Saturday started normally with the Late Model time trials but with only 9 Late Models, time trials went fast. Brian Leverock's #5 got the fast time with a 14.187 followed by Den Neighbor Jr. #82 and Billy "The Kid" Mowery #73.

Street Stocks rolled out for 3 heats with Mike Kowalke #41 winning the first heat followed by Pat Grimes #00 ,Robert Crisp #2, Bob Patterson #65 and Pete Coon #27 rounding out the top 5.Second heat had Mike Walsh #42 showing the way to take the win followed by Roger Welch #98, Jim Billera #85,Jim Altobelli #76 and Danny Partelo #9 rounding out the top 5.Third heat had "Hollywood" Ron Davis #40 take the checkered flag.Jason Graham #4, Ed Kidd #6, John Makula #56and Corky Craver #12 rounded out the top 5 for thefinal heat race in the Street Stocks.

Mini Stocks rolled out for only two heats this week.First race had Mark Gonzalez #47 taking the checkered with,Eric Cuchta #12, Steve Pelo #81, Marty "The Python" Neikens # 70 and Mary Mongold #6 rounding out the top 5.Second heat had "Mr. Missle" Tim McPhail #30 taking the win, with Joey Catarelli #65, Tom Zimmerman #55, Matt Rotkis #3 and Glenn Kelley #16 in the top 5 to finish the Mini Stock heats.

Open Wheel Modifieds had two heats also.First heat had last weeks winner of the Pespi 100 winner, Rob Partelo taking the checkered. Roger Stull #99, Chris Robbins #88,Tony Meeham #3, and Chet Senokossoff #6 rounding out the top 5.Second heat race had Tom White #30 showing the way to take the checkered.Luke Hill #41, Ron Campbell #5, Darren Jackson #73 and Mike Hinegardner #51 rounding out the top 5 for the last heat race for the Open Wheel Modified.


Features

Street Stock Feature

Street Stock feature started on time with the normal 24 car field with Pat Grimes #00 on the Pole and Roger Welch #98 outside pole.The race started out very clean with Pat Grimes taking the led on the first lap.Pat had his hands full with Roger Welch #98, who was on his way to second, and Jason Graham in third. The race stayed that way for quite a few laps, but further back in the pack was a big mess.Mike Kowalke #41 running the middle of the racing groove was making it hard on everyone behind him to pass. Clearly many cars behind him were faster,but with the line he was running all the others behind him were stacking up. Ron Davis #40 was leaking a little fluid on the track not enough to see, but enough that the cars behind him were sliding out off the corners. Making it hard for cars to pass clean. Back up front Jason Graham #4 got past Roger Welch #98 for second and was tracking down the leader.It did not take long for Jason to catch the leader, but Jason had a hard time passing Pat. Beating and banging for about 4 laps Jason did everything but spin Pat out to get the lead. On the final lap Jason got into Pat on turns 1 and 2 to take the lead and win the race.

Open Wheel Modified Feature

Open Wheel Modifieds came out with 19 cars for the feature Roger Stull #99 had the pole and John Moore had the outside pole.At the drop of the green flag John Moore started going backwards,while Roger Stull started to run away from the field.An early caution caused things to tighten up and Luke Hill #41 had made his way to second by then.On the restart Roger had a good jump and kept the lead.Further back, the field was speading out. Allyn Summers #56 was making his way back up to the front after being put to the back on a caution.Running right behind the leaders were Chris Robbins #88 and Tom White #30.All of a sudden, Chris turned into the #30 car of Tom White causing his car to go on to his roof and slide down the front stretch all the way to the pit entrance. After a couple of minutes Chris crawled out of his car and waved to the fans. Paramedics informed me that Chris was doing well and had lacerations on his leg.

Mini Stock Feature

Mini Stocks started out with the normal 24 car field.Matt Rotkis #3 on the pole with Steve Pelo #81 on the outside pole.On the drop of the green flag alot of mixing up began.Neither Matt Rotkis or Steve Pelo could keep the lead because Macky Mongold was coming on strong .With some newly found horsepower Macky Mongold took the lead.Back in the pack Marty Neikens #70 looked like he was towing Dennis Valdez #40 to the front. Both of them making all of their moves on the outside lane working hard to run the leader down.Macky was running away with the race but with a caution on lap 17 Macky's lead diminished.This put Marty and Dennis on Macky's back bumper.On the restart Macky got a good jump and made it hard for either Marty or Dennis to catch him. Macky took the win with Marty knocking on the door.


