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Perris, CA – February 5 -
Damion “the Demon” Gardner, from Concord, California,
won the first race of the Valvoline USAC/CRA sprint cars
series at Perris Auto Speedway this week. Driving the
Chaffin/TemeulaValley Pipe & Supply – Arizona Race
Mart/ Eagle/ Shaver number 50, he held off a strong late
race challenge by defending champ Rip Williams. Later in
victory circle Damion said “I waited on the bottom for
anyone, daring them to go around me. When Rip showed me a
wheel, I just went back up top and drove away”.
Damion set fast time on the night at 16.087 and won
the very first Snap-on Tool Trophy Dash showing off a wild
wheelstand in the process. The Ripper, who was going for
his 100th win, ended up a close second and was
followed by Mike Kirby, Bill Rose and Seth Wilson with 47
cars qualifying.
The beautiful day wasn’t
with out trouble as Tracy Hines, Rickie Gaunt and Danny
Sheridan got together on lap eight, putting them all out.
Then two laps later Mike Spencer took a wild ride down the
front stretch into the wall ending his night. He later
took a trip to the hospital for a good check up, but is
fine. Tony Jones also crashed on the last lap.
Seth Wilson had his highest
finish ever with CRA in fifth place and was the hard
charger of the night passing his number, a total of 17
cars. It was an outstanding track all day without any wind
and the good crowd enjoyed the opening day race.
Perris Auto Speedway,
Perris California, February 5, 2005
QUALIFICATIONS:
1. Damion Gardner, 50, Chaffin-16.087; 2. Rickie Gaunt,
2A, Smiley-16.210; 3. Tracy Hines, 7, Priestley-16.385; 4.
Danny Sheridan, 18, Kittle-16.422; 5. Charles Davis, Jr.,
8A, Smiley-16.448; 6. Mike Spencer, 44, Engstrom-16.592;
7. Cary Faas, 2V, Woodward-16.614; 8. Mike Kirby, 4,
Alexander-16.705; 9. Rick Williams, 6, Williams-16.690;
10. Alan Ballard, 97, Ballard-16.693; 11. Jason York, 26N,
York-16.701; 12. Tony Jones, 87, Vermeer/Ferreira-16.724;
13. Troy Rutherford, 5, Keller-16.800; 14. Josh Ford, 73,
Ford-16.812; 15. Dave Darland, 42, Cheney-16.830; 16. Bill
Rose, 6R, Rose-16.845; 17. Jim Richardson, 8,
Richardson-16.845; 18. Rip Williams, 3, Jory-16.863; 19.
Cory Kruseman, 38, Crossno-16.890; 20. Dan Hillberg,
82, Hillberg-16.914; 21. Jon Stanbrough, 11,
Wilkerson-16.926; 22. J Hicks, 66, Miller-16.975; 23. Rick
Ziehl, 14, Lancaster-16.983; 24. Steve Ostling, 0,
Shoemaker-17.004; 25. David Cardey, 59, Giardina-17.026;
26. Jimmy Crawford, 17C, Crawford-17.100; 27. Randy
Waitman, 69Y, Waitman-17.235; 28. R J Johnson, 15,
Martin-17.255; 29. A J Reyer, 31, Reyer-17.269; 30. Seth
Wilson, 17, Racing Optics-17.275; 31. Jessie Hockett, 2J,
Massey-17.285; 32. Rob Kershaw, 26C, Camland-17.390; 33.
Ronnie Case, 33, Blair-17.432; 34. Danny Ebberts, 77,
Acosta-17.451; 35. Steve Chuhaloff, 5C, Camland-17.638;
36. Jordan Hermansader, 91, Ferro-17.674; 37. Dwayne
Marcum, 12, Pratt-17.740; 38. Rusty Carlisle, 36x,
Carlisle-17.778; 39. Mark Heidenreich, 22,
Heidenreich-17.870; 40. Joshua Williams, 34,
Williams-17.973; 41. David Sinsley, 69, Sinsley-17.978; 42
Eric Severson, 36, Severson-18.117; 43 Nadine Keller, 16,
Keller-18.145; 44. Bill Camarillo, 40C, Camland-18.295;
45. Tony Everhart, 55, Everhart-18.724; 46. Jimmy Thornell,
56, Hellrich-19.765; 47. Nate Ziegler,
8N, Ziegler-19.897.
