Sideways Saturdays Speedway
Cal Expo - Sacramento, CA

Sideways Saturdays Speedway
Cal Expo - Sacramento, CA
Saturday June 24, 2000

Bobby Hedden wins the Main Event!

From Gary Roberts

The third week of racing at Sideways Saturdays Speedway, at Cal Expo arena, in Sacramento. The track took a while to even out, then there were some great races. Just as the track at Cal Expo gets better every week, so does the racing.

Scratch Main
1. Bobby Hedden
2. Billy Janniro
3. Bart Bast
4. Ian Ferris

Bobby Hedden made a rocket start, anticipating the tapes perfectly. Billy Janniro pushed him all the way, but was unable to get past.

Scratch Consi
1. Chad Felicio
2. Robert Curry
3. Bob Hicks
4. Steve Martynse

Handicap Main
1. Ian Ferris
2. Chad Felicio
3. Bobby Hedden
4. Bart Bast
5. Billy Janniro
6. Robert Curry

The race was stopped after less than a lap as 30 yard men Ferris and Curry went down on the exit of turn 2. Curry was deemed the cause, and penalized a further 10 yards. This gave Ian Ferris the space he needed to establish a good lead and allow the battle to take place behind him. Second finisher Chad Felicio (40 yard start handicap) acted as a good isolator for Ian, and managed to hold back the other three 50 yard riders.

Handicap Consi
1. Bob Hicks
2. Steve Martynse
3. Marvin Sonnier
4. Rick Shafer
5. Scott Olney

Paul Orlandi also qualified for this race but was a non starter.

Division 2 Main
1. Ivan Sevart
2. Vince Bertolucci
3. Robert Mellor
4. Harlan Bast Snr.
5. Richard Powell
6. Kevin Fereira
7. Greg Howell
8. Dave Booth

Popular Ivan Sevart took home yet another trophy after battling from the 10 yard line. I would expect to see him on the 20 next week.

Division 2 Consi
1. Greg Hooten Snr.
2. Mark Thomas
3. Shawn Eldridge
4. Tom Adams
5. Derek Silva
6. Bill Dixon
7. Jon Curry
8. Devin DeFreece

Division 3 Main
1. Billy Hiles
2. Mike Hooten
3. Dino Blankenbiller
4. Kelly McBane
5. Gary Hubberts
6. Luke Rogers

Division 3 Consi
1. Eric Ryan
2. Geno Bellino
3. Les Veale
4. Jason Cummings
5. Chuck Bagwell
6. Tom Castagnola
7. Brian Leventon
8. Kimi Valentine

Junior Division 1
1. Greg Hooten Jnr.
2. Bryan Yarrow
3. JJ Martynse
4. JT Mabry

Junior Division 2.
1. Chris Olney
2. TJ Fowler
3. Danny Easley
4. Paul Johnson

Junior Division 3
1. Bruce Bast
2. Jeff Butler
3. Chris Smith
Tom Fehrman fell.

The crowd looked bigger than last week, but still fell short of what is needed for this promotion to break even on costs. After the races, a lot of enthusiastic SOSS (Save our Sideways Saturdays) campaigners left with posters and flyers to distribute throughout the area. Hopefully this will bring some new folks into the stadium over the forthcoming weeks.

Gary Roberts - groberts@iee.org