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(Savannah, GA) Oglethorpe
Speedway Park dodged rain drops for the first fifteen
minutes of Friday’s NASCAR Mid-Season Championships. But,
the historic half mile was able to complete the double
feature event crowning the drivers accumulating the most
points during the special event marking the half way
juncture of the season. Chris Johnson and Shane Riner stood
along with mid-season honors in the Sunset Novelties Mini
Stocks and Coca-Cola Late Models while multiple drivers were
awarded the honor in both the Love’s Seafood Street Stocks
and Southern Racing Supplies Pure Stocks.
Guyton’s Shane
Riner used a strong runner-up finish in feature race number
two for the Coca-Cola Late Models to solidify his mid-season
title. Riner finished seventh in the first twenty lap
feature garnering more points than others winning the
crown. The good all around finish also helped Riner gain
back some points in the overall NASCAR standings catapulting
him to third in the OSP points. Only forty-five point
separate drivers in third through ninth place heading into
this Friday’s match-up. Donnie Bazemore continues to lead
the points over Robert Diekemper by thirty-one.
Another
Effingham County driver, Chris Johnson clean swept the
racing action in the Sunset Novelties Mini Stocks on Friday
night. Johnson has a three race win streak and has narrowed
the points gap between himself and division leader Charles
Swann to six points. Swann finished second in both races
the other night at OSP. Both drivers have three feature
wins on the season thus far.
It was a
three-way tie for the NASCAR Mid-Season Championships in the
Southern Racing Supplies Pure Stocks. More than likely none
of three drivers would want it to be any other way as the
“Walterboro Wildman” Terron Roberts, Hardeeville’s Dan
Douglas and Richmond Hill’s Don Douglas all tied for the
mid-season honors. The three drivers are also teammates in
the entry-level division at OSP with Roberts on top in the
overall points and defending his season crown from 2004.
Don Douglas was the only of the three to get into victory
lane on Friday night. But, the other two finished strong
enough to earn the three-way title.
Rapid Ray
Collins of Ellabell nabbed a feature win last Friday night
that also pulled him into a tie for the NASCAR Mid-Season
honor in the Love’s Seafood Street Stocks. Collins
accumulated enough points to tie Bluffton’s Timmy Dasher for
the title. Dasher finished second to Collins in the second
feature while finishing third in the first feature behind
new overall points leader Donald Norby of Midway and
Bloomingdale’s Brian Barnes.
On the
strength of their showing this past Friday night, Donald
Norby and Ray Collins bypassed Chris Litchfield in the
overall points for the Street Stocks. Norby finds himself
in first with an eighteen point lead over Collins and
twenty-three back to Litchfield. Norby won the Street Stock
title in 1999 and has been among the top five in each year
since. Litchfield finished as runner-up in the divisional
points last year and has been among the top three the past
three seasons.
Wrapping up
the holiday weekend championships were the Four Star
Security 440 and WR Rewis taking home the hardware over Tom
Egner and Jason Rewis. Clay Fail, Junior and Lee Miles
rounded out the top five from the front wheel drive four
cylinders.
Oglethorpe
Speedway Park cranks back up this Friday night (July 8) at
8:00pm with the NASCAR Dodge Weekly Series. Coca-Cola Late
Models, Love’s Seafood Street Stocks, Sunset Novelties Mini
Stocks, Southern Racing Supplies Pure Stocks and the Four
Star Security 440 will be competing along with the Custom
Marine “Waterless Boat Races” taking place. Drivers will
compete with boats attached to their cars. There are no
trailers used so the competitors merely drag their boats
around the half mile speedway trying to crash the other
driver’s boats while keeping their boat secured. The last
driver with their boat intact is declared the race winner.
For more information, contact the speedway at 912-964-8200
or visit
www.ospracing.net.
