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season Grandstand admission - adults $12 , senior
citizens 55 & up $10, teenagers 13-17 $7 with student ID, 12 and under free with paying adult. Regular
season Pit
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Racing starts at 6:30 every Saturday. |
| DIXON TAKES THE $8,000 PRIZE FOR MODIFIEDS AT EAST BAY RACEWAY PARK |
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TAMPA, FL.Coming from 16th starting spot, Devin Dixon topped his
winning performance from the previous night, by using a slide
job on race-long leader Corey Conley in turn four with five laps
to go to take the big Open Wheel Modified 75-lap feature worth
$8,000 Saturday night in the finale to the 30th Annual East Bay
Raceway Park Winternationals. Starting back as far as I did, I was pretty happy with sitting in fifth spot at the fuel stop on lap 35, explained the local driver who gave the home-town fans a lot to cheer about.We took on extra fuel so I could get more bite and this Victory chassis by JR Performance was what allowed me to make the same inside move tonight that won the race for me last night. Sponsors on his car include New Homes of Tampa Bay, Blue Ribbon Tomatoes, Gene Slaughter of Hoosier Tires and D&D Auction. His crew Jimmy and Ronnie gave him a favorable report on his tire wear at the break, so he knew he could go for the win. With 96 cars on hand for this final night of the four-day series. The top six from points accumulated each preliminary night were locked into the A-Main. The redraw for them put Mike Potosky on the pole with Dan Hamstra outside. Kevin Weaver and Corey Conley made up row two with Steve Arpin and Ray Guss, Jr in row three. However, before the initial green flag, Hamstra had transmission problems, forcing him to the infield and the outside row moved up, placing Conley in the front row for the start. Conley jumped to an immediate lead and figured the restart after a long run of 25-30 green flag laps did him in because he could feel his right rear going away.Im against a fuel stop, but Im lucky to finish second after the problems we had in hot laps. I picked up a vibration in the rear-end that turned out to be a ring gear¦.then a muffler blew off. Conley is sponsored by the West Virginia Motorsports Counsel and according to him, My chassis is and OBR (Old Bent Rocket) that D. J. Cline welded a new front end on and Gib Patt is the owner. Sponsors include Bob Williams Racing, Shadyside Pennzoil, Lucas Oil and Dave Poske. Just before the lap 35 yellow that turned into a fuel stop, Conley had a straight-away lead, but on the restart for the 16 cars remaining. On lap 44 Kevin Weaver moved past Potosky for second and tried an outside move to threaten Conley. But, by lap 50 Conley had his lead back to three seconds. Lapped traffic entered the picture on lap 55, but did not present a problem for Conley. Dixon used an inside backstretch lane for pull beside Weaver at the same time and set his sights on Conley. Dixon hounded Conley, trying inside and outside and finally on lap 71 he did a slide job to pull of the winning move coming to the flag stand. Once in the lead, Dixon stayed the course and won over Conley and Potosky in his second East Bay appearance in his Bob Pierce chassis powered by a Jeff Tregler engine. Sponsors on the third place car were Tech Tool and Molded Plastics. Guss managed a fourth place finish ahead of Matt Mevert to complete the top five. Weaver slipped to sixth followed by Jeff Leka, Wayne Hammond, Brady Short and Buzzie Reutimann. Ten heats were run and the winners went directly to the A-Main, six cars came from two B-Mains and the two provisionals were the highest East Bay regular from 2005 points (David Schmauss) and Alex Engelstad for farthest tow of 1858 miles from Beltrami MN. Thanks, Jean Lynch for East Bay Raceway Park Click here for results. |
