ENSIGN WINS AT PLACERVILLE, SLICES WESTERN CLASSIC POINT LEAD

 


Placerville, CA……..Geoff Ensign of Sebastopol, Calif. sliced into Tony Hunt’s USAC Western Classic Sprint point lead Saturday night, leading all 30 laps of the main event at Placerville Speedway. Ensign now trails Hunt by just eight points in the new standings. Hunt finished 12th at Placerville. Colby Copeland was second in the 30-lapper, ahead of Kody Swanson, Scott Hall and Mark Tabor Jr.


 


USAC WESTERN CLASSIC SPRINT RACE RESULTS: August 6, 2011 – Placerville, California – Placerville Speedway


 


QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Jason York, 25, York-11.887; 2. Kody Swanson, 69, Kaiser-11.899; 3. Geoff Ensign, 3F, Finkenbinder-11.930; 4. Scott Pierovich, 14, Pierson-11.997; 5. Colby Copeland, 24c, Copeland-12.055; 6. Scott Hall, 56x, Santiago-12.065; 7. Mark Tabor Jr., 38N, Tabor-12.132; 8. David Johnson, 33, Johnson-12.191; 9. Marty Hawkins, 3m, Hawkins-12.288; 10. Tony Hunt, 56, Phulps-12.351; 11. C.J Humphreys, 85, Humphreys-12.375; 12. Todd Miller Jr., 96, Miller-12.494; 13. Jimmy Trulli, 33T, Trulli-12.560; 14. Tim Barber, 3T, Finkenbinder-12.566; 15. James Sweeney, 20J, Sweeney-12.574; 16. Tom Baker, 3B, Baker-12.586; 17. Richard Brace Jr., 21J, Brace-12.592; 18. Kirk Simpson, 84, Simpson-12.593; 19. Shauna Hogg, 5, Hogg-12.692; 20. Scott Lynch, 25x, Lynch-12.742; 21. Joe Stornetta, 6, Stornetta-12.851; 22. Matt Sherman, 00z, Sherman-12.974; 23. Gordon Rodgers, 94, Dusin-13.015; 24. Jerry Kobza, 93, Kobza-13.126; 25. Tim Sherman, 1x, Sherman-13.622; 26. Don Emory, 50, Emory-13.675; 27. Jeff Shurley, 50s, Beck-13.696; 28. Marc Mackay, 86, Mackay-13.741.


 


FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Stornetta, 2. Copeland, 3. York, 4. Trulli, 5. T.Sherman, 6. Hawkins, 7. Brace. NT


 


SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. M.Sherman, 2. Hall, 3. K.Swanson, 4. Hunt, 5. Emory, 6. Barber, 7. Simpson. NT


 


THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Sweeney, 2. Humphreys, 3. Ensign, 4. Tabor, 5. Rodgers, 6. Hogg, 7. Shurley. NT


 


FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Mackay, 2. Johnson, 3. Pierovich, 4. Kobza, 5. Miller, 6. Baker, 7. Lynch. NT


 


SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Baker, 2. Brace, 3. Hogg, 4. Miller, 5. Simpson, 6. Rodgers, 7. Emory, 8. Shurley, 9. Lynch, 10. T.Sherman, 11. Barber. NT


 


FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Geoff Ensign, 2. Colby Copeland, 3. Kody Swanson, 4. Scott Hall, 5. Mark Tabor Jr., 6. Scott Pierovich, 7. Richard Brace Jr., 8. Jerry Kobza, 9. Shauna Hogg, 10. Jimmy Trulli, 11. Don Emory, 12. Tony Hunt, 13. David Johnson, 14. C.J. Humphreys, 15.Jeff Shurley, 16. Joe Stornetta, 17. Matt Sherman, 18. Tom  Baker, 19. Todd Miller Jr., 20. Marc Mackay, 21. Jason York, 22. James Sweeney. NT


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**Sweeney flipped during the feature.


 


FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-30 Ensign.


 


NEW WESTERN CLASSIC SPRINT POINTS: 1-Hunt-489; 2-Ensign-481; 3-Hogg-416; 4-Pierovich-386; 5-Barber-364; 6-Kobza-286; 7-Audra Sasselli-245; 8-Cody Gerhardt-222; 9-Luis Ramos III-204; 10-Tim Skoglund-197.


 


NEXT WESTERN CLASSIC SPRINT RACE: August 27 – Irwindale, CA - Toyota Speedway at Irwindale