GARDNER REPEATS IN CALIFORNIA SPRINT WEEK AT OCEAN

Watsonville, CA……..Damion Gardner of Concord, Calif. put his Scott Sales Company/J & D Performance Spike into victory lane Friday night for the second night in a row as he captured the 30-lap AMSOIL USAC/CRA “California Sprint Week” feature at Ocean Speedway. He led the final 16 laps after passing early leader Ryan Bernal, who finished second. Kevin Thomas Jr. was third and trails Gardner by 28 point entering tonight’s “California Sprint Week” finale at Santa Maria Speedway. Richard Vander Weerd and Mike Spencer rounded out the “top-five.”

AMSOIL USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: September 5, 2014 – Watsonville, California – Ocean Speedway – “California Sprint Week”

QUALIFICATIONS: 1.. Damion Gardner, 4, Alexander-12.500; 2. Jake Swanson, 92, Sertich-12.784; 3. Mike Spencer, 50, Chaffin-12.859; 4. Austin Liggett, 83, Liggett-12.865; 5. Kevin Thomas Jr., 73, Ford-12.879; 6. Richard Vander Weerd, 10, Vander Weerd-12.880; 7. Cody Williams, 44, Jory-12.931; 8. Ryan Bernal, 56, Phulps-12.975; 9. Brody Roa, 91R, BR-13.036; 10. Matt Mitchell, 37, Mitchell-13.096; 11. Landon Hurst, 179, Hurst-13.115; 12. Austin Williams, 2, Jory-13.171; 13. Danny Faria Jr., 2F, Bowman-13.198; 14. Jace Vander Weerd, 88, VanderWeerd-13.288; 15. Geoff Ensign, 3F, Finkenbinder-13.313; 16. D.J. Johnson, 33, Johnson-13.429; 17. Chris Gansen, 4G, Gansen-13.441; 18. Tim DeCarlo Jr., 4D, DeCarlo-13.442; 19. Tyler Schmidt, 49, Schmidt-13.578; 20. Logan Williams, 5, Jory-13.579; 21. Jeff Sibley, 42N, Sibley-13.641; 22. Garrett Hansen, 7, Priestley-13.721; 23. Eric Rossi, 17, Shanoian-13.745; 24. Jeremy Ellertson, 98X, Ellertson-14.114; 25. Eli Deshaies, 91RI, Deshaies-14.116.

FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Gardner, 2. Faria, 3. Liggett, 4. Johnson, 5. Mitchell, 6. Hansen, 7. Schmidt, 8. C.Williams, 9. Deschaies. NT

SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Swanson, 2. J.Vander Weerd, 3. Bernal, 4. Gansen, 5. Thomas, 6. Rossi, 7. Hurst, 8. L.Williams. NT

THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Ensign, 2. Roa. 3. R.Vander Weerd, 4. A.Williams, 5. Sibley, 6. DeCarlo, 7. Ellertson, 8. Spencer. NT

SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Thomas, 2. Spencer, 3. Mitchell, 4. C.Williams, 5. Schmidt, 6. L.Williams, 7. DeCarlo, 8. Sibley, 9. Hansen, 10. Rossi, 11. Ellertson, 12. Hurst. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Damion Gardner, 2. Ryan Bernal, 3. Kevin Thomas Jr., 4. Richard Vander Weerd, 5. Mike Spencer, 6. Brody Roa, 7. Geoff Ensign, 8. Danny Faria Jr., 9. Austin Liggett, 10. D.J. Johnson, 11. Cody Williams, 12. Jake Swanson, 13. Austin Williams, 14. Jace Vander Weerd, 15. Eric Rossi, 16. Jeff Sibley, 17. Chris Gansen, 18. Tyler Schmidt, 19. Logan Williams, 20. Jeremy Ellertson, 21. Matt Mitchell, 22. Garrett Hansen, 23. Tim DeCarlo Jr. NT

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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-14 Bernal, Laps 15-30 Gardner.

NEW AMSOIL USAC/CRA SPRINT POINTS: 1-Gardner-1,047, 2-Spencer-823, 3-Roa-681, 4-Mitchell-656, 5-C.Williams-636, 6-Nic Faas-628, 7-A.Williams-615, 8-Swanson-573, 9-R.Vander Weerd-529, 10-L.Williams-415.

NEW CALIFORNIA SPRINT WEEK POINTS: 1-Gardner-261, 2-Thomas-233, 3-Spencer-192, 4-Roa-185, 5-C.Williams-153, 6-Colby Copeland-151, 7-Mitchell-139, 8-Christopher Bell-135, 9-Rico Abreu-132, 10-Bradley Terrell-129.

NEXT AMSOIL USAC/CRA SPRINT RACE: September 6 – Santa Maria (CA) Speedway – “California Sprint Week”