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Mike Doss set the Late Model fast time of 12.699s. Forrest Kuecker led the 75-lap main event for 47 laps ahead of Jeremy Hopkins and Clay Caturegli until he got pinned outside behind the lapped car of Keith Nelson and dropped to third.

They remained the top three, ahead of Allen Gibney and Mike Doss, until lap 61 when Trevor Cristiani got stuck on the outside of a line of cars just as the leaders were coming up to pass. In trying to advance past that line and back to the inside, he broke loose in turn two and spun. The leader Hopkins dove high over the berm and tried to continue back onto the backstretch. However, the reaction and resulting contact spun third place Kuecker down into Ken Gifford which turned Gifford up to the top of the backstretch and into Hopkins just as he came around.

After the clean-up, Caturegli, from Cloverdale, took the lead ahead of Gibney, Doss, Mike Lovell, and Corey James, and that’s how they finished.

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Pro-4 Modifieds

The Pro-4 fast time of 13.667s was set by Andy Leuzinger from Cobb, who also won the heat race. Curt Lewis and Kevin Barba led the main event to the start. Codi Barba had to immediately retire to the pits with problems as Lewis and K. Barba fought for the lead side-by-side for four laps.

Barba finally started to fade back on the outside, pushing Greg VanCleave behind him, and allowing Jake Tillman, John Barker, and Leuzinger to freight-train Lewis on back. VanCleave got around the inside of Barba and swept outside and around of Lewis into fourth. Lapped cars kept them single-file for a long chase.

In lap 21, Leuzinger was looking outside Barker for second when they came up on the lapped car of Curt Agustinovich on the inside. Barker dove outside and around Agustinovich just in time but was slowed so much that, when he swung back inside, Leuzinger’s momentum carried him past both into second.

That’s how they finished. Tillman, from Cobb and who also won the trophy dash, first followed by Leuzinger, Barker, VanCleave, and K. Barba.

Legends Cars Series

Stanislav Osterlund from Los Gatos set the Legends fast time of 14.708s. The field was led to the start by Brian Martella and Bill Kistemmacher. Martella took the lead while Joe Aiken had a slow start from the inside second row. Cody Martin advanced on the outside into third while Bob Kuebler and Mike Firebaugh dove to either side to pass Aiken three-wide.

Martella wobbled inside Kistemmacher, slowed, and was passed three-wide between Kuebler and Kistemmacher. Martin advanced outside Kistemmacher for the lead as Kuebler and Osterlund made it around the fading Aiken and then Firebaugh for third and fourth. But then, Kuebler broke loose in turn three and slid over the berm for a caution.

Martin and Kistemmacher led the restart, but Osterlund got under Kistemmacher for second as Firebaugh faded on the outside and James Gilliland advanced into fourth. On the backstretch, Osterlund go inside Martin for the lead. Three laps later, Martin spun out in turn two trying to take it back.

Osterlund and Gilliland restarted them in first and second, followed closely by Kistemmacher, Firebaugh and Martella. Aiken, about to be lapped, cut the turn two infield dirt and threw up a huge dust cloud which slowed the pack behind Gilliland. In lap 16, Kistemmacher was catching up to the two leaders when his car died and came to a stop on the turn three apron. He was forced to retire.

Osterlund and Gilliland restarted them for the last time. The raced side-by-side for the lead ahead of Martin and Firebaugh. In turn four, Martin spun out for a yellow. A yellow-checker was thrown ending the race but, unlike a normal yellow, they must race to the finish for the checkers.

Osterlund did not see this and slowed allowing Gilliland, from Santa Rosa and who also won his heat race, to pass him for the win. Firebaugh finished third followed by Kuebler and Chris Champagne.

Modifieds

The Modified fast time of 13.360s was set by Thomas Wright from Kelseyville. Dustin Knight and Norman Boucher led them to the start of the main event. Boucher took the outside lead followed by Jason Philpot. Gary Lowblad and Tommy Lyndall settled into fourth and fifth.

Lowblad advanced outside Dustin Knight as Dustin DeRosier and Darrin Knight swung around Lyndall. In lap seven, Boucher slipped and spun over the turn four berm for a caution.

Philpot and Lowblad led the restart. Lowblad led Philpot by a nose ahead of DeRosier and Darrin Knight. In lap ten, Trevor Cristiani was advancing inside Lyndall when they made contact on the frontstretch. Lyndall spun into the infield and Cristiani wobbled into the turn one wall. The reaction jammed Boucher into the rear of Bob Strauss forcing them to visit the pits.

