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| Cardey Win 2 At Perris by Ed Hollowell |
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PERRIS, CA -RIS- He never won a 410 sprint car feature event until
two weeks ago but Saturday September 15 2007 David Cardey won his
second feature in three weeks. Added to his third place finish last
week at Ventura the win makes Cardey the hottest driver in the
USAC/CRA series.
Starting from the pole after qualifying eleventh fast, Cardey lost the lead to third place Michael Spencer but got a second chance to keep the lead at the start when Blake Miller spun in the second turn on the first lap. The second time the race was started Miller held the lead and enlarged it as the race went 21 laps without a caution. By the 22nd lap Cardey lead second place Spencer by more than the length of a straight. The first yellow came out when Tony Jones and Garrett Hansen, who were fighting over third place bumped and Hansen spun in turn four. Hansen collected Danny Sheridan and Rip Williams while Jones continued on without damage. Both Sheridan and Williams were put out by crash damage while Hansen was able to continue. When the race was restarted Spencer worked hard to keep contact with Cardey and almost got past him on lap 25 when Cardey bobbled badly in turn two. It would have been enough to let Spencer past but Mike was following too closely and had to go way off line to miss hitting Cardey. In the end it was a push and both drivers held their positions. Spencer never got as close as this again and Cardey ended up the winner by several car lengths. Tony Jones finished third but there is more that needs to be said about this. Two weeks ago Tony was chasing after Cardey and Spencer when he tried to run the bottom on the final lap in turn one. He bicycled and flipped and in the course of this he broke his collar bone. Last Friday Jones had surgery to repair the broken bone and last Saturday he was at home while Cory Kruseman drove his car to victory at Ventura. A week and a day later Tony was back in 'the saddle' and he brought in home third. Since he was one place behind Spencer he will lose a few points but not enough to make a serious dent in his lead. Three ten lap heat races were run with the winners being Josh Ford, Garrett Hansen and Cory Kruseman. In the first heat the start had to be among the worst that ever stood as the outside front row starter, Seth Wilson was passed by four cars before he reached the starting line. Behind him was Rip Williams who was caught in the traffic and ended up going from fourth to sixth place. That was where he finished as the track was very heavy and passing was nearly impossible. Fast qualifier Jimmy Crawford also got the bad end of this deal and finished seventh. The third heat had its start called back twice and none of those starts was as bad as the accepted start in the first heat. In the second heat Todd Hunsaker went from the outside of the front row to lead the first lap but then he went too far and bicycled in the first turn and flipped. He came out ok but it was the end of the night for him as his crew was not equipped with enough parts to make repairs. Rip Williams made the best of his bad finish in the first heat by winning the B feature which had been cut from 12 to eight laps. Jimmy Crawford had a disappointing night after starting off by setting fast time in qualifying with a 17.059 second lap he got stuck at the back in his heat and had to scratch from the B feature race. He started at the back of the feature and was the first car out, finishing last. There were 25 cars in qualifying for the nights program. The USAC/CRA Sprint Car Series returns to action next week as they head to Phoenix, Arizona to run at Manzanita Speedway Saturday. QUOTES: CARDEY- “I guess they were right. Once you get the first one the second ones not as hard.” “This ones definitely for my Mom and a few others who weren't here (at the track)”. SPENCER- “Maybe I had a run on him (Cardey) a couple of times and just trying to get on the bottom underneath down to get into three and he was running the same line. He did a good job again. I was following the 83 car here the last couple of weeks. He's done a great job. His wife Donita must have said something to him to fire him up lately because he's been really fast lately!” JONES- “I don't like to make any excuses. The car was good. I don't know what happened. I was running the bottom. I don't know what in the heck happened there. I have to go back and watch the video's and see there I screwed up for the last ten laps.” |
