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USAC/CRA
SPRINT CARS SATURDAY AT PERRIS AUTO
SPEEDWAY!
By Scott
Daloisio
(Perris, CA,
June 20, 2017)
This Saturday
night, June 24th, the Amsoil USAC/CRA
Sprint Car Series headlines an all open
wheel show at the “Southern California
Home of Major League Sprint Car Racing,”
Perris Auto Speedway. In addition to the
stars and cars from the West Coast’s
number one sprint car series, The PAS
Senior & Young Gun Sprint Cars will also
be on the program. Spectator gates will
open at 5:00 PM and the first race will
begin at 7:00.
Saturday’s race will
be the fourth appearance of the USAC/CRA
race on the famous Riverside County
half-mile clay oval in 2017. Richard
Vander Weerd, who was born in Upland,
raised in Chino and who now resides in
Visalia, won the season opener in early
March. Concord’s Damion Gardner, whose
43-wins lead the all-time USAC/CRA winners
list at The PAS, won the April race and
March’s Salute to Indy on Memorial Day
weekend.
5-time champion Damion Gardner of
Concord is once again leading the USAC/CRA
Series point standings. Please give photo
credit to Doug Allen.
Gardner’s
Salute to Indy Win was his 73rd in
USAC/CRA competition and is nearly double
that of the second man on the list, Mike
Spencer of Temecula. Gardner’s three wins
in 2017 have all come for car owner Mark
Alexander. Coming into the season,
Alexander had 65 wins and that was one
behind the then all-time leader, the late
Ron Chaffin. Alexander has passed Chaffin
and will be looking for win #69 on
Saturday.
In addition to all his
main event wins, Gardner also has five
USAC/CRA Series championships. That is the
same amount as arch rival Spencer. Gardner
notched his first USAC/CRA title driving
for Chaffin in the second year of the
series in 2005. He then left to race in
the USAC National Sprint Car Series in the
Midwest and Spencer took over the ride in
Chaffin’s famous red #50 car. Spencer
reeled off five straight titles in the car
from 2008-2012. Since Spencer’s last title
in 2012, Gardner has won four straight
championships for Alexander. In addition
to his four titles with Gardner, Alexander
also had a championship with Tony Jones in
2007.
Coming into Saturday’s race
at The PAS, Gardner, who led 83 of 100
laps before finishing second in a USAC
Silver Crown race in Pennsylvania last
Friday, has a 42-point lead in the
championship standings over Garden Grove’s
Brody Roa. Three weeks ago, Roa headed to
the Midwest to take on the USAC National
Sprint Car Series in Nebraska and Iowa. He
raised eyebrows around the country when he
took home a hard fought fifth-place finish
at Nebraska’s I-80 Speedway.
Spencer, recent college graduate Jake
Swanson of Anaheim and Yorba Linda’s
Austin “The Big Game Hunter” Williams of
Yorba Linda round out the top five in the
championship standings. Spencer has
settled in nicely in his first full season
for Gansen Racing. On the first weekend in
May, he ended a near two-year victory
drought with a popular win at the Ventura
Raceway.
After Saturday’s 30-lap
main event, all the USAC/CRA drivers in
the race will immediately stop on the
front straight and fans will be allowed
onto the track to get autographs and take
photos. In addition, one youngster will be
presented with an official winner’s plaque
signed by the winning driver and another
will get a Hoosier Racing Tires flag
signed by all the drivers.
In the
Senior Sprint Car class, Canyon Country
stunt man Richard McCormick thrilled the
crowd at the Salute to Indy when he passed
former Speedway Motorcycle racer John Aden
of Apple Valley to win the main event. For
drivers age 40 and over, it was Aden’s
first appearance with the senior set and
he seemed destined for victory until
McCormick screamed into the lead with less
than 10-feet to go. McCormick is the
Senior Series point leader going into
Saturday night’s race and he has a
comfortable 32-point advantage over Ed
Schwarz of Santa Fe Springs.
Alaska’s Danny Parrish, #1, and
Richard McCormick of Canyon Country battle
wheel to wheel in the PAS Senior Sprint
Car class. Please give photo credit to
Doug Allen.
First time PAS Young
Gun competitors Cody Smotherman of
Porterville and Blaze Hildebrand of Yucca
Valley showed the locals the fast way
around when they placed first and second
in The PAS Young Guns (drivers 14-25 with
no prior sprint car experience) main event
at the Salute to Indy. Despite flipping in
his heat the last time, Joel Rayborne, a
14-year-old student at West Covina High
School, leads Acton college student Hannah
Mayhew by a mere four points in the fight
for the Young Gun championship.
Despite this flip at The PAS on
Memorial Day Weekend, 14-year-old West
Covina High student Joel Rayborne leads
The PAS Young Gun point standings. Please
give photo credit to Doug Allen.
Adult tickets for Saturday’s race are
$25.00. Seniors 65 and older get in for
$20.00. Active military members with
proper id, teens 13-18 with their school
id and gets age 6-12 get in for $5.00.
Children 5 and under are free. Parking on
the fairgrounds is $8.00.
Advanced
tickets for Saturday’s event are available
24-hours a day by calling 1-800-595-4849
or online at
http://pas.tix.com/Event.aspx?EventCode=922977.
For those who do not wish to purchase
advance tickets, there will be plenty of
tickets available for everyone at the
ticket window on Saturday.
