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Posted: Sunday Aug 17th, 2008 09:43 PM |
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Six-pack! Esteban wins another PHRA feature
Andrew Kunas
MADRAS, Ore. - Corey Esteban continued his march toward the PHRA dwarf car championship Saturday night at Madras Speedway by winning his sixth regular points race and his third straight. Throw in a show-up points race in July and Esteban now has seven wins overall this year. His win came on one of the hottest days of the year, as temperatures in the pit area approached 110 degrees.
Esteban, who won the club championship in 2006, started the 30-lap feature 12th. That still didn't stop the Gaston, Ore. driver from winning and completing a clean sweep at Madras Speedway for the second straight week as he also won his heat race and the A-Dash. His sweep at Sunset Speedway Park on August 2 gives him three in-a-row.
Mitch Meeuwsen took the lead at the start from the outside pole and held the top spot, ahead of teammate Rick Adams, until Esteban reached the two in the latter half of the race. Meeuwsen, who has a non-points race victory at Coos Bay Speedway this season, held his ground until Esteban got around him as they raced around slower cars. Meeuwsen, who along with Adams and Esteban is part of the four-car RACE CARS Inc. team, finished second and Adams was third.
Dave Cantu, the fourth RACE CARS Inc. driver, completed the top-four sweep by the team with his fourth place finish. Cantu was happy enough just to finish the race as he had a string of non-finishes due to bad luck that involved crashes. Third-year driver Troy Kunas, who like Cantu has had his share of bad luck this year, had a career-best fifth place finish in his first race back after his car was severely damaged in a multi-car accident July 13 at Sunset.
While Kunas held down the fifth position throughout the race, intense racing went on behind him as Clay Goben, Jim Pavel, and former PHRA champions Charles Millar and Richard Petty all battled for the sixth position throughout the race. Pavel held sixth place for most of the race until losing a couple of positions in the later laps. Petty, who entered the race second in points, got around Goben for sixth with less than two laps left and would finish there ahead of Goben, Pavel, Millar and Jim Fischer, who rounded out the top ten.
Newcomer Justin Flagg, running his first race with PHRA, finished 12th in his debut. The event saw three yellow flags, all for spins.
Esteban's dash victory came over Adams, Cantu and Ron Love. Cantu won the the first heat race of the evening over Love, Adam Stoecklein and Kunas. Esteban, despite missing hot laps, won the second heat race from the sixth starting position and finished ahead of Adams, Meeuwsen and Pavel.
Next for the PHRA is a two-night event at River City Speedway in St. Helens, Ore. Saturday, August 30 is a non-points event recently added to the schedule. Thanks to sponsorhip donations, there will be a purse for that event. Sunday, August 31 is the originally scheduled points race, which will be the club's last at River City Speedway for 2008. After the PHRA's first ever visit to Willamette Speedway on September 13, the club returns to Madras Speedway to close its 20th Anniversary season on September 20.
More information on the Pacific Hardtop Racing Association can be found online at http://www.phraracing.com.
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Corey Esteban's 7 race wins
May 17 - River City Speedway
June 7 - Madras Speedway
June 21 - River City Speedway
July 12 - Sunset Speedway Park (show-up points)
August 2- Sunset Speedway Park
August 9 - Madras Speedway
August 16 - Madras Speedway
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PHRA Dwarf Cars
Madras Speedway
Madras, OR
August 16, 2008
UNOFFICIAL RESULTS
Heat 1 (8 laps): 1. 63 Dave Cantu, 2. 33 Ron Love, 3. 29 Adam Stoecklein, 4. 37 Troy Kunas, 5. 25 Clay Goben, 6. 45 Justin Flagg, 7. 72 Todd Peterson, DNS - 81 Charles Millar.
Heat 2 (8 laps): 1. 36 Corey Esteban, 2. 97 Rick Adams, 3. 28 Mitch Meeuwsen, 4. 00 Jim Pavel, 5. 43 Richard Petty, 6. 3 Jim Fischer, 7. 40 Kyle Thompson, DNS - 05 Bill Poehler.
Dash (4 laps): 1. 36 Corey Esteban, 2. 97 Rick Adams, 3. 63 Dave Cantu, 4. 33 Ron Love.
Feature (30 laps): 1. 36 Corey Esteban, 2. 28 Mitch Meeuwsen, 3. 97 Rick Adams, 4. 63 Dave Cantu, 5. 37 Troy Kunas, 6. 43 Richard Petty, 7. 25 Clay Goben, 8. 00 Jim Pavel, 9. 81 Charles Millar, 10. 3 Jim Fischer, 11. 40 Kyle Thompson, 12. 45 Justin Flagg, 13. 29 Adam Stoecklein, 14. 72 Todd Peterson, 15. 33 Alex Banks, DNS - 05 Bill Poehler. Note: Alex Banks substituted for Ron Love in car 33.
