Robertson and Muhler Lead the Twin Late Model Events

Sunday, 21 June 2009 00:57

Rocky’s Autos Late Models Feature #1

20 late models hit the track for the first of two 40 lap A Mains.

#31 Richard Smith had the pole with #10 Tyler Chrisinger on the outside. #11 Darren Robertson was on the inside of row two alongside #95 Cristofer Muhler. #42 Ronnie Hults followed behind in row three.

Chrisinger quickly moved into the lead with Rick Smith and Darren Robertson duking it out for 2nd. Robertson made it around the inside hurtling to the tail of Chrisinger. Before long, Robertson was coming along the inside of Tyler Chrisinger for the lead!

#95 Cristofer Muhler got around Rick Smith taking 3rd, he was  followed by Ronnie Hults who took 4th.

It was an intense 4 car break away between Chrisinger, Darren Robertson, Muhler and Hults with no clear indication of who would take stand out. Robertson came around the outside of Chrisinger on lap 17 but some fancy driving kept Robertson at bay.

All leaders were navigating lapped traffic when #12 Bruce Yackey joined the pack in 5th place. At lap 22, Robertson made another move, this time on the inside of Chrisinger but lapped traffic kept him behind. Tyler Chrisinger wasn’t giving away a thing.

Robertson made another move on lap 25, this time coming around the outside of Chrisinger at turn 3. The two dragged along the front stretch with Robertson coming out on top.

Darren Robertson pulled away, widening his lead, Muhler maintained a steady 2nd and Yackey was close behind.

The field opened up at lap 31. Muhler in 2nd and Yackey in 3rd stayed on Robertson while Chrisinger in 4th and Hults in 5th slipped several car lengths behind.
With two laps to go it was clear that Robertson would take the win. #11 Darren Robertson passed the checkered flag followed by #95 Cristofer Muhler, #12 Bruce Yackey & #10 Tyler Chrisinger

1 #11 DARREN ROBERTSON, 2 #95 CRISTOFER MUHLER, 3 #12 BRUCE YACKEY, 4 #42 RONNIE HULTS, 5 #10 TYLER CHRISINGER, 6 #27 ROGER AVANTS, 7 #31 RICHARD SMITH, 8 #78 DARREN CROCKER, 9 #66 DARREN BUCKLEN, 10 #88 GREG FOWLER, 11 #91 CHRIS ATKINSON, 12 48# ED  VECCHIARELLI JR, 13 #77 STEVEN YACKEY, 14 #39 # NICK BURTON, 15 #44 DAVE FINLEY, 16 #39 #JACK NUGENT, 17 #23 #DAVIN FISBECK, 18 #33 #EMETT  GRAZIER, 19 #76 #JOSEPH DENNING, 20 #57 #JOSEPH FUNAYAMA

Rocky’s Autos Late Models Feature #2

20 Late models took to the track for the second 40 lap main event.

It was #10 Tyler Chrisinger on the pole with #42 Ronnie Hults on the outside. The two were followed by #12 Bruce Yackey on the inside of row two with #95 Cristofer Muhler on the outside. #11 Darren Robertson started in 5th place.

Ronnie Hults took an early lead followed by Muhler, Yackey, Avants and Chrisinger.

By lap 4 #78 Darren Crocker had moved into 5th place.

1 quarter of the way through the race Hults was still in 1st, Muhler had 2nd and Yackey was sticking 3rd.

Hults and Muhler moved way ahead of the field through the next 10 laps.

At lap 34 Muhler began to close the gap between himself and Hults. Caution on the speedway brought the leaders Hults and Muhler back together for a single file restart. It was bad timing for Hults, whose car was getting loose.

Just prior to caution, #11 Darren Robertson, winner of the evening’s first A Main left the track.

With only 3 laps to go Muhler and Yackey passed Hults on the inside! It was Muhler for the win followed by Yackey, Hults, Avants and Crocker.

Muhler said, "I don’t want to talk about the championship yet because we have a lot of races yet to win against a lot of really fast competitors.”

1 #95 CRISTOFER MUHLER, 2 #12 BRUCE YACKEY, 3 #42 RONNIE HULTS, 4 #27 ROGER AVANTS, 5 #78 DARREN CROCKER, 6 #31 RICHARD SMITH, 7 #88 GREG FOWLER, 8 #10 TYLER CHRISINGER, 9 #66 DARREN BUCKLEN, 10 #77 STEVEN YACKEY, 11 #91 CHRIS ATKINSON, 12 #9 #NICK BURTON, 13 #6 #JOSEPH DENNING, 14 #57 #JOSEPH FUNAYAMA, 15 #48 #ED VECCHIARELLI JR, 16 #11 DARREN ROBERTSON, 17 #4 DAVE FINLEY, 18 #33 #EMETT  GRAZIER

RMMRA Midgets

9 midgets hit the track for the 20 lap main event.
#22 Brian Postle had the pole with #10 Don Johnson on the outside. #6 Michael Heberling had the inside of row two with #77 Mike Boesel on his outside.

