Sheridan, Laps 12-30 Gaunt.
NEW USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR STANDINGS: 1-R.Williams-877;
2-Kruseman-787; 3-Gardner-777; 4-Davis-753; 5-Kirby-742;
6-Gaunt-618; 7-Jones-447; 8-Johnson-443; 9-Spencer-430;
10-Wilson-427.
Faria Wins at Hanford
VALVOLINE USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR SERIES
RACE RESULTS: June 4, 2005 Hanford, California Kings
Speedway
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Damion Gardner, 50, Chaffin-14.943; 2. Cory
Kruseman, 38, Crossno-15.239; 3. Rodney Argo, 19, Argo-15.495;
4. Rip Williams, 3, Jory-15.514; 5. Davey Pombo, 3P,
Pombo-15.531; 6. Rickie Gaunt, 2A, Smiley-15.538; 7. Danny
Sheridan, 18, Kittle-15.596; 8. Jason
York, 25N, York-15.607; 9. Charles Davis, Jr., 8A,
Smiley-15.668; 10. Josh Ford. 73. Ford-15.673; 11. Ricci Faria,
89, Faria-15.683; 12. Bobby Cody, 41 Cody-15.697; 13. Mike
Spencer, 44, Engstrom-15.720; 14. Rob Kershaw, 26c,
Camland-15.761; 15. Steve Ostling, 5, Keller-15.777; 16. R.J.
Johnson, 15AZ, Martin-15.803; 17. Seth Wilson, 17, Racing
Optics-15.805; 18. Bobby Graham, 14, Lancaster-15.858; 19. Evan
Suggs, 33E, Suggs-15.873; 20. Tony Jones, 87,
Vermeer/Ferreira-15.900; 21. Mike Kirby, 4, Alexander-15.910;
22. Joshua Williams, 34, Williams-15.928; 23. Jimmy Crawford,
17C, Crawford-15.935; 24. Greg Bragg, 33, Blair-16.018; 25.
Peter Murphy, 21A, Dorathy-16.068; 26. Tom Stansberry, 48,
Bach-16.115; 27. Nadine Keller, 16, Keller-16.126; 28. Alan
Ballard, 97, Ballard-16.168; 29. Johnathan Logan, 32,
Logan-16.224; 30. Jimmy Reeves, 0, Reeves-16.613.
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Gardner, 2. Kirby, 3. Wilson, 4. Davis,
5. Pombo, 6. Spencer, 7. Murphy, 8. Logan. NT
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Graham, 2.
Kruseman, 3. Ford, 4. Gaunt, 5. Stansberry, 6. Reeves. 7.
J.Williams, 8. Kershaw. NT
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Suggs, 2. Argo, 3. Faria, 4. Keller, 5.
Ostling, 6. Crawford, 7. Sheridan. NT
FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Johnson, 2. Jones, 3. Ballard, 4.
R.Williams, 5. York, 6. Bragg, 7. Cody. NT
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Pombo, 2. Spencer, 3. Cody, 4. York, 5.
Ostling, 6. Crawford, 7. Stansberry, 8. Reeves, 9. J.Williams,
10. Logan, 11. Kershaw, 12. Murphy. 13. Sheridan, 14. Bragg. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Ricki Faria.
2. Rip Williams, 3. R.J. Johnson, 4. Jason York, 5. Mike
Spencer, 6. Steve Ostling, 7. Evan Suggs, 8. Bobby Cody, 9.
Davey Pombo 10. Mike Kirby, 11. Rodney Argo, 12. Bobb
Graham, 13. Seth Wilson, 14. Nadine Keller, 15. Rickie Gaunt,
16. Charles Davis, Jr., 17. Cory Kruseman, 18. Josh Ford, 19.
Damion Gardner, 20. Tony Jones, 21. Alan Ballard. NT
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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-2 Ford, Laps 3-9 Gaunt, Laps 10-30
Faria.
NEW USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR STANDINGS: 1-Williams-810;
2-Gardner-740; 3-Kruseman-726; 4-Kirby-717; 5-Davis-698;
6-Gaunt-552; 7-Wilson-414; 8-Jones-404; 9-Ballard-399;
10-Spencer-398.
