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| Perris July 4th Recap by Ed Hollowell |
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PERRIS, CA-RIS- Tony Jones took home the big prize for the second year in a row in the “Fire Cracker 40” at Perris Auto Speedway. Jones took the lead at the half way point by passing Cory Kruseman who had started on the outside of the front row and took the lead at the fall of the green.
The race was a drawn out affair with four cautions and three flips before it was four laps old. Danny Ebberts flipped on the second lap, Rickie Gaunt flipped on the third and Rodney Argo flipped on the restart after Gaunt's flip. After that the race progressed well through lap 15 when a debris caution was called. At this point in the race Tony Jones and Blake Miller were having a serious battle for second place. That ended when the officials 'black flagged' Miller because his fuel tank was coming loose. The tank was quickly secured but he was moved to the rear of the field and was only able to climb back up to eighth place by the finish. On the restart Scotty Weir, who had been running fifth got into contact with Josh Ford and Darrin Hagen and flattened a tire. When the race was continued Jones
showed that he had a good car for restarts as he got beside Kruseman
and gave him a good fight before returning to second. Further back
Danny Sheridan was making a big fuss and he went from seventh place
to fight with Hagen for fourth. Sheridan appeared to be trying a
little too hard as he let his car get out of Another restart saw Jones put the rush on Kruseman. Jones got beside Cory and then took the lead in the clear on lap 20. He moved out to a comfortable lead within a few laps. Caution struck yet again on lap 25 when J. Hicks had a left rear tire disintegrate on the back straight with enough force to tear the nerf bar off the left side of the car. Mike Spencer was third for the
restart and went after Kruseman and second place as racing resumed.
He got beside Kruseman but failed to pass. Behind them Rip Williams
was attempting to take the fourth place from Sheridan. Contact
occurred between the two as they swapped the position at least once,
but neither car seemed damaged. As the final laps were run the only change at the front was David Cardey passing Sheridan to take third.
The preliminaries saw Rickie Gaunt set fast time at 16.628 seconds and also win the B feature. Seth Wilson, Mike Spencer, Rip Williams and David Cardey won their heat races. The start of the B feature saw one
of the largest pile-ups in recent history when nine of the 14
starters tangled out of turn four and failed to cross the starting
line. Four cars, those of Ross Millar, Billy Blinn, Brent Camarillo
and Royal Adderson flipped. All but two of the
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