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THE KRUSER ROCKS THE PACKED HOUSE BEFORE THE FIREWORKS

JULY 2, 2005...Cory Kruseman, from Ventura, California, took the lead on lap 19 and “kruised” to a 50 lap victory in front of a packed house at Perris Auto Speedway this week. The eighteenth Valvoline USAC/CRA series race of the season was racy from the start as Danny Sheridan took the lead and drove a hard line maintaining it until Cory caught up. The battle between them wasn’t settled for several laps as they swapped the lead until Kruseman surged ahead for good. Cory drove the ITI Performance, Sander Engineering, Bullitt, Downing # 38 to a heat race win before starting sixth in the main event. He quickly moved in to second and worked hard to take the lead.

Danny Sheridan hasn’t had a lot of luck lately, but almost pulled a win out this week when he finished second in the El Camino Pipe & Supply, Red Line Oil, Stinger, Pick # 18. Danny tied his best ever 410 finish as he was on his game to give Cory a tough road for his win. Danny was followed by Steve Ostling, Rip Williams, who came from 18^th to 4^th for hard charger kudos, and Mike Spencer.

Damion Gardner had rear end problems early in the race and couldn’t get new gears installed before the next restart and finished last. Tony Jones won his second trophy dash in a row, started seventh and cruised up to third before a muffler fell off and he had a flat tire. He too couldn’t make it back on the next restart to be the second car out. Mike Kirby started 18^th, had a flat tire and came from the back to get eighth.

VALVOLINE USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: July 2, 2005 – Perris, California – Perris Auto Speedway – “Firecracker 50”

 
      QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Johnny Rodriguez, 7R, Priestley-16.980; 2. Damion Gardner, 50, Chaffin-16.992; 3. Tony Jones, 87, Vermeer/Ferreira-17.024; 4. Davey Pombo, 3p, Pombo-17.120; 5. Cory Kruseman, 38, Crossno-17.144; 6. Charles Davis, Jr., 8A, Smiley-17.202; 7. Bobby Cody, 41, Cody-17.227; 8. Steve Ostling, 5, Keller-17.260; 9. Rickie Gaunt, 2A, Smiley-17.318; 10. Danny Sheridan, 18, Kittle-17.345; 11. Josh Ford, 73, Ford-17.345; 12. Mike Spencer, 44, Engstrom-17.349; 13. R.J. Johnson, 15az, Martin-17.426; 14. J. Hicks, 66, Miller-17.437; 15. Greg Bragg, 33, Blair-17.476; 16. Bobby Graham, 14, Lancaster-17.550; 17. Mike Kirby, 4, Alexander-17.580; 18. Jordan Hermansader, 92, Sertich-17.600; 19. Rip Williams, 3, Jory-17.635; 20. Tom Stansberry, 48, Bach-17.670; 21. Troy Rutherford, 11, Wilkerson-17.690; 22. Jimmy Crawford, 17c, Crawford-17.733; 23. Alan Ballard, 97, Ballard-17.957; 24. Rick Becker, 67, Becker-17.977; 25. Jimmy Thornell, 25, Ruth-18.005; 26. Verne Sweeney, 98, Zoriki-18.133; 27. David Cardey, 59, Giardina-18.170; 28. Joshua Williams, 34, Williams-18.207; 29. Richard Rose, 8N, Ziegler-18.209; 30. Seth Wilson, 17, Racing Optics-18.232; 31. Ronnie Case, 8, Case-18.253; 32. Shawn Kautz, 29, Kautz-18.283; 33. Brandon Springstead, 36, Springstead-18.423; 34. Dan Hillberg, 82, Hillberg-18.487; 35.  Nadine Keller, 16, Keller-18.548; 36.  Jim Giardina, 58, Giardina-18.657; 37. Ryan Devitt, 35R, Blenkarn-18.663; 38. Eric Severson, 36x, Severson-18.915; 39.  David Sinsley, 69, Sinsley-19.179; 40.  Matt Stewart, 85, Stewart-19.393.

      DASH: (3 laps) 1. Jones, 2. Pombo, 3. Gardner, 4. Rodriguez. :55:10

CONSOLATION RACE: (8 laps) 1. Springstead, 2. Keller, 3. Devitt, 4. Hillberg, 5. Sinsley, 6. Giardina, 7. Severson, 8. Stewart. 2:32:30

FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Kruseman, 2. Kirby, 3. Gaunt, 4. Rutherford, 5. Johnson, 6. Thornell, 7. Rose, 8, Springstead, 9. Rodriguez. NT

 SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Sheridan, 2. Gardner, 3. Davis, 4. Hermansader, 5. Crawford, 6. Hicks, 7. Keller, 8. Wilson, 9. Sweeney. NT

THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. R.Williams, 2. Jones, 3. Ford, 4. Cardey, 5. Cody, 6. Devitt, 7, Ballard, 8.Case, 9. Bragg. NT

FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Spencer, 2. Ostling, 3. Becker, 4. Graham, 5. J.Williams, 6. Pombo, 7. Stansberry, 8. Hillberg, 9. Kautz. 3:07:41

SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Pombo, 2. Rodriguez, 3. Johnson, 4. Cody, 5. Crawford, 6. Bragg, 7. Thornell, 8. Hicks, 9. Ballard, 10. J.Williams, 11. Kautz, 12. Case, 13. Springstead, 14. Sweeney, 15. Rose, 16. Devitt, 17. Keller, 18. Hillberg, 19. Stansberry, 20. Wilson. NT

FEATURE: (50 laps) 1. Cory Kruseman, 2. Danny Sheridan, 3. Steve Ostling, 4. Rip Williams, 5. Mike Spencer, 6. Charles Davis, Jr., 7. Rickie Gaunt, 8. Mike Kirby, 9. Josh Ford, 10. Johnny Rodriguez, 11. Jordan Hermansader, 12. Troy Rutherford, 13. David Cardey, 14. Greg Bragg, 15. Rick Becker, 16. Bobby Cody, 17. Davey Pombo, 18. Alan Ballard, 19. R.J. Johnson, 20. Bobby Graham, 21. Jimmy Crawford, 22. Tony Jones, 23. Damion Gardner. NT

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-16 Sheridan, Lap 17 Kruseman, Lap 18 Sheridan, Laps 19-50 Kruseman.

 
NEW USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR STANDINGS: 1-R.Williams-1,051; 2-Gardner-938; 3-Kruseman-914; 4-Kirby-888; 5-Davis-880; 6-Gaunt-760; 7-Jones-537; 8-Spencer-535; 9-Ballard-519; 10-Ford-504.

 
NEXT USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR RACE: July 23 – Perris (CA) Auto Speedway

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