ON THE CHASE: JOHNSON LEADS OVALS PROSOURCE PASSING MASTER POINTS

By: Richie Murray – USAC Media

Perris, California (November 4, 2022)………Every time Chase Johnson was on track Thursday night at California’s Perris Auto Speedway, he was on the move.

The Penngrove, Calif. native leads the ProSource Passing Master point standings for the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship and AMSOIL USAC CRA Sprint Cars’ 26th running of the Heimark Anheuser Busch Budweiser Oval Nationals entering Friday night's, November 4 program.

Total positions advanced in each of the events are tabulated throughout Thursday, Friday and Saturday’s events.

Thus far, Johnson has advanced 12 positions at the Oval Nationals, putting him atop the points after moving up one spot in his heat and two more in the C-Main before making a spirited charge from 16th to grab the eighth and final transfer spot.

Johnson was plus-five in the feature, going from 24th to 19th throughout the first half of the event until wall contact sidelined him for the remainder of the night and falling back to 23rd in the running order.

RACE DETAILS:

Tickets for the 26th Annual Heimark Anheuser Busch Budweiser Oval Nationals are on sale online at www.perrisautospeedway.com or by calling 1-800-595-4849.  For those who do not wish to buy tickets in advance, there will be tickets available for everyone at the ticket window all three nights.

Adult general admission is $35. General admission tickets for children 6-12 are $10.  Three-day general admission tickets are $90 for adults and $30 for children 6-12.  Three-day reserved tickets are $125 for adults and $40 for children 6-12.

On Friday night, the pits open at Noon Pacific with the drivers meeting at 4:30pm, grandstands opening at 5pm and cars on track at 5:30pm.  The feature will be 30 laps in length and will pay $5,000-to-win.

On Saturday night, the pits open at Noon Pacific with the grandstands opening at 4pm, the drivers meeting at 4:30pm and cars on track at 5:15pm.  The feature will be 40 laps in length and will pay $20,000-to-win and $1,000-to-start.

The entirety of the Oval Nationals will be aired live on FloRacing at https://flosports.link/3AMU46z.

OVAL NATIONALS PROSOURCE PASSING MASTER STANDINGS:

(Entering Night #2 of 3 on Friday, November 4)

1. 12-Chase Johnson

2. 10-Logan Seavey & Kevin Thomas Jr.

4. 9-Emerson Axsom, R.J. Johnson, C.J. Leary & Tommy Malcolm

8. 8-Brady Bacon & Jadon Rogers

10. 7-A.J. Bender

11. 6-Ricky Lewis & Logan Williams

13. 5-Austin Williams

14. 4-Nate Schank & Cody Williams

16. 3-Jason McDougal, Matt Mitchell, Mitchel Moles & Matt Westfall

20. 2-Max Adams, Justin Grant, Verne Sweeney & Eddie Tafoya Jr.

24. 1-Robert Ballou, Charles Davis Jr., Chris Gansen, Damion Gardner, Jake Neal, Brody Roa, Jake Swanson & Dan Taylor

32. 0-Chris Bonneau, Logan Calderwood, Sterling Cling, Troy DeGaton, Kyle Edwards, Austin Grabowski, Matt McCarthy, Danny Sheridan & Daniel Whitley