Tony Hunt wins USAC Western Sprint Car Series race at Irwindale

Tony Hunt from Lincoln won the USAC Western Sprint Car Series race at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale, taking the lead from Audra Sasselli from Visalia on lap 31 of the 40-lap race.
It was Hunt’s third win in the USAC Western Classic Racing Series. He won at Madera Speedway in April and again in June.
Hunt entered the race as the leader in the Western Sprint Car Series and the Western Classic Sprint Car Series standings.
Sasselli finished second after Cody Gerhardt was penalized for jumping the final restart of the race. Tim Skoglund from Fresno was third. Gerhardt was dropped to fourth.
Brodie Kostecki, a 13-year-old Australian who is living in Madera, won the USAC Midget Ford Focus Midget race. He was a double winner at Irwindale, taking the USAC Young Guns race as well.
Jessica Clark, a senior at Westlake High School, was second in the Ford Focus Midget race. She leads the USAC Ford Focus Midget Western Pavement standings.
Paul Graham was third in the Ford Focus Midget race after Shawn Buckley was disqualified.
Connor Cantrell of Valencia won the NASCAR Super Trucks race, his second in a row. He passed Ryan Partridge of Rancho Cucamonga on the last lap of the race and extended his lead in the Super Trucks standings at the track.
Partridge finished second, his third runner-up finish of the season. He trails Cantrell by 10 points in the Super Trucks standings after 11 races.
Todd Cameron of Monrovia was third.
Devon Ostheimer from Morgan Hill won the S2 stock car race, his second of the season. He has raced only the times in the S2 stock car class and has not finished worse than second.
Andrew Anderson of Lancaster, the leader in the S2 standings at the track, was second. It was his fourth runner-up finish in eight S2 races.
Andrew Porter of La Verne was third and is in second place in the S2 standings, 18 points behind Anderson.
Daryl Scoggins of Sunland won the NASCAR Mini Stocks race. It was his third win of the season. He leads the Mini Stocks standings at Irwindale after seven races.
Robby Hornsby of Yucaipa, making only his second start of the season in the Mini Stocks, was second. Kevin Bernhardt from Fontana was third.

Jessica Clark pulls double duty at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale

Jessica Clark, a senior at Westlake High School, leads the USAC Ford Focus Midgets Western Pavement standings by 199 points.
She raced in the USAC Ford Focus Midget and S2 stock cars races at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale on Saturday night.

NASCAR Toyota All-Star Showdown canceled

The NASCAR Toyota All-Star Showdown attracted the best young and developmental drivers in the country. Joey Logano, David Gilliland, Brian Ickler and Travis Pastrana have raced in the Showdown to sell-out crowds on national TV.
But not even the allure of promising NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers, sell outs and television exposure could keep the All-Star Showdown alive.
The All-Star Showdown, which was scheduled to run in January 2012 at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale, was canceled on Wednesday, ending eight years of exciting races.
Go to ESPNLA.com for more on the cancellation of the All-Star Showdown and the history of the races at Irwindale.

Luis Martinez breaks through with first West Series win, selected as NASCAR Next 9

Luis Martinez Jr. won the first race of his NASCAR K&N Pro Series West career at Portland International Raceway in Oregon in July. It was a bit of a surprising win considering the start to the season Martinez had.
It was also surprising because few drivers in the West Series have been able to beat Greg Pursley this season.
Martinez, a 21-year-old driver from Long Beach, won the 2010 West Series rookie of the year and was selected as one of the NASCAR Next 9 of up-and-coming drivers.
He has already tested the waters of the NASCAR Nationwide Series and is coming off a top-20 effort at Montreal on Saturday.
Go to the K&N website for more on Martinez and his West Series career.

Photo: Luis Martinez Jr. won the first NASCAR K&N Pro Series West race of his career at Portland International Raceway in July. (Credit: Jonathon Ferrey/Getty Images for NASCAR)

Rookie Dylan Lupton wins NASCAR Late Model race at Irwindale

Rookie Dylan Lupton of Wilton won the NASCAR Late Models race, his fourth of the season, at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale on Saturday night.
Brandon Davis of Huntington Beach, the leader in the Late Model standings at the track, was second.
The race was stopped when leader RJ Johnson of Canyon Country crashed into the turn 3 wall on lap 18. He blew a tire and the explosion ripped off the left front fender and driverside door panel. Johnson was not hurt in the crash, but he had to withdraw from the race.
Larry Cerquettini of Redlands was third and recorded his first podium finish in the Late Models.
Chad Schug of Oak Hills won the Legends Cars race and took over the lead in the Legends Cars standings at the track. It was his sixth win of the season.
Schug and Brent Scheidemantle of Alta Loma came into the race tied for the lead in the Legends Cars standings. Schug has a slight two-point lead after winning.
Scheidemantle was second in a crash-filled race. Cory Miles crashed into the turn 1 foam barrier in one of the more violent wrecks. He was able to walk away from the crash.
Darren Amidon of Alpine finished third.
Austin Grabowski won the open comp race. He was followed by Joe Anderson of Valencia in second and Jim Schoening of San Diego in third.
Richard Smith of Los Angeles won the Drive Tech Late Models race. Christopher Evans of San Bernardino was second and David Sear of La Jolla was third.
Eric Sunness of Chatsworth won the NASCAR Super Stocks race and Curtis White of Norwalk took over the lead in the Super Stocks standings at the track.
Sunness won his second race of the season, but he has missed two races. White was the runner-up and passed Rich DeLong III of Santa Clarita for the lead in the Super Stock standings. White has a four-point lead over DeLong after eight races.
Zack Green of Long Beach was third.
Brandon Weaver of Baker won the Bandoleros race, his third in a row. Weaver passed for the lead on the final lap a green-white-checkered flag finish.
Ricky Schlick of Claremont was second, followed by Austin Farr of Lomita in third.

