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WInged sprint cars, midgets. midget lites and ford focus midgets on the card tonight.
#43, Bradley Terrel won the 360 sprint A-Main, #17, Justin Grant won the BCRA midgets feature, and #11T, Chris Glass won the midgt lite feature. I did not get the results for the Fords Focus race as they ran a 5 car event. The ford focus drivers are working to grow the class in NorCal. According to the Focus guys - $12,000 will get you a roller with motor.
19 winged 360 sprinters signed in. Notes: Bob Newberry was driving the Riebes #22b and Doug Hunting was driving the Franklin #18. Hunting would do double duty as he drove his own #2 in the midget class. NIck Ringo, Jr in a brand new #7 made his 1st appearance of the 2008 season at Petaluma.
Top 5 qualifiers - position, car #, name, time
1. #19x, Brandon Davis, 12.821 2. #35, Rickey Wright, Jr, 12,891 3. #48k, Kirt Simpson, 12.981 4. #7b, Brett Bjork, 12.982 5. #14, Matt Sargent, 13.105
3 heats, 8 laps, 6 invert
Heat 1 - finish, car #, name, (started) - 7 cars
1. #7, Nick Ringo, Jr. (1) 2. #10x, Roberto Kirby (4)) 3. #3, Bill Cornwell (3)) 4. #25b, Dustin Baxter (2) 5. #7b, Bjork (5) 6. #19x, Davis (6) - #69c, Chad Compton did not start
Heat 2 - finish, car #, name (started) - 6 cars
1. 18, Hunting (1) 2. #84, Simpson (3) 3. #14, Sargent (5) 4. #3x, Alissa Geving (4) 5. #35, Wright, Jr. (6) 6. #22b, Newberry (2)
Heat 3 - finish, car #, name, (started) - 6 cars
1. #19, Art McCarthy (2) 2. #24, Matt Petty (1) 3. #43, Terrel (4) 4. #51, Gary Paulson (3) 5. #96, Marcus Hardin (5) 6. #48,Simpson (6) - DNF
A-Main - 25 lap, 18 cars - 8 inversion - the #69c of Compton did not start. The #14 of Sargent stoppd on the backstretch while cars were getting ready to line up for the feature and was pushed to the pits. He did not take the green flag. Tough break for Sargent as he qualified 5th, made the transfer through his heat, and would have started outside row 3 (6th).
1. #43, Terrel (2) 2. #35, Wright, Jr. (6) 3. #19, McCarthy (10) 4. #7b, Bjork (7) 5. #10x, Kirby (4) 6. #3x, Geving (3) 7. #84, Simpson (9) 8. #19x, Davis (14) 9. #25b, Baxter (11) 10. #3, Cornwell (1) 11. #24, Petty (15) 12. #22b, Newberry (16) 13. #18, Hunting (12) 14. #48k, Simpson (17-DNF) 15. #7, RIngo (13-DNF) 16. #51, Paulson (8-DNF) 17. #96, Hardina (5-DNF) - Sargent and Compton did not take the green flag. McCarthy hard charger as he moved up 7 spots to claim a podium finish. Geving banged bacstretch wall early into the race while leading after passing initial race leader Terrel in turn 4 . Yellow for anothe car allowed her to pit and make repairs and re-start at the rear. Geving moved up 8 spots to grab 6th at the checkers. Wright, Jr. with a nice run to finish 1 spot short. Showed some impressive wheel stands coming out of turn 4 to almost the flagman. He should think of entering the Gold Cup wheelie contest (if they have one). Terrell on a rail tonight to grab the victory. After the Geving wall slapper to relinquish the lead early; no one ever showed Terrel a wheel and he was able to pull away on re-starts. Traffic never a factor as yellows negated any potential to slow the leader.
BCRA Midgets - 20 cars signed in. #34 Thomas Gray was making his 1st start in a midget.
Top 5 qualifiers - position, car #, name, time
1. #10, Wes Guiterrez, 14.78 2. #00, Pete Davis, 14.83 3. #10x, Scott Pierovich, 14.93 4. #17, Justin Grant, 15.05 5. #10b, Robbie Russell, 15.06
BCRA midgets ran 2 heats - a slow heat and a fully inverted heat for the 10 fastest qualifiers
Heat 1 - 8 laps, 10 cars (slow heat) - finish, car #, name, (started)
1.#27, Mike Gehringer (1) 2. #24, Nick Foster, Jr. (4) 3. #34, Gray (5) 4. #58, Cole Peard (8) 5. #20, David Parker (6) 6. #62, Britton Bock (3) 7. #8x, Scott Nail (7) 8. #26, Glenn Carson (10) 9. #18A, Bill Lindsey (9) 10. #17x, Rick Faeth (2)
Heat 2 - 8 laps, 10 cars (fast heat, fully inverted - finish, car #, name (started)
1. #18, Floyd Alvis (1) 2. #2, Doug Hunting (2) 3. #17, Grant (6) 4. #00, Pete Davis (9) 5. #16, Jimmy Christian (4) 6. #10, Wes Guiterrez (10) 7. #77, Dave Stolz (3) 8. #15, David Pickett (7) 9. #10b, Russell (5-DNF) 10. #10x, Pierovich (8-DNF)
A-Main - 30 laps, 19 cars, the #10b of Russell did not start - I was only able to get the top 5 accurately. Final results never announced or listed on the pit board after the race. I will try to post full finish early next week.
1. #17, Grant (6) 2. #18, Alvis (2) 3. #15, Pickett (7) 4. #00, Davis (9) 5. #58, Peard (12)
Midget Lites - 13 cars - midget lites took the wings off tonight, no qualifying
Heat 1 - 8 laps - 7 cars - finish, car #, name (started)
1. #5, David Engstrom (2) 2. #11, Doug Nunez (6) 3. #3, Rich Holbrook (1) 4. #11x, Cameron Beard (4) 5. #35, Dakoda Albright (5) 6. #76, Joey Hoover (7) 7. #10, Brian Corso (3)
Heat 2 - 8 laps - 6 cars - finish, car #, name, (started)
1. #11T, Chris Glass (2) 2. #23, Jason Sneep (3) 3. #53c, Cory Green (1) 4. #62, Marshall Sexton (4) 5. #77, Dave Stoltz (6) 6. #30, Rick Soto
A-Main - 20 laps - 13 cars - finish, car #, name (started)
1. #11T, Glass (2) 2. #11, Nunez (8) 3. #23, Sneep (7) 4. #11x, Beard (6) 5. #3, Holbrook (1) 6. #35, Armstrong (9) 7. #62, Sexton (5) 8. #53c, Green (4) 9. #30, Soto (13) 10. #77, Stoltz (12) 11. #5, Engstrom (3) 12. #76, Hoover (9-DNF) 13. #10, Corso (12-DNF)
Show was run off without any delays (no red flags, few yellows, cars were ready in staging) and the final checkered flag flew at 9:20 PM.
Next Saturday August 23rd at Petaluma - 360 winged sprints, spec sprints, D/M, S/S, and M/S. Geving has a 31 point lead over Art McCarthy heading into the final 3 points races of the season.
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