NEXT USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR RACE: June 11 Perris (CA) Auto
Speedway
Kruseman Stops Gardner's Streak at 4
VALVOLINE USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR SERIES
RACE RESULTS: May 28, 2005 – Perris, California – Perris Auto
Speedway
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Damion Gardner, 50, Chaffin-16.502; 2.
Charles Davis, Jr, 8A, Smiley-16.560; 3. Tony Jones, 87,
Vermeer/Ferreira-16.650; 4. Steve Ostling, 5, Keller-16.675; 5.
Mike Spencer, 44, Engstrom-16.685; 6. Rickie Gaunt, 2A,
Smiley-16.733; 7. Rip Williams, 3, Jory-16.836; 8. R. J.
Johnson, 15AZ, Martin-16.882; 9. Mike Kirby, 4,
Alexander-16.979; 10. Bobby Graham, 14, Lancaster-17.006; 11.
Bobby Cody, 41, Cody-17.017; 12. Seth Wilson, 17, Racing
Optics-17.022; 13. Gary Howard, 25, Ruth-17.105; 14. Alan
Ballard, 97, Ballard-17.115; 15. Dan Hillberg, 82,
Hillberg-17.146; 16. Cory Kruseman, 38, Crossno-17.177; 17.
Nadine Keller, 16, Keller-17.320; 18. Tom Stansberry, 48,
Bach-17.346; 19. Jordan Hermansader, 92, Sertich-17.393; 20.
Rick Becker, 67, Becker-17.420; 21. David Cardey, 59,
Giardina-17.447; 22. Ronnie Case, 33, Blair-17.448; 23. Jimmy
Crawford, 17C, Crawford-17.642; 24. Shawn Kautz, 29,
Kautz-18.277; 25. Joshua Williams, 34, Williams-18.281; 26.
Richard Rose, N8, Ziegler-19.158; 27. Danny Sheridan, 18,
Kittle-NT.
DASH: (3 laps) 1. Ostling, 2. Jones, 3. Davis, 4. Gardner.
:51:98
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Cardey, 2.Spencer, 3. Gardner, 4. J
Williams, 5, Howard, 6. Kirby, 7. Keller. 2:56:41
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Graham, 2. Gaunt, 3. Davis, 4.
Stansberry, 5. Rose, 6. Ballard, 7. Case. 2:56:64
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Cody, 2. Hermansader, 3. Jones, 4. R.
illiams, 5. Crawford, 6. Hillberg. 2:53:82
FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Kruseman, 2. Johnson, 3. Wilson, 4.
Ostling, 5. Becker, 6. Kautz. 3:53:61
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Kirby, 2. Becker, 3. Crawford, 4. Case, 5.
Ballard, 6. Sheridan, 7. Kautz, 8. Howard, 9. Keller, 10. Rose,
11. Hillberg. 3:34:08
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Cory Kruseman, 2. R.J. Johnson, 3. Rip
Williams, 4. Mike Kirby, 5. David Cardey, 6. Joshua Williams, 7.
Ronnie Case, 8. Steve Ostling, 9. Bobby Graham, 10. Damion
Gardner, 11. Rickie Gaunt, 12. Bobby Cody, 13. Rick Becker, 14.
Alan Ballard, 15. Danny Sheridan, 16. Jordan Hermansader, 17.
Seth Wilson, 18. Charles Davis, Jr., 19. Tom Stansberry, 20,
Tony Jones, 21, Jimmy Crawford, 22. Mike Spencer. NT
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**Hillberg flipped during nthe semi. Crawford flipped on lap six
of the feature.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-26 Rip Williams, Laps 27-50
Kruseman.
NEW USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR STANDINGS: 1-Rip Williams-745;
2-Gardner-711; 3-Kruseman-695; 4-Kirby-677; 5-Davis-672;
6-Gaunt-523; 7-Jones-384; 8-Wilson-381; 9-Ballard-380; 10-Josh
Ford-365.
NEXT USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR RACE: June 4 – Hanford, CA – Kings
Speedway
Gardner sweeps at Manzanita
By Ken Wagner
5/22/05
Damion Gardner of Concord,
California finally stepped to the top of the podium at Manzanita
for his 4th Valvoline USAC/CRA main event win in a
row in this series and first with this club at the big half mile
oval dirt track. Driving the Temecula Valley Pipe & Supply,
Arizona Race Mart, Eagle, Shaver # 50, Damion set fast time for
the ninth time this year before coming from his inverted eighth
starting spot to overcome Jeremy Sherman on the 24th
lap restart to win the 30 lap event and pull within 20 points of
leader Rip Willaims.