Dylan Kwasniewski wins second straight NASCAR West Series race

Dylan Kwasniewski won his second NASCAR K&N Pro Series West race in a row, leading 99 laps at Montana Raceway Park on Saturday night.
Kwasniewski became the youngest driver, at 16 years, two months, to win a NASCAR K&N Pro Series race last week at Colorado National Speedway.
The driver from Las Vegas took the lead from pole winner and Gene Price Motorsports teammate Greg Pursley on lap 52 of the Toyota/TTC 150 in Montana. He was out front for the final 48 caution free laps.
Pursley extended his lead in the West Series standings with a fourth-place finish.
Go to the K&N website for more on the West Series race at Montana.

Photo: Dylan Kwasniewski, a 16-year-old driver from Las Vegas, won the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West race at Montana Raceway Park, his second in a row. (Credit: Jonathan Ferrey/Getty Images for NASCAR)

Austin Barnes of Escondido wins Lucas Oil Modified Series race at Irwindale

Austin Barnes of Escondido, a junior at Escondido High School, won the Lucas Oil Modified Series race, his second of the season and his second in a row at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale.
The 16-year-old Barnes won the Modified Series race at Irwindale on June 4 and has posted four top-five finishes in six races.
Chris Gerchman of Moreno Valley was second, followed by Jim Mardis of Moreno Valley in third.
Mardis leads the Modified Series after six races. He won the race in Las Vegas on May 14 and has not finished outside the top five all season.
Rod Johnson of Canyon Country, the 1999 Super Late Model track champion at Irwindale, finished sixth.
RJ Johnson of Canyon Country won the NASCAR Super Late Models race, his fourth in a row. Johnson has won six of the seven Super Late Model races at Irwindale.
Kevin Thompson of Conroe, Texas, was second, followed by Race Liberante of Quartz Hill was third.
Connor Cantrell of Valencia won his first NASCAR Super Trucks race of the season and extended his lead in the Super Trucks standings.
Cantrell led from the pole until a crash on lap 38 set up a green-white-checker flag finish. Cantrell lost his lead to Ryan Partridge of Rancho Cucamonga on lap 39, but crossed the finish line a fraction of a second ahead of Partridge on the final lap of the race.
Cantrell has an eight-point lead over Partridge, the reigning Super Trucks champion, after 10 races.
Todd Cameron of Monrovia finished third in the race.
Andrew Anderson of Lancaster won the S2 stock car race, passing Devon Ostheimer of Morgan Hill during a green-white-checker flag finish.
Andreson extended his lead in the S2 stock car standings over Andrew Porter of La Verne.
Ostheimer finished second, followed by Joe Anderson of Valencia in third.

Rookie Dylan Kwasniewski wins NASCAR West Series race at Colorado

Rookie Dylan Kwasniewski broke three records in winning the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West race at Colorado National Speedway.
He became the youngest driver to win a K&N Pro Series race in either the West or East series.
At 16 years, two months, he was younger than Joey Logano, who won his first West Series race at 16 years, 10 months.
He is younger than Darrell Wallace Jr., who was the youngest driver to win an East Series race at 16 years, five months.
For good measure, he became the youngest driver to win a pole in a West Series race, besting the mark set by Spencer Clark in 2006.
Go to the K&N website for more on Kwasniewski's record-setting run at Colorado National Speedway.

Photo: Dylan Kwasniewski won the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West race at Colorado National Speedway and became the youngest driver to win a West Series race. (Credit: Justin Edmond/Getty Images for NASCAR)

Pursley, Martinez in NASCAR Hunter Index top 10

NASCAR K&N Pro Series West driver Greg Pursley has been the only driver to be in every NASCAR Hunter Index this year. He won the West Series race at Evergreen Speedway in Washington and comes in at No. 7 in the Hunter Index for August.
Pursley has won six West Series races and has a commanding lead in the West Series standings.
Luis Martinez Jr., a driver from Long Beach, won the West Series race at Portland International Raceway, the first of his career, and cracked the Hunter Index top 10 for the first time this year. He was ranked No. 8.
Even Brandon Davis, a driver from Huntington Beach racing NASCAR Late Models at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale, earned an honorable mention in the Hunter Index for July.
Go to NASCAR Home Tracks for the entire Hunter Index for August.