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August 10.......Having won
the Santa Maria Speedway feature the previous weekend, young Aaron Altaffer from
Tulare won the 30 lap Bandit unwinged 360 sprint car feature Saturday night at
Kings Speedway. With the win, Altaffer climbed into third in points as Jerome
Warmerdam ran second over Derrick Hearron. San Jose's Joe Chapman won the 20 lap
IMCA Modified feature for his first 2002 season win at the 3/8 mile clay oval.
Paul Stone ran second and Rodney Freitas used a third place finish to extend his
point lead to 3 points over fifth place finisher Brian Cass. The last of the 13
hot stocks to arrive at the track, Steve Stone Sr followed a strong run at the
previous race with wins in both his heat and the feature. Dave Bush had the
highlight run of a very disappointing season with a second ahead of Claudine
Contente. The track announced that they would be dark on August 17 due to a date
conflict with the fairgrounds use.
The 24 unwinged
sprint cars were paced in time trials by point leader Gene Manhire with a 16.075
lap. Dick Stevens surprised with second quick time of 16.124 and Greg Porte ran
a 16.142 lap. Altaffer was fourth at 16.322 and Richard Harvey Jr ripped off a
16.345 lap. Josh Davis beat Manhire and car builder Harvey in heat 1. Danny
Sheridan returned to Bandit action with a win in heat 2 over John Burnett and
Stevens. Mike Knopf won heat 3 with the Santa Maria veteran trailed by Wade
Griest and Porte. Hearron beat Altaffer in heat 4 with Davey Pombo Jr third.
Darren Simas broke in the heat action to end his night with 23 cars contesting
the 30 lapper. Altaffer won with Warmerdam second over Hearron, Manhire and
Porte. Having missed his heat race, 16 year old Ventura Raceway rookie of the
year candidate Alan Ballard ran sixth in the feature race. The Bakersfield based
driver was trailed by Stevens, Knopf, Jason Yount and Jonathan Logan. Manhire
stretched his point lead to 47 over Harvey and 101 ahead of Altaffer. Altaffer
is just 3 points ahead of Stevens.
Even with the
addition of Merced Speedway faithful Troy Stone, the IMCA Modifieds had just a
15 car turnout. P Stone won heat 1 over Freitas and Bryan Burnes. Tom Stidham
won heat 2 with Lonnie Lacy Jr second over Cass. The Watsonville based Lacy was
a feature scratch and previous week winner Gerard Filipe was also done after the
heat action. Chapman won the feature with P Stone second over Freitas, Burnes,
Cass, Jimmy Reeves, Marcus Aue and Bob Dias. With his second place run, P Stone
is now just 25 points out of first place and 16 points ahead of Burnes.
The 13 hot stocks
were divided into two heat races. Ron D'Artenay won the first with Tony Contente
second. Stone beat Bush in heat 2 with female racer Claudine Contente third.
Stone raced to a feature win ahead of Bush, C Contente, D'Artenay, J T Contente,
Paul Pelletier, Frank Molthen and T Contente. J T Contente cut Pelletier's point
lead to just 4 points with C Contente only 15 points of the point lead.
D'Artenay is just 3 points back of C Contente.
Summary
Hot Stocks
Heat 1-Ron D'Artenay, Tony Contente,
Eddie Dale, Frank Molthen, Paul Pelletier.
Heat 2-Steve Stone Sr, Dave Bush, Claudine Contente, J T Contente, Roy Hart Jr.
Main-Stone, Bush, C Contente, D'Artenay, J Contente, Pelletier, Molthen, T
Contente, Dale, Jim Reed, David Woodbridge, Chuck Nevels, Hart.
IMCA Modifieds
Heat 1-Paul Stone, Rodney Freitas,
Bryan Burnes, Joe Chapman, Troy Stone.
Heat 2-Brian Cass, Lonnie Lacy Jr, Brian Cass, Jimmy Reeves, Bob Dias.
Main-Chapman, P Stone, Freitas, Burnes, Cass, Reeves, Marcus Aue, Dias, Chad
Patterson, Tom Stidham, Andy Obertello, T Stone, Ed Nichols.
Unwinged 360 Sprint Cars
Fast Time-Gene Manhire 16.075
Heat 1-Josh Davis, Manhire, Richard Harvey Jr, Jerome Warmerdam, Matt Day.
Heat 2-Danny Sheridan, John Burnett, Dick Stevens, Patrick Frisco, Brian
Schuler.
Heat 3-Mike Knopf, Wade Griest, Greg Porte, Scott Nail, Jonathan Logan.
Heat 4-Derrick Hearron, Aaron Altaffer, Davey Pombo Jr, Dave Knott, Ray Knight.
Main-Altaffer, Warmerdam, Hearron, Manhire, Porte, Alan Ballard, Stevens, Knopf,
Jason Yount, Logan, Knott, Day, Knight, Pombo, Sheridan, Davis, Burnett, Buck
Cox, Griest, Harvey, Frisco, Schuler, Nail.
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