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GARDNER COMPLETES “VERMEIL CLASSIC” SPRINT SWEEP

Calistoga, CA……..Damion Gardner of Concord, Calif. completed the “sweep” of this year’s “Louie Vermeil Classic” AMSOIL USAC/CRA Sprint races at the Napa County Fairgrounds Sunday night, leading all 30 laps in his Tiner Racing mount. He was trailed at the checkered flag by Daron Clayton, fast qualifier Mike Spencer, Kyle Larson and Blake Miller. Spencer continues to lead the standings going into a September 18 race at Perris Auto Speedway.

USAC AMSOIL USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: September 5, 2010 – Calistoga, California – Calistoga Speedway – “Louie Vermeil Classic”

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Mike Spencer, 50, Chaffin-19.340; 2. Blake Miller, 7, Priestley-19.449; 3. Matt Mitchell, 37, Mitchell-19.632; 4. Geoff Ensign, 5, Ensign-19.697; 5. Kyle Larson, 99, Kaeding-19.714; 6. Danny Sheridan, 18, Kittle-19.807; 7. Robert Ballou, 3F, Finkenbinder-19.833; 8. Keith Bloom, 27, Braund-19.899; 9. Damion Gardner, 83, Tiner-19.915; 10. David Cardey, 38, Crossno-20.037; 11. Chris Windom, 73x, Ford-20.037; 12. Scott Pierovich, 18v, Vertullo-20.089; 13. Jeff Griffin, 50x, Griffin-20.122; 14. JoJo Helberg, 7F, Helberg-20.196; 15. Cody Williams, 44, Jory-20.549; 16. Cory Kruseman, 21k, Kruseman-20.576; 17. Josh Ford, 73, Ford-20.635; 18. Shane Golobic, 88, Golobic-20.658; 19. James Sweeney, 20J, Sweeney-20.704; 20. Greg Bragg, 92, Sertich-20.732; 21. Jim Richardson, 8, Richardson-20.742; 22. Andy Forsberg, 92N, Forsberg-20.753; 23. Tyler Schmidt, 49, Schmidt-20.898; 24. Marty Hawkins, 3m, Hawkins-21.765; 25. Daron Clayton, 14s, Smith-NT; 26. Rip Williams, 3, Jory-NT; 27. Austin Williams, 2, Jory-NT; 28. Harlan Willis, 21x, Kruseman-NT.

FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Spencer, 2. Ballou, 3. Cardey, 4. Kruseman, 5. Griffin, 6. Clayton, 7. Ensign, 8. Forsberg, 9. Sweeney. NT

SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Larson, 2. Bragg, 3. Bloom, 4. Windom, 5. Miller, 6. Ford, 7. Schmidt, 8. Helberg, 9. A.Williams (#3). NT

THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Gardner, 2. Golobic, 3. Mitchell, 4. Pierovich, 5. Sheridan, 6. Richardson, 7. Hawkins, 8. C.Williams. NT

SEMI: (8 laps) 1. Clayton, 2. Ensign, 3. Ford, 4. Richardson, 5. Forsberg, 6. Hawkins, 7. A.Williams (# 3), 8. Schmidt. NT

FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Damion Gardner, 2. Daron Clayton, 3. Mike Spencer, 4. Kyle Larson, 5. Blake Miller, 6. Marty Hawkins, 7. David Cardey, 8. Andy Forsberg, 9. Scott Pierovich, 10. Austin Williams (#3), 11. Danny Sheridan, 12. Keith Bloom, 13. Cory Kruseman, 14. Tyler Schmidt, 15. Geoff Ensign, 16. Jeff Griffin, 17. Greg Bragg, 18. Robert Ballou, 19. Matt Mitchell, 20. Shane Golobic, 21. Josh Ford, 22. Chris Windom, 23. Jim Richardson. NT

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**Sweeney flipped during the first heat. Helberg flipped during the second heat. C.Williams flipped during the third heat.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-30 Gardner.

NEW AMSOIL USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR POINTS: 1-Spencer-937; 2-Sheridan-774; 3-Miller-709; 4-Kruseman-709; 5-Mitchell-586; 6-Cardey-470; 7-Bragg-453; 8-A.Williams-437; 9-Jimmy Crawford-422; 10-Tony Jones-421.

NEXT USAC AMSOIL USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR RACE: September 18 – Perris (CA) Auto Speedway

Did I hear correctly that there were several blown tires in the main? Number I got was about 15, all just in the main. Is my info accurate or can someone share what they saw?

"Winged or non-winged its all about 
the sprint cars for me!"
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It's true about the tires! This made me stop going to the NARC shows early 90's, it the reason BK would never raced the Outlaws there.. I do think USAC and the Fairgrounds owe the fans a ton, If this is going to be a yearly thing. To me they killed the race weekend Saturday then Sunday. On Saturday with 28 sprintcars 15 midgets and the midget ran only there A main just SUCKED! Yes a 20 lap sprint car main because of the 11pm time limit. ck

Now Sunday, Clayton didn't meet the weight limit Saturday night so he started in the rear of every race. Now I don't remember the lap he pulled in to replace his tire or tires so look where he finished.. He started in the back twice in the A main, Great driving! I told NARC I would never be back and I'm getting ready to tell USAC CRA the same.

Yes I was down at Perris the Saturday before sitting in turn 4 as the wind chill and dust was to much for turn 4 Rob! Right, Rob his new name is turn 1 Rob!

USAC doesn't prep the track

WTG young Marty Hawkins! Stayed out of trouble and became a survivor ending up 6th.

i know i'll catch hell for this but, here goes. track prep has been an issue at calistoga for years. you can't (whoever is in charge of track prep) just water the hell out of the track.. the water only goes about 1.5 to 2" deep. you need to open up the track (rip it) especially Calistoga because its volcanic dirt. the last time i was there was for the Civil War Race last August they put too much water on it and it delayed the show. if you look at the track about 1" deep it dry as a bone. i could see in hot laps it was gonna eat tires. also they need better lighting in turns 3 and 4. no wonder so many cars hit the wall in those turns.

If the same tire-eating, wallet draining, tire blowing situation happened at Hanford or Antioch this board would be lit up like a Christmas tree.

As Vermeil said we are into intertaining the fans if we don't do it they won't show up. I heard Mr. USAC on the DO Raccccinnng show saying this is the best thing in Northern California, because it's not saturated of this kind of racing. So who give a dam then this could be the last of three fans and a year and a half old new fan.

Can't even run 28 sprint cars and 15 midgets in 4 hours. When the midget only ran a A-MAIN.

No water truck either night to even do anything.

Hi All, is there any video of these races posted yet?

Ted Williams

TPW Technologies
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USAC owns the rights, someone asked Mills for a card.

USAC could get the track prepped any way they want if they cared. USAC rents the track and runs the whole deal so they get all the money. At least they had reserved seats this year and avoided that fiasco.

I blinked and they were starting the midget main on Sat. I couldn't recall seeing the heats, but just chalked it up to senility I feel better now.

In the past three years of the Vermeil the midgets have not ran heats @ Calistoga.

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