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Matt Speed / 7.29.10
Super 8 Double Points Night at the
Madera Speedway

This Saturday night the Madera Speedway is the place to be! It
is Super 8 night and the racing action will be intense as every
division will race hard for the double points available on this
special night.

The LunkerDaddy late models headline the show, with a full
under card of hard charging circle track warriors like the
MST's, Hobby Stocks, Toyota Sedans, and the super fun
4-Bangers. The 4-Bangers will enjoy several Chowchilla
Speedway regulars this weekend as they are interested in
making the transition to pavement. Marisa Odgers is one of the
dirt track drivers making her first pavement start this weekend
at Madera.

They point battles are an all out battle in several of the
divisions, the 2010 Madera Speedway point leaders are Mile
Humphreys in the 4-Bangers, Don Selsor in the Hobby Stocks,
Matt Erickson in the LunkerDaddy Late Models, and Donnie
Large in the MST's and Toyota Sedans.

Come out and enjoy the family friendly environment and the
fantastic racing action offered at the Madera Speedway!

Pit gates open at 3:00pm, grandstands at 5:00pm. Adult
tickets are just $12, discount tickets are available for youth,
seniors and families. As always kids five and under are free
with a paying adult. For more information visit
www.racemadera.com.


RESULTS FOR JULY 24th 2010 PRESENTED by PACIFIC
MOBILE

LUNKERDADDY LATE MODELS: FAST TIME: 25C ARRON
COONFIELD 16.127

MAIN EVENT
42 Matt Erickson
25C Arron Coonfield
DQ.
41 Howard Holden
25 Elliott Stjerne
05 C J Dizney

TROPHY DASH
41 Howard Holden
25C Arron Coonfield
DQ.
05 C J Dizney
25 Elliott Stjerne

TOYOTA SEDANS: FAST TIME: 5 JASON KERNS 18.283

MAIN EVENT
69 Jesse Ruckman
99 Stan Hankins
5 Jason Kerns
26 Del McIntosh
4 Jarred Tickel

TROPHY DASH
100 Donnie Large
26 Del McIntosh
5 Jason Kerns
99 Stan Hankins

MST

FAST TIME: KEVIN THOMPSON 17.106

MAIN EVENT:
1. 77 Kevin Thompson
2. 100 Donnie Large
3. 11 John McCollum Jr.
4. 40 John McCollum Sr..(r)
5. 24 Justin Petz

DASH:
100 Donnie Large
77 Kevin Thompson
11 John McCollum Jr
40 John McCollum Sr, ®

HOBBY STOCKS: FAST TIME: 44 JERRY SELSOR 19.019

MAIN EVENT
1. 44 Howard Holden
2. 8 Don Selsor
3. 42 Chuck Aquirre
4. 29 Lettie Liles

TROPHY DASH
44 Howard Holden
42 Chuck Aquirre
29 Lettie Liles
8 Don Selsor

Swanson and Adamson Dominate Madera
Features
by Gerald Laurie

The annual Al Pombo Classic at Madera Speedway on
Saturday featured Supermodifieds and BCRA Midgets. The
show was comprised of qualifications, trophy dashes, heat
races and feature events for both classes.

The event started with Time Trials for the BCRA Midgets on the
1/3 mile banked asphalt oval. Tanner Swanson (10) set fast
time with a lap of 14.235 seconds. He was closely followed by
older brother Kody Swanson (15) at 14.341, and Nick Foster,
Jr. (1) at 14.573.

Next to challenge the clocks were the 360 Supermodifieds.
Fastest was Kenny Kinchen (5) at 13.555, followed by Kyle
Vanderpool (1) at 13.726, and Lance Jackson (18) at 13.882.

The Open Supermodifieds were the final qualifiers and were
led by Kody Swanson(72) at 12.776 over Jim Birges (32) at
12.858, and Lonnie Adamson (98) at 13.037.