Late Model Features

Late Models were disappointing once again with only a nine car field. Billy Bechtelheimer #6 on pole and Mason Love #0 outside pole. Billy drop to the back on the pace lap putting Sam Coghill on the pole for the drop of the green flag. With really no challenge from Mason, Sammy took the lead on the first lap with Billy Mowery #73 right behind him in second. Billy Mowery #73 was not going to let Sammy run away with this one, staying on Sammy's bumper,Billy was trying everything to get by but Sammy seemed to be running a twolane groove. Trying the outside most of the time. Billy just could not get by Sammy. Sammy's car seemed to be pushing in the corners whenever Billy would try the outside lane. The Flagman warned Sammy about his line several times,telling him to pick a lane.Sammy went on to win with Billy right next to him.


Figure 8 Feature


Figure 8 feature was short a couple of cars and seemed to effect the show a little. Donnie Thomas started on pole with Dwayne Dopell #08 outside pole. As the flag dropped Donnie took off, Dwayne fell back. Bobby Moctuzuma #17 jump in second and was close to Donnie for a couple of laps but Bobby started falling back. Ron Campbell #8 running in third was givingBobby all he could handle for a while. Ron just could not get by Bobby.While all of that was going on Donnie was running away with the race. The intersection was not getting much action until the later laps. Every thing was safe and a good raceoverall.


Enduro Features


Enduros were running their oval races this weekend.With two races for the night the action was continuous. So much was going on that I could not keep track of all of it. In the first race Harold Ashley ranaway with it from the start. The #95 of Rick Hartman was disqualified forthe rearend. Giving the #3 of Charlie Smith the second place finish. Whenthe #27 of Harold Ashley got into the lapped traffic Harold was spun out.The caution came out and Harold got his spot back. Harold went on to win.Second enduro race had the #02 of Pete Cracolici showing the way. Petetook the win with the #49 Chuck Boyle taking second.


This is the way I saw it.


Mike Smith


SunshineRaceFan.com
Late Model Feature
1 22 Sammy Coghill
2 73 Billy Mowery
3 82 Den Neighbor Jr
4 5 Brian Leverock
5 18 Andy Werden
6 0 Mason Love
7 6 Billy Bechtelheimer
8 07 Jeff Scofield
9 21 Duane Haines

Open Wheel Feature

1 99 Roger Stull
2 41 Luke Hill
3 5 Ron Campbell
4 73 Darren Jackson
5 15 Randy Rhodes
6 10 John Moore
7 17 Aaron Dreher
8 2 Jr Wade
9 57 Kenny Moore
10 56 Allyn Summers
11 3 Tony Meeham
12 71 Barry Bartlett
13 76 Doug Catalano
14 51 Mike Hinegardner
15 9 Rob Partelo
16 88 Chris Robbins
17 30 Tom White
18 90 Mark McKnight
19 6 Chet Senokossoff

Street Stock Feature

1 4 Jason Graham
2 00 Pat Grimes
3 98 Roger Welch
4 2 Robert Crisp
5 0 Jim Mathews
6 27 Pete Coon
7 41 Mike Kowalke
8 76 Jim Altobelli
9 56 John Makula
10 40 Ron Davis
11 6 Ed Kidd
12 77 Rick Haugh
13 9 Dan Partelo
14 35 Joe Smith
15 1 Bob Hall
16 54 Dave Roberts
17 42 Mike Walsh
18 02 Richard Crisp
19 33 Paul Cowan
20 85 Jim Billera
21 12 Corky Craver
22 99 Steve Harbuck
23 57 Mike Cole
24 65 Bob Patterson

Mini Stock Feature

1 00 Macky Mongold
2 70 Marty Neikens
3 40 Dennis Valdez
4 06 Rick Sirmans
5 3 Matt Rotkis
6 81 Steve Pelo
7 41 Mark Moniz
8 69 Jay Zolciak
9 24 Chris Thornton
10 65 Joey Catarelli
11 55 Tom Zimmerman
12 6 Mary Mongold
13 12 Eric Cuchta
14 16 Glenn Kelley
15 47 Mark Gonzalez
16 93 Rick Beineke
17 30 Tim McPhail
18 04 Tom Meyer
19 5 Rick Taylor
20 14 Tina Reiner
21 72 Danny Smith
22 78 Tom Tatarzewski
23 15 Doug Hopper
24 46 Mike Gonzalez

Figure 8 Feature

1 31 Donnie Thomas
2 17 Bobby Moctezuma
3 8 Ron Campbell
4 15 Joey Catarelli
5 89 Ron Davis
6 11 Art Calkins
7 28 Shane Grigsby
8 14 Wayne Calkins
9 05 Dwayne Thompson
10 78 Bob Hage
11 74 Robbie Hage
12 84 Cliff Rousseau
13 08 Dwayne Doppell


Enduro 1&2 Features

1 27 Harold Ashley 1 28 Pete Cracolici
2 95 Rick Hartman 2 49 Chck Boyle
3 3 Charlie Smith 3 61 Dave Oshenwald
4 1x Donna Cropper 4 96 Fred Judy
5 39 Lonnie McCurdy 5 40 Earl Bowman

-By Mike Smith


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