10.5.13 USAC Western States Midgets Results
Petaluma, CA……..Honda USAC Western Midget Dirt point leader Ronnie Gardner of Norco, Calif. won Saturday night’s 101-lap “John Soares Classic” at Petaluma Speedway. Taking the lead from Greg Bragg on lap 74, he led the final 28 laps in his Baldozier Racing/Esslinger Engineering Stewart/Esslinger for his fourth win in his last five outings and ninth win this season! Shane Golobic finished second ahead of Bragg, Shannon McQueen and Taylor Simas. The race was co-sanctioned by BCRA.
USAC HONDA WESTERN MIDGET CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: October 5, 2013 – Petaluma, California – Petaluma Speedway – 2nd “John Soares Classic” – Co-sanctioned by BCRA
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Ronnie Gardner, 68, SIX-EIGHT-14.200; 2. Shannon McQueen, 7, McQueen-14.420; 3. Chris Ennis, 86, Ennis-14.491; 4. David Prickett, 15, Neverlift-14.525; 5. Taylor Simas, 62, Bock-14.532; 6. Scott Pierovich, 35, Pierovich-14.561; 7. Grag Bragg, 11, Thurston-14.644; 8. Frankie Guerinni, 63, Guerinni-14.665; 9. Alex Schutte, 28, Morris-14.774; 10. Randi Pankratz, 8, Pankratz-14.779; 11. Nich Chivello, 27, Chivello-14.786; 12. Gary Conterno, 55, Conterno-14.939; 13. Terry Nichols, 45, Neverlift-14.948; 14. Pete Davis, 00, Davis-14.951; 15.Shane Golobic, 26, Bock-15.143; 16. Nick Foster Jr., 0, Foster-15.296; 17. Floyd Alvis, 11x, Alvis-15.319; 18. Sparky Howard, 3, Howard-15.731; 19. Bill Lindsey, 8x, Lindsey-15.433; 20. J.R. Williams, 74, Williams-15.585; 21. Michael Donaldson, 9, Donaldson-16.116; 22. Rick Holbrook, 2, Holbrook-16.805.
FIRST HEAT: (8 laps – no points) 1. Golobic, 2. Lindsey, 3. Alvis, 4. Conterno, 5. Donaldson. NT
SECOND HEAT: (8 laps – no points) 1. Foster, 2. Davis, 3. Howard, 4. Williams, 5. Nichols. NT
FEATURE: (101 laps) 1. Ronnie Gardner, 2. Shane Golobic, 3. Greg Bragg, 4. Shannon McQueen, 5. Taylor Simas, 6. Nick Foster Jr., 7. Randi Pankratz, 8. Sparky Howard, 9. Gary Conterno, 10. Floyd Alvis, 11. J.R. Williams, 12. Chris Ennis, 13. Alex Schutte, 14. Michael Donaldson, 15. Frankie Guerinni, 16. Scott Pierovich (#00), 17. David Prickett, 18. Bill Lindsey, 19. Rick Holbrook, 20. Nick Chivello. NT
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**Pierovich flipped during qualifying. Nichols flipped during the second heat. Chivello flipped on the first lap of the feature.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-73 Bragg, Laps 74-101 Gardner.
NEW HONDA WESTERN DIRT MIDGET POINTS: 1-Gardner-1,094, 2-Jake Swanson-838, 3-Prickett-733, 4-McQueen-533, 5-Pankratz-498, 6-Cody Swanson-458, 7-Pierovich-400, 8-Nichols-357, 9-Trey Marcham-348, 10-Johnathon Henry-301.
NEXT HONDA USAC WESTERN MIDGET RACE: November 14-16 – Peoria, AZ – Canyon Speedway Park