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Lavell Takes Pavement Points Lead
NCMA Sprints | Altamont Motorsports Park | Tracy, CA | August 11, 2007
Jimmy Lavell won his fourth pavement race this evening at Altamont Motorsports Park to take the lead in the season pavement points. With only one scheduled pavement race left, running at Madera Speedway next Saturday, and fifteen points separating Lavell and Ed Amador, the Pavement Points Championship is still up in the air. It will be one to watch as it goes into the book.
Lavell once again set fast time this evening, with Michael Zarevich coming right in behind him. E. Amador was third, David Goodwill fourth and Jeff Burrows fifth. In a rare occurrence, five cars were allowed to run the Trophy Dash. Burrows and Goodwill were one-two. Lavell and Amador were second row and Zarevich started last. Goodwill took his classy Napa Auto Parts sprinter right to the lead. By the second go-round, Lavell was trying to take it over, looked as if he got into the marbles on the outside and bobbled enough to have the field get past him. Goodwill continued his quest, taking his first pavement Trophy Dash win. Burrows came in second, E. Amador, third, Zarevich and Lavell finishing fourth and fifth.
After a six car inversion, Steve Amador and Rob Hammond brought the pack to the green. Hammond went right to the lead, looking very strong. Lavell who started in sixth position worked his way to the front by lap four. Hammond was holding onto second and doing a good job until he got squirrelly, then bobbled again and exited the track. Lavell was still in the lead, with the real race going on behind him as Burrows, E. Amador and Zarevich looked like a freight train hooked up. Hammond was able to reenter the track and continue the race, but Goodwill was up close to the back stretch wall and off on the hook. At the end of the race, Goodwill offered “We’ve had some problems (today) and no sense wadding it up in the wall.” Two-thirds of the race E. Amador nearly lost it and Zarevich knew exactly what to do as he took over third. Burrows was still holding second. S. Amador got squirrelly going into turn one turned his 360 sprint around and came down nose first, leaving Denny Burrell with no place to go but up and over Amador. Fortunately they were both able to continue. Several laps later the thirty lap main event was complete, and Lavell has his fourth main event win of 2007. Burrows, Zarevich, and E. Amador, were second, third, fourth and S. Amador rounded out the top five including the spinout! Of note: Gary Koster who has been the pavement points leader, has opted out to care for wife Jeanette as she continues with health issues. The NCMA family offers them both prayers and good wishes
NCMA Sprints will be competing at Madera Speedway in the last 2007 scheduled pavement race next Saturday night. For further information check it out on RaceMadera.com. See you there!
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