On a searing 110 degree plus hot day
in the Arizona desert, Damion turned out to be even hotter as he
put behind him his three earlier races here this season that
included a best of an eighth place finish and one missed main
event. In beating Sherman, who has 8 wins at Manzanita against
the So Cal based drivers, he proved his prowess from the small
bullrings like Ventura up to and including the monster tracks
like Williams Grove in PA and now even Manzanita. His patience
won out for him in this one as he stalked the leaders until he
was in position to win. This growing legendary driver in the
making is beating some of the best drivers in the country on a
regular basis. Who is going to step up and stop him?
Jeremy Sherman had to contend with
Cory Kruseman early in the race before he passed him and led
until Josh Wise came up from his seventh starting spot to take
over the lead for a few laps. When Jeremy retook the lead with
nine to go, he was stretching it out and seemingly headed for
his first CRA win. When Mike Kirby crashed helicopter style,
after getting sucked into the turn two wall, the red flag stop
allowed the Demon the opportunity he needed. Jeremy couldn’t
hold him off, but still drove an outstanding race to finish
second
Cory Kruseman made his fourth
straight podium with his third place finish this week as he
continues to move up in the points chase. He led the first lap,
then fell back to fourth and rallied to run faster at the end.
Josh Wise followed him in fourth with Josh Ford grabbing fifth
as those two drivers had a week off from the National USAC
trail. Now the club returns to Perris Auto Speedway for a big 50
lapper on Memorial Day.
VALVOLINE USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR SERIES
RACE RESULTS: May 21, 2005 - Phoenix, Arizona - Manzanita
Speedway
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Damion Gardner, 50, Chaffin-18.883; 2. Josh
Wise, 7, Priestley-18.982; 3. Steve Ostling, 5, Keller-19.177;
4. Rip Williams, 3, Jory-19.236; 5. Charles Davis, Jr., 8A,
Smiley-19.290; 6. Seth Wilson, 17, Racing Optics-19.359; 7. Cory
Kruseman, 38, Crossno-19.391; 8. Jeremy Sherman, 77B,
Bryan-19.403; 9. Troy Rutherford, 2J, Massey-19.412; 10. Josh
Ford, 73, Ford-19.507; 11. Nathan High, 6A, Pritchett-19.531;
12. Mike Kirby, 4, Alexander-19.556; 13. Bobby Graham, 14,
Lancaster-19.558; 14. Alan Ballard, 97, Ballard-19.616; 15.
Rickie Gaunt, 2A, Smiley-19.621; 16. Bob Ream, Jr., 8,
BRAT-19.647; 17. Brandon Lane, 97H, Lane-19.649; 18. Chuck
Buckman, 61AZ, Carsten-19.699; 19. Bobby Boone, 61, Ratz-19.716;
20. R.J. Johnson, 15AZ, Martin-19.821; 21. Marty Miller 3W, WWS
Racing-19.909; 22. Tom Ogle, 5x, Ogle-20.109; 23. Jason Tanner,
56, Tanner-20.133; 24. Keith Williamson, 95, Williamson-20.136;
5. Matt Rossi, 02, Rossi-20.137; 26. Bruce St. James, 7K, St
James-20.185; 27. Jimmy Drinan, 91az, Carsten-20.428; 28. Robert
Hall, 16AZ, Hall-20.655; 29. Nadine Keller, 16, Keller-21.264;
30. Mike Leslie, 76AZ, Montgomery-NT.
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Miller, 2. Gardner, 3. Lane, 4. Davis,
5. Graham, 6. Rossi, 7. Keller, 8. Rutherford. 3:20:70
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1.Wise, 2.
Ford, 3. Ballard, 4. Wilson, 5. Buckman, 6. St James, 7. Ogle.
3:21.43.
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Gaunt, 2. High, 3. Kruseman, 4.
Ostling, 5. Boone, 6. Tanner, 7. Drinan. 3:25.11
FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Kirby, 2. Williams, 3. Sherman, 4.