Lowblad took the lead inside Philpot on the restart. Darrin Knight and Terry McIntire slowly advanced outside DeRosier into third and fourth. In turn three, Lowblad was low, Philpot in the middle, and Darrin Knight high when they accordioned causing Lowblad to spin his tires accelerating out. Philpot and Darrin Knight passed him into first and second in one lap.

The white flag fell on the leaders when, behind them in turn four, Lowblad and McIntire tangled and spun out forcing the leaders to race for the finish under a yellow-checker. Philpot, from Sacramento, claimed the checkers followed by Darrin Knight, DeRosier, Dustin Knight, and Boucher.

Street Stocks

Jared Martin from Ukiah set the Street Stock fast time of 14.513s. Kenny Spencer and Wade Coleman held the poll row for the start of the main event. Spencer took the lead as, behind them, Kevin Waycik wobbled inside Tony Ramazzotti slowing the whole pack down from the leaders.

When they finally settled, Ron Duke Sr. and Martin started the long outside climb. In lap nine, Duke had advanced to third when Martin and Waycik made contact in turn two spinning Martin. The yellow turned into a red when Mikey Snider developed a small engine fire that had to be put out.

The restart allowed Duke to take second inside Coleman when another yellow was thrown for Snider spinning in turn four into the frontstretch. Snider retired to the pits.

Spencer and Duke got them restarted. Martin was outside Coleman fighting for third when Coleman started to slip loose in the turns and wobbled back. The slipping worsened as Ramazzotti caught up with him until he fish-tailed out of turn four into the frontstretch infield. He lost a lap getting going again.

Meanwhile, Spencer and Duke were even for the lead followed by Martin. Duke held strong on the outside and Spender started to drift in the corners. Finally, Spencer broke loose in turn four and then wobbled in turn one allowing Duke to advance and Martin to swing outside around him.

Duke, from Redwood Valley, took the win followed by Martin, Spencer, Ramazzotti, and Waycik.

Bombers

The Bomber fast time of 15.002s was set by Matt Gerjets from Santa Rosa. After a quick yellow from contact between Brandon Verde and KC Norton at the back of the pack, James Gard and Jimmy Sorrels (driving the 8s car while his 66 is being repaired) led the main event pack to the green flag.

Gard held second inside Sorrels by a fender for a couple of laps, but then started to slowly fall back. Brenton Smith, George Abella, and Brandon Powers quickly swung around him and advanced to pass Sorrels while Robert Byers (driving for Mike Bray), Dylan Rose, and Roman Rose passed Gard.

Abella swung outside Smith and started a four lap battle for the lead with Powers close behind. D. Rose, R. Rose, and Matt Gerjets got around both Byers and Sorrels for fourth through sixth. When Abella finished the pass for the lead, he and Smith had out-distanced Powers.

D. Rose took up position outside Powers as R. Rose waited to follow. Powers fought back on the inside for several laps. In lap 14, they came out of turn two with Powers low almost on the dirt, D. Rose outside by half-a-car, and R. Rose following outside. D. Rose tried to finish the pass a little too soon and the resulting contact wobbled Powers back and up into R. Rose.

This sent both of them high through the backstretch with the right side tires of R. Rose off the track. Turning to get back on as he entered turn three sent his nose into the right side of Powers and turned Powers around and up over the turn three berm. R. Rose managed to turn back down onto the track but Terry Pittman had nowhere to go and pegged the driver side of R. Rose, stripping away the door sheet metal.

On the restart, Powers hung back inside R. Rose, turned right coming out of turn four, and rammed R. Rose into the frontstretch wall. Both had to retire with damage and Powers was cited for intentional ramming.

Abella and the lapped car of Gard led the restart. Abella, Smith, and D. Rose took off while the fading Gard pinned Gerjets back on the outside. D. Rose worked the rear of Smith hard trying to gain and maintain the outside groove. He had just swung out when Gerjets spun over the turn two berm for a caution.

Abella and Smith led the last restart, but D. Rose started better and swung inside and around Smith. Pittman went after Smith as D. Rose started chasing Abella. D. Rose caught up but had trouble holding the outside groove. Either he’d slip back or a lapped car would force him to back off.

When the white flag fell, D. Rose tried for the outside of Abella again coming out of turn two, but he clipped the right-rear of Abella with his left-front. This wobbled Abella up the backstretch, onto, and around the nose of D. Rose, and finally off the turn three berm in the same manner as Powers.

D. Rose did recover and continued to cross first under a yellow-checker, but was shown the black flag because he was involved in the incident that brought out the yellow (which in any other lap would have put him to the back). Smith, from Ukiah age 14 who also won the trophy dash, won his first main event ever. Pittman came in second followed by Gerjets, Byers, and Verde.

