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360 GRAND SLAM SPRINT CARS
Ventura Raceway - Ventura, California
April 4, 2009 - Point Race #1

40 CARS

ENTRY LIST:
2 Kevin Kierce 94, 2K Tyler Edwards 44, 4 Errol Sack 72, 7G Don Gansen 86, 09 Luis Espinoza 36, 9W Chris Wakim 72, 11R Troy Rutherford 106, 14 Tom Hendricks 38, 15 Rick Hendrix 88, 17V Danny Faria Jr. 114, 18T Clark Templeman III 38, 19 Brandon Thomson 74, 20 Dennis Rodriguez 42, 21K Cory Kruseman 110, 22C Brian Camarillo 82, 24 Guy Woodward 36, 25 Danny Venegas 32, 29K Hobie Conway 28, 29S Michael Steele 32, 31 Bruce Douglass 96, 36 Kevin Barnes Sr. 94, 44 Oren Prosser Jr. 70, 47 Davey Pombo 106, 48T Justin Kierce 8, 49 Tyler Schmidt 74, 51 Rusty Carlile 80, 51C Brent Camarillo 66, 52 Jason Swaim 32, 55 Eric Chambers 30, 55D Austin DeBlauw 30, 56 Steve Conrad 100, 57 Greg Taylor 38, 71 Richard McCormick 100, 71K Austin Mero 10, 73 Josh Ford 82, 83 John Nock 84, 88H Johnathon Henry 120, 92 Dwayne Marcum 24, 93 Blake Miller 110, 96 Charlie Butcher 32.

HEAT RACE 1: (10 laps)
1. Blake Miller, 2 Kevin Kierce, 3. Don Gansen, 4. Rick Hendrix, 5. Brandon Thomson, 6. Austin Mero, 7. Justin Kierce, 8. Guy Woodward.

HEAT RACE 2: (10 laps)
1. Johnathon Henry, 2. Danny Faria Jr., 3. Rusty Carlile, 4. Oren Prosser Jr., 5. Tom Hendricks, 6. Clark Templeman III, 7. Hobie Conway, 8. Charlie Butcher.

HEAT RACE 3: (10 laps)
1. Errol Sack, 2. Chris Wakim, 3. Kevin Barnes Sr., 4. Tyler Schmidt, 5. Tyler Edwards, 6. Greg Taylor, 7. Michael Steele, 8. Dwayne Marcum.

HEAT RACE 4: (10 laps)
1. Troy Rutherford, 2. Cory Kruseman, 3. Steve Conrad, 4. Bruce Douglass, 5. John Nock, 6. Jason Swaim, 7. Eric Chambers, 8. Luis Espinoza.

HEAT RACE 5: (10 laps)
1. Richard McCormick, 2. Davey Pombo, 3. Josh Ford, 4. Brian Camarillo, 5. Danny Venegas, 6. Dennis Rodriguez, 7. Brent Camarillo, 8. Austin DeBlauw.

SEMI-MAIN 1: (12 laps)
1. Tyler Schmidt, 2. Rick Hendrix, 3. John Nock, 4. Brian Camarillo, 5. Dennis Rodriguez, 6. Guy Woodward, 7. Greg Taylor, 8. Tom Hendricks, 9. Austin DeBlauw, 10. Eric Chambers, 11. Hobie Conway, 12. Dwayne Marcum, 13. Austin Mero (DNS).

SEMI-MAIN 2: (12 laps)
1. Brandon Thomson, 2. Oren Prosser Jr., 3. Brent Camarillo, 4. Bruce Douglas, 5. Tyler Edwards, 6. Luis Espinoza, 7. Clark Templeman III, 8. Charlie Butcher, 9. Michael Steele, 10. Jason Swaim, 11. Danny Venegas, 12. Justin Kierce (DNS).