The next order of business was the trophy dash sequence. The
Bay Cities Racing Association Midgets lined up with Floyd
Alvis on the pole flanked by Nick Foster, Jr. The back row
included Kody and Tanner Swanson. At the drop of the green,
Foster charged to the lead on the outside followed by Tanner
and Kody Swanson, Alvis had trouble accelerating at the start
and dropped to the back. Tanner Swanson made several
attempts to pass down low and although he was able to pull
even, he could not complete the pass. Foster took the
hardware over the Swansons and Alvis.

The 360 Supermodified Dash featured Dan Vanderpool,
Lance Jackson, Kyle Vanderpool, and Kenny Kinchen. Again,
the outside line proved faster as Jackson led lap one over
Kinchen, Dan Vanderpool and Kyle Vanderpool . Lap two saw
Kyle pass his father for third and that was the extent of the
passing. Finish or was Jackson, Kinchen, Kyle and Dan
Vanderpool.

The Open Supermodified Dash had Lonnie Adamson and Jim
Birges on the front row and Kody Swanson and Supermod
Rookie Jeff Collins in the back. Once again, the high side
provided the momentum as Birges beat Adamson back to the
line with Swanson and Collins close behind. Adamson was all
over the back of Birges’s car and then made a bonsai move
down low on lap four to snag the lead at the checkers. Birges,
Swanson, and Collins rounded out the field.

The first midget heat was paced by Lonny Alton, followed by
Danny Parker, Mike Donaldson, Bill Lindsey, and Dillon
Silverman. Silverman was a DNS with mechanical difficulties.
The outside line surged forward at the green and Parker led
lap one over Lindsey, Alton, and Donaldson. Donaldson pulled
off on the backstretch on lap two. On the third go-around, Alton
took second as Lindsey headed for the pits. And that was the
race. Parker won over Alton with Lindsey and Donaldson in the
infield.

The second eight lapper for the midgets lined up with Kody
Swanson and Nick Foster, Jr. up front and Floyd Alvis and
Tanner Swanson in the rear. Alvis elected to start at the back
as he was still experiencing mechanical gremlins. Kody
Swanson managed to break the string to take the lead from the
inside. Nick Foster dropped in to second followed by Tanner
Swanson and Alvis. Tanner made numerous attempts to get
ahead of Foster, but Nick held the preferred racing line and
was able to hold him at bay. They finished as they started with
Kody leading Foster, Tanner, and Alvis.

The 360 Supermodified heat used a straight up start with
Kenny Kinchen on the pole followed by Kyle Vanderpool,
Lance Jackson, Dan Vanderpool, and Jeremiah Bearden. At
the green, Kyle Vanderpool eked out an advantage to lead the
first lap over Kinchen and Dan Vanderpool. Jackson held fourth
with Beardon chasing the herd. Kinchen made numerous
challenges but was unable to pass. On the seventh circuit,
Kinchen went into turn three very hard and spun to a stop in turn
four. Jackson, whose vision was affected by the setting sun,
locked down the number 18 and stopped just shy of Kinchen’s
stalled racer. The restart order was Vanderpool the younger
over Vanderpool the elder, Jackson, Beardon, and Kinchen.
When green flag racing resumed, Kinchen managed to move
back to third by white flag time, but was able to advance no
further. Winner was Kyle Vanderpool over Dan Vanderpool,
Kinchen, Jackson, and Bearden

The Open Supermodified Heat was also started straight up
with Kody Swanson and Jim Birges on the front. Lonnie
Adamson and Jeff Collins occupied row two. George
Greenway was scheduled to start fifth but scratched with some
heat related issues. Birges took the lead on lap one with
Swanson, Adamson, and Collins following. Adamson jumped
around Swanson on lap three as the 72 started getting very
loose. Birges extended his lead over Adamson until lap five
when Adamson started eating some of the intervening territory.
However, Lonnie was never able catch the pink 32 and Birges
won over Adamson, Swanson, and Collins.

