ABREU STARTS CALISTOGA “SWEEP” WITH MIDGET WIN

Calistoga, CA……..Rico Abreu of Rutherford, Calif. led the final 16 laps of Sunday night’s “Louie Vermeil Classic” Honda USAC Western Midget finale at Calistoga Speedway. He passed Trey Marcham for the last time on lap 15 and led the rest of the way to beat Ronnie Gardner, fast qualifier Kevin Thomas Jr., Ryan Bernal and Marcham.

USAC HONDA WESTERN MIDGET CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: September 6, 2015 – Calistoga, California – Calistoga Speedway – “8th Louie Vermeil Classic” - California Midget Week

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Kevin Thomas Jr., 73X, Ford-20.491; 2. Rico Abreu, 97, Kunz/Curb-Agajanian-20.544; 3. Chase Stockon, 25, Rodela-20.675; 4. Shane Golobic, 26, Bock-20.696; 5. Ronnie Gardner, 68, Six8-20.790; 6. Trey Marcham, 73, Ford-20.867; 7. Brian Gard, 88, Arata-20.938; 8. Ryan Bernal, 68W, Six8-20.952; 9. Scott Pierovich, 35, Pierovich-21.035; 10. Cody Swanson, 71S, Swanson-21.039; 11. Britton Bock, 67, Bock-21.102; 12. Sean Dodenhoff, 9D, Dodenhoff-21.123; 13. Nick Chivello, 27, Chivello-21.244; 14. Randi Pankratz, 8, Pankratz-21.456; 15. Terry Nichols, 1P, Nichols-21.771; 16. Nate Wait, 35W, MF-21.846; 17. Lance Hallmark, 8H, Hallmark-22.021; 18. Chris Gansen, 9E, Dodenhoff-22.122; 19. Michael Faccinto, 35F, MF-NT; 20. David Prickett, 99, Hokanson-NT

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Gardner, 2. Stockon, 3. Bock, 4. Thomas, 5. Pierovich, 6. Gard, 7. Chivello, 8. Nichols, 9. Hallmark. NT

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Abreu, 2. Golobic, 3. Swanson, 4. Dodenhoff, 5. Marcham, 6. Faccinto, 7. Wait, 8. Bernal, 9. Pankratz. NT

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

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**Nichols flipped during the feature.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Lap 1 Marcham, Laps 2-7 Golobic, Lap 8 Abreu, Laps 9-12 Marcham, Lap 13 Abreu, Lap 14 Marcham, Laps 15-30 Abreu.

NEW CALIFORNIA MIDGET WEEK POINTS: 1-Abreu-145, 2-Gardner-127, 3-Bernal-114, 4-Golobic-110, 5-Stockon-109, 6-C.Swanson-85, 7-Pierovich-83 8-Bacon-81, 9-Marcham-74, 10-Faccinto-73

NEW HONDA WESTERN MIDGET POINTS: 1-Gardner-421, 2-C.Swanson-345, 3-Nichols-287, 4-Marcham-283, 5-Shannon McQueen-277, 6-Pierovich-250, 7-Faccinto-240, 8-Chivello-224, 9-Pankratz-205, 10-Gard-192.

NEXT HONDA USAC WESTERN MIDGET RACE: September 10 – Chico, CA – Silver Dollar Speedway - “Gold Cup” - California Midget Week - Co-sanctioned by BCRA