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THUNDER RACEWAY CELEBRATES HOLIDAY WITH TWO NIGHTS OF RACING
by Gary Jacob 

Unwinged Sprint Cars, Dirt Modifieds and Mini Sprints

Show Low, AZ....May 24-25........Having won the main event at his home track in Imperial, CA in his only other appearance with the touring USAC Southwest Unwinged Sprint Cars, Kent Rosevear from Yuma, AZ showed up at the 1/4 mile Thunder Raceway in Show Low on Saturday night and scored a wire to wire win in the 30 lap main event. Rosevear had timed in 8th fast and ran second to fellow Yuma racer Mike Martin in his heat. Ronnie Clark was second in the feature race ahead of Phoenix female ace Kaylene Verville. Thunder Raceway celebrated the Memorial Day weekend with two nights of racing and a big Dirt Modified special headlined the Sunday night action. A good field of visitors from the Casa Grande, AZ race track gave the dirt modifieds a 20 car turnout and defending track champion Ed Beebe won the special feature ahead of former Casa Grande champion Brad Campbell from Tucson. Talented Casa Grande rookie Allen Kelley was third ahead of former Show Low late model champion Jeff Anderson. The Arizona mini sprints towed up from the Phoenix area with more than 20 cars and they raced both nights. Both feature races saw Danny Mathus winning ahead of Charles Mokry II. Dennis Parks was third on Saturday night and Brandon George placed third on Sunday night.

          The touring unwinged sprint cars were in the area for a two race weekend as they moved over to Canyon Raceway on Sunday night. At the tight 1/4 mile Show Low track, Robert Marfia Jr was the quickest qualifier in a 21 car field with a 13.02 effort. Robert Hall Jr was second quick at 13.10 and Brandon Lane a distant third quick at 13.49. Matt Rossi, Verville and Las Cruces, NM star Rick Ziehl rounded out the top six fastest qualifiers. Lane beat Rossi and Marfia in the dash. Bruce St James beat Ron Kratz in heat 1 with the Yuma duo of Martin and Rosevear 1-2 in heat 2. Lane then won heat 3 with Aaron Reyer second ahead of Dave Burns. Hall was 7th in his heat, but won the B Main ahead of Texan Beau Binder, Steve Stone and Mike Rux Jr. Stone had flipped in the heat action. Jim Pless was a B Main flip victim. The A Main had 20 starters with Pless the only non-starter. The fact that both Hall and Binder failed to transfer from the heat action put Rosevear on the pole of the usual USAC six car inversion. He led all 30 laps of the main event with Clark second ahead of Verville, Rossi, Hall, Lane, Burns, Binder, Martin and Shon Deskins. Verville took a 10 point lead over Martin down to the desert oval Canyon Raceway on Sunday night.

          The track was pleasantly surprised with the 20 car dirt modified turnout. Campbell beat local teenage star Ty Williams in heat 1 as A Kelley ran third. Levi Rudy won heat 2 in front of CAR star Eric Kelley and former Pro Stock track champion Charlotte Williams. C Williams is the mother of T Williams. Beebe enjoyed a perfect night as he won heat 3 ahead of Brett Herron and Darren Dodd. Top runner Max Sadler had a tough night with a 6th in his heat and a 20th in the feature. Rudy raced by Beebe for the top spot only to be forced to pit to repair his body work. He came back to finish sixth as Beebe won with Campbell second ahead of A Kelley, Anderson, Tucson teenager Jeremy Payne, Rudy, Dan Radcliffe Jr and Mitch Mohler.

         The Saturday night mini sprint action found Thomas Ogle the dash winner ahead of Charles Mokry II. Tim Ogle, Mokry and Dave Alexander won heat races. Twenty four were split into the three heat races with just the top four finishers in each advancing into the A Main. They were joined by the top 8 from the B Main. Mark Stroh won the B Main ahead of Scott Birdzell, Lance Peterson, Judd Hathaway and Jessica Patterson. Mathus ran second in his heat and won the A Main ahead of Mokry, defending champion Parks, Kiley Fellars, Brandon George, Kurt Stults, Alexander and Brent Yarnell. On Saturday night, it was Mathus taking the dash ahead of Parks and Mokry. George, Mokry and Jeff Greszler won heat races. There were 21 cars in the heat races and 20 of them raced in the main event. Mathus beat Mokry and George in the A Main with Greszler fourth ahead of Alexander, Dustin Cormany, Stroh, Parks, Thomas Ogle and Yarnell.

Summary

Saturday 
Mini Sprints
Dash-Thomas Ogle, Charles Mokry II, Brandon George. 
Heat 1-Tim Ogle, Kurt Stults, George, Jeff Greszler, Mark Stroh. 
Heat 2-Mokry, Dennis Parks, Jim Mattison, Dustin Cormany, Judd Hathaway. 
Heat 3-Dave Alexander, Danny Mathus, Kiley Fellars, Brent Yarnell, Scott Birdzell. 
B Main-Stroh, Birdzell, Lance Peterson, Hathaway, Jessica Patterson, Robert Mohley, Tony Osuch, Dan Goodman, Don Kessler, Thomas Ogle, Scott Passmore. 
A Main-Mathus, Mokry, Parks, Fellars, George, Stults, Alexander, Yarnell, Tim Ogle, Greszler, Birdzell, Stroh, Mobley, Osuch, Peterson, Hathaway, Goodman, Patterson, Cormany, Mattison. 

USAC Unwinged Sprint Cars
Fast Time-Robert Marfia Jr 13.02 
Dash-Brandon Lane, Matt Rossi, Marfia. 
Heat 1-Bruce St James, Ron Kratz, Ronnie Clark, Marfia, Rossi. 
Heat 2-Mike Martin, Kent Rosevear, Kaylene Verville, James Aragon, Shon Deskins.
Heat 3-Lane, Aaron Reyer, Dave Burns, Kevin Bernards, Rick Ziehl. 
B Main-Robert Hall Jr, Beau Binder, Steve Stone, Mike Rux Jr, Tommy Sianze, Jim Pless. 
A Main-Rosevear, Clark, Verville, Rossi, Hall, Lane, Burns, Binder, Martin, Deskins, Marfia, Ziehl, St James, Reyer, Kratz, Aragon, Rux, Sianze, Bernards, Stone.

Sunday 
Mini Sprints
Dash-Mathus, Parks, Mokry. 
Heat 1-George, Mathus, Stroh, Thomas Ogle, Yarnell.
Heat 2-Mokry, Fellars, Patterson, Birdzell, Osuch.
Heat 3-Greszler, Alexander, Cormany, Mobley, Goodman. 
Main-Mathus, Mokry, George, Greszler, Alexander, Cormany, Stroh, Parks, Thomas Ogle, Yarnell, Kessler, Hathaway, Stults, Passmore, Mobley, Tim Ogle, Goodman, Birdzell, Osuch, Patterson. 

Dirt Modifieds
Heat 1-Brad Campbell, Ty Williams, Allen Kelley, Mitch Mohler, Ron Patton. 
Heat 2-Levi Rudy, Eric Kelley, Charlotte Williams, #18, Jeremy Payne. 
Heat 3-Ed Beebe, Brett Herron, Darren Dodd, Dan Racliffe Jr, Craig Click. 
Main-Beebe, Campbell, Kelley, Jeff Anderson, Payne, Rudy, Radcliffe, Mohler, #18, Herron, E Kelley, C Williams, Dodd, T Williams, Patton, Richie Davis, Click, Don Sterbutzel, Kent Nelson, Max Sadler.

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