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June 2006 Issue 5
CENTRAL MOTORCYCLE ROADRACING ASSOCIATION
Hallett Highlights
The Paddocks
Central Motorcycle Roadracing Association
PO Box 123888
Fort Worth, TX 76121
(817) 377-1599
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President - Norm McDonald - [email protected]
Vice President - Harry Tomlinson - [email protected]
Jesse Johnson - [email protected]
Chris Kotowski - [email protected]
Lindsey Leard
Frank Newman - [email protected]
Chris Rankin - [email protected]
Contingency Coordinator - Bill Syfan [email protected]
Race Management - Nancy Selleck [email protected]
Race Director - Walter Walker [email protected]
Cornerworking - Barry & Roxana Nichols
[email protected]
Track Chaplain - Fred Chapman [email protected]
Newsletter - Shan Moore [email protected]
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First Turn
BoD Nominations
It is once again time to make nominations for
the 2007/2008 Board of Directors election.
Nominations are open and they must be in by
August 15th. The seats currently held by
Norm McDonald, Chris Rankin and Frank
Newman will need to be filled in the upcoming election.
You will find a nomination form at the bottom of this page. Cut it out and send it to the
CMRA office by the deadline.
Address:
CMRA
PO Box 123888
Fort Worth, TX 76121
CMRA Daytona Competitor
When we did our coverage of CMRA racers
competing at Daytona we accidentally missed
David LaRue. LaRue competed in the AHRMA
races during speed week and finished an
excellent fourth place in two different
Production Singles races. LaRue was riding
on DOT tires and was the top finishing Honda
in each case.
ON THE COVER:
Greg Abbott of Northwest Honda.
Photo by Irwin Arnstein.
REMAINING CMRA SCHEDULE
JUNE 9-11 MOTORSPORT RANCH
Cresson, Texas
JUNE 30-JULY 2
OAK HILL RACEWAY
Henderson, Texas
JULY 28-30 HALLETT MOTOR RACING CIRCUIT
Hallett, Oklahoma
AUGUST 18-20 MOTORSPORTS RANCH
Cresson, Texas
SEPTEMBER 8-10 OAK HILL RACEWAY
Henderson, Texas
No wet rats here. Photo by Irwin
Arnstein.
OCTOBER 6-8 TEXAS WORLD SPEEDWAY
College Station, Texas
BANQUET
NOVEMBER 11 RIVER RANCH
500 NE 23rd St
Fort Worth, TX
News items, tid bits and anything of importance to the CMRA or roadracing in general can
be e-mailed to [email protected] for inclusion in The Inside Line.
- Shan Moore/editor
Nomination for 2007-2008 Board of Directors
Nominations for the 2007-2008 Board of Directors are now open and must be recieved at the CMRA office by August 15th.
Person being nominated must be a CMRA member in good standing.
I Nominate ___________________________________________ as a BoD for a 2 year term.
Date of Nomination ____________________________
__________________ has agreed to this nomination YES____ NO____
Person making nomination______________________________________
Send nominations to:
CMRA PO Box 123888 Fort Worth, TX 76121
Nomination submissions must be postmarked on or before August 15, 2006. After receiving nominations, Nancy Selleck will send a letter to
the person being nominated for their acceptance to serve on the BOD for the 2 year term or their right of refusal. Nominee’s pictures and
statements will be included in the newsletter mailed after the Motorsport Ranch race in August. Ballots will also be included in that
newsletter. Ballots must be postmarked on or before October 15th and only current CMRA members in good standing are
eligible to vote. The BOD will notify the nominees and then post the results.
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Interview
bobOERTLE
Bob Oertle talks about Drag Racing, street riding in Texas and the Hog Man .
Most of you know Bob Oertle
as our track announcer.
However, you may not know
much about his background
or just how involved has
been in the sport of motorcycle racing over the years.
Well, we had Bob give us the
scoop during a recent interview.
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Bob, I know that you have
been involved in motorcycle
racing for most of your life.
Let's give the readers a little
bit of background on you.
I began life in the motorcycle
business in the late 1960's as
mechanic for Curly Sutton at
Custom Cycles at 41st and
Peoria. Curly was a Norton and
British Bike repair shop. He
owned and sponsored riders on
his two Norton 750 Dirt
Trackers.
I started for Curly as mechanic,
and flagged turn one at the
John Zink ½ Mile Dirt Track in
Skiatook, Oklahoma on Sundays.
Curly had many special tools he
and Denny Moore had built.
