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Hunt handles Stockton USAC Western Sprints |
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April 22, 2006 - Stockton, CA. …Displaying the form that has netted him four career USAC driving championships, Tony Hunt won the 50-lap USAC Western / CASA sprint car feature event at Stockton 99 Speedway Saturday evening. Under rain threatening sky, Hunt drove a patient yet aggressive race in running his Alan Kaiser Eagle #4 from the eleventh starting position to the front. "This feels really good", said Hunt immediately following the event. "I am happy for Alan (Kaiser). The Thompson Toyota, MPD car was working where I could run high or low." Hunt then thanked the fans and declared his intention to pursue championship number five in 2006. "Our commitment to our sponsors is to try to reclaim the USAC Western Sprint Car title." Pole-sitter Greg Anderson rebounded from a heat race incident to lead the opening 36 laps despite front-end damage to his Naake Shocks #2. Anderson fought a wicked 'push' in his racer to lead until lap 38 in turn two when the car jumped sideways on him. "Because of the rain threat, we didn't have time to get our front axle assembly changed between the heat race and the feature", said Anderson. "I couldn't believe I led the race that long because really I was fighting the car at each end." The Anderson spin handed the lead to Matt DeMartini. 1998 USAC Western Sprint champion Jeff Gardner was running second with Hunt behind him. Hunt passed Gardner low in turn three to grab the runner-up spot on lap 44. The winning pass came three laps later, low in turn four, as Hunt relegated DeMartini to runner-up. On lap 48 DeMartini - who had lost the power steering in his Ric Carr Racing #6, contacted Gardner's #51 sending Gardner around. The caution flag for the turn two spin sent Gardner to the rear. The final two laps were without incident as Hunt won followed by DeMartini, Nick Rescino Jr., Mike Murgoitio, and the highest finishing rookie Bradley Galedrige. Sixth through tenth were rookie Jimmy Pelk, Nick Green, Danny Ebberts, Kody Swanson, and Brian Geiszler. Murgoitio out-qualified the 24-car field with a 13.213 clocking on the quarter-mile. USAC WESTERN SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: April 22, 2005 – Stockton, California – Stockton 99 Speedway – “Gerhardt Open Wheel Classic” – (Co-Sanctioned by CASA) QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Mike Murgoitio, 20, Hamilton-13.213; 2. Nick Rescino Jr., 11, Rescino-13.280; 3. Jimmy Peck, 7s, Scott-13.375; 4. Brian McClish, 04, McClish-13.392; 5. Kody Swanson, 75, KT-13.423; 6. Jeff Gardner, 51, Gardner-13.459; 7. Matt DeMartini, 6, Carr-13.463; 8. Greg Anderson, 2, Anderson-13.511; 9. Bradley Galedrige, 21, Hamilton-13.545; 10. Danny Ebberts, 14x, Ebberts-13.572; 11. Tony Hunt, 4, Kaiser-13.588; 12. Nick Green, 114, Green-13.601; 13. Darren Rusconi, 66, Sullivan-13.638; 14. Brian Geiszler, 44, Geiszler-13.668; 15. Jessica Helberg, 4x, Helberg-13.792; 16. Trevor Cummins, 17, Cummins-13.814; 17. Glenn Hopper, 8, Hopper-13.883; 18. Shauna Hogg, 5, Hogg-13.944; 19. Joe Helbert, 7, Helbert-14.032; 20. Jim Kaiser, 94, Kaiser-14.046; 21. Ryan Baumgartner, 24, Baumgartner-14.052; 22. Tony Iacobitti, 71, Oval Chassis-14.284; 23. Marvin Mitchell, 68, Mitchell-14.294; 24. Scott Clough, 5x, Clough-NT. FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Hunt, 2. DeMartini, 3. Murgoitio, 4. Swanson, 5. Hopper, 6. Helberg, 7. Rusconi, 8. Swanson, 9. Galedrige. NT SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Geiszler, 2. McClish, 3. Green, 4. Rescino, 5. Ebberts, 6. Gardner, 7. Cummins, 8. Anderson, 9. Hogg. NT THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Iacobitti, 2. Baumgartner, 3. Kaiser, 4. Clough, 5. Helbert, 6. Mitchell. NT FEATURE:
(50 laps) 1. Tony Hunt, 2. Matt DeMartini, 3. Nick Rescino Jr., 4.
Mike Murgoitio, 5. Bradley Galedrige, 6. Jimmy Pelk, 7. Nick Green,
8. Danny Ebberts, 9. Kody Swanson, 10. Brian Geiszler, 11. Jessica
Helberg, 12. Glenn Hopper, 13. Brian McClish, 14. Trevor Cummins,
15. Darren Rusconi, 16. Jeff Gardner, 17. Joe Helbert, 18. Ryan
Baumgartner, 19. Scott Clough, 20. Tony Iacobitti, 21. Greg
Anderson, 22. Jim Kaiser, 23. Marvin Mitchell, 24. Shauna Hogg. NT NEXT WESTERN SPRINT CAR RACE: April 29 – Madera (CA) Speedway. |