Bandoleros

Darin Silva from Ukiah, age 14, set the Bandolero fast time of 15.577s. The rest of the night was all Logan Zampa from Napa, age 9, who won the trophy dash, heat race, and the main event. Lukus Buzzard and Trystan Mucci were in front for the start of the main event, but Frankie Pickrell leap-frogged around Mucci to take the lead.

After a few yellows for L. Buzzard, the front four of Zampa, Hunter Larue, Silva, and Chris Crow out-paced the pack. The top three jockeyed out-and-in for position until, in lap 15, Larue cut it a little too close to Silva in turn two and spun for a caution. It only took a couple of laps and two cautions involving Tim Buzzard Jr. and Pickrell to put Larue back in second for the restart.

Zampa took the inside lead but Silva dove around T. Buzzard and under Larue to take second. Behind them, Pickrell was just behind T. Buzzard and Crow was trying to advance on the outside. Pickrell and T. Buzzard touched which sent T. Buzzard wobbling to the outside pushing Crow back and then under and ahead of T. Buzzard.

In the white flag lap, Pickrell broke loose, over-corrected, and went sailing off the turn two berm. The reaction jammed T. Buzzard into Crow for a yellow flag. The leaders raced to the finish under a yellow checker. Zampa crossed first followed by Silva and Larue. Crow placed fourth and T. Buzzard fifth.

Modifieds

Mark Marek from Lakeport set the Modified fast time of 12.602s. Tommy Lyndall and Corey James led the field to the main event start and ran even for two laps before James took the lead. Gary Lowblad got under David Furia and then outside Lyndall to take second.

Two cautions occurred in lap seven when Rick Tommila spun in turn four collecting Mike Sullivan and Arron Hicks, and when Sullivan and Bob Strauss tangled in turn two. This took Hicks and Tommila out, and sent Sullivan and Strauss to the back.

James and Lowblad led the restart but Lowblad wiggled loose in turn one and slowed the pack behind him. As James took off with the lead, Furia and Chuck Pruett wove under Dustin DeRosier to settle outside Lowblad. In lap 11, a tangle ended with Strauss into the turn four wall with left-rear damage and a flat tire.

James and Lowblad got them started again, but Lowblad fell back on the outside taking Pruett and Thomas Wright with him. Furia, DeRosier, and Mark Marek passed on by while Wright and Pruett fell in behind.

Marek started his climb on the outside and Wright followed. Marek passed DeRosier, Furia, and finally found the outside of the leader James with two laps to go. They ran side-by-side until Marek got a nose forward on the frontstretch.

Marek finished the pass in the last lap to claim the checkers. James finished second followed by Furia, Wright, and DeRosier.

Mini-Stocks

The Mini-Stock fast time of 13.799s was set by Robert Schmidt from Lucerne, who also won the heat race. The main event was led to the start by John Johnson and Steve Sprague, but suffered two cautions in two laps. One for a turn two spin by Davey Coyne, and the other when R. Schmidt lost his left-front wheel in turn four.

Sprague and Johnson got them started again. As Johnson fell back on the outside taking Marcus Hatfield with him, Don Presler leap-frogged Sprague into the lead while points leader Kyle Tellstrom pinned Sprague behind the lapped car of Fred Schmidt to take second.

Sprague got out from behind F. Schmidt, but was slowed enough for Hatfield to start an outside pass. Sprague rallied but then found himself pinned behind yet another lapped car, Jessica Aceves. As Hatfield passed, Sprague dove to the outside in front of and just clipping the nose of Johnson. They wobbled a bit but recovered. It was all for naught though when, during a lap 11 caution, Sprague was given the technical black flag for a problem the track officials spotted with his car which forced him to visit the pits.

Presler and Tellstrom led the restart and Presler took the lead. Tellstrom tried everything to get around. First the outside, then any opening he saw on the inside. Finally, in turn four, Tellstrom broke loose, fishtailed, and lost too much ground.

Presler, from Nice, finished first followed by Tellstrom, Hatfield, Johnson, and Jay Strugnell.

Street Stocks

Kevin Waycik from Lucerne set the Street Stock fast time of 13.961s. The rest was all Ron Duke Sr. from Redwood Valley. He won the trophy dash, the heat race, and led the entire main event after a daring three-wide pass at the start from the second row.

Waycik finished second followed by Mikey Snider, Jimmy Shankles, and Jody Snider.

Bombers

The Bomber fast time of 14.160s was set by Roman Rose from Lakeport. Sean Sweeney and Rick Tommila led them to the main event green flag. They ran even for a couple of laps until Sweeney broke loose in turn one. He over-corrected and, when his rear wheels bit, was shot to the outside into the rear of Tommila. Tommila was turned to the inside down the backstretch just as Sorrels was passing by and they collided bringing out a caution.

