Saturday night at Yakima Speedway Brandon Riehl of Boring, OR won the Late Model Challenge Series Sea Galley ‘Crab Legs 100’. Taking the lead early in the 100-lap main Riehl was not headed until 10-laps to go when his car started to mishandle. Second place finisher Troy Conrad (Tacoma, WA) put a lot of pressure on Riehl in the waning laps to no avail.
In victory circle Riehl stated “I did not have much car at the end. I knew I would have trouble at the end because the car was so good at the beginning.” Conversely Conrad said “If I had a few more laps I could have passed. I hate to say this but I points raced which is not my style.”
The series moves on to Evergreen Speedway’s 5/8-mile on Saturday September 16. Second in the points chase Shelby Thompson (Spokane, WA) slid backwards in the chase falling to 14 back of Conrad. Starting only 5-points in arrears Thompson was penalized for an on track infraction and was sent to the back of the 26-car field. Thompson recovered to finish fifth.
Fast qualifier Eric Hargraves (Yakima, WA) was involved in a first lap incident that ended his race early. Wes Rhodes (Yelm, WA) finished third while Mike Zamora came back from an on spin to finish fourth.
With an extremely tight point’s race for the LMCS 2006 championship the final race at Evergreen is going be exciting. The Evergreen local NASCAR Super Stock Division will also be on the big track to decide their season championship with just 6-points separating the top two.
Late Model Challenge Series Final Results September 2:
Sea Galley ‘Crab Legs 100’ Yakima Speedway .5-mile oval:
Last Chance Transfer 25-lap Main: 1-Gaylon Stewart (Everett, WA); 2-Darryl Vickery (Seattle, WA); 3-Rob Angus (Surrey, BC); 4-Joe McNeil (Sumner, WA); 5-Todd Walters (E. Wenatchee, WA); 6-Wade Bland (Victoria, B.C.); 7-Bryon Harvey (Sutherlin, OR);
8-Loran Payne (Gig Harbor, WA); 9-Chuck Pickens (Arlington, WA); 10-Marty Wason (Chelan, WA); 11-Robert Sprague (North Bend, OR)
100-Lap Main: 1-Brandon Riehl (Boring, OR); 2-Troy Conrad (Tacoma, WA); 3-Wes Rhodes (Yelm, WA); 4-Mike Zamora (Kennewick, WA); 5-Shelby Thompson
(Spokane, WA); 6-Billy Coates (Bothell, WA); 7-Ron Bemis (Yakima, WA);
8-Christian Roeder (Ephrata, WA); 9-Gaylon Stewart (Everett, WA); 10-Joe McNeil
(Sumner, WA); 11-Troy Eaton (Tacoma, WA); 12-Josh Roberts (Ephrata, WA);
13-Jim Johnson (Orting, WA); 14-Mike Kenyon (North Bend, WA); 15-Rob Angus (Surrey, BC); 16-Darryl Vickery (Seattle, WA); 17-Jason Hedrick (Graham, WA);
18-Jason Fraser (Snohomish, WA); 19-Willy Thom (Dundee, OR); 20-Mark Sundberg
(Seattle, WA); 21-Lon Werremeyer (Yakima, WA); 22-Owen Riddle (Naches, WA);
23-Jeff Bailey (Pasco, WA); 24-Scott Davis (Kennewick, WA); 25-Erick Hargraves
(Yakima, WA) 26-Jack Mondor (Wapato, WA)