Ream, 5. Williamson, 6. Johnson, 7. Hall. NT
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Rutherford, 2. Graham, 3. Johnson, 4. Tanner,
5. Buckman, 6. Hall, 7. Ogle, 8. Williamson, 9. Rossi, 10. St
James, 11. Boone, 12. Keller. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Damion Gardner, 2. Jeremy Sherman, 3. Cory
Kruseman, 4. Josh Wise, 5. Josh Ford, 6. Steve Ostling, 7. Rip
Williams, 8.
Charles Davis, Jr., 9. R.J. Johnson, 10. Bobby Graham, 11.
Rickie Gaunt, 12. Nathan High, 13. Marty Miller, 14. Alan
Ballard, 15. Jason Tanner, 16. Bob Ream, Jr., 17. Mike Kirby,
18. Brandon Lane, 19. Troy Rutherford, 20. Seth Wilson. NT
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**Kirby flipped on the 21st lap of the feature.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Lap 1 Kruseman, Laps 2-16 Sherman, Laps
17-20 Wise, Laps 21-24 Sherman, Laps 25-30 Gardner.
NEW USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR STANDINGS: 1-Williams-686;
2-Gardner-666; 3-Davis-644; 4-Kruseman-627; 5-Kirby-622;
6-Gaunt-484; 7-Ford-365; 8-Tony Jones-361; 9-Wilson-356;
10-Ballard-354.
NEXT USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR RACE: May 28 - Perris (CA) Auto
Speedway
Gardner Wins Again at Perris
Damion Gardner, of Concord,
California, won his third consecutive Valvoline USAC/CRA victory
in a row this week, this one at Perrris Auto Speedway. The Demon
came from the eight starting spot after setting his eighth fast
time of the season out of ten. It was his fifth overall win of
the year in the Temecula Valley Pipe & Supply, Arizona Race
Mart, Eagle, Shaver # 50 as he said “things are going real well
for us now as my team is putting a fast car on the track for
me”.
Damion is now 4th in
championship points with only 35 points between him and point
leader Rip Williams, with Charles Davis Jr and Mike Kirby
between them. Once again the Demon methodically worked his way
to the front, passing Davis, who led from the start, on lap 22.
He is making winning a habit and making it look easy, especially
since he came from 23rd starting spot to win recently
at the PAS.
Cory Kruseman used his veteran
skills to capture second with Davis, Kirby and Danny Sheridan
following in that order. Seth Wilson put on a charge from his 18th
starting spot up to 9th for the best passing job of
the night.
Danny Ebberts has announced he is
running for rookie of the year in both the USAC/CRA series and
the USAC Silver Crown series this season. Look for the battle to
stop the Demon to continue at Manzanita Speedway in Phoenix,
Arizona on May 21st.
VALVOLINE USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR SERIES
RACE RESULTS: May 14, 2005 – Perris, California – Perris Auto
Speedway
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Damion Gardner, 50, Chaffin-16.210; 2.
Rickie Gaunt, 2A, Smiley-16.511; 3. Rip Williams, 3,
Jory-16.563; 4. Tony Jones, 87, Vermeer/Ferreira-16.677; 5. Mike
Kirby, 4, Alexander-16.683; 6. Cory Kruseman, 38,
Crossno-16.705; 7. Dan Hillberg, 82, Hillberg-16.753; 8. Alan
Ballard, 97, Ballard-16.847; 9. Charles Davis, Jr., 8A,
Smiley-16.934; 10. Jordan Hermansader, 92, Sertich-16.935; 11.
Danny Sheridan, 18, Kittle-16.987; 12. Steve Ostling, 5,
Keller-16.993; 13. Mike Spencer, 44, Engstrom-17.070; 14. Bobby
Graham, 14, Lancaster-17.105; 15. R.J. Johnson, 15AZ,
Martin-17.133; 16. Bobby Cody, 41, Cody-17.169; 17. Ronnie
Clark, 33x, Clark-17.258; 18. Seth Wilson, 17, Racing
Optics-17.275; 19. Jimmy Crawford, 17c, Crawford-17.295; 20.
Randy Waitman, 64, Waitman-17.305; 21. Danny Ebberts, 77,
Acosta-17.312; 22. David Cardey, 59, Giardina-17.495; 23. J.J.
