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KODY SWANSON GETS FIRST CAREER USAC
DIRT SPRINT CAR WIN AT CHICO
SACRAMENTO,
CALIFORNIA (August 6, 2011) – Kingsburg’s Kody Swanson, fresh off a win in the USAC Silver Crown
series, won his first ever USAC dirt sprint car feature by topping a 29 car field in Friday night’s “Wayne Sue
Classic” for the USAC Western Classic Sprint Cars at Chico’s Silver Dollar
Speedway. Swanson took the #69 Alan
Kaiser Construction mount to win in just his second ever USAC dirt sprint car
start.
Swanson
came to the feature after winning the semi and started the 22 car feature from
ninth after getting his qualifying time back.
Sebastopol’s Geoff Ensign led the field to
green from the pole and maintained the lead under heavy pressure in the early
laps.
Matt
Streeter jumped forward to second on the opening lap as outside pole sitter
Scott Pierovich began to slip back through the field. The first caution came out on lap one and on
the restart Pierovich backpedaled even more, falling back to eighth place.
Young Marty
Hawkins fell out of contention on lap eight with mechanical problems after
qualifying fourth, while fast-time qualifier Andy Forsberg took over third from
Jason York on lap 12. Swanson cracked
the top-five as well while overall points leader Tony Hunt was up to seventh from
11th starting.
The
frustrating night for Pierovich finally ended when he stopped on lap 16 to
bring out the caution and his night was over.
The restart saw York try to come back at Forsberg for third before he
spun in turn two. York was able to keep his #25 mount
rolling but he fell to 14th.
Streeter
applied heavy pressure on Ensign for the lead with Forsberg and Swanson in
close pursuit. On lap 19 Streeter and
Ensign went side-by-side for the lead into turn one with Streeter spinning
out. The caution gave Forsberg his best
shot at Ensign as he swept high atop the cushion. But the bottom proved to be the place to run
allowing Swanson to shoot past Forsberg to take over second.
Kyle Hirst
began to make his presence felt as he challenged the leaders while Hunt cracked
the top-five. After a brief three-wide
battle for second, Swanson finally got away to battle Ensign. Coming into turn three on lap 24, Swanson
dove inside to steal the preferred line and take the lead.
A red flag
was needed one lap later as Cody Myers and dirt points leader Shauna Hogg flipped
while battling for seventh. Hogg was
able to continue while Myers was done for the night.
Swanson
drove away on the restart with five laps to go while Ensign defended Forsberg
and Hirst. Hirst was able to get under
Forsberg to take third before the checkers to round out the podium. York came back to fifth ahead of Taylor
Simas, Hunt, Kirk Simpson, Colby Copeland, and Streeter the top-ten.
With the second
place finish, Ensign unofficially closed to within 44 points of Hunt in the
overall USAC Western Classic Racing Series points while Hogg unofficially
maintained her lead in the dirt points as she drove back to a solid 11th
place finish. For her efforts, Hogg was
awarded a $50 Kaeding Performance award along with Hawkins.
Heat race
wins went to Streeter, Myers, Hirst, and Simas, with Swanson pacing the semi
over James Sweeney, Hunt, and Simpson. Provisional
starting positions in the feature went to Tim Barber and Todd Miller, Jr.
Johnathon
Henry of Stockton won the USAC/BCRA Midget feature on the night as well as he
charged past Chris Ennis to take the lead on lap 15 of the 30 lap contest. Henry went on to a six second victory over
Shannon McQueen and Cody Swanson. Cody
Kruseman’s sixth place finish allowed him to retake the USAC points lead over
David Prickett.
Tonight the
USAC Western Classic Racing Series continues as they move on to Alan Handy’s
Placerville Speedway for the “Mike McCreary Classic”. BCRA Midgets and BCRA Midget Lites are also
scheduled to be in action.
Saturday
night’s show at Placerville Speedway will have the front grandstand gate
opening at 5:00 p.m. with racing at 7 p.m.
General adult admission is $13.00 with seniors and juniors $11.00 and
children $6.00.
More
information on the USAC Western Classic Racing Series is available on Facebook
at keywords “USAC Western Classic Racing Series”. The United States Auto Club is online at www.usacracing.com The USAC Western States is available at www.usacwesternstates.com with contact information and the
latest news.
