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Bob Burbach
MARYSVILLE, Calif. (June 6) - The Western All Star Late Models returned to Paul and Kathy Hawes' Marysville Raceway Park Saturday for their annual stop at the hooked up clay raceway. Chris Shannon led wire to wire in the 30-lap feature event. Ageless "Wild" Willie Horn won the companion MRP Super Stock main event for the second straight time.
Shannon, who's season was going nowhere with a lot of new equipment decided to dust off his back up car and give it a try for the Marysville stop. It was a good decision. Shannon ran away with the "Fast Dash" and the feature in convincing style. However, a monumental tussle was going on behind him featuring the stars of this traveling entourage. With Shannon turning laps faster than he qualified, a wholesale paint-trading session was going on behind him. Ron Bartels, Richard Papenhausen, Bobby Hogge and Mike Johnson slugged it out lap after lap for position.
The hooked up surface presented some unique challenges to this group that generally competes on dusty slicked-up ovals. The MRP clay allowed these 800 horsepower monsters to dig in and rocket around at a dizzying pace. It was an entertaining spectacle of power and speed. A series of yellow flag slow downs kept Shannon within reach, but he just pulled away with ease at every new green restart. If anything, second running Bartels was not as quick as some of the drivers behind him. But he did a great job of taking away the middle to high lines that the others needed to get around him.
After Shannon the quickest cars appeared to be Hogge and Papenhausen. Both drivers were wildly slinging their cars into MRP's high-banked turns. When you are on the edge, sometimes you go over the edge and that's precisely what happened to Hogge and Papenhausen. Papenhausenmade a couple of mistakes down low in turn 4 that cost him positions he would later have to fight for. Hogge went to the top in the turns 3 and 4 trying to pass with momentum. Hogge had the right idea, but didn't stay up high long enough to make it stick. Hogge banged his way around and lost a couple of positions when he got together with other racers and lapped traffic. But, he tried long and hard to go forward. Local star Marysville's Ryan McDaniel came home 6th ahead of Hogge after a quick smooth, mistake free drive to the front.
Shannon flashed under the checkers with a big lead and Bartels stayed 2nd all race long despite the pressure. Pappenhousen wrestled his way back to 3rd followed by Johnson and "Quick" Nick Bartels. Johnny Malcolm, Johnson and Pappenhousen got heat race wins.
DIRTcar Western Allstars
19 entries
June 6, 2009
A-Main
1 1 32 Chris Shannon Merced, CA $2,000
2 3 12 Ron Bartels El Segundo, CA
3 4 4P Richard Papenhausen Chico, CA
4 2 2J Mike Johnson Lompoc, CA
5 9 27 Nick Bartels El Segundo, CA
6 11 57 Ryan McDaniel Yuba City, CA
7 8 2 Bobby Hogge Salinas, CA
8 7 96M Matt Micheli Yuba City, CA
9 14 22G Paul Guglielmoni Vacaville, CA
10 18 10N Robert Sanders Bakersfield, CA
11 15 10H Reldon Hatch Yerington, NV
12 17 16 John Johnson Marysville, CA
13 6 96 Ken Micheli Yuba City, CA
14 10 c14 Chevy McGinnis Marysville, CA
15 5 3 Johnny Malcolm Corona, CA
16 16 88 Tom Arbogast Auburn, CA
17 12 79 Cort Dozier Marysville, CA
18 13 32B Clay Daly Bakersfield, CA
DNS 84 Jeff Decker Morgan Hill, CA
Heat #1
1 1 3 Johnny Malcolm Corona, CA 15.288
2 2 12 Ron Bartels El Segundo, CA 15.951
3 4 96M Matt Micheli Yuba City, CA 16.673
4 5 c14 Chevy McGinnis Marysville, CA 16.748
5 3 32B Clay Daly Bakersfield, CA 16.084
dns 6 88 Tom Arbogast Auburn, CA 18.066
dns 7 84 Jeff Decker Morgan Hill, CA no time
Heat #2
1 2 2J Mike Johnson Lompoc, CA 15.497
2 1 32 Chris Shannon Merced, CA 15.437
3 3 2 Bobby Hogge Salinas, CA 15.798
4 6 57 Ryan McDaniel Yuba City, CA 26.002
5 4 22G Paul Guglielmoni Vacaville, CA 16.036
6 5 16 John Johnson Marysville, CA 16.638
Heat #3
1 2 4P Richard Papenhausen Chico, CA 15.207
2 5 96 Ken Micheli Yuba City, CA 16.701
3 1 27 Nick Bartels El Segundo, CA 15.144
4 4 79 Cort Dozier Marysville, CA 16.419
5 6 10H Reldon Hatch Yerington, NV 16.715
6 3 10N Robert Sanders Bakersfield, CA 15.774
Dash
1 3 32 Chris Shannon Merced, CA
2 4 2J Mike Johnson Lompoc, CA
3 2 12 Ron Bartels El Segundo, CA
4 5 4P Richard Papenhausen Chico, CA
5 1 3 Johnny Malcolm Corona, CA
6 6 96 Ken Micheli Yuba City, CA
Qualifying Results
1 27 Nick Bartels El Segundo, CA 15.144
2 4P Richard Papenhausen Chico, CA 15.207
3 3 Johnny Malcolm Corona, CA 15.288
4 32 Chris Shannon Merced, CA 15.437
5 2J Mike Johnson Lompoc, CA 15.497
6 10N Robert Sanders Bakersfield, CA 15.774
7 2 Bobby Hogge Salinas, CA 15.798
8 12 Ron Bartels El Segundo, CA 15.951
9 22G Paul Guglielmoni Vacaville, CA 16.036
10 32B Clay Daly Bakersfield, CA 16.084
11 79 Cort Dozier Marysville, CA 16.419
12 16 John Johnson Marysville, CA 16.638
13 96M Matt Micheli Yuba City, CA 16.673
14 96 Ken Micheli Yuba City, CA 16.701
15 10H Reldon Hatch Yerington, NV 16.715
16 c14 Chevy McGinnis Marysville, CA 16.748
17 88 Tom Arbogast Auburn, CA 18.066
18 57 Ryan McDaniel Yuba City, CA 26.002
19 84 Jeff Decker Morgan Hill, CA no time
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