By Ken Keating
Western Speedway
was the host for the Demo Cars, Demo Trucks, Figure 8s, and the Bomber Series
on Saturday June 2nd. presented by Islandcarbuyer.com and the Goldstream
Gazette. Trophy Dash wins went to Dennis Stewart in the Bomber Series, George
Haywood in the Demo Trucks, Greg Sagmoen in the Demo Cars, and Kail Beck in the
Figure 8 Series. Cody Young grabbed the Heat race for the Figure 8s, Kirk
Peacey won the Demo Car Heat, George Haywood was the winner in the Truck
Series, while Sean Staniforth and Chris Broughton won their respective Bomber
Heats. The Capital City Drift put on another display of drifting however for
one driver, it wasn't as planned as he drifted into the front stretch wall
doing some damage to the front end of his car plus leaving a few parts on the
Speedway. They display phenomenal control although they do appear to be out of
control most of the time as they slide through corners and up close to the wall
as they go around the Langford oval at a high rate of speed. They are a treat
to watch for sure.
The tough Figure 8 Feature was just that as
the early going saw Sean Young lead for several laps in a forty lap Feature event.
As he went to take out another competitor, their cars got locked together and
this allowed Brandon Young to go by for the lead on lap 27. The battle for the
next positions include Kail Beck, Cody Young, and James Young as they tried to
run down the leaders. This race featured many hard hits but when the chequered
flag dropped Brandon held on for the win with Beck, Cody, and James Young
rounding out the top four positions.
The Demo Truck Feature saw the
yellow on the first lap as Cam Wilkinson got taken out and slammed into the
turn three wall ending his night with lots of damage to the front of his Truck.
Brandon Young also entered his first Demo Truck race driving the #3 truck.
George Haywood grabbed the lead early and held off any attempt to catch him and
walked away with a clean sweep for the night including the fast time for the
event. Cody Sadler and Kenny Baker rounded out the top three positions.
The Demo Car Series saw a couple
hard hits as Cody Young got a tag from Greg Sagmoen and suffered a broken rear
axle on his #24 car sending him to the pits early. On the restart, Robin
Trotter got the lead while Sagmoen, Smokin Joe Liberatore, and Kirk Peacey
tried to reel him in. Sagmoen got into Peacey a little too hard spinning the
veteran driver around and getting a black flag in the process. When the dust
settle, Trotter claimed the win followed by Joe Liberatore and Peacey rounding
out the top three drivers.
The Bombers would have to survive fifty laps
of racing in order to claim the victory and again stay over the twenty second
lap time speed. As usual some drivers didn't make that as they suffered a stop
and go penalty before the night was finished. Daniel David had the pole
position as he brought a rather large field of cars to the green flag and he
got the early advantage. There was a lot of bumping in the early going as the
faster cars were trying to make their way forward and feature a couple of spin
outs. By lap thirteen, Morgan Giles had found his way to the front and in a
tight battle with Dennis Stewart running side by side for several laps. Behind
them Brendan Moore and Aaron Campbell were driving hard to overtake the
leaders. After a yellow flag, Giles again went into the lead as Stewart resumed
his challenge on the outside door handle to door handle. Tyler Woods found his
way to the front row for yet another double file restart after a caution flag
and he began several laps of side by side racing with Giles. Sean Staniforth
made his presence felt as he moved in to run side by side with Woods battling
for the third spot along with Chris Broughton who moved up to challenge the
front runners in his first race of 2012. The last thing Giles needed was a
yellow flag as he seemed to have things under control and forcing other drivers
to run under twenty seconds in order to catch him. On lap thirty-five the
yellow came out as Staniforth required a push into the pits as his car quit. On
the restart, Giles again had Woods on the outside but jumped back into the lead
and held off all comers for his first ever Feature win at Western Speedway.
Woods hung on for the second spot with Aaron Campbell, Mark Lockhart, and Chris
Broughton rounding out the top five positions in a very tight and exciting
Bomber event. Rockell and Winter presented the winners with their trophies at
Victory Square.
Kenny Baker volunteered to drive
the van with four vehicles set to try and roll the van over in the popular van
chase. Just when a pursuit vehicle tried to move in for the hit, Kenny braked
or swerved to through the chaser off his tail. He did get hit a couple of times
but eluded the villains and won the van chase event. The van suffered very
little damage and will probably find its way back and into another such chase
before the season ends.
The next event, at Western
Speedway, will see two nights of great racing as the WilRoc non winged Sprints
Cars, OTRA, and the debut of the SDL Bins I.M.S. 4 Mini Stocks compete on
Friday June 8th and those Series will be joined by the Island Stock Car Series
for the Saturday night event June 9th as the Sprints will be out to capture the
Strawberry Cup.