Dry slick.................................. That's how it ended, but this DS hater saw some great raicng tonight. Interspersed between 70 late models was some good CRA racing. The heats were racy with a low groove and a slick high one. The semi was action all over the place with lots of slide jobs and positioning to make the main. Garrett Hansen got the last spot with some over his head stuff, but it worked. In the main, Tony Jones started 7th and blew up top to take the lead on lap six and ran thru the middle of the blackness for his first win this season. Great job with Damion Gardner on his tail the whole race, it was fun. The pack had a lot of action with J J Yeley in Tony Smiley's new blue car coming from the back of his heat and the semi to make the main then the back of theree to get third. An awesome display, but the Cowboy was the news of the day.
USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: March 8, 2007 – Las Vegas, Nevada – Las Vegas Motor Speedway - “Las Vegas Dirt Classic”
QUALIFICATIONS: 1. Mike Spencer, 50, Chaffin-17.062; 2. Levi Jones, 38T, Crossno-17.281; 3. Tony Jones, 4, Alexander-17.317; 4. Darren Hagen, 7, Preistley-17.369; 5. Chris Windom, 17x, Windom-17.390; 6. Scotty Weir, 38, Crossno-17.390; 7. Rickie Gaunt, 94, Keller-17.459; 8. Brian Tyler, 11, Wilkerson-17.624; 9. Cory Kruseman, 21k Kruseman-17.633; 10. Damion Gardner, 71, Leffler-17.656; 11. Rip Williams, 3, Jory-17.738; 12. Robert Ballou, 81, MPHG-17.817; 13. Danny Sheridan, 18, Kittle-17.876; 14. Garrett Hansen, 70, Hansen-17.922; 15. Jesse Hockett, 2az, Massey-17.967; 16. Charles Davis Jr., 12az, Massey-18.050; 17. Josh Wise, 67, Kunz-18.086; 18. Dustin Morgan, 67k, Kunz-18.135; 19. Casey Shuman, 42, Cheney-18.183; 20. Josh Ford, 73, Ford-18.260; 21. Rodney Argo, 19, Argo-18.281; 22. Jeremy Sherman, 75a, Sourant-18.361; 23. Mat Neely, 21, Dorathy-18.407; 24. Nadine Keller, 16, Keller-18.533; 25. Tyler Brown, 34, Brown-18.586; 26. Matt Stewart, 85, Stewart-18.600; 27. Jason York, 25n, York-18.621; 28. Tony Everhart, 55, Everhart-18.655; 29. Blake Miller, 75, Stansberry-18.711; 30. J Hicks, 66, Miller-18.721; 31. David Cardey, 83, Crossno-18.745; 32. Michael Trimble, 21T, Kruseman-18.806; 33. Matt Rossi, 02, Rossi-18.821; 34. Brian Camarillo, 22c, CamLand-18.876; 35. Alex Schutte, 21x, Kruseman-18.884; 36. Jimmy Crawford, 51, Crawford-19.020; 37. Tom Stansberry, 75T, Stansberry-19.248; 38. R.J. Johnson, 15, Martin-24.001; 39. J.J. Yeley, 2a, Smiley-NT.
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Sheridan, 2. Brown, 3. Windom, 4. Wise, 5. Spencer, 6. Argo, 7. Rossi, 8. Miller, 9. Stansberry, 10. Kruseman. NT
SECOND HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Sherman, 2. Gardner, 3. L.Jones, 4. Weir, 5. Hansen, 6. Morgan, 7. Hicks, 8. Camarillo, 9. Stewart. NT
THIRD HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Gaunt, 2. Neely, 3. Shuman, 4. T.Jones, 5. Yeley, 6. Hockett, 7. Schutte, 8. York, 9. Williams, 10. Cardey. 3:17.80
FOURTH HEAT: (10 laps) 1. Ballou, 2. Trimble, 3. Ford, 4. Hagen, 5. Crawford, 6. Tyler, 7. Davis, 8. Everhart, 9. Keller. 3:20.54
SEMI: (12 laps) 1. Davis, 2. Yeley, 3. Spencer, 4. Williams, 5. Kruseman, 6. Hansen, 7. York, 8. Crawford, 9. Cardey, 10. Argo, 11. Morgan, 12. Miller, 13. Tyler, 14. Stansberry, 15. Rossi, 16. Stewart, 17. Keller, 18. Schutte, 19. Hockett, 20. Hicks, 21. Everhart, 22. Camarillo. NT
FEATURE: (30 laps) 1. Tony Jones, 2. Damion Gardner, 3. J.J. Yeley, 4. Darren Hagen, 5. Scotty Weir, 6. Danny Sheridan, 7. Jeremy Sherman, 8. Mike Spencer, 9. Rip Williams, 10. Cory Kruseman, 11. Case Shuman, 12. Josh Wise, 13. Rickie Gaunt, 14. Garrett Hansen, 15. Mat Neely, 16. Tyler Brown, 17. Michael Trimble, 18. Josh Ford, 19. Levi Jones, 20. Robert Ballou, 21. Chris Windom, 22. Charles Davis Jr. NT
**Davis flipped at the start of the feature.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Laps 1-5 Gaunt, Laps 6-30 Jones.
NEW USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR POINTS: 1-Jones-316; 2-Spencer-264; 3-Williams-258; 4-Hagen-246; 5-Gaunt-228; 6-Weir-221; 7-Sheridan-218; 8-Gardner-200; 9-Hansen-182; 10-Kruseman-153.
NEXT USAC/CRA SPRINT CAR RACE: March 9 – Las Vegas (NV) Motor Speedway – “Las Vegas Dirt Classic”