Cummings makes it two in a row at Orange
Show Speedway
SAN BERNARDINO (May 5, 2007) –
Glen Cummings said he didn’t think it was possible to
win back-to-back races in the Hype Manufacturing Super Late Model division
because the competition at Orange Show Speedway has gotten so good.
Turns out it was possible.
Cummings
started on the outside of the front row for the 40-lap main event, took
the lead from pole-sitter Charles Price with nine laps of the quarter-mile
oval remaining and pulled away over the final eight laps for career
win number 91 in his E.J. Meyer/Stickshift Transmissions Pontiac Grand
Prix.
The front-row starters managed to pull away in the
opening laps and quickly made it clear to the crowd of 800 that one
of them would be the winner. Cummings said he wasn’t sure it would
be him, though, until Price was forced to pit with a broken right front
wheel. That gave Cummings a lead that never was threatened at the finish.
“He was running good,” Cummings
said of Price. “I don’t know if I could have caught him
or not. There’s not too many times you’ll win two in a row
anymore, the competition is so good and the qualifying times are so
close.”
Mark Shackleford started seventh and wound up second,
the best finish of the season for the 2004 class champion, and current
points leader Rick Chavez was third. Price returned to the track after
replacing the front wheel and finished 13th.
In other races, Eddie Secord rolled to his third
win in four starts in the Pro 4 class, Tony Dumont took the Aflac Factory
Fours main, Mark Whitson took his third win in as many races for the
Stock Cars USA series and 11-year-old Benjamin Mahan won for the third
time this year and the 11th time in a row overall in the Jr. Mini StocKar
class.
Secord started his Fiesta Village Pontiac fifth in
the 12-car Pro 4 field for the 30-lap main, became the race’s
fourth leader on lap 10, and held off Bryan Glidewell in a 5-lap sprint
to the finish after a caution flag on lap 25. Secord won the opening
race March 10 and has won two in a row after being forced to sit out
the second race because of a broken clutch fork.
Dumont took the lead for good in the 25-lap Factory
Fours main with five laps to go and held off Spencer Samaro in a green-white-checkered
finish after the third caution flag, and Whitson came from sixth at
the start of that 25-lap feature to take the lead with three laps to
go.
ORANGE SHOW SPEEDWAY
Saturday’s results
SUPER LATE MODELS
Main event (40 laps) –
1. Glen Cummings, Highland , Pontiac Grand Prix (Chevrolet engine);
2. Mark Shackleford, Riverside , Chevrolet Monte Carlo ; 3. Rick Chavez,
Lakeside , Ford Fusion (Chevrolet engine); 4. Travis Stockman, Highland
, Chevrolet Monte Carlo ; 5. Barry Karr, Redlands , Chevrolet Monte
Carlo .
Heat race winners –
Alex Anderson, Rosamond, Chevrolet Monte Carlo; John Manke, Ramona,
Chevrolet Monte Carlo; Charles Price, Redlands , Chevrolet Monte Carlo.
Trophy dash winner – Stockman. Fast qualifier – Price.
PRO 4
Main event (30 laps) –
1. Eddie Secord, Oak Hills, Pontiac Grand Prix (Ford engine); 2. Bryan
Glidewell, Cerritos , Pontiac GTO/Ford; 3. Chuck Becker II, Cabazon,
Chevrolet Monte Carlo/Ford; 4. Keith Blomgren, La Quinta, Dodge Intrepid/Ford;
5. Randy Davidhizar, Redlands , Chevrolet Monte Carlo/Ford.
Heat race winners –
Davidhizar; Secord. Trophy dash winner – Don Minut, Riverside,
Ford Fusion. Fast qualifier – Secord.
FACTORY FOURS
Main event (25 laps) –
1. Tony Dumont, Irvine , Mercedes Benz; 2. Spencer Samaro, San Bernardino
, Toyota pickup; 3. Gerrit Hodge, Moreno Valley , Honda CRX; 4. Art
Ramirez, Walnut, Toyota Celica; 5. Jered King, Phelan, BMW 318i.
Heat race winners –
Lalo Llerena, Fontana , Honda; Tony Dumont, Irvine , Mercedes Benz.
Trophy dash winner – Spencer Samaro, San Bernardino , Toyota pickup.
Fast qualifier – Dumont .
STOCK CARS USA
Main event (25 laps) –
1. Mark Whitson, Riverside , Chevrolet Chevelle; 2. Michelle Rouse,
San Bernardino , Chevrolet Chevelle; 3. Jimmy Rouse Jr., Chevrolet Nova;
4. Jeff Elder. Redlands , Chevrolet Nova; 5. Ken Michaelian, El Camino
Village, Plymoouth Roadrunner.
Heat race winners –
Ron Davis, Norwalk , Chevrolet Nova; Whitson.Trophy dash winner –
Rouse. Fast qualifier – Whitson.
JR. MINI STOCKARS
Main event (15 laps) –
1. Benjamin Mahan, Hesperia, Ford Fusion (Honda engine); 2. Tony Forfa
IV, Redlands , Chevrolet Monte Carlo/Honda; 3. Alexander Bissett; 4.
Jacob Hornsby, San Bernardino , Ford Fusion/Honda; 5. Marissa Henson,
Oak Hills, Chevrolet Monte Carlo/Honda.
Heat race winner – Forfa
IV. Trophy dash winner – Forfa IV. Fast qualifier – Mahan.
For further information, contact Jim Short at 951-203-2649
or jimshort65@sbcglobal.net, call Orange Show Speedway at 909-888-6788,
X438, or visit the web site at www.nosevents.com.
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