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Ventura, CA -August 26, 2000--Taking full advantage
of his pole start, Chris Wakim collected $1,000 for his third 30 lap
VRA unwinged 360 sprint car feature win of the season Saturday night
at Ventura Raceway. Wakim now stands just 120 points back of point
leader Gary Howard, who settled for a 9th. Fourth ranked Jeff Heaton
was a $750 second and third ranked Greg Taylor pocketed $500 for his
third place run. The IMCA Modified 20 lap feature winner also came
from the pole as Stephen Mitchell won for the second time and
collected $275. Defending track champion Donald Houghton ran second
and is just 6 points behind point leader Rich Wolfe. Marty Desbrow
became a three time winner in the I-4 Modifieds and the second ranked
driver stands 135 points back of point leader George Kreider IV. The
Pony Stocks had 30 cars racing and Mike Frazier scored his 2nd win
after earlier taking his heat race. Double division racer Chris Tramel
was second. It was the first racing action for the track since the
Ventura County Fair dates early in August and the first action for the
sprint cars since July.
There were 30 VRA sprint cars and Bill Welch won heat 1 ahead of Jimmy Crawford. Denny McVey and John Wright ran 1-2 in heat 2. Wakim and Taylor were 1-2 in a highly competitive heat 3. Heaton and Howard were 1-2 in the fourth heat. Top runner Clark Templeman III broke in his heat and was done for the night. Jeremy Ellertson escaped unhurt in a spectacular flip in his heat when his throttle stuck. Dale Harwood, Jessie Denome, Sparky Edmonston and Jim Thomson were the four transfers from the B Main. Wakim won the 30 lap feature from the pole with 3rd starting Heaton 2nd ahead of Taylor, who came from 7th. McVey was fourth ahead of Ronnie Case, Wright, Dighera and Jim Porter. A feature win is worth 200 points and Wakim stands 120 points back of point leader Howard. Taylor is third, 225 points back and just 25 ahead of Heaton. The 15 IMCA Modifieds were run in two heats with Mitchell winning the first heat over Jamie Taylor and John Aitken. Daman Redman added another win in heat 2 with Houghton second ahead of Kathy Pierson. In the feature, Mitchell took the 20 lapper from the pole with Houghton second ahead of Redman, Mike Furlong, California State point leader Bill Saltzman, Ed Shelton, Aitken and Pierson. Incoming point leader Rich Wolfe had a tough night with a 6th in his heat and 9th in the main. Furlong is now just 3 points behind Wolfe and 3 ahead of Houghton. Aitken is just 9 points out of the point lead and Steve Smith 10 behind Wolfe. In the I-4 Modified action, Marty McLaughlin edged Desbrow in heat 1 with point leader George Kreider IV the second heat winner in front of Joe Henderson. Desbrow won the main and gained a little ground on Kreider, who was fourth behind Steve Chuhaloff and Mark Joe. Tommy Fowler ran fifth ahead of David Knight and Bill Camarillo with 12 cars racing. Kreider stands 135 points ahead of Desbrow, who is just 5 points ahead of both Joe and Henderson. The highly competitive pony stock action saw Scott Bulpitt, Jack Fullerton, Mark Gillimore and Mike Frazier with the heat wins. The top four in each heat transferred into the 20 lap A Main and they were joined by four transfers from the B Main where Daniel Shrubb won ahead of Frank Woodward and Jimmy Clegg. Frazier then posted his second feature win with Tramel, who also races in the I-4 Modifieds, second ahead of Rick Rodarte and female ace Julie Masters. Point leader Mark Gillimore was fifth and holds an 80 point lead over both Cliff Ashlock and Wes Richardson. Ashlock and Richardson ran 6-7 ahead of Jon Everhart. Bryan Rungaitis ran 9th and is 150 points out of the point lead with previous point leader Ray Martinez slipping 170 points back after a 12th. Summary Pony Stock Heat 1-Scott Bulpitt, Dewitt Jones, Rodney Argo, Ray Martinez, Eric Chambers. Heat 2-Jack Fullerton, Rick Rodarte, Bryan Rungaitis, Cliff Ashlock, Daniel Shrubb. Heat 3-Mark Gillimore, Jon Everhart, Tom Burroughs, Bryan Weaver, Jeff Graham. Heat 4-Mike Frazier, Wes Richardson, Julie Masters, Chris Tramel, Jimmy Clegg. B Main-Shrubb, Frank Woodward, Clegg, Chambers, Paul Jankovskis, Matt Tramel, Garret Pegler, John Burroughs, Steve Logan, Bruce Blackman Jr. A Main-Frazier, Tramel, Rodarte, Masters, Gillimore, Ashlock, Richardson, Everhart, Rungaitis, Weaver, Shrubb, Martinez, Woodward, Tom Burroughs, Bulpitt, Clegg, Chambers, Argo, Fullerton, Jones. I-4 Modified Heat 1-Marty McLaughlin, Marty Desbrow, Tommy Fowler, Chris Tramel, Joshua Nice. Heat 2-George Kreider IV, Joe Henderson, Steve Chuhaloff, Bill Camarillo, Mark Joe. Main-Desbrow, Chuhaloff, Joe, Kreider, Fowler, David Knight, Camarillo, McLaughlin, Henderson, Dan Coburn, Tramel, Nice. IMCA Modified Heat 1-Stephen Mitchell, Jamie Taylor, John Aitken, Mike Furlong, Bill Saltzman. Heat 2-Daman Redman, Donald Houghton, Kathy Pierson, Steve Smith, Hobie Conway. Main-Mitchell, Houghton, Redman, Furlong, Saltzman, Ed Shelton, Aitken, Pierson, Rich Wolfe, Smith, Taylor, Ed Cutler, Randy Gens, Chris Tonoli, Coway. Unwinged 360 Sprint Car Heat 1-Bill Welch, Jim Crawford, Tony Dighera, Bob Moody, Sparky Edmonston. Heat 2-Denny McVey, John Wright, Jim Porter, Mike Davis, Dale Harwood. Heat 3-Chris Wakim, Greg Taylor, Ronnie Case, Chris Rahe, Jim Gresham. Heat 4-Jeff Heaton, Gary Howard, Richard McCormick, Rob Kershaw, Jessie Denome. B Main-Harwood, Denome, Edmonston, Jim Thomson, Sam Vale, Josh Ford, John Woodward, Gresham, Kenny Brown. A Main-Wakim, Heaton, Taylor, McVey, Case, Wright, Dighera, Porter, Howard, Welch, Crawford, McCormick, Rahe, Denome, Kershaw, Thomson, Edmonston, Davis, Harwood. |