Between Curly and Denny, I had
two of the best instructors of
power mechanics anyone could
every have asked for. Curly had
grown up in Ohio, and worked at
the Indian Factory for years
before moving to Oklahoma with
his wife's family. Moore worked
a couple of blocks down the
street at the John Zink facility.
Moore was crew chief for Zink's
Indy Cars, and if he didn't have
a special tool or the equipment
to make something he got it in
less than a week. Zink's cars
won several times at the Indy
500 races. Moore was the first
person I ever saw that had four
individual scales to set up the
suspension on a race car.
I raced for Curly on a Norton
Commando 750 at Tulsa
International Raceway and won
many pro purse races at that
racetrack aboard that Norton
motorcycle. Then I opened my
own AJS motorcycle dealership
in 1971. We sold and serviced
AJS and did a ton of work on
Honda 750s.
In 1973 I moved to Dick Lane's
Kawasaki Village in Broken
Arrow, Oklahoma, as
Service Manager and campaigned a new Z1 Kawasaki in
road racing, then on to the drag
strip.
Tell us about some of the
racetracks you raced on
back in those days.
I raced at Dallas International
Motor Speedway (DIMS) from
1968 to 1973.
I also raced at the Texas
International Road Race and
Drag Strip track that was
located north of Dallas in
Lewisville, Texas. It had a road
race track, Limestone 1/2 mile
and an NHRA 1/4 mile drag strip.
Think I got 4th behind Jon
Manano, Hog Man Stephenson,
and some other guy on a
Kawasaki H2 Triple. A very
young Freddie Spencer rode that
day in three or four classes. They
held a big concert at that racetrack right after Woodstock with
some of the same bands there. It
was Labor Day weekend, 1969,
two weeks after Woodstock, and
thousands of hippies and lovers
of peace and music converged on
the small town of Lewisville, just
north of Dallas, at the
Texas Pop Festival, which featured B.B. King; Janis Joplin &
Big Brother and the Holding Co;
Canned Heat; Chicago; Delaney
& Bonnie & Friends; Feetwood
Mac; Freddie King; Grand Funk
Railroad and Herbie Mann. Plus
the Incredible String Band;
James Cotton; Johnny Winter;
Led Zeppelin; Nazz; The Quarry;
Rotary Connection; Sam & Dave;
Santana; Shiva's Headband; Sly
& the Family Stone; Space
Opera; Spirit; Sweetwater; Ten
Years After and Tony Joe White.
Wow, you've got quite a
memory. You were also a very
good mechanic.
I took second place in the
National Kawasaki Service contest in 1973. A fellow
from Oklahoma City won the contest. Jim Corpe, Orvis Smith,
Chester Hudspedth and Virgil
Davenport were in charge of the
Regional service department for
Kawasaki then.
You got pretty involved in the
drag racing scene in those
days.
Yeah, I won the National at
Green Valley Raceway in 1974
and set a new National 1/4 mile
record for A class with the Z1
Kawasaki. I got road racing slicks
to use for drag racing from Phil
McDonald. But the secret was
this magic dust we got from
Marsh Racing Tires out of
Arkansas. It was the same rosin
they make the rubber for tires
from and it softened up a tire like
an eraser. Talk about a launch. I
set a few National Records with
the McDonald "wore out" tires
and the Marsh "Magic Dust."
Chuck Butler got the "Magic
Dust" from Marsh for me.
I won a few Pro Stock races, as
well. One that stood out was in
Kansas City against a
Honda rider named Terry Vance.
However Bowling Green,
Kentucky is still my
favorite drag strip.
You built bikes as well.
Yeah, I built a few Drag Bikes
using Sandy Kosman chassis,
and engines that I built with
machine work provided by Red
Daley, Danny Myers and Dick
Moritz. Each had their specialties. Cylinder head porting was
done by Jerry Branch out of
California. One was a Turbo
Charged Kawasaki with a
1,300cc engine. Another was an
A Gas Dragster ridden and
owned by Jerry the Bear Dixon.
Tulsan Chuck Butler tuned the
Dixon entry to a win at Green
Valley at a National held there in
1976.
Then I moved to Dallas, Texas,
and managed a Kawasaki
Dealership there for 2 years.
I rode motorcycles around Dallas
with Marc Smith of Tucker Rocky,
Hog Man
Stephenson, Jon Manano out of
Big D Triumph, and a bunch of
way crazy guys. We rode on
Stemmons Freeway when it was
two lanes on each side. They
had a game called "Wolf Pack"
where we got in front of traffic,
slowed down blocking the entire
highway. Then someone honked
3 times and away we went, racing up to the next "Wolf Pack" of
cars. But it did not stop there,
Hog Man rides his Honda 750 up
on the side of the concrete wall
and passes all the cars! Road
racing is sometimes mild compared to those guys.
