CALIFORNIA DIRT FOCUS CHAMPIONSHIP TO BE DECIDED SATURDAY; MEIER LEADS PAVEMENT DRIVERS AT ORANGE SHOW

INDIANAPOLIS – One of the season’s most torrid USAC battles will come to a
close this weekend at Ventura (Calif.) Raceway.

Californians Chase Barber of Morgan Hill and Alex Harris of Simi Valley will
end their season-long battle for supremacy in the California Ford Focus Dirt
Midget Car Series. Separated by only 37 points, Barber looks for his first
USAC title while Harris hopes to add the championship to a pair of TQ crowns
he snatched during the mid-1990s. Together, the pair has accounted for seven
wins on the circuit.

The Dirt finale comes a week after Harris and Barber fought in another title
battle – the California Ford Focus Pavement division – at Orange Show
Speedway in San Bernardino, Calif. But Jace Meier of Las Vegas made sure
they did their fighting a little further back in the field. Meier passed
Cameron Veach on Lap 38 of the 40-lap contest and led the final three laps
for his career USAC Ford Focus victory.

Veach was second, followed by Barber, Harris and fast qualifier Jeff
Sakowicz. Harris leads Audra Sasselli, who finished seventh, by 12 points
and Barber by 15 heading into the next Pavement race Oct. 15 at Irwindale
Speedway in Irwindale, Calif.


CALIFORNIA FORD FOCUS DIRT MIDGET CAR SERIES STANDINGS

1.	Chase Barber	881		6.	Keith Janca	750
2.	Alex Harris	844		7.	Cal Smith	643
3.	Audra Sasselli	812		8.	Jet Davison	640
4.	Chris Veach	787		9.	Brett Engstrom	639
5.	Robbie Whitchurch	776		10.	Cameron Veach	631

CALIFORNIA FORD FOCUS PAVEMENT MIDGET CAR SERIES STANDINGS

1.	Alex Harris	647		6.	Jace Meier	545
2.	Audra Sasselli	635		7.	Jeff Sakowicz	524
3.	Chase Barber	632		8.	Chris Veach	487
4.	Robbie Whitchurch	598		9.	Lindsay Kernohan	401
5.	Benny Moon	583		10.	Cameron Veach	388