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MEMORIAL
SERVICE FOR DOUG WALTERS
All friends and race fans are invited
to a memorial service for Doug Walters that will be held Friday
September 5th at 6:30 pm at the Sunset Speedway (grandstand
entrance). A Celebration of Life will immediately follow at
the "Fire Pit," with a pot luck-style gathering.
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| PUNCOCHAR
PICKS UP 2ND WIN OF SEASON IN TRIBUTE TO WALTERS:
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By
Bill Poehler -
Sunset Speedway Park - Banks, Oregon
Saturday August 31, 2008
Doug Walters always loved a race.
The co-owner and biggest booster of Sunset Speedway died
in a highway accident Thursday night, but the racers and
his friends knew that he would have wanted them to continue
to race.
They showed up Saturday night at the 1/4-mile clay oval
at the track in Banks, doing four-wide salutes before nearly
every race in tribute to the man who guided the track Full
Story
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| VITALE
WINS 67-LAP T&G THRILLER ON COORS LIGHT SERIES AT SUNSET
SPEEDWAY:
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Coors
Light Dirt Late Model Crate Series
Sunset Speedway Park - Banks, OR.
Saturday August 23, 2008
Casey
Vitale hasn't done much racing this season since his foray
into dirt late model racing on the east coast.
He made his season debut at 1/4-mile clay oval Sunset Speedway
in Banks worth the effort Saturday night.
Vitale, of Lebanon, passed leading Jimmy Schram with 15
laps to go and went on to garner the $2,000 grand prize
in the 67-lap Full
Story
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| SATURDAY
AUGUST 23RD DIRT LATE MODEL PICTURES FROM SUNSET SPEEDWAY PARK: |
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Here to view misc. pictures taken Saturday August 23rd
at Sunset Speedway Park.
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| LINDBERG
PICKS UP SECOND WIN ON COORS LIGHT DIRT LATE MODEL CRATE SERIES:
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by
Bill Poehler
Coors Light Dirt Late Model Crate Series
Sunset Speedway Park - Banks, OR.
Saturday August 9, 2008
Branden Lindberg was racing with a heavy
heart and a heavy foot Saturday night.
Lindberg, still reeling after the death of friend and motocross
racer Troy Boggs drove from the eighth starting position
to win his second Coors Light Crate Engine Late Model main
event of the season at Banks' Sunset Speedway.
The evening of racing started with Scio driver Steve Moore
pacing Full Story
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| SATURDAY
AUGUST 9TH DIRT LATE MODEL PICTURES FROM SUNSET SPEEDWAY PARK: |
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Here to view misc. pictures taken Saturday August 9th
at Sunset Speedway Park.
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| GREG
WALTERS WINS BACK TO BACK FEATURES AT SUNSET SPEEDWAY PARK:
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by
Bill Poehler -
Coors Light Dirt Late Model Crate Series
Sunset Speedway Park - Banks, OR.
Saturday July 26, 2008
Greg Walters' early-summer swoon has ended.
That's bad news for the competition.
The driver out of Banks won in Coors Light Crate Engine
Late Model Series won for the second time in as many races
Saturday night on the 1/4-mile clay oval of Sunset Speedway.
A season-best 22 cars were on hand for the race night, including
Warriors of Dirt drivers Bob Trout, Doug Trout, Mike Keely,
Kent Dollarhyde, Full
Story
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| SATURDAY
JULY 26TH DIRT LATE MODEL PICTURES FROM SUNSET SPEEDWAY PARK: |
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Here to view misc. pictures taken Saturday July 26th
at Sunset Speedway Park.
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| GREG
WALTERS WINS JON MILLER MOMORIAL AT SUNSET SPEEDWAY: |
by
Bill Poehler
Coors Light Dirt Late Model Crate Motor Series
Saturday July 19, 2008
Greg Biffle brought the crowd, but Greg Walters brought
the show.
The NASCAR Sprint Cup star originally from Brush Prairie,
Wash., made his second appearance at the Jon Miller Memorial
Race sponsored by Irontech Saturday night at Sunset Speedway
and won a 10-lap exhibition.
Walters, of Banks, won the main event for the Coors Light
Crate Motor Class from the 12th starting position. Full
Story
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| SATURDAY
JULY 19TH PICTURES FROM THE JON MILLER MEMORIAL AT SUNSET SPEEDWAY
PARK: |
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Here to view misc. pictures taken Saturday July 19th
at Sunset Speedway Park.
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| LINDBERG
WINS JULY 5TH COORS LIGHT LATE MODEL FEATURE AT SUNSET SPEEDWAY:
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by
Bill Poehler
Coors Light Dirt Late Model Crate Motor Series
Saturday July 5, 2008
Branden Lindberg faces a long tow every race weekend from
his home in Monroe, Wash., down to his home track of Sunset
Speedway in Banks, Oregon.
The crate model driver had a long way to go again Saturday
night in winning the OR-Cal Open - Firecracker 150 Sponsored
by Airgas.