FEATURE: (30 laps - With Starting Positions)
1. Johnathon Henry (3rd), 2. Danny Faria Jr. (9th), 3. Cory Kruseman (7th), 4. Blake Miller (4th), 5. Davey Pombo (10th), 6. Troy Rutherford (2nd), 7. Steve Conrad (12th), 8. Bruce Douglass (23rd), 9. Richard McCormick (5th), 10. Kevin Barnes Sr. (15th), 11. Kevin Kierce (8th), 12. Rick Hendrix (18th), 13. John Nock (20th), 14. Don Gansen (11th), 15. Brian Camarillo (22nd), 16. Josh Ford (13th), 17. Rusty Carlile (14th), 18. Brandon Thomson (17th), 19. Tyler Schmidt (16th), 20. Brent Camarillo (21st), 21. Oren Prosser Jr. (19th), 22. Chris Wakim (6th), 23. Errol Sack (1st).
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FEATURE LAP LEADERS:
Lap 1 Troy Rutherford, Laps 2-23 Johnathon Henry, Laps 24-29 Danny Faria Jr., Lap 30 Johnathon Henry.

360 GRAND SLAM SPRINT CAR POINT STANDINGS - 4/4
1. Johnathon Henry, 88H- 120
2. Danny Faria Jr., 17V- 114
3. Blake Miller, 93- 110
4. Cory Kruseman, 21K- 110
5. Davey Pombo, 47- 106
6. Troy Rutherford, 11R- 106
7. Steve Conrad, 56- 100
8. Richard McCormick, 71- 100
9. Bruce Douglass, 31- 96
10. Kevin Barnes Sr., 36- 94
11. Kevin Kierce, 2- 94
12. Rick Hendrix, 15- 88
13. Don Gansen, 7G- 86
14. John Nock, 83- 84
15. Brian Camarillo, 22C- 82
16. Josh Ford, 73- 82
17. Rusty Carlile, 51- 80
18. Tyler Schimdt, 49- 74
19. Brandon Thomson, 19- 74
20. Chris Wakim, 9W- 72

ENTRY LIST:
2 Kevin Kierce 94, 2K Tyler Edwards 44, 4 Errol Sack 72, 7G Don Gansen 86, 09 Luis Espinoza 36, 9W Chris Wakim 72, 11R Troy Rutherford 106, 14 Tom Hendricks 38, 15 Rick Hendrix 88, 17V Danny Faria Jr. 114, 18T Clark Templeman III 38, 19 Brandon Thomson 74, 20 Dennis Rodriguez 42, 21K Cory Kruseman 110, 22C Brian Camarillo 82, 24 Guy Woodward 36, 25 Danny Venegas 32, 29K Hobie Conway 28, 29S Michael Steele 32, 31 Bruce Douglass 96, 36 Kevin Barnes Sr. 94, 44 Oren Prosser Jr. 70, 47 Davey Pombo 106, 48T Justin Kierce 8, 49 Tyler Schmidt 74, 51 Rusty Carlile 80, 51C Brent Camarillo 66, 52 Jason Swaim 32, 55 Eric Chambers 30, 55D Austin DeBlauw 30, 56 Steve Conrad 100, 57 Greg Taylor 38, 71 Richard McCormick 100, 71K Austin Mero 10, 73 Josh Ford 82, 83 John Nock 84, 88H Johnathon Henry 120, 92 Dwayne Marcum 24, 93 Blake Miller 110, 96 Charlie Butcher 32.

What does the number after the drivers name represent?

Jeff Kristensen

Jeff,  I think it is the points for the night.  They did a pill draw, so no times. Probably did it so you know everyone's West Coast 360/VRA Grand Slam point totals.

Kenny

Cover your beer, the race is on!

Two questions:

Where was the VRA/Bandits Grand Slam defending champion Peter Murphy?

What happend to the Danny Faria car at the end?

Very entertaining show, I had a good time.

Don't know about Murphy. Faria was running the low line and Henry was up high. Kruser was low in 1&2 and mid track 3/4. A yellow with 5 laps to go tightened up the field. Faria had a low left rear and needed heat in the tire. Last lap Henry came off 2 strong and got by for the 2 grand. What a great track, very good prep.

Harryfan,

Not sure about Peter Murphy. I heard he wasn't going to defend the title.

Danny looked like he pushed up or he tried to block Henry on the top, not sure. Dude was too smooth around the bottom for me to think he went up to block. As he came off of 2, he lost momentum and Henry got a big-time run and went under Faria. Henry's' right rear hit Faria's left front and they both finished the lap with broken race cars.

I'm not a Faria fan, but last nights race changed that. Henry all but checked out but Danny used lapped traffic and a timely caution to get the lead and I thought he ran a great race. Props to Danny Faria and Jonathon Henry on an entertaining race.

