HARGRAVES FINISHES THE REGULAR SEASON WITH ANOTHER WIN

Source: G. Wachtel
Date: 08/20/2006

It was fan appreciation night at Yakima Speedway and the crowd was in full force to see some incredible racing. In the late model division it looked like Erick Hargraves was going to have some tough competition as Christopher Kalsch set fast time for the evening with Jack Mondor III winning the A-Dash and Owen Riddle taking the B-Dash. As the 15 car field took the green of the main event Ed Thompson of Pasco spun in turn two as he tried the outside groove of the track. After a complete restart the late models looked like they were ready to race when Aaron Newport, returning from a five year absence, touched Chance Overholt in turn three to send him spinning into the infield. On lap 14 Newport dropped oil all the way around the track and caused a red flag situation. When the race resumed Ashley Beaman got into Kalsch in turns one and two only to be sent to the back of the pack. While all of this action was happening, Greg Walden of Kennewick and Hargraves worked their way up to the front. When the checkers flew Hargraves took home the trophy with Walden second and Ron Bemis in third. In the street stock class Rick Christopherson set fast time and won the fast trophy dash along with the main event. An action packed main had Clayton Beaman getting into Buck Noel Jr. in turns one and two on lap two. On lap eight Chet Beaman Jr. and Andy Beaman made contact in turn two sending Chet off the track. On lap 21 Christopherson finally caught leader Casey Merrill and tried to pass him on the high and low side of the track until lap 27 when Christopherson passed Merrill on the outside on the backstretch. Merrill tried his best to stay with Christopherson only to spin coming out of turn four. At the checkers were Christopherson, Andy Beaman, and Tony Huffines. The H and H Furniture Hobby stocks saw some very close racing as Brian Pepper set fast time and Ben St. Mary winning the A-Dash and Marcus Maggard taking the B-Dash. Then it was Jerry Walker winning the first heat race and Jeff Stinson taking the second heat race. During the main event on lap 10 Eric Aruand spun in front of the leaders in turn two, as they were about to lap him. Showing excellent driving skills everyone missed Aruand. For several laps Darrell Wynn worked his way on the outside trying to take the lead when on lap 14 on turn two Wynn ended up spinning out into the dirt. On lap 27 Brandon Hailey tangled with Ben St. Mary to set up a green white checker situation. When the checkers flew it was Rich Peters taking home the trophy and Dusty John in second and Chris Van Amberg in third. The crowd pleasing Hornets and Bump to Pass cars rounded out the evening racing with Reese Kastl taking his first Hornet main event win and Scott Belcher taking home the honors in the Bump to Pass class on the little 1/5th mile track The next race will be September 2nd and 3rd for the last race of the NASCAR Northwest Tour Series at Yakima Speedway. On this two day event will be the Northwest Late Model Challenge Series on Saturday with Tour qualifications and Street Stock Action. On Sunday will be the Northwest Tour 200 lap race with the H and H Furniture Hobby Stocks running a full show. The next race for the Yakima Late Models will be the season championship on September 9th. Even though Yakima Speedway has a tire rule, all competitors will be able to purchase all four tires for this event.

