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Title: Santa Maria Speedway - 5/25 Results - Pounds Wins Night One Post by LMR on 05/25/13 at 8:43pm Super Late Models Santa Maria Speedway May 25, 2013 _______________________________________ Pounds Dominates Night One of The Nationals at Santa Maria Speedway by Stephanie Odom SANTA Maria, CA (May 25) - The West Coast Late Model Shootout kicked off “The Nationals Presented by Coors Light” on Saturday night at Santa Maria Speedway. Twenty-three cars were on hand for the $2,000 to win and $300 to start event with Bakersfield’s Brad Pounds dominating the first night of action. Known as “The Dominator” to many, Pounds started the night off strong qualifying first within his group and winning his heat race. He started the feature event second alongside defending West Coast Late Model Shootout Champion Clay Daly. Pounds got the jump when the green flag dropped for thirty laps of action. Daly settled in to second while the battle was heated for third between Mike Johnson and Tucson, Arizona’s RC Whitwell. Johnson took the position with current series’ points leader Nick Bartels getting by Whitwell for fourth. The only caution came out on lap two for Dennis Souza and Carla Laney. Racing resumed with Mike Johnson challenging and overtaking Daly for second place and Bobby Hogge battling Whitwell for fifth. While Pounds pulled away from the field, Whitwell moved from the preferred bottom lane to the middle and top groove passing Bartels for fourth place. With five laps remaining Pounds methodically moved his way through lapped traffic and took the checkered flag with Johnson, Daly, Whitwell, Hogge, Bartels, Tommy Malcolm, Tony Toste, Steve Drake and Rob Sanders completing the top ten. The West Coast Late Model Shootout will return to action tonight at Santa Maria Speedway for night two of “The Nationals Presented by Coors Light,” for a $3,000 to win and $300 to start feature event. For more information visit www.WestCoastLateModels.com or www.RaceSantaMariaSpeedway.com. The West Coast Late Model Shootout and Chris Kearns Presents would like to thank the following for their support this season: Taffera Jewelers, RoadRunner Fabrication, Pearsons Auto Wrecking, Drake Farms Transportation, Toste Construction, Toste Grading and Paving, Papich Construction, Victory Circle Chassis, Victory Circle Custom Fabrication and Machining, West Coast Boring, Hoosier Tires, Five Star Grafix, VP Racing Fuel, A-1 Spring & Supply and Holders Air Conditioning and Heating A-Main   1 1P Brad Pounds Bakersfield, CA $2,000 2 7 Mike Johnson Lompoc, CA 3 32B Clay Daly Watsonville, CA 4 24 RC Whitwell Tucson, AZ 5 2 Bobby Hogge Salinas, CA 6 27 Nick Bartels El Segundo, CA 7 75 Tommy Malcolm Corona, CA 8 91T Tony Toste Pismo Beach, CA 9 11X Steve Drake San Luis Obispo, CA 10 10N Robert Sanders Bakersfield, CA 11 4P Richard Papenhausen Chico, CA 12 21X Devin Crockett Arroyo Grande, CA 13 91P Jason Papich Santa Maria, CA 14 18 Chris Barnett Hesperia, CA 15 5X Dino Napier Corona, CA 16 77 Bill Bartels Marina del Rey, CA 17 5K Mike Kirby Torrance, CA 18 21 Cody Barnett Hesperia, CA 19 96 Carla Laney Torrance, CA 20 16b Randy Brown Chowchilla, CA 21 4 Jerry Stewart Bakersfield, CA 22 74 Dennis Souza Pescadero, CA 23 17c Larry Childress Bakersfield, CA * Eric Oldes/West Coast Dirt Racing Promotions sponsored final three positions (21-23) Heat #1     1 91T Tony Toste Pismo Beach, CA 2 32B Clay Daly Watsonville, CA 3 2 Bobby Hogge Salinas, CA 4 11X Steve Drake San Luis Obispo, CA 5 10N Robert Sanders Bakersfield, CA 6 21X Devin Crockett Arroyo Grande, CA 7 5K Mike Kirby Torrance, CA 8 91P Jason Papich Santa Maria, CA Heat #2     1 1P Brad Pounds Bakersfield, CA 2 7 Mike Johnson Lompoc, CA 3 75 Tommy Malcolm Corona, CA 4 18 Chris Barnett Hesperia, CA 5 5X Dino Napier Corona, CA 6 77 Bill Bartels Marina del Rey, CA 7 74 Dennis Souza Pescadero, CA 8 96 Carla Laney Torrance, CA Heat #3     1 27 Nick Bartels El Segundo, CA 2 24 RC Whitwell Tucson, AZ 3 4P Richard Papenhausen Chico, CA 4 21 Cody Barnett Hesperia, CA 5 4 Jerry Stewart Bakersfield, CA 6 16b Randy Brown Chowchilla, CA 7 17c Larry Childress Bakersfield, CA Qualifying Results     1 91T Tony Toste Pismo Beach, CA 16.240 2 10N Robert Sanders Bakersfield, CA 16.246 3 24 RC Whitwell Tucson, AZ 16.307 4 1P Brad Pounds Bakersfield, CA 16.424 5 21X Devin Crockett Arroyo Grande, CA 16.447 6 32B Clay Daly Watsonville, CA 16.534 7 11X Steve Drake San Luis Obispo, CA 16.590 8 7 Mike Johnson Lompoc, CA 16.631 9 27 Nick Bartels El Segundo, CA 16.653 10 2 Bobby Hogge Salinas, CA 16.666 11 5K Mike Kirby Torrance, CA 16.731 12 75 Tommy Malcolm Corona, CA 16.740 13 91P Jason Papich Santa Maria, CA 16.913 14 5X Dino Napier Corona, CA 17.027 15 18 Chris Barnett Hesperia, CA 17.045 16 4P Richard Papenhausen Chico, CA 17.063 17 16b Randy Brown Chowchilla, CA 17.069 18 96 Carla Laney Torrance, CA 17.149 19 17c Larry Childress Bakersfield, CA 17.376 20 77 Bill Bartels Marina del Rey, CA 17.463 21 4 Jerry Stewart Bakersfield, CA 17.573 22 74 Dennis Souza Pescadero, CA 18.672 23 21 Cody Barnett Hesperia, CA 21.140

