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| Lawton Minchew Takes Late Model Win at Volusia Speedway Park | The fans enjoyed an autograph session with
several of the drivers. Between the heat races and feature
races drivers came into the grandstands and signed a
variety of souvenirs for the fans at Volusia Speedway Park
Saturday night.
DeLand Truck Cener Late Models - It was a good night from
the beginning for #23 Lawton Minchew. Minchew won his
heat race and went on to win his first feature in 2002.
On lap 1 @17 Joe Kump lost a nose piece and the handling
of his racecar, after winning his heat race, Kump ended
up with a 8th place finish.
Minchew took the lead from #02 Travis Rhoden on lap 9 and
had to work to hold onto it for their entire 30 lap
feature race.
A fierce battle for second between #88 Chris Vogel and
#53 John Rankin ended as Rankin got into the rear of
Vogel and damaged his car sending him to the pits, Vogel
was able to continue and finish 2nd.
Last week's winner #11 Roho Sims fought his way to 3rd
with 10 laps to go. Sims tried to take 2nd but just
couldn't get around Vogel. The battle between Vogel gave
Minchew a several car length lead all the way to the
checker flag.
DeLand Truck Center Late Models (1)23 Lawton Minchew (2)
88 Chris Vogel (3)11 Roho Sims (4)57 Chuck Julien (5)9
Rod Burton (6)71 David Shugart (7)02 Travis Rhoden (8)17
Joe Kump (9)4 Rick Singler (10)53 John Rankin
OB's Restaurant and Lounge Hobby Stocks-A Main - Caution
after caution didn't stop #19 Kory Bush from taking his
first win in 2002. It wasn't an easy task as Bush had
to fight off hard charging #46 Travis Gamble every lap.
Polesitter #8c Jeremy Cline had his share of problems as
he slid high on the track and lost several positions
finishing the race in 17th place.
After the checker flag dropped, #50 Pat Taulbee and #51
Steve Oldaker got together. Taulbee hit the inside wall
in turn one while Oldaker was able to keep it off the wall
and just spin.
OB's Restaurant and Lounge Hobby Stocks - A-Main (1)19
Kory Bush (2)46 Travis Gamble (3)29 Tom Hughes (4)19 Joe
Belkey (5)88 Dennis North (6)15 Alan Peacock (7)50 Pat
Taulbee (8)64 Trevor Gamble (9)51 Steve Oldaker (10)21
Chris Manucy
B-Main - It was another first time win in 2002 for #55 Al
Sanville.
Fans watched as the #72 Davey Cline got loose going into
turn 1, he gathered it up and made it through the turn.
The #89 (no name) and #7 James Strehle weren't so lucky,
they got together, Strehle rode the outside wall and
became wedged against the wall and the #89 car until the
wreckers pulled his car down off the wall.
OB's Resturant and Lounge Hobby Stocks - B-Main (1)55 Al
Sanville (2)26 George Lane, Jr. (3)31 Donnie Birdwell (4)
80 Paul Cutcher (5)57 Heinz Haas (6)65 Alan Stanley (7)72
Davey Cline (8)13 Phillip Brown (9)77 Craig Sutton (10)
38 Doug Fisher
Action Performance Street Stocks - 2001 Point Champion #22
Joe Baker made it to victory lane for the first time in
2002.
Baker was fast from the green but #11 Pat Varieka was right
on Baker's bumper for several laps until #007 Todd Ponce
made it around Varieka to take a 2nd place finish.
Several cautions plagued the feature, on lap 8 a pile up
on the front stretch gathered up 4 cars, #23 Wray Shaffer,
#4 James Peters, #74 Mike Lanich, and #24 Randy Strehle
on the restart #23 Wray Shaffer got into #24 Randy Strehle,
they ended up in the outside wall in turns 1 & 2, Shaffer
slid down the track. Strehle fired his car and ran into
Shaffer. Strehle's actions sent him to the pits and
on the trailer for the remainder of the night.
Action Performance Street Stocks (1)22 Joe Baker (2)007
Todd Ponce (3)11 Pat Varieka (4)54 Tim Hughes (5)00
John Ripley (6)5 Kevin Zahnen (7)73 Rick Swank (8)4p
James Peters (9)69 Lonnie Wagner Jr. (10)57 Wally
Schneider
Mini Stocks - It was the Triple 8 of Jamie McCague taking
the lead from #6 Matt Cawood with only two laps to go
and holding off the Cawood brothers till the checker flag
flew.
In the beginning of the 20 lap Mini Stock feature it looked
like the Cawood brothers had it sewed up but Triple 8
Jamie McCague never let up on leader #6 Matt Cawood and
was able to get around Cawood for his first feature win
in 2002. Brothers #6 Matt Cawood and #k9 Mike Cawood
finished a strong 2nd and 3rd.
Mini Stocks (1)888 Jamie McCague (2)6 Matt Cawood (3)k9
Mike Cawood (4)29 Drew Smith (5)97 Jackie Rhames (6)
9b Michael Quick (7)99 Charlie MacNichol (8)17 Doug
White (9)60 Bob Temple (10)90 William Creech
Pure Stocks - It was back and forth between #8 John Blood
and #17 Marvin Prentice for several laps but #8 John
Blood came out the winner in the end.
Last week's winner #9 Rick Picard had bad luck from the
first lap as he spun and got into the outside wall under
the flagstand, he tried to continue but shredded a tire in
the crash and had to retire his racecar for the night.
#48 Deric Smith had problems all night but was able to get
it together and finish 2nd for the night.
Pure Stocks (1)8b John Blood (2)48 Deric Smith (3)17 Marvin
Prentice (4)77 Shannon Cleveland (5)27 Marsha Edmunds
(6)69 Brad Fender Jr (7)23 Mark Eiter (8)78 Shane O'Quinn
(9)73 Rodney Alexander (10)75 Shawn Pawlak
Next night of racing
Saturday, April 27 - Stock Car Racing 5 Divisions - Late
Models, Hobby Stocks, Street Stocks, Mini Stocks and Pure
Stocks PLUS Mini Winged Sprints! Grandstands open at
5 PM, racing starts at 7:30 PM. General admission $8.00
Children 12 and under FREE plus Senior and Student
discounts.
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