FARIA TAKES HANFORD 360 & POINT LEAD

Hanford, CA…….Danny Faria Jr. of Tipton, Calif. is the new point leader in USAC’s brand-new West Coast 360 Sprint Car Series after winning Saturday night’s 30-lap feature at Giant Speedway. Faria passed Davey Pombo on lap 20 and led the final 11 laps in his Dick Vanderham & Sons Dairy/DeBoer & Sons Trucking Stinger to beat T.J. Smith, Pombo, Jace VanderWeerd and Rusty Carlile. Pombo led the first nine laps, then yielded to Wes Gutierrez for the next seven. Pombo regained the lead on lap 17 but lost it to Faria three laps later. Faria owns a nine-point lead in the standings going into a March 27 race at Bakersfield Speedway.



USAC WEST COAST 360 SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: March 13, 2010 – Hanford, California – Giant Speedway


 


QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Peter Murphy, 21, Tarlton-15.290; 2. T.J. Smith, 14, Legraw-15.402; 3. Wes Gutierrez, 007, WG-15.480; 4. Garrett Ishii, 71G, Ishii-15.501; 5. Davey Pombo, 3, Bowman-15.532; 6. Danny Faria Jr., 17V, Faria-15.572; 7. Richard VanderWeerd, 10, VanderWeerd-15.573; 8. Craig Stidham, 3S, Stidham-15.642; 9. Rusty Carlile, 51, Carlile-15.691; 10. Andy Ferris, 4J, Ferris-15.746; 11. Jace VanderWeerd, 88, VanderWeerd-15.788; 12. Albert Pombo, 35, Pombo-15.833; 13. Chris Ennis, 86, Ennis-15.968; 14. Jimmy Thompson, 71R, Eames-15.990; 15. Justyne Hamblin, 8, JH-16.057; 16. Koen Shaw, 88K, Shaw-16.152; 17. Matt Day, 97, Day-16.173; 18. Steve Osborne, 9J, Osborne-16.233; 19. Dave Knott, 28, Knott-16.380; 20. Kevin Barnes, 36B, Barnes-16.456; 21. Jonathan Logan, 32, Evett/Logan-16.965; 22. Geoffrey Strole, 09S, Strole-17.042.


 


FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. R.VanderWeerd, 2. Murphy, 3. Ennis, 4. Ishii, 5. Knott, 6. Ferris, 7. Strole, 8. Shaw. NT.


 


SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Stidham, 2. J.VanderWeerd, 3. Thompson, 4. D.Pombo, 5. Smith, 6. Day, 7. Barnes. NT.


 


THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Hamblin, 2. Carlile, 3. Logan, 4. Osborne, 5. Gutierrez, 6. Faria, 7. A.Pombo. NT.


 


FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Danny Faria Jr., 2. T.J. Smith, 3. Davey Pombo, 4. Jace VanderWeerd, 5. Rusty Carlile, 6. Craig Stidham, 7. Chris Ennis, 8. Garrett Ishii, 9. Jonathan Logan, 10. Justyne Hamblin, 11. Koen Shaw, 12. Jimmy Thompson, 13. Dave Knott, 14. Kevin Barnes, 15. Geoffrey Strole, 16. Andy Ferris, 17. Matt Day, 18. Wes Gutierrez, 19. Peter Murphy, 20. Steve Osborne, 21. Richard VanderWeerd. NT


 


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**Albert Pombo flipped during the third heat.


 


FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-9 D.Pombo, Laps 10-16 Gutierrez, Laps 17-19 D.Pombo, Laps 20-30 Faria.


 


NEW USAC WEST COAST 360 SPRINT POINTS: 1-Faria-125; 2-J.VanderWeerd-116; 3-Stidham-116; 4-Ishii-100; 5-Smith-98; 6-Ennis-92; 7-Thompson-78; 8-Murphy-78; 9-Logan-77; 10-Hamblin-71.


 


NEXT USAC WEST COAST 360 SPRINT RACE: March 27 – Bakersfield (CA) Speedway