KRUSEMAN WINS OCEAN SPEEDWAY CRA/CLASSIC 30-LAPPER

 


Watsonville, CA……..Cory Kruseman of Ventura, Calif. scored his initial USAC Sprint car feature win of 2011 Friday night at Ocean Speedway, leading the final 26 laps of the AMSOIL USAC/CRA – Western Classic main event in his Lucas Oil/Sander Engineering Eagle/Mopar. Geoff Ensign finished second ahead of Mike Spencer, Matt Mitchell and Nic Faas. The AMSOIL USAC/CRA – Western Classic Sprints compete Saturday night at Santa Maria (Calif.) Speedway. Ryan Bernal led the first four laps of Friday's race.


 


AMSOIL USAC/CRA SPRINT/WESTERN CLASSIC SPRINT RACE RESULTS: June 17, 2011 – Watsonville, California – Ocean Speedway


 


QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Mike Spencer, 50, Chaffin-12.814; 2. Rip Williams, 3, Jory-12.858; 3. Danny Sheridan, 18, Kittle-12.941; 4. Austin Williams, 2, Jory-12.981; 5. Nic Faas, 4, Alexander-12.983; 6. Andy Forsberg, 92, Forsberg-13.007; 7. Matt Mitchell, 37, Mitchell-13.060; 8. Cory Kruseman, 21K, Kruseman-13.119; 9. Cody Williams, 44, Jory-13.204; 10. Ryan Bernal, 11D, Olmstead-13.211; 11. Geoff Ensign, 3F, Finkenbinder-13.223; 12. Scott Pierovich, 14, Vertullo/Pierson-13.311; 13. Scott Hall, 56X, Hall-13.313; 14. Shane Golobic, 121, Von Schriltz-13.314; 15. Mark Chaves Jr., 5X, Chaves-13.368; 16. David Cardey, 42, Cheney-13.375; 17. Daniel Hood, 33, Hood-13.500; 18. Eric Rossi, 17, Sanders-13.561; 19. Tony Hunt, 56, Phulps-13.594; 20. Evan Suggs, 33E, Suggs-13.602; 21. Richard Brace Jr., 21J, Adel-13.616; 22. Craig Smith, 39, Smith-13.640; 23. Jerry Kobza, 93, Kobza-13.714; 24. Marty Hawkins, 3M, Hawkins-13.766; 25. Tim Barber, 3T, Finkenbinder-13.768; 26. Shauna Hogg, 5, Hogg-13.778; 27. Tim Sherman Jr., 1JR, Sherman-13.792; 28. Jerry Cisco, 4B, Basden-14.061; 29. Todd Miller, 96, Miller-14.248; 30. Mark Beck, 50S, Shurley-14.455; 31. Adam Kaeding, 7B, Bjork-NT, 32. Wes Gutierrez, 007, WG-NT.


 


FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Faas, 2. Barber, 3. Hood, 4. Hall, 5. C. Williams, 6. Miller, 7. Brace, 8. Spencer. NT.


 


SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Hogg, 2. Golobic, 3. Rossi, 4. Bernal, 5. R. Williams, 6. Forsberg, 7. Smith, 8. Beck. NT.
 
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Mitchell, 2. Sheridan, 3. Sherman, 4. Ensign, 5. Chaves, 6. Hunt, 7. Kobza. NT.
 
FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Suggs, 2. A. Williams, 3. Kruseman, 4. Pierovich, 5. Cardey, 6. Hawkins. NT.
 
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Spencer, 2. R. Williams, 3. C. Williams, 4. Cardey, 5. Forsberg, 6. Hunt, 7. Chaves, 8. Hawkins, 9. Beck, 10. Kobza, 11. Miller, 12. Brace. NT.


 


FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Cory Kruseman, 2. Geoff Ensign, 3. Mike Spencer, 4. Matt Mitchell, 5. Nic Faas, 6. Shane Golobic, 7. Andy Forsberg, 8. Cody Williams, 9. Austin Williams, 10. Tony Hunt, 11. Eric Rossi, 12. Danny Sheridan, 13. Rip Williams, 14. Scott Hall, 15. Shauna Hogg, 16. Marty Hawkins, 17. Mark Beck, 18. Ryan Bernal, 19. Tim Barber, 20. Tim Sherman Jr., 23. David Cardey, 24. Evan Suggs, 23. Scott Pierovich, 24. Daniel Hood, NT.


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**Kaeding and Cisco flipped during qualifications. Pierovich, Cardey, and Sherman flipped during the feature.


 


FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-4 Bernal, Laps 5-30 Kruseman.


 


NEW AMSOIL USAC/CRA SPRINT POINTS: 1-Mitchell-349; 2-Spencer-343; 3-Faas-281; 4-Blake Miller-277; 5-Cardey-273; 6-Greg Bragg-244; 7-A.Williams-227; 8-Rickie Gaunt-223; 9-C.Williams-195; 10-R.Williams-188.


NEW WESTERN CLASSIC SPRINT POINTS: 1-Hunt-292; 2-Pierovich-264; 3-Ensign-232; 4-Hogg-219; 5-Barber-203; 6-Kobza-193; 7-Audra Sasselli-182; 8-Brian McClish-160; 9-Luis Ramos III-160; 10-Cody Gerhardt-151.


 


NEXT AMSOIL USAC/CRA SPRINT RACE: June 18 – Santa Maria (CA) Speedway


NEXT USAC WESTERN CLASSIC SPRINT RACE: June 18 – Santa Maria (CA) Speedway