JACE VANDERWEERD GRABS SANTA MARIA 360 MAIN

 


Santa Maria, CA……..Jace VanderWeerd of Visalia, Calif. wheeled his VanderWeerd Construction/Battery Worx Maxim/Shark to victory in Saturday night’s 30-lap USAC West Coast 360 Sprint race at Santa Maria Speedway, leading the first seven and last seven laps. T.J. Smith, who led laps 8-23, finished second ahead of Danny Faria Jr., Justyne Hamblin and new points leader Ryan Bernal.


 


USAC WEST COAST 360 SPRINT RACE RESULTS: April 9, 2011 – Santa Maria, California – Santa Maria Speedway


 


 QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Richard VanderWeerd, 10, VanderWeerd-15.007; 2. Rusty Carlile, 51, Carlile-15.040; 3. Greg Alexander, 72, Tyler-15.196; 4. Davey Pombo, 3E, Eames-15.255; 5. Marcus Niemela, 69, Watt-15.358; 6. Ryan Bernal, 11D, Olmstead-15.375; 7. Danny Faria Jr., 2, Bowman-15.493; 8. T.J. Smith, 14, LeGras-15.535; 9. Jace VanderWeerd, 88, VanderWeerd-15.535; 10. Troy Rutherford, 72X, Ford-15.550; 11. Jonathan Logan, 32, Evett/Logan-15.557; 12. Wes Gutierrez, 007, WG-15.697; 13. Kevin Barnes, 36B, Barnes-15.700; 14. Bruce Douglass, 31, Douglass-15.810; 15. Dennis Howell, 62, Howell-15.840; 16. Jeff Culver, 71C, Culver-15.879; 17. Justyne Hamblin, 8, JH-16.053; 18. Bill Jones, 16J, Jones-16.078; 19. Andrew Murray, 18, Murray-16.140; 20. Nico Russo, 3N, Russo-16.208; 21. Ricky Kirkbride, 87, Van Meter-16.208; 22. Geoffrey Strole, 09S, Strole-16.286; 23. Cole Peard, 58, Peard-16.333; 24. Hobie Conway, 29K, Kruseman-16.404; 25. Russell DeBlauw, 55, DeBlauw-16.430; 26. Lynn Anderson, 7, Anderson-16.755; 27. Austin DeBlauw, 65, DeBlauw-NT.


 


FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Barnes, 2. Rutherford, 3. Faria, 4. R.VanderWeerd, 5. Culver, 6. Pombo, 7. Russo, 8. Murray, 9. Conway. NT


 


SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Smith, 2. Hamblin, 3. Logan, 4. Niemela, 5. Carlile, 6. Kirkbride, 7. Peard, 8. Douglass, 9. R.DeBlauw. NT


 


THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Howell, 2. Alexander, 3. Bernal, 4. Gutierrez, 5. J.VanderWeerd, 6. Jones, 7. Strole, 8. Anderson. NT


 


SEMI: (10 laps) 1. Pombo, 2. Kirkbride, 3. Strole, 4. Peard, 5. Russo, 6. Douglass, 7. Jones, 8. Conway, 9. Anderson, 10. R.DeBlauw, 11. Murray. NT


 


FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Jace VanderWeerd, 2. T.J. Smith, 3. Danny Faria Jr., 4. Justyne Hamblin, 5. Ryan Bernal, 6. Wes Gutierrez, 7. Troy Rutherford, 8. Jonathan Logan, 9. Marcus Niemela, 10. Greg Alexander, 11. Cole Peard, 12. Bruce Douglass, 13. Nico Russo, 14. Jeff Culver, 15. Bill Jones, 16. Ricky Kirkbride, 17. Geoffrey Strole, 18. Richard VanderWeerd, 19. Davey Pombo, 20. Dennis Howell, 21. Rusty Carlile, 22. Kevin Barnes. NT


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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-7 J.VanderWeerd, Laps 8-23 Smith, Laps 24-30 J.VanderWeerd.


 


NEW WEST COAST 360 SPRINT POINTS: 1-Bernal-122, 2-Alexander-113, 3-J.Vanderweerd-110, 4-Gutierrez-108, 5-Smith-101, 6-Hamblin-88, 7-Faria-85, 8-Pombo-84, 9-R.VanderWeerd-77, 10-Bud Kaeding-76. ,


NEXT WEST COAST 360 SPRINT RACE: April 16- Gropetti Automotive Tulare (CA) Thunderbowl Raceway