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Having attended races at Victorville Auto Raceway over the last few years, I noted a facility that has some real potential for the future.
Arriving at the front gate, you’ll find adequate parking on a paved lot at no charge. Venturing through the entrance, you are greeted with a grassy park like expanse with a number of shade trees to shield you from the summer heart. After purchasing your adult admission for ten dollars, you proceed into the spacious grandstands accommodating several thousand fans. Food and beverages are available at locations behind the grandstands and clean restrooms are accessible from each end of the grandstands.
Settle in with your hot dog, a drink and some popcorn to enjoy the bill of fare for the evening. You will find a number of your neighbors participating in the evening’s events, as many of the competitors are from the greater Victor Valley community.
The program will vary from week to week as they feature different classes of competition. Check the schedule at the website, www.vville-auto-raceway.com and choose the shows that tickle your fancy. There is a good variety from the youngsters in their Mini-Dwarfs racecars to the 4-Banger stocks and the crowd favorite, Dwarf Cars. Check out the All-American stocks, which resemble your steed in the parking lot. Don’t miss the exciting Sport-Modifieds, Late Model Stocks and fire-breathing open wheel Sprint Cars.
Quite likely you may select several different favorites among family members. On the track you will often find Dad entered in one class, while son or daughter may be competing against him or in one of the other classes. Mom sometimes joins the fray also.
Saturday evening, September 26th was a pleasant change from the scorching triple digit temperatures of the past couple of weeks. Daytime temps in the nineties cooled down to the balmy eighties for the evening’s competition.
On the schedule were 360/410 Wingless Sprints, Sport Modifieds and the All-American Stocks. As the racers entered the track for wheel packing and hot laps, the tally was twenty-two sprinters, sixteen Sport Modifieds and ten All-American stocks.
Sprint feature results found Blake Miller scoring his fifth in a row victory, while being chased to the checkers by John Aden, Ronnie Gardner, Bob Ream Jr., Cody Williams, Austin Williams, Tom Stansberry, Cal Smith, Seth Wilson and Heidi Tresler.
The Sports-Modified “A” Main went to Jesse Gordon followed by Butch Wood, Johnny Lathrop, Mike Sayle, Vince Porter, Amanda Fritsch, Jim Snow, Keith Prischmann, Don Roland and Tim Branson.
The All-American feature was claimed by Robert Gamble over Chris Stauffacher, Wayne Childress, Ben Bacher, Bryan Bacher, Dan McGuirre, Craig Woldt, Joey St. Louis, Jeremy Mosley and Devin Laporte.
Victorville is definitely an “Oasis in the Desert”, although you will not find any camels tied up to a palm tree.
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