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Ventura, Ca....June 8......Having
started outside front row, Greg Taylor led all 12 laps of the curfew shortened
VRA Unwinged 360 Sprint Car feature Saturday night at Ventura Raceway. Taylor
was celebrating his 20th birthday and the win paid $1,000. He cut Josh Ford's
point lead to just 235 points in the process. The scheduled 30 lapper was cut
short after Russell DeBlauw had to be transported to the hospital following a
first lap incident. There were several other yellow flags and only 11 cars of
the 20 starters were running when the 12 lapper ended. Clark Templeman III was a
$750 second ahead of Jimmy Crawford, who won $500. The Senior Sprint feature was
cut to 15 laps and point leader Wiley Miller won with Ron Butler moving into a
tie for 2nd with his 2nd place finish. Adam McPhail from Santa Paula won his
second 20 lap Pony Stock feature after starting in the second row. James Brown
was second ahead of Mike Frazier.
The VRA unwinged 360
sprint cars drew a 30 car field and used the usual four heat format. TQ Midget
graduate Gene Godepski won the first heat over DeBlauw and Bill Camarillo. Steve
Hess flipped hard on the opening lap. Taylor won heat 2 over Crawford and Luis
Espinoza. Josh Ford won heat 3 with Jeff Heaton second over Eric Severson. Larry
Lloyd flipped in turn 3. Templeman took heat 4 ahead of Jake Ford and Tony
Dighera. They elected to run one B Main this night with four transfers and Steve
Conrad won ahead of dwarf car graduate Trevor Brillman, Steve Gresham and Mark
Weitzman.
The scheduled 30 lapper started with an innocent looking first lap incident
where DeBlauw veered out of the groove and hit the concrete barrier with a light
glancing blow. He complained of shoulder and back pain and it took several
minutes to get him out of the car and he had to be transported to the hospital.
Outside front row starter Taylor led all 12 laps for the win with pole starter
Templeman second over fifth starting Crawford and third starter Josh Ford.
Espinoza ran fifth over Chris Wakim, Godepski, Heaton, Conrad and Case.
Third ranked Crawford is just 110 points back of Taylor as Josh Ford, Taylor and
Crawford are locked in a three way duel for the championship with fourth ranked
Dighera way back.
The Senior Sprints
had a 19 car turnout and Miller's win was his 4th for the season. They used a
three heat format and Preiss Movius won the first heat over Mike Frith-Smith and
Mike Cook. Richard Terry duplicated Movius by also winning from the pole in heat
2 with Jim Porter second over Butler. Miller came from third starting to win
heat 3 with Ron Bach second over Sparky Edmonston. Bach was unable to start the
15 lap feature and Miller won from sixth starting with Butler 2nd from 8th
starting. Fifth starter Cook ran third over Edmonston and Terry. John
Woodward was sixth over Dayle Henry and John Richards. Miller holds a 1220 point
lead over the tied duo of Butler and Porter as Bach dropped back to 4th in
points.
There were 22 Pony Stocks and
Steve Klingberg won the first heat over McPhail and Eric Chambers. David
Peterson won heat 2 over John Duque and Dave Revard. Jack Fullerton won heat 3
over Cliff Ashlock. McPhail won the feature over Brown, Frazier, Fullerton,
Peterson, Gary Yeates, Chambers and Julie Masters. With point leader Ashlock
finishing 18th and Duque 17th, the point race tightened with Ashlock now leading
Frazier by 70 points, Brown by 125 and Duque by 165. Female racer Masters is
fifth in points.
Summary
Pony Stocks
Heat 1-Steve Klingberg, Adam McPhail,
Eric Chambers, Gary Yeates, Andrew Greiman.
Heat 2-David Peterson, John Duque, Dave Revard, Julie Masters, John Mikkelsen.
Heat 3-Jack Fullerton, Cliff Ashlock, Bruce Blackman Jr, Karen Klingberg, James
Brown.
Main-McPhail, Brown, Mike Frazier, Fullerton, Peterson, Yeates, Chambers,
Masters, Morgan Cole, Jim Nakashima, Greiman, Mikkelsen, Joel Chavez, Jon
Mortensen, Ed Graham, Blackman, Duque, Ashlock, Tim Moir, S Klingberg, Revard.
Senior Sprints
Heat 1-Preiss Movius, Mike Frith-Smith,
Mike Cook, Sammy Iaconis, John Richards.
Heat 2-Richard Terry, Jim Porter, Ron Butler, Dayle Henry, Larry Otani.
Heat 3-Wiley Miller, Ron Bach, Sparky Edmonston, Mark Chuhaloff, Rick Lewis.
Main-Miller, Butler, Cook, Edmonston, Terry, John Woodward, Henry, J Richards,
Otani, Curtis Richards, Porter, Iaconis, Frith-Smith, Chuhaloff, Movius,
Lewis.
Unwinged 360 Sprint Cars
Heat 1-Gene Godepski, Russell
DeBlauw, Bill Camarillo, Chris Tramel, Trevor Brillman.
Heat 2-Greg Taylor, Jimmy Crawford, Luis Espinoza, Chris Wakim, Steven
Conrad.
Heat 3-Josh Ford, Jeff Heaton, Eric Severson, Steve Chuhaloff, Rob
Kershaw.
Heat 4-Clark Templeman III, Jake Ford, Tony Dighera, Ronnie Case, John
Geyer.
B Main-Conrad, Brillman, Steve Gresham, Mark Weitzman, A J Reyer, J Geyer, Trace
Glove, Renee Boudreau.
A Main-Taylor, Templeman, Crawford, Josh Ford, Espinoza, Wakim, Godepski,
Heaton, Conrad, Case, Weitzman, Tramel, Jake Ford, Severson, Chuhaloff, Gresham,
Brillman, Camarillo, Dighera, DeBlauw.
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