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Spalding leads wire to wire at Hartford.
School was in session Friday night at the Hartford Speedway Park and Curt Spalding was the teacher. The Hartford native lead from wire to wire in his C.J. Rayburn race car. Spalding won the 20 lap UMP Late Model main event by a full straight away. “My crew has worked very hard on this car in the last few weeks.” commented Spalding, who claimed his first feature win of the year. Spalding’s black #111 is sponsored by Safari Joe’s Water Park, All Star Performance, Lane Automotive, & the Warehouse Hair Saloon. Defending track champion Alan Vochaska claimed the runner up position. Randy Woodling turned in a steady performance to come home third. The top five was rounded out by Ron Miller and Tyler Boggs who made his first visit to the big half mile speedway. Heat races were claimed by Spalding & Zack Hanson.
The defending UMP modified champion Larry Vanderwoude, visited Lane Automotive victory lane for the first time in 2007. VanderWoude made a daring three wide pass on the back stretch on Frank Marshall & a lap car to take over the top spot on lap 9. VanderWoude’s #33 Bob Pierce chassis modified is sponsored by Advance Radiology Service, Dorr Standard, CD’s Engine, & Extreme Graphics. Marshall held of the hard charging Bub Patrick in the final few laps to finish in the runner up position. JR Hotovy came home in the fourth spot. Scott Martin making a rare appearance behind the wheel of a modified finished fifth. Martin’s Late Model should be finished in time for the next event. Jeremy Ferguson crossed the line sixth, but came up light at the scales. Heat races were won by VanderWoude & Martin.
Wayne Clauss remains perfect in 2007 in the Factory Stocks. As he claimed his second 20 lap main event of the season, but it was anything but easy. Clauss held of numerous challenges from Jerry Scott & Phil Ausra. The veteran Scott just nipped Ausra for the second spot at the end of race. Tim Bullis checked in to the fourth spot. Jerry Griffith turned in an outstanding performance for the fifth position. Heats races winners were Clauss, Griffith, & Scott. Eric Knight picked up the B Main as 27 Factory Stocks pulled through the gates Friday night.
On the small track Steve Pena gave himself an early birthday present by winning the mini stock main event, Pena who celebrates his birthday on Sunday, scored the win over defending class champion Garrett Jackson. The heat race was won by Jackson. In mini sprint action Trey Smith claimed the 10 lap main event & heat race sweeping the program. Previous feature winner Greg Fawley finished second.
In quad action the A class winner was Ryan Thornton, in the B class it was David McCaig. The B class heat race went to Bobby McCaig . The A class heat was picked up by Todd Atherton.
Next Friday the fire breathing SOD Sprint Cars make there first appearance of the year at the speedway. Also on the card is the Factory Stocks, Mini Stocks, Mini Sprints & the Quads. Racing starts at 8PM next Friday night. Make sure to visit the tracks website www.HartfordSpeedwayPark.com for the latest information on Michigan’s fastest ½ mile speedway.
May 4th Results
UMP LATE MODELS
1. 111 Curt Spalding (1) Hartford, MI
2. 34 Alan Vochaska (3) South Haven, MI
3. 3 Randy Woodling (5) Warsaw, IN
4. 35 Ron Miller (8) Lambertville, MI
5. 10c Tyler Boggs (2) Warsaw, IN
6. 121 Bret Darling (11) Bangor, MI
7. 23 Ryan Gorey (10) Delta, OH
8. 86 Jim Abbott (9) Bangor, MI
9. 78 Mark Wagner (16) St. Joseph, MI
10. 4u Pat Sydlik (14) Hartford, MI
11. 77 Ron Wagner (17) St. Joseph, MI
12. 15 Phil Ausra (13) Dowagiac, MI
13. 75 Dusty Moore (6) Swanton, OH
14. 13 JR Hotovy (4) Covert, MI
15. 17 Don Mihelich (12) Paw Paw, MI
16. 98 Shane Tenace (15) Buchanan, MI
17. 64 Zac Hanson (7) Paw Paw, MI
UMP Modifieds
1. 33 Larry VanderWoude (2) Dorr, MI
2. 28m Frank Marshall (1) Valparaiso, IN
3. 25 Bub Patrick (7) San Pierre, IN
4. 13 JR Hotovy (8) Covert, MI
5. 97 Scott Martin (6) Valparaiso, IN
6. 31 Mark Lambrecht (5) Watervliet, MI
7. 44 Chris Collier (4) Paw Paw, MI
8. 77 Darrell Lowe (14) Lake Station, IN
9. h20 Mark Hotovy (12) Kalamazoo, MI
10. 7 Matt Schick (15) Marcellus, MI
11. 88 Denny Holt (13) Bangor, MI
12. 89 Chris Livingston (10) Mattawan, MI
13. 7 Chris Partin (9) Black Oak, IN
14. 33 Jason Ferguson (11) Hartford, MI
15. 4u Jeremy Ferguson (3) DQ Hartford, MI
DNS 59 Greg Socha Richland, MI
Factory Stocks
1. 30 Wayne Clauss (2)
2. 99 Jerry Scott (14)
3 .15 Phil Ausra (9)
4. 89 Tim Bullis (4)
5. 51 Jerry Griffith (3)
6. 18h Bobby Hinkle (11)
7. 88 Hugo Lindner (6)
8. 40 Anna Gunnett (18)
9. 41 Jim Kollath (15)
10. 3 Steve Ausra (20)
11. 20m Gary Meagher (17)
12. 25 George Zelmer (1)
13. C21j Bob McLean (8)
14. 911 Randy Frank (12)
15. 23 Lee Price (7)
16. 20w Chad White (5)
17. 04 Eric Knight (16)
18. 9 Dave Strunk (13)
19. 11 Matt DeRosia (10)
20. 27 Dave Brown (20)
DNQ 57 Dennis Brower
DNQ 4u2 Brent Sydlik
DNQ 27 Andy Bisbee
DNQ 56 Jim Drane
DNQ 23 Donald Shriver
DNQ 14 Allison Tober
DNQ 70 Brandon Mann
Mini Stock
1. 6 Steve Pena
2. 55 Garrett Jackson
3. 8 Kielean Atherton
4. 23 Sarah Porter
5. 11 Curtis Frank
Mini Sprints
1. 11 Trey Smith
2. 2g Greg Fawley
DNS 5 Tom Lovett
Quads A Class
1. 7 Ryan Thornton
2. 24 Jason Bentzer
3. 5 Brannon Thornton
4. 75 Todd Atherton
Quads B Class
1. 20 David McCaig
2. 12 Bobby McCaig
3. 30p Matt Pranger
4. 129 C. Moore
5. 17 Josh Sheeley
6. 14 M. Barchett
7. 19 Phillip Quinn
8. 7 A. Caldwell
9. 27 Kevin Mead
10. 4 R. Castnoun
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