Fast Fridays Speedway
Gold Country Fairgrounds
Auburn, California
Sidecars Night
May 13, 2005 - Fast Fridays, Auburn
By Gary Roberts
Week 2 at Fast Fridays and the weather was much warmer, bringing out a very large crowd and more great racing.
Unofficial Results
Scratch Main Event
1. Mike Faria
2. Tommy Hedden
3. Bobby Hedden
4. Charlie Venegas
First corner Bobby Hedden went down bringing down Charlie Venegas. In the restart Charlie was disqualified for touching the tapes at the restart. Next restart Bobby fell again in turn one, so it was a bit of an anticlimax with a race between Mike and Tommy.
Scratch Consolation Event
1. Bryan Yarrow
2.Bart Bast
3. Chad Felicio
4. TJ Fowler
Bryan got the gate ahead of Bart, but Bart chased him all the way for 4 laps. TJ got out ahead of Chad, who tried for a couple of laps to get past, till TJ fell.
Handicap Main
1. Matt Browne (20)
2. Bryan Yarrow (40)
3. Dustin Schroeder (30)
4.Bart Bast (50
5. Chad Felicio (50)
6. Chris Kerr (40)
By far the best race of the night, indeed the best race for a long time. For the second consecutive week, Matt Browne started from the front and stayed there. Bryan Yarrow quickly got behind Matt, but was unable to find a way past. Behind him, Dustin Schroeder and Bart Bast battled for third. At the finish the first 4 had barely 2 bike lengths between them.
Handicap Consolation Event
1. Mike Faria (50)
2. Bobby Hedden (50)
3. JT Mabry (10)
4. JJ Martynse (20)
5. Tommy Hedden (50)
6.Devin DeFreece (0)
Division 2 Main Event
1. Brian Leventon
2. Rachalle Kerr
3. Kell Kerrigan
4. Richard Powell
5. Vince Bertolucci
6. Greg Searle
Division 2 Consolation Event
1. Ricky Adams
2. Mike Browne
3. Josh West
4.Kenny Ingalls
5. Shawn Eldridge
6. Harlan Bast
Division 3 Main Event
1.Kjell Lovlien
2. Norman Brooks
3. Sean Billenstein
4. Jim Jensen
5.Kevin Fereira
6. Johnny Frank
7. Greg Howell
8. Ronny Woodsford
Division 3 Consolation Event
1. Greg Lovlien
2. Jeff Irwin
3. Danny Poli
4. Rich Mignano
5. Steve Rowett
6. Jacob Bracy
7. Josh Everle
8. Cory Barringer
Division 1 Youth Main
1.Krystal Cramer
2. Paul Johnson
3. Jay Ricketts
Division 2 Youth Main
1. Ben Essary
2. Bryce Starks
3. Tom Fehrman
4. Cody Ciciarelli
5. John Randolf
Following an unusually high number of crashes last week, the promoter gave all riders a serious talk about safe riding during the riders’ meeting. But the evening was marred by an accident involving Division 2 veteran rider, Glenn Scott.
From where I was sitting, Glenn looked to be the victim of anther rider’s unsafe riding. As of this morning Glenn is still in hospital with broken ribs, a punctured lung and a broken collar bone.
In addition to being a keen rider Glenn is a generous sponsor to a number of other riders. American Speedway depends heavily on people like Glenn.
I wish him a fast recovery.
Gary Roberts - gary_rob@ix.netcom.com
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