Pat's Acres Speedway
Canby, Oregon
1999 Northwest Speedway Championship
Pat's Acres Speedway
Friday September 17, 1999
ROBIN "NITRO" NICOLAIDES WINS!
The Northwest Speedway Championship at Pat's Acres Speedway Friday night September 17, 1999.
The weather was great - cooling down from a near 85 daytime temperature to a perfect
evening of about 75 and clear - for the first ever Northwest Speedway Championship
at Pat's Acres Speedway. In front of a near capacity crowd was some of the best and most
exciting racing all season.
The half time show was a "hoot"!
Five Ladies - wives, girlfriends & friends - for the first time ever in an Outlaw Kart raced
for the 6 lap "Trophy Dash". As it went; fifteen laps and about as many minutes later
Heather, driving Rick Fraiser's car won, however not without a valiant challenge from
Suzie Morris and company. The Outlaw Kart program is always an "exciting and
definitely worth the experience" addition to the Friday night Speedway show.
Outlaw Kart Main Event winners were:
1st - #20 Rick Fraiser, 2nd - 30x Keary Morris & 3rd - #31x Mike Morris
NORTHWEST SPEEDWAY CHAMPIONSHIP
After ten of the best and most exciting races all year the points were totaled and the top
three scorers of the evening, Robin "Nitro" Nicolaides, Mike Marr Jr., and "Racer Rick" Ellis,
transferred to the NW Final event leaving the next 9 to battle it out in the Simi
Final and Last Chance Qualifier. "Smokin Joe" Hovanic, winning the Last Chance
Qualifier after a very near mishap when Paul Richards went down right in front of
"Smokin" on the final lap coming out of turn 4, somehow keeping it together without
incident Joe got the win and transferred to the final.
The field was set with truly the fastest riders all year. The Start: the gate went up, into
and through turn one three abreast Nitro, Mike Jr. & Smokin all trying to occupy the
same race line, getting squeezed too tightly into turn two - the three of them getting
tangled up was unavoidable. After a few minutes of gathering themselves and machine,
to the restart. The Restart: Just as tightly as before going into and through turn one and
two, but this time without incident Nito came through it in the lead. The battle between
the years four fastest racers for first and second was clearly the most spectacular race all
night - until lap three when hard charging Mike Jr. went down coming out of turn one
leaving the remaining three to fight it out through the final lap.
The finish:
1st - #1 Robin "NITRO" Nicolaides
2nd - #77 "Smokin Joe" Hovanic
3rd - #17 "Racer Rick" Ellis.
SUPPORT CHAMPIONSHIP FINAL
1st #121 Jeff Miller
2nd #79 Brian "ICEMAN" Kelly
3rd #22 Bob Heimbuch
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