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Jonathan Allard leads all 25 laps for Chico win
By Gary Thomas
Chico, CA - April 18, 2008…So far this season few have been more consistent in Northern California than Chico’s Jonathan Allard, but despite that fact he had not been able to crack victory lane thus far in ’08. That all changed last night at Silver Dollar Speedway however, with Allard dominating the main event en route to leading every lap for his first win of the season.
“It feels good to come out here and get a win and I have to thank K & N Filters, Red Line Oil and all of our sponsors as well as NMI Industrial for sponsoring tonight’s races,” Allard said. “This car was great tonight and I want to give a big thanks to my crew chief Ashley Smith and the rest of our team who make this thing so much fun to drive.”
Allard started from the pole in the night’s 25 lap feature and blasted into the lead at the waving of the green flag. The Williams Motorsports No. 0 was blazing fast right from the get go and the 31 year-old driver easily pulled away from the field on every restart. A number of cautions and a few reds slowed the pace of the main event, but it didn’t slow down Allard as he continued to be in another zip code as the race neared the end.
With just a couple laps left Allard had to deal with a slower car and it allowed Tyler Walker to close in, but the former King of California remained calm and powered off turn four to pick up a convincing win. The strong effort marked Allard’s 32nd career victory at his home track and was possibly the team’s strongest performance of the season, which comes at a great time as the year begins to heat up over the next month.
Tonight Allard and Williams Motorsports will head for the Petaluma Speedway to do battle with the Golden State Challenge King of California Series. Allard goes into the night with a 50 point lead in the standings over Mike Henry and Tyler Walker and will look to increase that margin this evening.
For more news and info on Chico’s Jonathan Allard log onto http://www.allardmotorsports.com
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