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San Felipe Pueblo, NM....May 30.......Having
earlier won his heat race, Robert Marfia Jr completed his perfect night at
Hollywood Hills Speedway by racing to his first NMMRA unwinged sprint car
feature win Sunday night. Rickey Hood rebounded from his broken engine leading
the winged sprint car action on Saturday night to place second behind Marfia
ahead of Bo Baker and Tom Ball. 14 year old Stormy Scott from Las Cruces missed
all the winter action recovering from a broken leg suffered on a skiing
vacation, but he was flying this weekend as he followed up his third place run
on Saturday night with a $1000 win on Sunday night. This was his first feature
win in the highly competitive Barnett's Harley Davidson dirt modified division.
His twin brother Johnny Scott was the 2003 track champion at El Paso in their
rookie dirt modified season and won both of the main events on the opening
weekend of 2004 at Hollywood Hills. Farmington's Brandon Carley ran second ahead
of Bumper Jones Sunday night. Both the unwinged sprint cars and dirt modifieds
have special $10,000 track point funds for their Hollywood Hills action in 2004.
Ralph Dutcher beat the busy Curt Barnett and Saturday night winner Butch Reid Sr
in the dirt late model main event. That win paid $450. Aztec's Jesse Baldwin was
the $425 winner in the street stock feature over Albuquerque's Ron Frazier Jr
and Aztec racer Rex Higgins. Rick Boelter was the $350 winner in the hobby stock
main event ahead of Steve Bonesteel and Randall Yates. The second night of the
busy weekend drew 25 non winged sprint cars, 41 dirt modifieds, 11 dirt late
models, 27 street stocks and 31 hobby stocks for a grand total of 135 cars.
Another windy night quickly produced dry slick racing conditions and Jason
Tanner won the first heat for the unwinged sprint cars in the Norm Smith car
ahead of Steve Copeland and Thomas Murray. Marfia won heat 2 from an outside
front row start over 2003 rookie of the year Jeff Brumfield Jr and Tim Jones.
Nick Rael led the first 3 laps of heat 3 before giving way to Hood. Hood wheeled
the Joe Herrera car to the win ahead of Rael and Chris Faber. Last year's track
champion Bo Baker led early in heat 4, but Tom Ball ended up with the win ahead
of Bobby Seals and Baker. Both Russ Gossett and Rick Johnson were feature
scratches to leave 23 cars in the lineup for the 30 lapper. Tanner had the pole
for the main event, but suffered a broken rocker arm and proved to be a rolling
roadblock before he could get off the track. Brumfield Jr took a quick lead over
Rael and J C Powell Jr. Brumfield Jr led 9 laps before Rael took over with Hood
charging from 10th to fourth behind Brumfield Jr and Marfia. Brumfield Jr pitted
his smoking car and Bobby Seals tangled with Baker for a lap 15 yellow flag.
Marfia Jr took the lead from Rael and Rael fell from contention with a spin. Rio
Rancho's Marfia used lapped traffic to win by six lengths over Hood. Ball ran
third ahead of Seals, Kelly Denison and rookies Jody Williams and Copeland.
Powell Jr and Rael rounded out the top ten. In the special Hollywood Hills point
listing, Baker is 5 points ahead of Seals and 8 ahead of Denison. For the entire
traveling NMMRA schedule, Seals holds a 10 point lead over Baker and is 15 ahead
of Denison. They return to Hollywood Hills for two nights of racing on June
11-12 along with the dirt modifieds and SCOA winged 410 sprint cars, then make
their first venture into Arizona to race at Thunder Raceway in Show Low on June
19.
The dirt modifieds split 41 cars into six heat races with only the top 2
finishers in each moving up to the 30 lap A Main. Carley won the first heat over
Show Low regular Max Sadler from Springerville Az and Richard Johnson. 19 year
old Porter Smith beat Bumper Jones and J Scott in heat 2 while California
transplant Mark McClarran from Albuquerque won heat 3 over Troy Treharn and Kyle
Odom. McClarran was a regular at Merced Speedway before moving to New Mexico
several years ago. S Scott won heat four with Butch Reid Jr second ahead of Chad
Burson. Former Aztec champion J J Harpole beat Jeff Davis and Bobby Curran in
heat 5 while Saturday night feature winner Curt Barnett outraced Toby Herring
and Bo Martinez in heat 6. The A Main had 26 starters and Smith led first. On
lap 7, McClarran took the top spot from Smith. Carley and S Scott worked their
way into the 2-3 slots. The first yellow flag didn't fall until lap 20 when
Smith spun in turn 3. McClarran led Carley, S Scott, Harpole and B Jones on this
restart. Carley and S Scott both raced around McClarran and S Scott took the top
spot coming off turn 4 from Carley on lap 22. The excited S Scott got his first
win since leaving the street stock ranks with Carley second ahead of B Jones,
Harpole, Herring, Luke Cortese from Fort Sumner, C Barnett, McClarran, Smith and
Treharn. Show Low point leader Ed Beebe was 11th ahead of Eddie Farley and
Sadler. After four races, B Jones holds a 6 point lead on Herring and is 16
ahead of J Scott.
