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19 winged 360 sprint cars and 17 wingless spec sprints
Weather - cool, high fog, smoke finally decided to move out at least for Saturday
Visitors: Fauver Racing entries: #61, Luke Dollansky and #61j of Joe Mafara, #22B of Brad Rieben, #7 of Miles Bishop and #2b of Jermey Burt. Good to see the #6c of Jeff Parady, #18 of Tyler Franklin and the #27 of Brett Rollag again at Petaluma.
Not in Pits tonight: who have been semi regular: #52, David Lindt, Jr, #4, Adam McCarthy, #14, Matt Sargent.
Qualifying - ranking, car #, name, time , (position)
1. #3x, Allissa Geving, 12.94 (7) 2. #61, Dollansky, 12.95 (10) 3. #43, Bradley Terrell, 12.97 (14) 4. #6c, Parady, 12.98 (13) 5. #7, Bishop, 13.02 (15) 6. #35, Rickey Wright, Jr. 13.07 (1) 7. #27, Brett Rollag, 13.14 (18) 8. #10x, Roberto Kirby, 13.25 (16) 9. #2b, Burt, 13.40 (7) 10. #56, Shawn Arriaga, 13.41 (3) 11. #96, Arvo Backholm, 13.42 (9) 12. #61j, Joe Mafara, 13.47 (8) 13. #19x, Brandon Davis, 13.47 (11) 14. #19, Art McCarthy, 13.49 (2) 15. #84, Clint Simpson, 13.52 (19) 16. #3, Bill Cornwell, 13.66 (17) 17. #18, Franklin, 13.76 (5) 18. #7b, Brnadon Ashe, 13.92 (12) 19. #22b, Rieben, 14.16 (4) - The #22b of Reiben and #6c of Parady only took 1 lap. Rieben slowed on the backstretch and stopped in turn 3 on his 2nd lap and would be finished for the night. Parady shut it down on lap #2 down the backstretch and motored slowly off the track.
Heat 1 - 8 laps, 6 cars - finish, car#, name, (starting)
1. #3, Cornwell (1) 2. #3x, Geving (6) 3. #27, Rollag (4) 4. #6c, Parady (5) 5. #2b, Burt (3) 6. #19x, Davis (2) - Cornwell takes the lead at the drop of the green through 1 and 2. Rollag grabs 2nd down the backstretch from Burt and Davis with Geving following. Davis begins to fall back. Lap 2 and Geving grabs a good bite coming out of turn 2 and shoots past Rollag down the backstretch. Lap 3 and Davis pulls off. Cornwell and Geving battle for the lead. Geving slaps the turn 3 wall with the right rear on lap 6, but quickly gathere it up and catches Cornwell on lap 7. Conrwell holds off the Geving challenge over the final 2 circuits to take the checkered flag.
Heat 2 - 8 laps, 6 cars - finish, car #, name (starting)
1. #19, McCarthy (2) 2. #56, Arriaga (3) 3. #7, Bishop (5) 4. #18, Franklin (1) 5. #10x, Kirby (4) 6. #61, Dollansky (6) - McCarthy swoops around Frankling in turn 1 to take the lead on the initial lap and quickly pulls out to a 10 car advantage. Dollansky tries to make it 3 wide in turn 3 and bags wheels with Bishop. Both come to a stop bringing out the caution. Dollansky off on the hook with front end damage. Bishop refires and tags the rear for the restart. Arriaga goes low under Franklin in turn 2 to get into 2nd. KIrby makes low move on Franlin in turn 3 to grab 3rd. Lap 3 and Bishop makes same low move for 4th on lap 3. Lpa 6 and Bishop slides under Kirby in turn 4 and is now running 3rd. Kirby starts fading and has front end damage. Franklin passes Kirby on last lap to move into 4th. Kirby limps across the line to claim 5th.
Heat 3 - 8 lpas, 6 cars (starting)
1. #7b, Ashe (1) 2. #43, Terrel (5) 3. #84, Simpson (2) 4. #96, Backholm (4) 5/ #35, Wright, Jr. (6) 6. #61j, Mafara (6) - Ashe quickly to the lead as he wins the drag race over Simpson to the 1st turn and checks out to a 15 car advantage.. Terrel grabs 3rd passing 2 cars with an nifty move low in turn 4. Lap 4 and Terrel grabs 2nd from Simpson with the same low move in turn 4. No changes to the checkeres as Ashe has moved into a new zip code and wins easily.
