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Posted: Monday Aug 4th, 2008 08:33 AM |
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HAMILTON WINS LIMITED LATE MODEL RACE AT SSS
South Sound Speedway
Rochester, WA
■John King
The Quality Car Care Limited Late Models saw 13 cars make an attempt to qualify, Saturday, August 2, 1008 at South Sound Speedway, the West Coast’s fastest 3/8’s mile paved oval. There were eight crate and five compression engines. It was Snohomish, Washington’s #1 Shane Sawin setting fast time with a 13.842. Sawin has a compression engine. The last LLM race Driver of the week was #11 JJ Hamilton.
The #44 Darren Pierson would bring the field around for the green flag start, but it was the #6 Devin Eierman jumping into the early lead until his motor started missing and the #91 Arlyn Long would pass Eierman for the lead on lap 15. Long moved out to a 10 car lead over second place while last year’s LLM Champion and current points leader, Centralia, Washington’s #11 JJ “The Crate Motor Kid” Hamilton, driving the Northstar Home Mortgage/Norpac Street Performance/Auto Trim Design Dodge Charger, passing everyone on the outside from his ninth place starting position. Hamilton ran down Long and made a pass to the outside of Long on lap 38 and went on to win the 50-Lap Limited Late Model Main Event. Hamilton also won $100.00 winners bonus sponsored by Capital Glass of Olympia. Rounding out their top five were runner up Long, Sawin, Chad Hinkle, and Kyle Markstrom.
The Foreign Stock Car Racing Association Super 4’s saw Rochester, Washington’s #5 Wayne Dillon set fast time with a 14.480. The top three in their A-Heat were winner #9 Cody Stewart, John Grosvenor, and Dillon. The top three in their B-Heat were winner #8 Matt Melby, Kevin Koepke, and Shelby Minor-Ball.
The #8 Melby would bring the field around for the start of the Super 4’s 25-Lap Main Event and lead the first 15 laps. On lap 16, the #5 Dillon, driving the Junction Sports Bar & Grill/Jail Sucks Bail Bonds/Mark’s Gutter Ford Fusion, put a move on Melby for the lead and went on to win the Super 4’s Main Event. Rounding out their top five were runner up Melby, Grosvenor, Renny Marose, and Tom Keehan.
The Bumblebees Heat #1 race winner was the #29 Kyle Matthews. The Heat #2 race winner was the #35 Dave Crawford.
The winner in their 20-Lap Main Event was Olympia, Washington’s #15 Kevin Haider, driving the Haider Racing/Hamilton Racing Nissan Sentra. Finishing second and third was K. Matthews and Crawford.
The top three in the Vintage Sprint Heat race were winner #96 Frank Volz, Dan Robinson, and Jerry Day.
The #8 Dick Nelson would bring the field around for the green flag start, but it was the #49 Dan Robinson leading the first two laps. The #96 Volz would lead lap three with the #76 Day taking away the lead on lap four and going on to win the 12-Lap Vintage Sprints Main Event. Rounding out their top five were runner up Volz, Marvin Price, Robinson, and Nelson.
The Vintage Midgets Heat race winner was the #6 Brian McMurtey. Their Main Event winner was the #11 Lenora McMurtey.
The AMRS Mini Cup Future Stars saw the #3 Seth Cooper set fast time with a 17.572. Cooper and the #2 Parker Stephens would finish first and second respectively in both their Heat race and Main Event.
Upcoming racing at South Sound Speedway: Saturday, August 9, 2008 features the Super Stock Miller 200-Big 4 Series, Mini Stocks, and Baby Grands. Then on Saturday, August 16, 2008, come see the Limited Late Models, WESCO, Street Stocks, and Pure Stocks compete. Back gate opens at 1:00 PM; front gate opens at 4:45 PM with qualifying starting at 5:00 PM, Autograph session around 6:00 PM, and racing at 6:30 PM. Visit southsoundspeedway.com for more information.
SOUTH SOUND SPEEDWAY
RACE RESULTS FOR
8-2-2008
QUALITY CAR CARE LIMITED LATE MODELS
Fast time: Shane Sawin – 13.842
Main: JJ Hamilton, Arlyn Long, Sawin, Chad Hinkle, Kyle Markstrom, Ron Wolf, Devin Eierman, Rick Hager, Tyler Allen, Matt Wolden, Chris Hallberg, Darren Pierson, Loran Payne.
FOREIGN STOCK CAR RACING ASSOCIATION – SUPER 4’S
Fast time: Wayne Dillon – 14.480
A-Heat: Cody Stewart, John Grosvenor, Dillon, Renny Marose, Dan Hale, Tom Keehan.
B-Heat: Matt Melby, Kevin Koepke, Shelby Minor-Ball, Robert Golden, Bob Quarterman.
Main: Dillon, Melby, Grosvenor, Marose, Keehan, Hale, Minor-Ball, Golden, Quarterman, Koepke, Stewart.
BUMBLEBEES
Heat 1: Kyle Matthews, Kevin Haider, Richard Gooding, Jeff Elliott.
