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Santa Maria Speedway August 16th Recap |
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Press Release Santa Maria, CA - August 16, 2008...USAC/CRA 410 Sprint Cars, NMRA
TQ Midgets, and Mini Stocks invaded Santa Maria Speedway Saturday night.
*After starting the evening off with a fast lap of 14.277 seconds in qualifying, Ventura driver Jimmy Crawford's night went downhill with a fourteenth place finish in the 30-lap main event. Nic Faas, of Yorba Linda, turned out to be the class of the field, starting on the pole and leading every lap for the victory. Faas had second place Garrett Hansen, of Manhattan Beach, hot on his heals for most of the event but managed to hold onto first place despite some efforts in traffic by Hansen that almost got him the lead. Third was Mike Spencer, of Temecula, followed by Riverside's David Cardey and Yorba Linda's Rip Williams, who was back in the driver's seat for the event. The red flag flew on lap 16 for Allan Ballard, of Oildale, who flipped into the turn two catch fence, and again on lap 23 for Santa Maria's Danny Sheridan who was launched into one of the back chute billboards. It was a hit in the points for Sheridan, who was third in the USAC/CRA championship coming into the night. However, second in points Blake Miller, of Yorba Linda, failed to make the feature event, leaving Hansen and Spencer to benefit the most from Sheridan's shunt. The 10-lap semi-main was won by Rodney Argo, of Gardena, and 10-lap heat races went to Faas, Visalia's Greg Bragg, and Todd Hunsaker of Chino Hills. *Kenny Wiley, of Sunland, won an 8-lap heat race and the 25-lap main event to lead the NMRA TQ Midgets. Cousins and teammates West Evans, of Moorpark, and Chuck West, of Clovis, placed second and third. Fourth and fifth were Bakersfield's Jimmy Dodson and Camarillo's Bruce Hiroshima. The other heat race winner was Harbor City's Ron Ahrendt, and Camarillo's Richard Ortega, Jr. claimed fast time of 16.355 seconds. *Mini Stock champion contenders Justin Marsh, of Nipomo, and Justin Crockett, of Arroyo Grande, came home second and third behind 20-lap feature winner Jeremy Heroux, of Nipomo, to shrink the margin of lead between Crockett and Marsh to 8 points. Darrin Davis, of Atascadero, and Daylan Coffey, of Santa Maria, filled out the top-five. Crockett and Davis also won 8-lap heat races. *Next Saturday night will be the Speedway's 14th Annual Firefighter's Night, featuring Late Model Stocks, D&S Automotive IMCA Modifieds, California Lightning Sprints and Factory Stocks. Gates open at 3:00 p.m., with racing slated to begin at 6:00 p.m. Tickets will be $15.00 for adults, $11.00 for seniors (65+), $5.00 for children six to twelve, free for kids five and under. Credit cards are not accepted. SMS is located 1/4-mile north of the 101/166 interchange on Hutton Road. RACE SUMMARIES... USAC/CRA Sprint Cars: Fast Time - Jimmy Crawford, 14.277. Heat 1 - Gregg Bragg, Garrett Hansen, Cody Williams, Rip Williams, Crawford, Dan Faria, Jr., Daniel Hood, Brein Kinney. Heat 2 - Nic Faas, Ludvig Solberg IV, Josh Ford, Mike Spencer, Alan Ballard, Jeff Culver, Dennis Rodrigues, Aaron Altaffer. Heat 3 - Todd Hunsaker, David Cardey, Tyler Brown, J. Hicks, Danny Sheridan, Rodney Argo, Jason May, Blake Miller. Semi-Main - Argo, Crawford, Sheridan, Faria, Ballard, Altaffer, Hood, Culver, May, Kinney, Rodrigues (DNS), Miller (DNS). Main Event - Faas, Hansen, Spencer, Cardey, R. Williams, Ford, Hicks, Argo, Bragg, Faria, C. Williams, Altaffer, Hunsaker, Crawford, Solberg, Brown, Culver, Sheridan, Ballard, Hood. NMRA TQ Midgets: Fast Time - Richard Ortega, Jr., 16.355. Heat 1 - Ron Ahrendt, Chuck West, Jimmy Dodson, West Evans, Scott Niven, Ortega. Heat 2 - Kenny Wiley, Randy Moody, Bruce Hiroshima, Scott Dobson, Anthony Lopiccolo. Main Event - Wiley, Evans, West, Dodson, Hiroshima, Ahrendt, Dobson, Niven, Lopiccolo, Ortega, Moody. Mini Stocks: Heat 1 - Darrin Davis, Justin Marsh, Bobby Meneley, Matt Sweeney, Jeff Biggs, Chuck Weber III, Richard Stevens, Justin Klucker, Kenny Smith, Mike Weigel. Heat 2 - Justin Crockett, Jeremy Heroux, Rob Gilbertson, Korban Ensign, Daylan Coffey, Ben Caswell, Robby Cervantes, Lorinda Kearns, Phillip Sewell. Main Event - Heroux, Marsh, Crockett, Davis, Coffey, Weber, Caswell, Sweeney, Cervantes, Gilbertson, Ensign, Biggs, Meneley, Smith, Klucker, Sewell, Stevens, Kearns, Mike Weigel (DNS). POINT STANDINGS: Mini Stocks - 1. Justin Crockett, 540 2. Justin Marsh, 532 3. Daylan Coffey, 436 4. Jeremy Heroux, 430 5. Ben Caswell, 418. |
