GARDNER EXTENDS WESTERN LEAD WITH OCEAN VICTORY

Watsonville, CA……..Ronnie Gardner of Norco, Calif. extended his Honda USAC Western Midget Dirt point lead Friday night at Ocean Speedway, leading the final 21 laps of the “Howard Kaeding Classic” feature to win the 30-lap race. Trailing Gardner’s Baldozier Racing/Esslinger Engineering Stewart were Johnathon Henry, Jake Swanson, Taylor Simas and Shane Golobic. Randi Pankratz led the first nine laps.

HONDA WESTERN MIDGET DIRT RACE RESULTS: July 12, 2013 – Watsonville, California – Ocean Speedway – “Howard Kaeding Classic”

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Jake Swanson, 05, VanDyne/Swanson-13.300; 2. Ronnie Gardner, 68, SIX-EIGHT-13.371; 3. Shane Golobic, 26, Bock-13.406; 4. Cody Swanson, 71, Swanson-13.409; 5. Pete Davis, 00, Davis-13.517; 6. Randi Pankratz, 8, Pankratz-13.574; 7. Scott Pierovich, 35, Pierovich-13.577; 8. Shannon McQueen, 7, McQueen-13.689; 9. Kyle Edwards, 39, Edwards-13.851; 10. Trey Marcham, 37, Pankratz-13.994; 11. Johnathon Henry, 19, Sala-14.005; 12. Taylor Simas, 62, Bock-14.027; 13. Adam Kaeding, 27c, Blackwell-14.029; 14. David Prickett, 15, Neverlift-14.088; 15. Nick Chivello, 27N, Chivello-14.115; 16. Frankie Guerrini, 63, Guerrini-14.148; 17. Nick Foster Jr., 0, Foster-14.156; 18. Quintin Crye, 27B, Blackwell-14.290; 19. Chris Ennis, 45E, Neverlift-14.345; 20. Terry Nichols, 45, Neverlift-14.865.

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Marcham, 2. C.Swanson, 3. J.Swanson, 4. Pierovich, 5. Guerrini, 6. Ennis, 7. A.Kaeding. NT

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Prickett, 2. Henry, 3. Gardner, 4. Foster, 5. McQueen, 6. Davis, 7. Nichols. NT

THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Chivello, 2. Crye, 3. Simas, 4. Golobic, 5. Pankratz, 6. Edwards. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Ronnie Gardner, 2. Johnathon Henry, 3. Jake Swanson, 4. Taylor Simas, 5. Shane Golobic, 6. Kyle Edwards, 7. Randi Pankratz, 8. Pete Davis, 9. Quintin Crye, 10. Adam Kaeding, 11. Nick Chivello, 12. Frankie Guerrini, 13. David Prickett, 14. Nick Foster Jr., 15. Trey Marcham, 16. Terry Nichols, 17. Cody Swanson, 18. Shannon McQueen, 19. Chris Ennis, 20. Scott Pierovich. NT

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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-9 Pankratz, Laps 10-30 Gardner.

NEW HONDA USAC WESTERN MIDGET DIRT POINTS: 1-Gardner-626, 2-J.Swanson-567, 3-Prickett-474, 4-McQueen-306, 5-C.Swanson-248, 6-Pankratz-244, 7-Pierovich-217, 8-Edwards-204, 9-Marcham-200, 10-Nichols-199.

NEXT HONDA USAC WESTERN MIDGET PAVEMENT RACE: July 13 – Madera (CA) Speedway – “Gerhardt Classic”

NEXT HONDA USAC WESTERN MIDGET DIRT RACE: July 20 – Ventura (CA) Raceway