For those who say Bobby"Boogaloo" Schwartz is to old, ya right. Tonight was his last night as a 39 year old boy. Saturday he turns a big FOUR ZERO. yet he is still one to watch out for on our tiny little oval. Tonight seemed to be lacking some of that energy in the crowd. it was kind of a small crowd. We did however get to see the grudge race of the year. For you old timers you will remember, for you not so old timers let me set the stage. In turn one is a big man. A very big man with a very big belly. He tends to drink maybe one or two extra Coors Lights. He is known as Gene the dancin machine. During a track drag he will walk the wall and do his dance and yell "MORE BEEEER" Of course the crown chants this back and its great fun. In the old days Gene would get out on the track and race the drag truck, on foot. Finally the promoter put an end to this because Gene was not an AMA member and could not be on the track. Well tonight we had THE RE-MATCH. What a race Gene got the gate, He ran wide in turn one but pulled out in front. On the back stretch the Toyota pulled even, Gene cut low in Three and forced the truck wide. Gene extended his lead and won by over one full belly. OK on with the real racing.
Handicap semi 1 1st Jason Chism 2nd Jesse Finch 3rd Steve"bad boy" Lucero 4th Jerry Black first four to main 5th Eddie Castro 6th Brian Pappalardo Handicap semi 2 1st Jake Zemke 2nd Bobby"Boogaloo" Schwartz 3rd Dave Taylor 4th "Rad" Brad Oxley four to main 5th Donny"Too Tall" Odom 6th Andy "the Enforcer" Northrup Handicap Main. 1st Jason Chism 2nd Steve"bad boy" Lucero 3rd Bobby"Boogaloo" Schwartz 4th "Rad" Brad Oxley 5th Jake Zemke 6th Dave Taylor 7th Jesse Finch 8th Jerry Black Scratch semi 1 1st Steve"bad boy" Lucero 2nd Andy "the Enforcer" Northrup 3rd Pappalardo 4th Castro Scratch semi 2 1st Bobby"Boogaloo" Schwartz 2nd "Rad" Brad Oxley 3rd Taylor 4th Donny"Too Tall" Odom first two in each to main, 2nd two to last chance Last chance 1st Donny"Too Tall" Odom 2nd Castro 3rd Pappalardo 4th Taylor ( Taylor forgot he still had a race and did not make the gate. He was running to the pit gate with helmet on when the gates went up.) Scratch Main 1st Bobby"Boogaloo" Schwartz (old man) 2nd Steve"bad boy" Lucero 3rd "Rad" Brad Oxley 4th Andy "the Enforcer" Northrup 5th Donny"Too Tall" Odom (on Steve"bad boy" Lucero back-up bike.) Side car main 1st #1 Dean Steele/Dewayne King.( Nice to see the V-twin Godden finally ran all night long. This bike is unbeatable when it runs.) 2nd #x-4 Duane Carmont/Richard Tailing (we call them ZZ Top) 3rd #5 Ross Millar/ Dale Leader 4th #28 Steve Marrow/ Craig Maggin
I will be missing next week and maybe even the next week, However I will try to get the result faxed to me so I can post them. - Tom