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USAC/CRA SPRINT CARS
PERRIS AUTO SPEEDWAY - PERRIS, CA
FEBRUARY 9, 2007

39 CARS

TIME TRIALS:
1. Mike Spencer, 50, Chaffin-17.041, 2. Nic Faas, 17F, Faas-17.134, 3. Tony Jones, 4, Alexander-17.235, 4. Josh Ford, 73, Ford-17.261, 5. Danny Sheridan, 18, Kittle-17.264, 6. Garrett Hansen, 7, Preistley-17.269, 7. Jesse Hockett, 75, VKCC Motorsports-17.310, 8. R. J. Johnson, 15, Martin-17.312, 9. David Cardey, 83, Crossno-17.327, 10. Blake Miller, 93, Gardner-17.347, 11. Jimmy Crawford, 51, Crawford-17.373, 12. Levi Jones, 11, Walker-Guiducci-17.374, 13. Cory Kruseman, 21K, Kruseman-17.392, 14. Cole Whitt, 2, Crossno-17.433, 15. Chad Boat, 30, Boat-17.530, 16. Alan Ballard, 21, Dorathy-17.639, 17. Shane Golobic, 57G, Golobic-17.697, 18. Seth Wilson, 17, Wilson-17.734, 19. Davey Pombo, 38, Crossno-17.747, 20. Tyler Brown, 96, Gardner-17.756, 21. Jordan Hermansader, 32, Rase-17.781, 22. Brady Bacon, 42, Cheney-17.801, 23. Todd Hunsaker, 6, Hunsaker-17.821, 24. Bret Mellenberndt, 97, Mellenberndt-17.848, 25. Luis Espinoza, 92, Sertich-18.029, 26. Alex Schutte, 5K, Kruseman-18.051, 27. Austin Mero, 71K, Kruseman-18.069, 28. Jonas Reynolds, 48, Reynolds-18.098, 29. Jonny Bates, 33, Bates-18.183, 30. Billy Blinn, 26, Blinn-18.284, 31. Henry Clarke, 41K, Kruseman-18.313, 32. Kenny Perkins, 34, Perkins-18.320, 33. Nadine Gardner 16, Gardner-18.371, 34. Shawn Kautz, 27, Kautz-18.487, 35. Royal Adderson, 40, Adderson-18.655, 36. Joe Gunderson, 57, Gunderson-19.389, 37. Kyle Bates, 397, Boisvert-19.493, 38. Brein Kinney, 85, Persall-19.593, 39. John Butler, 54, Butler-21.025.

C-MAIN: (8 laps)
1. Royal Adderson, 2. Shawn Kautz, 3. Joe Gunderson, 4. Kyle Bates, 5. John Butler, 6. Brein Kinney. NT.

HEAT RACE 1: (10 laps)
1. Cory Kruseman, 2. Danny Sheridan, 3. Mike Spencer, 4. David Cardey, 5. Jordan Hermansader, 6. Alex Schutte, 7. Shane Golobic, 8. Billy Blinn, 9. Royal Adderson. 2:55.13.

HEAT RACE 2: (10 laps)
1. Cole Whitt, 2. Blake Miller, 3. Garrrett Hansen, 4. Seth Wilson, 5. Nic Faas, 6. Todd Hunsaker, 7. Austin Mero, 8. Henry Clarke, 9. Shawn Kautz. NT.

HEAT RACE 3: (10 laps)
1. Jimmy Crawford, 2. Tony Jones, 3. Jesse Hockett, 4. Chad Boat, 5. Davey Pombo, 6. Bret Mellenberndt, 7. Kenny Perkins, 8. Jonas Reynolds, 9. Joe Gunderson. NT.

HEAT RACE 4: (10 laps)
1. Tyler Brown, 2. R.J. Johnson, 3. Josh Ford, 4. Alan Ballard, 5. Luis Espinoza, 6. Jonny Bates, 7. Nadine Gardner, 8. Kyle Bates, 9. Levi Jones. NT.

SEMI-MAIN: (12 laps)
1. Levi Jones, 2. Shane Golobic, 3. Davey Pombo, 4. Bret Mellenberndt, 5. Luis Espinoza, 6. Alex Schutte, 7. Austin Mero, 8. Nic Faas, 9. Todd Hunsaker, 10. Jonas Reynolds, 11. Jonny Bates, 12. Jordan Hermansader, 13. Nadine Gardner, 14. Royal Adderson, 15. Shawn Kautz, 16. Kyle Bates, 17. Henry Clarke, 18. Kenny Perkins, 19. Billy Blinn. NT.

