4 STATES HOST FOCUS, YOUNG GUNS RACES THIS WEEK

USAC Ford Focus Midget Car Series
USAC Ford Focus Midget Car Series

By Dick Jordan

Five venues in North Carolina, Indiana, Utah and California host USAC Ford Focus racing this week. The Eastern and Carolina Ford Focus and Carolina Focus Young Guns race Wednesday night at Concord (N.C.) Speedway. The Midwest Ford Focuses and Focus Young Guns will compete in Indiana on the dirt at Gas City I-69 Speedway Friday and Montpelier Motor Speedway Saturday, The Western/Utah series is in action Saturday at Rocky Mountain Raceways in Salt Lake City and the Western Pavement Ford Focus and Focus Young Guns are at the Orange Show Speedway in San Bernardino, Calif. Saturday.

Nick Carlson of Norwalk, Calif. and Jarid Blondel of Orange, Calif. are the 2010 USAC “California Focus Week” Champions following the final three-race series events at Ocean Speedway in Watsonville, Calif. Saturday night. Carlson led all 20 laps to win the Ford Focus feature over Kyle Edwards, Andrew Murray, Jake Blackhurst and Jet Davison. Blondel led all 20 laps to win the Focus Young Guns feature over Casey Martinez and Alex Jacobsen.

Jeremy McKenna of Salt Lake City, Utah scored his first USAC feature victory Saturday night at Rocky Mountain Raceways in the Utah capital, leading the final 16 laps of the 20-lap race after passing Guy Sainsbury on lap five. Gregg Fuette finished second ahead of Austin Luttmer, Ron Duncombe and J.R. Williams.

Jake Blackhurst of Mapleton, Ill. and Collin Henry of Ventura, Calif. captured USAC Ford Focus wins Wednesday night at the Ventura (Calif.) Raceway. Blackhurst led all 20 laps to take the USAC Western Ford Focus feature over Cody Kershaw, Nick Carlson, Wally Pankratz and Bruce Douglas. In the accompanying 20-lap Focus Young Guns feature, Henry scored his initial USAC win, leading all 20 laps to beat Jarid Blondel, Alex Jacobsen, Blackhurst and Daniel Williams.

Justin Hommel of Canyon Lake, Calif. and Austin Prock of Avon, Ind. ended up in victory lane at Concord (N.C.) Speedway last Wednesday night as winners of USAC Ford Focus and Focus Young Guns features respectively. Hommel led all 40 laps to beat Alex Bowman, Scott Hunter, Nick Drake and Tyler Corriher in the Eastern/Carolina Ford Focus race, while Prock outran Jesse Little, Brendon Bock and Adam Brown in the Young Guns 25-lapper. Prock led the opening lap, Bock led the next two, then Prock led the final 22 laps for the win.

FINAL USAC “CALIFORNIA FOCUS WEEK” FORD FOCUS POINT STANDINGS

1-Nick Carlson-192; 2-Kyle Edwards-171; 3-Andrew Murray-155; 4-Jake Blackhurst-121; 5-Wally Pankratz-113.

FINAL USAC “CALIFORNIA FOCUS WEEK” YOUNG GUNS POINT STANDINGS

1-Jarid Blondel-191; 2-Alex Jacobsen-176; 3-Casey Martinez-175; 4-Daniel Williams-112; 5-Collin Henry-107.

USAC MIDWEST FORD FOCUS POINT STANDINGS

1-Joe Liguori-757, 2-Jake Blackhurst-755, 3-Tyler Cottongim-601, 4-Kyle O’Gara-600, 5-Toby Alfrey-432, 6-Jessica Bean-429, 7-Andy Nock-406, 8-Tate Martz-398, 9-Scott Hunter-366, 10-Nick Drake-340.

USAC MIDWEST FORD FOCUS DIRT POINT STANDINGS

1-Joe Liguori-269, 2-Jake Blackhurst-254, 3-Eric Rankine-217, 4-Jessica Bean-182, 5-Toby Alfrey-171, 6-Tyler Cottongim-160, 7-Bill Kriegbaum-149, 8-Kyle O’Gara-148, 9-Josh Staten-125, 10-Alfred Galedrige Jr.-121.

USAC MIDWEST FORD FOCUS PAVEMENT POINT STANDINGS

1-Jake Blackhurst-538, 2-Joe Liguori-531, 3-Kyle O’Gara-452, 4-Tyler Cottongim-451, 5-Tate Martz-398, 6-Andy Nock-358, 7-Geoff Gerline-295, 8-Toby Alfrey-261, 9-Jessica Bean-247, 10-Justin Hommel-235.

USAC UTAH FORD FOCUS POINT STANDINGS

1-Michael Daniels-523, 2-J.R. Williams-385, 3-Connor Kassik-379, 4-Chuck Groat-377, 5-Terra Brower-337, 6-Ron Duncombe-321, 7-Bobby Runyan-302, 8-Cody Gerhardt-295, 9-Austin Luttmer-291, 10-Jeremy McKenna-281.

USAC EASTERN FORD FOCUS POINT STANDINGS

1-Hunter, Scott-688, 2-Drake, Nick-601, 3-Hommel, Justin-548, 4-Corriher, Tyler-417, 5-Lamb, Chris-403, 6-Acton, Cody-327, 7-Riethmeyer, Bradley-257, 8-Blackhurst, Jake-231, 9-Intravaia, Steven-230, 10-Liguori, Joe-178.