It was now Main Event time. The BCRA Midgets of Mike
Donaldson, Bill Lindsey, Floyd Alvis, and Nick Foster, Jr. made
up the first two rows. Kody Swanson, Tanner Swanson, Danny
Parker , Lonnie Alton, and Dillon Silverman completed the
field. Donaldson led lap one over Foster, Alvis, K. Swanson
and T. Swanson. Silverman beat feet for the pits and the end of
the opening lap. By lap two, Foster led over Kody, Donaldson,
Alvis, and Tanner. Tanner moved to third on lap three at the
expense of Donaldson and Alvis. Kody took the lead from
Foster on lap four and started building his lead. Tanner was
third by the fifth circuit. Meanwhile, Lindsey was having
problems and dropping back. On lap nine, the leaders caught
him on the backstretch. Tanner Swanson and Donaldson made
contact with Lindsey as he tried to exit to the infield. All three
cars were eliminated and the red flag flew while the Ambulance
Crew checked out those involved. On the restart, Kody
Swanson led over Foster, Alvis, Parker, and Alton .

With the exception of Alton getting lapped on the eighteenth
lap, that was the race. Swanson won over Foster, Alvis, Parker,
and Alton.

Madera Speedway combines the 360 and Open
Supermodifieds for the fifty-lap feature on these Super
Saturday programs. With the rookies (Bearden and Collins)
electing to start in the rear, the inverted line-up looked this. Dan
Vanderpool, Lance Jackson, Kyle Vanderpool, and Kenny
Kinchen made up rows one and two. George Greenway,
Lonnie Adamson, Jim Birges, and Kody Swanson occupied
rows three and four. Jeff Collins and Jeremiah Beardon
occupied the tail end. After the warm-ups, Greenway opted to
start near the back and swapped places with Birges.

On lap one, Vanderpool led Jackson, Kinchen, Birges and
Adamson. Birges split the 5 and 18 cars to move to second on
lap two. Birges blew by Vanderpool for the lead a lap latter and
Kinchen followed him through. Order at three was Birges,
Kinchen, D. Vanderpool, Adamson, and Kyle Vanderpool with
Greenway headed for the pits. Kody Swanson entered the top
five at the younger Vanderpool’s expense on lap four.
Meanwhile, Birges was headed out of the local time zone.
Beardon went down a lap on the sixth circuit. Adamson finally
passed Kinchen using the lapped car as a pick and the order
was Birges, Adamson, Kinchen, Swanson, and Dan
Vanderpool. Beardon headed for the pits on the leader’s ninth
lap with the engine going off song.

Collins fell victim to the flying pink cloud of Birges on lap eleven
with Jackson being lapped three laps later. Order at lap fifteen
was Birges over Adamson, Kinchen, Swanson, and both
Vanderpools (Dad over son). Birges lapped the Vanderpool
family on the eighteenth go-around as Adamson started to
slowly make up a portion of the 1/3 lap distance between
himself and Birges. Lap nineteen saw Swanson finally
overcome Kinchen’s blazing hot 360 and Collins headed for
the pits with a failed tie rod causing the left front to point south
with the rest of the car headed west.

Birges began slowing noticeably as the water temp headed
upwards of 260 degrees and he tried to cool the engine. When
he realized Adamson was putting down some very fast laps, he
took off again only to see the temp spike and he headed for the
pits on lap twenty-seven to keep from burning down the power
plant. At this point, the order became Adamson over Swanson
and Kinchen, all on the same lap, with Dan and Kyle
Vanderpool filling the top five, albeit a lap down. Kyle finally
passed the old man on lap twenty-nine to move into fourth.

Adamson continued to lap cars at will, finally making Kinchen
his victim on lap thirty-one. The next ten laps were more of the
same with Adamson on cruise control and Swanson
desperately picking through the lapped traffic to keep from
being lapped himself. And then it was over. The Supermods
completed the fifty laps in 11 minutes, 1.862 seconds with what
has to be a new track record. I think this was the first non-stop,
no yellow fifty lapper ever at the Central California Speed Plant
There is forty-lap non-stop record held by Mike Swanson (Kody
and Tanner’s father), that dates back to the late 80’s or early
90’s.

