{"id":464,"date":"2010-02-09T15:03:59","date_gmt":"2010-02-09T15:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/?p=464"},"modified":"2010-02-09T15:16:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-09T15:16:46","slug":"gardner-dominates-bubba-army-sprint-nationals-opener-at-east-bay-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/race-results\/gardner-dominates-bubba-army-sprint-nationals-opener-at-east-bay-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardner Dominates &#8220;Bubba Army Sprint Nationals&#8221; Opener at East Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-466\" href=\"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/race-results\/gardner-dominates-bubba-army-sprint-nationals-opener-at-east-bay-2\/attachment\/usac-east-bay\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-466\" title=\"USAC EAST BAY\" src=\"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/USAC-EAST-BAY-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tampa, Fla\u20262.8.10\u2026.Damion (The Demon) Gardner of Concord, Calif. took advantage of first-lap spins by both front-row starters Monday night and ended up leading all 30 laps of the 2010 Amsoil USAC National Sprint Car Series opener at East Bay Raceway Park.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Bubba Army Sprint Nationals&#8221; continue Tuesday and Wednesday nights at the third-mile dirt oval. Gardner was slated to start fourth but a spin by rookie pole starter Ricky Williams on the first lap and a subsequent spin by outside-front row starter Shane Hmiel on the restart left Shane Cottle and Gardner lined up on the revised front row.<\/p>\n<p>Gardner fought off Cottle\u2019s challenge to lead the first lap and stretched his lead in his Pace Lighting Eagle\/Shaver to a full straightaway before the field bunched up under the yellow flag at lap 23. Gardner then pulled away in the closing laps to win the race over Bryan Clauson, fast qualifier Brady Short, Cottle and Jon Stanbrough. Defending series champion Levi Jones finished seventh after starting 14th. The finish left Gardner and Clauson tied for the series point lead after the opening race.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"> <a rel=\"attachment wp-att-468\" href=\"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/race-results\/gardner-dominates-bubba-army-sprint-nationals-opener-at-east-bay-2\/attachment\/brady-short\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-468\" title=\"bRADY sHORT\" src=\"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/bRADY-sHORT-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: x-small;\"> <\/span><\/span>Brady Short sets an Automatic Track Record of 15.027 at East Bay Raceway Park When USAC opened its 2010 season on Monday night 2-8-10 Photo by Mike Horne<\/p>\n<p>AMSOIL USAC NATIONAL SPRINT CAR RACE RESULTS: February 8, 2010 \u2013 Tampa, Florida \u2013 East Bay Raceway Park &#8211; &#8220;Bubba Army Sprint Nationals&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>STATS \u2013 USAC SPRINTS &#8211; EAST BAY RACEWAY PARK \u2013 MONDAY, 2\/8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. 36 Brady Short \u2013 15.027 ATR; 2. 2B Bryan Clauson \u2013 15.115; 3. 71 Damion Gardner \u2013 15.275; 4. 10E Shane Cottle \u2013 15.395; 5. 37 Casey Riggs \u2013 15.437; 6. 4G Thomas Meseraull \u2013 15.483; 7. 11 Chris Windom \u2013 15.589; 8. 7 Caleb Armstrong \u2013 15.590; 9. 17 Shane Hmiel \u2013 15.596; 10. 53 Jon Stanbrough \u2013 15.672; 11. 11W Ricky Williams \u2013 15.809; 12. 69 Jerry Coons, Jr. \u2013 15.818; 13. 67K Dave Darland \u2013 15.828; 14. 38 Jeff Bland, Jr. \u2013 15.951; 15. 20 Levi Jones \u2013 15.982; 16. 81 Robert Ballou \u2013 16.055; 17. 24 Tracy Hines \u2013 16.128; 18. 4U Kyle Cummins \u2013 16.297; 19. 5B Justin Grant \u2013 16.303; 20. 2 Hunter Schuerenberg \u2013 16.323; 21. 1C Kent Christian \u2013 16.329; 22. 67 Henry Clarke \u2013 16.360; 23. 17B Brett Burdette \u2013 16.437; 24. 39W Alex Shanks \u2013 16.439; 25. 5 Bobby East \u2013 16.513; 26. 1X Curt Gross \u2013 17.061; 27. 22W Mike Weber \u2013 17.226; 28. 14 Eric Smith \u2013 17.415; 29. 66 Shane Wade \u2013 17.427; 30. 9X Rob Chaney \u2013 17.460; 31. 20X Frank Carlson \u2013 17.738; 32. 71S Dwayne Spille \u2013 18.154<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">1ST Heat<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2nd Heat<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">3rd Heat<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">4th Heat<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Semi<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A \u2013 Main<\/span><\/p>\n<p>(30 Laps) \u2013 1)Damion Gardner 2)Bryan Clauson 3)Brady Short 4)Shane Cottle 5)Jon Stanbrough 6)Casey Riggs 7)Levi Jones 8)Robert Ballou 9)Dave Darland 10)Shane Hmiel 11)Tracy Hines 12)Jerry Coons, Jr. 13)Henry Clarke 14)Chris Windom 15)Justin Grant 16)Kent Christian 17)Hunter Schuerenberg 18)Brett Burdette 19)Caleb Armstrong 20)Bobby East 21)Kyle Cummins 22)Ricky Williams 23)Jeff Bland, Jr. (12 Laps) \u2013 1)Casey Riggs 2) Chris Windom 3)Jon Stanbrough 4)Caleb Armstrong 5)Dave Darland 6)Brett Burdette 7)Bobby East 8)Curt Gross 9)Eric Smith 10)Rob Chaney 11)Alex Shanks 12)Shane Wade 13)Mike Weber 14)Frank Carlson 15)Dwayne Spille 16)Thomas Meseraull \u2013 1)Hunter Schuerenberg 2)Jerry Coons, Jr. 3)Robert Ballou 4)Shane Cottle 5)Caleb Armstrong 6)Alex Shanks 7)Eric Smith 8)Dwayne Spille \u2013 1)Justin Grant 2)Ricky Williams 3)Levi Jones 4)Damion Gardner 5)Brett Burdette 6)Chris Windom 7)Mike Weber 8)Frank Carlson \u2013 1)Henry Clarke 2)Bryan Clauson 3)Jeff Bland, Jr. 4)Kyle Cummins 5)Jon Stanbrough 6)Thomas Meseraull 7)Curt Gross 8)Rob Chaney \u2013 1)Shane Hmiel 2)Tracy Hines 3)Kent Christian 4)Brady Short 5)Dave Darland 6)Bobby East 7)Shane Wade 8)Casey Riggs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa, Fla\u20262.8.10\u2026.Damion (The Demon) Gardner of Concord, Calif. took advantage of first-lap spins by both front-row starters Monday night and ended up leading all 30 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"publish_to_discourse":"","publish_post_category":"","wpdc_auto_publish_overridden":"","wpdc_topic_tags":"","wpdc_pin_topic":"","wpdc_pin_until":"","discourse_post_id":"","discourse_permalink":"","wpdc_publishing_response":"","wpdc_publishing_error":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-east-bay-raceway-park","category-race-results"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":470,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464\/revisions\/470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karnac.com\/flanews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}