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VRA/BANDIT SPRINT CARS
BAKERSFIELD SPEEDWAY - OILDALE, CA
APRIL 7, 2007
GRAND SLAM ROUND #1

33 CARS

TIME TRIALS:
1. Peter Murphy, 21- 13.787, 2. Davey Pombo, 38- 13.838, 3. Greg Taylor, 7- 13.906, 4. Josh Ford, 73- 14.032, 5. Rick Hendrix, 15- 14.098, 6. Tom Stansberry, 75T- 14. 268, 7. Rusty Carlile, 51- 14.291, 8. Jesse Mack, 71M- 14.291, 9. Johnathon Henry, 17- 14.342, 10. Heidi Tresler, 3- 14.364, 11. John Nock, 83- 14.380, 12. Jayson May, 8M- 14.398, 13. Eric Severson, 36- 14.532, 14. Kevin Kierce, 2C- 14.555, 15. Luis Espinoza, 09- 14.574, 16. Dennis Rodriguez, 45- 14.586, 17. Dwayne Marcum, 91- 14.636, 18. Michael Trimble, 31- 14.657, 19. Brandon Thomson, 19- 14.671, 20. Steven Williams, 93- 14.685, 21. Ron Tjaarda, 0- 14.740, 22. Guy Woodward, 24- 14.845, 23. Bruce Douglass, 13X- 14.926, 24. Charles Turner, 9- 15.071, 25. Nicholas Boxwell, 2B- 15.106, 26. Jim Thomson, 92- 15,158, 27. Hobie Conway, 29- 15.173, 28. Steve DeMott, 35D- 15.341, 29. Joey Layman, 11X- 15.468, 30. Bill Jones, 16J- 15.468, 31. Zak Hawthorne, 1S- 15.507, 32. Ray Knight, 9K- 15.748, 33. Ryan Guy, 21A- 16.151.

HEAT RACE 1: (10 laps)
1. Johnathon Henry, 2. Dwayne Marcum, 3. Eric Severson, 4. Ron Tjaarda, 5. Rick Hendrix, 6. Joey Layman, 7. Nicholas Boxwell, 8. Peter Murphy (DNS), 9. Ryan Guy (DNS).

HEAT RACE 2: (10 laps)
1. Davey Pombo, 2. Kevin Kierce, 3. Michael Trimble, 4. Tom Stansberry, 5. Heidi Tresler, 6. Jim Thomson, 7. Guy Woodward, 8. Bill Jones.

HEAT RACE 3: (10 laps)
1. Greg Taylor, 2. Rusty Carlile, 3. Luis Espinoza, 4. Brandon Thomson, 5. John Nock, 6. Bruce Douglass, 7. Zak Hawthorne, 8. Hobie Conway (DNS).

HEAT RACE 4: (10 laps)
1. Jesse Mack, 2. Jayson May, 3. Steven Williams, 4. Josh Ford, 5. Dennis Rodriguez, 6. Steve DeMott, 7. Charles Turner, 8. Ray Knight.

SEMI-MAIN: (10 laps)
1. Peter Murphy, 2. Rick Hendrix, 3. John Nock, 4. Zak Hawthorne, 5. Heidi Tresler, 6. Steve DeMott, 7. Bruce Douglass, 8. Nicholas Boxwell, 9. Charles Turner, 10. Guy Woodward, 11. Dennis Rodriguez, 12. Jim Thomson, 13. Joey Layman, 14. Bill Jones, 15. Ray Knight, 16. Ryan Guy, 17. Hobie Conway (DNS).

FEATURE: (30 laps - With Starting Positions)
1. Greg Taylor (5th), 2. Jesse Mack (1st), 3. Davey Pombo (6th), 4. Josh Ford (4th), 5. Peter Murphy (7th), 6. Michael Trimble (15th), 7. Brandon Thomson (16th), 8. Kevin Kierce (12th), 9. Johnathon Henry (9th), 10. John Nock (19th), 11. Rick Hendrix (8th), 12. Zak Hawthorne (20th), 13. Steve DeMott (22nd), 14. Heidi Tresler (21st), 15. Tom Stansberry (3rd), 16. Eric Severson (11th), 17. Jayson May (10th), 18. Rusty Carlile (2nd), 19. Ron Tjaarda (18th), 20. Dwayne Marcum (14th), 21. Steven Williams (17th), 22. Luis Espinoza (13th).
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**Bruce Douglass Was Alternate, But Did Not Start Feature.
**Ryan Guy And Charles Turner Flipped In Semi-Main.

