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| HOOD FOLLOWS UP STRONG
SECOND WITH $1000 WIN by Gary Jacob |
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Wingless 360 Sprint Cars, Super Stocks, Dwarf Cars, American Stocks, Four Bangers and Destruction Derby |
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Watsonville, CA..June 16...Having run a strong second the previous
weekend when Brent Kaeding successfully blocked his last lap pass attempt,
Daniel Hood led the final 15 laps as he raced to a $1000 win in the 30 lap SCRA
injected wingless 360 sprint car feature Friday night at Ocean Speedway. It
marked his first ever feature win while driving his father Jamie's car.
Bakersfield long tow Rusty Carlile led the first 15 laps and ran a solid second
in the feature ahead of Santa Maria area long tow Jeff Fiscus and Craig Smith,
who had to battle from the rear. Carlile is locked in a duel with Jonathan Logan
and Richard Harvey Jr for the SCRA point title. Mark Cooper's tough season in
the super stock class sees him buried in fifth place in points, but he raced to
this week's $500 win to give him two main event wins in 2006. The win snapped a
three race winning streak for point leader Dennis Pelphrey, but Pelphrey ran a
solid $250 second ahead of point runnerup Phillip Priddy. After battling his way
from 8th starting to second in his heat race, defending Bay Area Dwarf Car
champion Todd Damron led every lap to win their feature race. It was a near
perfect night for Damron as he also collected the dash honors. Dave Mosier had a
big night as he won a heat race and then ran second in the feature ahead of Al
Ghiorso and Mark Tillinger. Damron was third in points going into the night, but
he moved around Howard Fergerson into second this night and will gain a lot of
ground on point leader Mark Chaves who finished 15th. American Stock point
leader Tim Clark Sr scored the $100 feature win for the fourth time in six races
and point runnerup George Fernandez was a $75 second. G Fernandez has stayed
within 32 points of Clark Sr, but will not run a complete season as he is headed
for North Carolina to attend a NASCAR tech school. Third ranked Steve Montgomery
was a $50 third and Clark's teammate Kenny Neville ran fourth. Four Banger point
leader Jeff Wilson had lost his car to a claim at the previous race, but
traveled up to Antioch to claim a car to keep his season going. In his new
mount, he raced to his first feature win of 2006 ahead of point runnerup Andrew
Camperud and Jimmy Cook. The big night of racing ended with a six car
destruction derby and Ryan Cheevers was the winner ahead of Alex Villereal,
James Matthews, Allen Duckworth, Matt Trebino and Michael Trebino. Previous week feature winner Kaeding was busy racing at the Dirt Cup in Washington, but the addition of four wingless spec sprints grew the SCRA count to 14 cars this week. Logan turned in quick time of 14.114, 1/3 of a second faster than last week's quick time. Hood ranked second at 14.359 and Smith ran 14.526. They were the only cars to break into the 14's as Harvey ran a 15.043 and Ventura regular Dennis Rodriguez made the long tow north to rank fifth ahead of Carlile. Albert Pombo was 7th ahead of the spec sprint of David Press. Smith won the opening heat race ahead of the spec sprint of Aaron Sirles, Logan and Rodriguez. Harvey outraced Carlile, Hood and Scott Merrell in heat 2. The dash determines the starting order for the front three rows in the feature and Carlile won from the pole ahead of smith, Hood and Harvey. It was a tough feature for point title hopefuls Logan and Harvey. Contact from Pombo sent Logan into Harvey and both the Logan and Harvey cars were damaged enough to end their race. Carlile led those first 15 rounds from the pole before Hood made his winning move. Smith had fallen to the rear during the action, but was scrambling his way back. Carlile put a lot of pressure on Hood but settled for second while Fiscus ran third. Smith made it back to fourth ahead of Rodriquez, Sirles, Steve Mannina, Kevin Barnes, Press and Merrell. Hood's good luck ended the next night in Chowchilla as he suffered oil pump woes in hot laps and his night ended before time trials. There were 9 super stocks. Pelphrey won the heat race over Cooper. Bob McCoun wheeled the Chris Kulvicki car in the heat action and ran third, but Kulvicki was back behind the wheel for the feature. Doug Hagio won the dash in front of Cooper. After second place runs in both the heat and dash, Cooper won a spirited duel with Pelphrey in the main event. Priddy finished third ahead of Hagio, Ford faithful Tony Oliveira, Kulvicki, Danny Scott and usual Ocean late model racer Mike Meazell. Pelphrey's point lead is 31 over Priddy and 42 ahead of Oliveira. D Scott is now 5 points back of Oliveira and 4 ahead of Cooper. The dwarf cars had a 24 car turnout with several Antioch regulars joining in. Duane Daniel made his first Watsonville appearance of 2006 coming off a feature win at Antioch the previous weekend. Mosier won the first heat race ahead of last