Hoo Doo Howard, who owned
a large Kawasaki dealership in
Tulsa, contacted me
to work in sales for him and I
moved back to Tulsa. I held
positions of Sales, Sales
Manager and Service Manager
at Action Cycles Kawasaki for
the next 15 years.
Chuck Butler was heavy into
Sprint Car racing. The team he
worked for, whose driver was
Jeff Sikes, was killed at Tulsa
Speedway. Chuck continued on
to work building engines and
performance work then took a
position for Craig Rogers, building single cylinder Honda 450
and Rotax engines for the
Rogers/Lake entry of Custom
Chrome rider GNC National #53
Gary Rogers. For two seasons, I
drove the Custom Chrome hauler
on the AMA GNC Dirt Track
National tour along with Garry
Baheler at Performance Vehicle
Services out of Tulsa, Oklahoma,
and the Rogers/Lake race team
out of San Jose, California. All
the money I earned working for
them, I invested in my
Winter Indoor Dirt Track Race
Series. In a way it was co-sponsored by Craig Rogers and Rod
Lake of California.
You have a lot of cool bench
racing stories. Tell us a couple of your favorites.
At Del Mar, me and past champion Bubba Shobert, who was
working for the
Rogers/Lake team as their Rider
Consultant, took off to Wendy's
for burgers. Del Mar Fairgrounds
wanted $9.00 for a hamburger
and I could see the Wendy's
sign from where we were standing, so to save nine bucks, off
we went in Bubba's Mustang.
Bubba was the Race Grand
Marshall for Mike Kidd's FUSA
race that weekend. However
when we got back to the
Fairgrounds we were met by a
parking official and charged
$9.00 to park! Burger cost us
nine bucks anyway. Never forget Bubba showing the parking
attendant his official credentials
complete with hologram. The
dude looked at him and said "I
don't care if your name is Jimmy
Durante, ya got ta pay $9.00 to
park." The street leading into
Del Mar Fairgrounds is Jimmy
Durante Drive.
Another cool Bubba story was
when we were in Michigan during the Harley Davidson 100th
Birthday Bash. At the racetrack,
Motorcycle Jumper Bubba
Blackwell shows up. Then there
were two famous Bubbas
together at the same place. I
have a few photos of that meeting of the Bubbas.
Okay, one more story.
Sandy Kosman was at Lakeland
International Raceway in
Memphis during a National Drag
Race. He stepped out of his
motel room to a Bench Race
Session going on outside. In the
Bench race was Terry Vance,
Byron Hinds, Mike Bruso, Floyd
Tweedle, Sonny Rout, and a few
others. Sandy had a jar of Peter
Pan in one hand and the motel
key fob in the other, and was
scooping peanut butter onto the
green key fob and eating it. I
said, "Sandy, do you know how
many hands have held that key
fob?" He just laughed and started talking about the Chinese and
Mexican lunches he eats in
California.
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Northwest Honda Racing’s CBR1000RR
According to Ronnie Lunsford, the secret to success in endurance racing, especially in the big class, is to keep the bike as stock as
possible for reliabilty and then setting it up to suit four or five riders. We took a look at Lunsford’s CBR1000RR at Hallett to see just
how stock it was. Here is a list of the hardware:
> MICHELIN TIRES
> LEO VINCE SBK EXHAUST
> MARCHESINI WHEELS
> NISSIN 954 BRAKE CALIPERS
> 2000 929 FORKS
> OEM BRAKE PADS
> OHLINS STEERING DAMPER
> OEM REAR SETS
> PENSKE REAR SHOCK
> SIX GALLON CUSTON TANK
> DYNOJET POWER SHIFTER
> BREMBO MASTER CYLINDER
> CUSTOM REMOTE FT BRAKE ADJUSTER
> SHARKSKINZ BODY
> POWER COMMANDER
> EK “RED” CHAIN
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Sprints
CMRA CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES
SPRINT SERIES: ROUND 4
HALLETT MOTOR RACING CIRCUIT
HALLETT, OK
MAY 20-21, 2006
BRYAN WEST (955) AND TYLER MCDONALD (20) SCORED UPSET WINS OVER TY HOWARD (1) AT HALLETT.