Heat 2: Dave Crawford, Jessie Ellis.
Main: Haider, K. Matthews, Crawford, Gooding (DNF), Ellis (DNF), Elliott (DNS), Eric Franson (DNS), Pat Reed (DNS), Eddie Blood (DQ), Devin Matthews, (DQ), Tyson Blood (DQ), Ron Anctil, SR. (DQ). (DNF – did not finish, DNS – did not start, DQ – Disqualified)
VINTAGE SPRINTS
Heat: Frank Volz, Dan Robinson, Jerry Day, Marvin Price, Daryl Hedman, Dick Nelson, Butch Buren, Donald Samulson, Bud Smola, Tom Meaghen.
Main: Day, Volz, Price, Robinson, Nelson, Buren, Smola, Samulson, Hedman.
VINTAGE MIDGETS
Heat: Brian McMurtey, Dan Blair, Lenora McMurtey, Harold Braff.
Main: L. McMurtey, Blair.
AMRS MINI CUP FUTURE STARS
Fast time: Seth Cooper – 17.572
Heat: Cooper, Parker Stephens.
Main: Cooper, Stephens.
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Posted: Monday Aug 4th, 2008 03:28 PM |
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WOW! Look at those BumbleBee results. Whats up with that??????????
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biggy72
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Posted: Tuesday Aug 5th, 2008 04:46 AM |
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| I saw that too. The story for the bumblebees sure doesn't say much...
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Posted: Tuesday Aug 5th, 2008 09:37 PM |
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| Whats the point of hammering all the bumblebee guys when the numbers are already dwindling? Guess thats why I don't race there.
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Posted: Wednesday Aug 6th, 2008 01:29 AM |
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ok I got to ask, What the hell did all these guys do to get DQed???
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Posted: Wednesday Aug 6th, 2008 09:59 AM |
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| just guessing, but probably hit the cones going through the chicane. wierd though that nothing was written about it.
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Posted: Thursday Aug 7th, 2008 02:12 AM |
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| i heard it was exhaust, they were to big
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Posted: Thursday Aug 7th, 2008 03:58 AM |
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| they did the same sort of thing with tires a few years ago.... it's really stupid to dump something like that when half the field is doing it and nobody gets a chance to fix it. Go ahead and let everyone know there's a problem and they need to get it fixed by the next race. Then if they want to DQ everyone go for it. No wonder so many people have given up on racing out there......
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Posted: Thursday Aug 7th, 2008 05:20 AM |
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ministock14 wrote: i heard it was exhaust, they were to big Youve got to be kidding, Right? Let them run 1/2 the season then nail them for somthing so petty
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Posted: Thursday Aug 7th, 2008 08:38 AM |
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not a big mystery as to why car counts continue to drop in most divisions with decisions like this.
for crying out loud, the class is the least expensive to run and had already seen their counts down from last year (makes no sense being that jps closed-would think they would have picked up a few from there). so now something like this is done? crazy!
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Posted: Friday Aug 8th, 2008 10:05 PM |
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Scott-s
It's to bad that you make all these posts without knowing all the facts! Rules are to be enforced equally to every one. The car count is down due to the economy. Most racers that have a Bumblebee are family sponsored and a BB is the only type of race car that they will ever have. You take a gallon of milk $4.00, bread 2/$5.00,gas $4.00 a gallon ext, ext that extra $100.00 that you had to go racing is now used to take care of their families and their race car will set until they can afford it. I know that is why the car count is down and there are a few that are unhappy about the rules being enforced on them . No matter what you do you will not ever make everyone happy. Scott-s, feel free to stop by tech after a race. There are two sides to every story.
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Posted: Saturday Aug 9th, 2008 10:02 AM |
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john,
obvioulsy the economy is down, but that is precisely why you shouldn't incorporate rule changes half way through a season. if this is not the case, then i apologize to you for that. but it seems to be the prevailing thought on here, including from some 'in the know'.
looking very forward to saturday's show (weather permitting----if rained out, will race be run sunday? i know it probably won't but....).
time permitting will be glad to stop by tech.
thanks,
scott
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Posted: Saturday Aug 9th, 2008 03:51 PM |
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It wasn't a rule change, just a change in enforcing the rules. I know when I was racing bees that most of my cost was in gas so I'm not suprised the car count went down, but this doesn't help. If something like this were in the superstocks or something like that then I understand, but this is the bumblebees.... I think just being consistent week to week is really the most important thing, and if you're going to change how something is enforced then let everyone know so they can make a change if they need to.
Stuff like this may just chase a few people right down the road to Elma...
Last edited on Saturday Aug 9th, 2008 03:54 PM by biggy72
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Posted: Tuesday Aug 12th, 2008 02:56 AM |
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Biggy;
Is a phone call 3 weeks before your next race from the technial director enough notice to fix the problem?
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Posted: Tuesday Aug 12th, 2008 04:15 AM |
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| If that's the case then yup it is plenty of time. Nobody had said anything about it though. Thanks for making that clear.
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