Ecse, 33, Blair-17.671; 24. Joshua Williams, 34,
Williams-17.685; 25. Brandon Springstead, 36,
Springstead-17.838; 26. Nadine Keller, 16, Keller-17.905; 27.
Jack Hawley, 10, Hawley-18.436; 28. Tom Stansberry, 48,
Bach-NT.
DASH: (3 laps) 1. R.Williams, 2. Gardner, 3. Jones, 4.
Gaunt. :51.50
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Clark, 2. Davis, 3. Gardner, 4.
Ebberts, 5. Spencer, 6. Springstead, 7. Kirby. 2:56.50
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Cardey, 2. Graham, 3. Kruseman,
4. Hermansader, 5. Gaunt, 6. Wilson, 7. Keller. NT
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. R.Williams, 2. Johnson, 3.
Hillberg, 4. Sheridan, 5. Crawford, 6. Ercse, 7. Hawley. NT
FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Cody, 2. Ostling, 3. Jones, 4.
Ballard, 5. J.Williams, 6. Waitman. 2:57.64
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Kirby, 2. Gaunt, 3. Wilson, 4.
Waitman, 5. Spencer, 6. Crawford, 7. J.Williams, 8. Springstead,
9. Keller, 10. Ercse, 11. Hawley. 3:31.13
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Damion Gardner, 2. Cory Kruseman,
3. Charles Davis, Jr., 4. Mike Kirby, 5. Danny Sheridan, 6. Rip
Williams, 7. Rickie Gaunt, 8. Alan Ballard, 9. Seth Wilson, 10.
Dan Hillberg, 11. Tony Jones, 12. Ronnie Clark, 13. Mike
Spencer, 14. Bobby Graham, 15. Jimmy Crawford, 16. Danny
Ebberts, 17. David Cardey, 18. R.J. Johnson, 19. Steve Ostling,
20. Jordan Hermansader, 21. Bobby Cody, 22. Randy Waitman. NT
Hard charger Seth Wilson from 18th
to 9th.
**David Cardey flipped during the
feature.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-21 Davis, Laps 22-30 Gardner.
NEW USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR STANDINGS: 1-Rip Williams-628;
2-Davis-598; 3-Kirby-598; 4-Gardner-593; 5-Kruseman-567;
6-Gaunt-445; 7-Jones-361; 8-Wilson-337; 9-Spencer-325;
10-Ballard-323.
NEXT USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR RACE: May 21 – Phoenix, AZ – Manzanita
Speedway
GARDNER TAKES THE HIGH ROAD TO
EXCITING VENTURA WIN
By Ken Wagner – 5/8/05
Damion Gardner, from Concord,
California won his fourth Valvoline USAC/CRA main event win of
the season in his Temecula Valley Pipe & Supply, Arizona Race
Mart, Eagle, Shaver powered # 50 sprinter. He came from the
sixth starting spot riding the high groove and taking the lead
with two laps to go from Mike Kirby who had led from the start
in the 30 lap feature at Ventura Raceway.
Kirby had been enjoying a nice lead
when a yellow flag flew with five laps to go and Damion in a
close second place. The last restart quickly became a titanic
battle for the lead. Damion passed Kirby twice before it stuck
with two laps to go. The Demon was very patient and said in the
winners circle “I was so high up on the cushion, it didn’t look
like I was gaining on them at first, but then I started reeling
them in and we won this one in the end”. He was followed by
Kirby, Cory Kruseman, Blake Miller (the local 360 VRA point
leader) and Mike Spencer, with his best finish of the year so
far, across the stripe.
Point leader, Rip Williams, suffered
a flat tire early in the feature and came all the way back to
seventh for a great drive. Young Alan Ballard missed a transfer
to the main when he was fifth in the Semi, but took a
provisional to start 21st in the main. He immediately
got on his head on the opening lap, but restarted and got the
hard charger award coming back to 10th.
On a perfect night by the ocean,
while other tracks around the state suffered rainouts, the big
crowd enjoyed great racing and an early drive home. The 10
o’clock curfew gets everyone in and out early and you just can’t
beat the racing on the small quarter mile bullring known as “the
best little dirt track by the sea”.
