GARDNER WINS PETALUMA 50-LAP MIDGET

Petaluma, CA……..Defending USAC Western Midget Champion Ronnie Gardner of Norco, Calif. his Six9 Motorsports/Baldozier Racing Stewart/Esslinger to victory in Saturday night’s 50-lap Honda USAC Western Midget race at Petaluma Speedway. He trailed Scott Pierovich for the first four laps before taking the lead and leading the final 46 laps. Series point leaderTrey Marcham finished second ahead of Taylor Simas, Sean Dodenhoff and Pierovich.

HONDA USAC WESTERN MIDGET DIRT RACE RESULTS (co-sanctioned by BCRA): August 9, 2014 – Petaluma, California – Petaluma Speedway

QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Ronnie Gardner, 68, Six8-14.315, 2. Brian Gard, 88, Arata-14.367, 3. Taylor Simas, 62, Bock-14.371, 4. Chris Ennis, 86, Ennis-14.441, 5. Randi Pankratz, 8, Pankratz-14.566, 6. Cody Swanson, 71, Swanson-14.568, 7. Shannon McQueen, 7, McQueen-14.580, 8. Jarid Blondel, 98, Blondel-14.687, 9. Scott Pierovich, 35, Pierovich-14.688, 10. Trey Marcham, 73, Ford-14.760, 11. Nick Chivello Jr., 27, Chivello-14.859, 12. Alex Schutte, 28, Schutte/McElwee-14.919, 13. Barry Pries Jr., 14, BRAP-14.939, 14. Rick Cook II, 7R, Cook-14.961, 15. Tyler Dolacki, 99, JK-14.975, 16. Chad Nichols, 17, Nichols-14.990, 17. Sean Dodenhoff, 9D, Dodenhoff-15..005, 18. Britton Bock, 67, Bock-15.063, 19. Gary Conterno, 55, Conterno-15.117, 20. J.R. Williams, 74, Williams-15.315, 21. Floyd Alvis, 11F, Alvis-15.448, 22. Sparky Howard, 3, Howard-15.525, 23. Bill Lindsey, 8, Lindsey-15.547, 24. Michael Donaldson, 9, Donaldson-16.056, 25. Rick Holbrook, 46, Holbrook-16.067.

FIRST HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Gardner, 2. Dodenhoff, 3. Pierovich, 4. Pries, 5. Pankratz, 6. Alvis, 7. Holbrook. NT

SECOND HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Marcham, 2. Gard, 3. Swanson, 4. Cook, 5. Bock, 6. Howard. NT

THIRD HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Chivello, 2. Simas, 3. Conterno, 4. Dolacki, 5. Lindsey, 6. McQueen. NT

FOURTH HEAT: (8 laps) 1. Schutte, 2. Blondel, 3. Nichols, 4. Donaldson, 5. Williams, 6. Ennis. NT

FEATURE: (50 laps) 1. Ronnie Gardner, 2. Trey Marcham, 3. Taylor Simas, 4. Sean Dodenhoff, 5. Scott Pierovich, 6. Cody Swanson, 7. Brian Gard, 8. Alex Schutte, 9. Randi Pankratz, 10. Rick Cook II, 11. Chad Nichols, 12. Nick Chivello Jr., 13. Sparky Howard, 14. Barry Pries Jr., 15. Tyler Dolacki, 16. Bill Lindsey, 17. Floyd Alvis, 18. J.R. Williams, 19. Rick Holbrook, 20. Shannon McQueen, 21. Britton Bock, 22. Chris Ennis, 23. Jarid Blondel, 24. Gary Conterno, 25. Michael Donaldson. NT

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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-4 Pierovich, Laps 5-50 Gardner.

NEW HONDA USAC WESTERN MIDGET DIRT POINTS: 1-Marcham-388, 2-Gardner-380, 3-Blondel-212, 4-Pierovich-208, 5-Schutte-204, 6-McQueen-203, 7-Ennis-186, 8-Dodenhoff-167, 9-Dolacki-155, 10-Ricky Shelton-147,

NEW HONDA USAC WESTERN MIDGET POINTS: 1-Marcham-388, 2-Gardner-380, 3-Blondel-375, 4-Nichols-325, 5-Schutte-257, 6-Pierovich-247, 7-McQueen-203, 8-Chivello-201, 9-Ennis-186, 10-Dodenhoff-167.

NEXT HONDA USAC WESTERN MIDGET DIRT RACE: August 30-31 – Calistoga (CA) Speedway