SMITH WINS “RON OTTO MEMORIAL” AT SANTA MARIA

 


Santa Maria, CA……..T.J. Smith of Fresno, Calif. scored his second consecutive USAC West Coast 360 Sprint feature victory Saturday night at Santa Maria Speedway, leading the final 24 of 30 laps in his UHL Rubber/K & N Filters Maxim/S & S. Smith passed Richard VanderWeerd on lap seven and was never again headed as Danny Faria Jr. took second ahead of Davey Pombo, Richard VanderWeerd and Justyne Hamblin. Faria was the fastest qualifier. Series point leader Craig Stidham finished ninth and emerged with a one-point lead over Pombo in the “Southwest Contractors Clash” standings going into a September 11 race at Hanford.


 


USAC WEST COAST 360 SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: August 28, 2010 – Santa Maria, California – Santa Maria Speedway – “Ron Otto Memorial” - “Southwest Contractors 360 Clash”


 


QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Danny Faria Jr., 17V, Faria-14.222; 2. Davey Pombo, 3, Bowman-14.289; 3. T.J. Smith, 14, LeGras-14.454; 4. Craig Stidham, 3S, Stidham-14.474; 5. Rusty Carlile, 51, Carlile-14.484; 6. Justyne Hamblin, 8, JH-14.553; 7. Richard VanderWeerd, 10, VanderWeerd-14.558; 8. Wes Gutierrez, 007, WG-14.605; 9. Bill Jones, 16J, Jones-14.620; 10. Ricky Kirkbride, 87, Van Meter-14.685; 11. Koen Shaw, 88K, Shaw-14.698; 12. Jared Little, 25, Little-14.715; 13. Geoffrey Strole, 09S, Strole-14.837; 14. Jace VanderWeerd, 88, VanderWeerd-14.936; 15. Trent Carter, 71R, Eames-15.478; 16. Michael Steele, 29S, Steele-20.255; 17. Jason Swaim, 52, Swaim-NT, 18. Chris Ennis, 86, Ennis-NT.


 


FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Faria, 2. Strole, 3. Stidham, 4. R.VanderWeerd, 5. Kirkbride. NT


 


SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. J.VanderWeerd, 2. Carlile, 3. Pombo, 4. Gutierrez, 5. Shaw. NT


 


THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Little, 2. Smith, 3. Hamblin, 4. Jones, 5. Carter. NT


 


FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. T.J. Smith, 2. Danny Faria Jr., 3. Davey Pombo, 4. Richard VanderWeerd, 5. Justyne Hamblin, 6. Wes Gutierrez, 7. Rusty Carlile, 8. Chris Ennis, 9. Craig Stidham, 10. Ricky Kirkbride, 11. Jace VanderWeerd, 12. Jared Little, 13. Koen Shaw, 14. Geoffrey Strole, 15. Trent Carter, 16. Bill Jones. NT


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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-6 R.VanderWeerd, Laps 7-30 Smith.


 


NEW USAC WEST COAST 360 SPRINT POINTS: 1-Stidham-1,006; 2-Pombo-977; 3-Smith-887; 4-Hamblin-792; 5-Faria-742; 6-Carlile-697; 7-Peter Murphy-685; 8-R.VanderWeerd-641; 9-J.VanderWeerd-601; 10-Ennis-530.


NEW SOUTHWEST CONTRACTORS 360 CLASH POINTS: 1-Stidham-185; 2-Pombo-184; 3-Hamblin-161; 4-Smith-147; 5-Carlile-144.


 


NEXT USAC WEST COAST 360 SPRINT RACE: September 11 – Hanford, CA – Giant Chevrolet Speedway