Gallardo, McCarty opening night winners at Winter Meltdown XXII
Defending USRA Modified National Champion Jake Gallardo won the USRA Modified main event.
LAS CRUCES, N.M.—Its been far too long since race cars made some dust in the desert here at the Southern New Mexico Speedway but Friday night the dust drought ended with the opening night of Winter Meltdown XXII featuring USRA Modifieds and USRA Stock Cars.
In the Sun Valley Hardware USRA Stock Car 20-lap main event, Shawn McCarty took the win over Jaime Torres, Jason Josselyn, Jason Ziehl and Mark Lord.
The 30-lap main event for the USRA Modifieds, Jake Gallardo picked up where he left off last year as he held off 22nd-starting Johnny Scott for the win. Stormy Scott made a late-race pass to steal third ahead of Fito Gallardo and Ricky Thornton Jr.
"It really does feel good to finally be back here and take the win," Jake Gallardo said. "Winning here feels good. Last season was good and hopefully this one will be too."
If you missed the heart-pounding, adrenaline-pumping action of Friday's Winter Meltdown XXII show, the second night happens Saturday with gates opening at 5:30 p.m. and racing at 7:45.
Feature results:
USRA MODIFIEDS
1. (7) J17 Jake Gallardo
2. (22) 1ST Johnny Scott
3. (20) 2S Stormy Scott
4. (12) G17 Fito Gallardo
5. (17) 20RT Ricky Thornton
6. (9) 71 Philip Houston
7. (16) 9 Jimmy Ray
8. (2) 111 Bumper Jones
9. (1) 85 Austin Adams
10. (3) 85F Neal Flowers
11. (10) 28 Cory Davis
12. (8) 202 Robbie Chiles
13. (21) 6T Corky Thomas
14. (24) 131 Royal Jones
15. (18) M16 Rick Gallardo
16. (23) 17D Nick Decarlo
17. (13) 50 Ralph Adams Jr.
18. (5) 105 Billy Johnson
19. (15) 17M Roy Don Mason
20. (14) 65X Carlos Ahumada Jr.
21. (11) 43P Glen Perry
22. (4) J16 Joshua Gallardo
23. (6) 99 Terry Tipton
24. (19) 117 Toby Herring
USRA STOCK CARS
1. (2) 0 Shawn McCarty
2. (5) 44JT Jaime Torres
3. (7) 74 Jason Josselyn
4. (3) 36 Jason Ziehl
5. (4) 131 Mark Lord
6. (16) 51 Kenny Mccoy
7. (17) 44X George La Rose
8. (13) 10 John Diamond
9. (6) 11 Cliff Evrage
10. (10) 88 Nathan Smith
11. (12) 39A Tommie Armstrong
12. (1) 2 Rick Skillin
13. (11) 777 Peter Vargas
14. (14) 8 George Ross
15. (8) 0 Lloyd Turner
16. (15) 88N Chris Gutierrez
17. (9) 43 Danny Gross
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