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Gastineau Takes Advantage of Goodman in
Traffic for Win at Outlaw
by John Rittenoure
MUSKOGEE,
Oklahoma (October 8, 2010) – Whit
Gastineau got a little unexpected help from Mike Goodman Friday
night at Outlaw Motor Speedway. While leading the A feature
Goodman briefly got held up in lapped traffic and that was all
it took for Gastineau to drive past and win his fifth OCRS
sprint feature of the season.
"I knew it was going to be one heck of a race
before it started," said Gastineau who started inside second row
behind Goodman. "I kept getting underneath him but I could never
get enough momentum to get by. I kept sliding underneath him and
trying everything I could."
For 20 laps Gastineau chased Goodman trying to
find enough traction to mount a challenge. But on lap 21 Goodman
shot down low in turn three and was forced to get out of the gas
for three cars in front of him that were about to go down a lap.
That opened the door for Gastineau.
"I had a little help," said Gastineau of his
move past the former OCRS champion. "He dove to the bottom and I
zinged around the top and was able to sneak by him. Sometimes
the ball is rolling your way and sometimes it is not.
"If we would have had more restarts it would have helped. It was
a drivers track. I was pretty loose the whole time. We should
have tightened the car up. Sometimes you just don't know."
But it did work out for Gastineau while
Goodman was left to think about what could have been.
"We had been having brake issues all night,
but that is no excuse" said Goodman. "I did not have any brakes
and I made the wrong decision. There were three of them there
and I did not know where to go. It looked like they were going
to float up high and block me so I made the decision to go to
the bottom and it was the wrong one."
If only Goodman could take that lap back."Oh yea, redo it," smiled Goodman. "I have a thousand laps over
twenty years I'd like to take back. "I thought I might be able to run him back down but it was too
late in the race."
The feature took the green with Goodman on
the pole next to his teammate Travis Jenkins. Goodman exited
turn one with the lead then a lap later Gastineau powered past
Jenkins for second. On lap 5 Jamie Passmore roared into third
and the battle was on. Goodman was running up against the wall
while Gastineau tried his luck with the low groove and gaining
ground in the turns. The three raced that way until the yellow
waved on lap 11 after Brent Bates blew an engine. After the
restart the pace continued until lap 21 when Goodman came up on
three cars in the low groove about to be lapped. When the
checkered waved after 25 laps it was Gastineau, Goodman,
Passmore, Rafe Essary and Danny Smith.
A total of 29 cars, the largest turnout this
season at Outlaw Motor Speedway, signed-in for the tracks final
OCRS event of the season.
Tim Kent led Kevin Guinn, Chris Pillars and
Bates to the finish in the 12-lap B main. All four transferred
to the A main.
The final OCRS event of the season happens
on October 23 at Enid Speedway.
OCRS Sprints
HEAT 1:
1, Glen Passmore. 2, Rafe Essary. 3, Kenneth Walker. 4,
Dean Drake, Jr. 5, Tim Kent. 6, Phillip Davis. 7, Kacee Frazier.
8, Ron Murphy.
HEAT 2:
1, Shayla Waddll. 2, Jamie Passmore. 3,
Billy Frazier. 4, Kyle Clark. 5, Kevin Guinn. 6, Chris Pillars.
7, Johnny Kent.
HEAT 3:
1, Mike Goodman. 2, Danny Smith. 3, Fred Mattox. 4, Brady Demeree.
5, Brian Roberts. 6, Burt Davis. 7, Zach Beeler.
HEAT 4: 1,
Travis Jenkins.
2, Whit Gastineau. 3, Terry Easum. 4, Beau Gastineau. 5, Robbie
Sherrell. 6, Matt Caudle. DNS: Brent Bates.
B FEATURE:
1,Tim Kent. 2, Kevin Guinn. 3, Chris Pillars. 4, Brent Bates. 5,
Burt Davis. 6, Kacee Frazier. 7, Brian Roberts. 8, Phillip
Davis. 9, Zach Beeler. 10, Robbie Sherrell. 11, Matt Caudle. 12,
Ron Murphy. 13, Johnny Kent.
A FEATURE:
1, Whit Gastineau. 2, Mike Goodman. 3, Jamie
Passmore. 4, Rafe Essary. 5, Danny Smith. 6, Travis Jenkins. 7,
Kenneth Walker. 8, Tim Kent. 9, Billy Frazier. 10, Brady Demeree.
11, Glen Passmore. 12, Kyle Clark. 13, Kevin Guinn. 14, Fred
Mattox. 15, Chris Pillars. 16, Beau Gastineau. 17, Terry Easum.
18, Brent Bates. 19. Dean Drake, Jr. 20, Shayla Waddell.
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