Amsoil
USAC/CRA Point Standings 1. Damion
Gardner – Concord, CA – 408 2. Brody
Roa – Garden Grove, CA – 366 3. Mike
Spencer – Temecula, CA – 342 4. Jake
Swanson – Anaheim, CA – 335 5. Austin
Williams – Yorba Linda, CA – 277 6.
Cody Williams – Yorba Linda, CA – 272
7. Logan Williams – Yorba Linda, CA – 254
8. Richard Vander Weerd – Visalia, CA –
216 9. Chris Gansen - Verdemont
Heights, CA - 212 10. Tommy Malcolm –
Corona, CA – 183
PAS Senior Sprint
Point Standings 1. Richard McCormick –
Canyon Country, CA - 188 1. Ed Schwarz
– Santa Fe Springs, CA - 156 3. Danny
Parrish – Fairbanks, AK - 155 4. Rick
Hendrix - Palmdale, CA - 125 5. Mike
Trottochau - Acton, CA – 123
PAS
Young Gun Sprint Car Point Standings 1.
Joel Rayborne – West Covina, CA – 170
2. Hannah Mayhew – Acton, CA - 166 3.
Daniel Anderson - Venice, CA – 114 4.
Trinton Sparks – Bakersfield, CA - 99
5. Gary Marshall Jr. – Pomona, CA – 97
Perris Auto Speedway wants to thank
its corporate partners for the 2017
season. All Coast Construction, Amsoil,
Ayers Hotel and Spa, Brass and Bass
Firearms & Fishing Supplies, Budweiser,
Bud’s Tire Pro, Center Point Church,
Champion Towing, City of Perris, Country
Values Magazine, Daytona Boat & RV
Storage, Ed Moore Bullet Proof Driveshaft,
Edelbrock, Flowdynamics, Full Throttle
Scissor Lift Rental, Green Sheet, HD
Industries, Hoosier Tires, Indiana Truck
Salvage, K&N Engineering, Living Water’s
Hospice, Luke’s Transmission, Moreno
Valley Magazine of Values, Paul Oil
Company, Pepsi-Cola, Pick-A-Part Auto
Salvage, Pole Position, PrintItNow.com,
Scott Sales, Shaver Specialties, Square H,
Sunstate Equipment, Swedish Speed,
Original Tommy’s Burgers, Trench Shoring,
Valley News, Vista Paint and Weedmaps.
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Video and DVD productions of open wheel
racing events at Perris Auto Speedway are
available from Loudpedal Productions. For
more information on these productions you
can contact them by calling (805)
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Perris Auto Speedway is located on the
Lake Perris Fairgrounds (home of October’s
Southern California Fair), approximately
one-hour east of Los Angeles and one-hour
North of San Diego. To get to the track,
take the 215 freeway, exit on the Ramona
Expressway and go three miles east to the
fairgrounds.
racesatthepas@aol.com
is the only authorized Internet address to
issue official media news released from
The Perris Auto Speedway or Oval
Entertainment.
2016-2017 PERRIS
AUTO SPEEDWAY SCHEDULE
June 24th
USAC/CRA Sprint Cars, PAS Senior Sprints
and PAS Young Guns
July 1st 4TH OF
JULY CELEBRATION AND FIREWORKS LKQ PICK
YOUR PART PRESENTS NIGHT OF DESTRUCTION -
Demo Cross, Figure 8's, Figure 8 Trailer
Racing, Spectator Racing, Formula-X
Autocross & CrossKarts "Power of Purple
Night" Benefiting the City of Perris Relay
For Life and The American Cancer Society
July 15th PASSCAR SERIES - Street
Stocks, Super Stocks, Factory Stocks and
IMCA Modifieds
July 22nd USAC/CRA
Sprint Cars, PAS Senior Sprints, PAS Young
Guns
July 29th LKQ PICK YOUR PART
PRESENTS NIGHT OF DESTRUCTION - Demo
Cross, Figure 8's, Figure 8 Trailer
Racing, Spectator Racing, Formula-X
Autocross & CrossKarts
August 19th
PASSCAR SERIES - Street Stocks, Super
Stocks, Factory Stocks and IMCA Modifieds
August 26th "CALIFORNIA RACERS HALL OF
FAME NIGHT" USAC/CRA Sprint Cars, PAS
Senior Sprints and PAS Young Guns,
California Lightning Sprint Cars
September 2nd LKQ PICK YOUR PART PRESENTS
NIGHT OF DESTRUCTION - Demo Cross, Figure
8's, Figure 8 Trailer Racing, Spectator
Racing, Formula-X Autocross & CrossKarts
September 9th PASSCAR SERIES - Street
Stocks, Super Stocks, Factory Stocks,
Modifieds
September 23rd "GLENN
HOWARD CLASSIC" USAC/CRA Sprint Cars, PAS
Senior Sprints and PAS Young Guns
October 7th - 15th Southern California
Fair
October 21st USAC/CRA Sprint
Cars, PAS Senior Sprints and PAS Young
Guns
October 28th PASSCAR
"Champions Night” - Street Stocks, Super
Stocks, Factory Stocks and Modifieds
November 8th Oval Nationals Practice
November 9th Budweiser Oval Nationals
“Presented by All Coast Construction"
November 10th Budweiser Oval Nationals
“Presented by All Coast Construction"
November 11th Budweiser Oval Nationals
“Presented by All Coast Construction"
NOTE; THIS SCHEDULE IS SUBJECT TO
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