Lonnie Adamson and Kody Swanson completed the fifty laps
with Kinchen in third two laps back, and Kyle and Dan
Vanderpool and Lance Jackson fourth through sixth, three laps
in arrears. The race was very fast, very clean, and very exciting
for the fans and participants alike. Lonnie Adamson has
stepped into the number 98 S&S Motorsports Silsby and
immediately returned to his championship style of the 2000
and 2001 seasons.. Three wins in the first three outings is very
impressive. Kody Swanson has bagged two second place
finishes in his first rides in Lance Tatro’s Thornton Chassied
Supermodified. He has won in virtually everything he has driven
and a Super win cannot be far away. Kenny Kinchen set a
blistering pace in his 360 and stayed with the open cars for
thirty laps. His top 360 position by over a lap shows the
strength of his team and Kenny’s driving skill. Jim Birges just
got faster and faster as the afternoon and evening went on, only
to be done in by the 106 degree temps. He says there is a
major revamp of the cooling system coming for the number 32.

All in all, the evening had some great racing, a little excitement,
and a safe ending.
Super Saturday number five is on
August 7th.

RESULTS SUPER SATURDAY # 4 JULY 17TH POMBO
CLASSIC

SUPER MODIFIEDS FAST TIME # 72 KODY SWANSON
12.776 360 /5 KENNY KINCHEN 13.555

DASH: 410
98 Lonnie Adamson
32 Jim Birges
72 Kody Swanson
89 Jeff Collins


DASH: 360
18 Lance Jackson
5 Kenny Kinchen
1 Kyle Vanderpool
17 Dan Vanderpool


MAIN EVENT: SUPERMODIFIEDS
98 Lonnie Adamson
72 Kody Swanson
5 Kenny Kinchen
1 Kyle Vanderpool
17 Dan Vanderpool

BCRA FAST TIME: 10C TANNER SWANSON 14.234
DASH:
1 Nick Foster Jr
10C Tanner Swanson
15 Kody Swanson
18 Floyd Alvis

MAIN EVENT:
15 Kody Swanson
1 Nick Foster Jr.
18 Floyd Alvis
38 Danny Parker
5A Lonny Alton

MST’S FAST TIME: 37 JOHN BOWERSOX 17.199
DASH:
100 Donnie Large
1 Aaron Reeves
37 John Bowersox
77 Kevin Thompson

MAIN EVENT:
100 Donnie Large
77 Kevin Thompson
40 John McCollum Sr. ®
37 John Bowersox
11 John McCollum Jr.


TOYOTA SEDANS:

FAST TIME: 26 DEL MCINTOSH 18.251
DASH:
100 Donnie Large
26 Del McIntosh
99 Stan Hankins
4 Jarred Tickel

MAIN:
100 Donnie Large
4 Jarred Tickel
26 Del McIntosh
2 Donnie Large Jr.
99 Stan Hankins


4-BANGER/HORNETS (TWO TRACK CHALLENGE)
DASH:
14 Miles Humphreys
22 Adriane DeSousa
6j Joe Willoughby
26 Michael Congdon

MAIN:
14 Miles Humphreys
22 Adriane DeSousa
26 Michael Congdon
6j Joe Willoughby
5 Sam Williams

LEGENDS SHOOTOUT
FAST TIME: 56 DYLAN ALBIANI: 16.967



RESULTS FOR JULY 10TH 2010
PRESENTED by PACIFIC MOBILE

LUNKERDADDY LATE MODELS: FAST TIME:
25 ELLIOTT STJERNE

MAIN EVENT
42 Matt Erickson
25 Elliott Stjerne
05 C J Dizney
25C Arron Coonfield
41 Howard Holden


TROPHY DASH
05 C J Dizney
41 Howard Holden
25 Elliott Stjerne
42 Matt Erickson

TOYOTA SEDANS: FAST TIME: 5 JASON KERNS 18.254

MAIN EVENT
4 Jarred Tickel
26 Del McIntosh
100 Donnie Large
5 Jason Kerns
99 Stan Hankins


TROPHY DASH
100 Donnie Large
26 Del McIntosh
4 Jarred Tickel
5 Jason Kerns

MST

FAST TIME: KEVIN THOMPSON 17.204

MAIN EVENT:
1. 8 John Bowersox
2. 100 Donnie Large
3. 1 Arron Reeves
4. 77 Kevin Thompson
5. 40 John McCollum Sr..(r)