Earlier in the night Damion
took two hot laps to honor Marge Bromme, the mother of his crew
chief Bruce Bromme Jr, who passed away last Tuesday. Marge,
often called “Mom” by all those who loved her, was the heart of
the Bromme Racing team from the beginning. She collected and
organized albums of racing items like decals, programs, business
cards, hat pins and more to document her love for the sport. She
leaves behind her son Bruce, his wife Pam and her pooch Misty.
Any donations can be made to:
Hospice Partners
of Central Coast, 277 South Street, San Luis Obispo, CA 92401.
VALVOLINE USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR SERIES
RACE RESULTS: May 7, 2005 – Ventura, California – Ventura
Raceway
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Rip Williams, 3, Jory-11.999; 2. J.Hicks, 66,
Miller-11.999; 3. Tony Jones, 87, Vermeer/Ferreira-12.018; 4.
Charles Davis, Jr., 8A, Smiley-12.054; 5. Damion Gardner, 50,
Chaffin-12.065; 6. Danny Sheridan, 18, Kittle-12.132; 7. Mike
Spencer, 44, Engstrom-12.137; 8. Rodney Argo, 19, Argo-12.203;
9. Alan Ballard, 97, Ballard-12.226; 10. Mike Kirby, 4,
Alexander-12.244; 11. Blake Miller, 5x, Keller-12.250; 12. Cory
Kruseman, 38, Crossno-12.250; 13. Rickie Gaunt, 2A,
Smiley-12.280; 14. R.J. Johnson, 15AZ, Martin-12.326; 15. Seth
Wilson, 17, Racing Optics-12.369; 16. Dan Hillberg, 82,
Hillberg-12.391; 17. Steve Ostling, 5, Keller-12.399; 18. Jimmy
Crawford, 17C, Crawford-12.412; 19. Ronnie Case, 0,
Shoemaker-12.431; 20. Clark Templeman III, 18T, Luport-12.457;
21. Bobby Graham, 14, Lancaster-12.489; 22. Nadine Keller, 16,
Keller-12.709; 23. Steve Conrad, 91, Ferro-12.795; 24. Ron Bach,
48, Bach-12.916; 25. Joshua Williams, 34, Williams-13.249; 26.
Hobie Conway, 29x, Conway-13.273; 27. Dennis Rodriguez, 20,
Rowher-13.402; 28. Shawn Kautz, 29, Kautz-13.431; 29. Ron
Tjaarda, 0X, Kruseman-14.341.
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Gardner, 2. Ostling, 3. R.Williams, 4.
Gaunt, 5. J.Williams, 6. Tjaarda, 7. Ballard, 8. Graham. NT
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Kirby, 2. Hicks, 3. Sheridan, 4.
Johnson, 5. Conway, 6. Keller, 7. Crawford. NT
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Conrad, 2. Case, 3. Miller, 4. Spencer,
5. Rodriguez, 6. Wilson, 7. Jones. NT
FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Kruseman, 2. Argo, 3. Bach, 4.
Templeman, 5. Kautz, 6. Davis, 7. Hillberg. NT
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Jones, 2. Davis, 3. Crawford, 4. Wilson, 5.
Ballard, 6. J.Williams, 7. Kautz, 8. Keller, 9. Rodriguez,
10.Hillberg, 11. Conway, 12, Tjaarda. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Damion Gardner, 2. Mike Kirby, 3. Cory
Kruseman, 4. Blake Miller, 5. Mike Spencer, 6. Tony Jones, 7.
Rip Williams, 8. Charles Davis, Jr., 9. Rickie Gaunt, 10. Alan
Ballard, 11. Seth Wilson, 12. Steve Conrad, 13. Danny Sheridan,
14. R.J. Johnson, 15. Steve Ostling, 16. Ron Bach, 17. Ronnie
Case, 18. J.Hicks, 19. Rodney Argo, 20. Jimmy Crawford, 21.
Clark Templeman III. NT
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**Ballard flipped at the start of the feature. Rodney Argo
flipped on the second lap of the feature.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-28 Kirby, Laps 29-30 Gardner.
NEW USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR STANDINGS: 1-R.Williams-571;
2-Kirby-541; 3-Davis-537; 4-Gardner-521; 5-Kruseman-503;
6-Gaunt-395; 7-Jones-321; 8-Josh Ford-310; 9-Wilson-299;
10-Spencer-297.
