Camping World Series West results

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No radio, no problem.
Eric Holmes won the season-opening NASCAR Camping World Series West race at All-American Speedway in Roseville on Saturday night, leading all 153 laps and surviving a green-white-checkered flag finish.
Holmes won the race for his new team, Bill McAnally Racing, in their new cars from Toyota.
It also gave Holmes back-to-back wins in the West Series. He won the Toyota All-Star Showdown at Irwindale Speedway driving a car owned by Allen Beebe in November.
"I knew I had to get the lead early," said Holmes, driver of the No. 20 Toyota for Bill McAnally Racing. "The cars are real difficult to drive for four or five laps, especially on cold tires and low air pressure. So, I knew I had to feel it out at first. It felt good and I got by him. All the restarts were difficult. I just wanted to get racing. I knew I could drive away, if we could get racing."
Holmes spent most of the race without radio contact with his team. He could hear them, but they couldn't hear him.
"It was annoying on my part, because I couldn't hear a lot of times," said Holmes, a driver from Escalon. "There was frequent static. They couldn't understand me. Once I figured out I could hear them, I just needed them to talk to me, so I knew they were there. You don't have much time to look in your mirror here to know what's around you. I didn't want to spin myself out. You don't know when somebody's on you. So, it makes it tough."
The next event on the schedule for the NASCAR Camping World Series West is the Phoenix 150 at Phoenix International Raceway on April 10.
Mayhew, from Atascadero, was second, followed by defending West Series champion Mike David of Modesto, Johnny Borneman of Ramona and Moses Smith of Tempe, Ariz.

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