Bergman Bags Top Spot in Rod End Supply Winged 360 Power Rankings – See the Top 250!

The Wheatley Chronicles – Volume III, No. 87

Lonnie Wheatley, TULSA, Okla. (December 17, 2015) – When Jason Johnson made the move to the World of Outlaw ranks, the Rod End Supply Winged 360 Sprint Car Power Rankings throne had been vacated.

With the top spot up for grabs, an epic battle for the number one ranking ensued over the course of the 2015 season between Seth Bergman, Justin Sanders and Aaron Reutzel.

And when the final checkered flag finally flew, it was Snohomish, Washington, native Seth Bergman emerging atop the charts as the new number-one ranked driver in Rod End Supply Winged 360 Sprint Car Power Rankings.

Bergman took the top spot by 68 points over Sanders with Reutzel another 36 points back in third.

Taking in a majority of the ASCS National slate while also mixing in a variety of other events, Bergman tallied up 13 overall feature wins with Chico’s Silver Cup, Riverside’s Rock ‘N Roll 50, the Eagle Nationals and Skagit’s Summer Nationals among his triumphs.

In the Golden State, Prunedale’s Sanders put together a monster season with 20 feature wins that led to track titles at Ocean Speedway and Marysville Raceway Park and a runner-up finish in Civil War points.

Mixing in some 410-ci action along the way, Clute, TX, shoe Reutzel picked off ten wins in the 360-ci ranks while capturing his first career ASCS National championship.

Albuquerque native Johnny Herrera picked off nine overall wins to rank fourth and stands as the only driver to rank among the top five over each of the past three years after ranking second in 2013 and then fifth in 2014.

Oklahoma City native and current Knoxville resident Wayne Johnson rounds out this year’s top five with a handful of wins.

Pennsylvania’s Mark Smith is sixth with Arkansas’ Derek Hagar, California’s Andy Forsberg, Ontario’s Mitch Brown and California’s Shane Golobic rounding out this year’s top ten.

Herrera is the only driver to rank among the top ten over each of the past three years while Sanders, Smith, Hagar, Brown and Golobic all finished among the final top ten for the first time.

The Winged 360 Power Rankings are presented by Rod End Supply, which offers a wide assortment of rod ends, radius rods, and specialty products that fit the needs of anyone involved in all variety of auto racing and performance related industries including farming equipment. More information regarding Rod End Supply is available at www.rodendsupply.com.

The Rod End Supply Winged 360 Sprint Car Power Rankings are a part of the Open Wheel Power Rankings that also includes STIDA Winged 410s, Infinity Shocks Non-Wing 410s, Beaver Stripes Non-Wing 360s, www.midgetmadness.com Midgets and 305s presented by Dodge City Raceway Park. Bobby Clark topped the 305 portion and R.J. Johnson was best in the Non-Wing 360 ranks with the final standings for the remaining divisions to be released in the coming days.

Official Sprint Car Power Rankings apparel featuring the top five in each division is available for purchase at http://thg-media.myshopify.com/collections/apparel.

A look at this year’s Top 250 in Rod End Supply Winged 360 Sprint Car Power Rankings is as follows:

Features Completed: 645 (676 in 2014, 687 in 2013)

Number of Different Winners: 237 (265 in 2014, 257 in 2013)

Number of Drivers to Earn Points: 828 (867 in 2014, 869 in 2013)

A part of the recurring “The Wheatley Chronicles” series of articles on www.sprintcarmania.com, the Open Wheel Power Rankings are determined by cumulative points based on a sliding scale dependent upon car count at Sprint Car and Midget events across all sanctions and non-sanctions throughout North America.

The Wheatley Chronicles brings insight and highlights from all variety of racing series throughout the nation in 2015 and beyond along with the Open Wheel Power Rankings on a regular basis. Please send any comments, questions or advertising inquiries regarding The Wheatley Chronicles at www.sprintcarmania.com to Lonnie Wheatley at lonniewheatley@gmail.com.

(Photo courtesy of Casey Jones)