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Peter W. Moss/NSCS Media 7/28/07 The North State Challenge Series presented by Scottfeild Executive Hotels visited the beautiful Douglas County Speedway, on Saturday night, to contest the Windmill Inns 250. Local racer, Riley Watson was first to the checkers in a wild finish that featured four late restarts. Watson, a former DCS regular, stepped up to the NSCS in 2007 and scored the big win in just his fifth series start. Defending champ Mike Doss finished second after making several serious bids for the lead over the final few laps. Another local, Winchester's Kyle Pope, finished third, his best result of the season. Junior Roddy's string of strong runs continued with his fourth place finish, as he moved into second in the point standings. Local veteran Mike Sackett rounded out the top five in his first NSCS appearance of 2007. Local veteran Dale Roth set fast time with a fine 15.294 besting Carson City's C.J. Bawden's 15.303 and went on to win the trophy dash. He drew an inversion of 10 putting Dundee, Oregon's Willie Thom on the pole next to Mike Sackett. Sackett jumped to the early lead until Thom claimed the point on the 29th circuit. Roth retired on the next lap. Over the middle portion of the race, Thom put a big distance between himself and the trio of Watson, Doss, and Howard Ford, with Sackett a bit farther back. Doss got by Watson on lap 88, in the 100-lapper and set his sights on Thom. Thom's huge lead evaporated when Dave Miller spun and brought out a yellow on lap 94. As the NSCS doesn't race back to the yellow flag, but reverts to the previous lap, lap 94 was run three times after quick cautions for incidents back in the pack. Thom held the lead on the ensuing restarts until Doss got to his outside and the race was on! Doss nosed ahead but couldn't quite clear Thom. On lap 96, Doss got loose in the marbles, and made a great save, but fell back to fourth. Ford saw an opening and shot to the inside of Thom for the lead. As Thom came down, he and Ford contacted and Thom spun, bringing out the final yellow flag. By NSCS rules, both cars went to the tail end of the lead lap. Watson held the point on the final restart and managed to hold off Doss' hard charge, on the outside, over the final four laps. Again, Doss could get beside Watson, and even nose ahead, but he couldn't clear him. "We were racing hard," Doss said, "and nobody was giving anything. It was fun! That was a good show. If you didn't like that, you don't like racing!" "I didn't even know if we were going to make the race," said the happy winner. "We were up all night trying to get the car fixed. We didn't have the best car tonight. I had nothing for those guys. They gave me the win, but I've been on the other end of these deals plenty of times. It's about time we had some good racing luck!" "Those yellows at the end killed me," said a disappointed Thom. "It was good hard racing and it was fun. These things happen." Fast Time: Dale Roth 15.294 Trophy Dash: Dale Roth, Mike Obrist, C.J. Bawden. Adam Whitlock B Main: Alan Cress, Larry Bayless, Joe McDonald, Wade Koens, Randy Hvall, Brad Wasmund, Hank Hilton, Jay Sauls A Main: Riley Watson, Mike Doss, Kyle Pope, Junior Roddy, Mike Sackett, Willy Thom, Dave Miller, Howard Ford, Mark Pothoff, Rod McCombs, Rod Scevers, Allen Gibney Jr, CJ Bawden, Alan Cress, Adam Whitlock, Mike Obrist, Greg Baumgartner, Randy Houston, Dale Roth, Larry Bayless Random Notes It was great to be back at DCS! A big "thank you" to new promoter Adam Nelson and his gracious staff! We had a great time and we hope to see you again next year. Thanks to all the DCS regulars who entered our race giving us a 26-car field and necessitating a 25-lap B main. The Windmill Inns 250 was a tandem event with the ASA Northwest Tour. They invited the cars who didn't qualify for our A main to tag the back of their 100 lap race and our guys took them up on it. The ASA NWT is a class act. Travis Bennett won their race. Mike Sackett, Portland's Mike Obrist, Willy Thom and Puyallup WA driver Jay Sauls ran in both series. A big "thank you" to a big supporter of ours, Bruce Latta, as well as the Harvey family, for hosting the big pizza and beer party the night before the race. The pizza was great and we appreciated it very much! It was great to see the "ageless" Hank Hilton, former champ Randy Hvall, and Joe McDonald entered in the race. McDonald just missed making the A main. Second in points, Mic Moulton, didn't make the tow to Roseburg. We missed you, Mic, and hope to see you in Lakeport! Local racer Adam Whitlock qualified Third but suffered transmission woes that took him out of contention. Thanks to Tom Elam for putting together the event at the Medford Slick Track the day after the race. That was great fun! It was hard not to have a silly grin on your face while wheeling one of those outlaw karts sideways through the corners. Let's do that again! It was good to see Alan Cress back in action at his home track. His return will be short-lived though. On August 18th he'll be at the altar, tying the knot with Patty Sarkowski. Congratulations to Alan and Patty! Alan may enter the 9/28 event at RAR. The 9/2 race, at Ukiah Speedway, has been cancelled. The fastest race lap was Willy Thom's 15.447 on lap nine. I'll see you at the races! Contingency Award Winners Competition Carburetion -$75.00 cash Fast time: Dale Roth Eibach Spring-One free spring per event 1st Place: Riley Watson 15th Place: Winner not eligible for award Finishline Racing Equipment -$50.00 Gift Certificate 5th Place: Winner not eligible for award 10th Place: Winner not eligible for award Frank's Radio Service -$50.00 Gift Certificate 7th Place: David Miller 8th Place: Howard Ford Joe Gibbs Driven Racing Oil-One free case of oil 9th Place: Winner not eligible for award Joe's Racing Products -$35.00 Gift Certificate 2nd Place: Mike Doss 6th Place: Winner not eligible for award Joiner Motorsports - Free re-valve for four shocks Hard Charger: Junior Roddy Larsen Racing Products -$50.00 Gift Certificate 3rd Place: Kyle Pope Mud-Racing.net -$100.00 off any web design or advertising 12th Place: Allen Gibney Qualifying / The inversion was 10 Dale Roth 15.294 CJ Bawden 15.303 Adam Whitlock 15.375 Mike Obrist 15.460 Howard Ford 15.472 Mike Doss 15.502 Riley Watson 15.503 Kyle Pope 15.561 Mike Sackett 15.589 Willy Thom 15.621 Dave Miller 15.649 Junior Roddy 15.693 Mark Pothoff 15.757 Rod Scevers 15.819 Greg Baumgartner 15.823 Rod McCombs 15.837 Randy Houston 15.847 Alan Cress 15.876 Jay Sauls 15.989 Larry Bayless 15.992 Allen Gibney Jr. 16.003 Wade Koens 16.015 Joe McDonald 16.036 Brad Wasmund 16.042 Randy Hvall 16.120 Hank Hilton 16.363 |
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