Gardner Wins at Ocean Speedway

"The Demon" Damion Gardner was the big winner on Friday night (Korie Lafond photo)
"The Demon" Damion Gardner was the big winner on Friday night (Korie Lafond photo)
“The Demon” Damion Gardner was the big winner on Friday night (Korie Lafond photo)

From Dick Jordan

Watsonville, CA — (September 5, 2014) — Damion Gardner completed his second clean sweep of the weekend by setting fast time, winning his heat race, and then claiming victory in the feature event with the USAC / CRA Sprint Car Series on Friday night at Ocean Speedway.  Ryan Bernal, Kevin Thomas Jr., Richard Vander Weerd, and Mike Spencer rounded out the top five.

AMSOIL USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: September 5, 2014 – Watsonville, California – Ocean Speedway – “California Sprint Week”

      QUALIFICATIONS: 1.. Damion Gardner, 4, Alexander-12.500; 2. Jake Swanson, 92, Sertich-12.784; 3. Mike Spencer, 50, Chaffin-12.859; 4. Austin Liggett, 83, Liggett-12.865; 5. Kevin Thomas Jr., 73, Ford-12.879; 6. Richard Vander Weerd, 10, Vander Weerd-12.880; 7. Cody Williams, 44, Jory-12.931; 8. Ryan Bernal, 56, Phulps-12.975; 9. Brody Roa, 91R, BR-13.036; 10. Matt Mitchell, 37, Mitchell-13.096; 11. Landon Hurst, 179, Hurst-13.115; 12. Austin Williams, 2, Jory-13.171; 13. Danny Faria Jr., 2F, Bowman-13.198; 14. Jace Vander Weerd, 88, VanderWeerd-13.288; 15. Geoff Ensign, 3F, Finkenbinder-13.313; 16. D.J. Johnson, 33, Johnson-13.429; 17. Chris Gansen, 4G, Gansen-13.441; 18. Tim DeCarlo Jr., 4D, DeCarlo-13.442; 19. Tyler Schmidt, 49, Schmidt-13.578; 20. Logan Williams, 5, Jory-13.579; 21. Jeff Sibley, 42N, Sibley-13.641; 22. Garrett Hansen, 7, Priestley-13.721; 23. Eric Rossi, 17, Shanoian-13.745; 24. Jeremy Ellertson, 98X, Ellertson-14.114; 25. Eli Deshaies, 91RI, Deshaies-14.116.

      FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Gardner, 2. Faria, 3. Liggett, 4. Johnson, 5. Mitchell, 6. Hansen, 7. Schmidt, 8. C.Williams, 9. Deschaies. NT

      SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Swanson, 2. J.Vander Weerd, 3. Bernal, 4. Gansen, 5. Thomas, 6. Rossi, 7. Hurst, 8. L.Williams. NT

      THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Ensign, 2. Roa. 3. R.Vander Weerd, 4. A.Williams, 5. Sibley, 6. DeCarlo, 7. Ellertson, 8. Spencer. NT

      SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Thomas, 2. Spencer, 3. Mitchell, 4. C.Williams, 5. Schmidt, 6. L.Williams, 7. DeCarlo, 8. Sibley, 9. Hansen, 10. Rossi, 11. Ellertson, 12. Hurst. NT

      FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Damion Gardner, 2. Ryan Bernal, 3. Kevin Thomas Jr., 4. Richard Vander Weerd, 5. Mike Spencer, 6. Brody Roa, 7. Geoff Ensign, 8. Danny Faria Jr., 9. Austin Liggett, 10. D.J. Johnson, 11. Cody Williams, 12. Jake Swanson, 13. Austin Williams, 14. Jace Vander Weerd, 15. Eric Rossi, 16. Jeff Sibley, 17. Chris Gansen, 18. Tyler Schmidt, 19. Logan Williams, 20. Jeremy Ellertson, 21. Matt Mitchell, 22. Garrett Hansen, 23. Tim DeCarlo Jr. NT

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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-14 Bernal, Laps 15-30 Gardner.

NEW AMSOIL USAC/CRA SPRINT POINTS: 1-Gardner-1,047, 2-Spencer-823, 3-Roa-681, 4-Mitchell-656, 5-C.Williams-636, 6-Nic Faas-628, 7-A.Williams-615, 8-Swanson-573, 9-R.Vander Weerd-529, 10-L.Williams-415.

NEW CALIFORNIA SPRINT WEEK POINTS: 1-Gardner-261, 2-Thomas-233, 3-Spencer-192, 4-Roa-185, 5-C.Williams-153, 6-Colby Copeland-151, 7-Mitchell-139, 8-Christopher Bell-135, 9-Rico Abreu-132, 10-Bradley Terrell-129.

NEXT AMSOIL USAC/CRA SPRINT RACE:September 6 – Santa Maria (CA) Speedway – “California Sprint Week”