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Round four of the CMRA
Championship Series kicked off on
Saturday at Hallett Motor Racing
Circuit with record high temperatures
moving into the area just in time for
the endurance race. However, on
Sunday for the Sprint races, the
weather was much more comfortable.
The Provisional Novices got the racing action underway and Tim Chason,
riding a CBR600RR, pulled away from
the start and was over five seconds
clear of second place finisher Jeremy
White (YZF-R1) at the finish. Billy
Lee, also riding a CBR600RR, was
third, while Landon Talley and
Michael Ditty rounded out the top
five.
Race two was the
Roadracingworld.com Formula 2
Expert/ Formula 2 Novice/ Unlimited
Super Motard race, which pays $150
purse to the top five finishers in the
Formula 2 Expert class, and in the F2
class, Dane Westby took a runaway
win on his SV650, finishing over 15
seconds ahead of a tight battle
between Zac Chapman and Chris
Romeo over second. At the finish,
Chapman edged Romeo for the runner up position, with Alex Welsh finishing fourth.
In the Unlimited Motard division,
Chase Vivion took first in class and
fifth overall, while Robert Bradlaw
and Brad Tinker finished second and
third in class and seventh and eighth
overall. The top F2 Novice was Frank
Newman in 11th overall.
The Racing Performance Services B
Superstock Expert and Novice race,
which pays a $150 purse, was a Ty
Howard benefit as the GSX-R750
rider topped Tyler McDonald, riding
his YZF-R6, by seven seconds. Third
went to Dustin Dominguez on a GSXR600, with Kansan Larry Denning in
fourth on a ZX-6R.
Danny Kelsey took the first of his
five wins on the day in the B
Superstock Novice race. Oklahoman
Michael Harrell finished second, with
Tony Moore of Arkansas in third.
Cody Kitchen and Todd Fleeman, both
also from Arkansas, rounded out the
top five.
Dane Westby and Dustin
Dominguez continued their year-long
battle in the red flag-shortened
Lightweight Twins Expert and
Novice/ Unlimited Classic race, with
Westby coming out on top at the finish, two seconds ahead of
Dominguez. Chris Romeo and Eric
Falt also had a good fight over third,
with Romeo edging Falt at the checkers. Fifth place went to Zac
Chapman.
In the Action Kawasaki of Mesquite
Clubman / Super Motard race, which
pays $100 in store certificates to the
top five finishers on Kaw EX250s,
Aprilia RS250-mounted Clayton
Schutz led Robert Bradlaw (CRF450)
to the checkers, while Brad Tinker, on
a KTM 525 was third. The top placing
Kaw EX250 rider was Eric Falt in seventh overall. Chuck Ergle came next
in eighth overall, just ahead of
Gregory Workman in ninth.
Tyler McDonald passed Ty Howard
on the second lap of the Komodo
Racing C Superstock Expert race,
which pays a $250 purse, and then
pulled away to an easy win. Larry
Denning moved up from a back row
start and passed Larry Myers for
third, while Dustin Dominguez finished fifth, just behind Myers.
Danny Kelsey continued his winning
streak by topping Tony Moore in the
Moto Liberty C Superstock Novice
race. Jeremy Hunt, Ronald Weaver
Jr. and Todd Fleeman claimed the
third through fifth positions.
Bryan West got the first of his two
wins in the RaceworX A Superbike
Expert and Novice, which pays a
$150 purse. West moved up from the
fourth row and took the lead on lap
one, eventually finishing eight seconds ahead of Larry Denning. Kevin
Pate finished third, with Bill Drake
ABOVE: DANNY KELSEY HAD FIVE NOVICE CLASS WINS AT HALLETT.
BELOW: JOSEPH TOLARO (123) LEADS GARY GIARRATANO OUT OF BUS STOP.
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Sprints
ABOVE: ANDY GALINDO (46) BATTLES WITH LARRY DENNING (360).
BELOW: SCOTT WHITE IN TURN 1.
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and Brian Cox in fourth and fifth.
Nathan Gardner was top Novice in
14th, with Cody Kitchen next in 16th.
In the South Central Race Center D
Superbike Expert and Novice, which
pays a $150 purse, Dane Westby and
Dustin Dominguez again battled over
the lead, however Westby dropped
off the pace after an off-track excursion, leaving Dominguez with the
easy win. Eric Falt passed Zac
Chapman on the final lap to take second with Chris Romeo and Robert
Bradlaw coming home in fourth and
fifth. Frank Newman won the Novice
division in eighth overall, with
Joseph Tolaro and David Taylor taking second and third in the Novice
division with eighth and ninth place
finishes.
