Hunt Captures Madera Sprint Checkers

From Dick Jordan

Tony Hunt won the USAC Western Classic Sprint Car feature at Madera Speedway Saturday night.

USAC AMSOIL WESTERN/WESTERN CLASSIC SPRINT RACE RESULTS: April 2, 2011 – Madera, California – Madera Speedway – 8th “Gerhardt Classic”

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Brian McClish, 69, Kaiser-13.888; 2. Tony Hunt, 56, Phulps-13.950; 3. Scott Pierovich, 14, Pierson-13.951; 4. Luis Ramos III, 21, Kaplan/Gennuso-14.081; 5. Audra Sasselli, 77, Sasselli-14.157; 6. Shauna Hogg, 5, Hogg-14.177; 7. Cody Gerhardt, 40, Western Speed-14.261; 8. Tim Skoglund, 60, Western Speed-14.427; 9. Gordon Rodgers, 94, Rodgers-14.626; 10. Tim Barber, 3T, Finkenbinder-14.736; 11. Geoff Ensign, 3F, Finkenbinder-14.772; 12. Jerry Kobza, 93, Kobza-14.862; 13. Don Emory, 50, Emory-NT; 14. Bill Logan, 98, Logan-NT; 15. Marvin Mitchell, 68, Mitchell-NT.

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. McClish, 2. Gerhardt, 3. Pierovich, 4. Sasselli, 5. Rodgers, 6. Ensign, 7. Emory. NT

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Skoglund, 2. Hunt, 3. Hogg, 4. Kobza, 5. Ramos, 6. Barber, 7. Logan, 8. Mitchell. NT

FEATURE: (100 laps) 1. Tony Hunt, 2. Audra Sasselli, 3. Geoff Ensign, 4. Brian McClish, 5. Luis Ramos III, 6. Gordon Rodgers, 7. Jerry Kobza, 8. Cody Gerhardt, 9. Scott Pierovich, 10. Marvin Mitchell, 11. Tim Barber, 12. Don Emory, 13. Shauna Hogg, 14. Bill Logan, 15. Tim Skoglund. NT
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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-25 Hogg, Laps 26-56 Pierovioch, Laps 57-100 Hunt.

NEW WESTERN CLASSIC SPRINT POINTS: 1-Pierovich-91; 2-Hunt-88; 3-Kobza-86; 4-Ensign-75; 5-Barber-74; 6-Bill Rose-69; 7-Hogg-68; 8-Kyle Hirst-65; 9-McClish-65; 10-Andy Forsberg-64.
NEW AMSOIL WESTERN SPRINT POINTS: 1-Hunt-72; 2-McClish-65; 3-Sasselli-64; 4-Ensign-57; 5-Ramos-55; 6-Rodgers-49; 7-Kobza-47; 8-Gerhardt-46; 9-Pierovich-46; 10-Barber-34.

NEXT WESTERN CLASSIC SPRINT RACE: April 9 – Santa Maria (CA) Speedway