Late Models Fast Time: Christopher Kalsch 19.061 A Dash: 1) Jack Mondor III 2) Erick Hargraves 3) Christopher Kalsch 4) Ron Bemis B Dash: 1) Owen Riddle 2) Greg Walden 3) Ed Thompson 4) Kriss Clark Main Event: 1) Erick Hargraves 2) Greg Walden 3) Ron Bemis 4) Christopher Kalsch 5) Mark Sundberg 6) Kriss Clark 7) Jack Mondor III 8) Owen Riddle 9) Chance Overholt 10) Ashley Beaman 11) Aaron Newport 12) Tom Pollock 13) Jim Zorrozua 14) Ed Thompson 15) Brian Kirk Street Stock ¡V Fast Time: Rick Christopherson 21.976 A Dash: 1) Rick Christopherson 2) Chet Beaman Jr.3) Tony Huffines 4) Andy Beaman B Dash: 1) Brian ¡§Montana¡¨ Tischler 2) Clayton Beaman 3) Casey Merrill 4) Buck Noel Jr. Heat: 1) Casey Merrill 2) Andy Beaman 3) Rick Christopherson 4) Buck Noel Jr. 5) Brian ¡§Montana¡¨ Tischler 6) Chet Beaman Jr.7) Clayton Beaman 8) Tony Huffines 9) Steve Mills Main Event: 1) Rick Christopherson 2) Andy Beaman 3) Tony Huffines 4) Casey Merrill 5) Brian ¡§Montana¡¨ Tischler 6) Steve Mills 7) Chet Beaman Jr. 8) Clayton Beaman 9) Buck Noel Jr. Hobby Stock ¡V Fast Time: Brian Pepper 24.610 A Dash: 1) Ben St. Mary 2) Todd Connell 3) Ken Mullins 4) Brian Pepper B Dash: 1) Marcus Maggard 2) Chris Van Amberg 3) Billy Benge 4) Jerry Walker Heat 1: 1) Jerry Walker 2) Don Sowder 3) Dusty John 4) Chris Van Amberg 5) Marcus Maggard 6) Billy Benge 7) Randy Marshall Jr. 8) Neil Smith 9) Brandon Hailey 10) Eric Aruand 11) Jason Huffines Heat 2: 1) Jeff Stinson 2) Mel Patnode 3) Brian Pepper 4) Coy Rogers 5) Rich Peters 6) Don Klang 7) Ken Mullins 8) Darrell Wynn 9) Ben St. Mary 10) Todd Connell Main Event: 1) Rich Peters, 2) Dusty John 3) Chris Van Amberg 4) Don Klang 5) Jeff Stinson 6) Marcus Maggard 7) Ken Mullins 8) Brian Pepper 9) Billy Benge 10) Todd Connell 11) Jerry Walker 12) Coy Rogers 13) Randy Marshall Jr.14) Mel Patnode 15) Don Sowder 16) Eric Aruand 17) Brandon Hailey 18) Ben St. Mary 19) Neil Smith 20) Darrell Wynn 21) Jason Huffines Hornets ¡V Fast Time: Kyle Wade 15.211 A Dash: 1) Jesse Eaton 2) Kyle Wade 3) Joshua Henne 4) Jeff Mullins B Dash: 1) Derrick Raptcheff 2) Richard Hollingsworth 3) Ray Bolster 4) George Janowitch Heat: 1) Reese Kastl 2) Kyle Wade 3) Jesse Eaton 4) George Janowitch 5) Eric Pedro 6) Ray Bolster 7) Jeff Mullins 8) Joshua Henne 9) Derrick Raptcheff 10) Michael Beck 11) Owen Berglund 12) Richard Hollingsworth Main Event: 1) Reese Kastl 2) Kyle Wade 3) Derrick Raptcheff 4) Owen Berglund 5) George Janowitch 6) Eric Pedo 7) Michael Beck 8) Jesse Eaton 9) Richard Hollingsworth 10) Jeff Mullins 11) Joshua Henne 12) Ray Bolster Bump to Pass ¡V Fast Time: Tyson Richter 16.740 A Dash: 1) Mark Belair Jr.2) Tyson Richter 3) Jeff Burns 4) Chuck Strmiska B Dash: 1) Scott Belcher 2) Merle Stiltner 3) Mark DeRosier 4) 07 Robert Tamez Jr. Heat: 1) Scott Belcher 2) Robert Tamez Jr. 3) Robert Albert 4) Tyson Richter 5) Chuck Strmiska 6) Jeff Burns 7) Nathan Voyles 8) Mark Belair Jr.9) Merle Stiltner 10) Richard Strmiska 11) Mark DeRosier Main Event: 1) Scott Belcher 2) Jeff Burns 3) Robert Tamez Jr.4) Tyson Richter 5) Mark Belair Jr. 6) Nathan Voyles 7) Robert Albert 8) Merle Stiltner 9) Richard Strmiska 10) Chuck Strmiska

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