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Gastineau Captures Enid Winter Nationals Title
by John Rittenoure
Enid, Oklanhoma (October 23, 2010)
- Starting near the front was a good place to be during the Enid
Speedway Winter Nationals on Saturday night. It certainly helped
Whit Gastineau who cruised to victory in the OCRS season finale.
Gastineau led all 25 laps to win for the
sixth time this season season. The victory also allowed
Gastineau to move into top 10 in the final season point
standings. Gastineau climbed two spots to ninth dropping Kyle
Clark to tenth and pushing rookie Brady Demeree from tenth to
eleventh. But it was not all bad for Demeree as he finished the
season 27 points ahead of Terry Easum to win Rookie of the Year
honors.
Gastineau started outside of pole sitter
Fred Mattox in the 25-lapper and quickly shot into the lead on
the start. Mattox gave chase but there was not catching
Gastineau on the lightening fast 3/8‘s mile oval soaked by
recent rains. But Mattox picked up a career best second place
finish. Danny Jennings, Gary Owens and Josh Toho held down third
through fifth in what was a high-speed chase that saw very
little passing.
In the rookie race Easum finished one spot
ahead of Demeree in 12th but it was not enough to take away the
rookie point lead. Both Easum and Demeree had to earn their
feature starting positions in the B main. Easum won the event
with a green-to-checkered run over Kyle Clark and Kyle Cobb.
Demeree finished in the fourth and final transfer spot.
It was a rough night for the Same Day
Automotive race team. Danny Smith got into the backstretch wall
in the opening heat race and took a wild ride that earned him a
ride to the hospital. Smith was shaken up but released after a
checkup. If that was not enough stepson Clark tagged the wall in
turn two during the feature and flipped end over end. Clark
climbed from his heavily damaged car unhurt.
OCRS Sprints
HEAT 1:
1, Danny Jennings. 2, Mike Goodman. 3, Rafe Essary. 4, Shane
Sellers. 5, Tyler Johnson. 6, Kyle Cobb. 7, Danny Smith. DNS:
Billy Frazier.
HEAT 2:
1, Whit Gastineau. 2, Travis Jenkins. 3, Gary Owens. 4, Terry
Holland. 5, Terry Easum. 6, Kaden Taylor. 7, Johnny Kent. DNS:
Jeff Garnett.
HEAT 3:
1, Jamie Passmore. 2, Phillip Davis. 3, Lee Jennings. 4, Beau
Gastineau. 5,Kacee
Frazier. 6, Barry Crane. 7, Brady Demeree. 8, Tim Kent.
HEAT 4:
1, Fred Mattox. 2, Kerry McAlester. 3, Josh Toho. 4, Shayla
Waddell. 5, Kyle
Clark. 6, David Stephenson. 7, Earnest Jennings.
B FEATURE:
1, Terry Easum. 2, Kyle Clark. 3, Kyle Cobb. 4, Brady Demeree.
5, Kacee Frazier. 6, Barry Crane. 7, David Stephenson. 8, Kaden
Taylor. 9, Tyler Johnson. 10, Johnny Kent. 11, Tim Kent. DNS:
Earnest Jennings,
Billy Frazier, Danny Smith, Jeff Garnett.
A FEATURE:
1, Whit Gastineau. 2, Fred Mattox. 3, Danny Jennings. 4, Gary
Owens. 5, Josh Toho. 6, Jamie Passmore. 7, Shane Sellers. 8, Lee
Jennings. 9, Kerry McAlester. 10, Travis Jenkins. 11, Shayla
Waddell. 12, Terry Easum. 13, Brady Demeree. 14, Terry Holland.
15, Kyle Clark. 16, Mike Goodman. 17, Beau Gastineau 18, Kyle Cobb 19, Rafe Essary 20, Phillip Davis
For final 2010 OCRS points and other information, visit the website at: http://ocrsracing.com
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