Ronnie Lunsford took a flag-to-flag
victory in the Heavyweight Twins
Expert and Novice race on his Ducati
999, finishing 12 seconds ahead of
runner up Zac Chapman, who was
riding an SV650. Yamaha TZ250mounted Mike Wright was third.
Landon Talley was fourth overall and
first in the Novice division, riding a
Honda RC51.
Bryan West passed Ty Howard on
lap two of the Pace American Trailers
Formula 1 race, which pays a $1000
purse, and then held on to take a six
second victory. West posted the
fastest lap of the day on the third lap
of the race, a 1:17.467, and by doing
so, claimed the Island Racing Fast
Lap of the Weekend award, which
pays $150 for the fastest transponder-timed lap. Howard ended up second with Tyler McDonald, Andy
Galindo and Kevin Pate rounding out
the top five.
Danny Kelsey took win number
three on the day in the WINN Racing
Formula 1 Novice race. Kelsey topped
Nathan Gardner by 19 seconds for
the win, while Jeremy Hunt, Bryan
LeMaire and Michael Harrell finished
third through fifth.
In the Northwest Honda 125 GP
race, which pays a $150 purse, Alex
Welsh waited until the final turn of
the eight lap race to pass Derek
Wagnon and take the victory. Dustin
Dominguez moved up from the second wave to finish third overall and
first in the D Superstock Expert class,
ahead of Eric Falt and Zac Chapman.
Clayton Schutz was top finishing
Novice in the D Superstock class
with a 13th overall.
Ty Howard avenged his defeat earlier in the day to Bryan West by beating West by 13 seconds in the Sum
of all Parts A Superstock Expert and
Novice race, which pays a $150
purse. West took second ahead of
Larry Denning, while Andy Galindo
and Kevin Pate were fourth and fifth.
Danny Kelsey was the top Novice in
seventh, while Bryan LeMaire was
second Novice in 11th.
Ronnie Lunsford held off a late
charge by Shane Stoyko to win the
Avteq Formula 40 Lightweight Expert
and Novice/ Formula 40 Expert and
Novice race, which pays a $150
purse. Brian Cox finished third, while
Michael Rochester, who ran second
early in the race finished fourth. Eric
Falt won the Lightweight division
with an 11th overall finish, while Roy
Eder was first in the Heavyweight
Novice class in 12th. Frank Newman
was the top Lightweight Novice in
14th.
Ty Howard beat Tyler McDonald
and Larry Denning to win the
Motorcycles Unlimited C Superbike
Expert race, which pays a $150
purse. Dustin Dominguez was fourth
and Brandon Spradling was fifth.
Danny Kelsey took his fifth and
final win of the day in the C
Superbike Novice race, topping Tony
Moore and Nathan Gardner in the
process. Todd Fleeman was fourth,
ahead of Ronald Weaver Jr.
The final race of the day, the B
Superbike Expert and Novice race,
was won by Dustin Dominguez.
Daniel Sinclair finished second with
Chase Vivion coming home in third
and William Guthrie in fourth. The
Novice division was won by Nathan
Gardner in fifth.
In Saturday's mini sprint action,
Kent Moffitt won the Formula 4 race
DAVID LARUE
BILL UNDERWOOD (654)
AND DANIEL SINCLAIR (221)
over Ryan O'Donnell and Stephen
Guynes. Dustin Dominguez won the
Formula 6 class, beating Richard
Desmond and Conner Blevins, while
Derek Wagnon took the win in the
Formula 5 division over Chris
Kotowski and Mark David. Jason
Keene topped all entries in the
Formula 7 class, with Ismel Camacho
finishing second and Chris
Holderness finishing third.
The Junior Motard race was won
by Chris Haesemeyer, with Luca
Chatham in second and Dallas King
in third.
TY HOWARD
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Larry Myers goes off-roading .
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Endurance
NW Honda Wins!
SHOGUN MOTORSPORTS CMRA ENDURANCE
SERIES: ROUND 3
HALLETT MOTOR RACING CIRCUIT
HALLETT, OK
MARCH 20, 2006
PHOTOS BY IRWIN ARNSTEIN
Northwest Honda Racing capitalized on an
error-free performance to claim their first win
of the year at round three of the Shogun
Motorsports CMRA Endurance Series, held at
Hallett Motor Racing Circuit, near Hallett,
Oklahoma. The Houston-based team took the
lead during the fifth hour of the six hour race,
and by the finish were two laps clear of second place finishers Junk Yard Dog. The win
moved them into the lead in the series standings, ahead of Desert-Rats.net, and entitled
them to a lion's share of the $1125 purse.
