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0-2: 1. Doug 8I!njamin (Jaw); 2. Tom Rossano (Jaw); 3. Chad
4. Winsuln Wmlams (Jaw): 5. EJoy ~In (Jaw).
0-2 8: 1. HI~aki Ote (Jaw); 2. Rohn Zellner (Jaw); J. Steve
Nelson (Jaw); ... Rusty Hall (Jaw): 5. Geoff Herimer (Jaw).
New~ (Jaw);
Fast Fridays Speedway
Yarrow Steals Another
Handicap Main
Woodsford Jr. ran away from the Youth
Division Three trophy seekers.
Low-yardage competitor Randy Martin
stayed out front in the Division Two finale,
despite considerable pressure from 30-yard
starters Robert Mellor and Jon Curry, both
previous main·event winners, who finished
second and third, respectively. Dennis Chandler, who finished a close second in last
week's Division Three main, won his first race
of the season.
By M, SoBER
Shippensburg Speedway: Chris Klinefelter (99S) leads Bob Sweeten Jr. (79U)
in the Sportsman class in Shippensburg, Pennsylvania.
Castro, Brant
Own Arrowhead
exception, as Castro claimed bragging rights
in the Scratch main and Brant got through
traffic to claim the honors on the Handicap
side of the program.
In the first Scratch semi, the pole went to
Castro, with Brant in two, and Johnny Walker
and Shaun Harmatiuk on the outside. It was
gate, first corner and win for Brant, but not
without a lot of pressure from Castro, who had
to settle for second, knowing they would meet
again in the main. Harmatiuk and Walker were
headed to the Consi.
The second semi had Bobby Krips on the
pole, with Gary Hicks in two, Bobby Schwartz
in three and Shawn McConnell in four. Hicks
went wire to wire in the quick four-Iapper.
Krips dueled with Schwartz all the way to the
checkers and got the nod; he would advance
to the main. Schwartz and McConnell were
headed for the Consi.
The Scratch Consi could be a main event
anywhere, anytime. On the pole was the
"Master of the Gate," Schwartz. McConnell
was in two, and Harmatiuk and Walker were in
three and four. McConnell outgated Schwartz
and led the first lap. Then Schwartz found the
line he was looking for and took the lead as
they came around on two and it was all over,
as the veterans showed the kids how it's done.
Harmatiuk and Walker rounded out the field.
In the Scratch main, the pole went to
Brant, with Castro in two, and Krips and Hicks
on the outside. Brant exploded out of the gate,
but by the time they got to the first tum, he
had been joined by Castro and Hicks, and he
got caught in a good, old-fashioned squeeze
play. Castro got by first, and one lap later
Hicks went underneath. Brant was trying to
make the outside work, but it was too great a
distance to make up and he would have to
settle for third. Krips claimed fourth.
The lineup for the Handicap main had
John DeFries all alone on the 10-yard line,
Krips and Harmatiuk on the 20, Hicks on the
40, and Brant and Castro on the 50. DeFries
led for one lap and then Krips took charge.
But Krips didn't count on Brant, who was
speeding through the field like a bullet, and
when the white flag came out, Brant turned
the throttle on and kept it on through three
and four, way out in the dirt, and made the
coolest pass of the night - which also gave
him the Handicap main win. Hicks, Castro,
Harmatiuk and DeFries followed.
Tom Rossano led one lap of the Division
Two main, and then it was all Doug Benjamin.
Chad Newlee claimed third.
The Division Two B contest was '"survival
of the fittest" - and the fittest was the visitor
from Japan, Hideaki Ota. Rohn Zellner and
Steve Nelson were second and third.
By ElAfNE JONES
(GfoI); 4. Bobby "rip' (Jowl.
SCR CONSI: 1. Bobby Schwartz (Jaw); 2. Shawn McConnell
SCR: 1. Scott Brant (GI"): 2. Bobby Hedden (Jaw); 3. Ban Bast
(Jaw): 4. Mike Faria (Jaw).
HDCP: 1. Bryan Yarrow (Jaw): 2. Chad FeUdo (Jew); 3. Mike
Faria (Jaw); 4. Scott Brant (GM); 5. Bobby Hedden (Jaw).
0·2: I. Randy Manin (Jall/); 2. RobertMellOf (Jew); 3. Jon Cuny
(Jaw).
0·3: 1. Dennis Chandler (We,): 2. Kelly McBane (Jall/).
D·] YTH: 1. Danny Easley (Jaw): 2. T.J. Fowler (Jaw); 3. Maril
Canillo (Jaw).
0·2 YTH: L Bruce Bast (Wes); 2. RIcky FeJlclo (Wes): 3. R.J.
Be<:e.rra (Hon).
0·3 YTH: 1. RonnIe Woodsford Jr. (Hon); 2. Hunter Morris
(Wes): 3. Ton Hubbard (Hon).
Los Angeles County Raceway
Fullmer's
First at LACR
By GREG ROaERTSON
PALMDALE,CA,JUNEI5
Just a couple of months out of the Mini ranks,
YZl25-mounted Zack Fullmer collected his
first-ever 125cc Beginner·c1ass win during the
yP Racing Fuels-sponsored round of California
Racing Club's Saturday night motocross held
at Los Angeles County Raceway.
Ariel Greer shot out to an immediate
first-mota lead and by the midway point was
being challenged by both Fullmer and Andy
Hammer. Hammer made his way to the front
to take the win by a couple of seconds
over Greer. Fullmer finished third, with
Cody Maness holding off Austin Hemingway
for fourth.
Hammer and Greer fought over the top
spot for a couple of laps before Hammer
inched away. Fullmer caught Greer for second
place halfway through the mota and was then
handed the lead when Hammer went down
hard off a jump. Fullmer easily took the win,
and with it the overall honors, topping the 2·2
tally of Greer. Rocky Maida came up through
the pack to earn third in the mota and fourth
overall in the final standings behind the
consistent 4-4 score of Maness.