Lindberg, driver of the No. 88 car, won his first main event
in three years of late model driving Saturday, coming from
the 10th starting position Full
Story
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| SATURDAY
JULY 5TH PICTURES FROM SUNSET SPEEDWAY PARK: |
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Here to view misc. pictures taken Saturday July 5th
Coors at Sunset Speedway Park.
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| JIMMY
SCHRAM PICKS UP FIRST 2008 WIN ON COORS LIGHT DIRT LATE MODEL
SERIES AT SUNSET: |
by
Bill Poehler
Coors
Light Dirt Late Model Crate
Motor
Series
Saturday
June 28, 2008
Jimmy
Schram was bound to break through.
Schram, last year's Super Sport champion at Willamette Speedway,
joined brother, Jerry, as an A-Main event winner Saturday
Night in Coors Light Crate Engine Late Model Series action
this season.
Schram, starting the main event in the seventh position,
took the lead on the 10th lap and was out front for the
remaining 30 revolutions around the 1/4-mile clay oval,
holding off brother, Jerry, and third-place Eric Sayre for
the win. Full Story
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| SATURDAY
JUNE 28TH PICTURES FROM SUNSET SPEEDWAY PARK: |
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Here to view misc. pictures taken Saturday June 28th
at Sunset Speedway Park.
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| ROB
MAYEA WINS BUD I-5 RACE AT GRAYS HARBOR RACEWAY: |
by
Bill Poehler
Saturday June 21, 2008
Rob Mayea's patience paid off.
After seeing John Duty rocket away with the lead on lap
18, Mayea bided his for 10 laps then the driver out of Bend
rode the high way around the 3/8-mile clay oval of Grays
Harbor Raceway into the lead and pulled away to the Bud
I-5 Challenge Series win.
For the 2004 Bud I-5 champion, it was his second straight
series win at the track. The last was in 2005, the last
time the series raced at the ultra-fast speed plant.
Polesitting Lisa Stroup took the initial lead for the 50-lap
A-Main and paced the first three laps until Albany driver
Todd Shandy went around the only female driver in the field
on the outside of turn two and took over the lead. The fast
cars made their way through traffic and Mayea moved into
the top five on lap seven. Full
Story
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SAYRE WINS BIG ON ROSE FESTIVAL NIGHT AT SUNSET SPEEDWAY PARK: |
by
Bill Poehler -
Sunset Speedway Park - Banks, Oregon
Saturday June 14, 2008
Everything is falling into place for Eric Sayre.
The driver from Vancouver, Wash., assumed the lead with
14 laps to go Saturday night when Greg Walters' car went
dead and won Saturday night's 50-lap Rose Festival Dirt
Cup at Banks' Sunset Speedway Park.
Sayre also took over the Coors Light Late Model points lead
with 301, three better than Jerry Schram and 11 more than
Walters. Full Story
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| SATURDAY
JUNE 14TH PICTURES FROM SUNSET SPEEDWAY PARK: |
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Here to view misc. pictures taken at Saturday Night's
June 7th Crate Motor Dirt Late Model race at Sunset Speedway
Park.
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| SCOTT
"IRONMAN" PUNCOCHAR PICKS UP FIRST WIN OF THE 2008
SEASON AT SUNSET SPEEDWAY PARK: |
by
Bill Poehler
Sunset Speedway Park - Banks, Oregon
Saturday June 7, 2008
Scott Puncochar showed the visitors how to race at Sunset
Speedway Park.
The late model driver from Hillsboro took the lead with
nine laps to go and held off several determined charges
to win the main event labeled "The Prelude to the Shoot
Out."
When the Warriors of Dirt late model race scheduled for
this past weekend at Coos Bay Speedway was cancelled due
to rain on Thursday, Jerry Schram reached out with an olive
branch, welcoming the cars of the competing crate model
series to race at Sunset Speedway Park. Full
Story
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| SATURDAY
JUNE 7TH PICTURES FROM SUNSET SPEEDWAY PARK: |
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Here to view misc. pictures taken at Saturday Night's
June 7th Crate Motor Dirt Late Model race at Sunset Speedway
Park.
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| JERRY
SCHRAM PICKS UP SECOND CARRIER VICTORY AT SUNSET SPEEDWAY PARK: |
by
Bill Poehler
Sunset Speedway Park - Banks, Oregon
Jerry Schram was having a solid run.
The veteran driver from Vancouver, Wash., had worked the
No. 16 Schram Excavating late model from 15th to second
halfway through Saturday 50-lap Coors Light Late Model main
event on the 1/4-mile clay oval that is Banks' Sunset Speedway
Park.
Destiny had a different idea.
Greg Walters of Banks lost his 3/4-lap lead when an ignition
wire came off of the No. 97 car with three laps to go, handing
the lead over to Schram, and Schram checked out on the final
restart for his first crate late model. Full
Story
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