Title: Re: Santa Maria Speedway - 5/25 Updates Post by sj_valley_dave on 05/25/13 at 10:16pm How was the track??  16.2 for quick time??

Title: Re: Santa Maria Speedway - 5/25 Results Post by mudslinger47 on 05/26/13 at 9:17am Pretty dry.  But with a butt load of cars and having to hit the track at 4 in the afternoon...what would you expect...  excellent racing all night long in most of the divisions.

Title: Re: Santa Maria Speedway - 5/25 Results Post by formercrewguy on 05/26/13 at 10:05am Dry is ok....as long as it's smooth. The days of hammer down at SMS are over i guess. Good to see RC there.

Title: Re: Santa Maria Speedway - 5/25 Results - Pounds Wins Night One Post by sj_valley_dave on 05/27/13 at 11:50am I think a lot of that dryness on the opening night of a 2 day event is the unfortunate practice of having a practice night on the night before the 2 day race. betcha practice night was nice and hooked up...hate to see the "good" get burned off on a practice night...ugh

Title: Re: Santa Maria Speedway - 5/25 Results - Pounds Wins Night One Post by JOHNSON_22c on 05/27/13 at 7:22pm There is not hooked up with the last load of slime clay they put on the track its like racing on smooth concrete with soap and water on it it used to be good a couple years ago but that's gone now your best racing at that track now is on dry bring new good clay in and things would be different jmo

Title: Re: Santa Maria Speedway - 5/25 Results - Pounds Wins Night One Post by jr07 on 05/27/13 at 8:35pm Seems to be the opinion of quite a few racers that I talk to. I heard that there's a ton of laundry detergent in that track. Anyone know if there's any truth to that rumor?

Title: Re: Santa Maria Speedway - 5/25 Results - Pounds Wins Night One Post by Chris Kearns on 05/29/13 at 9:41am There is no laundry detergent in that track. lol. The new fresh clay from 4 YEARS AGO, has been contaminated with rubber and dirt (which is a good thing). Race tracks were awesome last year. Best Sprint racing I saw anywhere. Same guy prepping track as last year. It just takes a bit to get it dialed in sometimes. I know it gets slimy beginning of year for some reason. Did it last year. Took about til end of June to go away. July, August, Sept were awesome racing. I am guessing silt or something comes up in spring, early summer? I really dont know. Tough surface to read. But its not laundry soap.

Title: Re: Santa Maria Speedway - 5/25 Results - Pounds Wins Night One Post by mudslinger47 on 05/29/13 at 4:57pm LOL racers are such whinners....  Brad looked pretty fast as well as Bobby H the following night.  Clay went from 16 to 7, must have passed someone....if it was hammer down they'd be complaining about rough and to much mud on the car.... ;D

Title: Re: Santa Maria Speedway - 5/25 Results - Pounds Wins Night One Post by OLD SCHOOL#6 on 05/29/13 at 7:27pm I'll have to agree with the "mud".  I have never been a fan of dry slick tracks, but in the SS race Clayborn went from 8th to 3rd, Toby Randolph went from 9th to 4th, and Dutton went from 17th to 7th. I'd say there was some pretty good racin' goin' on for a dried up ole' soapy racetrack ............ just sayin'

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