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PHRA Dwarf Cars: The biggest little race cars on dirt!
http://www.phraracing.com
Last edited on Sunday Aug 17th, 2008 09:49 PM by AKunas
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Posted: Monday Aug 18th, 2008 12:34 AM |
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Great night of racing in all divisions! A little bit of cloud cover at just the right time made the evening more enjoyable! Man that was some sunset and moon rise! We don`t get to see that often on this side of the Cascades.
I hope Pat Canfield and Reno Marr are doing OK today. Both took nasty flips!
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Posted: Monday Aug 18th, 2008 12:39 AM |
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Actually Mesprint I didnt quite get all the way over (but it was close), just sucks cause I felt like we were the car to beat and I was just taking my time with the leader. Nothin worse than gettin taken out by a guy who only has 4 races in these cars and is already driving over his head. I talked to Reno after the race he is fine as well
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Posted: Monday Aug 18th, 2008 04:06 AM |
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| Sorry to hear that Pat. Yes that stuff sucks but it happens..unfortunately.
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Posted: Monday Aug 18th, 2008 03:52 PM |
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Geeze! Pat!! Glad to hear you are OK! Do ya think the full moon had any influence? LOL
Yeah.........the Sunset was absoultely gorgeous! We are a tad spolied here in Central Oregon as we get those beauties on a regular basis!
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Posted: Tuesday Aug 19th, 2008 03:06 AM |
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YoungPat wrote: Actually Mesprint I didnt quite get all the way over (but it was close), just sucks cause I felt like we were the car to beat and I was just taking my time with the leader. Nothin worse than gettin taken out by a guy who only has 4 races in these cars and is already driving over his head. I talked to Reno after the race he is fine as well
Pat
I thought you went over ! All I saw was dust and wheels really high in the air! Bummer that you couldn`t continue! My son and I were talking about Reno just before he went over, saying he`d be in trouble if he ever went over cause his helmet was above the roll cage! Glad you both are fine! Madras is a really good fit for you guys, seems like you can get more speed there as opposed to RC or Sunset. Bigger sweeping turns. I know I`ll be going again!
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Posted: Tuesday Aug 19th, 2008 03:42 AM |
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I'm surprised neither my old man (37 dwarf) or Clay Goben (#25 dwarf) went over when they tangled on the front stretch and spun into the infield together at the end of their heat race.
A few hard wrecks and other crazy moments Saturday night, and we even had an ambulance come for the dad of one of the dwarf car drivers. Suffered a heat stroke  . Thankfully he turned out OK and returned to the track to visit everyone...his son event unloaded his car and joined the field for the feature, finishing in the top ten.
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Posted: Tuesday Aug 19th, 2008 03:56 AM |
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| I was wondering about that ambulance visit. That was quite a ride your dad took! I was planning on a visit to the pits after, but then they brought out all the winners and I saw several teams leaving.....they didn`t mention anything about visiting the pits after, so I figured maybe things are different there. Besides, I was trying to get to The Black Bear Diner before they closed. (didn`t make it)
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Posted: Tuesday Aug 19th, 2008 05:57 AM |
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mesprint69 wrote: I was wondering about that ambulance visit. That was quite a ride your dad took! I was planning on a visit to the pits after, but then they brought out all the winners and I saw several teams leaving.....they didn`t mention anything about visiting the pits after, so I figured maybe things are different there. Besides, I was trying to get to The Black Bear Diner before they closed. (didn`t make it)
Should have came out to the pits we (Cars 29, 08, 12R) had a party. Hamburgers, Hot Dogs, Potato Salad, Macroni Salad, Chips, Beer, Catdady. Everyone was invited.
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Posted: Tuesday Aug 19th, 2008 06:11 AM |
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AKunas wrote: I'm surprised neither my old man (37 dwarf) or Clay Goben (#25 dwarf) went over when they tangled on the front stretch and spun into the infield together at the end of their heat race.
A few hard wrecks and other crazy moments Saturday night, and we even had an ambulance come for the dad of one of the dwarf car drivers. Suffered a heat stroke . Thankfully he turned out OK and returned to the track to visit everyone...his son event unloaded his car and joined the field for the feature, finishing in the top ten.
Thanks for the update on the heat stroke victim. We heard about it on the police scanner and his vitals were not good on the way to the hospitol.
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