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When Dad won his first WWC, he qualified on this night.

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1980 Manzanita Speedway
13th Valvoline Western World Sprint Car Championship
Phoenix, Arizona
Thursday, October 23rd, Night #2

First Heat Race (10 Laps) T-3:37.90
1. Larry Patton, Carsten 91AZ;
2. Doug Wolfgang, Howells 4;
3. Fred Linder, Kemenah 3X;
4. Leland McSpadden, Bailey Bros. 01;
5. Lee James, Pettet 15;
6. Roy Fields, Fields 17;
7. Fred Brownfield, Brownfield-Rogers 92;
8. Bobby Marshall, Marshall 19T;
9. Bobby Marcum, Freeney 80;
DNF-Billy Van Meter, Rich 15A; DNF-Darrell Dockery, Krug 98; DNF-Butch Box, Box 20X.

Second Heat Race T-7:02.40
1. Bob Ewell, Ewell 18;
2. Chuck Gurney, Consani 4S;
3. Rendy Boldrini, McCray 21N;
4. Jack Hewitt, Watson-Wright 78;
5. Rickey Hood, Baker-Davis-Simpson-Lohse 98M;
6. Bill McCormick, McCormick 72;
7. Larry Kassel, Pitts 10;
8. Eddie Wirth, Wirth 75;
9. Danny Smith, Reed 25AZ;
10. Walt Kennedy, Kennedy 6;
11. Ted Dann, Thorpe 84;
12. Patrick Stevens, Stevens 88A;
DNF-Chuck Starr, Starr 70; DNF-Bill Lewis, Lewis 56; DNF-Brad Noffsinger, Noffsinger 97; DNF-Mario Fuentes, Fuentes 501; DNF-L.C. Kesterson, Kesterson 2N; DNF-Dan Appel, Mason 42N.

Gurney had just taken the lead around the seventh lap until a quick caution negates the pass.

Third Heat Race T-3:32.48
1. Sammy Swindell, Nance 1N;
2. Rick Ferkel, Morgan 0;
3. Jim Edwards, Beavert 16X;
4. Mike Brooks, Gardner 7;
5. Tony Simon, VerMeer 87;
6. Jerry Potter, Sonner 47;
7. Clark Templeman, Cunningham 711;
8. Jimmy Oskie, Feduska 011;
9. Ron Horton, Delu-Horton 73C;
10. Gary Blum, Blum 11X;
11. Rick Sipes, Hernandez 17T;
12. Howie Young, Young 4Q;
13. Steve Phillips, Trautman-Phillips 27A;
14. Roger Stevens, Stevens 87A;
15. Ray Keil, Keil 3R;
16. Vern Church, Church 5;
DNF-Mike Nish, Allen 4J.

Sammy takes the lead to the checkers passing race long leading Ferkel in traffic out of turn 4.

Fourth Heat Race T-7:02.23
1. Tim Green, Trostle-Jensen 20;
2. Edd French, French 7777;
3. Shane Carson, Miller 69;
4. Rick Montgomery, McCormick 42;
5. Dick Morris, Lingenfelter 49;
6. Charlie Brown, Malo-Estrada 10AZ;
7. Larry Demaree, B&D Oxford 65;
8. Kevin Darling, Darling 22;
9. Leonard Lee, Lee 30;
10. Gary Dunkle, Nichols 6T;
11. Sonny Irwin, Thompson 14A;
12. Joe Clay, Clay 11A;
13. John Ziehl, Nail-Ziehl 20Z;
14. Tom Roa, Roa 8;
DNF-Lyndon Greaney, Greaney 27; DNF-Tommy Vardeman Jr., Wasilewski-Greaney 27X.

Semi Feature (10 Laps) T-10:06.43
1. Jerry Potter, 2. Charlie Brown, 3. Bobby Marshall, 4. Larry Demaree, 5. Clark Templeman, 6. Danny Smith, 7. Ron Horton, 8. Roy Fields, 9. Kevin Darling, 10. Leonard Lee, 11. Bobby Marcum, 12. Edie Wirth.
DNF-Fred Brownfield, DNF-Rickey Hood, DNF-Jimmy Oskie, DNF-Larry Kassell.

Hood into the lead until a seized engine sends him pit side with one-to-go. Potter inherits the lead for the final lap.
Lap-7: Red is out after Oskie initially smacks the wall then flips between turns 1-2.

A Feature (20 Laps) T-7:17.17
1. Sammy Swindell [2] $1,000; 2. Chuck Gurney [1] $600; 3. Doug Wolfgang [6] $450; 4. Shane Carson [7]; 5. Edd French, 6. Leland McSpadden, 7. Lee James, 8. Bob Ewell, 9. Rick Ferkel, 10. Fred Linder, 11. Rendy Boldrini, 12. Jim Edwards, 13. Rick Montgomery, 14. Mike Brooks, 15. Jack Hewitt, 16. Tony Simon, 17. Dick Morris, 18. Bill McCormick, DNF-19. Larry Patton. DNS-Tim Green.

Green loses the rear end shortly after push-off. Swindell gets the jump over Gurney at the drop of the Green. The duo would quickly open their advantage over the field. Slower traffic would impede Gurney and his charge to the front with Sammy cruising to the seemingly comfortable win. The Feature Pay-Off was delayed as a protest filed from Rick Ferkel. Ferkel claims the Yellow light came of briefly when Sammy crossed the line for the Checkers amid the slower traffic. Ferkel claims not only did he, but others lost positions in the final run to the line. Officials discuss the issue with Scorers, Starter and other Drivers and found Ferkel was 9th on Lap-19 and 9th after the Checkers. The finish stands. Only McSpadden and James each advanced two spots in that final run. Linder was the last car on the lead lap.

Excellent! Thanks for posting...

do you have 1979 results?

With all due respect, if Steve didn't have Karl for all those years, he wouldn't have the win total he has.

Sammy does it all. Driver, setup, crew chief, fabricator, and has won every major race at least once.

Plus, Sammy chose not to run several years with the WoO. If he would have, he would have many more wins.

At Baylands Raceway Park in Fremont, CA one year back in the '80s, 3 day show, he qualified the first night for the outside front row Saturday night. Well Sammy wanted to start on the pole so he threw away his qualifying night and re-qualified the 2nd night and got the pole for the A main on Saturday night.

That is confidence and greatness. This is why Sammy is one of The Big Three.

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