Official Results from Friday,
July 1, 2005
Coca-Cola Late Models
(Feature #1): 1-Robbie Cowart, Savannah 2-Corey Fletcher,
Guyton 3-Casey Barrow, Guyton 4-Lonnie Brant,
Bloomingdale 5-Donnie Bazemore, Guyton 6-Mac Lipthratt,
Brunswick 7-Shane Riner, Guyton 8-Jim Manka, Rincon
9-Mark Davis, Savannah 10-Jay Hendricks, Rincon 11-Steven
Howard, Bloomingdale 12-Sean Meeks, Guyton 13-Glenn Yawn,
Rincon 14-Robert Diekemper, Bloomingdale 15-Shawn
Pritchard, Rincon 16-Ronnie Gordon, Savannah 17-Hal
Godwin, Garden City (Feature #2) 1-Diekemper 2-Riner
3-Meeks 4-Howard 5-Bazemore 6-Yawn 7-Hendricks 8-Brant
9-Manka 10-Barrow 11-Lipthratt 12-Cowart 13-Godwin
14-Pritchard 15-Fletcher 16-Gordon 17-Davis
Love’s Seafood Street Stocks
(Feature #1): 1-Donald Norby, Midway 2-Brian Barnes,
Bloomingdale 3-Timmy Dasher, Bluffton, SC 4-Ray Collins,
Ellabell 5-Nicky Smith, Springfield 6-Michael Slater,
Stilmore 7-Doc Leggett, Bloomingdale 8-Bill Stevenson,
Savannah 9-Chris Litchfield, Rincon 10-Michael Helmly,
Guyton 11-Clint Sills, Bloomingdale 12-Dustin Collins,
Ellabell 13-Bob Gossett, Hilton Head, SC (Feature #2) 1-R.
Collins 2-Dasher 3-Litchfield 4-Sills 5-Norby 6-Barnes
7-Smith 8-Slater 9-Helmly 10-Legett 11-Stevenson 12-D
Collins.
Southern Racing Supplies Pure
Stocks (Feature #1): 1-Don Douglas, Richmond Hill 2-Terron
Roberts, Walterboro, SC 3-Dan Douglas, Hardeeville, SC
4-Grant Grotyohann, Pooler 5-Chris Hinely, Rincon 6-Andy
Stallings, Pembroke 7-John Rewis, Guyton 8-Charles
Williams, Pembroke 9-Mickey Ward, Pritchardville, SC
10-Don Bazemore, Jr., Rincon 11-Alfred Banks, Richmond
Hill 12-Buster Kleckley, Ridgeland, SC 13-John Loomis,
Savannah 14-Cari Wood, Hardeeville, SC 15-Jimmy Swanson,
Hilton Head, SC 16-Jack Christiansen, Savannah 17-Walter
Sills, Bloomingdale 18-Anthony Parker, Rincon 19-Greg
Annas, Springfield 20-Jamie Hopkins, Guyton 21-Tim Dasher,
Jr., Bluffton, SC 22-Molly Spencer, Brooklet 23-Al
Wiggins, Allenhurst 24-Daniel Douglas, Hardeeville, SC
(Feature #2) 1-Stallings 2-Dan Douglas 3-Roberts 4-Don
Douglas 5-Kleckley 6-Parker 7-Wood 8-Williams 9-Annas
10-Loomis 11-Bazemore 12-Hopkins 13-Rewis 14-Dasher
15-Banks 16-Hinely 17-Ward 18-Sills 19-Spencer
20-Christianson 21-Grotyohann 22-Daniel Douglas
23-Wiggins.
Sunset Novelties Mini Stocks
(Feature #1): 1-Chris Johnson, Rincon 2-Charles Swann,
Garden City 3-Bobby Morris, Guyton 4-Ed Geiger,
Bloomingdale 5-Josh Carter, Pembroke 6-Mark Susen,
Hardeeville, SC 7-AJ Horton, Statesboro 8-Randy Fields,
Springfield 9-Randy Gregory, Midway 10-Troy Godbee,
Savannah 11-Ricky Cannady, Bloomingdale 12-Randall Wegmann,
Guyton 13-Ray Doublery, Eden 14-Patrick Mikell, Garden
City 15-Michael Screen, Pooler 16-Kenny Gregory, Midway
17-David Sanchez, Hardeeville, SC 18-Jimmy Groce, Sr.,
Springfield (Feature #2) 1-Johnson 2-Swann 3-Carter
4-Godbee 5-Susen 6-Buddy Jacoby, Rincon 7-Geiger
8-Horton 9-Cannady 10-Douberly 11-Fields 12-R Gregory
13-Morris 14-K Gregory 15-Sanchez.
Four Star Security 440: 1-WR
Rewis, Guyton 2-Tom Egner, Hinesville 3-Jason Rewis,
Guyton 4-Clay Fail, Jr., Brooklet 5-Lee Miles, Pooler
6-Keith Bath, Savannah 7-Brian Nerich, Richmond Hill
8-Phillip Dickerson, Guyton.
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