The senior Dotson completed the top five in Friday”s feature with Brentwood”s Freddy Ryland coming in fifth Saturday night. He slipped to seventh on Saturday.įourth place was reserved for the ladies, with Watsonville”s Adriane DeSousa defending the position on Friday and Tina McGowen securing fourth on Saturday night. Dotson”s father Wayne finished third Saturday night and Rick Diaz ran third Friday night. Spainhoward won his seventh feature Friday night and the two merely traded places from Friday to Saturday. It was Bakersfield night in the sport mod class as the exciting two-car battle concluded with Ethan Dotson beating Nick Spainhoward on the final lap for his first Pat Pettit win. He is now 19 points behind going into the final race Friday night.įriday night Kyle Camperud, Nelson, Willoughby and Bobby Huckaby completed the top five. Although he raced into the top five, he spun out of control with five laps remaining and had to settle for 13th. But his 12th place start required some aggressive driving. Matt Hagio”s Friday night win put him within one point of Nelson for the championship. Last year, Nelson”s win was taken away for being underweight and the win went to Terry Campion who finished third Saturday night. Joe Willoughby crossed the finish line ahead of Billy Nelson but was disqualified in post-race technical inspection for excessive compression. Kellan Chadwick and Bobby Hogge both had bad luck on Friday but were able to return for better results on Saturday.” If a driver has one bad night he has the second night to improve on his overall weekend. “We thought this was a better way to structure the program,” the Sr. A series of qualifying heat races and “B” main events allowed the 56 entrants two opportunities at the prize money. The format included two individual nights of racing with the winner”s purse paying $2000 on Friday and $3000 on Saturday. Jeff Decker of Morgan Hill finished fourth on Friday and fifth in Saturday night”s feature. He won his sixth track title despite missing Saturday night”s feature race as well. Kenny Nott of Watsonville finished third on Friday night. Pounds Friday night win came at the misfortune of Kellan Chadwick, who had to drop out with a broken left rear suspension. Although Wilson ran the best race of his young career, he failed to earn a transfer into Saturday night”s feature. He finished fourth Saturday night after a 16th-place start. Pounds won Friday night”s main event by more than nine seconds over Alex Wilson of Salinas. A lady who enjoyed racing as much as the guys, she would, on occasion, reach out to a driver and provide sponsorship without telling the guys at home. Jim Pettit II finished third in the race that honors his mom who suffered a heart attack while driving home from the family business in 2010. He had this race, it was just one little mistake and we were there to capitalize on it.” “I have to believe Brian”s flat tire had something to do with his moving off the bottom of the turn. “There was a big hole right on the inside of turns one and two,” Hogge said. With a left front tire going flat, Cass made one small error that opened the door for Hogge. He led by as much as a half lap before the yellow flags started waving, ending a potential 30-lap nonstop record. I”m glad to have the victory once again.”Ĭass, winner of the 2011 track championship, started from pole position and dominated the first two-thirds of the race. Jim Pettit for putting on this show, regardless of the prize money it”s an honor to be here in memory of Jimmy”s mom. “We had to overcome a broken car last night, and got here just in time to draw for position,” Hogge said. A series of yellow flags regrouped the field, putting him on Cass”s bumper for the final 10 laps. Saturday night”s finale was a barnburner with Hogge grabbing the lead from Pleasanton”s Brian Cass on lap 24 of 30. WATSONVILLE > > Salinas” Bobby Hogge IV and Bakersfield”s Brad Pounds shared the winners” circle in the special two-day Pat Pettit Shootout for IMCA modified race cars at Ocean Speedway.
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