FACCINTO LOGS LAST-LAP MIDGET VICTORY AT PETALUMA

Petaluma, CA……..Michael Faccinto of Hanford, Calif. scored a sensational last-lap victory in Saturday night’s Honda USAC Western Midget race (co-sanctioned by BCRA) at Petaluma Speedway. Faccinto passed Ronnie Gardner on the final lap for the win in his MF Motorsports OZV/Bobby Brown Racing Spike/Chevy to beat Gardner, Shannon McQueen, Cory Elliott and Nick Chivello. McQueen led the first 12 laps and Gardner the next 17 before Faccinto made the winning pass.

HONDA USAC WESTERN MIDGET RACE RESULTS: July 18, 2015 – Petaluma, California – Petaluma Speedway (Co-santcioned by BCRA)

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Ronnie Gardner, 68, Six8-14.382; 2. Randi Pankratz, 8X, Pankratz-14.693; 3. Taylor Simas, 62, Bock-14.709; 4. Frankie Guerrini, 63, Guerrini-14.718; 5. Brian Gard, 88, Arata-14.848; 6. Scott Pierovich, 35, Pierovich-14.850; 7. Cody Swanson, 71S, Swanson-14.884; 8. Sean Dodenhoff, 9D, Dodenhoff-14.909; 9. Shannon McQueen, 7, McQueen-14.969; 10. Michael Faccinto, 35F, MF-14.974; 11. Terry Nichols, 1P, Nichols-15.029; 12. Maria Cofer, 57, Cofer-15.089; 13. Cory Elliott, 11E, Elliott-15.107; 14. Nick Foster, 9E, Dodenhoff-15.133; 15. Scott Kinney, 27C, Blackwell-15.198; 16. Britton Bock, 67, Bock-15.203; 17. Bill Lindsey, 8, Lindsey-15.274; 18. Rick Holbrook, 46, Holbrook-15.412; 19. Sparky Howard, 3, Faeth-15.519; 20. Gary Conterno, 55X, Conterno-15.602; 21. Floyd Alvis, 11F, Champion-15.733; 22. Michael Donaldson, 9, Donaldson-15.923; 23. Nate Wait, 35W, MF-16.191; 24. J.R. Williams, 74, Williams-16.224; 25. Tommy McCarthy, 27B, Blackwell-16.381; 26. Nick Chivello, 27, Chivello-NT; 27. Johnathon Henry, 77K, Henry-NT.

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Faccinto, 2. Guerrini, 3. Gardner, 4. Elliott, 5. Swanson, 6. Howard, 7. Donaldson, 8. McCarthy. NT

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Dodenhoff, 2. Foster, 3. Nichols, 4. Gard, 5. Pankratz, 6. Chivello, 7. Lindsey, 8. Wait, 9. Conterno. NT

THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. McQueen, 2. Pierovich, 3. Holbrook, 4. Cofer, 5. Kinney, 6. Alvis, 7. Williams, 8. Simas. NT

SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Simas, 2. Chivello, 3. Howard, 4. Bock, 5. Wait, 6. Kinney, 7. McCarthy, 8. Alvis, 9. Williams, 10. Lindsey, 11. Donaldson, 12. Conterno. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Michael Faccinto, 2. Ronnie Gardner, 3. Shannon McQueen, 4. Cory Elliott, 5. Nick Chivello, 6. Frankie Guerrini, 7. Sean Dodenhoff, 8. Randi Pankratz, 9. Terry Nichols, 10. Maria Cofer, 11. Rick Holbrook, 12. Cody Swanson, 13. Taylor Simas, 14. Sparky Howard, 15. Scott Kinney, 16. Nick Foster, 17. Tommy McCarthy, 18. Britton Bock, 19. Scott Pierovich. NT

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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-12 McQueen, Laps 13-29 Gardner, Lap 30 Faccinto.

NEW HONDA USAC WESTERN MIDGET POINTS: 1-Gardner-294, 2-McQueen-277, 3-C.Swanson-260, 4-Nichols-243, 5-Trey Marcham-209, 6-Faccinto-167, 7-Pierovich-167, 8-Chivello-166, 9-Pankratz-146, 10-Dodenhof-130.

NEXT HONDA USAC WESTERN MIDGET RACE: September 5 – Calistoga (CA) Speedway – “Louie Vermeil Classic”