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July 16,
2004 – Tenino, WA. …Beautiful weather and 28 United States
Auto Club Western States sprint cars invaded South Sound Speedway
Friday night. At the conclusion of the 40-lap feature event Michael
Lewis, the defending series champion stood in the winner’s circle
after a non-stop drive on the 3/8’s-mile paved oval. “To come here to tonight and win is great”,
said Lewis to RSBN.net’s Larry Jobe. “Lapped traffic here is
hard; I almost had to get a little rude. I thought at any time the
lead could go away. It is easy to overshoot the corner, and I was
committed to the bottom but we were tight which made it
difficult.” 17 year-old Michael Trimble shared the front
row with Chad Nichols for race number five in the fifteen event 2004
series. Trimble jumped into turn one with lead but drifted high and
surrendered his advantage to Nichols. Nichols lead was short-lived
as Lewis made a move on lap two in turn one to quickly snare the
point. From that moment, Lewis dominated, lapping up to ninth place
in the caution free event. Driving one of three Western Speed Racing
sprinters entered, Lewis was nothing short of amazing, splitting
cars, and driving away from Nichols and the rest of the field. Lewis had an extremely close call on lap 21
when Greg Anderson slipped sideways in turn three directly in front
of Lewis’ Eagle / Wes-Mar #40. Lewis checked up, and although
Nichols closed in on his rear nerf, Lewis was able to hold the lead.
Nichols finished as the runner-up with Trimble
ending up third. Tony Hunt started fifth and finished fourth, with
Greg Taylor rounding out the top-five. 21 year-old lady racer, Destiney Hays of Oroville, CA.
recovered from a heat race incident to garner the hard-charger
award. In her fifth start on pavement, Hays started 22nd
and finished 13th without the aid of a caution flag. Robert Beck, Alan Goetz, and Rick Brown were
heat winners. Brian
McClish won the B-Main. Greg
Taylor was the quick-qualifier. Sprint car qualifying:
Heat #1 – 10 Laps. 1.
Brown, 2. Walker, 3. Hendrix, 4. Bumgarner, 5. Taylor, 6. McClish,
7. Anderson, 8. Petersen Heat #2 – 10 Laps. – 1. Goetz, 2. Nichols,
3. Deaver, 4. Newman, 5. Hunt, 6. Thomas, 7. Hogg, 8. Geisler Heat #3 – 10 laps – 1. Beck, 2. Roberts, 3.
Dubois, 4. Murgoitio, 5. Lewis, 6. Trimble, 7. Mitchell, 8. Hays Semi: 1. McClish, 2. Geisler, 3. Trimble, 4.
Anderson, 5. Thomas, 6. Hays, 7. Mitchell FEATURE: (40 laps) 1. Michael Lewis, 2. Chad Nichols, 3.
Michael Trimble, 4. Tony Hunt, 5. Greg Taylor, 6. Brian McClish, 7.
Craig Deaver, 8. Mike Murgoitio, 9. Brad Bumgarner, 10. Axel Walker,
11. Michael Newman, 12. Randy DuBois, 13. Destiney Hays, 14. Mike
Roberts, 15. Brian Geiszler, 16. Rick brown, 17. Robert Beck, 18.
Shauna Hogg, 19. Tony Thomas, 20. Allen Goetz, 21. Greg Anderson,
22. Rick Hendrix, 23. Marvin Mitchell. NT FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Lap 1 Nichols, Laps 2-40
Lewis. |