A- Main - 17 cars, 25 laps -INVERT 4 - finish, car, name (started) - #22b, Rieben- DNS. #19x; Davis -DNS
1. #43, Terrel (3) 2. #6c, Parady (2) 3. #27, Rollag (6) 4. #7, Bishop (1) 5. #3x, Geving (4) 6. #96, Backholm (8) 7. #56, Arriaga (10) 8. #2b, Burt (9) 9. #84, Simpson (12) 10. #10x, Kirby (7) 11. #19, McCarthy (11) 12. #7b, Davis (13) 13. #35, Wright, Jr (5) 14. #61j , Mafara (16- DNF) 15. #3, Cornwell (14) 16. #18, Franklin (15-DNF) 17. #61, Dollansky (17-DNF) - Parady jumps out to the intial lead over Bishop and powers down the backstretch. Just before the entrance of turn 3 Geving and Bishop bang together. Geving stops on the inside berm bringing out the yellow.Terrel does evasive maneuvers to avoid Geving. Bishop is able to keep going. Geving is pushed to the pits and replaces a flat front left tire and tags the rear for the complete restart. Green flies again and Parady moves to the top spot over Bishop, Rollag, and Terrell. Lap 3 and Wright, Jr, whille running 4th bicycles hard coming out of 4 and and gasses it to get the low side of the frontstretch and comes to a stop with a flat left rear. The field blasts by barelly missing Wright, Jr. If Wright does not move to the inside it would have been ugly. Restsrt lap 3 - 6c, 7, 27, 43, 96, 10x, 56, 2b, 19, 18, 84, 61, 3x, 3, 7b, 61j - Parady to the lead. Terrell grabs 3rd from Rollag low in turn 3 and is on the move and begins to pressure Bishop as Parady is out in front by 10 car lengths. Lap 6 and the red flies for Dollansky as he flips in turn 3. Driver is OK and would return with for the restart with a new #64 wing. Wright, Jr, returns to the race and tags the rear. Another restart and Parady leads. Terrel grabs 2nd on lap 6 with a nice slider on Bishop in Turn 3 and begins to reel in Parady.. Lapped traffic starts on lap 10. Yellow on lap 11 for Franklin as he comes to halt in turn 3 after mixing it up with Dollanksy. Restart lap 10 and Terrel is now all over Parady, Mafara tags the front stretch wall with right rear but keeps going. Traffic becomes a factor on lap 16. Lap 17 and Terrel tris to muscle under Parady in turn 4. Parady gets out of shape and Terrel wheels to the outside and blasts by to take over the top spot. Cornwell and Mafara pull off. Final yellow on lap 20 for Dollansky who spins in 4 with Terrel narrowly missing. Restart sees Terrell rocket to the lead and begin to pull away. Geving has now moved up to 7th, Geving grabs 6th on lap 22 with an outside pass of Arriaga in turn 3 and slides under Backholm on lap 23 to grab a top 5. Terrel wins going away for his 2nd A-main victory of 2008.
Terrel fastest car on track in main event. No real hard chargers as several sprinters move up 3 spots. Geving while not statistically a hard charger passes the most cars having to go the rear after bringing out the yellow on lap 1. Track improved as night wore on. Terrible shelf, rut in at the exit of (middle) turn 4 early in the evening was worked on several times to fill, flatten. It got better, but never went totally away.
A stout field of 17 wingless sprints were also racing tonight.. Heats were won by #40 of Darrel Hannestad and the #36 of Bob Newberry. Hannestad (from 9th starting) passed #41 David Press on lap 22 to take over the lead in the 25 lapper. Press had led all intital 21 laps from the pole. Hannestad took full advantage of lapped traffic to catch Press and then make the winning pass. Hannestad pulled away to the win after the only yellow of the race on lap #23. Close racing all over the track. Jason Macintosh finished 3rd from 11th starting. Former modified racer Geoff Ensign (in a recently purchased Terry Schank car) finished 12th in his 1st ever wingless start.
July 5th is all open wheel with Civil War (CCWSCS) and wingless spec sprints.
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