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| MARTY MILLER GETS FIRST WIN
IN TUCSON by Gary Jacob |
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Wingless 360 Sprint Cars, Dirt Modifieds and Street Stocks |
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Tucson, Az..Oct 1..The ASCA wingless 360 sprint cars made their first
visit to USA Race Park on Saturday night and 2000 series champion Marty Miller
won the 25 lap feature after earlier capturing his heat race. He started sixth
in the 23 car feature and was third on the opening lap. He had the lead on lap
8. It was his first win of 2005 and J T Imperial also enjoyed his best finish of
the year in second. Rickey Hood made a rare ASCA start and captured third ahead
of runaway point leader Jeremy Sherman. Daniel Hutto got his first dirt modified
win of 2005 and young Corey Hosler Jr chased him to the checkered flag. R C
Whitwell rounded out the top three. The street stocks also had a first time
winner as Toby Olds beat Tom Campbell and Todd Simmons. The ASCA club is spending nearly their entire season at Manzanita Speedway in 2005, but still traveled with 25 cars down to Tucson. Jay Ervine won the Arizona Race Mart Dash ahead of Sherman and Ben Gregg. The field was divided into four heat races with the top four from each advancing into the 25 lapper. Jeff Henry won the opening heat race over Mike Bonneau and Ervine. Tucson's Mike Martin outraced Josh Pelkey and Imperial in heat 2. Miller had a perfect night as he won heat 3 ahead of Gregg and Matt Rossi. Andrew Reinbold outraced Chris Bonneau and Bernie Smith in heat 4. Sherman clipped an infield tire in heat 4 and had to battle through the B Main. Phoenix radio personality Bruce St James won the B Main ahead of Bobby Boone, Sherman, young Chad Boat and Ronnie Clark. Both Clark and Art Mankel were unable to start the 25 lapper, leaving a 23 car lineup. Glendale's Miller started the feature in sixth, was third on the first lap and grabbed the top spot on lap 8. Imperial chased him across the finish line with Hood in third. Sherman battled to a fourth ahead of Gregg, Reinbold, Rossi, Boone, Ervine and Nathan High. Josh Pelkey ran 11th and is a distant second behind Sherman in the point standings. High in just 9 points in front of Henry in their duel for third in the standings. There were 25 dirt modifieds. While the Barnett Harley Davidson point window ended in September, USA Race Park is still awarded points to the division to crown a separate track champion. One race remains on Oct 22. Hutto is ranked third in points and his win left him 12 points behind Whitwell. Hosler is fourth in points, 23 behind Hutto. Whitwell's third combined with an 8th for point leader Carl Trimmer left Whitwell 17 points out of the lead. Chuck Wares continues to adapt to the dirt action and he finished fourth ahead of Brian Gardner, Dana Fite, Troy Hoey, Trimmer, Cody Cambensy, Ron Bishop, Mike Brandon and Todd Campbell. The 20 car street stock feature saw a rare back of the pack finish for runaway point leader Ted Robinson as he ran 16th. Olds win moved him into a tie for third in points with Billy Williams. Tom Campbell ran second in the feature run ahead of Simmons, Sean Teeters, Dana Boatwright, Jason Rominger, James Lemas and point runnerup Chris Dobbs. Dobbs is 66 points back of Robinson and 14 ahead of the tied duo of Olds and B Williams. Oct 8 will see an all sprint car night at the 3/8 mile clay oval as the USAC/CRA wingless 410 sprint cars visit for the first time and the track's own winged sprint car division will race with them. Summary Street Stock Dirt Modified Wingless 360 Sprint Car |
