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Chico's Jonathan Allard races to victory at Golden State Challenge Series season-opener in Placerville

By Gary Thomas

Placerville, CA – March 28, 2010…Rebounding from a hard crash in Tulare earlier this month two-time King of California Jonathan Allard came back this past Saturday showing no ill effects and charged to a convincing victory, leading all 30-laps of the Golden State Challenge 410 Sprint Car Series season-opener at the Placerville Speedway.

For Allard it was his 20^th career GSC triumph and makes him the fourth driver to reach the 20-win plateau in series history, joining only Brent Kaeding, Tim Kaeding and Steve Kent in that category. "It was a total team effort tonight and I have to thank all my guys for giving me such a great car," Allard commented. "Winning races with GSC is always special because there have always been some tough competitors out here so it feels great to get another win and hopefully this won't be the last one this year."

To begin the evening Allard set the third fastest lap in qualifying and scored a second place finish in his heat race, before drawing the pole for the dash and dominating the five-lap race to also earn the pole for the feature in the Williams Motorsports, K&N Filters, Butler Built Performance No. 0 sprinter. "We've always done well here at Placerville and we love coming here because it's a fun place to race and has some of the best fans around," Allard said after the dash on the front stretch. "A few weeks ago we were involved in a pretty bad crash and Ashley Smith and my team put a different car together and it's been really fast all night."

When the green flag waved in the 30-lap Golden State Challenge Series main event Allard jumped into the lead and began to show his muscle by immediately pulling away from the field on the hooked-up quarter-mile. A handful of cautions during the first half of the race slowed the flow, but through it all the 33-year-old stayed on his game and got tremendous restarts each time as he had 13-time King of California Brent Kaeding breathing down his neck. The final 14-laps of the main event were then run caution free and Allard once again checked out, never hesitating when dealing with lapped cars to drive off and cross under the checkered with more than a straightaway margin over second place Brent Kaeding and third place finisher Bobby McMahan.

The victory also marked Allard's ninth finish of second or better in the past 12 Golden State Challenge Series events at the Placerville Speedway as he continues his strong consistency at the El Dorado County Fairgrounds track. "I have to thank my car owners Morrie & Katie Williams, my whole crew and all you fans for coming out and supporting us tonight because we all appreciate it," said Allard. "I definitely want to congratulate Brent on getting second and Bobby for finishing third tonight, because they've been a couple of the top drivers out here for a long time and it's cool to be able to race with them."

Allard and Williams Motorsports will now head for two-nights of racing this coming weekend beginning with the opening Feather Falls Casino 410 point race at Silver Dollar Speedway in Chico on Friday. Then on Saturday "JA" and the team will travel to the Antioch Speedway for the second round of the Golden State Challenge season.

Last year saw Allard lead the first 26-laps of the feature during the April GSC event in Antioch, until Tyler Walker got by in traffic to grab the win away late in the race. In July at Antioch he then started from sixth and took the lead by lap 17 in the main event, however, while navigating through traffic on the slick surface he would get into a spin with seven laps remaining in the race. The two-time King of California was able to restart at the rear and charged back to eighth by the conclusion. This Saturday Allard will look to seal the deal as he searches for his first career 410 victory at the Antioch Speedway and will bring the GSC point lead into the track by way of his Placerville win.

For more news on Chico, California's Jonathan Allard visit http://www.allardmotorsports.com

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Two-time King of California Jonathan Allard and team pictured in victory lane at the Placerville Speedway after capturing his 20^th career Golden State Challenge Series main event win on Saturday night

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Jonathan Allard and the ZERO team will next be in action this coming Friday night during the opening Feather Falls Casino point race at Silver Dollar Speedway. Last season Allard won four main events at his home track, including his fourth career Dave Bradway Jr. Memorial and also scored a fourth place finish at the World of Outlaws sanctioned Gold Cup Race of Champions. On Saturday the 33-year-old will then travel to the Antioch Speedway looking for his first career 410 victory at the track after coming close on a pair of different occasions last year. Photo by http://www.stevesracingphotos.com

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Gary, if you can get the GSC to go to a 24-car field I'll bring the little KOW-ROLL-UH and tag the field! Will I be able to run my Goodyears?

leon

( I can't remember this small number of cars for a NARC and/or GSC opener!)

TSA...It's not a GROPE...it's a Freedom Pat!

Hay it's nice to see Jonathan on top after that HORRIFIC crash he had.

A Bad Day Of Sprint Car Racing Is 10 Times Better Than 
A Good Day At Work!

I was thinkin the same thing..

"Give me a diablo sandwich, a Dr. Pepper, and make it 
quick, I'm in a goddamn hurry." 

of course JA is gonna win cause Tdub left Cali....