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Fast Fridays Speedway
Gold Country Fairgrounds
Auburn, CA
July 25, 1997 Civil War
Fast Fridays, Auburn
From: Gary Roberts and RC Jones
Site of the annual Civil War. As in 1996, the North won.
The North 52 The South 44
Bart Bast 3 3 3 2 11 Bobby Schwartz 2 3 3 0 8
Bob Hicks 1 2 0 0 3 Gary Ackroyd 0 0 0
Louis Kossuth 2 2 1 2 7 Steve Lucero 3 0 1 2 1 3 10
Jimmy Sisemore 1 1 0 3 5 Andy Northrup 0 0 1 2 3
Bobby Hedden 2 3 3 2 10 Mike Faria 3 3 2 3 3 14
David Faria 1 2 2 3 8 Eddie Castro 0 0 2 1 3
Chad Felicio 3 1 1 1 6 Brad Oxley 2 1 0 3
Pat Linn 0 2 0 2 Shawn McConnell 1 0 0 1 2
Billy Janniro 0 0 Randy DiFracnesco 1 1
(res) (res)
Heat Details:
Heat 1 Bast, Schwartz, Hicks, Ackroyd 4 - 2 4 - 2
Heat 2 Lucero, Kossuth, Sisemore, Northrup 3 - 3 7 - 5
Heat 3 M. Faria, Hedden, D. Faria, Castro 3 - 3 10 - 8
Heat 4 Felicio, Oxley, McConnell, Linn 3 - 3 13 - 11
Heat 5 Schwartz, Linn, Felicio, Ackroyd 3 - 3 16 - 14
Heat 6 Hedden, D. Faria, DiFrancesco, Northrup 5 - 1 21 - 15
DiFrancesco rode for Lucero, who was disqualified for tapes
infringement.
Heat 7 M. Faria, Kossuth, Sisemore, Castro 3 - 3 24 - 18
Heat 8 Bast, Hicks, Lucero, McConnell 5 - 1 29 - 19
Lucero was tactical substitute for Oxley
Heat 9 Schwartz, M. Faria, Kossuth, Sisemore 1 - 5 30 - 24
M. Faria was tactical substitute for Ackroyd
Heat 10 Bast, Lucero, Northrup, Hicks 3 - 3 33 - 27
Heat 11 M. Faria, Castro, Felicio, Linn 1 - 5 34 - 32
Heat 12 Hedden, D. Faria, Oxley, McConnell 5 - 1 39 - 33
Heat 13 D. Faria, Hedden, Lucero, Schwartz 5 - 1 44 - 34
Lucero was tactical substitute for Ackroyd
Heat 14 Lucero, Northrup, Felicio, Janniro 1 - 5 45 - 39
Heat 15 M. Faria, Bast, Castro, Hicks 2 - 4 47 - 43
Heat 16 Sisemore, Kossuth, McConnell, Oxley 5 - 1 52 - 44
B Main: Sisemore, Kossuth, Schwartz, Northrup 10 - 3 62 - 47
A Main: Bast, Faria, Lucero, Hedden 14 - 12 74 - 59
Had it not been for three tactical substitutions, the points difference
would have been even more embarassing for the South. And it could have
been yet worse. Billy Janniro lost what was a safe second place in heat
14 when he hit the wall feet from the finishing tapes on the 4th lap.
The North's captain, Tommy Hedden could have been in the team. Tommy,
who has been recovering from a broken arm for the last couple of months
got bad news this week, that the bones are not bonding together properly
and he is going to have to be re-operated on, to have pins removed and
screws inserted.
In addition to the Civil War, the Southern California riders made the
trek north for the fourth round of the National qualifier, which took
place the following evening.
The Northern California riders displayed a lot of good team riding.
Twice Eddie Castro was kept in fourth place by careful positioning by
the second and third N. Cal riders.
It was a good, entertaining evening of racing.
Junior Div 1:
1st Eric Carrillo,
2nd AJ Jones
3rd Bryan Yarrow
Junior Div 2:
1st Jon Curry
2nd Rachael Kerr
3rd Alex Marcucci
4th Josh Newby
5th Brenton Bast
From: RC Jones
Hello Fellow Speedway Fans
I just want to add a few comments to Gary's posting concerning the
North vs South Race in Auburn on July 25th.
This is the second year that we (North) beat the South, indicating
that last year was no fluke.
The turning point in the match might have been heat 6 when Steve
Lucero was disqualified for hitting the tapes. At that point the
score was 16-14 and the South had a great opportunity to make it
17-19 with a 1-5. With Lucero out Bobby Hedden took charge and made
it a 5-1 for the North.
An annoying tactic by the Southern riders is to take someone out when
they are being passed on the outside... sort of rude...
Another thing I noticed is that in the ten years or so that I have
seen Steve Lucero race at Auburn, I have never seen him lose when he
started from the pole... Tonight he was burned by Bart Bast, twice.
A great night of racing for us Northern fans.
RC Jones
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