NEXT USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR RACE: May 14 – Perris (CA) Auto
Speedway
Gardner Takes the PAS
VALVOLINE USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR SERIES
RACE RESULTS: April 30, 2005 - Perris, California - Perris Auto
Speedway
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Damion Gardner,
50, Chaffin-16.010; 2. Seth Wilson, 17, Racing Optics-16.206; 3.
Charles Davis, Jr, 8A, Smiley-16.313; 4. Bobby Cody, 41,
Cody-16.390; 5. Rickie Gaunt, 2A, Smiley-16.425; 6. Rip
Williams, 3, Jory-16.433; 7. Cory Kruseman, 38, Crossno-16.560;
8. Rick Becker, 67, Becker-16.573; 9. Danny Ebberts, 77,
Acosta-16.575; 10. Tony Jones, 87, Vermeer/Ferreira-16.650; 11.
Rodney Argo, 19, Argo-16.710; 12. Mike Kirby, 4,
Alexander-16.725; 13. Mike Spencer, 44, Engstrom-16.753; 14.
Alan Ballard, 97, Ballard-16.766; 15. J.Hicks, 66,
Miller-16.801; 16. David Cardey, 59, Giardina-16.856; 17. Jordan
Hermansader, 92, Sertich-16.866; 18. Jason York, 25N,
York-16.889; 19. R.J. Johnson, 15AZ, Martin-16.899; 20. Steve
Ostling, 5, Keller-16.918; 21. Dan Hillberg, 82,
Hillberg-16.925; 22. Bobby Graham, 14, Lancaster-16.930; 23.
Steve Paden, 1, Farrier-17.110; 24. Johnny Rodriguez, 7,
Priestley-17.124; 25. Jimmy Crawford, 17C, Crawford-17.170; 26.
Ronnie Case, 0, Shoemaker-17.268; 27. Jimmy Thornell, 25,
Ruth-17.391; 28. J.J. Ercse, 33, Blair-17.560; 29. Todd
Hunsaker, 75, Hunsaker-17.672; 30. Joshua Williams, 34,
Williams-17.720; 31. Brandon Springstead, 36,
Springstead-17.799; 32. Nadine Keller, 16, Keller-18.325; 33.
Jack Hawley, 1J, Hawley-18.332; 34. Richard Rose, N8,
Ziegler-NT.
TROPHY DASH: (3 laps) 1. Davis, 2. Gardner, 3. Cody, 4. Wilson.
:50.16
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Hillberg, 2. Crawford, 3. Spencer, 4.
Ebberts, 5. Hunsaker, 6. Gaunt, 7. Hawley, 8. Hermansader, 9.
Gardner. NT
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. R.Williams, 2. Jones, 3. Ballard, 4.
Case, 5. York, 6. Graham, 7. Wilson, 8. J.Williams. 2:59:40
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Hicks, 2.
Davis, 3, Kruseman, 4. Argo, 5. Johnson, 6. Springstead, 7.
Thornell, 8. Paden. NT
FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Kirby, 2. Ostling, 3. Ercse, 4.
Becker, 5. Cardey, 6. Cody, 7. Keller, 8. Rodriguez.
2:56:80
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Wilson, 2. Hermansader, 3. Johnson, 4. Cody,
5. Cardey, 6. Rodriguez, 7. York, 8. Graham, 9. Thornell, 10.
J.Williams, 11. Springstead, 12. Gaunt, 13. Hawley, 14. Keller,
15. Hunsaker, 16. Gardner. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Damion Gardner, 2. Cory Kruseman, 3. Tony
Jones, 4. Mike Kirby, 5. Charles Davis, Jr., 6. Rip Williams, 7.
Danny Ebberts, 8. Jordan Hermansader, 9. Alan Ballard, 10. Mike
Spencer, 11. Rick Becker, 12. Johnny Rodriguez, 13. R.J.
Johnson, 14. Seth Wilson, 15. David Cardey, 16. J.Hicks, 17.
Ronnie Case, 18. J.J. Ercse, 19. Jimmy Crawford, 20. Steve
Ostling, 21. Bobby Cody, 22. Dan Hillberg, 23. Rodney Argo. NT
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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-5 Argo, Laps 6-20 Kirby, Laps 21-27
Kruseman, Laps 28-30 Gardner.
