WATERS NAILS DOWN UTAH FORD FOCUS TITLE; FUETTE WINS AT SLC

Salt Lake City, UT……..Gregg Fuette of West Valley City, Utah led all 25 laps to win the 2011 Utah Ford Focus race at Rocky Mountain Raceways Saturday night. Jim Waters finished second and put a lid on the 2011 series championship, emerging with a 98-point lead over Chuck Groat entering the final race at Las Vegas, Nev. October 1. Groat, Ron Duncombe and Guy Sainsbury rounded out the :”top-five” at the checkered flag.


 


USAC WESTERN/UTAH FORD FOCUS RACE RESULTS: September 17 – Salt Lake City, Utah – Rocky Mountain Raceways


 


QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Jim Waters, 28, Waters-15.374; 2. Chuck Groat, 24, Groat-15.407; 3. Gregg Fuette, 15, Strickland-15.672; 4. Ron Duncombe, 4, Walton-15.713; 5. Guy Sainsbury, 88, Sainsbury-15.920; 6. John Waters, 28x, Waters-16.004; 7. Lindy Luttmer, 49, Luttmer-16.475; 8. Cheyenne Torgerson, 14, 16.549; 9. J.R. Williams, 74, Williams-18.133.


 


FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Waters, 2. Fuette, 3. Sainsbury, 4. Torgerson. NT


 


SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Groat, 2. Duncombe, 3. L.Luttmer, 4. Williams. NT


 


FEATURE: (25 laps) 1. Gregg Fuette, 2. Jim Waters, 3. Chuck Groat, 4. Ron Duncombe, 5. Guy Sainsbury, 6. Lindy Luttmer, 7. Cheyenne Torgerson, 8. J.R. Williams. NT


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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-25 Fuette.


 


NEW UTAH FORD FOCUS POINTS: 1-Waters-904; 2-Groat-806; 3-Austin Luttmer-708; 4-Fuette-643; 5-Duncombe-603; 6-Jeff Kelley-520; 7-Williams-516; 8-Sainsbury-421; 9-Jessica Clark-386; 10-Brandon White-342.


 


NEXT WESTERN/UTAH FORD FOCUS RACE: October 1 – Las Vegas (NV) Motor Speedway Bullring