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LOGAN SEAVEY
WINS LIGHTNING SPRINT CAR MAIN AT HANGTOWN 100
(Upland, CA, November 19, 2021) USAC
racing star Logan Seavey made a cameo appearance
in the California Lightning Sprint Car Series/Bay
Cities Racing Association co-sanctioned “Hangtown
100” and won the 25-lap main event Thursday night
at the Placerville Speedway. The win was his first
ever in the CLS.
The fastest 12
qualifiers garnered points. The heat races used an
ASCS formula that distributed points by combining
finishing positions and passing points. When those
points were tallied up after the heats, the top
sixteen drivers went straight into the main event.
Drivers that did not accumulate enough points to
get into the top sixteen ran a twelve lap B main.
The top four finishers in the B earned the final
spots for the main event.
Seavey began the
evening on the right foot by being the fastest of
34-qualifiers with a time of 12.558 on the
quarter-mile oval. San Diego’s A.J. Bender, winner
of the “5th Annual Western States Lightning Sprint
Car Championship” at the Bakersfield Speedway on
Tuesday night, was second fastest with a lap of
12.624. Alex Lewis, who travelled south from
Bellingham, Washington for the race, was third
best in time trials with a 12.663.
Placerville regular
Scott Kinney of Citrus Heights, El Cajon
14-year-old Braden Chiaramonte, Lakeside teen
Grant Sexton and Bender captured the four, eight
lap heat races.
Modesto’s Josef
Ferolito, Placerville local Brandon Leedy,
Gardena’s Dominic Del Monte and Fargo, North
Dakota’s Cody Meyer took the four transfers in the
hotly contested B main.
For the main event,
Lewis was on the pole, and he had Seavey
alongside. Row two was made up of Sexton Gatlin
teammates Sexton and Bender. The third row
featured Chiaramonte on the inside with Levi Klatt
from Langley, British Columbia Canada next to him.
CLS teens David Gasper of Santa Barbara and
Palmdale’s Eric Greco, who were still battling for
the series championship, staffed row four.
Seavey leapt into the
lead when the green light flashed to start the
main event, but the proceedings did not get far.
Mid-pack starters Brent Sexton, and the Citrus
Heights duo of Hunter Kinney and Scott Kinney got
together on the front straight. Hunter and Sexton
flipped, and the red flag immediately replaced the
green. Except for hurt feelings, the drivers
suffered no injuries. However, all three of their
cars suffered too much damage to continue and they
were done for the night.
Once the three wrecked
cars were towed off the track, 17 cars raced to
the green flag. Seavey jumped into the lead, in
the Bullet Motorsports/El Dorado Landscaped/Adco
Driveline and Custom Exhaust/Jack Morgan
Graphics/T&G Racing #51, at the beginning over
Lewis and Bender.
Grant Sexton was fifth
at the outset and moved up to fourth on lap six.
Unfortunately, his race began to unravel on lap
ten when he bicycled going into one and slid off
the track. That resulted in a yellow flag that
sent him to the back of the pack.
The lap ten restart saw
Seavey at the point with Lewis, second and Bender
in third. Chiaramonte assumed the fourth-place
spot with Klatt in fifth. The race went four more
laps before Sexton again slid off the track in the
same spot bringing out another yellow. The top
four was the same for the restart, but the race
only got to the 15th circuit when Sexton got
upside down halting the action once more. That
proved to be the end of a very uncharacteristic
night for the driver who leads the POWRi Southwest
Lightning Series championship standings.
After the race
restarted, Bender began to attack second-place
Lewis and coming off turn two on the sixteenth go
around, he used the outside line to race by the
Pacific Northwest driver and set his sights on
Seavey. However, the race would not stay green for
long. For the second time in 48-hours, disaster
strike for fourth place running Chiaramonte on lap
18. Tuesday at Bakersfield, he was a full straight
ahead of the competition when his engine exploded
in a spectacular ball of flames. This time, on the
same lap and nearly the same spot on the track,
the teen caught a piece of the inside berm in turn
one and flipped wildly bringing out a red flag.
Fortunately, he was uninjured, but his car needed
major physical attention.
After the cleanup from
Chiaramonte’s aeronautics, Bender hung close to
Seavey for three laps, but the race long leader
eventually pulled away and as the checkered waved
over the field, he had an eight-length advantage
over Bender. Pole sitter Lewis was third with
Klatt fourth. Yucca Valley’s Jeff Dyer came all
the way from 12th to finish fifth. B main winner
Ferolito was the race “Hard Charger” finishing
seventh after starting 17th.
With two races to go in
the season, Gasper increased his point lead from
13-points to 65 over Turnbull. Greco, after his
Bakersfield fiasco, recovered with a ninth-place
finish and was just four-point shy of Turnbull.
Dyer and Bender stayed fourth and fifth.
Fans can witness
Saturday’s finale at the Placerville Speedway
which is located at 100 Placerville Drive in
Placerville (95667). The grandstands will open at
3:00 PM with racing at 6:30. The website for the
track is at the following link
https://www.placervillespeedway.com/. The office
phone is (530) 344-7592.
Fans around the world
who cannot attend the races, will be able to watch
all four live on The Flo Racing PPV site at
https://www.floracing.com/
The CLS would like to
thank 2021 series sponsors Hoosier Tires, T Shirts
by Timeless, TJ Forged Racing Wheels, and Walker
Performance Filtration. If you or your company
would like to become part of the series, please
call Alex Grigoreas at (909) 437-3170.
