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Rookie Kody
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“In the dash, I had a chance to pass on the
outside but I saved it for the Swanson, a two-time Visalia Plaza Park
Mini-Sprint Champion, started outside row three in the 40-lap Casey
Diemert Memorial. The paved 3/8-mile oval hosted 20 sprint cars –
with an A-Main front row of Chad Nichols, and Hunt. The jump went to
Hunt in the Kaiser Construction #94. Nichols had mechanical problems
and retired early on lap three. Five laps into the feature, the top
three of Hunt, Tim Barber, and Swanson pulled away from the pack. 20th
starting Mike Murgoitio made his way through the field to earn ninth
place by lap seven. The race became very intense on lap nine when
Swanson mirrored Barber all the way around the track, trying to
overtake the Ken Pierson #14 pilot with a high-side maneuver.
Meanwhile a three-way battle for fourth was engaged by Brad
Bumgarner, Four laps of racing in traffic was interrupted
by a lap 18 caution for McClish who stopped at the exit of turn
four. On the restart, Swanson again tried to pass Barber on the
upper groove but Barber held his ground. Quick qualifier Jeff
Montgomery of By lap 24 Hunt and Swanson were running inches
apart with Barber on their tails. The leaders hit traffic with ten
laps to go. Hunt and Swanson quickly cleared a backmarker when
Swanson pulled even with Hunt on the backchute on lap 31. Swanson
then drove his family #75 underneath Hunt into turn three to take
the lead. Swanson was never headed and beat Hunt and Barber to the Bumgarner finished fourth just ahead of
Trimble. Murgoitio stormed to sixth. The top-ten was completed by The USAC Western States Sprint Car series moves
to Redwood Acres in VALVOLINE
USAC WESTERN SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS:
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Jeff Montgomery, 37, LeJenne-14.385; 2.
Kody Swanson, 75, Swanson-14.443; 3.
DASH: (4 laps) 1. Murgoitio, 2. Swanson, 3. McClish, 4.
FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Geiszler, 2. Hendrix, 3. DuBois, 4.
Trimble, 5. Hunt, 6.
SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Petersen, 2. Brown, 3. Beck, 4.
Barber, 5. Swanson, 6. Veenstra, 7.
THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Hogg, 2. Nichols, 3. McClish, 4.
Bumgarner, 5. Gobel, 6. Alberding. NT
FEATURE: (40 laps) 1. Kody Swanson, 2. Tony Hunt, 3. Tim
Barber, 4. Brad Bumgarner, 5. Michael Trimble, 6. Mike Murgoitio, 7.
FEATURE LAP
LEADERS: Laps 1-30 Hunt, Laps 31-40 Swanson. NEW
USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR STANDINGS: 1-Swanson-191; 2-Bumgarner-180; 3-Hunt-179;
4-Barber-175; 5-Murgoitio-137; 6-Hogg-127; 7-McClish-126; 8-Michael
Lewis-122; 9-Trimble-121; 10-Veenstra-95. NEXT USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR RACE: |
