Darrin Schuler, Gary Roberts, and Rich Watson Share ARP Limelight

Despite rain all around the race track Afton Raceway Park managed to complete all but 7 laps last Friday night. Twenty-four Modifieds, 29 Street Stocks, and 40 Four Cylinder Street Stocks filled the pits for the night's events.

Defending 358 Modified-Sportsman champion Darrin Schuler picked up his first win of the 1992 season. Starting in the third spot Schuler grabbed the lead from George Lewis on a second restart. Meanwhile, Mark Terry had started to move through the field from his tenth starting spot. By lap 7 Terry moved the 3M into third spot and was challenging Bill Tittle for second. J.R. Hurlburt had moved into fourth and Joe Sellars up to fifth at this point.

Terry and Hurlburt both snuck by Tittle on a ninth lap restart and Terry set out after Schuler. The 3M battled with Schuler's 74 to take the top spot. On a lap 12 restart Schuler pulled under Terry down the backstretch to take the lead. Joe Sellars and Jamie Paige moved through the field, with Sellars taking third and Paige fourth. Bill Tittle held onto fifth.

The night came to an end for Mark Terry when he rolled to a stop on the backstretch. This put Joe Sellars in the second spot to challenge Schuler for the win. The two battled for the top spot while Bill Tittle, Jamie Paige and Mike Clapperton fought for the remaining top five positions. When the dust settled at the finish line, Darrin Schuler came home the winner, Joe Sellars second, Bill Tittle third, Mike Clapperton fourth, and Jamie Paige fifth.

In the Street Stock feature Gary Roberts outdueled Gary Card to take his second win of the season. Starting in 18th and 13th positions the two moved through the field quickly and by lap 9 were fighting for the lead. Running side-by-side for a lap and a half neither driver was able to grab any substantial advantage. Roberts would go high into the turn and drop down low exiting the turn and gain a small advantage, then Card would grab it back in the next turn.

On the 15th lap Roberts pulled into the lead and held on to take the win in a hard fought contest. Card finished second. Al MacRabie fought back through the field, after being sent to the rear early in the race, to finish third. Marty Goodwin took fourth with Tim French fifth. Rich Watson took the four Cylinder Street Stock feature in a rain- shortened event. Stopping the race after eight laps, due to the rain, gave Watson his first win of the season. Jake Slack took second, Chris Sherman third, Randy Haynes fourth, and Jim Weaver fifth.

358 Modified-Sportsman Results Feature 25 Laps

1-Darrin Schuler, 2-Joe Sellars, 3-Bill Tittle, 4-Mike Clapperton, 5-Jamie Paige, 6-Dave Rosa, 7-Stacey Jackson, 8-Wink Hinkley, 9-Ron Ford, 10- Cookie Morris, 11-Wayne Van Hom, 12-Tony Wrench, 13-Steve Walsh, 14- J.R. Hurlburt, 15-Del Howell, 16-Duane Hiller, 17-Alan Latwinski, 18-Mark Terry, 19-George Lewis, 20-Brian Winkler, 21-Howard Singer, 22-Scott Landers, 23-Earl Walrath, 24-Pat Shultis

Heat One

1-Bill Tittle, 2-Ron Ford, 3-Alan Latwinski, 4-Steve Walsh, 5-Scott Landers, 6-George Lewis

Heat Two

1-Mike Clapperton, 2-Mark Terry, 3-Joe Sellars, 4-Darrin Schuler, 5-Jamie Paige, 6-Pat Shultis

Heat Three

1-J.R. Hurlburt, 2-Dave Rosa, 3-Stacey Jackson, 4-Howard Singer, 5-Del Howell 6-Earl Walrath

Street Stock Results

Feature 20 Laps

1-Gary Roberts, 2-Gary Card, 3-Al MacRabie, 4-Marty Goodwin, 5-Tim French, 6-Jerry Northrup, 7-Chris Cacialli, 8-Jeff Norton, 9-Bob Newell, 10-Tim VanBuren, 11-Skip French, 12-Tex Fritz, 13-Jay Renner, 14-Dan Roe, 15-Roger Cook, 16-Russ Jennings, 17-Les Streeter, 18-Wade Decker, 19-Steve Wetherbee, 20-Bill Wayman, 21-Mike Buchek, 22-Steve Alger, 23-Alan Gage, 24-Denny Smith

Heat One

1-Russ Jennings, 2-Chris Cacialli, 3-Jerry Northrup, 4-Jay Renner, 5-Denny Smith, 6-Tim Van Buren

Heat Two

1-Al MacRabie, 2-Bill Wayman, 3-Wade Decker, 4-Tim French, 5-Les Streeter, 6-Dan Roe

1-Steve Alger, 2-Gary Card, 3-Steve Wetherbee, 4-Gary Roberts, 5-Marty Goodwin, 6-Jeff Norton

Consi

1-Skip French, 2-Bob Newell, 3-Mike Buchek, 4-Tex Fritz, 5-Roger Cook 6-Alan Gage

Four Cylinder Street Stocks Feature Rain-Shortened to 8 Laps

1-Rich Watson, 2-Jake Slack, 3-Chris Sherman, 4-Randy Haynes, 5-Jim Weaver, 6-Jim Backus, 7-Paul Miller, 8-John Lafever, 9-Jeff Lee, 10-Gary Smith, 11-Pat Mednansky, 12-Mark Cook, 13-Duane Kane, 14-John Kostbar, 15-Rudy Locke, 16-Tom Seymour, 17-Kevin Tuttle, 18-William Carms, 19- Mike Oliver, 20-Otto Sitterly, 21-Jerry Voorhis, 22-Harold Humphrey, 23- Tom French, 24-Dave Jaindle

Heat One

1-Gary Smith, 2-Jeff Lee, 3-Chris Sherman, 4-John Lafever, 5-William

Carms

1-Jake Slack, 2-Paul Miller, 3-Dave Jaindle, 4-Jim Backus, 5-Randy Haynes Heat Three

Heat Two

1-Rich Watson, 2-Mike Oliver, 3-Mark Cook, 4-Tom French, 5-Tom Seymour Heat Four 1-Jim Weaver, 2-Otto Sitterly, 3-Harold Humphrey, 4-Jerry Voorhis, 5-Johr

Kostbar Consi One

1-Pat Mednansky, 2-Duane Kane Consi Two

1-Kevin Tuttle, 2-Rudy Locke