The leaders Sweeney and Tommila had to retire, and the second row of Sorrels and Robert Byers (driving for Mike Bray) had to visit the pits.

Scott Griffin (driving for Sorrels and Gard) and Adam Hernandez suddenly found themselves not in the third row but leading the restart. Hernandez took off and Griffin fell back pushing Mike Neilson with him.

Brenton Smith, Dylan Rose, and R. Rose passed Griffin on the outside into second through fourth. Smith was about to pass Hernandez on the outside when Hernandez drifted high just as D. Rose slipped under Smith. D. Rose continued into the lead as Smith was slowed behind Hernandez allowing R. Rose to catch up and slip by inside Smith into third.

However, in turn four, R. Rose broke loose, drifted high, and slowed allowing Smith to swing back around inside and retake third when R. Rose broke loose again in turn one. But then, Hernandez drifted loose in turn two, slowed Smith, and R. Rose darted outside past Smith.

All of this allowed Neilson to catch up and poke his nose inside Smith on lap 26. At the same time, something seemed to go wrong with Hernandez’s car as he wobbled loose and suddenly shot a cloud of smoke from his right rear, as if a bearing had burnt, in front of R. Rose and Smith. They slowed and Smith dove inside just as Neilson was surging forward.

Smith and Neilson collided and Smith was turned around the nose of Neilson down the backstretch and into the infield for a caution. This sent them both to the back after a visit to the pits.

D. Rose and Hernandez led the last restart. Hernandez fell back on the outside pushing Griffin and Smith. D. Rose and R. Rose took off while Neilson and Smith swung outside Byers.

That’s how they finished. D. Rose in first followed by R. Rose, Neilson, Smith, and Byers.

Jammers

Jammer fans were treated to not just one but two main events. The first was at the beginning of the night before any of the other races. Darrell L. and Carl “The Goose” Gronroos led the field when the green flag fell on their standing rally-style start.

They raced for the lead side-by-side as Corey Crawford, James Adkins, Casey Crawford, Gary Judd, and Hayley Bishop scrambled around the others. Johnathan Tims found himself too high in turn one and slid along the wall through turn two before recovering.

In lap three, Corey spun on the backstretch. Everyone else dodged around him as he found himself stopped facing the wrong way and sucking grill with Bishop. A red was thrown so track official could pry these kids apart.

There were two more quick reds in succession as the raffle driver Ashley Lovrin spun on the frontstretch, and then got turned hard into the turn four wall. It is a credit to the safety of the Jammer design that, despite the significant damage that turned up the right-front of the car and blew the radiator, she walked away from the wreck under her own power to the relief and cheers of the crowd.

The standing restarts were run differently this time. The cars were brought up to the lead cars in double-file where they were started. Darrell L. took the lead followed by Gronroos. Judd tried to pass on the outside but was denied. He was inside when Gronroos wheel-hopped in turn three allowing him to pass into second.

Darrell L. finished first followed by Judd, Gronroos, Adkins, and Tims.

The second race was held at the end of the night, and was run in the opposite direction (“Right turn Clyde.”). Nolan Forsythe and Kaleigh Sullivan led the standing start. Gronroos was on a mission. Despite starting in seventh (fourth row inside), he rode the apron past all three rows ahead of him into second behind Sullivan. In lap two, Adkins spun out in turn four and Anthony Esberg blew an engine for a red. Tims was put in the penalty box for not stopping for the red where he had to wait until the pack passed the finish line to restart.

Sullivan and Gronroos led the restart, but Sullivan missed a shift and the pack scrambled to get around her. Darrell L. and Judd had passed Bishop to fight for second when Bishop dove to the infield with problems for a red flag in lap eight. Brittney Tommila was sent to the infield penalty box for not stopping for the red flag.

The restart quickly turned into a battle of the top three: Gronroos, Judd, and Darrell L. Judd tried an outside pass for the lead but could not hold the groove. Darrell L. took the advantage and second position on the inside. However, a red was thrown for Darrell L. when track officials noticed his window net was down. A serious safety issue that put him in the penalty box.

The restart was further complicated when Tims, Casey Crawford, and Tommila were also put in the penalty box for not stopping for the red. This left five cars on the track, four who had to start back from the box, and officials wondering just how big they’re going to have to rebuild this box.

After a few laps, the top three were again Gronroos, Judd, and Darrell L. Darrell took advantage when Judd left the inside groove open to take second. Judd tried every line he could, even diving for the apron on the white flag lap, but to no avail.

Gronroos claimed the win followed by Darrell L., Judd, Casey Crawford, and Tims.