Snap-on Tools Trophy
dash (3 Laps)
1. Damion Gardner, 2. Danny Sheridan, 3. Ricky Gaunt, 4.
Tracy Hines. Time 52:04
Consi (8 Laps)
1. Ronnie Case, 2. Danny Ebberts, 3. Jordan Henmansader,
4. Randy Carlisle, 5. Dwayne Marcum, 6. Josh Williams, 7.
Bill Camarillo, 8. Steve Chualoff, 9. Mark Heidenreich,
10. Nate Ziegler, 11. Jimmy Thornell, 12. Eric Severson,
13. Tony Everhart, 14. David Sinsley, 15. Nadine Keller.
Heat 1: (10 Laps)
1. David Cadey, 2. Bill Rose, 3. Damion Gardner, 4. Rick
Williams, 5. Charles Davis Jr, 6. Troy Rutherford, 7. Jon
Stanbrough, 8,A J Reyer, 9. Ronnie Case. Time 2:51:34
Heat 2: (10 laps)
1. Seth Wilson, 2. Jimmy Crawford, 3. Rip Williams, 4. J
Hicks, 5. Mike Spencer, 6. Alan Ballard, 7. Rickie Gaunt,
8. Josh Ford, 9. Danny Ebberts. Time 2:52:53
Heat 3: (10 laps)
1. Cory Kruseman, 2. Tracy Hines, 3. Randy Waitman, 4.
Cary Faas, 5. Rick Ziehl, 6. Dave Darland, 7. Jason York,
8. Jordan Hermansader, 9. Jesse Hockett. Time 2:57:16
Heat 4: (10 laps)
1.Steve Ostling, 2. Tony Jones, 3. Mike Kirby, 4. Danny
Sheridan, 5. RJ Johnson, 6. Dan Hillberg, 7. Rob
Kershaw, 8. Jim Richardson, 9. Eric Severson. Time 2:54:88
Semi (12 Laps)
1. Rickie Gaunt, 2. Charles Davis Jr, 3. Mike
Spencer, 4. Troy Rutherford, 5. Alan Ballard, 6. Dave
Darland, 7. Jason York, 8. Josh Ford, 9. Dan Hillberg,
10. Jon Stanbrough, 11. Danny Ebberts, 12. Rick Ziehl, 13.
Jim Richardson. 14. Jordan Hermansader, 15. R.J. Johnson,
16 Rob Kershaw, 17. A.J.Reyer, 18. Randy Carlisle, 19.
Ronnie Case, 20. Jesse Hockett.
Main Event (30 Laps)
1. Damion Gardner, 2. Rip Williams, 3. Mike Kirby, 4. Bill
Rose, 5. Seth Wilson, 6. Cory Kruseman, 7. Charles Davis
Jr, 8. Steve Ostling, 9. Alan Ballard, 10. J Hicks, 11.
Rick Ziehl, 12. Tony Jones, 13. Troy Rutherford, 14. Cary
Faas, 15. Randy Waitman, 16. Rick Williams, 17. David
Cardey, 18. Jimmy Crawford, 19. Mike Spencer, 20. Tracy
Hines, 21. Rickie Gaunt, 22. Danny Sheridan, 23. Dave
Darland.
Lap leaders:
Bill Rose 1 – 10, Damion Gardner 11-30.
NEW USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR
STANDINGS:
1-Kirby-109; 2-Davis-109; 3-Rip Williams-94;
4-Kruseman-93; 5-Wilson-83; 6-Rick Williams-82;
7-Spencer-80; 8-Gardner-73; 9-Ziehl-64; 10-Crawford-60.
NEXT USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR RACE:
February 19 – Perris, CA – Perris Auto
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