DASH:
8 John Bowersox
100 Donnie Large
77 Kevin Thompson
1 Arron Reeves

HOBBY STOCKS: FAST TIME: 42 CHUCK AGUIRRE 19.206

MAIN EVENT
1. 44 Jerry Selsor
2. 42 Chuck Aguirre
3. 8 Don Selson

TROPHY DASH
44 Jerry Selsor
42 Chuck Aguirre
8 Don Selsor

NCMA SPRINTS: FAST TIME 3 DAVID GOODWILL 14.494

MAIN EVENT
76 Ed Amador
3 David Goodwill
17 Rob Hammond
15 Kawahata
15T Tim Skoglund

TROPHY DASH:
76 Ed Amador
3 David Goodwill
17 Rob Hammond
19 Jimmy Riddell

Kenny Shepherd
6.28.10
A Night to Remember

Early Saturday morning the 26th of June, 2010 I was at the
Chowchilla Speedway meeting with our race director going
over the schedule of events for the BCRA race. I left the dirt
track in route to the Madera Speedway to meet with our track
manager to go over the details we had planned for the stunt
show, fireworks and race activities for the Southwest Tour
event.

I merged onto highway 99 and changed the radio station to one
of the channels I prefer, after a rockin country song by Jason
Aldean I heard a bang and then a booming voice "ladies and
gentleman, looking for a great way to celebrate the 4th? How
about doing it a week early at the Madera Speedway" as the
radio spot continued my mind drifted thinking about plans we
had for the evening, then to the fact that my favorite race car
would be racing in the tour race that night, then back to
entertainment plans for the evening.

Before I knew it I was at the Cleveland off ramp in central
Madera, as I got to the end of the ramp I looked over to the
race track and I could see the big haulers lined up one after
another. I pulled into my parking space and went to the office
for our meeting, after which I went for a walk in the pits. This
was about the same time the Southwest Tour cars started their
first practice.

When the tour cars finished their practice there were twenty five
cars lined up on pit road. I walked pit to pit visiting old friends
from the NASCAR touring days and meeting some of the
young hot shot drivers from the new era.

One thing that really stuck out was the amount of local drivers
that have moved up to the tour, most of these drivers I saw
come up in late models, drivers like Jacob Gomes, Ross
Strmiska, Kyle Gottula, Justin Philpott, Justin Westmorland,
and Carlos Vieira.

I walked up to the number twenty car of Jarod Vorse and even
though the car had a new number and a different look I could
still tell it was one of my favorite races cars of all time.

I stuck my head inside the car and saw familiar bars and sheet
metal patterns. This was the same race car I led about three
quarters of the race in at Infineon Raceway in 2002, I ended up
second that day only because of a right front tire going down in
the closing laps.

Here is a side note on that event, Mike Kanke pulled a Watkins
back up engine out of his hauler and we put it in my race car
after I blew my engine up in the final practice.

Mike was leading the race as I was working my way past
everyone on the race track going towards the front, I passed
Kevin Harvick, Robby Gordon, Eric Holmes and Paul Menard
to name a few on the way to the front. Mike had an engine or
ignition problem, I don't recall which it was, but he was going to
be tough to get the lead from. I had just taken second place
when Mike gave me lead as he pulled into the pits. Mike is a
class act and is a good example of the character of these
drivers.

I was standing by the number twenty tour car and I looked
across the pit lane and there sat the number seventy two
LunkerDaddy late model driven by Kenneth Johnson. That car
has the roll cage in it from my second favorite tour car I owned,
it was the car I finished second to Kurt Busch on the Southwest
Tour points championship. I wrecked that tour car at PIR, and it
sat in my shop until I gave it to the young driver to help him get
out to the track.

I will fast forward to the big part of the June 26th show. It all
began with the LunkerDaddy late model main event as they
warmed up the crowd with some great racing action that
included a three wide pass or two. Matt Erickson won with an
impressive back to front drive.

