Santa Maria Speedway
August 18, 2012
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Daly sweeps Late Model action at Santa Maria Speedwayby Stephanie Odom
SANTA MARIA, CA (August 18) - Defending track champion Clay Daly swept this weekend’s Super Late Model event at Chris Kearns’ Santa Maria Speedway. The win has put Daly on top of the points chart as he looks to defend his track championship from last season. Fourteen cars were on hand for the second round of the local point’s season.
Qualifying fast time and winning his heat race, Daly started on the pole for the thirty lap feature event with Bakersfield’s Chad Reichenbach alongside. Daly took the lead when the green flag dropped with Reichenbach fighting back on the bottom. Coming out of turn two on lap two Reichenbach took over the lead as a yellow came out for Jason Selvidge of Buttonwillow who came to a stop along the backstretch wall. Daly was given the lead back and quickly pulled away when racing resumed.
El Segundo’s Nick Bartels passed Bakersfield’s “Sandman” Rob Sanders for third in turns one and two while Steve Drake moved past National’s Champion John Lowrey for sixth. Lowrey quickly advanced to fifth when Pismo Beach’s Tony Toste went high exiting turn two on lap seven. Action was brought to a stop on lap nine for Dino Napier as he spun in turns one and two.
Reichenbach chose the bottom line for the restart with Nick Bartels on the top. Bartels got the jump taking over second while Lowrey made a pass by Sanders. Lowrey lost ground however as he pushed up the track allowing Sanders and Toste by. Coming from a twelfth place starting position, Corona’s Tommy Malcolm began his charge forward diving under Lowrey for eighth place exiting turn four.
Reichenbach overtook the second place position on lap thirteen exiting turn four before a second caution was brought out for Napier ending his night. Reichenbach chose the top line for this restart and maintained the position on the restart. Exiting turn four Bartels slid under Reichenbach. The two made contact causing Reichenbach to check up, behind him drivers scrambled to avoid making contact. Steve Drake spun and came to a stop on the turn one berm ending his night. Lompoc’s “Ironman” Mike Johnson pulled into the pits with mechanical problems.
Fifteen laps remained when green flag racing resumed. Reichenbach and Bartels continued their battle for second while Daly pulled away from the field. Toste got into the mix and got under Reichenbach for third place. Reichenbach did a half spin in turns one and two dropping him to the tail end of the field. Malcolm continued his forward progress making a pass by Sanders for fifth. A caution was brought out for Jason Papich with eight laps to go after making contact with the wall. Malcolm got a jump on the restart passing Lowrey and gained ground on Toste for third. Running the top line, Malcolm made the pass exiting turn two with five laps to go.
Daly maintained a comfortable lead as he took the checkered flag with Bartels, Malcolm, Toste, Sanders, Lowrey, Bill Bartels and Reichenbach completed the top eight.
“We haven’t had a night like this since March,” stated Daly in victory lane. The Watsonville native found victory lane when the West Coast Shootout visited Kings Speedway on March 31st. Daly was running the team’s spare motor after hurting their primary motor in Bakersfield last weekend.
Super Late Models will return to the Santa Maria Speedway on Sunday, September 2nd for the Danny and Sandie Simkins Memorial race. For more information visit
www.RaceSantaMariaSpeedway.com.
Chris Kearns Presents and the Santa Maria Speedway would like to thank Shannon Pump Company, Drake Farms Transportation, Toste Construction & Paving, Indiana Truck Salvage, Papich Construction, ProPower Engines, Integra Shocks, West Coast Boring, Pearsons Auto Wrecking, Victory Circle and RoadRunner Fabrication for their support this season.
Late Models
A-Main
1 32B Clay Daly
2 27 Nick Bartels
3 75 Tommy Malcolm
4 91T Tony Toste
5 10N Rob Sanders
6 8 John Lowry
7 77 Bill Bartels
8 9 Chad Reichenbach
9 91P Jason Papich
10 11X Steve Drake
11 7 Mike Johnson
12 5X Dino Napier
13 22 Jason Selvidge
14 96 Carla Laney
Heat #1
1 32B Clay Daly
2 10N Rob Sanders
3 27 Nick Bartels
4 11X Steve Drake
5 8 John Lowry
6 5X Dino Napier
7 22 Jason Selvidge
Heat #2
1 9 Chad Reichenbach
2 77 Bill Bartels
3 91T Tony Toste
4 7 Mike Johnson
5 91P Jason Papich
6 75 Tommy Malcolm
7 96 Carla Laney
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Mini Stocks
1 3 Korban Ensign
2 6 John Blackford
3 19 Pat Fausel
4 11 David Paine
5 7B Billy Smith
6 96 Andrew Greiman
7 72T Troy Medeiros
8 91T Brooke Toste
9 7P John Penaflor
10 9 Danielle Paine
11 52 Betty Willetts
12 6X Shamus Brummond
13 17 Candy Varney
14 27 Mike Keebler
15 13 Mimi Davis
16 9A Cameron Abdallah
Hobby Stocks
1 26 Dan Bryant
2 81X Jake Jones
3 74 Tom Renner
4 40 Tom Breshears
5 64 Tim Correia
6 18 Robby Cervantes
7 15 Roger Noble
8 81 Bob Jones
9 83 Jason Nation
10 33 Pete Lethcoe
11 73 David Rutledge
12 47 Tim Breshears
13 88R Austin Ruskauff
14 28B Matt Booker
15 72 Cody Muscio
16 2C Sean Martin Jr
17 3 Taelor Janes
18 5 Sean Martin Sr.
19 13C Dave Condon
20 17 Justin Marsh
21 44 John Hanson
22 22 Paul Miller
Mini Dwarfs Jr.
1 23K Kaden Cochrun
2 11 Andrew Orlando
3 34P Paige Minor
4 1 Kyleigh Forster
5 3 Carter Enos
6 5 Kabe Mcclenny
7 34 Cassidy Claborn
8 76 Chloie Jones
9 20 Zach Chavez
10 4 Carson Enos
11 17 Lela Brogdon
12 48 Cade Lewis
13 7 Kale Mcclenny
14 19B Bailey Thompson
15 55 Braedon Papion
Mini Dwarfs Sr.
1 17 Anthony Balcazar
2 23 Cameron Mccauley
3 8 Jeremy Clark
4 29 Trenton Millard
5 2E Elijah Marshall
6 92 Ryley Millard
7 32 Morgan Allen
8 14 Jd Brown
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