"It was just one of those perfect days," said
Ronnie Lunsford of Northwest Honda Racing.
"All the pit stops went well; we only had to
do one rear tire (change) and the bike worked
good all day."
By the end of the fourth hour, Team
Ridesmart (Craig Clark, Jeremy Keller,
Shannon Ball), Desert-Rats.net (Brad Thomas,
Derek Thomas, Stephen Guynes, Troy Green)
and Junk Yard Dog (Dane Westby, Dustin
Meador, Chris Romeo) had each taken a turn
at leading the race, while Northwest Honda
Racing (Ronnie Lunsford, Matt Maschmann,
Greg Abbott, Rusty Allen) kept their Honda
CBR1000RR within striking distance in fourth.
Northwest Honda Racing's quest for their
first win of the year got a little easier when
Desert-Rats.net started to develop an overheating problem on their YZF-R1 midway
through the race. A record high temperature
of 96 degrees only complicated the problem,
and it eventually cost the "Rats" any chance
at the win. A crash by Team Ridesmart during
the final hour put them on the sidelines as
well, leaving only Northwest Honda Racing
and Junk Yard Dog to do battle. However pit
stops kept the "Dogs" out of contention eight long stops, to be exact. The Junk Yard
Dog GSX-R600 could only make 55 minutes
on a tank of gas and their one tire change
took over a minute.
After six hours of racing, Northwest Honda
Racing crossed the finish line with two laps
to spare over Junk Yard Dog, with DesertRats.net limping home for third. The runner
up finish gave Junk Yard Dog their first podium of the year and reinforced their third overall status in the series standings.
"We stayed real consistent for the whole
race," said Dustin Meador of Junk Yard Dog.
"Marcus (McBain) put together a good sus-
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Results
pension package for us and the
Michelins worked really well. We
just had a good run and we're happy
about it."
2Wheelz.com (Gabe McClendon,
Andy Galindo, Frank Shacklee, Mark
Niemi) finished fourth overall and
first in the C Superstock division,
after battling for most of the race
with Lone Star Track Days (Jeff
Grant, Jody Hudson, Brandon
Spradling, Ronnie Hay). At the end of
the fourth hour, Lone Star Track Days
held a two lap advantage over
2Wheelz.com, but a bad pit stop and
various problems put them in a hole
that they couldn't recover from, however they still finished fifth overall
and second in class, just 14 seconds
behind 2Wheelz.com.
Team Penetration (Joseph
McCamish, Mark Delano, Nathaniel
Orona) finished sixth overall and third
in the C Superstock class, while
Faltless Racing (Eric Falt, Robert
Bradlaw, Chuck Ergle, Bill Erzal)
claimed the win in the Formula 2
class with a seventh overall. Faltless
Racing took the lead in the division
from the drop of the flag and never
relinquished it, though Fireball Racing
(Luke Conlin, Danny Mosley, Chris
Vinson) moved onto the same lap
with Faltless Racing during the fourth
hour and were gaining on the 2004
class champions. However, a crash
ended Fireball Racing's chances and
Faltless Racing came home with their
second win of the year.
"Last year we had a lot of bad luck
and a lot of weird stuff happened, so
this year we have been hoping that
all the bad luck is behind us," Eric
Falt of Faltless Racing said. "This
race we chose some different tires
and the Michelins really worked
excellent. Some of the guys were a
little scared because the tires went
off at Texas World, but they all went
out there and ran great times and it
ended up being a great day for us."
Lone Gunmen, with only Jesse
Johnson and Ken Ervin sharing the
riding duties, won the C Superbike
class in ninth overall.
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ABOVE: LONE STAR TRACK DAYS (7), HERE LEADING TEAM ANVIL, FINISHED SECOND IN C SUPERSTOCK.
BELOW: FC RACING (85), SINCLAIR RACING (48) AND JUNK YARD DOG (36).
ABOVE: DESERT-RATS.NET
(2) LEADS NORTHWEST
HONDA RACING (1).
LEFT: 2WHEELZ.COM (5)
AND D2 CYCLES RACING
(98) LOOK TO THE EXIT.
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Endurance
ABOVE: DESERT-RATS.NET
(2) LEADS INFINITY GP
RACING (88).
LEFT: JUNK YARD DOG (36)
AND BIG AIR RACING (21)
GO AT IT.
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