Lonnie Wheatley, PEORIA, Ariz. (November 16, 2013) – Two full nights of intense Sprint Car and Midget competition atop the 1/3-mile Canyon Speedway Park clay oval have set the stage for Saturday night’s 46th Annual Sands Chevrolet Western World Championships presented by Racers Advantage Store finale.
Eight drivers have locked into both the USAC Southwest vs. USAC West Coast Sprint Car and Honda USAC National Midget feature events with the balance of the WWC feature events to be determined in Saturday’s preliminary action that goes green at 7:00 p.m.
With several drivers pulling double-duty, the trio of Brady Bacon, Dave Darland and Bryan Clauson have already locked into both main events.
USAC Southwest vs. USAC West Coast Sprint Cars:
Eight drivers have locked into Saturday night’s Dash that will set the starting lineup for the first four rows including preliminary winners R.J. Johnson and Bryan Clauson. The balance of the field will race through a “C” Main and twin “B” Mains based on total points from heat, qualifying race and feature action on Thursday and Friday night.
Saturday lineups are as follows:
Locked into Saturday’s $7,500-to-win Western World Sprint Car feature:
77m – R.J. Johnson
20 – Bryan Clauson
99 – Brady Bacon
21 – Tracy Hines
4g – Jerry Coons, Jr.
20s – Jon Stanbrough
73 – Dave Darland
74x – Chad Boespflug
C Main (Top 8 Advance to “B” Mains; 1st, 3rd, 5th & 7th to B Main 1 and 2nd, 4th, 6th & 8th to B Main 2):
28 Jacob Hawkins – 29 Mike Bonneau
98 Matt Lundy – 12 Josh Pelkey
9s Johnny Shelton – 60 Steven Harms
5d Dalten Gabbard – 18 Dustin Cormany
12j Josh Grady – 53 Tom Lee
57x James Aragon – 02 Matt Rossi
26 Connor Kassik – 98x Joe Ramaker
First B Main (Top 7 Advance to “A” Main):
77 Casey Shuman – 16 Mike Martin
48 Thomas Ogle – 68 Gary Taylor
20 Shon Deskins – 45 Jason Grady
7m Mike Spencer – 57 Stevie Sussex
5 Tye Mihocko – 6 Ronnie Clark
8 Bob Ream, Jr. – 3x Jimmy Crawford
9 Ryan Linder – 19 Andrew Reinbold
C Main Transfer 1 – C Main Transfer 3
C Main Transfer 5 – C Main Transfer 7
Second B Main (Top 7 Advance to “A” Main):
17m Michael Colegrove – 5v Bradley Terrell
97 Kevin Thomas, Jr. – 11c Michael Curtis
9p Parker Price-Miller – 3F Geoff Ensign
21a Aaron Reutzel – 74 Colby Copeland
41w Rick Ziehl – 50 Charles Davis, Jr.
32b Brian Hosford – 2x Josh Shipley
5x Jody Wirth – 7k Bruce St. James
C Main Transfer 2 – C Main Transfer 4
C Main Transfer 6 – C Main Transfer 8
Honda USAC National Midgets:
With the full field of Midgets racing through a full card of qualifying, heat races and features on both Thursday and Friday, the top eight point earners have locked into Saturday night’s Dash that will set the feature lineup for the initial four rows.
The balance of the field will race through qualifying races that will be lined straight-up according to combined points over both nights and then a “B” Main.
Locked-in drivers include preliminary night winners Christopher Bell and Darren Hagen.
The top eight locked in drivers include:
21 – Christopher Bell
56 – Darren Hagen
99 – Brady Bacon
67k – Rico Abreu
7c – Caleb Armstrong
73 – Dave Darland
39 – Bryan Clauson
24 – Tracy Hines
Saturday’s heat races will be lined up according to points with the balance of the field in the following order:
67 – Tanner Thorson
10 – Brad Kuhn
68 – Ronnie Gardner
7 – Shannon McQueen
91T – Tyler Thomas
57 – Mike Spencer
9p – Parker Price-Miller
51 – R.J. Johnson
3 – Chris Windom
4 – Bobby East
55 – Taylor Ferns
55x – Nick Drake
11a – Andrew Felker
7a – Dalton Armstrong
37 – Trey Marcham
5d – Zach Daum
12 – Josh Pelkey
05 – Jake Swanson
39x – Kyle Edwards
91a – Aaron Reutzel
22az – Rick Shuman
3F – Jerry Coons, Jr.
2 – Levi Roberts
1az – Stevie Sussex
2g – Terry Goodwin
Single day tickets are $25 for Saturday’s Western World Championships finale.
Detailed Western World Championships ticket information and pricing is available at http://www.canyonspeedwaypark.com/tickets/the-45th-annual-western-world-championships/.
Tickets may be ordered by calling the track at 602-258-RACE (7223).
Canyon Speedway Park is located in north Peoria, AZ, off Lake Pleasant Parkway, then 1.3 miles west on Carefree Highway. For more information, contact the track at 602-258-RACE (7223) or check online at www.canyonspeedwaypark.com.
- Admin Account on Nov 17, 2013
- Article Date: 11/17/2013 by Lonnie Wheatley