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BANDIT SPRINT CARS 32 CARS OCTOBER 22nd
FIRST HEAT: (10 laps) KINGS CLASH: (10 laps - With Starting Positions) OCTOBER
23rd
FEATURE: (30 laps - With Starting Positions) It’s Chaney at
Saturday night was the final event of the 2004 Kings Speedway season. The Bandit Sprint Car Series fielded a solid 32 entries for the 10th Annual Western Speed and Fuel Dirt Track Nationals. Aaron Chaney of Clovis who was a definite underdog going into the weekend made it look easy as he went on to win the $ 3000 top prize Saturday night. Emotion ran high in victory lane as the Loan Oak Lodge/Ahern Rentals # 69 slid into winners circle.Former SCRA/Bandit competitor Jarrett (Aaron’s brother) ran the length of the front straight to do a nice 9.5 “swan dive” onto the hood overwhelmed with emotion. The dismayed runner up Danny
Sheridan was happy for Aaron however at the same time displaying
obvious frustration."We should of won.",said Chaney rolled the bottom
on a hard and slick Kings surface for the majority of the feature. He
held off a hard charging group which consisted of five racers who are
pre-entered in the Perris Auto
Speedway Oval Nationals. Australian Peter Murphy in the Tarlton and Sons Contruction # 21,a perfect marriage between man and racecar could only muster a third place finish.”Petah” who is known for his “no cushion fearing style” was handcuffed too the bottom as the top eroded. Finishing in the fourth position was a driver who had appeared to throw him and myself into a 2002 flashback. Jimmy “Nuetron” Crawford (2002 VRA Champ) perhaps with the best handling machine started outside row three. Crawford at one point slipped back to as far as 8th ,located the sweet spots low in turns two and four. Crawford used the “diamond” maneuver lap after lap actually taking the lead momentarily off of turn two only to be shoved back to third as the caution waved. Rounding out the top five
was Wakim started outside row
four and was dialed in from the get go. He picked off Crawford and
Sheridan early with a sweet move off of turn two. Wakim who was a heat
race winner Friday night looked good and proved that the veteran can
get it down in the The Western Speed and Fuel Dirt Track Nationals always a fun event as it brings out some cars and stars of the 360 kind. It was nice too see VRA’s Crawford and Wakim make the tow to attend the highest paying wingless 360 race in this state.
NOTES Bill Jones (alternate) starts 22nd in the A. Jonathan Logan flipped in turn three in the feature. Driver is ok. Garrett Hansen broke a driveline and sustained an ankle injury. Davey Pombo and Chris D’Arcy were involved in a hot lap double flip which did not affect the feature line up as they made repairs to race. Information provided by
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