STOCKON TOPS AT SANTA MARIA; BERNAL CALIFORNIA MIDGET WEEK KING
Santa Maria, CA……..Chase Stockon of Elizabethtown, Ind. won Saturday night’s 30-lap Honda USAC Western Midget race at Santa Maria Raceway but Ryan Bernal won the California Midget Week title with his second-place finish. Stockon passed Cody Swanson on lap 25 and led the final six laps in his Jerome Rodela entry to beat Bernal, Ronnie Gardner, Randi Pankratz and Cody Williams. Bernal also won the California Sprint Week crown, winning the night’s 30-lap Sprint feature.
USAC HONDA WESTERN MIDGET CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: September 12, 2015 – Santa Maria, California – Santa Maria Raceway
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Chase Stockon, 25, Rodela-13.834; 2. Shannon McQueen, 7, McQueen-13.973; 3. Ronnie Gardner, 68, Six8-14.031; 4. Cody Swanson, 71S, Swanson-14.169; 5. Cody Williams, 5, Van Dyne-14.205; 6. Ryan Bernal, 73, Ford-14.212; 7. Troy Rutherford, 87JR, Vermeer-14.249; 8. Nick Chivello, 27, Chivello-14.295; 9. Brian Gard, 88, Arata-14.319; 10. Randi Pankratz, 8, Pankratz-14.502; 11. Steve Davis, 2D, Davis-14.627; 12. Terry Nichols, 1P, Nichols-14.923; 13. Gavin Harlien, 11K, Kruseman-15.027; 14. Danny Faria Jr., 11R, Brutton-NT.
FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Stockon, 2. Gard, 3. Rutherford, 4. Davis, 5. Harlien, 6. Williams, 7. Gardner. NT
SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Bernal, 2. McQueen, 3. Swanson, 4. Chivello, 5. Nichols, 6. Pankratz, 7. Faria. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Chase Stockon, 2. Ryan Bernal, 3. Ronnie Gardner, 4. Randi Pankratz, 5. Cody Williams, 6. Shannon McQueen, 7. Brian Gard, 8. Terry Nichols, 9. Cody Swanson, 10. Steve Davis, 11. Nick Chivello,12. Troy Rutherford, 13. Gavin Harlien, 14. Danny Faria Jr. NT
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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-9 Rutherford, Laps 10-24 Swanson, Laps 25-30 Stockon
FINAL CALIFORNIA MIDGET WEEK POINTS: 1-Bernal-251, 2-Stockon-245, 3-Gardner-243, 4-Shane Golobic-180, 5-Swanson-168, 6-Gard-152, 7-Rico Abreu-145, 8-Pankratz-145, 9-Trey Marcham-130, 10-Michael Faccinto-121.
NEW HONDA USAC WESTERN MIDGET POINTS: 1-Gardner-537, 2-Swanson-428, 3-McQueen-371, 4-Nichols-343, 5-Trey Marcham-339, 6-Pankratz-291, 7-Michael Faccinto-289, 8-Gard-273, 9-Chivello-260, 10-Scott Pierovich-250.
NEXT HONDA USAC WESTERN MIDGET RACE: September 19 – Bakersfield (CA) Speedway