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Nicholas Rescino Triumphs Over CASA Field at Altamont
by Glenn Hopper

5-8-04 - Tracy, CA.  San Francisco’s Nicholas Rescino reined triumphant, posting his first pavement win, as the California Asphalt Sprintcar Association officially joined the digital age at Altamont Motorsports Park. Rescino’s Bayshore Racing Engines Special out powered a potent 14-car field in the fourth round of CASA competition at the fast, banked half-mile speed plant.

CASA and Altamont debuted the transponder-based timing system during qualifications. And when time trials were completed in a fan-friendly 12 minutes, to the surprise of no one and regardless of the methodology, a Rescino sat at the top of the speed chart. Fast times seem to run in Rescino family bloodlines and Nick the Younger ran a session best 17.438 at 103.269 MPH to top the field. Rescino also posted his second trophy dash win to take the lead in the 2004 Coy Concrete Trophy Dash Challenge. Ivan Worden and Rickey Williams each posted heat race wins – Worden, wire-to-wire and Williams with an exciting last lap cross-back-under move that denied Rescino’s clean sweep bid.

While Rescino’s #11x looked to have all the speed needed for victory, a CASA win was not going to come easily on this cool, breezy evening. The standard field inversion of the six fastest qualifiers placed fellow CASA stars Ivan Worden and Matt DeMartini across the front row, Glenn Hopper and 2004 points leader Daniel Hood occupied row two, and super-fast Mark Monico took his inside row three assignment next to fast-timer Rescino. At the drop of the green flag Worden inched ahead of DeMartini, Hood and Hopper as the first lap went into the books. As the field thundered off turn four to start lap two, Daniel Hood ducked to the inside and slowed dramatically, his expiring engine, suffering from an oil pump problem discovered after a heat race collision, was now in flames. Hood guided his mount out of traffic and to a stop near safety workers where the fire was suppressed. Hood climbed out unharmed and saluted the concerned fans, but the red flag had to be displayed momentarily as Altamont safety crews quickly cleaned the residual mess.

Racing resumed with a single-file restart and the next non-stop 29 laps had everyone on their feet as the top several cars began swapping spots with one another. Rescino didn’t really trade spots with anyone as much as he simply took them away. His march to the front was undeterred, and when the checkers cascaded over the field, they waved over Rescino first; then Matt DeMartini in Ric Carr’s #O3, Mark Monico’s Sequoia Institute #21x, OCR’s Rickey Williams, and AFEX Graphics Ivan Worden in the top five. Glenn Hopper battled his way through a weeklong flu bug and the field to place sixth ahead of a very impressive Jared Consani in his maiden sprint car effort. Not yet a month past his 20th birthday, Consani was smooth, fast, cool and poised in placing a solid seventh ahead of super-veteran Mike McCreary, Larry Texeria in a fine run aboard the “Bean Express”, and Earle Stanton who seemed to solve drive train issues which recently troubled the Stanton-Erickson #8 car. Steering woes as a result of a heat race incident kept Scott Clough just out of the top ten and Marvin Mitchell lead newcomer Joe Hauck who debuted his recently purchased #85 car, graduating from the micro sprint 600 ranks.

As advertised, CASA awarded double main event points to encourage support for the organization when sanctioning and/or scheduling conflicts cannot be avoided in California. Double points races have always had a short-term effect on overall standings and this race was no exception. Unfortunately for point leader Daniel Hood, his engine damage was compounded by a loss of the points lead to Ric Carr Racing stable mate Matt DeMartini who now takes over the Championship Points lead based on his strong second place finish. Though there are 13 races yet to be run and most of the season lies ahead, Worden, Monico, Rescino and Williams all advanced in the standings while Clough, McClish, Ede and Rodgers all slipped some.

5-8-04 CASA Results 

QUALIFYING
1. Nick Rescino- 17.438, 2. Mark Monico- 17.911, 3. Daniel Hood- 17.938, 4. Glenn Hopper- 18.059, 5. Matt DeMartini- 18.068, 6. Ivan Worden- 18.177, 7. Jared Consani- 18.217, 8. Larry Texeria- 18.293, 9. Rickey Williams- 18.443, 10. Earle Stanton- 18.518, 11. Scott Clough- 18.841, 12. Mike McCreary - 19.647, 13. Joe Hauck- NT, 14. Marvin Mitchell- NT

COY CONCRETE TROPHY DASH 
1. Nick Rescino, 2. Glenn Hopper, 3. Mark Monico, 4. Daniel Hood

HEAT RACE #1
1.
Ivan Worden, 2. Mark Monico, 3. Earle Stanton, 4. Larry Texeria, 5. Glenn Hopper, 6.  Mike McCreary, 7. Joe Hauck

HEAT RACE #2
1.
Rickey Williams, 2. Nick Rescino, 3. Jared Consani, 4. Scott Clough, 5. Marvin Mitchell, 6. Matt DeMartini, 7. Daniel Hood

MAIN EVENT
1.
Nick Rescino, 2. Matt DeMartini, 3. Mark Monico, 4. Rickey Williams, 5. Ivan Worden, 6. Glenn Hopper, 7. Jared Consani, 8. Mike McCreary, 9. Larry Texeria, 10.   Earle Stanton, 11. Scott Clough, 12. Marvin Mitchell, 13. Joe Hauck, 14. Daniel Hood

POINT STANDINGS 5/8/04

Matt DeMartini 207
Daniel Hood 188
Ivan Worden 159
Glenn Hopper 156
Mark Monico 139
Nick Rescino 135
Mike McCreary 130
Scott Clough 129
Rickey Williams 127
Brian McClish 110
Marvin Mitchell 85
Larry Texeria 85
Earle Stanton 83
Chad Ede 76
Jared Consani 64
Gordon Rogers 56
Brad Bumgarner 46
Jeff Gardner 45
Bryan Bullard 42
Joe Hauck 40
Tony Iacobitti 39
Roger Hamilton 35
Greg Anderson 26
Destiney Hays 22
Pat Ariaz 20
Alan Kaiser 16

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