Wild Wayne the announcer had the crowd fired up as the stunt
driver went airborne upside down in the roll over stunt, then as
they were cleaning up the accident scene twenty five SRL
Southwest Tour cars lined up at the start/finish line.

As soon as the last car was parked and the lights were turned
off, the words "American Girls and American Guys we'll always
stand up and salute, we'll always recognize, when we see Old
Glory Flying" came flowing out of the speakers. Then when the
song got to "We lit up your world like the 4th of July" we tried to
set to sky on fire with our fireworks show, I knew what was
coming and I was still impressed!

The fireworks display ended and the spectacular new Spears
stage was put in place for driver introductions, after
introductions it was time for the lap4littleones.com 125. What a
race it was, the cars flew around the third mile of Madera
Speedway nose to tail.

Thomas Martin held the lead for most of the race, talk about a
driver that can make a low buck car fly! I gave him an old pair
of headers many years ago he used for his first race at PIR, the
headers were about five years out of date at the time, but he
qualified up front with a car that was pieced together from old
hand me down parts.

Auggie Vidovich fought his way past Martin, then it was M.K.
Kanke, Eric Holmes, and Jim Pettit that got past Martin. Kanke
looked to be the man that was going to fight Vidovich for the
win, but his car broke with a few laps remaining in the race
(sorry Mike, it must have been the combination of my favorite
race car on the track and my memories flowing from Sear
Point?). It was Holmes that took the lead with Pettit right on his
back bumper. Holmes got to the checkered flag first with Pettit
behind him. Holmes was disqualified in post race tech causing
another lead change giving Pettit the win.

I watched the Southwest Tour with a pounding heart in my
chest, the memories flowing like white water down a river, and
with the visual of the stunt jump and fireworks fresh in the mind I
knew we had just seen a show that would stick in the memory
banks for a long time to come.

I walked to the front gate to say thank you to the fans as they left
the speedway. The smiles I saw, the "great show" comments,
the high fives and hand shakes confirmed what I felt we had just
witnessed. One fan that has been to just about every Southwest
Tour race in history summed the night up well, "It seamed like
you were trying to outdo the Collins Family, and the Collins
Family was trying to outdo you, and the fans got the show of a
lifetime!"

Other comments I heard were "we have never been to a race
before, and that was a great time." Another one was "we
normally go to the baseball games, but we heard the
commercial and decided to give this a try, great show and
great fun!" These are gold to the ears of a guy trying to help our
sport get back to headline status.

As I finish writing this, I'm thinking, how can we make the
September 25th Southwest Tour event at Madera bigger and
better than this one was? It will be tough, but we will do it.

See you at the races - Kenny Shepherd



Pettit Wins – Takes Point Lead

Bakersfield, CA – Jim Pettit II won his first SPEARS SRL
Southwest Tour Series event of 2010 Saturday night at Madera
Speedway in the “Laps4LittleOnes.com 125”. It was the
Prunedale, CA drivers fourth straight top three finish of the
season and propelled him to the top of the SRL championship
standings.

“We finally qualified well enough to be within the invert, then
Eric (Holmes) drew a ten so we started eighth, which is our
best starting position of the year, but we had a lot of really good
cars in front of us.” Seven drivers bested the previous SRL
qualifying track record. “We knew we had a good consistent
car, so I took my time moving forward and eventually put
ourselves in position to win.”

Pettit is now tied with the late Jeff Anthony for the most all-time
SRL wins at nine.

At the drop of the green flag it was Thomas Martin who won the
first lap race back to the stripe over pole sitter Ryan Foster.
The top five ran nose to tail until a lap 11 caution due to a spin
by Dave Byrd, with Martin leading, followed by Foster, Auggie
Vidovich, M.K. Kanke and Pettit.

On the restart Vidovich had moved past Foster for second. The
top five remained unchanged nose to tail until both Kanke and
Pettit moved past Foster on lap 31.

Another yellow on lap 37 involving Kevin Callahan in the
Motorway Motorsports #88 and former Madera Speedway
champion Kyle Gottula.