FEATURE: (30 laps - With Starting Positions)
1. Cory Kruseman (12th), 2. Mike Spencer (8th), 3. David Cardey (1st), 4. Tony Jones (7th), 5. Garrett Hansen (4th), 6. Levi Jones (11th), 7. Cole Whitt (13th), 8. Blake Miller (9th), 9. Davey Pombo (18th), 10. R. J. Johnson (2nd), 11. Luis Espinoza (21st), 12. Tyler Brown (19th), 13. Seth Wilson (17th), 14. Alex Schutte (22nd), 15. Shane Golobic (16th), 16. Brett Mellenberndt (20th), 17. Jimmy Crawford (10th), 18. Danny Sheridan (5th), 19. Josh Ford (6th), 20. Chad Boat (14th), 21. Jesse Hockett (3rd), 22. Alan Ballard (15th). NT.
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* Billy Blinn flipped in the Semi.
**Danny Sheridan flipped in the Feature.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS:
Laps 1-12 Cardey, Laps 13-28 Spencer, Laps 29-30 Kruseman.

NEXT USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR RACE:
Feb. 15th & 16th - Manzanita Speedway, Phoenix, Ariz. "Copper on Dirt"

Is the Dorathy #21 based in Southern California or Arizona? The car owner's name is familiar but I don't believe the car made an appearance with USAC/CRA last year. Just trying to keep up on all things involving the great sport of sprint car racing. Thanks.

"Ralphie, Senor, muchas gracias por una mas cerveza"  -
Scott Daloisio @ the PAS

NEW USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR POINTS:
1-Kruseman-139; 2-Spencer-138; 3-Miller-106; 4-Hansen-105; 5-Johnson-95; 6-Cardey-93; 7-Whitt-89; 8-Sheridan-88; 9-T.Jones-81; 10-L.Jones-79.

Nor-Cal. Hanford area if i remember right.They ran a few races last year. I remember Charles Davis driving it early in the season. Someone else drove it later in the season. Don't remember who it was right now.

Your right Oakhurst that team is out of Nor-Cal more towards fresno... Danny Faria Jr drove that car towards the end of the season last year

Thats right. I do remember Danny driving it.

KRUSEMAN SWEEPS PERRIS WEEKEND

Sunday, 10 February 2008

Perris, Calif... Cory Kruseman of Ventura, Calif. won his second 30-lap USAC/CRA main event of the weekend Saturday at the Perris Auto Speedway. Starting the feature race in the 12th position, "The Kruser" put his Lucas Oil / Agromin No. 21k Viper ahead of Mike Spencer, Temecula, Calif., moments before accepting the white flag.

"My guys gave me a good car again tonight, but I think it was more the case that guys were making a few mistakes here and there and we were able to capitalize on them," Kruseman said after his third straight Perris win dating back to the November running of the Kindoll Classic.

David Cardey, Riverside, Calif., started on the pole and led the first 12 laps of the event in the Glenn Crossno / ITI Performance No. 83 Viper. Spencer, who earlier in the evening set fast time in the Ron Chaffin / Temecula Valley Pipe & Supply No. 50 Maxim, had a scare on the second lap of the race when he climbed Tony Jones' (Norco, Calif.) left rear tire.

Jones' Alexander Trucking / La Villa Restaurant No. 4 DRC would suffer a flat tire in the incident. Impressively, the defending series champion would return to action with a fresh tire and would eventually edge the Mark Preistley / Roy Miller Freightlines No. 7 Bullet driven by Manhattan Beach, California's Garrett Hansen at the finish line for fourth-place.

The only flip of the race occurred on a lap-ten restart after second-place Danny Sheridan couldn't recover from bicycling his mount through the first turn. Josh Ford made contact with Sheridan while he was flipping. Fortunately, neither driver was hurt, but both were done for the night.

Sheridan and Ford's departure from the race not only moved Kruseman into the top-five for the first time, but gave him and his crew chief Mike Nigh an opportunity to make some much needed adjustments.

"The bottom was really pretty slow," Kruseman later said. "I tried a few slide-jobs that were in the middle of the race track and I couldn't seem to get the car to stay where I needed it to stay. We were way too tight until we had that red (flag) for Sheridan, which allowed us to come in and make some changes to the car that really helped."

Led by the legendary Bruce Bromme, Jr., Spencer's crew also made some helpful changes. In fact, Spencer would relieve Cardey of the lead three laps after the restart. One circuit later, Kruseman dropped Cardey to his eventual finishing position and set the stage for a showdown between Friday's top-two finishers.

With both drivers running hard along the cushion, Kruseman methodically inched his way closer to Spencer. Kruseman showed Spencer a wheel with a few unsuccessful slide-jobs, which ultimately added to the drama for what would be his second late-race pass in as many nights.

"The good thing was that I was able to show him a nose enough times that it was going to force him to drive harder and harder, and that's what brings out mistakes in people," Kruseman explained of his strategy leading up to his lap-29 slide-job. "You could see what was happening there at the end and it was going to come down to how well we were able to get off turn-two. If we got off turn-two good enough, then I knew I was going to be able to make it work down at the other end."