USAC CAROLINA FORD FOCUS POINT STANDINGS

1-Scott Hunter-620, 2-Nick Drake-535, 3-Justin Hommel-506, 4-Tyler Corriher-377, 5-Chris Lamb-353, 6-Cody Acton-279, 7-Bradley Riethmeyer-184, 8-Joe Liguori-178, 9-Jake Blackhurst-174, 10-Steven Intravaia-172.

USAC WESTERN FORD FOCUS POINT STANDINGS

1-Cody Gerhardt-749, 2-Kyle Edwards-675, 3-Bobby Runyan-668, 4-Nick Carlson-637, 5-Connor Kassik-538, 6-Michael Daniels-523, 7-Jet Davison-490, 8-Andrew Mulhearn-485, 9-J.R. Williams-467, 10-Wally Pankratz-444.

USAC WESTERN FORD FOCUS PAVEMENT POINT STANDINGS

1-Cody Gerhardt-682, 2-Bobby Runyan-625, 3-Garrett Peterson-402, 4-Cody Thompson-386, 5-Connor Kassik-371, 6-Keegan Walmer-366, 7-Eli Schrock-355, 8-Kyle Edwards-305, 9-Austin Farley-293,10-Jessica Clark-289.

USAC WESTERN FORD FOCUS DIRT POINT STANDINGS

1-Nick Carlson-637, 2-Kyle Edwards-561, 3-Jet Davison-490, 4-Andrew Mulhearn-485, 5-Andrew Murray-438, 6-Zach Stout-323, 7-Wally Pankratz-317, 8-Jake Blackhurst-272, 9-Tony Cinque-226, 10-Kalvin Douglas-125.

USAC NORTHERN CALIFORNIA FORD FOCUS POINT STANDINGS

1-Garrett Peterson-402, 2-Cody Gerhardt-393, 3-Cody Thompson-352, 4-Keegan Walmer-335, 5-Bobby Runyan-327, 6-Tim Skoglund-247, 7-Courtney Atkinson-217, 8-Connor Kassik-178, 9-Dennis Simunovich-141, 10-J.R. Williams-107.

USAC SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FORD FOCUS POINT STANDINGS

1-Eli Schrock-355, 2-Cody Gerhardt-354, 3-Bobby Runyan-346, 4-Austin Farley-293, 5-Shawn Buckley-258, 6-Jessica Clark-246, 7-Kyle Edwards-226, 8-Connor Kassik-211, 9-Michael Daniels-171, 10-J.R. Williams-130.

USAC WESTERN YOUNG GUNS POINT STANDINGS

1-Jarid Blondel-744, 2-Casey Martinez-605, 3-Alex Jacobsen-598, 4-Brandon White-568, 5-Collin Henry-461, 6-Keegan Walmer-398, 7-Daniel Williams-398, 8-Cody Thompson-379, 9-Logan Williams-328, 10-Austin Farley-312.

USAC WESTERN YOUNG GUNS DIRT POINT STANDINGS

1-Jarid Blondel-619, 2-Alex Jacobsen-605, 3-Casey Martinez-605, 4-Collin Henry-454, 5-Daniel Williams-398, 6-Logan Williams-328, 7-Bradley Morris-298, 8-Tanner Kershaw-201, 9-Winn Frazin-190, 10-Jake Blackhurst-112.

USAC WESTERN YOUNG GUNS PAVEMENT POINT STANDINGS

1-Brandon White-568, 2-Keegan Walmer-398, 3-Cody Thompson-379, 4-Austin Farley-312, 5-Jarid Blondel-278, 6-Courtney Atkinson-248, 7-Jessica Clark-212, 8-Winn Frazin-108, 9-Tanner Long-68, 10-Shon Gooden-55.

USAC NORTHERN CALIFORNIA YOUNG GUNS POINT STANDINGS

1-Brandon White-307, 2-Keegan Walmer-279, 3-Cody Thompson-263, 4-Courtney Atkinson-245, 5-Austin Farley-64, 6-Jessica Clark-60, 7-Tanner Long-59, 8-Jarid Blondel-53, 9-Shon Gooden-52,10-Winn Frazin-46.

USAC SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA YOUNG GUNS POINT STANDINGS

1-Brandon White-315, 2-Austin Farley-312, 3-Jarid Blondel-278, 4-Jessica Clark-212, 5-Keegan Walmer-119, 6-Cody Thompson-116, 7-Winn Frazin-108, 8-Tanner Long-68.

USAC MIDWEST YOUNG GUNS POINT STANDINGS

1-Cooper Clouse-443, 2-Ross Rankine-427, 3-Stevie Kuhn-387, 4-Gage Walker-358, 5-Max McGee-193, 6-Austin Prock-133, 7-Brendon Bock-117, 8-Mike Gass-95, 9-Jarett Andretti-52, 10-Derrick Morris-51.

USAC CAROLINA YOUNG GUNS POINT STANDINGS

1-Jesse Little-199, 2-Adam Brown-169, 3-Austin Prock-132, 4-Brendon Bock-125, 5-Stephen Bergh Jr.-60, 6-Ryan Ayers-60.