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| Mike Cawood takes Mini Stock Win at VSP after Eldridge Refused Teardown | It was unseasonably warm and they were back and ready to
race tonight at Volusia Speedway Park! The Mini Stock
and Pure Stock ran heats and features while the Hobby
Stock and Street Stocks qualified and ran heat races
in preparation for their 100 lap races set for Sunday
with $5,000 to Win.
The fans took a brief intermission as the stepdaughter
of #14 Hugh Hays, Jaclyn Green and her finance Clayton
Miller exchanged their wedding vows on the front stretch.
Mini-Stocks: Heat Race 1 - #22 Mark Eldridge - #6 Matt
Cawood - #3 Ryan Vansickle - Heat Race 2 - #72 Jake
Hartley - #8 Paul Sheppard - #9 - Mike Cawood
The feature was spread out for several laps as #22 Mark
Eldridge got a jump on #72 Jake Hartley and held on to
the lead to take the lst Mini Stock win of 2002. Lap 5
the caution was thrown as #30 LJ Klemons car "died" on
the front stretch. #97 Jackie Rhames slowed up on lap
8 while brothers #9 Mike Cawood and #6 Matt Cawood
battled for 2nd and 3rd spots. Early front runner #72
Jake Hartley spun on lap 18 and ended up with a 7th
place finish.
Mini Stock Feature Finish:
(1) 22 Mark Eldridge (2) K9 Mike Cawood (3) 6 Matt
Cawood (4) 3 Ryan Vansickle (5) 8 Paul Sheppard (6)
29 Drew Smith (7) 72 Jake Harley (8) 27 ? (9) 97
Jackie Rhames (10) 66 Donnie Ashford (11) 16 Doug
White (12) 30 LJ Klemons (13) X Paul McAtee (14) 79
Ray Hunter (15) 12 Rick Riedel (16) 90 William Creeds
(DNS) 9b Michael Quick
** Mark Eldridge refused a tear down after the race.
The win was given to Mike Cawood.
Pure Stocks: Heat Race 1 - #23 Mark Reiter - #75 Shawn
Pawlak - #49 - Deric Smith. Heat Race 2 - #777 Robert
Goodman - #77 - Shannon Cleveland - #17 Marvin Prentice
The first Pure Stock winner of 2002 was #43 Joey Froelich.
As the Pure Stock race began so did the contact between
#23 Mark Reiter and #777 Robert Goodman. On lap 2 #75
Shawn Pawlak dropped back and ended up in the pits but
was able to make it back out by lap 4. #777 Goodman
held on to the lead until lap 5. #48 Deric Smith took
the lead and #43 Joey Froelich took second. #777 Goodman
was having problems and ended up in a spin on lap 8
finally finishing in 6th place.
Pure Stock Feature Finish:
(1) 43 Joey Froehlich (2) 48 Deric Smith (3) 77 Shannon
Cleveland (4) 23 Mark Reiter (5) 17 Marvin Prentice (6)
777 Robert Goodman (7) 75 Shawn Pawlak (8) 27 Marsha
Edwards (9) 1 Andy Hicks (DNS) 37 Steve Buker, 9 Rick
Picard, 69 Brad Fender, Jr.
Street Stock: Fast Time #lM David Kinsey 21.684 - 3 heat
races were run and the top 7 from each race transferred to
the Feature.
Heat Race #1 - #1M David Kinsey - #23 Toby Sims - #54h
Tim Hughes - #83 Karl Willard - #4p James Peters Jr. -
#88 Billy Wright - #73 Rick Swank
Heat Race #2 - #XX Scott Clarkson - #11 Pat Varieka -
#5 Kevin Zahnen - #74 Raymond Wheeler - #6 Robert
Sandifer - #69 Bobby Layman - #13 (?)
Heat Race #3 - #22 Joe Baker - #97 Trevor Gamble - #32 -
Kevin Terry - #88 - Chris Byle - #24 Chuck Barney - #48
Steve Lowery - #03 Michael Snyder
Hobby Stocks - Fast Time - #1M David Kinsey 21.904 - 5
heat races were run and the top 4 from each race
transferred to the feature:
Heat Race 1 - #56 Kevin Durden - #1M - David Kinsey -
#0 Billy Bishop - #51 Steve Oldaker
Heat Race 2 - #4 Wally Fowler - #96 Pat Williams -
#42 Douglas Sipps - #73 Jason Floyd
Heat Race 3 - #54 Tuck Trentham - #83 Keith Philman
#21 John Taylor - #H6 Jamie Moore Jr
Heat Race 4 - #66 Tony Knowles - #58 - Dave Buttrum
#18 Richard Price - #1 Chuck Adkins
Heat Race 5 - #88 Chris Byle - #65 John Mamph -
#19 Joe Belkey - #15 - Alan Peacock
Sunday 1/20/02 - Racing starts at 4 PM
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