ASA - St. Augustine Race Results from Saturday night

CLANTON WINS ASARacing.com 300 at St. Augustine Georgia native dominated from front row starting position

St. Augustine, Fla. (February 17, 2001) – Joey Clanton, the 2000 American Speed Association Rookie of the Year, took the lead on lap 121 and never relinquished it, dominating the ASA season opening race, the ASARacing.com 300 at St. Augustine Speedway on Saturday night.

Clanton of Stockbridge (GA) passed race pole sitter Johnny Sauter during a caution period and never looked back, picking up his second career ASA victory. He won last season at Memphis Motorsports Park. The team pitted once during the race to outlast all c ompetitors.

“My pit crew did an awesome job and made all the right calls tonight,” said Clanton. “We worked really hard on this car all off-season. I knew that late in the race, as long as I held my line, I could take the win.”

Clanton beat Scott Hansen to the line by 0.641 seconds. The Wisconsin veteran, Hansen, collected the 44th podium finish of his career. He came on late in the event, but couldn’t get around Clanton in the final stages.

“This is a great finish considering the fact we didn’t know a week ago that we were going to be here,” said Hansen. “I has a good race with everyone tonight. It doesn’t matter who it was though, no one had anything for Joey (Clanton). It was an overall goo d evening.”

The race was slowed by 16 cautions and featured only two lead changes in front of a standing room only crowd. Clanton’s win netted him $16,830 of the $186,000 purse.

A large accident on lap-two eliminated only two cars, but set the tone for the evening. Rookie Brian Schwartz among others got into a front stretch accident that saw Schwartz car get completely airborne before coming down into the path of oncoming cars.

The American Speed Association will now venture to the West Coast, as the series makes its first visit to the state of California on March 9-10 for the Tires.com 300 presented by BFGoodrich Tires at Irwindale Speedway in Irwindale (CA). The event is schedu led for 9 p.m. (Eastern), 6 p.m. (local) start time.

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ASA ACDelco Series ASA Racing.com 300

ST. AUGUSTINE, FLA – The unofficial results from Saturday’s $186,810 American Speed Association ACDelco Series ASA Racing.com 300 at the half-mile St. Augustine Speedway. Listed is finishing and starting position (in parenthesis), driver, make of car, laps completed and reason out, if any.

1)(2) Joey Clanton, Chevrolet, 300 2)(13) Scott Hansen, Ford, 300 3)(16) Mike Garvey, Chevrolet, 300 4)(1) Johnny Sauter, Chevrolet, 300 5)(4) Kevin Cywinski, Chevrolet, 300 6)(10) Tristan Dupuis, Pontiac, 300 7)(9) Mark Dismore, Jr., Chevrolet, 300 8)(27) Tim Taylor, Chevrolet, 300 9)(12) Butch Miller, Pontiac, 300 10)(7) Toby Porter, Chevrolet, 300 11)(21) Mike Miller, Pontiac, 300 12)(3) Gary St. Amant, Chevrolet, 300 13)(23) Johnny Spaw, Chevrolet, 298 14)(22) Chris Wimmer, Chevrolet, 298 15)(8) Ryan Hemphill, Chevrolet, 298 16)(11) Tommy Grimes, Chevrolet, 298 17)(29) Ed Brown, Chevrolet, 298 18)(20) Mike Cope, Chevrolet, 296 19)(19) Chad Wood, Ford, 293 20)(28) Glenn Allen Jr., Chevrolet, 291 21)(26) Travis Kittleson, Chevrolet, 290 22)(33) Mark Cole, Pontiac, 284 23)(24) Kenny Phillips, Chevrolet, 282 24)(34) Tully Esterline, Ford, 270 25)(25) Greg Stewart, Pontiac, 254 26)(30) Matt Sielsky, Chevrolet, 246 27)(31) Dennis Lampman, Chevrolet, 236, accident 28)(5) Pat Kelly, Chevrolet, 235, accident 29)(14) Scott Fraser, Chevrolet, 221, accident 30)(6) Ricky Carlton, Chevrolet, 220, electrical 31)(17) Scotty Lagasse Jr., Chevrolet, 152, rear end 32)(18) Doug Stevens Jr., Ford, 102, rear end 33)(32) Francesco Gaudesi, Chevrolet, 1, accident 34)(15) Brian Schwartz, Chevrolet, 1, accident

RACE STATISTICS: Time of Race: 2 hours, 27 minutes, 55.064 seconds Average Speed: 60.845 mph Margin of Victory: 0.641 seconds Lead Changes: 1 among 2 drivers Lap Leaders: Sauter, 1-120; Clanton, 121-300 Cautions: 16 for 107 seconds

Unofficial ASA ACDelco Series point standings after 1 of 20 events: 1) Clanton, 204; 2) Hansen, 185; 3) Sauter, 185; 4) Garvey, 180; 5) Cywinski, 172; 6) Dupuis, 165; 7) Dismore, 160; 8) Taylor, 155; 9) B. Miller, 150; 10) Porter, 145.