ABREU WINS “VERMEIL” MIDGET OPENER

Calistoga, CA……..Rico Abreu of Rutherford, Calif. won Saturday night’s 30-lap Honda USAC Western Midget race which opened the 8th “Louie Vermeil Classic” at Calistoga Speedway. Piloting the Kunz/Curb-Agajanian Toyota TRD Bullet/Speedway Toyota, he led the final 23 laps after passing Shane Golobic on lap eight. Brady Bacon took second at the checkered flag ahead of Ryan Bernal, Ronnie Gardner and Chase Stockon.

USAC HONDA WESTERN MIDGET CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: September 5, 2015 – Calistoga, California – Calistoga Speedway – “8th Louie Vermeil Classic” - California Midget Week

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Rico Abreu, 97, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-19.808; 2. Colby Copeland, 57. Cofer-20.465; 3. Ronnie Gardner, 68, Six8-20.504; 4. Shane Golobic, 26, Bock-20.553; 5. Johnathon Henry, 1, Nichols-20.622; 6. Trey Marcham, 73, Ford-20.672; 7. Brian Gard, 88, Arata-20.741; 8. Brady Bacon, 73X, Ford-20.772; 9. Scott Pierovich, 35, Pierovich-20.785; 10. Ryan Bernal, 68W, Six8-20.949; 11. Britton Bock, 67, Bock-21.007; 12. Chase Stockon, 25, Rodela-21.058; 13. Sean Dodenhoff, 9D, Dodenhoff-21.178; 14. Nick Chivello, 27, Chivello-21.531; 15. Terry Nichols, 1P, Nichols-21.574; 16. David Prickett, 99, Hokanson-21.635; 17. Randi Pankratz, 8, Pankratz-21.744; 18. Chris Gansen, 9E, Dodenhoff-22.250; 19. Lance Hallmark, 8H, Hallmark-22.406; 20. Nate Wait, 35W, MF-22.505; 21. Cody Swanson, 71S, Swanson-25.703; 22. Michael Faccinto, 35F, MF-NT; 23. Steve Davis, 2D, Davis-NT.

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Bernal, 2. Golobic, 3. Abreu, 4. Dodenhoff, 5. Faccinto, 6. Gard, 7. Hallmark. NT

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Bacon, 2. Copeland, 3. Henry, 4. Bock, 5. Chivello, 6. Pankratz, 7. Wait. NT

THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Stockon, 2. Marcham, 3. Pierovich, 4. Gardner, 5. Swanson, 6. Nichols. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Rico Abreu, 2. Brady Bacon, 3. Ryan Bernal, 4. Ronnie Gardner, 5. Chase Stockon, 6. Shane Golobic, 7. Scott Pierovich, 8. Nick Chivello, 9. Cody Swanson, 10. Michael Faccinto, 11. Britton Bock, 12. Brian Gard, 13. Randi Pankratz, 14. Lance Hallmark, 15. Terry Nichols, 16. Nate Wait, 17. Johnathon Henry, 18. David Prickett, 19. Colby Copeland, 20. Trey Marcham, 21. Sean Dodenhoff, 22. Chris Gansen, 23. Steve Davis. NT

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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Lap 1 Marcham, Laps 2-4 Henry, Laps 5-7 Golobic, Laps 8-30 Abreu

NEW CALIFORNIA MIDGET WEEK POINTS: 1-Abreu-72, 2-Bacon-65, 3-Bernal-62, 4-Gardner-60, 5-Stockon-56, 6-Golobic-55, 7-Pierovich-48, 8-Chivello-43, 9-Swanson-40, 10-Faccinto-37.

NEW HONDA WESTERN MIDGET POINTS: 1-Gardner-354, 2-Swanson-300, 3-Shannon McQueen-277, 4-Nichols-269, 5-Marcham-230, 6-Pierovich-215, 7-Chivello-209, 8-Faccinto-204, 9-Pankratz-176, 10-Gard-153.

NEXT HONDA USAC WESTERN MIDGET RACE: September 6 – Calistoga, CA – Calistoga Speedway - “8th Louie Vermeil Classic” - California Midget Week