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Richards Tops Qualifying At Mexico City

By Official Release
April 19, 2008 - 5:25pm

Mexico City – Homero Richards earned the NASCAR Mexico Series pole with the fastest qualifying time at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez road course Saturday afternoon.

Richards’ No. 20 H&H/NEXTEL Ford toured the 2.5-mile course in 1 minute, 31.244 seconds. He edged the No. 15 Citizen-FedEx Ford of Patrick Goeters (1:31.601) and the No. 5 Telcel Ford of Germán Quiroga (1:31.791).

Carlos Peralta (1:32.083) and defending series champion Rafael Martínez (1:32.132) completed the top five for Sunday’s race – the second in the NASCAR Mexico Series season. Hugo Oliveras, Carlos Contreras, Rubén Rovelo, Antonio Pérez, and Jorge Goeters rounded out the top 10.

Also Saturday, Pérez, Martínez, and José Luis Ramírez (who qualified 15th) also qualified for Sunday’s NASCAR Nationwide Series race in Mexico City. Pérez qualified 10th, Martínez 22nd, and Ramírez 29th.

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Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez

April 20, 2008 | Race 1 of 13 

Pos.	No.	Name	Country	Sponsor	Time
1	20	Homero Richards	MEX	H & H - Nextel	1:31.244
2	15	Patrick Goeters	DF	Citizen-FedEx	1:31.601
3	5	Germán Quiroga	MEX	Telcel	1:31.791
4	7	Carlos Peralta	MEX	2B Seman Racing	1:32.083
5	18	Rafael Martínez	MEX	Canel´s/Scotiabank/Tekmol	1:32.132
6	11	Hugo Oliveras	MEX	Citizen-FedEx-Monster Energy	1:32.154
7	22	Carlos Contreras	MEX	Motorcraft - Sherwin Williams	1:32.172
8	2	Rubén Rovelo	MEX	Telmex-Red Bull	1:32.243
9	1	Antonio Pérez	GDJ	Telmex-Red Bull	1:32.261
10	4	Jorge Goeters	MEX	Spartac RT	1:32.264
11	19	Freddy Tame	MEX	Canel´s/Scotiabank	1:32.287
12	6	Ricardo Pérez de Lara	MEX	Telcel	1:32.326
13	32	Pepe González	MEX	Jünker	1:32.346
14	37	Alan Wililams	MEX	Autoexpressions-Jünker-Esto	1:32.669
15	17	José Luis Ramírez (N)	MEX	Plata Motorsports	1:32.840
16	9	Oscar Ruiz	MEX	Tame Racing	1:32.938
17	64	Irwin Vences (N)	MEX	Fitz-Contreras-Vazquez	1:33.007
18	87	Luis F. Montaño	MEX	Seman Baker	1:33.123
19	10	Oscar Peralta	MEX	2B Seman Racing	1:33.140
20	25	Abraham Calderón	MEX	Ingeniería Racing Team	1:33.225
21	21	Carlos Pardo	MEX	Motorcraft Racing	1:33.283
22	42	Roberto Fernández	MEX	BX+	1:33.299
23	45	José Rivera Jr.	MEX	Marcatel Racing Team	1:33.351
24	36	Pepe Montaño	MEX	Tempo-Goodyear-Glade	1:33.463
25	49	Jorge Arteaga (N)	MEX	Plata Motorsports	1:33.463
26	30	Víctor Barrales	MEX	Gel Gomina-Mann Filter	1:33.705
27	43	Enrique Ferrer (N)	MEX	Hnos. Vazquez	1:33.802
28	28	Estefanía Reyes (N)	MEX	MotorSpeed	1:33.827
29	24	Alejandro Portillo	MEX	Pyasa-Junker	1:34.013
30	0	Rafael Vallina	MEX	Spartac RT	1:34.158
31	23	Oscar Ibarra (N)	MEX	Potosinos	1:34.380
32	16	Mike Sánchez	MEX	Promopista Racing Team	1:34.485
33	97	Carlos Anaya	MEX	La Costeña - CDM	1:34.590
34	38	Jorge Seman	MEX	Seman Baker	1:35.110
35	35	Jonathan Briseño	MEX	Atosa Competition Team	1:35.339
36	40	Victor Urbina (N)	MEX	BX+	1:36.045
37	27	Alejandro Pérez	MEX	Cruz Azul	1:36.068
38	01	Ricardo Maldonado (N)	MEX	GAM	1:36.100
39	55	Jorge Contreras	MEX	CEDVA Racing Team	1:37.786
40	8	Stan Culpepper	MEX	Strickland Racing	1:37.786
41	26	Jacob Rodríguez (N)	MEX	Ingeniería Racing Team	1:38.821
42	29	Raúl Galván	MEX	CEDVA Racing Team	1:39.606