Mitchell Wins at Ocean Speedway

petersen-media-mitchell-hanfordFrom Lance Jennings

 

Watsonville, CA — (August 8, 2014) — Matt Mitchell won the U SAC West Coast / Western Classic sprint car series feature at Ocean Speedway.  Brody Roa, Richard Vander Weerd, Marty Hawkins, and Ryan Bernal rounded out the top five.

 

USAC WEST COAST & WESTERN CLASSIC SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: August 8, 2014 – Watsonville, California – Ocean Speedway

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Ryan Bernal, 56, Phulps-12.832; 2. Markus Niemela, 73, Ford-12.911; 3. Marty Hawkins, 3M, Hawkins-13.057; 4. Matt Mitchell, 37, Mitchell-13.116; 5. Danny Faria Jr., 2, Bowman-13.147; 6. Brody Roa, 91R, BR-13.155; 7. Nic Faas, 73X, Ford-13.167; 8. Landon Hurst, 179, Hurst-13.176; 9. Austin Liggett, 83, Liggett-13.186; 10. Austin Stone, 29X, Coffman-13.195; 11. Richard Vander Weerd, 10, Vander Weerd-13.237; 12. Jace Vander Weerd, 88, Vander Weerd-13.248; 13. Trevor Schmid, 2X, Schmid-13.399; 14. Tyler Schmidt, 49, Schmidt-13.452; 15. Koen Shaw, 88K, Shaw-13.482; 16. Tim DeCarlo Jr., 5, DeCarlo-13.497; 17. Kyler Shaw, 92, Shaw-13.668; 18. Bruce Douglass, 13, Davis-13.872; 19. Jeff Sibley, 42N, Sibley-13.939; 20. Scott Hall, 77J, Campanile-NT; 21. Kevin Barnes, 36B, Barnes-NT; 22. Eric Rossi, 17, Shanoian-NT.

FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Faas, 2. Bernal, 3. Mitchell, 4. Schmid, 5. DeCarlo, 6. Stone, 7. Sibley. NT

SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. R.Vander Weerd, 2. Faria, 3. Niemela, 4. Ky.Shaw, 5. Hurst, 6. Schmidt. NT

THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Liggett, 2. Hawkins, 3. J.Vander Weerd, 4. Roa, 5. Ko.Shaw, 6. Douglass. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Matt Mitchell, 2. Brody Roa, 3. Richard Vander Weerd, 4. Marty Hawkins, 5. Ryan Bernal, 6. Nic Faas, 7. Austin Liggett, 8. Jace Vander Weerd, 9. Kyler Shaw, 10. Jeff Sibley, 11. Bruce Douglass, 12. Tyler Schmidt, 13. Trevor Schmid, 14. Markus Niemela, 15. Tim DeCarlo Jr., 16. Austin Stone, 17. Scott Hall, 18. Koen Shaw, 19. Landon Hurst, 20. Danny Faria Jr., 21. Kevin Barnes. NT

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**Hurst, DeCarlo, and Hall flipped during the feature.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-13 Roa, Lap 14 Bernal, Laps 15-29 Roa, Lap 30 Mitchell.

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NEXT WEST COAST & WESTERN CLASSIC SPRINT CAR RACE: August 9 – Chowchilla (CA) Raceway