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August 11th Santa Maria Speedway Recap |
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Santa Maria, CA - August 11, 2007...USAC/CRA 410
Sprint Cars scorched the 1/3-mile oval at Santa Maria
Speedway Saturday night. NMRA TQ Midgets and Mini Stocks
joined the sprinters for a wild night of short track
racing. Along with the serious racing the Western Racing
Association Vintage Midgets and Sprints were on hand to
provide some exhibition racing for the fans.
*Local driver Danny Sheridan, of Santa Maria, took the lead from the outside of row one in the 30-lap USAC/CRA Sprint Car feature event. Sheridan was able to hold the top spot until the 23rd circuit when Temecula's Mike Spencer took over the lead. Sheridan's night then took a turn for the worse when he was forced to pit with two flat tires. Spencer, who set fast time of 13.631 seconds, averaging nearly 88 miles-per-hour, went on to win for the second time this season at Santa Maria. Norco's Tony Jones came through with the runner-up spot followed by Danny Faria, Jr. of Tipton. Ricky Gaunt, of Riverside, and Rip Williams, of Yorba Linda, filled out the top-five. Gaunt, Blake Miller, of Yorba Linda, and Miles Bishop, of Escalon, captured 10-lap heat races. *Kenny Wiley, of Sunland, set fast time of 15.455 seconds for the NMRA TQ Midget division but had to settle for second in the 25-lap main event behind Randy Moody of Ventura. Chuck West, of Clovis, who won the July 7 feature at SMS, came home third, followed by Camarillo's Bruce Hiroshima and Moorpark's West Evans. Eight-lap heat races were won by West and Hiroshima. *Santa Maria's Frank Nyback won his 8-lap heat race and then went on to capture his second career 20-lap Mini Stock main event and his first of 2007. Justin Crockett, of Arroyo Grande, picked up an important point by winning his heat race and then finished second in the feature, just ahead of point leader Ken Kehs, of Arroyo Grande, to edge closer to Kehs in the championship points race. It was an eventful race for the point leader who was turned into the turn three wall early in the event, and had to work his way back to third from the rear of the 18-car field. Santa Maria's Mike Weigel placed fourth, and third in points, Justin Marsh of Nipomo, was fifth. *Next Saturday night Century 21 Hometown Realty Bandit Sprint Cars, IMCA Modifieds, Fox 11 First at Ten Super Streets and Mini Stocks will see action. Admission prices will be $14.00 for adults, $10.00 for seniors (65+), $3.00 for children 6 to 12, 5 and under free. SMS is located 1/4-mile north of the 101/166 interchange, on Hutton Road. ****** RACE SUMMARIES USAC/CRA 410 Sprint Cars: Fast Times - Mike Spencer, 13.631. Heat 1 - Ricky Gaunt, David Cardey, Spencer, Josh Ford, Jimmy Crawford, Nadine Gardner, Rodney Argo, Bill Jones. Heat 2 - Blake Miller, Scotty Weir, Rip Williams, Garrett Hansen, Davey Pombo, Jayson May, J. Hicks (DNS). Heat 3 - Miles Bishop, Danny Faria, Jr., Tony Jones, Danny Sheridan, Daniel Hood, Tyler Brown, Mike Larsen. Main Event - Spencer, Jones, Faria, Gaunt, Williams, Miller, Brown, Ford, Crawford, Pombo, Sheridan, Argo, May, Larsen, Jones, Gardner, Hansen, Cardey, Hood, Bishop, Weir, Hicks (DNS). NMRA TQ Midgets: Fast Time - 15.455. Heat 1 - Chuck West, Kenny Wiley, Richard Ortega, Jr., Ron Ahrendt, Steve Parke, Amanda Thomas. Heat 2 - Bruce Hiroshima, Randy Moody, West Evans, Scott Dobson, Jonathan St. Clair, Scott Niven. Main Event - Moody, Wiley, West, Hiroshima, Evans, Ortega, Dobson, Ahrendt, Niven, St. Clair, Parke, Thomas. Mini Stocks: Heat 1 - Frank Nyback, Ken Kehs, Ben Caswell, Bill Jewell, Greg Noah, Kristy Gilbertson, Justin Marsh, Phillip Sewell, Mike Weigel (DNS). Heat 2 - Justin Crockett, R.J. Shoemaker, Rob Gilbertson, Matt Sweeney, Eddie Newman, Jeff Biggs, Wade Bognuda, Robby Cervantes, Aaron Cervantes. Main Event - Nyback, Crockett, Kehs, Weigel, Marsh, Sweeney, R. Gilbertson, Jewell, Biggs, Newman, Shoemaker, R. Cervantes, K. Gilbertson, Sewell, A. Cervantes, Caswell, Noah,Bognuda (DNS). ** POINT STANDINGS Mini Stocks: 1. Ken Kehs, 464 2. Justin Crockett, 453 3. Justin Marsh, 403 4. Matt Sweeney, 398 5. Ben Caswell, 367. |
