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Outlaws Return with a Bang

Herald Staff | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 20 years, 2 months AGO
by Herald Staff
| August 30, 2004 9:00 PM

Clang, chunk, and smash: those were the three best words to describe the 100 lap Northwest Outlaw Street Stock main event Saturday night at Ephrata Raceway Park.

A gigantic field of 28 cars were present for the last appearance of the year for the outlaws, and it was, for lack of a better term, a high cost demolition derby. The race itself featured mufflers coming off, engines going snap-crackle-pop, and cars wadding themselves up on yellow flag parade laps. Jimmy Allen Jr. was the lucky driver who succeeded in avoiding the mishaps, inheriting the lead from Bobby Graddy on lap 21 when Grady exploded his motor.

Allen then fought off challenger Brad Borton, the 2003 series champ, win the 75-lap feature. Local favorite Eric Hector finished third. Bill Patty of Quincy paced the field for the early portion of the event before getting tangled up in traffic on lap 17. All told, 12 of the original 28 starting cars finished the race, five on the lead lap. Dave Lund set fast time and a new track record for the outlaws at 15.30. Grady and Glen Steadman won the trophy dashes. Eric Lund, Chris Crain, and Ben Meyette won the heats.

After a year full of Camaro domination, a non-Camaro finally took home a main event trophy in the Larry's Auto & Marine Hobby Stocks. Kevin Hill, piloting his 1980-ish Monte Carlo, finally broke through the Camaro barrier, grabbing the lead from Nick Sieg on lap 5 and crossing the stripe first on lap 30 to win his first main of the 2004 year. Sean Giraud finished second in the main and had the quickest qualifying mark of the season at 16.57. Kevin Bottineau and Daniel Hector won the dashes. Bottineau also collected a heat race win, as did JR Miner.

Results-

Northwest Outlaw Street Stocks

Fast Time- Dave Lund 15.30 NTR

Dash- Bobby Graddy

Dash- Glen Steadman

Heat- Eric Lund

Heat- Chris Crain

Heat- Ben Meyette

Main- 1-Jimmy Allen Jr. 2-Brad Borton 3-Eric Hector 4-Ed Beck 5-Bill Ryan 6-Bill Patty 7-Paul Trufert 8-Mitch Kleyn 9-Steve Sawyer 10-Gary Flammang 11-Ron Stewart 12-Chris Knutson 13-Tyler Delong 14-Sam Boyce 15-Glen Steadman 16-Steve Blankenship 17-Bobby Graddy 18-Robert Mears 19-Jim Allen Sr. 20-Dave Lund 21-Randy Lasswell 22-Chris Crain 23-Ben Meyette 24-Aaron Nevers 25-Eric Lund 26-Gordon Mears 27- Joe Price 28-Bill Rutherford

Larry's Auto & Marine Hobby Stocks

Fast Time- Sean Giraud 16.57

Dash- Kevin Bottineau

Dash- Daniel Hector

Heat- JR Miner

Heat- Kevin Bottineau

Main- 1-Kevin Hill 2-Sean Giraud 3-Daniel Hector 4-Mike Wall 5-Denny Macdonald 6-Kevin Bottineau 7-Daniel Costlow 8-Robert Hagadorn 9-Nick Sieg 10-Pat Lus 11-JR Miner 12-Elvin Brincefield 13-Stuart Barger 14-Jared Merkle

Columbia Glass Mini Stocks

Fast Time- Josh Buys 17.07

Dash- David Macken

Heat- Tom Veenstra

Main- 1-David Macken 2-Josh Buys 3-Chris Matthynssens 4-Nick Gardner 5-Tom Veenstra 6-John Marthini 7-Charles Larr

Cost Less Tools Youth Hornets

Dash- Brian Allen

Dash- Nathan Mcdonnell

Heat- Louie Gans

Heat- Tyson Largent

Main- 1-Amanda Macdonald 2-Robert Henderson 3-Cynthia Pruneda 4-Cody Cobb 5-Ana-lisa Garcia 6-Alex Kerslake 7-Kevin Berens 8-Ryan Allen 9-Tim Clark 10-Brian Allen 11-Tyler Cummings 12-Chad Moore 13-TJ Sween 14-Dylan Chisum 15-Louie Gans 16-Nathan Mcdonnell 17-Josh Hector 18-Mike White 19-Kayla Henderson 20-Tyson Largent

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