Sideways Saturdays Speedway
Cal Expo - Sacramento, CA
Sideways Saturdays Speedway
Cal Expo - Sacramento, CA
Saturday June 23, 2001
A very pleasant evening at Cal Expo. The track
looked well prepared early on, with a lot of loose dirt, but dried out later. The number
of riders looked low, but quality of racing made up for the lack of quantity. Again, the
newly promoted juniors made up a lot of the show.
Scratch Main
1 Bob Hicks 2 Bart Bast 3 Bobby Hedden 4 Tommy Hedden
What a race! It took a couple of attempts to get all
four competitors started, but once underway, it was part timer Bob Hicks who got the gate
and held the lead for four laps, with a tough battle for second going on behind him
between Bart Bast and Bobby Hedden. The track looked dry, with quite a lot of dust coming
up, but it was only after this race, the last one of the evening that I went down to
photograph the prize presentations, and saw how really bad the track was. It looked like
the surface of the moon, complete with ruts, craters, the lot. All credit to the four
competitors!
Scratch Consi
1 Eric Carrillo 2 Chris Kerr 3 Bryan Yarrow 4 Jon
Curry
This race comprised the Division 1 Junior competitors
of 1999 and haven't they come a long way in the past 2 years! Eric won it then, he
won it again this time. Chris Kerr, who has been looking very good this season made a bid
for the lead a couple of times, but settled for second place after running into
Eric's back wheel.
Handicap Main
1 Chris Kerr 2 Bob Hicks 3 Bobby Hedden 4 Ivan Sevart 5 Glen Moore 6 Bryan Yarrow.
Chris Kerr made no mistake from the zero yard line
and just pulled further and further ahead. The rest of the race was extremely competitive. Bryan Yarrow has impressed me this season with his total control of the machine. With no
hesitation, he did a very impressive lay down a couple of weeks ago at Auburn, when the
rider a couple of yards ahead of him fell. This week, in the midst of the battle for
second place Bryan found traction in turn four, stepped off the back, and looked as if he
tried to smoothly vault over the wall, out of the way of the pack. Only later, when I
watched the video did I notice the speed at which Bryan hit the wall, still not losing his
footing.
Handicap Consi
1 Eric Carrillo 2 Bart Bast 3 Tommy Hedden 4 JJ Martynse 5 Tom Adams
Division 2 Main
1 JJ Martynse 2 Matt Browne 3 Shawn Eldridge 4 Mark Thomas 5 Robert Mellor 6 Kevin Fereira
Division 2 Consi
1 Vince Bertolucci 2 Devin DeFreece 3 Harlan Bast Snr. 4 Les Veale
Division 3 Main
1 Dave Baker 2 Daniel Chandler 3 Jason Botsford 4 Tony Spezza 5 Gary Hubbert 6 Richard Gutzke
Division 3 Consi
1 Eric Ryan 2 Kimi Valentine
Juniors Division 1
1 Danny Easley 2 Mark Carrillo 3 TJ Fowler 4 Greg Hooten
Juniors Division 2
1 Paul Johnson 2 Jeff Butler 3 Jay Ricketts 4 Tom Fuhrman
Juniors Division 3
Mitchell Johnson Adam Butler Tori Hubbert
Next week at Cal Expo the program will be
supplemented with sidecars.
Gary Roberts - groberts@iee.org
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