Through the first several laps, these machines epitomized the term “rubbing is racing”, and in an open wheel division, you can imagine the intensity!

At lap 6 it was the driver who started in 2nd to last place, #14 Tony Rossi who broke away for the lead as the crowd roared with excitement.  He was followed by #12 Keith Rauch in 2nd with #48 Michael Marfia a mere ¼ of the track behind weaving through traffic with his eye on the lead. 

With 3 to go, Rossi and Rauch were coming up on lapped traffic.

At the finish, Rossi stuck it for the win followed by Rauch and Marfia. The Midgets ran a clean race without a single lap of caution.

1 #14 TONY ROSSI, 2 #12 KEITH RAUCH, 3 #48 MICHAEL MARFIA, 4 #6M JUSTIN MALLO, 5 #3 JULIE JAMISON, 6 #77 MIKE BOESEL, 7 #6 MICHAEL  HEBERLING, 8 #22 BRIAN POSTLE, 9 #10 DON JOHNSON

Doc Popcorn Super Stocks

28 Super Stocks hit the track for the 25 lap main event.

#01 Jason Morris had the pole with #81 Robert Foster on the outside. #92 Alexander Grasso was on the inside of row two with #17 Jeremy Barclay on the outside. #00 Dennis Edwards had the inside of row 3.

The 28 cars on the oval looked like rush hour traffic going into the first lap. The drivers were taking the turns 3 wide and a massive pile up ensued before the completion of lap 1.

On the restart Robert Foster shot ahead from the outside of row one for the lead.

Foster and Jeremy Barclay lead the pack on the restart and drag raced through the first 2 laps. Barclay took the lead coming through turn 4 at lap 9. Caution on the speedway on lap 15 lead to a double file restart, killing the Barclay's lead. It didn’t matter as the Super Stock’s time had run out resulting in a green and white checkered flag. Barclay held his lead, taking the win followed by #19 Scott Miller, #92 Alexander Grasso, and #36 Matthew Burton.

In 5th place, was Michael Cox in the #3 car sponsored in part by bigwestracing.com. Cox, clearly the hard charger of the race, started in 19th place.

1 #17 JEREMY BARCLAY, 2 #19 #SCOTT MILLER, 3 #92 ALEXANDER GRASSO, 4 #36 MATTHEW BURTON, 5 #3 MICHAEL COX, 6 #01 JASON MORRIS, 7 #8 RYAN MOSER, 8 #02 CECIL SMITH, 9 #23 GEORGE GALLEGOS, 10 #81 ROBERT  FOSTER, 11 #00 DENNIS EDWARDS, 12 #46 RICHARD LOTHERT, 13 #75 EMILIO  ABEYTA, 14 #07 JOEL SIDELL, 15 #1 JEFFREY SLUSS, 16 #33 #MICHAEL BUCK, 17 #58 TIMOTHY WEAVER, 18 #09 JOHN PATEE, 19 #7 DOUGLAS MCFARLAND JR, 20 #49 # WILLIAM LESMERISES, 21 #20 DAVID SCHMIDT, 22 #30 CONNIE COX, 23 #10 MARIO GARRAMONE, 24 #47 DONALD MCATEE JR, 25 #90 KYLE PATEE, 26 #25 #KATHEY CALKINS, 27 #39 JOHN NUGENT, 28 #21 JUSTIN  PURVIS

Loveland Goodyear Figure 8s

18 cars hit the track for the 20 lap figure 8 A Main.
It was #17 Harry Livermore on the pole with #81 David Smith on the outside. #25 Phil Taylor had the inside of row 2 riding along side #24 Joe Martinez.

It was standard mayhem for the figure 8s throughout the 20 lap main event. There was some confusion at the checkered flag as to who one the race. Duran had the lead but spun out, and from the perspective of the crowd, it didn’t seem that he ever passed the finish line.

Regardless of race fan perspective, the track officials called it a win for Al Duran.

1 #23 AL DURAN, 2 #90 JOHN JOHNSON, 3 #22 JOE MATLOCK, 4 #26 NICHOLAS  MARTINEZ, 5 #17 HARRY LIVERMORE JR, 6 #24 JOE MARTINEZ, 7 #25 PHIL  TAYLOR, 8 #95 EDDIE FLOYD JR, 9 #81 DAVID SMITH, 10 #03 BOBBY ZIKE, 11 #66 JOHN MARTELLO, 12 #05 JEROME HOHN JR, 13 #86 SHIRLEY THOMPSON, 14 #69 #TAMMY TOTOS, 15 #15 JEREME WALL, 16 #50 JUSTIN MCKEACHIE, 17 #12 # JAMES NARANJO, 18 #52 JARED WALL