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Santa Maria Speedway August 18 Recap |
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Santa Maria, CA - August 18, 2007...Century 21 Hometown Realty Bandit Sprint Cars, IMCA Modifieds, Fox 11 First at Ten Super Streets and Mini Stocks were in action Saturday night at Santa Maria Speedway.
*For a time the 30-lap Bandit Sprint Car feature event looked like the Albert Pombo show. The Easton driver broke on top at the drop of the green and led the first four circuits before being overtaken by Bakersfield's Rusty Carlile. Then, on lap 20, Pombo went back to the front and was pulling away until he brushed the wall on lap 24. His mount slowed, allowing several cars to get by, including eventual winner Greg Brag of Visalia. At the same time, a red flag came out when Santa Maria's Bill Jones lost a wheel in the south turns, keeping Pombo from dropping further than sixth in the field. Pombo was able to recover for a fourth place finish while cousin Davey Pombo, of Kerman, was able to come on for a second place finish behind Brag. Carlile held on for third and Atascadero's Greg Porte, who set fast time of 13.973 second averaging 85 mph, was fifth. Carlile, Camarillo's Dennis Rodriguez, Jr. and Visalia's Jace VanderWeerd won 8-lap heat races.
*Clay Daly, of Watsonville, scored his first victory of the season at SMS in the 25-lap IMCA Modified main event. Nipomo's Kenny Kirkpatrick picked up the lead from Santa Maria's Ron Wiley on the fourth circuit and held the point for 10 laps before giving way to Santa Maria's David Addamo. Addamo appeared headed for his first victory of the season at the Speedway when Daly made an outside move in the final turn of the final lap to score the victory. Addamo was a close second, followed by Paul Stone, Rich Denman, of Coalinga, and Joey Claborn of Santa Maria. Kirkpatrick had a problem on the second-to-last lap and wound up 13th. Kirkpatrick, Doug Thornton and Danny Lauer, both of Santa Maria, captured 8-lap heat races. Point leader Tim Breshears, of Santa Maria, won the 10-lap semi main.
*Tim Randolph swept the Super Street division, easily winning the 8-lap heat race and the 20-lap main event. The Santa Maria driver, who gave up the local points lead when he opted to run the East vs. West event at Bakersfield Speedway instead of the local points race back on August 4, gained 10 markers on point leader Tom Breshears of Santa Maria who placed fourth. Elton Shaffer, of Santa Maria, and Cole Milton, of Nipomo, were second and third, and August 4 feature winner Kyle Heckman, of Nipomo, was fifth.
*Point leader Ken Kehs, of Arroyo Grande, was back in championship form in the Mini Stocks, snaring his sixth 20-lap feature victory of the season, after finishing out of the winner's circle two races in-a-row. Second place went to Nipomo's Justin Marsh with Atascadero's Aaron Cervantes, Arroyo Grande's Justin Crockett and Santa Maria's Pat Fausel filling out the top-five. Santa Maria drivers Bill Jewell and Frank Nyback captured 8-lap heat races.
*Next Saturday night Century 21 Hometown Realty Bandit Sprint Cars, IMCA Modifieds and Fox 11 First at Ten Super Streets will be back on the oval, joined this time by Factory Stocks. As an added attraction the 1st Annual Mini Stock Media Challenge race will be held, pitting four local TV and radio personalities against each other in a race of their own. Tickets will cost $14.00 for adults, $10.00 for seniors (65+), $3.00 for children 6 to 12, 5 and under free. The Speedway is located 1/4-mile north of the 101/166 interchange, on Hutton Road.
RACE SUMMARIES -
BANDIT SPRINT CARS: Fast Time - Greg Porte, 13.973. Heat 1 - Rusty Carlile, Joey Layman, Greg Porte, Bruce Douglass, Bill Jones, Ryan Guy, Jayson May. Heat 2 - Dennis Rodriguez, Jr., Greg Brag, John Niggli, Davey Pombo, Jeff Culver, Jonathan Logan, Mike Larsen. Heat 3 - Jace VanderWeerd, John Iturriria, Albert Pombo, Jeff Fiscus, Jimmy Thompson, Gordy Edwards. Main Event - Brag, D. Pombo, Carlile, A. Pombo, Porte, Niggli, Thompson, VanderWeerd, Layman, May, Culver, Rodriguez, Logan, Iturriria, Guy, Jones, Edwards, Fiscus, Douglass, Larsen.
IMCA MODIFIEDS: Heat 1 - Doug Thornton, David Addamo, Clay Daly, Ron Wiley, Josh Vogt, Tim Breshears, Rob Green, Chris Harwin, Jared Domingos. Heat 2 - Kenny Kirkpatrick, Junior Dawson, Chad Weber, Kenny Rayner, Joe Weaver, Russ Wells, Rich Denman, Randy McGraw. Heat 3 - Danny Lauer, Todd Hermosillo, Jacob Jones, Joey Claborn, Paul Stone, Chris Whitford, Paul Terrones, Steve Greenland. Semi-Main - Breshears, Denman, Whitford, McGraw, Harwin, Green, Terrones, Domingos, Wells, Greenland (DNS). Main Event - Daly, Addamo, Stone, Denman, Claborn, Weber, Rayner, Vogt, Whitford, McGraw, Terrones, Breshears, Kirkpatrick, Green, Weaver, Hermosillo, Dawson, Thornton, Harwin, Domingos, Lauer, Jones, Wiley.
SUPER STREETS: Heat 1 - Tim Randolph, Joey Silva, Cole Milton, Tom Grzincic, Elton Shaffer, Tom Breshears, Kyle Heckman. Main Event - Randolph, Shaffer, Milton, Breshears, Heckman, Silva, Grzincic.
MINI STOCKS: Heat 1 - Bill Jewell, Justin Crockett, Greg Noah, Ben Caswell, Matt Sweeney, Chris Larsen, Robby Cervantes, Phillip Sewell. Heat 2 - Frank Nyback, Justin Marsh, Aaron Cervantes, R.J. Shoemaker, Ken Kehs, Pat Fausel, Mike Weigel, Jeff Biggs. Main Event - Kehs, Marsh, A. Cervantes, Crockett, Fausel, Nyback, Shoemaker, Weigel, Sweeney, Larsen, R. Cervantes, Jewell, Noah, Biggs, Sewell, Caswell.
POINT STANDINGS -
BANDIT SPRINT CARS: 1. Jesse Mack, 433 2. Jimmy Thompson, 373 3. Joey Layman, 343 4. Bill Jones, 304 5. Greg Porte, 302.
IMCA MODIFIEDS: 1. Tim Breshears, 421 2. Chad Weber, 413 3. Danny Lauer, 401 4. Josh Vogt, 378 5. Kenny Kirkpatrick, 348.
SUPER STREETS: 1. Tom Breshears, 346 2. Kyle Heckman, 344 3. Tom Grzincic, 342 4. Joey Silva, 336 5. Tim Randolph, 331.
MINI STOCKS: 1. Ken Kehs, 514 2. Justin Crockett, 494 3. Justin Marsh, 449 4. Matt Sweeney, 425 5. Mike Weigel, 406. |
