Malone gets fourth win in five races at
Orange Show Speedway
SAN BERNARDINO (Aug. 25, 2007) –
Brian Malone continued his late-season climb up the BSR West Late Model
standings by winning the 30-lap main event at Orange Show Speedway Saturday
night.
The
win, over Jim Conklin and Steve Smith, was Malone’s second straight
and fourth in five races and moved him into sole possession of second
place, 10 points behind defending champion Conklin with two points races
to go.
The next Late Model event on the schedule, Sept.
22, will be a 100-lap, non-points race, the “Toys for Tots 100.”
Malone, 40, of Grand Terrace, started on the outside
of the front row, fell back to third early on, then went to the front
on lap five after Jimmy Rouse Jr. and fast qualifier Steve Smith got
together in Turn 2 while fighting for the lead.
Once in front, Malone had no trouble maintaining
a comfortable lead over Conklin for the final 25 laps around the ASA-sanctioned
quarter-mile oval.
The win, his fifth of the year, left Malone 10 points
behind Conklin and eight ahead of Dave Arce, who had shared second with
Malone. Arce, of Santee, finished fifth in the car usually driven by
Anthony Mainella after the crankshaft in Arce’s Chevrolet-powered
Pontiac broke during afternoon practice.
Tom Smith continued to be perfect in the Lucas Oil
Outlaw Figure 8 class, battling Riverside’s Johnny Lathrop for
the lead in the early stages of the 25-lap main event, then pulling
away for his 12th win in as many races.
Lathrop, a former Orange Show Speedway Figure 8 champion,
was racing at the track for the first time in 21 years.
The battle for the Legends Cars championship tightened
up extremely when a first-lap spin by class leader Bree Brewer resulted
in a 14-point gain for Darren Amidon, who finished second to Murrieta’s
Gary Scheuerell in the 30-lap main event. Brewer, who started on the
outside of the front row, had to drop to the rear of the 20-car field
after her spin and could only work her way to ninth at the finish.
The 14-point loss narrowed Brewer’s lead over
Amidon to just four points, 554-550, with two races remaining.
Banning’s Roger Gates got his first Stock Pony
main event win by taking the lead when early pacesetter Richard Boker
of Phelan pulled off with mechanical problems on lap 14, then holding
off Mat Goodwin and Jim Edmiston through three yellow caution flags
and the final six laps. The race was cut from 30 to 20 laps because
of time constraints caused by seven caution periods.
Andrew Anderson, 14, of Lancaster , won the 20-lap
Bandoleros main event.
ORANGE SHOW SPEEDWAY
Saturday, August 25, 2007
RACE RESULTS
BSR WEST LATE MODELS
Main event (30 laps) – 1. Brian Malone, Grand
Terrace, Chevrolet Monte Carlo ; 2. Jim Conklin, Big Bear, Pontiac Grand
Prix/Chevrolet; 3. Steve Smith, San Bernardino, Dodge Intrepid/Chevrolet;
4. Gary Clifford, Redlands , Chevrolet Monte Carlo ; 5. Dave Arce, Santee
, Chevrolet Monte Carlo .
Heat race winner – Smith. Trophy dash winner
– Conklin. Fast qualifier – Smith.
LUCAS OIL OUTLAW FIGURE 8
Main event (25 laps) – 1. Tom Smith, Lakewood
, Chevrolet; 2. Johnny Lathrop, Riverside , Chevrolet; 3. Johnny Betzer,
Redlands , Chevrolet; 4. Harry Kuenninger, San Bernardino , Chevrolet;
5. Robert Snyder II, Sun City , Chevrolet.
Heat race winner – Lathrop. Trophy dash winner
– Smith. Fast qualifier – Smith.
ASA STOCK PONY
Main event (20 laps) – 1. Roger Gates, Baning,
Ford Pinto; 2. Matt Goodwin, Wildomar, Ford Pinto; 3. Jim Edmiston,
Highland , Ford Pinto; 4. Adrianne Murlin, Corona , Ford Pinto; 5. Roberto
Calvera, San Bernardino , Ford Mustang.
Heat race winners – Calvera; Jim Mardis, Riverside
, Ford Pinto. Trophy dash winner – Rob Hornsby, San Bernardino
, Ford Pinto. Fast qualifier – Mardis.
LENO’S RICO TACO LEGENDS CARS
Main event (30 laps) – 1. Gary Scheuerell,
Murrieta, ’37 Ford/Yamaha; 2. Darren Amidon, Santee , ’34
Ford/Yamaha; 3. Ryan O’Connor, Vista , ’34 Ford/Yamaha;
4. Chad Schug, Oak Hills, ’37 Ford/Yamaha; 5. Austin Murphy, ’34
Ford/Yamaha.
B main winner – Jack Madrid, Las Vegas , ’37
Ford/Yamaha. Heat race winners – Fred Chavez, Alpine, ’37
Ford/Yamaha; Broc Murphy, Lancaster , ’34 Ford/Yamaha; Ryan Schug,
Hemet , ’37 Ford/Yamaha. Trophy dash winner – Chase Catania,
El Cajon , ’37 Ford/Yamaha. Fast qualifier – Amidon.
INEX BANDOLEROS
Main event (20 laps) – 1. Andrew Anderson,
Lancaster; 2. Andrew Porter, La Verne; 3. Eric Sloan, Alta Loma; 4.
Aaron Anderson, Lancaster; 5. Ashlee Ambriz, Las Vegas .
Heat race winner – Andrew Anderson. Trophy
dash winner – Andrew Anderson. Fast qualifier – Tyler Fabozzi,
Anaheim .
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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