IRWINDALE VICTORY HELPS HUNT RETAIN SLIM WESTERN SPRINT LEADS

 


Irwindale, CA……..Tony Hunt of Lincoln, Calif. continues to lead the USAC AMSOIL Western and Western Classic Sprint Car series standings after winning Saturday night’s 40-lap feature at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale. His lead in the Western Sprints is a tenuous six points over Audra Sasselli and 32 points over Geoff Ensign in the Western Classic standings. Hunt caught Sasselli on lap 30 and led the final 11 laps in his Ebay Motors/Metal Works Beast/Schwanke. Sasselli took second ahead of Tim Skoglund, Cody Gerhardt and Shauna Hogg. Gerhardt led the first 22 laps and Sasselli the next seven.


 


USAC AMSOIL WESTERN /WESTERN CLASSIC SPRINT RACE RESULTS: August 27, 2011 – Irwindale, California – Toyota Speedway at Irwindale


 


QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Tony Hunt, 56, Phulps-16.777; 2. Tim Skoglund, 60, Western Speed-16.794; 3. Audra Sasselli, 77, Sasselli-16.853; 4. Scott Pierovich, 14, Pierson-16.870; 5. Cody Gerhardt, 40, Western Speed-17.015; 6. Tim Barber, 3T, Finkenbinder-17.073; 7. Shauna Hogg, 5, Hogg-17.158; 8. Luis Ramos III, 21, Kaplan/Gennuso-17.161; 9. John C. Anderson, 50x, Phulps-17.598; 10. Geoff Ensign, 3F, Finkenbinder-17.630; 11. Marvin Mitchell, 68, Mitchell-NT.


 


FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Sasselli, 2. Hunt, 3. Gerhardt, 4. Hogg, 5. Anderson. NT


 


SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Pierovich, 2. Skoglund, 3. Ramos, 4. Barber, 5. Ensign, 6. Mitchell. NT


 


FEATURE: (40 laps) 1. Tony Hunt, 2. Audra Sasselli, 3. Tim Skoglund, 4. Cody Gerhardt, 5. Shauna Hogg, 6. Geoff Ensign, 7. John C. Anderson, 8. Scott Pierovich, 9. Marvin Mitchell, 10. Tim Barber, 11. Luis Ramos III. NT


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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-22 Gerhardt, Laps 23-29 Sasselli, Laps 30-40 Hunt.


 


NEW AMSOIL WESTERN SPRINT POINTS: 1-Hunt-518; 2-Sasselli-512; 3-Skoglund-501; 4-Gerhardt-498; 5-Ramos-468; 6-Pierovich-317; 7-Johnny Geisler-271; 8-Ensign-250; 9-Hogg-228; 10-Barber-214.


NEW WESTERN CLASSIC SPRINT POINTS: 1-Hunt-562; 2-Ensign-530; 3-Hogg-469; 4-Pierovich-436; 5-Barber-403; 6-Sasselli-314; 7-Jerry Kobza-286; 8-Gerhardt-281; 9-Skoglund-263; 10-Ramos-241.


 


NEXT AMSOIL WESTERN/WESTERN CLASSIC SPRINT RACE: September 17 – Madera (CA) Speedway