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USAC/CRA JACK KINDOLL CLASSIC AT PERRIS THIS SATURDAY!
by Scott Daloisio

(NOVEMBER 15, 2005, PERRIS, CA) The Valvoline USAC/CRA Sprint Cars will close their 2005 season when Temecula Valley Pipe & Supply presents the popular series in the 9^th Annual Jack Kindoll Classic at Perris Auto Speedway this Saturday night. The program will be highlighted by a 50-lap main event.

Two drivers will be wearing new crowns when they show up at the Riverside County clay oval on Saturday. Popular Damion Gardner, of Concord, California, sewed up the USAC/CRA title last week during the running of the Western World Championships at Manzanita Speedway in Phoenix, Arizona. Like Gardner, Lincoln, Indiana’s Dave Darland has a pair of new titles worth bragging over. The likeable 39 year old won the 2005 Budweiser Oval Nationals at Perris two weeks ago and backed that up with a win at the Western World last week at Manzanita.

It is the first sprint car championship for Gardner and it came in a season most drivers can only dream about. The slender superstar has racked up 15 main event wins and has been fast qualifier 21 times. In the two years of the USAC/CRA Series, Gardner is the all-time leader with 23 main event wins. That is 10 more than Cory Kruseman who is second on the list.

While it was the first ever sprint car championship for Gardner, it was the ninth for his car owner Ron Chaffin. Chaffin’s previous eight titles came in SCRA with the last coming in 2003 with Richard “The Gasman” Griffin behind the wheel. Hall of Famers Lealand McSpadden and Ron Shuman also won titles for Chaffin.

In addition to his USAC/CRA crown, Gardner will collect the booty for his first place finish in the 2005 Snap-on Tools Trophy Dash Series. That treasure is a $5,000.00 package of Snap-on Tools!!!

Darland, comes into Saturday’s race as the hottest driver in the country. In addition to his wins the past couple weeks at The PAS and Manzanita, he won the Rich Vogler Classis at Winchester, Indiana on October 16^th. Despite his hot finish, he ended up second overall to Levi Jones in the 2005 USAC National Sprint Car standings. Darland won the 1997 USAC National Sprint Car title, the 1999 USAC Silver Crown championship and the 2001 and 2002 USAC National Midget crowns.

Ventura’s Cory Kruseman has won three of the previous eight Jack Kindoll Classics. Torrance, California’s Rickie Gaunt, the 2004 SCRA Champion, is the defending Jack Kindoll Classic champion.

Saturday’s program will feature qualifying, the three lap Snap-on Tools Trophy Dash, four 10-lap heat races, B main and 50 lap A main event. A high car count is expected on Saturday and the program may also include a C main. Spectator gates will open at 5:00 PM.

On Friday, there will be racing on the Diamond Valley Automotive Group Honda – Mazda – Volkswagen Street Legal Drag Strip. It only costs $20.00 to compete and the gates will open at 5:00 PM.

Perris Auto Speedway is conveniently located on the freeway close Lake Perris Fairgrounds, home of the Southern California Fair, approximately one hour east of Los Angeles. Take the 215 Freeway, exit at the Ramona Expressway and go east two and a half miles to the fairgrounds.

For more information on any event at Perris Auto Speedway, please call (951) 940-0134.

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JACK KINDOLL CLASSIC CHAMPIONS

1997 Rip Williams

1998 Cory Kruseman

1999 Richard Griffin

2000 Cory Kruseman

2001 Cory Kruseman

2002 Steve Ostling

2003 Lance Gremett

2004 Rickie Gaunt

VALVOLINE USAC/CRA STANDINGS

1. Damion Gardner – Concord, CA - 2,130

2. Cory Kruseman – Ventura, CA - 1,942