starting Damron and Howard Fergerson. Bill Martinez won heat 2 over Tillinger and Antioch star Ricardo Rivera. Point leader Chaves beat Ghiorso and Gene Pires Jr. Damron then won the dash ahead of Chaves and Mosier. Martinez broke in the dash and was a feature scratch. Damron raced to the feature win from the pole. A lap 2 spin on the front stretch by Chaves collected nearly half of the field with Rivera barrel rolling into turn 1. No one was injuried. Damron was chased to his win by Mosier, Ghiorso, Tillinger, Pires, Chris Dorto, Martin Whittingham, Dave Penny, Dan Zuger and Chris Weaver. The Bay Area dwarf cars will support the CDCRA Nationals in Victorville on June 22-24, then return to Ocean Speedway for a show on June 30. Damron was six points back of Fergerson starting the night and 46 back of Chaves. The American Stocks split a 24 car turnout into three heat races. When Jennifer Rood-Ash suffered a broken engine on her normal mount, last week's feature winner Billy Nelson II immediately offered her his car and she took him up on the offer. Rod Herrick won heat 1 in his Ford ahead of G Fernandez and Wally Kennedy. Bill Sorg beat Montgomery and Chad Bisordi in heat 2. Clark Sr was third in heat 3 as Les Bowers won ahead of Neville. The rapidly improving G Fernandez enjoyed a big night as he won the dash ahead of Herrick and Montgomery. Clark Sr was a NASCAR National Short Track champion back when he raced in the street stocks and he is going to be tough to beat for the 2006 track title. He has won four of the last five races and was chased to this week's win by G Fernandez, Montgomery, Neville, W Kennedy, Steve Remde, Rood-Ash in her borrowed car, Norm Ayers and rookie Duane Orsburn. Another Clark teammate, Albert Acosta, rounded out the top ten. With his great early season record, Clark Sr has stretched a 32 point lead on G Fernandez and stands 68 points in front of Montgomery. Rood-Ash is fourth, 11 points back of Montgomery. After a rash of early season car claims, Ocean Speedway raised the claim in the four bangers from the former $750 up to $1300. There were 9 four bangers this week including point leader J Wilson in his newly purchased mount. Rick Steel beat Jimmy Cook and Andrew Camperud in the heat race. Cook was also a claim victim on opening night and R Steel now drives that car. R Steel also won the dash over Camperud and J Wilson. In the feature, it was J Wilson out front for the first time in 2006 and point runnerup Camperud ran second ahead of Cook, Frank Chaz, Alex Bieser and Wes Blade. J Wilson holds a 15 point lead on Camperud and Bieser is another 30 points back in third. Despite missing the first race and getting 8th tonight, R Steel is now 52 points back of the leader in fourth. June 23 is Big Brothers/Big Sisters night at the track and the IMCA Modifieds will be chasing a $1000 win in their feature with $100 guaranteed to all starters. The Ocean Late Models, American Stocks, Figure 8 and Four Bangers will also race. A big weekend at the track as the Gene Romero Flat Track Motorcycle Series will visit on Saturday night June 24. Summary Four Banger Dash-Rick Steel, Andrew Camperud, Jeff Wilson. Heat-Steel, Jimmy Cook, Camperud, Wilson, Brian Vandermolen. Main-Wilson, Camperud, Cook, Chaz, Alex Bieser, Wes Blade, Kyle Stephens, Steel, Vandermolen. American Stock Dash-George Fernandez, Rod Herrick, Steve Montgomery, Les Bowers, Kenny Neville, Bill Sorg. Heat 1-Herrick, G Fernandez, Wally Kennedy, Josh Davis, Tricia Krickeburg. Heat 2-Sorg, Montgomery, Chad Bisordi, Tommy Laliberte, Steve Remde. Heat 3-Bowers, Neville, Tim Clark Sr, Steve Taddei, Albert Acosta. Main-Clark Sr, G Fernandez, Montgomery, Neville, Kennedy, Remde, Jennifer Rood-Ash, Norm Ayers, Duane Orsburn, Acosta, Bowers, Davis, Krickeburg, Taddei, Laliberte, Gary Baker, Jimmy Fernandez, Camperud, Bisordi, Herrick, Cody Burke, Jerry Stanton. Dwarf Car Dash-Todd Damron, Mark Chaves, Dave Mosier, Al Ghiorso, Mark Tillinger, Bill Martinez. Heat 1-Mosier, Damron, Howard Fergerson, Gilbert Toste, Dave Penny. Heat 2-Martinez, Tillinger, Ricardo Rivera, Chris Dorto, Tony Miller. Heat 3-Chaves, Ghiorso, Gene Pires Jr, Martin Whittingham, Dan Zuger. Main-Damron, Mosier, Ghiorso, Tillinger, Pires, Dorto, Whittingham, Penny, Zuger, Chris Weaver, John Gorman, Ryan Dennis, Butch Liston, Miller, Chaves, Craig Avery, Duane Daniel, Matt Sargent, Fergerson, Rivera, Toste, Doug Penny, Rich Wilson. Super Stock Dash-Doug Hagio, Mark Cooper, Dennis Pelphrey, Chris Kulvicki. Heat-Pelphrey, Cooper, Bob McCoun, Hagio, Phillip Priddy. Main-Cooper, Pelphrey, Priddy, Hagio, Tony Oliveira, Kulvicki, Danny Scott, Mike Meazell, Ray Ash. Wingless 360 Sprint Car Fast Time-Jonathan Logan 14.114 Dash-Rusty Carlile, Craig Smith, Daniel Hood, Richard Harvey Jr, Logan, Dennis Rodriguez. Heat 1-Smith, Aaron Sirles, Logan, Rodriguez, Steve Mannina. Heat 2-Harvey, Carlile, Hood, Scott Merrell, David Press. Main-Hood, Carlile, Jeff Fiscus, Smith, Rodriguez, Sirles, Mannina, Kevin Barnes, Press, Merrell, Kurt Nelson, Logan, Albert Pombo, Harvey. |
