Robbie Green Wins 1st, Gary Card and Jake Slack Repeat Winners at ARP
Packed pits greeted the Afton Raceway Park fans for Team Valvoline Say No to Drugs Night. Thirty-one 358 Modified-Sportsman, 32 Street Stocks and 42 Four Cylinder Street Stocks came out on a beautiful Friday evening. The 358s had their third winner in as many events while the support classes had repeat winners from earlier events.
In the 358 Modified-Sportsman feature Robbie Green dove under Scott
Landers coming out of turn two on lap 19 and held off the late race charge of Ron Ford to take the win. Landers was the early race leader from the third starting position. Duane
Hiller ran second with Rich Diamond third, Bill Tittle fourth and Darrin
Schuler fifth. By the 13th lap Green had moved into fifth and Ron Ford had
rallied to sixth. After a 15th lap tangle between Steve Walsh and Earl Walrath bunched up the field, Landers held on to the lead. Howard Singer had moved up to the second spot with Robbie Green on his back bumper in third and Ron Ford in
hot pursuit fourth. Green dropped down low to pass Singer and then set his sights on the 133 of Landers. On the 19th circuit Green again dropped to the low groove pulling under Landers and into the lead coming out of turn two. Ford later thundered
by Landers for second but was unable to reel in Green. Landers held on to finish third with Howard Singer fourth and Duane Hiller fifth. Gary Card won his second Street Stock feature in a row. Card took the lead from Skip French on the fourth lap and never relinquished it despite
pressure from Tim French and Gary Roberts.
The caution came out on lap 8 when Mike Murphy perched his machine atop both the front stretch guardrail and the 2X of Dan Roe. Tim French had moved into second with Mike Buchek third, Skip French fourth, and Marty Goodwin fifth.
The red flag came out on lap 9 when Chris Cacialliran over Bob Newell's wheel, caught a tire and barrel rolled in turn one. Cacialli was uninjured but the car was done for the night. On the restart Gary Roberts charged into third place. Meanwhile Card and French had begun a side-by-side battle for the lead. Card was able to hold off French when the caution came out on lap 12. The single file restart allowed Roberts to challenge French for second and on lap 14 he moved the U2 into the low groove out of turn two and out-motored French for the number two spot. Roberts then set his sights on Card and the lead. Roberts pulled up to challenge but was unable to pull off the pass on the one lap dash to the checkered flag because the caution came out. Gary Card took the win, Gary Roberts finished second, Tim French third, Mike Buchek fourth and Marty Goodwin fifth.
In the Four Cylinder Street Stocks Jake Slack weaved his way through the spinning cars of Gary Smith and John Payne to pick up his second feature win of the season.
Rich Watson jumped out to the early lead and held it until the tenth lap when Gary Smith drove by. John Payne, running fifth, began his late charge on lap ten, by lap 12 had moved into second and was starting to reel in the leader when a caution came out to set up another last lap dash. On the start Smith led Payne through turn three when, between turns three and four, with the checkered flag ready to fall, both Smith and Payne in nearly perfect unison spun out. This scattered the field and Jake Slack crossed the line for the win. Rich Watson came home second, Bob Darling, Jr. took third, Dan Alvord fourth, and John LaFever fifth. Gary Smith never did get his car straightened around and backed across the line in eighth. John Payne finished thirteenth.
358 Modified-Sportsman Results
Feature 25 Laps
1-Robbie Green, 2-Ron Ford, 3-Scott Landers, 4-Howard Singer, 5-Duane Hiller, 6- J.R. Hurlburt, 7-Del Howell, 8-Alan Latwinski, 9-Rich Diamond, 10-Earl Walrath, 11-Pat Shultis, 12-George Lewis, 13-Bill Tittle, 14-Wind Hinkley, 15-Jamie Page, 16- Chuck Kennison, 17-Larry Cruickshank, 18-Steve Walsh, 19-Joe Buchek, 20-D.G. Wagner, 21-Mark Terry, 22-Darrin Schuler, 23-Dave Rosa, 24-Mike Clapperton
Heat One
1-Scott Landers, 2-Darrin Schuler, 3-Jamie Page, 4-Mark Terry, 5-Howard Singer, 6-Rich Diamond
Heat Two
1-Chuck Kennison, 2-Bill Tittle, 3-Del Howell, 4-Wink Hinkley, 5-Duane Hiller, 6- Pat Shultis
Heat Three
1-Mike Clapperton, 2-George Lewis, 3-Ron Ford, 4-Dave Rosa, 5-Alan Latwinski, 6-Robbie Green
Consi
1-J.R. Hurlburt, 2-Steve Walsh, 3-Larry Cruickshank, 4-Joe Buchek, 5-D.G. Wagner, 6-Earl Walrath
Street Stock Results Feature 20 Laps
1-Gary Card, 2-Gary Roberts, 3-Tim French, 4-Mike Buchek, 5-Marty Goodwin, 6- Al CacRabie, 7-Jerry Northrup, 8-Les Streeter, 9-Skip French, 10-Bob Newell, 11- Jeff Norton, 12-Jim Giles, 13-Bob Fleming, 14-Mike Murphy, 15-Roger Cook, 16- Wayne Northrup, 17-Denny Smith, 18-Russ Jennings, 19-Chris Cacialli, 20-Tim Van Buren, 21-Wade Decker, 22-Dan Roc, 23-Ed Ward, 24-Steve Alger
Heat One
1-Jerry Northrup, 2-Marty Goodwin, 3-Russ Jennings, 4-Chris Cacialli, 5-Skip Heat Two
French, 6-Roger Cook
1-Steve Alger, 2-Gary Card, 3-Denny Smith, 4-Les Streeter, 5-Bob Newell, 6-Ed
Ward
Heat Three
1-Tim French, 2-Gary Roberts, 3-Jeff Norton, 4-Wade Decker, 5-Tim Van Buren, 6-
Mike Buchek Consi
1-Al MacRabie, 2-Jim Giles, 3-Dan Roe, 4-Mike Murphy, 5-Bob Fleming, 6-Wayne
Northrup
Four Cylinder Street Stocks
Feature 15 Laps
1-Jake Slack, 2-Rich Watson, 3-Bob Darling, Jr., 4-Dan Alvord, 5-John LaFever, 6- Ralph Jennings, Jr., 7-Randy Brokaw, 8-Gary Smith, 9-Jeff Lee, 10-Chris Sherman, 11-John Kostbar, 12-Rich Rought, 13-John Payne, 14-Derek Butts, 15-Rudy Locke, 16-Jim Backus, 17-Paul Miller, 18-Mike Oliver, 19-Duane Kane, 20-Harold Humphrey, 21-Dave Jaindle, 22-Jim Weaver, 23-Rick Lashway, 24-Randy Ryan
Heat One
1-Gary Smith, 2-John Kostbar, 3-Dave Jaindle, 4-Rick Lashway, 5-Mike Oliver Heat Two 1-John Payne, 2-Rich Watson, 3-Harold Humphrey, 4-John LaFever, 5-Randy Haynes
Heat Three 1-Bob Darling, Jr., 2-Randy Brokaw, 3-Rich Rought, 4-Ralph Jennings, Jr., 5-Paul Miller
Heat Four
1-Jake Slack, 2-Jim Weaver, 3-Randy Ryan, 4-Duane Kane, 5-Derek Butts
Consi One
1-Dan Alvord, 2-Rudy Locke
Consi Two
1-Jeff Lee, 2-Jim Backus