BERNAL TAKES “GOLD CUP” MIDGET AT CHICO

Chico, CA……..Ryan Bernal of Hollister, Calif. won Thursday night’s 30-lap “Gold Cup” Race of Champions Honda USAC Western Midget race at Silver Dollar Speedway, leading the final 17 laps in his Six8 Racing entry after passing Chase Stockon for the lead on lap 14. Fast qualifier Shane Golobic finished second ahead of Stockon, Frankie Guerrini and Trey Marcham. The win shot Bernal into the lead in the “California Midget Week” standings.

USAC HONDA WESTERN MIDGET CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: September 10, 2015 – Chico, California – Silver Dollar Speedway – “Gold Cup” Race of Champions – “California Midget Week” – Co-sanctoned by BCRA

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Shane Golobic, 26, Bock-14.104; 2. Sean Becker, 19S, Sala-14.248; 3. Ryan Bernal, 68W, Six8-14.292; 4. Ronnie Gardner, 68, Six8-14.388; 5. Trey Marcham, 73, Ford-14.521; 6. Cody Swanson, 71S, Swanson-14.595; 7. Nate Wait, 35W, MF-14.646; 8. Randi Pankratz, 8, Pankratz-14.713; 9. Dustin Golobic, 25G, Golobic-14.719; 10. Brian Gard, 88, Arata-14.809; 11. Chase Stockon, 25, Rodela-14.812; 12. Michael Faccinto, 35F, MF-14.848; 13. Barry Pries Jr., 14, Pries-14.923; 14. Frankie Guerrini, 63, Guerrini-14.936; 15. Shannon McQueen, 7, McQueen-14.986; 16. Lance Hallmark, 8H, Hallmark-14.989; 17. Colby Copeland, 19W, Sala-15.014; 18. Britton Bock, 67, Bock-15.023; 19. Terry Nichols, 1P, Nichols-15.024; 20. David Prickett, 99, Hokanson-15.276; 21. Larry Peterson, 17, Peterson-15.653; 22. Chris Dyson, 12K, Kruseman-15.687; 23. Rick Holbrook, 46, Holbrook-15.802; 24. Gary Conterno, 55, Conterno-15.966; 25. Floyd Alvis, 11F, Champion-16.074; 26. J.R. Williams, 74, Williams-16.208; 27. Steve Davis, 2D, Davis-NT.

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Copeland, 2. S.Golobic, 3. Marcham, 4. Pries, 5. Peterson, 6. D.Golobic, 7. Alvis. NT

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Bock, 2. Gard, 3. Becker, 4. Guerrini, 5. Swanson, 6. Dyson, 7. Williams. NT

THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Stockon, 2. Bernal, 3. McQueen, 4. Davis, 5. Wait, 6. Holbrook, 7. Nichols. NT 

FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Gardner, 2. Faccinto, 3. Prickett, 4. Hallmark, 5. Pankratz, 6. Conterno. NT

SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Swanson, 2. Pankratz, 3. D.Golobic, 4. Conterno, 5. Holbrook, 6. Alvis, 7. Williams, 8. Dyson, 9. Wait, 10. Peterson. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Ryan Bernal, 2. Shane Golobic, 3. Chase Stockon, 4. Frankie Guerrini, 5. Trey Marcham, 6. Ronnie Gardner, 7. Michael Faccinto, 8. Sean Becker, 9. Colby Copeland, 10. Cody Swanson, 11. Shannon McQueen, 12. Randi Pankratz, 13. Britton Bock, 14. Brian Gard, 15. Gary Conterno, 16. Lance Hallmark, 17. Floyd Alvis, 18. Barry Pries Jr., 19. David Prickett, 20. Dustin Golobic, 21. Terry Nichols. NT

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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-11 Faccinto, Laps 12-13 Stockon, Laps 14-30 Bernal.

NEW CALIFORNIA MIDGET WEEK POINTS: 1-Bernal-185, 2-R.Gardner-183, 3-S.Golobic-180, 4-Stockon-171, 5-Rico Abreu-145, 6-Marcham-130, 7-Swanson-123, 8-Faccinto-121, 9-Gard-103, 10-Bock-98.

NEW HONDA USAC WESTERN MIDGET POINTS: 1-Gardner-477, 2-Swanson-383, 3-Marcham-339, 4-McQueen-314, 5-Nichols-300, 6-Faccinto-289, 7-Scott Pierovich-250, 8-Pankratz-237, 9-Nick Chivello-224, 10-Gard-224.

NEXT HONDA USAC WESTERN MIDGET RACE: September 12 – Santa Maria (CA) Raceway