BELL WINS CALISTOGA’S “VERMEIL” MIDGET CLOSER

Calistoga, CA……..Christopher Bell of Norman, OK won Sunday night’s 30-lap “Louie Vermeil Classic” Honda USAC Western Midget finale at Calistoga Speedway. Bell passed teammate Tanner Thorson on lap 26 and led the final five laps in his Toyota TRD Bullet/Speedway Toyota. Tanner Thorson was second ahead of Ronnie Gardner, Cody Swanson and Nick Chivello. Trey Marcham led the first 13 laps and Thorson led the next 12 before Bell went to the front.

USAC HONDA WESTERN MIDGET CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: August 31, 2014 – Calistoga, California – Calistoga Speedway – “7th Louie Vermeil Classic”

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Rico Abreu, 97, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-20.320; 2. Christopher Bell, 71, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-20.405; 3. Tanner Thorson, 67, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-20.416; 4. Shane Golobic, 26, Bock-20.576; 5. Ronnie Gardner, 68, Six8-20.694; 6. Trey Marcham, 73, Ford-20.973; 7. Scott Pierovich, 35, Pierovich-21.000; 8. Taylor Simas, 62, Bock-21.077; 9. Alex Schutte, 28, Schutte/McElwee-21.244; 10. Jarid Blondel, 98, Blondel-21.251; 11. Cody Swanson, 71S, Swanson-21.356; 12. Brian Gard, 88, Arata-21.396; 13. Nick Chivello, 27, Chivello-21.525; 14. Scott Kinney, 27C, Blackwell-21.815; 15. Lance Hallmark, 8H, Hallmark-22.730; 16. Michael Pickens, 25, Rodela-NT; 17. Randi Pankratz, 8, Pankratz-NT; 18. Chad Nichols, 17, Nichols-NT; 19. Britton Bock, 35X, Pierovich-NT; 20. David Prickett, 27B, Blackwell-NT.

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Abreu, 2. Pierovich, 3. Chivello, 4. Blondel, 5. Golobic. NT

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Gardner, 2. Bell, 3. Simas, 4. Kinney, 5. Swanson, 6. Prickett, 7. Pankratz. NT

THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Thorson, 2. Marcham, 3. Schutte, 4. Gard, 5. Hallmark, 6. Nichols. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Christopher Bell, 2. Tanner Thorson, 3. Ronnie Gardner, 4. Cody Swanson, 5. Nick Chivello, 6. Brian Gard, 7. Lance Hallmark, 8. Jarid Blondel, 9. Trey Marcham, 10. Rico Abreu, 11. Scott Pierovich, 12. Alex Schutte, 13. Taylor Simas, 14. Scott Kinney, 15. Shane Golobic, 16. Randi Pankratz, 17. David Prickett, 18. Britton Bock, 19. Chad Nichols. NT

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*Schutte and Abreu flipped during the feature.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-13 Marcham, Laps 14-25 Thorson, Laps 26-30 Bell.

NEW HONDA USAC WESTERN DIRT MIDGET POINTS: 1-Gardner-503, 2-Marcham-463, 3-Pierovich-318, 4-Blondel-292, 5-Schutte-287, 6-Shannon McQueen-203, 7-Chris Ennis-186, 8-Sean Dodenhoff-167, 9-Michols-156, 10-Tyler Dolacki-155.

NEW HONDA USAC WESTERN MIDGET POINTS: 1-Gardner-503, 2-Marcham-463, 3-Blondel-455, 4-Nichols-343, 5-Schutte-340, 6-Pierovich-327, 9-Chris Ennis-186, 10-Sean Dodenhoff-185,

NEXT HONDA USAC WESTERN MIDGET RACE: September 4 – Chico, CA – Silver Dollar Speedway