First Time Winners at ARP Ron Ford, Les Streeter, and Gary Smith

A fine field of cars and a cooperative weatherman gave the fans at Afton Raceway Park an exciting race card on Reynolds Auto Supply night. Twenty-eight 358 Modified-Sportsman, 24 Street Stocks and 42 Four Cylinder Street Stocks filled the pits under an overcast sky that threatened rain all evening. The hearty fans that came out were treated to three first time winners.

358 Modified-Sportsman point leader Ron Ford took his first feature win of 1992. Taking the lead from defending track champion Darrin Schuler on the sixth lap, Ford started to pull away from the field. After a caution, Chuck Kennison split Schuler and Wink Hinkley coming out of turn 2 to charge into second.

Moving up to challenge Ford for the lead, Kennison dropped low coming out of turn 4. Ford pushed high to the front stretch wall and Kennison out-motored him down the straight away for the lead. Kennison then rode high in turn 2 and Ford hugged the inside and out- powered the 9X to retake the lead.

Mark Terry had moved up to third, with Bill Tittle fourth and Wink Hinkley fifth. Ford held off Kennison's challenges for the rest of the race to take the win. Bill Tittle moved past Mark Terry for third with Jamie Paige finishing fifth.

Les Streeter, Jr. picked up his first win of 1992 after a door-handle- to-door-handle battle with early race leader Denny Smith.

Steve Wetherbee jumped to an early lead until Pat Ward worked by on the second lap. Denny Smith then took the lead when Ward's X3 lost a wheel. This moved Streeter into second, Jay Renner third, Dan Roe fourth, and Tim French fifth.

On lap 13 Streeter was able to get by Denny Smith to take the lead. Gary Card moved into the battle by passing Smith down the back stretch on lap 16. Card pressured Streeter but was unable to get by and settled for second. Smith held on to finish third, Tim French took fourth, and Al MacRabie fifth.

After coming one turn short two weeks ago Gary Smith picked up the win in the Four Cylinder Street Stock division. Taking the lead on a restart when Mike Oliver got out of shape hitting leader Jake Slack, Smith cruised to the win. Slack was able to regroup to finish second. Last week's winner Rich Watson was third with John Kostbar fourth and Tom Seymour fifth.

358 Modified-Sportsman Results

Feature

1-Ron Ford, 2-Chuck Kennison, 3-Bill Tittle, 4-Mark Terry, 5-Jamie Paige, 6-Howard Singer, 7-Wink Hinkley, 8-Duane hiller, 9-Pat Shultis, 10-Joe Sellars, 11-J.R. Hurlburt, 12-Danny Spratt, 13-George Lewis, 14-Alan Latwinski, 15-Tony Wrench, 16-Mike Clapperton, 17-Mike Baldwin, 18- Tom Perrigo, 19-Darrin Schuler, 20-Del Howell, 21-Chuck Lopresti, 22- Cookie Morris, 23-Dave Rosa, 24-Pat Van Varic

Heat One

1-Howard Singer, 2-Mark Terry, 3-Joe Sellars, 4-Dave Rosa, 5-Mike Baldwin, 6-Chuck Lopresti

Heat Two

1-Ron Ford, 2-Darrin Schuler, 3-Mike Clapperton, 4-Tony Wrench, 5- George Lewis, 6-Pat Van Varic

Heat Three

1-Wink Hinkley, 2-Jamie Paige, 3-Tom Perrigo, 4-J.R. Hurlburt, 5-Bill Tittle, 6-Alan Latwinski

Consi

1-Chuck Kennison, 2-Duane Hiller, 3-Del Howell, 4-Pat Shultis, 5-Danny Spratt, 6-Cookie Morris

Street Stock Results

Feature 1-Les Streeter, 2-Gary Card, 3-Denny Smith, 4-Tim French, 5-Al MacRabie,

6-Gary Roberts, 7-Mike Buchek, 8-Jeff Norton, 9-Bob Newell, 10-Dan Roe,

11-Jerry Northrup, 12-Tex Fritz, 13-Steve Wetherbee, 14-Skip French, 15- Jim Giles, 16-Tim Van Buren, 17-Roger Cook, 18-Jeff Hager, 19-Wayne Northrup, 20-Jay Renner, 21-Marty Goodwin, 22-Pat Ward, 23-Chris Cacialli Heat One 1-Tim French, 2-Gary Card, 3-Jim Giles, 4-Jeff Norton, 5-Jay Renner, 6-Don

Pierce

Heat Two

1-Dan Roe, 2-Chris Cacialli, 3-Al MacRabie, 4-Marty Goodwin, 5-Steve Wetherbee, 6-Bob Newell

Heat Three

1-Denny Smith, 2-Jerry Northrup, 3-Gary Roberts, 4-Pat Ward, 5-Tim Van Buren, 6-Les Streeter

Four Cylinder Street Stocks

Feature

1-Gary Smith, 2-Jake Slack, 3-Rich Watson, 4-John Kostbar, 5-Tom Seymour, 6-Jeff Lee, 7-Randy Ryan, 8-Bob Darling, 9-Paul Miller, 10-Jerry Voorhis, 11-Rudy Locke, 12-Rick Lashway, 13-Dan Alvord, 14-Claude Hallstead, 15- Randy Haynes, 16-Pat Mednansky, 17-Kevin Tuttle, 18-Randy Brokaw, 19- Jim Backus, 20-Jonathan Lafever, 21-Scott Johnson, 22-Jim Weaver, 23- Mike Oliver, 24-Dave Wilkenson

Heat One

1-Gary Smith, 2-Jim Weaver, 3-Rich Watson, 4-Tom Seymour, 5-Scott Johnson

Heat Two

1-Randy Brokaw, 2-Mike Oliver, 3-Jeff Lee, 4-Jerry Voorhis, 5-Kevin Tuttle 1-Jake Slack, 2-Dan Alvord, 3-John Kostbar, 4-Jonathan Lafever, 5-Jim

Heat Three

Backus

Heat Four 1-Randy Ryan, 2-Paul Miller, 3-Pat Mednansky, 4-Randy Haynes, 5-Dave

Wilkenson Consi One

1-Rudy Locke, 2-Bob Darling

Consi Two

1-Rick Lashway, 2-Claude Hallstead