Thursday, January 12, 2012

West Coast Thursday Night Chili bowl Qualifiers


By Robert Haugh
Leading the heap of West Coast entries in Thursday’s Chili Bowl qualifying action are past Chili Bowl A-main starters J.J. Yeley (Phoenix, AZ) aboard Triple Crown Racing’s #1J Ohsweken Speedway-Rockwell Security-Hoosier Twister/Toyota, Damion “The Demon” Gardner (Concord, CA) aboard Loyet Motorsports’ #05G Vacuworx International-Loyet Landscape Maintenance Inc.-Meramec Heights Collision Center-Butler Built Professional Seat Systems-Beaver Stripes & Graphics Spike/Esslinger, Shane Golobic (Fremont, CA) aboard Doug Bock’s #26 Get Som Sports-Bicycles Inc. (Ft. Worth, TX)-Country Builders-Piners Welding Supply & Driveline Service Spike/Esslinger, Chad Boat (Phoenix, AZ) aboard Robbie & Gaye Allen’s #12B ABC Body Shop-NAPA Martin Seniour-Billy Boat Exhaust-Electromotive Spike/Esslinger and Brad Sweet (Grass Valley, CA) aboard the Kasey Kahne Racing #49X Sage Fruit-Great Clips Spike/Speedway Engines.

Yeley has six A-main starts, Gardner has four including one win, Golobic two with Boat and Sweet each with one A-Main start.

Additional West coast entries on Thursday include Travis Berryhill (American Canyon, CA) in the Manic Racing #11 Vallejo Coin Exchange-Redline Oil-Racing 2 Cure-Fairfield Inn & Suites-Advance Racing Stealth/Fontana, Pete Davis (Pleasanton, CA) in his #00 Hot Head Header-Hot Products Engineering Design Co. Stealth/Esslinger, 2011 USAC-Western States Midgets Rookie-of-the-Year Connor Kassik (Lake Havasu, AZ) aboard the Neverlift Motorsports #15K Crysalli-Manitowoc-Fruitful Juice-Prickett's Dist. TCR/Chevy, 2011 USAC West Coast 360 Sprint Car champion Richard VanderWeerd (Visalia, CA) in Mike Sala’s #19S VanderWeerd Construction-Battery Worx-Weldway Construction Spike/Sala Chevy, Rico Abreu (Rutherford, CA) aboard Keith Kunz Motorsports’ #67K Abreu Vineyards-Stadelhofer Construction-TRD-Toyota-Kwik Change Bullet/Speedway Toyota, Tim Pyle (Gresham, OR) in the Warren Pyle-Tim Pyle #71P Pacific Power Products-Perkins Pacific Spike/Brayton Chevrolet, Terry Goodwin (Laveen, AZ) in Misty Goodwin’s #2G American Building Science Services-Combs Construction Spike/Fontana, Oklahoma’s Michelle Decker in the Shannon McQueen Racing (Bakersfield, CA) #7D Waurika Truck & Tire-Carter Custom Finishes-Starrship Trucking-Simpson Race Products-Quantum Consulting Spike/Esslinger, Brian Camarillo (Camarillo, CA) in Bill Camarillo’s #22 Agromin-Unicor-Roy’s Towing-Waste Management-Open Range Spike/Fontana, P.J. Jones (Torrance, CA) in the Kruseman Motorsports #98K American Racing Wheels-Araid by PG-BMRS Spike/Esslinger and Oklahoma’s Tanner Berryhill in the Kruseman Motorsports #17K Lucas Oil-Americash Advance-Schoenfeld Spike/Esslinger.

Of the plethora of West Coast entries competing on Thursday, only Gardner and Golobic made the 2011 A-Main.
Thursday’s West Coast rookie contingent includes Ryan Bernal (Hollister, CA) aboard Tom Ford’s #72 King Racing Products-A&A Precision Machine-Berry Pack-JFM-Pacific Coast Maint. JFM/Bob Wirth, Oklahoma’s Kip Hughes aboard Mountain View, CA car owner Cliff Blackwell’s #27C blackwellmotorsports.com-Pat McVicker Oilfield Services-Cowboy Pumping Unit Sales & Repair-MAC Tools-Danny Stratton-Nick's Pumping Inc. Stealth/Gaerte Chevrolet, Rick Shuman in Dave Burkhart’s #2AZ Kaiser Alexco Aluminum-Ultimate Imports-Beadle Bug Patrol-Die Cast Cars Now Cobra/Fontana and Clint Schubert (Calhan, CO) in the George Schubert #44S Schubert's Sod-Dale's Paint-Cooper Head Road-Carquest Spike/Fontana.

To view the entire Chili Bowl entry list, visit www.chilibowl.com.

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