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| Greg Walters celebrates his 2nd win in two nights winning both Friday at Cottage Grove and again Saturday night at Sunset Speedway Park. | ||||||||||||||||
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Coast Fastrak DirtCar Series by Bill Poehler/ Saturday August 11,
2007 at Sunset Speedway- Banks, Oregon
- There were no doubts about the winner Saturday. Hometown driver Greg Walters won his second A-Main event in the Pacific Coast Fastrak DirtCar Series in two days Saturday, this time taking the long way around the 1/4-mile oval to win the 50 lapper at Sunset Speedway Park in Banks, and the fifth on the season for the series points leader. Outside pole sitter Scott Puncochar took the lead on the first lap with pole sitting Steve Suckow following in second, Terry Ferrando in third and Walters in fourth. Series newcomer Ian McHutchinson of Kirkland, Wash., pulled off after the first lap after breaking a suspension part. On the second lap, the car of Jesse Freeman spun on the front stretch, but was able to continue. A couple laps later, a car knocked one of the tires on the inside of turn two and the caution flag again waved. Two laps later the tire was knocked back out and the corner worker left the tire out. The charging Ferrando, winner of the series' previous stop at Banks, got by Puncochar for the lead on lap 34 and Walters jumped forward to third. The caution flew again two laps later as the cars of John Ireland, Freeman and Jim Clair spun in turns one and two. As the field went back to green flag racing, a major chain reaction in turns one and two and Bob Trout, Robby Ireland and Mark Thompson were involved. Thompson and Ireland were finished for the night with heavy damage. Trout was able to continue. On the restart, Walters got low under Puncochar and two laps later was able to clear the former series winner. Trout spun a few laps later and Clair was involved. Clair was black flagged for being involved in three cautions. On the restart, Walters made a daring move on the outside of Ferrando. The two battled side by side for three laps before Walters took the lead and pulled away for the win. Walters won with Ferrando in second, Branden Lindberg moving up to third from his fifth starting position, Suckow in fourth and Puncochar in fifth. Jason Johson came in sixth and shared the Hard Charger Award with Walters and Kevin "Pork Chop" Rodgers was seventh, the last car on the lead lap. J.P. Pagel, who ran over 10 laps with a flat left front tire, finished in eighth, one lap down, newcomer Mike Graham of Battleground, Wash., was ninth two laps down followed by Trout, John Ireland and Freeman. Clair was credited with 13th, Thompson was 14th, Robby Ireland 156h and McHutchinson in 16th. Ferrando set fast time for the second Sunset race in a row with a lap of 14.484 seconds to beat out Robby Ireland's 14.582.Ferrando won the first heat race by a full straight in front of Walters. Robby Ireland won the second heat race from the pole. Walters led all four laps from the outside pole in the trophy dash and the trophy girl threw the dice to determine a six-car invert for the main event. Walters leads the PCFDCS season standings with 826 points with Puncochar in second with 752 followed by Suckow with 720, Lindberg in fourth with 706 and Rodgers in fifth at 654. The series' next race is Aug. 25, the 10th annual 67-lap T&G Thriller back at Banks. That race will pay $3,000 to win and $200 to start the A-Main. The season concludes at Sunset Sept. 1-2. |
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