MILLER TAKES SANTA MARIA CRA 30-LAPPER

 


Santa Maria, CA……..Blake Miller of Yorba Linda, Calif. won Saturday night’s 20-lap AMSOIL USAC/CRA Sprint race at the Santa Maria Speedway. He was followed at the chekered flag by Troy Rutherford, Bud Kaeding, series point leader Mike Spencer and fast qualifier Rip Williams. Rickie Gaunt led the first seven laps and Miller led the rest of the way in his Roy Miller Freight Lines/Sander Engineering Bullet/Mopar. Spencer emerged from the race with an 80 point lead over Danny Sheridan, who finished ninth Saturday.


 


AMSOIL USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: August 14, 2010 – Santa Maria, California – Santa Maria Speedway


 


QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Rip Williams, 3, Jory-14.352; 2. Mike Spencer, 50, Chaffin-14.380; 3. Davey Pombo, 3X, Bowman-14.387; 4. Blake Miller, 7, Priestley-14.457; 5. Troy Rutherford, 73, Ford-14.523; 6. Cody Williams, 44, Jory-14.525; 7. Jace VanderWeerd, 88, VanderWeerd-14.527; 8. Tony Jones, 4, Alexander-14.533; 9. Tyler Schmidt, 49, Schmidt-14.660; 10. Bud Kaeding, 2X, Bowman-14.663; 11. Ronnie Gardner, 93, Gardner-14.675; 12. Dennis Howell, 62, Howell-14.748; 13. Rickie Gaunt, 66, Miller-14.751; 14. Matt Mitchell, 37, Mitchell-14.766; 15. Rusty Carlile, 51,Carlile-14.788; 16. Jesse Mack, 71X, Kruseman-14.828; 17. Marty Hawkins, 3M, Hawkins-14.849; 18. Cory Kruseman, 21K, Kruseman-14.905; 19. Rick Hendrix, 15, Hendrix-14.919; 20. Richard VanderWeerd, 10, VanderWeerd-14.922; 21. Danny Faria Jr., 17V, Faria-14.947; 22. Danny Sheridan, 18, Kittle-14.970; 23. Bill Jones, 16J, Jones-15.058; 24. Nic Faas, 17F, Faas-15.143; 25. Austin Williams, 2, Jory-15.205; 26. Jimmy Crawford, 11, Crawford-15.250; 27. Peter Murphy, 11X, Buster and Ziggy-15.271; 28. Greg Bragg, 92, Sertich-15.347; 29. Lynn Anderson, 7X, Anderson-15.515; 30. Tony Everhart, 55, Everhart-15.659; 31. Steve Hix, 57, Hix-15.712.


 


FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. A.Williams, 2. Gaunt, 3. Rutherford, 4. R.Williams, 5. Hawkins, 6. Anderson, 7. Faria, 8. Schmidt. NT


 


SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Crawford, 2. Kruseman, 3. Mitchell, 4. Sheridan, 5. Spencer, 6. Kaeding, 7. C.Williams. 8. Everhart. 2:28:30


 


THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Murphy, 2. Hendrix, 3. Gardner, 4. Pombo, 5. Carlile, 6. J.VanderWeerd, 7. B.Jones. 2:26:69


 


FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Miller, 2. Mack, 3. T.Jones, 4. Howell, 5. R.VanderWeerd, 6. Bragg, 7. Faas. NT


 


SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Spencer, 2. J.VanderWeerd, 3. Kaeding, 4. R.VanderWeerd, 5. Carlile, 6. Hawkins, 7. Faria, 8. B.Jones, 9. Hix, 10. Anderson, 11. Faas, 12. Bragg. NT


 


FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Blake Miller, 2. Troy Rutherford, 3. Bud Kaeding, 4. Mike Spencer, 5. Rip Williams, 6. Danny Faria Jr., 7. Cory Kruseman, 8. Jace VanderWeerd, 9. Danny Sheridan, 10. Marty Hawkins, 11. Peter Murphy, 12. Jimmy Crawford, 13. Tony Jones, 14. Rusty Carlile, 15. Austin Williams, 16. Rickie Gaunt, 17. Ronnie Gardner, 18. Rick Hendrix, 19. Jesse Mack, 20. Richard VanderWeerd, 21. Matt Mitchell, 22. Dennis Howell. NT


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** R.VanderWeerd flipped during the feature.


 


FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-7 Gaunt, Laps 8-30 Miller.


 


NEW AMSOIL USAC/CRA SPRINT POINTS: 1-Spencer-729; 2-Sheridan-649; 3-Kruseman-572; 4-Miller-559; 5-Mitchell-489; 6-Bragg-409; 7-Crawford-385; 8-David Cardey-375; 9-Jones-359; 10-C.Williams-343.


 


NEXT AMSOIL USAC/CRA SPRINT RACE: August 28 – Perris (CA) Auto Speedway