On the restart, the line up was Martin, Vidovich, Kanke, Pettit,
Holmes up to fifth, followed by Strmiska, Foster, Justin
Westmoreland who was making his first SRL start since
Orange Show, Kyle Cattanach and Derek Thorn in tenth. As the
green flew to start lap 41, Vidovich charged under Martin into
turn one, after the two cars rubbed, Vidovich cleared Martin to
take the lead. Kanke was now all over Martin, with Pettit
looking low on Kanke, while trying to hold off Holmes.

Lap 52, Westmoreland and new track record holder Brennan
Newberry made contact racing for tenth to bring out the fifth
caution of the race. Both cars stopped high in turn 4, Newberry
suffered damage and would later pit losing multiple laps,
Westmoreland went on to restart at the rear of the field.

On the restart, Vidovich pulled out ahead of Martin. The
balance of the top ten was nose to tail and side-by-side racing
hard for position. Martin slowed Kanke’s momentum coming
off turn 2, which allowed Holmes to move past Pettit and to the
inside of Kanke. Holmes went from fifth to third in one move.
Vidovich had stretched his lead, with Martin trailing and
Holmes putting on the pressure for second, while Pettit was
looking for room down low on Kanke for position.

A lap 91 spin by Martin brought out the caution. Pettit had just
moved ahead of Kanke for third. Foster was fifth, followed by
Stockton winner Jonathon Gomez, Jacob Gomes, Cattanach,
Thorn, Cole Cabrera and Eddie Secord up to tenth.

Back to green, Holmes moved up to challenge Vidovich for the
lead, followed closely by Pettit and Kanke. The top four
consisted of a former NASCAR Southwest Tour champion, a
two-time K&N Pro Series champion, a two-time NASCAR Tour
and SRL champ and the defending SPEARS SRL Southwest
Tour Series champion.

Holmes took the lead on lap 102, just before the caution due a
spin involving Martin and Olympia, Washington’s Jared Vorse.

Lap 111, with Holmes in the lead, Vidovich fell off the pace to
allow Pettit to move to second, Kanke third, Gomez now up to
fourth with a pass on Foster, who was being pressured by
Victory Circle Rookie-of-the-Year leader, Gomes.

Three laps later the final caution of the night was thrown due to
contact between Foster and Gomes in turn four. Foster was
finished for the night with broken right front suspension.

On the restart it was Holmes with a cushion, being chased by
Pettit followed by Kanke, Gomez, Westmoreland, Keith
Spangler, Carlos Vieira, Secord, Cattanach, and Thorn.

With four to go Kanke slowed suffering from fuel pump
problems and dropped out of contention. At the finish it was
Holmes, Pettit, Gomez, Westmoreland, Spangler, Vieira,
Secord, Byrd, Cattanach, Thorn and sixteen-year-old Cabrera
rounding out the top ten in his first SRL start.

Holmes #18 car did not pass post race inspection and the win
was awarded to Pettit, Gomez second and Westmoreland
third.


Matt Speed / Media Relations
6.17.10
Madera Speedway Signs with INEX
for Legends Car Events

The Madera Speedway signed a sanction with INEX for a
series of Legends race car events. There will be a total of five
race events sanctioned during the remaining Months of 2010,
and a twelve race series is being planned for the 2011 racing
season.

The dates for the 2010 Madera Speedway Legends car races
are 6-26, 7-17, 8-28, 9-25 and 10-23. Two of which are
companion races with the Spears Southwest Tour Series, one
is on a Super Saturday with the 410 Super Modifieds, and
another is part of the Madera Speedway Pumpkin Smash,
racing in the afternoon and crazy stuff as night!

"We have placed the Legends Cars on some of our biggest
events and this is by design to give the drivers maximum
exposure. We have had great feedback when we have had the
Legends race at the Madera Speedway in the past, that
combined with the fact the focus of INEX is to provide a fun and
affordable racing opportunity in which everyone can compete
gives us great confidence with the Legends race cars" Kenny
Shepherd.

The first sanctioned race for the Legends at the Madera
Speedway is June 26th, this is one of the biggest events of the
2010 season with Fireworks, a Stunt Show, and the Spears
Southwest Tour laps4littleones.com 125!

For more information go to www.racemadera.com.