Las Vegas Motor Speedway’s new 3/8-mile paved oval opened Saturday night with a capacity crowd and more than 150 race cars.
The NASCAR Late Models competed in two 20-lap main events as a part of Speedway Café & Casino Night. Scott Gafforini drove his Fletcher Jones-sponsored machine to victory lane in the first main event. Ray Hopper Jr. took the win in the second main event after the leaders crashed with less than two laps to go.
Steve Anderson attempted to steal the lead from Chuck Trickle with two laps remaining. They made contact and collected Gafforini and Joe Kirsch. Trickle and Kirsch were out of the race, but Anderson and Gafforini were able to continue. Gafforini, the new leader, and Anderson were black flagged for making contact during the caution. With the top four cars out of contention, Hooper was in the lead. He took the green, white and checkered to claim the victory.
Wayne Morris Jr. went three wide at the checkered flag to take the win in the Grand American Modifieds feature. Jerry Walton and Fabian Bray followed.
Gary Warren won the Hitchin’ Post/Exiss Trailers Legends Car feature while Gary Fuller took the Charger victory. Mark Schottmuller was the winner in the Mini Stock division, and Justin Johnson won the Bandolero main event.
NASCAR Late Models
Main Event #1: 1. Scott Gafforini, 2. Joe Kirsch, 3. Steve Anderson, 4. Chris Lowden, 5. Chuck Trickle, 6. Jeff Perkins, 7. Gerald Lean, 8. Steve Reznowicky, 9. Ray Hooper Jr., 10. David Quartaro, 11. Rick Cobb, 12. Lance Magin, 13. Jerry Spilsbury, 14. Ken Holt, 15. Rich Attisani, 16. Richard Bridges, 17. Brendan Gaughan, 18. Eddie Hedrick, 19. Stanley Call, 20. Mark Ayers, 21. Jeff Coleman, 22. Bobby Ruppert, 23. Wayne Jacks, 24. Dick Cobb, 25. Tony Clark, 26. Doug Elliott
Main Event #2: 1. Ray Hooper Jr., 2. Jeff Perkins, 3. Jerry Spilsbury, 4. Steve Reznowicky, 5. Dick Cobb, 6. Wayne Jacks, 7. Richard Bridges, 8. Lance Magin, 9. Eddy Hendrick, 10. Bobby Ruppert, 11. Steve Anderson, 12. Chuck Trickle, 13. Scott Gafforini, 14. Joe Kirsch, 15. Chris Lowden, 16. Mark Ayers, 17. Gerald Lean, 18. David Quartaro, 19. Rick Cobb, 20. Ken Holt, 21. Rich Attisani, 22. Stanley Call, 23. Tony Clark, 24. Jeff Coleman, 25. Brendan Gaughan, 26. Jr. Jackson.
Modifieds
Main Event: 1. Wayne Morris Jr., 2. Jerry Walton, 3. Fabian Bray, 4. Larry Gerchman, 5. 6. Greg Haase, 7. Jim Petrie, 8. Greg Albright, 9. Randy Swalwell, 10. Kai Liedtke, 11. Wayne Jacks, 12. Doug Hamm, 13. C.J. Sherkenbach, 14. Rick Lamb, 15. Kurt Miller.
Chargers
Main Event: 1. Gary Fuller, 2. Red Turner, 3. Keith Dancer, 4. Rob Rittgers, 5. Len Dejoria, 6. Rob Rudd, 7. Don Schools, 8. Ron Baker, 9. Tom Youmans, 10. Reyes Valenzuela, 11. Paul Flores, 12. 13. Al Dejoria
Hitchin’ Post/Exiss Trailer Legends
Main Event: 1. Gary Warren, 2. John Barritt, 3. Jason Allen, 4. Kyle Busch, 5. John Clute, 6. Bob Ruppert, 7. Morris Sealy, 8. Michael Gallegos, 9. Chris Clyne, 10. Greg Albright, 11. Day Gang, 12. Steve Legg, 13. Tyree Brown, 14. Richard Rogas, 14. Greg Haase, 15. Don Kelly, 16. Cameron St. Amaud, 17. Kurt Minnick, 18. Ken Kulkowski, 19. Spencer Clark, 20. Chris Sutton, 21. Bob Woodsford, 22. Loyd Klestad, 23. Jim Galza, 24. Cyndi Gaskins, 25. Dan Williams
Mini Stocks
Main Event: 1. Mark Schotmuller, 2. Casey Kingsland, 3. Tom, 4. Jason Patterson.
Bandoleros
Main Event: 1. Justin Johnson
Mechanix Wear Speed Trucks
Main Event: 1. Troy Decuir
