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| Terry Ferrando #12 races with Jerry Schram #16 for the 2nd spot in Saturday nights Pacific Coast Fastrack DirtCar Series main event at Sunset Speedway Park. | ||||||||||||||||
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Coast Fastrak DirtCar Series by Bill Poehler/ Saturday September 1,
2007 at Sunset Speedway- Banks, Oregon - Terry Ferrando has mastered
Sunset Speedway Park. -
The late model driver out of Salem, Oregon swept the night with setting
fast time, winning his heat race, the trophy dash and the main event
at Sunset Saturday in the Pacific Coast Fastrak DirtCar Series race,
his third win at the track of the season and fifth top three finish
in five races at the track. Jerry Schram of Vancouver, Wash., placed a career-best second with Scott Puncochar of Hillsboro in third and winning the Hard Charger Award, substitute driver Mike Graham in fourth and hired gun Jeff Brookshire rounding out the top five. The first driver out to qualify Saturday was Jason Johnson of Gresham, but he broke an oil filter and laid down oil over the track so heavily that Steve Suckow had to grade the track, which held up qualifying for an hour. When the late models returned to the track to pack it again, Puncochar hit the wall in turn 1 hard and did not return to qualify. He tried to fix his car in time for a heat race, but his steering system locked up and would have to start scratch on the main event. Ferrando was the last car out in qualifying and set fast time at 14.102 seconds around the ¼-mile clay oval. Graham, filling in for Suckow who was suspended for the race for an altercation with Branden Lindberg after the T&G Thriller at Banks a week before, was second fast with a time of 14.733. Willie Sutton, filling in and earning points for series points leader Greg Walters of Banks who was in Ohio racing in preparation for next week's World 100, was third fast at 14.634 and Schram was fourth at 14.662. In the first heat race, Ferrando led all 10 laps from the pole position with Sutton finishing second from the outside pole, Bob Trout in third and Johnson returning to place fourth. Graham led all 10 laps of the second heat race from the pole with Schram in second, Billy Workman Jr., of Canby, who was substituting for Lindberg, running third after starting fourth, and Jesse Freeman in fourth. In the trophy dash, Sutton led the first two laps before bobbling in turn four and Ferrando went by for the win. Ferrando rolled the dice to determine an eight-car invert for the main event. The main event, which took almost an hour to finish 50 laps, saw Freeman on pole position with Jim Clair in second, but Clair backed his car into the outside wall in turn one on the first lap and was finished. Sutton shut his car down on the backstretch with engine problems and returned in time to start the race. Johnson took the lead from the outside pole, but on the third lap, Freeman got inside of Workman for third, but caught a rut and put Workman's car in the turn 4 wall head on. One lap later, Malcolm Lindberg spun in turn two, negating Schram's pass of Johnson for the lead. Three laps later, Freeman spun in turn two, collecting Sutton and Trout, though both eventually continued. By the lap 7 caution Ferrando had advanced from eighth to third. On the 11th lap, Trout hit the frontstretch wall and went to the pits to make repairs, but was able to return. Sutton was sent to the back of the pack. Shortly after the restart, Ferrando made his way by Schram for second and quickly was by Johnson to take the lead for good before a lap 15 caution. The race ended being one of attrition as there were eight cars running at the finish. Johnson retired with six laps to go, but finished sixth. Trout was seventh, Freeman was eighth and Brett McHutchinson finished ninth, the last car running. Malcolm Lindberg was credited with 10th with Mark Thompson in 11th, Kevin "Pork Chop" Rogers in 12th, Sutotn in 13th, Workman Jr in 14th and Clair finishing 15th. The series' final race of the 2007 season was to be run Sunday. RACE SUMMARY: |
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Terry
Ferrando #12 celebrates his 2ndPacific Coast Fastrack DirtCar Series
win in a row at Sunset Speedway Park.
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