Defending champ, Mike Doss, showed the way as the Scottfeild Executive Hotels North State Challenge Series visited Ukiah Speedway on Saturday night. Previously winless in 2007, Doss used the upper groove to his advantage and powered his way to the front on the 42nd lap, after starting tenth.
Junior Roddy had another strong run and finished second ahead of point leader Howard Ford. Ford�s win streak ended at three as he suffered his lowest finish of the season. Jim Stillman Jr. ran well all day and scored his best finish of 2007, fourth. Eric Graham made his second start of the year and came home a hard fought fifth.
Doss was the top qualifier (12.624), for the first time this year, but did not help his cause by drawing an inversion of ten in the 15-car field. Jerry Allec Jr. assumed the early lead after starting on the pole. Stillman Jr. made a bid for the lead before spinning on lap 17.
Allec led Ford, Graham, Roddy and Doss on the restart and Ford looked for a way around Allec, to no avail. After Ford and Roddy were able to rebuff Doss� attempts to pass on the inside, Doss moved up the track and got by Graham on lap 31 and stayed up top to pass Ford. Under a yellow flag, Starter Johnny Miskill stopped the field and issued a verbal warning to Allec for �hogging the track� telling him to �pick a lane.� Doss got by the very wide car of Allec on lap 42 and motored off into the distance as Ford, Roddy and Allec waged a fierce battle for the runner-up spot.
On lap 58, the seemingly inevitable happened when Allec spun coming off turn four and collected the fifth, sixth, and seventh place cars of CJ Bawden, Riley Watson and Mic Moulton. A lengthy red flag ensued and all three cars, as well as Allec, were done for the night.
With curfew looming, officials decided that at the next yellow flag, the race would be shortened to 75 laps. Miskill waved the yellow, on lap 68 when Brandon Barnwell spun. Doss cruised, over the final seven laps, in his strongest run of the season.
Next up for the NSCS is the July 28th race at the Douglas County Speedway in Roseburg, Oregon.
| NSCS Results |
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| Results Pos No. Name Total 1 75x Mike Doss 127 2 41 Junior Roddy 110 3 20 Howard Ford 101 4 39 Jim Stillman Jr. 90 5 57 Eric Graham 83 6 44 Allen Gibney 80 7 9 Randy Houston 72 8 11r Riley Watson 68 9 17 CJ Bawden 67 10 56 Brandon Barnwell 65 11 1 Mic Moulton 61 12 50 Jerry Allec 58 13 72 Kyle Pope 55 14 22n Mike Millard 52 15 47 Mike Bourbon 49 Fast Time - Mike Doss 12.624 Dash - Howard Ford, Junior Roddy, Eric Graham, Mike Doss |
