[Bill Gardner]

6/15/13 2:28 AM GARDNER STEALS OCEAN WIN ON FINAL LAP!

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GARDNER STEALS OCEAN WIN ON FINAL LAP!

Watsonville, CA……..AMSOIL USAC/CRA Sprint Car point leader Damion Gardner of Concord, Calif. stole victory from the grasp of Bud Kaeding on the final lap of Friday night’s USAC/CRA and Western Classic Sprint feature at Ocean Speedway. Gardner piloted the Scott Sales Company/CSI Shocks Spike/J & D to the win over Kaeding, Nic Faas, Matt Mitchell and Ryan Bernal. Faas led the first 21 laps and Kaeding led the next eight before yielding to Gardner.

AMSOIL USAC/CRA & WESTERN CLASSIC SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: June 14, 2013 – Watsonville, California – Ocean Speedway

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Damion Gardner, 4a, Alexander-12.764; 2. Mike Spencer, 50, Chaffin-12.809; 3. Bud Kaeding, 29, Bowman-12.850; 4. Austin Williams, 2, Jory-12.870; 5. Matt Mitchell, 37, Mitchell-12.933; 6. Marty Hawkins, 3M, Hawkins-12.982; 7. Nic Faas, 4, Alexander-13.009; 8. Ryan Bernal, 73, Ford-13.053; 9. Richard Vander Weerd, 10, Vander Weerd-13.067; 10. Austin Liggett, 83, iggett-13.071; 11. Brody Roa, 91R, BR-13.077; 12. Cory Kruseman, 7, Priestley-13.147; 13. Landon Hurst, 179, Hurst-13.152; 14. Jace Vander Weerd, 88, Vander Weerd-13.198; 15. Danny Faria Jr., 17v, Faria-13.204; 16. D.J. Johnson, 33, Johnson-13.286; 17. Shane Golobic, 121, Vonschriltz-13.300; 18. Colby Copeland, 24, Copeland-13.338; 19. Tony Hunt, 56, Phulps-13.361; 20. Klint Simpson, 84, Simpson-13,374; 21. Geoff Ensign, 5v, McClish-13.474; 22. Markus Niemela, 81, Watt-13.480; 23. Rip Williams, 3, Jory-13.489; 24. Cody Williams, 44, Jory-13.530; 25. Colton Slack, 17, Slack-13.607; 26. Nathan Washam, 33x, Hood-13.814; 27. James Sweeney, 11x, Lewis-14.452; 28. Shauna Hogg, 5, Hogg-NT; 29. Terry Rothweiler, 17s, Shanoian-NT.

FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Golobic, 2. R.Vander Weerd, 3. Ensign, 4. Gardner, 5. Mitchell, 6. Hurst, 7. Slack. NT

SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Liggett, 2. Niemela, 3. Spencer, 4. J.Vander Weerd, 5. Washam, 6. Hawkins, 7. Copeland. NT

THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Faria, 2. Faas, 3. Kaeding, 4. Hunt, 5, R.Williams, 6. Roa, 7. Sweeney. NT

FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. C.Williams, 2. Kruseman, 3. Bernal, 4. A.Williams, 5. D.J. Johnson, 6. Simpson, 7. Hogg. NT

SEMI: (10 laps) 1. Mitchell, 2. Roa, 3. Copeland, 4. D.J. Johnson, 5. R.Williams, 6. Slack, 7. Washam, 8. Hawkins, 9. Sweeney, 10. Simpson, 11. Hogg, 12. Hurst. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Damion Gardner, 2. Bud Kaeding, 3. Nic Faas, 4. Matt Mitchell, 5. Ryan Bernal, 6. Cory Kruseman, 7. Richard Vander Weerd, 8. Markus Niemela, 9. Austin Liggett, 10. Geoff Ensign, 11. Colby Copeland, 12. Brody Roa, 13. Danny Faria, 14. D.J. Johnson, 15. Jace Vander Weerd, 16. Rip Williams, 17. Tony Hunt, 18. Austin Williams, 19. Cody Williams, 20. Mike Spencer, 21. Shane Golobic, 22. Shauna Hogg, 23. Colton Slack. NT

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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-21 Faas, Laps 22-29 Kaeding, Lap 30 Gardner.

NEW AMSOIL USAC/CRA SPRINT POINTS: 1-Gardner-667, 2-Faas-626, 3-Kaeding-539, 4-Spencer-508, 5-Mitchell-414, 6-C.Williams-372, 7-A,Williams-372, 8-Roa-356, 9-Bernal-321, 10-R.J. Johnson-300.

NEW USAC WESTERN CLASSIC SPRINT POINTS: 1-Bernal-254, 2-D.J. Johnson-200; 3-Hunt-186, 4-Slack-167, 5-Hogg-148, 6-Sweeney-128, 7-Washam-113, 8-Simpson-101, 9-Matt Streeter-93, 10-Copeland-93.

NEXT AMSOIL USAC/CRA SPRINT RACE: June 15, 2013 – Santa Maria (CA) Speedway

NEXT USAC WESTERN CLASSIC SPRINT RACE: June 21, 2013 – Stockton (CA) 99 Speedway

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