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KIERCE GETS FIRST 2004 VRA SPRINT CAR WIN AT PERRIS
by Gary Jacob

Unwinged 360 Sprint Cars, IMCA Modifieds and Super Stocks

Perris, CA....July 31......Former Ventura Raceway track champion Kevin Kierce got his first $1000 VRA unwinged 360 sprint car feature win of 2004 as the traveling group returned to the Perris Auto Speedway clay half-mile on Saturday night. Kierce ran second to Bakersfield based VRA point leader Tom Stansberry in their heat race and then turned the tables on the very consistent Stansberry in the feature action. Stansberry ran second to stretch his already large point lead. Chris Wakim was third ahead of Rob Kershaw and Steve Conrad. In the IMCA Modifieds, Tom Smith won the feature race and became the new season point leader when Alan Updyke only managed a 14th place run. Impressive rookie Rex McGuire II was second ahead of Travis Gorsuch and Johnny Lathrop. In the super stocks, former champion Terry Hershberger moved right back into the thick of the point battle by beating usual dirt late model racer Bill Bartels and Henry Wesolowski III in that feature run. Point leader Linny White continues to race with a broken hand and he ran 7th. Point runnerup James Scott was fifth.

           The unwinged 360 sprint cars face a lengthy layoff due to the Ventura County Fair and appeared 31 cars strong for the half-mile action at Perris. Bill Welch won the first heat over Kershaw and Larry Lloyd. It was Wakim taking heat two over Bill Camarillo and Jimmy Crawford. Clark Templeman III had won the two previous Ventura races and he won heat 3 ahead of Hanford teenager Chad Boespflug, who usually races with the Bandit group. Stansberry, Kierce and Dwayne Marcum were 1-2-3 in heat 4. The top four from each heat advanced and they were joined by six transfers from the B Main. Greg Taylor won the B Main ahead of Steve Conrad, Dwight Cheney, Chris Tramel, Blake Miller and Luis Espinoza. Just missing the move up were Ron DiDonato and Steve Chuhaloff. The feature race had 22 starters and it was Kierce racing to the $1000 win with Stansberry a $750 second. Wakim won $500 for third and it was Kershaw in fourth ahead of Conrad, Taylor, Tramel, Camarillo, Espinoza, Welch, Blake Miller and Aaron Reyer. Templeman was 21st.

          The IMCA Modifieds drew 15 cars included Ventura regulars Kathy Pierson and Wes Richardson along with Bakersfield's Buck Cox. Smith raced to the feature win over McGuire II, Gorsuch, Lathrop, Dale Underwood, Pierson, Steve Linthicum, Cox, Randy Thornell and Don Pannel. Smith started the night 3 points back of Updyke and just 12 ahead of McGuire II. Fourth ranked Darin Hawks was missing as he is suspended by IMCA for refusing an engine claim at the Merced fair race. The super stocks had 17 cars in action and it was Hershberger getting the feature win over Bartels, Wesolowski III, John Caley, point runnerup James Scott, Ed Perry, White, Eddie Lagor, Everett Burns and Mike Hixson. White is trying to win championships on both the dirt and pavement in 2004 and this was another night when he had to race both here at Perris and in his tour late model at Orange Show Speedway. Scott was 17 points back of White starting the night and 10 ahead of Hershberger.

Summary 

Super Stocks
Main-Terry Hershberger, Bill Bartels, Henry Wesolowski III, John Caley, James Scott, Ed Perry, Linny White, Eddie Lagor, Everett Burns, Mike Hixson, Mike Miller, Mike Stapleton, George Boulden, Mark Yarbrough, Ron Woods, Carla Laney, Michael Doolin.

IMCA Modifieds
Main-Tom Smith, Rex McGuire Jr, Travis Gorsuch, Johnny Lathrop, Dale Underwood, Kathy Pierson, Steve Linthicum, Buck Cox, Randy Thornell, Don Pannel, Kevin Hocking, Wes Richardson, James Pierce, Alan Updyke, Mike Lerwill. 

Unwinged 360 Sprint Cars
Heat 1-Bill Welch, Rob Kershaw, Larry Lloyd, Jim Thomson, Chris Tramel. 
Heat 2-Chris Wakim, Bill Camarillo, Jimmy Crawford, Steve Ostling, Steve Conrad. 
Heat 3-Clark Templeman III, Chad Boespflug, Mike Broome, Mike Whitcomb, Greg Taylor. 
Heat 4-Tom Stansberry, Kevin Kierce, Dwayne Marcum, Aaron Reyer, Dwight Cheney. B Main-Taylor, Conrad, Cheney, Tramel, Blake Miller, Luis Espinoza, Ron DiDonato, Steve Chulahoff, Tom Hendricks, Chris McArthur. 
A Main-Kierce, Stansberry, Wakim, Kershaw, Conrad, Taylor, Tramel, Camarillo, Espinoza, Welch, B Miller, Reyer, Broome, Ostling, Crawford, Boespflug, Lloyd, Marcum, Cheney, Thompson, Templeman III, Whitcomb.

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