WATERS GETS UTAH VICTORY #19 AT RMR

 


Salt Lake City, UT……..Jim Waters of West Jordan, Utah recorded his 19th USAC feature win in the state of Utah Saturday night, taking the 25-lap USAC/SLVRA Young Automotive Rocky Mountain Sprint race at Rocky Mountain Raceways. Waters passed Paul Marconi on lap 19 and led the rest of the way to beat Marconi, fast qualifier Ryan Burdett, Eric Barlow and Austin Luttmer. Waters also emerged as the new series point leader by four points over Burdett.


 


USAC/SLVRA YOUNG AUTOMOTIVE ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPRINT RACE RESULTS: August 6, 2011 – Salt Lake City, Utah – Rocky Mountain Raceways


 


QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Ryan Burdett, 36, Burdett-14.025; 2. Jim Waters, 24, Ault-14.032; 3. Eric Barlow, 89, Waters-14.131; 4. Austin Luttmer, 36x, Burdett-14.360; 5. Mel Andrus, 2, Andrus-14.423; 6. Paul Marconi, 75, Marconi-14.456; 7. Ray Bergener, 43, Bergener-14.592; 8. Kevin Sleater, 24x, Waters-16.473.


 


FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Barlow, 2. Burdett, 3. Andrus, 4. Bergener. NT


 


SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Waters, 2. Luttmer, 3. Marconi, 4. Sleater. NT


 


FEATURE: (25 laps) 1. Jim Waters, 2. Paul Marconi, 3. Ryan Burdett, 4. Eric Barlow, 5. Austin Luttmer, 6. Rayu Bergener, 7. Mel Andrus, 8. Kevin Sleater. NT


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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-7 Bergener, Laps 8-18 Marconi, Laps 19-25 Waters.


 


NEW ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPRINT POINTS: 1-Waters-526; 2-Burdett-522; 3-Barlow-457; 4-Johnny Geisler-401; 5-Marconi-373; 6-Andrus-346; 7-Bergener-315; 8-Mike Murgoitio-266; 9-Tim Skoglund-244; 10-Luis Ramos III-235.


 


NEXT ROCKY MOUNTAIN SPRINT RACE: August 14 – Salt Lake City, UT – Rocky Mountain Raceways