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(Savannah, GA) The weather
woes that have dampened the spirits of race fans and racers
competing at Savannah’s historic half mile speedway,
Oglethorpe Speedway Park, have once again been dealt the
losing hand. The rain storms that moved through the
Savannah area on Saturday afternoon washed away any chance
of the track finishing up the weekend Summer Sizzler
festivities. All the races planned for Saturday night have
been postponed until Saturday, July 23rd which is
the first date that works for the series and the track.
“This is a
trend like I have never experienced in my sixteen year
career,” said track general manager Ted Austad. “We just
cannot catch a break this year. The racing on Friday night
looked to be leading into a great night tonight. It’s
disappointing.”
DeWayne
Johnson was the fast timer on Friday night. But, lost the
pole position during heat race qualifiers when Chesley Dixon
shot past on the high side. Dixon will lead the field to
green next month when the Cindy McCurry Memorial 100 takes
place. All twenty-nine drivers that entered the weekend’s
National Late Model Series event will be eligible for the
race on July 23rd.
The Summer
Sizzler feature events for the Love’s Seafood Street Stocks,
Southern Racing Supplies Pure Stocks and Four Star Security
440s have also been postponed to Saturday, July 23rd.
All the positions that the drivers qualified for through
time trials and heat races will be kept intact with only the
features being run on the make-up date.
Donald Norby
flexed his muscle in the Love’s Seafood Street Stocks
capturing the fast timer award and the division’s first heat
race. That combination along with another top six in the
second heat has placed the 1999 Street Stock champion on the
pole for the race on Saturday, July 23rd.
Terron Roberts
is successfully defending his title in the Southern Racing
Supplies Pure Stocks. Roberts was the fast timer on Friday
night topping a field of twenty-five pure stocks. He also
won his heat race and finished very well in the second round
to snare the pole. His teammate Dan Douglas will start
outside with newcomer to the Pure Stocks Chris Hinely
starting third.
“The car was
real good tonight,” said Hinely. “This car can win that
feature race.”
The Sunset
Novelties Mini Stocks ran their Summer Sizzler feature on
Friday night. Chris Johnson won his third of the season and
moved very close to points leader Charles Swann who dropped
out of the feature race early. Troy Godbee was second
followed by Randall Wegmann.
On a sad note,
Dale Miles, driver of the Mini Stock #13 at OSP passed away
on Saturday morning. Miles was having one of his best
seasons at OSP currently running among the top seven drivers
in points. Miles was fifty-four.
OSP takes a
week off of stock car racing this upcoming week to host the
USHRA Monster Jam Summer Heat program featuring the world’s
best known Monster Trucks. Grave Digger, Destroyer, Reptoid,
Bad News and more will be competing at Oglethorpe Speedway
Park on Thursday, Friday and Saturday (June 23 – 25) at
7:30pm.
For more
information, contact the speedway at 912-964-8200 or visit
www.ospracing.net.
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