A dozen Bay Cities Racing Association, (BCRA) Midgets signed in at the fast and entertaining Lakeport Fairgrounds ΒΌ mile Speedway for the final pavement race of the 2010 BCRA season. . Chad Nichols in his orange rocket set fast time with a 11.738 over Nick Foster Jr. and Devin LaHorgue of Redding. LaHorgue won the dash in Rick Faeth's V4 over Foster and Nichols. Darin Snider lead the first 2 laps but made contact with the turn 4 wall and was done for the night. The first heat was won by Britton Bock in his own 67 TCR/Esslinger over 7 time BCRA Champion Floyd Alvis and 3rd was BCRA President Rick Holbrook followed by Shasta Raceway Park CEO Rick Faeth, Mark Merek and Jonathon Foster. Foster and Merek made contact during the heat with Foster out of the race; when the heat race restarted, Merek made contact with the wall in turn 4 and rolled over and was done for the evening. Foster Jr won the second heat over Dillon Silverman in Rick Young's Spike/EcoTec followed by dash winner LaHorgue, and Nichols. Dan Parker in his own immaculate #38 Stewart/Van Dyne was working on his fuel system and failed to take the green.
In the cool of the Lakeport evening, ten Midgets took the green flag with LaHorgue taking the lead over a tightly bunched field. Jonathon Foster took the green, but was experiencing handling problems and immediately drove to the pits. LaHorgue continued to lead the field when teammate Faeth lost a motor on lap 6 with the yellow flag slowing the field. On lap 18, while still leading the pack, LaHorgue's car lost fire and he lost the lead to Nichols who was shadowing LaHorgue every move. LaHorgue was able to refire and return to the race. During these mid laps, there was an exciting and spirited duel between Nick Foster Jr and Dan Parker for 3rd and 4th. At the finish it was Nichols taking the checkered flag first over Parker in his career best 2nd place finish, Foster was 3rd, Silverman 4th followed by LaHorgue in 5th, followed by Alvis, Bock, and Holbrook.
Summary:
Qualifications: 1) Nichols 17N: 11.738, 2) N Foster Jr 1: 11.918, 3) LaHorgue 3X: 12.047,
4) Snider 5: 12.207, 5) Parker 38, 12:332, 6) Silverman 12, 12.417, 7) Merek 2K, 12.474, 8) J Foster 11, 12.728, 9) Alvis 18A, 12:811, 10) Bock 67 12:899, 11) Holbrook 28, 12.907, 12) Faeth 3 13.443.-
Main Event Finish: Nichols, Parker, N Foster Jr, Silverman, LaHorgue, Alvis, Bock, Holbrook, Faeth, J Foster.
Heat 1: Bock, Alvis, Holbrook, Faeth, Merek, J Foster.
Heat 2: N Foster Jr, Silverman, LaHorgue, Nichols, Parker (DNS)