FEATURE LAP LEADERS:
Laps 1-26 Mack, Laps 27-30 Taylor

VRA/BANDIT GRAND SLAM POINTS STANDINGS - 4/7
1. Greg Taylor, 7- 120
2. Jesse Mack, 71M- 116
3. Davey Pombo, 38- 112
4. Josh Ford, 73- 104
5. Michael Trimble, 31- 102
6. Kevin Kierce, 2C- 100
7. Johnathon Henry (R), 17- 100
8. Brandon Thomson, 19- 98
9. John Nock, 83- 90
10. Peter Murphy, 21- 88
11. Rick Hendrix, 15- 88
12. Jayson May, 8M- 82
13. Zak Hawthorne, 1S- 82
14. Eric Severson, 36- 82
15. Steve DeMott, 35D- 82
16. Heidi Tresler, 3- 82
17. Tom Stansberry, 75T- 82
18. Rusty Carlile, 51- 80
19. Dwayne Marcum, 91- 76
20. Ron Tjaarda, 0- 74

NEXT VRA/BANDIT GRAND SLAM SPRINT CAR RACE:
July 28 – Santa Maria, CA - Santa Maria Speedway

NEXT VRA SPRINT CAR RACE:
April 14 – Ventura, CA - Ventura Raceway

NEXT BANDIT SPRINT CAR RACE:
April 28 – Santa Maria, CA - Santa Maria Speedway

*Thanks To Bakersfield Speedway & Ventura Racing Association.

What is the updated VRA points?

The UPDATED VRA Sprint Car Points will be released soon. It will take some time to get the correct points standings, given that some of the racers from Bakersfield will not earn VRA points.

The Bandit Sprints have the same problem. The VRA regulars (and others) will NOT earn Bandit Points.

When we get the information, it will be posted.

Was D. Pombo in the #38 Crossno Sprinter?

"Ralphie, Senor, muchas gracias por una mas cerveza"  -
Scott Daloisio @ the PAS

I think Pombo was in his own car.....

Thanks to all the VRA, Bandit and other drivers, crews, fans and Scott Sweitzer and the Bakersfield Speedway crew who helped to make last night's event at Bakersfield Speedway a great opening to the 2007 VRA/Bandit Grand Slam Series. Thanks also to my VRA Tech Director Keith Porter, VRA scoring crew headed by Scott Holder with help by Carmen Sweeney and Cindy Addison and Bandit Director Pete Curto for their help and efforts. The heats were excellent, the Semi Main tough and the feature was a little dusty, but the competition was top notch al night between the 33 competitors and 22 Main Event starters. The finish between Greg Taylor, Jesse Mack, Davey Pombo, Josh Ford and Peter Murphy kept the fans on the edge of their seats. Excellent drives were also made by five up and coming youngsters Michael Trimble who finished 6th, Brandon Thomson who finished 7th, Johnathan Henry who finished 9th, John Nock who finished 10th and Heidi Tressler who finished 14th. We are now looking forward to the next Slam event set for Santa Maria Speedway July 28.

Other upcoming events in the series are October 13 at Santa Maria and the finale at Ventura Raceway on October 27.

Thanks Also to Mike Sweeney for his help and direction of the Junior Dwarf Car event and Dwarf Car event held last night as a part of the Slam Event.

See you at Santa Maria, Cliff Morgan VRA Director of Competition

Anyone have any information on how Charles Turner is doing. It took an awful long time for him to get out of the car. He took a "hard hit"

Anyone with information please respond

Renee

Hi Renee, I'm OK and yes it was very hard hit also my very first flip and my first red since I first started in 2003. I was begaining to wonder when it will happen.(LOL). I had the transfered spot for awhile in the heat race until #35D got into me but we both recoved kept going and so I backed off and played it safe to finish undamage. Now for the semi WOW! Too many restart and confusion going on so I just waited for the right oppertunity to pass 2-3 cars at the same time to get the tranfer spot after turn 4 on the front stretch on the last lap I never let up I was going for the sweep on turn 1 and 2 high side but just before I got the there the right rear got loose went sideways and had no more room(LOL) rr hit wall and I went airborn flipping. WOW! what a ride but it didn't phase me at all just a sprang right hand thats all happen to me. Now my car is in bad shape all the suspension are gone, a broken rear end and wheels, ouch my wallet I'm on a tight budget. I will be back and try get the car done for April 28 to start the SMS Bandit season. Thanks for the people that help me and advised to get me back. Thank You fans and Bakerfield speedway for leting us race there. See you next year!

It was a fun day and I loved it.

Charles

Bandit #9