1ST USAC VICTORY FOR JACE VANDERWEERD COMES AT SANTA MARIA

Santa Maria, CA……..Jace VanderWeerd of Visalia, Calif. earned his first USAC feature triumph Saturday night at Santa Maria Speedway, leading wire-to-wire in his VanderWeerd Construction/Mid Valley Pipe & Supply Maxim/Lawrence to take the 30-lap USAC West Coast 360 Sprint car main event. Davey Pombo finished second ahead of Richard VanderWeerd, series point leader Craig Stidham and Jared Little.



USAC WEST COAST 360 SPRINT CAR SERIES RACE RESULTS: June 26, 2010 – Santa Maria, California – Santa Maria Speedway


 


QUALIFICATIONS: 1. T.J. Smith, 14, LeGras-14.838; 2. Craig Stidham, 3S, Stidham-15.075; 3. Richard VanderWeerd, 10, VanderWeerd-15.105; 4. Davey Pombo, 3, Bowman-15.117; 5. Justyne Hamblin, 8, JH-15.135; 6. Jared Little, 25, Little-15.218; 7. Jimmy Thompson, 71R, Eames-15.250; 8. Jace VanderWeerd, 88, VanderWeerd-15.327; 9. Geoffrey Strole, 09S, Strole-15.490; 10. Jeff Culver, 71C, Culver-15.675; 11. Bill Jones, 16J, Jones- 15.890; 12. Koen Shaw, 88K, Shaw- 15.952; 13. Marty Hawkins, 3M, Hawkins-16.083; 14. Ricky Kirkbride, 87, Van Meter- 16.278; 15. Jon Harshbarger, 5K, Knopf- 16.840; 16. Ron Menane, 35D, DeMott- 17.350; 17. Brian Weber, 71X, Culver-17.353; 18. Adam Frith-Smith, 62, Frith-Smith-NT; 19. Ludvig Solberg IV, 13, Solberg-NT.


 


FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Pombo, 2. Smith, 3. Culver, 4. Hawkins, 5. Thompson, 6. Solberg, 7. Menane. NT


 


SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. J.VanderWeerd, 2. Stidham, 3. Hamblin, 4. Kirkbride, 5. Jones, 6. Weber. NT


 


THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Little, 2. R.VanderWeed, 3. Shaw, 4. Strole, 5. Harshbarger. NT


 


FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Jace VanderWeerd, 2. Davey Pombo, 3. Richard VanderWeerd, 4. Craig Stidham, 5. Jared Little, 6. Jimmy Thompson, 7. T.J. Smith, 8. Ricky Kirkbride, 9. Jeff Culver, 10. Geoffrey Strole, 11. Bill Jones, 12. Koen Shaw, 13. Marty Hawkins, 14. Brian Weber, 15. Jon Harshbarger, 16. Ron Menane, 17. Justyne Hamblin, 18. Ludvig Solberg IV. NT


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FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-30 J. VanderWeerd.


 


NEW USAC WEST COAST 360 SPRINT POINTS: 1-Stidham-713; 2-Pombo-655; 3-Smith-592; 4-Hamblin-552; 5-Peter Murphy-503; 6-Rusty Carlile-473; 7-J.VanderWeerd-450; 8-Danny Faria Jr.-440; 9-R.VanderWeerd-394; 10-Chris Ennis-397.


 


NEXT USAC WEST COAST 360 SPRINT RACE: July 17 – Hanford, CA – Giant Speedway