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| CRAWFORD THIRD IN POINTS
FOLLOWING 2ND WIN by Gary Jacob |
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Unwinged 360 Sprint Cars, VRA Modifieds and Pony Stocks |
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Ventura, CA -November 3, 2001--Another large 33 car
turnout for the VRA unwinged sprint cars required four heat races and
a pair of B Mains to set the 20 car grid for their 30 lap feature.
Ronnie Case beat Graham in the first heat, Tony Dighera won the second
heat ahead of Mike Knopf and Josh Ford took the third heat with Jeff
Heaton in second. Second year sprint car racer Luis Espinoza won the
fourth heat ahead of Crawford. The first B Main saw top runners Chris
Wakim, Richard McCormick and John Wright run 1-2-3 with only the first
two transferring into the 30 lapper. Rob Kershaw and Steve Stasa
transferred from the second B Main. Crawford won the 30 lap A Main
ahead of Templeman, Graham, Ford, Dighera, Howard, Wakim, Welch, Knopf
and Kershaw. Last week's winner, Greg Taylor, was 20th with McCormick
in 19th. While Howard holds an uncatchable 3055 point lead with just
two point races left, McCormick, Crawford and Taylor are dueling for
second in points. McCormick is 600 ahead of Crawford and 615 ahead of
Taylor. Wakim stands fifth and has an outside shot at climbing to
second in the final standings.
The Senior Sprints had one of their largest fields to date with 21 cars on hand and all 21 started their main event. Dayle Henry beat Keegan in the first heat race, Mike Cook and Oren Prosser Sr were 1-2 in heat 2 with Bob Moody and Sam Vail 1-2 in the last heat race. Keegan won the main event ahead of Harwood, dwarf car star Bach, Cook, champion Porter, Jim Blenkarn, Ron Butler and Brian King. While Porter has wrapped up the track title, Moody ran 14th and has three challengers for second in points. Harwood is just 165 points back of Moody, Henry is 590 back and Bach is 755 back. They have 1050 points available each race night. The VRA Modified count improved to 12 cars and McLaughlin preceeded his feature win with a victory in the first heat over rookie Rick Rodarte and Daniel Shrubb. Gallimore won the second heat over Kreider and Joe Henderson. McLaughlin and Gallimore then ran 1-2 in the feature ahead of Kreider, Rodarte, Henderson and Doug Cason. Rodarte is second in points, 205 back of Kreider and 130 ahead of Henderson. McLaughlin in fourth is 120 points ahead of Gallimore. The pony stock field was down to 20 cars so everyone raced in the A Main. Chavez also won his heat with Steve Klingberg second. Dave Little won the second heat over Jon Everhart and Burroughs. Bryan Rungaitis returned after missing the last race and won heat 3 in front of Shane Rungaitis. In the feature, Chavez won ahead of Burroughs, S Rungaitis, Andy Frank, Klingberg, B Rungaitis, Davis, Little and Jeff Graham. Burroughs has an outside shot at the track title as he stands 175 points back of Davis. Graham has fourth all wrapped up. Summary Pony Stock Heat 1-Joel Chavez, Steve Klingberg, Jody Davis, Andy Frank, Bruce Blackman Jr. Heat 2-Dave Little, Jon Everhart, Tom Burroughs, Julie Masters, Tim Frazier. Heat 3-Bryan Rungaitis, Shane Rungaitis, Dave Revard, Jack Fullerton, Adam McPhail. Main-Chavez, Burroughs, S Rungaitis, Frank, Klingberg, B Rungaitis, Davis, Little, Jeff Graham, Everhart, John Duque, Revard, Blackman, Cliff Ashlock, Fullerton, Frazier, Masters, McPhail, Phillip Stevenson, Jeff Long. VRA Modified Heat 1-Marty McLaughlin, Rick Rodarte, Daniel Shrubb, Doug Cason, Ray Martinez. Heat 2-Mark Gallimore, George Kreider IV, Joe Henderson, David Lidren, Tommy Fowler. Main-McLaughlin, Gallimore, Kreider, Rodarte, Henderson, Cason, Martinez, Shrubb, Mark Joe, Mike Schwellinger, Lidren, Fowler. Senior Sprint Car Heat 1-Dayle Henry, Greg Keegan, John Woodward, Ron Bach, Dale Harwood. Heat 2-Mike Cook, Oren Prosser Sr, Tim Moon, Jim Porter, Bob Graham. Heat 3-Bob Moody, Sam Vail, Sparky Edmonston, Preiss Movius, Jack Erickson. Main-Keegan, Harwood, Bach, Cook, Porter, Jim Blenkarn, Ron Butler, Brian King, Graham, Henry, Edmonston, Vail, Erickson, Moody, John Richards, Curtis Richards, Chuck Tyler, Moon, Prosser, Woodward, Movius. Unwinged 360 Sprint Car Heat 1-Ronnie Case, Bob Graham, Bill Welch, Mike Davis, Chris Wakim. Heat 2-Tony Dighera, Mike Knopf, Kenny Brown, Larry Lloyd, Brett Butler. Heat 3-Josh Ford, Jeff Heaton, Gary Howard, Greg Taylor, Mark Weitzman. Heat 4-Luis Espinoza, Jimmy Crawford, Jessie Denome, Clark Templeman III, Rob Kershaw. 1st B Main-Wakim, Richard McCormick, John Wright, John Geyer, Weitzman, Oren Prosser Jr, Gene Godepski. 2nd B Main-Kershaw, Steve Stasa, Steve Chuhaloff, Shawn Kautz, Butler, Jake Ford, Dwayne Marcum, Ryan Devitt. A Main-Crawford, Templeman, Graham, Josh Ford, Dighera, Howard, Wakim, Welch, Knopf, Kershaw, Espinoza, Heaton, Davis, Brown, Denome, Lloyd, Case, Stasa, McCormick, Taylor. |