To keep up with the CLS
online, please visit the website at
http://racecls.com/ or on Facebook at
https://www.facebook.com/californialightningsprints
Placerville Speedway
25-Lap Main Event Finish (with starting positions)
1. Logan Seavey –
Sutter, CA – 2nd
2. A.J. Bender – San
Diego, CA – 4th
3. Alex Lewis –
Bellingham, WA – 1st
4. Levi Klatt –
Langley, BC, Canada – 6th
5. Jeff Dyer – Yucca
Valley, CA – 12th
6. David Gasper – Santa
Barbara, CA – 7th
7. Josef Ferolito -
Modesto, CA – 17th
8. Dakota Albright –
Rutherford, CA - 16th
9. Eric Greco -
Palmdale, CA – 8th
10. Brandon Leedy –
Placerville, CA – 18th
11. Dominic Del Monte -
Gardena, CA – 19th
12. Chris Crowder –
Colorado Springs, CO – 13th
13. Greg Dennett –
Fremont, CA – 14th
14. Cody Meyer – Fargo,
ND – 20th
15. Braden Chiaramonte
– El Cajon, CA – 5th
16. Grant Sexton –
Lakeside, CA – 3rd
17. James Turnbull –
Indio, CA - 15th
18 Brent Sexton –
Lakeside, CA – 9th
19. Hunter Kinney –
Citrus Heights, CA – 10th
20. Scott Kinney –
Citrus Heights, CA – 11th
Lap Leaders: Seavey
1-25
Hard Charger: Josef
Ferolito: 17th – Finish 7th
Lightning Sprint Car
Series Points
1. David Gasper ® –
Santa Barbara, CA – 1662
2. James Turnbull -
Indio – 1597
3. Eric Greco -
Palmdale, CA – 1593
4. Jeff Dyer – Yucca
Valley, CA – 1487
5. A.J. Bender – San
Diego, CA – 1225
6. Dominic Del Monte –
Gardena, CA – 1160
7. Jon Robertson -
Torrance, CA - 1046
8. Pat Kelley – Chino,
CA – 871
9. Aiden Lange -
Lakewood, CA – 815
10. Bobby Michnowicz –
Oak Hills, CA - 807
CLS/BCRA Civil War
Series Point Standings
1. Dave Gasper – CLS –
461
2. James Turnbull – CLS
– 410
3. Eric Greco – CLS –
391
4. Brandon Leedy - BCRA
– 372
5. Jeff Dyer - CLS –
337
6. Terry Bergstrom –
BCRA – 331
7. Dominic Del Monte -
CLS – 312
8. Dakota Albright -
BCRA – 306
8. Bobby Michnowicz -
CLS – 276
10. Aiden Lange – CLS -
235
2021 California
Lightning Sprint Car Series Schedule
March 13 Bakersfield
Speedway – Eric Greco
April 10 Bakersfield
Speedway – Bobby Michnowicz
April 24 Merced
Speedway (Wayne Albright Memorial - Round #1 of
the Civil War Series with BCRA – Wingless) – James
Turnbull
May 15 Bakersfield
Speedway – A.J. Bender
June 5 Ventura Raceway
– A.J. Bender
June 19 Keller Auto
Speedway (Hanford) – Postponed due to heat.
July 3 Santa Maria
Speedway – Eric Greco
July 24 Santa Maria
Speedway (Wing Madness #1) Santa Maria – A.J.
Bender
August 7 Merced
Speedway (Civil War Series #2 with BCRA – Winged)
– Dave Gasper
August 28 Ventura
Raceway – Eric Greco
September 18
Bakersfield Speedway (Civil War #3 with BCRA –
Winged) – Kevin Michnowicz
September 19 The Dirt
Track at Kern County Raceway Park – David Gasper
October 2 Ventura
Raceway – Eric Greco
October 30 Ventura
Raceway – Jeff Dyer
November 16 Bakersfield
Speedway (Civil War #4 with BCRA – Winged -
Western States Lightning Sprint Car Championship)
– A.J. Bender
November 18 Placerville
Speedway Hangtown 100 – (Co sanctioned with BCRA
and in companion with the USAC National Midgets) -
Logan Seavey
November 19 Placerville
Speedway Hangtown 100 – (Co sanctioned with BCRA
and in companion with the USAC National Midgets)
November 20 Placerville
Speedway Hangtown 100 – (Co sanctioned with BCRA
and in companion with the USAC National Midgets)
PAST CALIFORNIA
LIGHTNING SPRINT CAR CHAMPIONS
1994 Tony Everhart,
1995 Gary Sexton, 1996 Rob Sczymczak, 1997 Jon
Rahe, 1998 Chris Rahe, 1999 Brent Sexton, 2000
Greg Bragg, 2001 Greg Bragg, 2002 Greg Bragg, 2003
David Cardey, 2004 Keith Janca, 2005 Johnny Bates,
2006 Donny Gansen, 2007 Shane Rossen, 2008 Brent
Sexton, 2009 Stuart Hielschier Sr., 2010 Jarrett
Kramer, 2011 Tim Brown, 2012 Bobby Michnowicz,
2013 Stephen Limon, 2014 Bobby Michnowicz, 2015
Bobby Michnowicz, 2016 Bobby Michnowicz, 2017
Bobby Michnowicz, 2018 Jarrett Kramer, 2019
Jarrett Kramer
This press release was
produced by Scott Daloisio Sports (909) 226-7768
mailto:sdaloisiosports@gmail.com |
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