Kenny

Cover your beer, the race is on!

Peter Murphy was running in Antioch with the Golden State Challenge last night.

Trophy Cup......Best race of the year hands down!

Ventura was a hell of a show! Anybody know results from Kings? The really hard nosed Bandits were at Ventura, guess the others didn't want to miss the Easter egg hunt.

Nobody at Ventura will forget the names Faria and Henry. Show was over at 9:00

Anybody seen Jason May's name anywhere this year? Or Greg Porte?

There was no wcs-non wing race at Kings 04/04 because of the Grand Slam. Rebel Cup (wing) only. If you go to www.kingsspeedway.net you will see that there was no non wing race sceduled last night. Next wcs race is 04/18. There is a full wcs schedule at scrafan.com in the schedule page.

I gotta agree well run show (I was home in Temecula at11:30)great racin the new Ventura seems to have gotten those guys off the bottom and made for some good 3 grove racin.no more follow the leader around the pole

ROB

I was confused. The Kings website has the WCS cars on the schedule for 4-4. Should have known better.

Hi Kenny, FYI it is the Bandit-VRA Grand Slam.  No where is or was the WC involved w/ the GS. 

Peter "the Pretty Good"

Peter was at Antioch racing a winged 410- refer to Gary Costa's great PR piece. Glad you had a great time. It was a good show with zero problemos. Looking forward to more great things in the future.

Peter

They did have it on their posted schedule. They also had cancelled it at some point but didn't publish it. No bashing, just fact.

Peter

West Coast 360 Sprinters

(February 26, 2009) --- Kings Speedway, Santa Maria Speedway and Bakersfield Speedway have teamed up to form A New 360 cid, Non-Wing Sprint Car Series. The new series will be known as The West Coast 360 Sprinters. A 23 race schedule has been put together to include 11 events hosted by Kings Speedway, 9 by Santa Maria Speedway and 3 by Bakersfield Speedway. The season will be kicking off at Kings Speedway on March 14th. Sponsorship has already been secured for the West Coast 360's to include a $5,000 points fund, which will be distributed at the season finale on 10-31 @ Kings Speedway's Western Dirt Nationals. Contingency sponsorship will include companies such as Spin Tech Mufflers and Stainless Storage Solutions.

Special events included in the series will be The Turner Memorial and The Western Dirt Nationals at Kings Speedway. The Bud Stanfield Memorial at Santa Maria Speedway, and VRA/Grand Slam events at Santa Maria and Bakersfield Speedway.

Rules and regulations that California's finest 360 Sprint Car drivers are used to, will carry over to the new West Coast 360 Sprinters, for the events at these 3 fine West Coast tracks.

The three tracks involved in this series are stepping up to the plate to provide a new era of race venue's designed to give the racer unparallel opportunities to compete on a wider scale. All three tracks offer a totally different style of racing, with each offering distinctively different sizes, surfaces and banking. Each track has its own hometown flavor.

If you have any questions regarding rules, purses or scheduling, please contact one of the tracks involved in this series, for up to date information.

360 Sprints

March 14 Kings Speedway

March 28 Kings Speedway

April 4 Ventura Raceway/ VRA Grand Slam (non points event)

April 18 Kings Speedway

April 25 Bakersfield Speedway/ VRA Grand Slam

May 2 Santa Maria Speedway

May 9 Bakersfield Speedway

May23 Santa Maria Speedway

June 6 Santa Maria Speedway

June 20 Kings Speedway (Dairy Month)

June 26 Kings Speedway

July 4 Santa Maria Speedway

July 11 Kings Speedway

July 18 Bakersfield Speedway

July 25 Santa Maria Speedway

Aug 1 Kings Speedway

Aug 8 Santa Maria Speedway / VRA Grand Slam

Aug 15 Santa Maria Speedway

Aug 29 Kings Speedway/ Turner Memorial

Sept 12 Kings Speedway

Sept 19 Santa Maria Speedway

Oct 3 Kings Speedway

Oct 10 Santa Maria Speedway /Bud Stanfield Memorial

Oct 31 Kings Speedway / Western Dirt Nationals

Thanks Lance.

Kenny

Cover your beer, the race is on!