Gardner Takes Another USAC Sprint Car Win At Perris

From Dick Jordan, MudclodBob Photo

Damion Gardner continued his hot streak winning his fourth of five USAC National Sprint Car feature at Perris Auto Speedway Sunday night. Chasing Gardner to finish line was Henry Clarke, Chris Windom, Tracy Hines and Mike Spencer.

AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL & CRA SPRINT RACE RESULTS: February 28, 2010 – Perris, California – Perris Auto Speedway – “Sokola Shootout”

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Mike Spencer, 50, Chaffin-17.380; 2. Tony Jones, 4x, Alexander-17.423; 3. Levi Jones, 20, Stewart-17.546; 4. Shane Hmiel, 17, 56 Inc.-17.598; 5. Chad Boat, 30, Boat-17.602; 6. Henry Clarke, 67, Kunz-17.622; 7. Greg Bragg, 92, Sertich-17.631; 8. Jerry Coons Jr., 69, Dynamics-17.673; 9. Damion Gardner, 71, DG-17.674; 10. Tracy Hines, 4, Hines-17.756; 11. Dave Darland, 67k, Kunz-17.760; 12. Chris Windom, 11, Walker-17.763; 13. Bryan Clauson, 2B, RWB-17.776; 14. David Cardey, 59, Cardey-17.812; 15. Jimmy Crawford, 11x, Crawford-17.823; 16. R.J. Johnson, 15, Martin-17.846; 17. Rickie Gaunt, 66, Miller-17.861; 18. Cory Kruseman, 21k, Kruseman-17.902; 19. Matt Mitchell, 37, Mitchell-17.907; 20. Robert Ballou, 81, MPHG-17.915; 21. Bud Kaeding, 29, BK-18.000; 22. Casey Shuman, 4G, Cook-18.016; 23. Seth Wilson, 1x, Wilson-18.082; 24. Ricky Williams, 11w, Williams-18.095; 25. Brad Sweet, 49, Kahne-18.112; 26. Austin Williams, 2, Jory-18.128; 27. Keith Bloom Jr., 27,
Kaeding-18.142; 28. Kyle Cummins, 4u, Wild Ride-18.146; 29. Ronnie Gardner, 93, Gardner-18.273; 30. Blake Miller, 7, Priestley-18.360; 31. Cody Kershaw, 38, Crossno-18.360; 32. Danny Sheridan, 18, Kittle-18.372; 33. Mathew Shedarowich, 9, Shedarowich-18.478; 34. Austin Mero, 71k, Kruseman-18.857; 35. Cody Williams, 44, Jory-19.023; 36. Jerry Welton, 62, Welton-20.295; 37. Kenny Perkins, 5k, Perkins-NT.

FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Kaeding, 2. Gaunt, 3. Boat, 4. D.Gardner, 5. Clauson, 6. Sweet, 7. R.Gardner, 8. Shedarowich, 9. Spencer. 2:53.02

SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Kruseman, 2. Hines, 3. Shuman, 4. Cardey, 5. Clarke, 6. Miller, 7. A.Williams, 8. Mero, 9. T.Jones. NT

THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Wilson, 2. Mitchell, 3. Crawford, 4. L.Jones, 5. Bragg, 6. Darland, 7. Bloom, 8. Kershaw, 9. C.Williams. NT

FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Ballou, 2. Windom, 3. Sheridan, 4. Coons, 5. Ricky Williams, 6. Johnson, 7. Cummins, 8. Welton, 9. Hmiel, 2:50.97

SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Spencer, 2. T.Jones, 3. Clarke, 4. Hmiel, 5. Darland, 6. Clauson, 7. Bloom, 8. Johnson, 9. R.Gardner, 10. A.Williams, 11. Ricky Williams, 12. Miller, 13. Kershaw, 14. Cummins, 15. Mero, 16. C.Williams, 17. Welton, 18. Shedarowich, 19. Bragg. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Damion Gardner, 2. Henry Clarke, 3. Chris Windom, 4. Tracy Hines, 5. Mike Spencer, 6. Levi Jones, 7. Jerry Coons Jr., 8. Shane Hmiel, 9. Robert Ballou, 10. David Cardey, 11. Cory Kruseman, 12. Chad Boat, 13. Matt Mitchell, 14. Danny Sheridan, 15. Jimmy Crawford, 16. Rickie Gaunt, 17. Blake Miller, 18. Seth Wilson, 19. Bryan Clauson, 20. Bud Kaeding, 21. Dave Darland, 22. Ronnie Gardner, 23. Casey Shuman, 24. Tony Jones. NT

**Tony Jones flipped on lap 2 of the feature.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-2 Hines, Laps 3-5 Windom, Laps 6-30 D.Gardner.

NEW AMSOIL NATIONAL SPRINT POINTS: 1-D.Gardner-324; 2-Coons-275; 3-L.Jones-247; 4-Clauson-237; 5-Clarke-232; 6-Ballou-232; 7-Hines-229; 8-Darland-202; 9-Windom-192; 10-Hmiel-145.
NEW AMSOIL USAC/CRA SPRINT POINTS: 1-D.Gardner-187; 2-Coons-171; 3-Hines-154; 4-Clarke-150; 5-Windom-147; 6-L.Jones-143; 7-Ballou-140; 8-Spencer-133; 9-Clauson-119; 10-Kaeding-118.

NEXT AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT RACE: April 2 & 3 – Rossburg, Ohio – Eldora Speedway
NEXT AMSOIL USAC/CRA SPRINT RACE: March 27 – Perris (CA) Auto Speedway