The dirt late model count improved from Saturday's 8 cars to 11, but they still
all raced in a single heat race. Butch Reid Sr won the heat race over Dutcher
and Ron Frazier Jr. Dutcher got the main event win with C Barnett getting his
second runnerup finish of the weekend. Saturday night winner Reid Sr ran third
ahead of John Aragon, Eloy Romero, Deral Meek and Steve Suber. Albuquerque area
racers Ron Frazier Jr, Andy Tanner and Rick Boelter ran 1-2-3 in heat 1 for the
street stocks. Santa Fe's Joe Smithberger missed Saturday night, but won
Sunday's 2nd heat ahead of Ray Hollingsworth and Dennis Spencer. Jay Pape
charged from sixth to win heat 3 over Rex Higgins and former Aztec champion
Allen Bradley. Baldwin was the feature winner ahead of Frazier Jr, R Higgins,
Spencer, female Aztec star Melissa Farley, Henry Alvirdes, Andy Jenson Jr and
Frank Powell Jr. Saturday night winner Ted Boettler was 9th ahead of double
division racer Rick Boelter. For the second straight night, the hobby stocks ran
their three heat races without a yellow flag. Shawn Kapinski beat Steve
Bonesteel and Mike Kapinski in heat 1 while John Cruickshank beat Randall
Trujillo and Dan Harmon in heat 2. R Boelter beat Ronnie Bell and Saturday night
winner J R Bonesteel in heat 3. After a fourth on Saturday night, R Boelter got
the Sunday night win ahead of S Bonesteel, Yates, S Kapinski, J Bonesteel, Randy
Carter, Trujillo, Bell and Robert Kapinski.
Summary
Hobby Stocks
Heat 1-Shane Kapinski, Steve Bonesteel, Mike Kapinski.
Heat 2-John Cruickshank, Randall Trujillo. Dan Harmon.
Heat 3-Rick Boelter, Ronnie Bell, J R Bonesteel.
Main-Boelter, S Bonesteel, Randall Yates, S Kapinski, J R Bonesteel, Randy
Carter, Trujillo, Bell, Robert Kapinski, Glen Jarmillo, Ronnie Leathem, James
Shook, Tom Hayes, M Kapinski, Bob Hanna, Ron Leathem Sr, Donnie Goss, Suzanna
Bonesteel, Gus Westerfield, Dan Galloway.
Street Stocks
Heat 1-Ron Frazier Jr, Andy Tanner, Rick Boelter.
Heat 2-Joe Smithberger, Ray Hollingsworth, Dennis Spencer.
Heat 3-Jay Pape, Rex Higgins, Allen Bradley.
Main-Jesse Baldwin, Frazier, R Higgins, Spencer, Melissa Farley, Henry Alvridres,
Andy Jenson Jr, Frank Powell Jr, Ted Boettler, Boelter, Bradley, Smithberger,
Pape, Tanner, Wheeler, Kenny Smith, Jeff Whyman, Scotty Beasley.
Dirt Late Models
Heat-Butch Reid Sr, Ralph Dutcher, Ron Frazier Jr.
Main-Dutcher, Barnett, Reid Sr, John Aragon, Eloy Romero, Deral Meek, Steve
Suber, Marc Herrera, Larry Brown, Frazier, Monty Neff.
Dirt Modifieds
Heat 1-Brandon Carley, Max Sadler, Richard Johnson.
Heat 2-Porter Smith, Bumper Jones, Johnny Scott
Heat 3-Mark McClarran, Troy Treharn, Kyle Odom.
Heat 4-Stormy Scott, Butch Reid Jr, Chad Burson.
Heat 5-J J Harpole, Jeff Davis, Bobby Curran.
Heat 6-Curt Barnett, Toby Herring, Bo Martinez.
A Main-S Scott, Carley, B Jones, Harpole, Herring, Luke Cortese, Barnett,
McClarran, Smith, Treharn, Beebe, Eddie Farley, Max Sadler, Davis, Curran,
Taylor Yazzie, Odom, Mike Wells, Alvie Williams, Martinez, Treharn, Reid Jr,
Burson, Carlos Dorcas.
Unwinged Sprint Cars
Heat 1-Jason Tanner, Steve Copeland, Thomas Murray, Paul Whitehead, Ted McAdams.
Heat 2-Robert Marfia Jr, Jeff Brumfield Jr, Tim Jones, Kristy Smith, J C Powell
Jr.
Heat 3-Rickey Hood, Nick Rael, Chris Faber, Jody Williams, Kelly Seals.
Heat 4-Tom Ball, Bobby Seals, Bo Baker, Kelly Denison, Larry Stoerkel.
Main-Marfia Jr, Hood, Baker, Ball, B Seals, Denison, Williams, Copeland, Powell,
Rael, C Faber, Stoerkel, Jones, Kevin Faber, Rick Flowers, McAdams, K Seals,
Murray, Brumfield Jr, Smith, Whitehead, Jon Taylor, Tanner.
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