Jeremy Chaussee picked up the combined
Pro-class win on a 1-1 sweep after coming a
first-tum fall in moto two. The second~place
money went to Travis Smith on 3-2 finjshes,
with Suzuki pilot Michael Meadows claiming
third-place payback.
Donnie Durrer was simply untouchable in
both 250cc Intermediate motos on his
NCY/Nationwide Cycle/Scott-backed Yamaha. Neil Chisholm went 2-3 to edge out the
4-2 tally of Kelly Terracciano for second on
the night.
Jim "Hollywood" Holley and Bill Sauro put
on one of the best shows of the night in the
Results
SAN BERNARDINO, CA, JUNE 12
"Fast" Ed Castro and Scotty Brant have
become the riders to beat at Arrowhead
Speedway, and Wednesday night was no
Results
AUBURN,CA,JUNEI4
The 2000 Junior National Speedway Champion,
Bryan Yarrow, won his third Handicap main of
the Fast Fridays Speedway season with a wily
and deft veteran move in the final tum to beat
early race leader Chad Felicia to the checkers.
"I heard that Rooney [track announcer
extraordinaire Mike Rooney] says I set Chad
up real good in the next-to-last tums, but really I just tried to get as close to him as I could
before that last turn," said the engaging
Yarrow, who came into the night third overall
in points. And close Yarrow got, using a nearly
perfect inside move coming out of tum two on
the final lap to close right into Felicia's shad·
ow as the two front-runners made their way
down the back straight toward the final tum.
Felicia, perhaps feeling the pressure of the
aggressive-riding Yarrow, drifted a bit off the
pole coming out of the final tum, and that was
all Yarrow needed to steal the win away by
half a bikelength at the finish stripe. Felicia
held on to second. The third-, fourth- and fifthplace spots went to 50-yard starters "Flyin'"
Mike Faria, "Suicide" Scotty Brant and
Bobby "The Blaze" Hedden, respectively,
while Scratch Consi winner Tommy Hedden
scored sixth.
In the event's final and most prestigious
race, the Scratch main, longtime speedwlIy
veteran Scott Brant was the first on the throttle
out of the gate and he rode away from current
Northern California AMA Speedway season
points leaders Bobby Hedden and Bart Bast.
Brant fully exploited the advantage of the
inside pole starting position and the dry track
conditions to take his second Scratch main
win of the season. Faria, who drew starting
lane four, had his primary ride expire before
the race began and was forced to try to adapt
to District Three competitor Dean Blanken·
biller's Jawa. Faria was unfamiliar with the
bike's setup and ended up disqualified from
the race when it pulled him into the starting
tapes as he revved up the engine for the al1important clutch start. Hedden ran in second
the entire way, and third went to Bast, who
had his own strange mechanical mishap in the
Handicap Consolation race. Bast bent his muffler in a lap-four crash, but his clever brother
Harlan Bast Jr. managed to straighten it out
with an oversized track-rake-tumed-pry-bar in
tum three before the race resumed; Bast went
on to win the race on the restart.
Danny Easley managed to hold off the
maniac advances of current Junior Champion
T.J. Fowler to win the Youth Division One
main. Bruce Bast completely dominated the
Youth Division Two contest, and Ronnie
laps later, Sennett tried the same thing on
Pfanders, with the same results. After the
restart, they ran to the finish, with Sennett taking second off two on the final lap, but Pfanders nudged his way by in the third tum to
retake and hold on to second.
With only two riders apiece in the two 85cc
divisions, they were run together. Joey Parks,
an 85cc (12-15) rider, took the lead from
8xc (7-11) hotshots Evan Baer and Brandon
Robinson, with 85cc (12-15) rider R.J. Hart
close behind. Parks bobbled off two, letting
Baer and Robinson past. For most of the final,
Baer held off Robinson - until he drifted slightly high in the second turn on the final lap,
letting Robinson into the lead. Hart
had displaced Parks for first 85cc (12-15)
rider earlier.
Matthew Young had a straight margin over
Brad Phillips late in the 125cc final, until he
fell in the third turn with two laps left and
restarted about half a lap behind Phillips.
Phillips did win the 100cc final, over Hart.
Aaron Klinedinst took both the 50cc OilInjected and 50cc Never Won classes, over
Cullen Kanya. Tyler Kidwell won the 65cc
class, and Richard Pfanders topped the 600cc
B class. Bob Sweeten took top honors in the
Over 30 class.
This will be the last race at Shippensburg
until the third annual Paul Crumling Memorial
Race on Sunday night, September I.
Results
50 NEVER WON: I. Aaron Klinedinst (Yam): 2.
Cull~
Kanyll
(Yam).
50 otL-INJ: 1. Aaron KlI~ (Yam); 2.. Cullen KanYlI (Yam).
65: 1. Tyler Kklwell (Kaw): 2. Derek Hl!f"Sh (Kaw); 3. Tyler Haas
(KT"): 4. _
Standifonl (_).
85 (7·11): I. Brandon Robinson (Yam); 2. Evan Baer (Yam).
85 (12-15): 1. R.J. Han (Yam); 2. Joey Parks (Kaw).
100: I. Brad Phillips (Hon); 2. R.J. Hart (Hon); 3. Jim YOOu
(Hon): 4. _ " J..... (Hon): S.
(y"",).
125: I. Brad Phillips (Suz); 2. Metthew Young (Kaw).
250 A: I. Chris Klinfh~ (Hon); 2. John Lewis (Hon): 3. Mike
a""",," (Hon).
250 1. Nid< ti