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June 29, 2003

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Gary Padula Wins Late Model Sportsman at Hialeah

by Marty Little

HIALEAH, Fla. - Gary Padula worked past Greg Kaouk with three laps remaining and went on to claim the victory in the 25 lap late model sportsman headliner Saturday night at Hialeah Speedway.

Kaouk took the lead from David Weaver on lap six and appeared in good shape, but Padula, who had gone to the rear earlier in the event, was not to be denied this night as he notched his third win of the season. Kaouk claimed runner-up money ahead of Steve Weaver, Jr., Stuart Robertson and Gary McGoron.

The street stock 100 lap run was split into twin 50s with Tony Barreca edging Corey Crisafulli for the top money in the opener. Todd Anglani, Travis McCoy and point leader Sean Bulaskas rounded out the top five. The second 50 inverted the field and went non-stop wire to wire with T.C. McElyea the top gun in easy fashion over McCoy, Anglani, Barreca and Bulaskas.

Former mini stock track champ S.C. Klinger easily trounced the small car field as he paced all 15 laps for the score. Bill Calder, Jim Miner and Frank Rios completed the top four runners.

Veteran Victor Leo was the best of the 30 car cyclone field and he did it without leading a single lap. John Pettit was flagged the winner but his Chevrolet had problems in post-race tech and Leo was awarded the victory over Corey Certain, David Dielmann, Al Grimm and Mike Powers.

Eryk Harwick won the accident marred super mini cup feature with a good drive over Carlos Gonzalez, Peter Lloyd, Richard Crisafulli and Brett Jameson.

The speedway will be closed July 5 for the big holiday weekend but will return to action on July 12 with a full card of exciting racing.

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