The USAC
Western Classic Racing Series is brought to you by: Amsoil, Hoosier Tires West,
and Kaeding Performance.
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USAC
WESTERN CLASSIC SPRINT RACE RESULTS: August 5, 2011 – Chico, California –
Silver Dollar Speedway
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Andy
Forsberg, 92, Forsberg-14.131; 2. Jason York, 25, York-14.237; 3. James
Sweeney, 20J, Sweeney-14.285; 4. Marty Hawkins, 3m, Hawkins-14.379; 5. Matt
Streeter, 14jr, Streeter-14.387; 6. Scott Pierovich, 14, Pierson-14.410; 7.
Geoff Ensign, 3F, Finkenbinder-14.446; 8. Mark Tabor Jr., 38N, Tabor-14.48 ; 9.
Kody Swanson, 69, Kaiser-14.504; 10. Colby Copeland, 24c, Copeland-14.506; 11.
Tony Hunt, 56, Phulps-14.508; 12. Tim Barber, 3T, Finkenbinder-14.533; 13.
Shauna Hogg, 5, Hogg-14.550; 14. Cody Myers, 9, Myers-14.571; 15. Kyle Hirst,
14s, Hirst-14.610; 16. Taylor Simas, 7T, Simas-14.660; 17. Kirk
Simpson, 84, Simpson-14.705; 18. Todd Miller Jr., 96, Miller-14.752; 19.
Richard Brace Jr., 21J, Brace-14.761; 20. Scott Hull, 56x, Santiago-14.765; 21.
Cody Smith, 3s, Smith-14.878; 22. Gordon Rodgers, 94, Dusin-14.956; 23. Jim
Richardson, 8, Richardson-14.992; 24. Mark Beck, 50s, Beck-15.007; 25. Jerry
Kobza, 93, Kobza-15.058; 26. Randy Freeman, 88,
Freeman-15.165; 27. Don Emory, 50, Emory-15.580; 28. Tim Sherman, 1x,
Sherman-NT; 29. Rowdy McClennon, 13, McClennon-NT.
FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1.
Streeter, 2. Hogg, 3. Forsberg, 4. Smith, 5. Simpson, 6. K.Swanson, 7. Freeman.
NT
SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1.
Myers, 2. Copeland, 3. York, 4. Pierovich, 5. Emory, 6. Rodgers, 7. Miller. NT
THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Hirst,
2. Ensign, 3. Brace, 4. T.Sherman, 5. Hunt, 6. Sweeney, 7. Richardson. NT
FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1.
Simas, 2. Hawkins, 3. Tabor, 4. Hull, 5. Barber, 6. Beck, 7. McClennon. NT
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. K.Swanson,
2. Sweeney, 3. Hunt, 4. Simpson, 5. Barber, 6. Richardson, 7. Miller, 8.
Rodgers, 9. Emory. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Kody
Swanson, 2. Geoff Ensign, 3. Kyle Hirst, 4. Andy Forsberg, 5. Jason York, 6.
Taylor Simas, 7. Tony Hunt, 8. Kirk Simpson, 9. Colby Copeland, 10. Matt
Streeter, 11. Shauna Hogg, 12. James Sweeney, 13. Mark Tabor Jr., 14. Tim
Barber, 15. Tim Sherman, 16. Cody Myers, 17. Richard Brace Jr., 18. Scott Hull,
19. Scott Pierovich, 20. Marty Hawkins, 21. Cody Smith, 22. Todd Miller Jr. NT
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**Kobza flipped during qualifying. Hogg and Myers flipped during the feature,
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-24 Ensign, Laps 25-30 K.Swanson.
NEW WESTERN CLASSIC SPRINT POINTS: 1-Hunt-455; 2-Ensign-411; 3-Hogg-378;
4-Barber-363; 5-Pierovich-332; 6-Audra Sasselli-245; 7-Kobza-242; 8-Gody
Gerhardt-222; 9-Luis Ramos III-204; 10-Tim Skoglund-197.
NEXT WESTERN CLASSIC SPRINT RACE: August 6 – Placerville, CA - Placerville
Speedway
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