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Chowchilla, CA....July
19......Following up his clean sweep at Fernley NV the previous weekend, Danny
Olmstead from Tracy raced to wins in both his heat race and the main event for
the NCMA Modifieds Saturday night at Chowchilla Speedway. Olmstead's first NCMA
win of the 2003 season had come earlier this year in Chowchilla and the former
Johnny Key Classic winner at San Jose Speedway is looking to move up into
the Bandit unwinged 360 sprint car class later this summer. The Chowchilla track
champion in 2002 in the unwinged sprint cars, Keith Shipherd ran second in the
main event as Russ Wullenwaber enjoyed his best Chowchilla feature finish with a
third. With nearby Merced Speedway dark for their fair, Chowchilla moved their
racing to Saturday night and the car count in the dirt modifieds and super
street stocks improved. Backing up his big Tuesday night Merced fair win, Jack
Stanford from Chowchilla won the dirt modified feature ahead of Kings Speedway's
hottest driver Jimmy Reeves and Dodge powered Mitch Enos. Watsonville Speedway
regular Chris Messmer enjoys his opportunities to race on the bigger 3/8 mile
Chowchilla track and he won the super street stock main ahead of Frank Hannah
and female racer Darcie Odgers. After a second place heat finish behind Jimmy
Brewer, hobby stock point leader Marshall Weaver won their main event with
former point leader Cory Gilmore second ahead of Dan Stephens and the best hobby
stock run for Rachel Paul. The lure of free entry and $200 to win still only
produced a five car figure 8 field and Thomas McAbee won the feature ahead of
Dennis Keldsen.
There were 15 entries in
the NCMA Modifieds and fast improving John Fenton from Bakersfield won the first
heat ahead of George Terry and Jim Janssen. Olmstead beat Shipherd in heat 2 as
Wullenwaber ran third. Charlie Correia was a main event scratch and Olmstead
added that win with Shipherd second ahead of Wullenwaber, former Sprint 100
superstar Gary Koster, Doug Gandy, NCMA point leader Scott Holloway, Terry,
Fenton and Burt Siverling. Track point leader Bill Saltzman was off adding to
his IMCA Modified state of California point total, but the dirt modifieds had a
7 car field. Charles Paul won the heat race ahead of Enos and Reeves. Stanford
ran fifth in the heat race, but won the main event in his D&M Performance
Chassis as Reeves ran second in his Okie Phelan owned mount. Enos nipped Paul
for third as Gary Hildebrand ran fifth ahead of Ivan Scorsur and Jon Schlundt.
The track split the 8 super street stocks into a pair of heat races. Usual hobby
stock racer Syd Finn raced with the super street stocks and ran second behind
Messmer in the first heat race. Dennis Corn beat Roger Dory in heat 2. It was a
tough night for track point leader Nathan Corn as he ran third in his heat and
6th in the feature. Finn scratched from the main event as Messmer beat Hannah,
Odgers, D Corn, George Lefler Sr, N Corn and Dory.
The 16 hobby stocks
were split into three heat races. Gilmore beat D Stephens in heat 1 and Brewer
continued his hot streak with a win in heat 2 ahead of Weaver. Wayne Hall beat
newcomer George Fawcett in heat 3. Brewer dropped out in the feature with Weaver
winning ahead of Gilmore, D Stephens, R Paul, Jack VanHoff, Thomas McAbee, Ray
McCann, Mike Stockton, Jeff Whatley and T J Etchison. McAbee then won the $200
prize in the figure 8 ahead of D Keldsen, Duane Fast, John Keldsen and Los Banos
racer Keith Trusso.
Chowchilla will move back
to their regular Friday night slot on July 25.
Summary
Figure 8
Main-Thomas McAbee, Dennis Keldsen, Duane Fast, John Keldsen, Keith Trusso.
Hobby Stock
Heat 1-Cory Gilmore, Dan Stephens, Mike Stockton, Duane Fast, Kevin Pettitt.
Heat 2-Jimmy Brewer, Marshall Weaver, Jack VanHoff, Phillip Greene, Rachel
Paul.
Heat 3-Wayne Hall, George Fawcett, Ray McCann, Thomas McAbee, Jeff Whatley.
Main-Weaver, Gilmore, D Stephens, Paul, VanHoff, McAbee, McCann, Stockton,
Whatley, T J Etchison, Fast, Fawcett, Pettitt, #2, Brewer.
Super Street Stock
Heat 1-Chris Messmer, Syd Finn, George Lefler Sr, Darcie Odgers.
Heat 2-Dennis Corn, Roger Dory, Nathan Corn, Frank Hannah.
Main-Messmer, Hannah, Odgers, D Corn, Lefler Sr, N Corn, Dory.
Dirt Modified
Heat-Charles Paul, Mitch Enos, Jimmy Reeves, Gary Hildebrand, Jack Stanford.
Main-Stanford, Reeves, Enos, Paul, Hildebrand, Ivan Scorsur, Jon Schlundt.
NCMA Modified
Heat 1-John Fenton, George Terry, Jim Janssen, Doug Gandy, Michael Zarevich.
Heat 2-Danny Olmstead, Keith Shipherd, Russ Wullenwaber, Gary Koster, Rick
Eversult.
Main-Olmstead, Shipherd, Wullenwaber, Koster, Gandy, Scott Holloway, Terry,
Fenton, Bert Siverling, Janssen, Mike Johnson, Eversult, Zarevich, Tim Sherman.
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