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Auburn Track Championship
Fast Fridays Speedway
Venegas Victorious
at Auburn Track
Championship
By M.
SOBER
AUBURN,CA,AUG.26
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ultiple-time ICE Racing Champion Charlie "The Edge"
Venegas won the Auburn Track Championship with a
near-perfect 14-point score. Venegas won his first four heats
and then cruised to victory with a solid second-place heat finish
in round five, behind Bart Bast's third straight win. Bast's win
pushed him into a tie with Bryan Yarrow at 13 points apiece.
Yarrow won the subsequent run up to finish in second overall.
Tommy Hedden finished in fourth with 12 points, and Chad
Felicio was fifth with I I. It was Venegas' second Fast Fridays
Championship, the first one coming in 1998.
In the opening round, the track was a bit rough and heavy in
an attempt to survive the night's sheer volume of scheduled
races. With run-offs and restarts, the number would approach
50 before the night was over.
Greg Hooten Jr., Venegas, Yarrow and Tommy Hedden took
the three-point victories in the first round of four heats.
In round two, Chad Felicio, Venegas, Chris Kerr and T.J.
"The Menace" Fowler claimed the wins.
In round three, Venegas, Bast, Yarrow and Nate Perkins
took the wins, ahead of second-place finishers Kerr, Felicia,
Hedden and Hooton. After three of five rounds, Venegas held a
one-point lead over Yarrow and a two-point lead ahead of Bast
and Hedden.
Bast opened up the fourth round with a victory over Hedden,
and then all hell broke loose in the next heat. Fowler wildly lost
control of his bike in turn two, and it launched off the track,
clearing the four-foot-high plywood fence and entering the pits.
The heat was never restarted, and front-runner Perkins was
awarded the win, while Fowler had the rest of the night off.
Felicia won the next heat, and Venegas then finished off the round
with his fourth straight triumph of the evening, which included an
impressive lap-three outside pass of pole sitter Yarrow.
In the final round, Matt Browne got his first win, and Yarrow
kept the pressure on Venegas, winning his last heat with a win
from the pole, over Billy Hiles. It came down to Bast taking
points out of Venegas' lead, which he did, but when Venegas
held Dustin Schroeder off to claim second place, the
championship was his.
In the Division One championship, Josh West drew the pole
and ran off with the clear victory over Kell Kerrigan, Rachelle
Kerr and Mike Achilles. Cory Barringer took the early lead in
the Division Three championship and then held on to beat
Danny Poli by mere inches.
RESULTS
C'SH'" I. Charlie Veneg.u O.w) (14 pIS); 2. Bryan Vvrnw (GM) (I J): J. "'"
&1St (Jaw) (Il): 4. Tommy Hedden (GM) (12); 5. Chad FelKk> O.w) (II): 6. (TIE)
Chris Kerr (Iaw)!Billy Hiles (law) (8); 8. Nate Perkins (law) (7); 9. (TlE) Greg Hootofl
Jr. (Iaw)!J.J. Martynse (law) (6); II. (TIE) Dustin Schroeder (Iaw)/Matt Browne
(Iaw)lAlex Marcucci (Iaw)ITj. Fowle.- (law) (5): 15. Devin DeFreece (GM) (I).
Indiana Hillclimb
Pleasure Riders Hillclimb
Fast Andy & Jammin'
Joe - The Pleasure
W,S!J:~'i.AII Theirs
CAYUGA, IN, AUG. 27
t rained hard on the Pleasure Riders' ISS-foot hill just three
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Fortner had been squeezed out of the Fast Time trophy the
week before by "C"'A' Jake" Tackitt, but he turned the tables
on Tackitt on this night_ Fortner carded a 4.35 I-second time on
his CRSOO on his first ride to take the lead into intermission,
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hours before race time, but the Quad riders were given practice time and then run first, which realty dried out the hill and
return trail very well for the evening's action. The hill was tacky
and fast - and so was Andy Fortner. (Er... the "fast" part, I mean.)
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