Tom Smith stays perfect with 10th win of
year in Figure 8 main at Orange Show Speedway
SAN BERNARDINO ( July 29, 2007) –
Tom Smith said he was hoping the good luck he’s enjoyed throughout
this Lucas Oil Outlaw Figure 8 season wouldn’t run out for Saturday
night’s Summer Shootout.
It turned out to be a needless concern. Smith set
fast time in qualifying and raced to his 10th straight win in the 30-lap
main event at Orange Show Speedway, the ASA-sanctioned quarter-mile
at the National Orange Show Events Center .
The win, over “Barefoot Billy” Ziemann
of Bloomington and Rusty Stewart of Long Beach , was worth $1,500 to
the 32-year-old mechanic from Lakewood and maintained his undefeated
status.
The added-money event brought out four new entries,
including former champion Rod Proctor, of Riverside . But Smith started
on the pole in the 10-car field and never was in danger of losing the
lead in a race that entertained a crowd of approximately 3,100.
Wildomar’s Matt Goodwin, 18, got his second
Stock Pony win of the season by being in the right place – third
– when second-place Jim Edmiston and leader Jim Mardis got into
a shoving match on a green-white-checkered restart after the seventh
caution flag of what ended up being a 28-lap main event.
Goodwin had led two laps early, after leader Edmiston
and second-place Mardis inadvertently got together when Waldo Barber
spun on lap 9. Edmiston was forced to leave the track to have bodywork
pulled off a tire and dropped to the rear of the field, then worked
his way back to the front after Mardis took the lead on lap 12. He got
by Goodwin for second on lap 22 to set up the final incident.
The Stock Pony fireworks were the kind most often
seen this season in the BSR West Late Model races. But Saturday night,
that class ran an uneventful 30-lap main dominated by fast qualifier
and pole-sitter Steve Smith, 32, of San Bernardino , in his Chevrolet-powered
Dodge Intrepid. Smith led every lap and the top three of Smith, Jim
Conklin and Dave Arce never changed.
One Conklin did make it to victory circle when Cliff
Conklin, 50, the younger of the brothers from Big Bear, captured the
30-lap Street Stock feature over fast qualifier Kyle Meyer, 19, of Highland
.
Chad Schug of Oak Hills capped a perfect night of
Legends Cars competition by winning a crash-filled 25-lap main event
that saw only nine of the 17 starters running at the finish. Schug,
20, also set fast time and won the 4-lap Trophy Dash and an 8-lap heat
race in his scale-model ’37 Ford sedan.
ORANGE SHOW SPEEDWAY
Saturday, July 28, 2007
RACE RESULTS
LUCAS OIL OUTLAW FIGURE 8
Main event (30 laps) – 1. Tom Smith, Lakewood
, Chevrolet; 2. Billy Ziemann, Bloomington , Cadillac XLR/Chevrolet;
3. Rusty Stewart, Long Beach , Chevrolet; 4. Jay Henson, Oak Hills,
Chevrolet; 5. Robert Snyder II, Sun City .
Heat race winner – Henson. Trophy dash winner
– Stewart. Fast qualifier – Smith.
BSR WEST LATE MODELS
Main event (30 laps) – 1. Steve Smith, San
Bernardino , Dodge Intrepid/Chevrolet; 2. Jim Conklin, Big Bear, Pontiac
Grand Prix/Chevrolet; 3. Dave Arce, Santee , Pontiac Grand Prix/Chevrolet;
4. John Mattie, Highland , Chevrolet Monte Carlo ; 5. Jimmy Rouse Jr.,
San Bernardino , Ford Thunderbird/Chevrolet.
Heat race winner – Conklin. Trophy dash winner
– Mattie. Fast qualifier – Smith.
ASA STOCK PONY
Main event (28 laps) – 1. Matt Goodwin, Wildomar,
Ford Pinto; 2. Roger Gates, Beaumont , Ford Pinto; 3. Rob Hornsby, Yucaipa
, Ford Pinto; 4. Joe Bubbico, Perris, Ford Pinto; 5. Adrianne Murlin,
Corona , Ford Pinto.
Heat race winners – Roberto Calvera, San Bernardino
, Ford Pinto; Jim Edmiston, Highland , Ford Pinto. Trophy dash winner
– Matt Goodwin, Wildomar, Ford Pinto. Fast qualifier – Edmiston.
STREET STOCK
Main event (30 laps) – 1. Cliff Conklin, Big
Bear, Chevrolet Camaro; 2. Kyle Meyer, Highland , Chevrolet Nova; 3.
Ruben Duran, Yucaipa , Chevrolet Nova; 4. Bobby Dezarov, Palm Desert
, Chevrolet Camaro; 5. John Reiman, Palmdale, Chevrolet Camaro.
Heat race winners – Dezarov; Meyer. Trophy
dash winner – Conklin. Fast qualifier – Meyer.
LENO’S RICO TACO LEGENDS CARS
Main event (25 laps) – 1. Chad Schug, Oak Hills,
’37 Ford; 2. Darren Amidon, Santee , ’34 Ford; 3. Bree Brewer,
Riverside , ’34 Ford; 4. Michael Smith, Rancho Cucamonga , ’37
Ford; 5. Jeremiah Wagner, Riverside , ’34 Chevrolet.
Heat race winners – Jack Madrid, Las Vegas,
’37 Ford; Chad Schug, Oak Hills, ’37 Ford. Trophy dash winner
– Schug. Fast qualifier – Schug.
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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