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NCMA Sprints - Altamont Motorsports Park
Tracy, CA - July 12, 2008 --- David Goodwill 2007 Pavement Rookie took the checkers to win his first pavement Main Event. Napa’s “drivin’ dentist” and crew just kept up a consistency that hit pay dirt today.
In the first of a two week run at Tracy’s “Fastest Half Mile in the West” Michael Zarevich, one of several Mantecans set fast time in the Denny Burrell owned #1 sprinter. Zarevich was ½ second faster than Goodwill who was second quick; Pat Ariaz was third, with Ed Amador, fourth, and Jeff Burrows, fifth.
The thirty lap Main Event began with Concord’s Burt Siverling and Steve Amador of Patterson bringing the pack to the green. After doing some last minute changes on the Oval Chassis Research #77, Siverling led the first lap. The next round, S. Amador took the lead and the third lap was led by Burrows. S. Amador began having some oil pressure problems and was trying to head to the high side of the track to make an exit; E. Amador was on the inside. Zarevich was coming up behind them and didn’t see the slow down signal drivers give and had started on the outside of S. Amador. There was no room for three wide on turn one, and Zarevich jumped S. Amador’s wheel, pitching him into the wall with a very hard hit. The sprint car was destroyed and Zarevich moved out of the car under his own power, paramedics checked him out and the ambulance took him off track as is the custom. By the end of the evening, he was in extreme pain to his shoulder and back and was heading to medical care. After racing resumed, Burrows was leading but Ariaz and Rob Hammond were running right up to him. Meanwhile, Goodwill’s Lito Auto Body #3, starting in the last row had moved to the front. The Alumline Trailers “XX” piloted by Ariaz was running second with Hammond sticking to his tail. Burrows began struggling and E. Amador’s 7-A Bar Ranch sprinter zipped around him and up behind Hammond. By this time Goodwill was a ¼ track ahead of the Ariaz-Hammond- Amador freight train. Goodwill sailed in and out of lap traffic to take the checkered flag. Ariaz, Hammond, and E. Amador were second, third, and fourth respectively. Burrows managed fifth and later said. “I had a vibration that slowed me down.”
Join NCMA Sprints at Altamont Motorsports Park next Saturday, July 19th for another pavement pounder. Racing starts at 3pm and for once the breeze of Altamont is great on a Saturday afternoon.
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