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Bill Poehler
LEBANON, Ore. (August 30) - Russ Sell long ago established himself as one of the greatest drivers in the history of Willamette Speedway.
A three-time Outlaw class champion at the 1/3-mile clay oval, the driver out of Brownsville is still competitive each week in his second half century, as witnessed by his third place points position in the Outlaw Late Models and points lead in the Super Sports.
Saturday night, Sell again showed the competition how good he is.
The driver of the No. 50, who started the main event in the fourth position, took the lead coming to the caution flag on the 11th lap and was never challenged over the remainder of the 40 laps for his second A-Main event victory in the class and ninth A-Main victory overall in the 2008 season.
Bob Boyd of Albany ran second to Sell the final 27 laps for the runner-up position. Points leading and three-time defending champion Trevor Glaser of Tangent had another solid points night by coming from the 14th starting spot to place third. Mark Carrell of Redmond placed fourth and Tory Swayngim of Sodaville rounded out the top five.
Rob Mayea of Bend, second in Outlaw points, drove determined all night, winning the B-Main event from the 14th starting spot before dicing his way through the A-Main event field to place seventh after starting 17th. Jayme Van won the Outlaw C-Main event.
Youth and exuberance beat out the age of Sell in the Super Sport A-Main event, his second of the season.
Joey Tanner of Portland, second in points in the Warriors of Dirt series, passed Sell, the class points leader, with nine laps to go and went on to win the main event. Sell placed second and Ron Burchard of Philomath was third.
Keith Marson of Molalla won the Super Sport B-Main event.
Mike Bennett of Estacada held off Brian Cronk to win his fourth Sportsman A-Main event of the season and extend his points lead as second-place Jason Sommer had problems and didn't race in a main event. Six cars were running at the end of the main event after a dramatic crash in the early stages of the race wiped out half of the 12 starters.
Dan Kingsberry won the Classic Sportsman A-Main event after holding off a furious charge from Kevin Roberts.
Bob Wescott of Portland won the Western Racing Series' main event from the ninth starting position with a straightaway margin of victory.
Willamette Speedway's racing program was rained out Sunday night.
The track returns to action Saturday night with all of the regular classes in action.
Race Results August 30th 2008
Outlaw Late Models
Fast Time: 15.919 Jeremy Shank
Fast Four Trophy Dash: Tory Swayngim
Heat 1: Tom Pitts, Fred Lang, Glen Hackney
Heat 2: Lisa Stroup, Trent Elliott, Chance Hamen
Heat 3: Brett McCutcheon, Cody Sell, Mark Baete
Heat 4: Mike Miller, Russ Sell, Justin Dittman
Heat 5: Darren Coffell, Tory Swayngim, Bob Boyd
C-Main Event: 1- Jayme Van, 2- Tom Pitts, 3- Glen Hackney, 4- Bill Story, 5- Don Piefer, 6- Brad Landers, 7- Corey Brooks, 8- Ron Shinkle, 9- Ronald Hall, 10- Fred Lang
B-Main Event: 1-Rob Mayea, 2- Gary Smith , 3-Brady Sell, 4-Chance Hamen, 5- Brett McCutcheon, 6- Cody Sell, 7-Jayme Van, 8-Trent Eliott, 9- Rob Campos, 10- Greg Brooks, 11- Ryan Gerig, 12- Todd Sieg, 13- Mark Baete, 14- Lisa Stroup, 15- Kevin Keeney
A-Main Event: 1- Russ Sell, 2- Bob Boyd, 3- Trevor Glaser, 4- Mark Carroll, 5- Tory Swayngim, 6- Darren Coffell, 7- Rob Mayea, 8- Mike Miller, 9- Rick Hodges, 10- Justin Dittman, 11- Todd Shandy, 12- Bruce Hipple, 13- Dennis Archer, 14- John Campos, 15- Randy Boyd, 16- Jeremy Shank, 17- Jimmy Whisler
Super Sports
Fast time- 17.230 Russ Sell
Fast Four Trophy Dash: Russ Sell
Heat 1: Keith Marson, Bob Day, Chris Mott
Heat 2: Curt Fry, Steve Fuller, Kevin Kirk
Heat 3: Ron Burchard, Butch Valdez, Todd Rogers
Heat 4: Brett James, Justin Evans, Thomas Hunziker
B-Main Event: 1- Keith Marson, 2-Steve Fuller, 3-Curt Fry, 4-Terry Hall, 5- Shawn Benton, 6-Fred Roles, 7-KevinKirk, 8-Goerge Fuller, 9-Bob Steele, 10- Roy Winchell, 11- Chris Mott, 12- Bob Day
A-Main Event: 1- Joey Tanner, 2- Russ Sell, 3- Ron Burchard, 4- Thomas Hunziker, 5- Justin Evans, 6- Mark Carroll, 7- Brian Smith, 8- Butch Valdez, 9- Brett James, 10- Dan Kingsberry, 11- Todd Rogers
Sportsman
Fast time: 17.501 Brian Cronk
Fast Four Trophy Dash: Mike Bennett
Heat 1: Brian Goetz, Roy Kirk, Jr, Don Duddles
Heat 2: Tim Archer, Bill Gibbs, Steve Piefer
Heat 3: Jeff Marson, Tubby Thomas, Brian Goetz
Heat 4: Jordan Sim, Todd Miller, Larry Phillips
Heat 5: Justin Dittman, Jason Sommer, Brian Cronk
C-Main Event: 1- Roy Kirk, Jr, 2-Mike Campbell, 3- Don Duddles, 4- Harley Lewis, 5- Kelly Cummins, 6- Robert Mercer, 7- Mike Goetz, 8- Johnny Kirk, 9- Brian Brown
B-Main Event: 1- Brian Goetz, 2- Bill Gibbs, 3- Jeff Marson, 4- Brian Brown, 5- Tubby Thomas, 6- Tim Archer, 7- Brandi Boyd, 8- Chad Slover, 9- Steve Piefer, 10- Bill Allison, 11- Clyde Rood, 12- Casey Rhodes
A-Main Event: 1- Mike Bennett, 2-Brian Cronk, 3- Justin Dittman, 4- Brad Hopkins, 5- Larry Phillips, 6- Jordan Sim, 7- Todd Miller, 8- Tim Cramlet, 9- Jordan Wright, 10- Brad Landers, 11- Spencer Warlick, 12- Jason Sommer.
Classic
Fast time: 18.498 Rich Speer
Fast Four Trophy Dash: Dave Kingsberry
Heat 1: Kyle Hamilton, Donny Allison, Gary Allison
Heat 2: Bob Kingsberry, Rich Speer, Danny Altom
A-Main Event: 1- Dave Kingsberry, 2- Kevin Roberts, 3- Kyle Hamilton, 4- Ron Shinkle, 5- Danny Altom, 6- Mark Gaylord, 7- Jim Kilgore, 8- Steve Meaney, 9- Donny Allison, 10- Rich Speer, 11- Gary Allison, 12- Curt Fry, 13- Bob Kingsberry.
4- Cylinder Late Models
Fast time: 17.338 Bob Westcott
Fast Four Trophy Dash: Bob Westcott
Heat 1: Bob Westcott, Krista Hadley, Tyler Jenson
A-Main Event: 1- Bob Westcott, 2- Steve Kenyon, 3- Tyler Jenson, 4- Pat Atkins, 5- Terry Hadley, 6- Krista Hadley, 7- Chris Hooper, 8- Brent Beall, 9- Mike Christopherson
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