NEW USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR STANDINGS: 1-Rip Williams-517;
2-Davis-492; 3-Kirby-476; 4-Gardner-451; 5-Kruseman-441;
6-Gaunt-354; 7-Josh Ford-310; 8-Jones-268; 9-Wilson-267;
10-Ballard-246.
NEXT USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR RACE: May 7 - Ventura (CA) Raceway
Rip Williams Notches 100th Career
USAC/CRA Win
VALVOLINE USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR SERIES
RACE RESULTS: April 16, 2005 – Perris, California – Perris Auto
Speedway
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Damion Gardner, 50, Chaffin-16.140; 2. Tracy
Hines, 7, Priestley-16.439; 3. Alan Ballard, 97, Ballard-16.474;
4. Mike Kirby, 4, Alexander-16.539; 5. Rip Williams, 3,
Jory-16.673; 6. Mike Spencer, 44, Engstrom- 16.683; 7. Bobby
Graham, 14, Lancaster-16.758; 8. Rickie Gaunt, 2A,
Smiley-16.759; 9. Charles Davis, Jr, 8A, Smiley-16.769; 10.
Rodney Argo, 19, Argo-16.815; 11. Josh Ford, 73, Ford-16.830;
12. R. J. Johnson, 51AZ, Martin-16.865; 13. Steve Ostling, 5,
Keller-16.900; 14. Tony Jones, 87, Vermeer/Ferreira-16.900; 15.
Dwayne Marcum, 12, Pratt-16.912; 16. Dan Hillberg, 82,
Hillberg-16.959; 17. Bobby Cody, 41, Cody-16.970; 18. David
Cardey, 59, Giardina-16.989; 19. Cory Kruseman, 38,
Crossno-17.047; 20. Rick Becker, 67, Becker-17.092; 21. Jordan
Hermansader, 92, Sertich-17.174; 22. Kevin Urton, 51,
Urton-17.215; 23. Greg Bragg, 11, Wilkerson-17.235; 24. Danny
Sheridan, 18, Kittle-17.271; 25. Randy Waitman, 64,
Waitman-17.321; 26. Mark Heidenreich, 22, Heidenreich-17.350;
27. Jimmy Crawford, 17C, Crawford-17.367; 28. Joshua Williams,
34, Williams-17.374; 29. J J Ercse, 33, Blair-17.525; 30. Seth
Wilson, 17, Racing Optics-17.554; 31. Nadine Keller, 16,
Keller-17.595; 32. Tom Stansberry, 48, Bach-17.610; 33. Danny
Ebberts, 77, Acosta-17.612; 34. Jimmy Thornell, 25, Ruth-17.747;
35. Ronnie Case, 07, Gresham-18.015; 36. Brandon Springstead,
36, Springstead-19.282.
TROPHY DASH: (3 laps) 1. Ballard, 2. Kirby, 3. Gardner, 4.
Hines. :53.24
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Hermansader, 2. Gardner, 3. R.Williams,
4. Waitman, 5. Ebberts, 6. Ostling, 7. Ercse, 8. Davis, 9. Cody.
NT
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Cardey, 2. Wilson, 3. Argo, 4. Hines,
5. Jones, 6. Urton, 7. Spencer, 8. Heidenreich, 9. Thornell.
2:55:09
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Crawford, 2. Kruseman, 3. Ford, 4.
Marcum, 5. Ballard, 6. Case, 7. Keller, 8. Bragg, 9. Graham. NT
FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Becker, 2. Gaunt, 3. Kirby, 4.
Johnson, 5. Stansberry, 6. Hillberg, 7. Springstead, 8.
Sheridan, 9. J.Williams. NT
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Spencer, 2. Davis, 3. Jones, 4., Graham, 5.
Ballard, 6. Hillberg, 7. Urton, 8. Cody, 9. Ercse, 10.
Stansberry, 11. Case, 12. Thornell, 13. Ebberts, 14. Sheridan,
15. Keller, 16. Springstead, 17. Ostling, 18. Bragg, 19.
Heidenreich. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Rip Williams, 2. Damion Gardner, 3. Mike
Kirby, 4. Rickie Gaunt, 5. Josh Ford, 6. Tracy Hines, 7. Rodney
Argo, 8. Charles Davis, Jr, 9. Tony Jones, 10. |