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THORN FINISHES THIRD AT THE SNOWBALL

2014 SPEARS Southwest Tour champion Derek Thorn drove the Campbell Motorsports #43 from its 11th starting position to finish 3rd at the 47th Annual Snowball Derby at 5Flags Speedway on Sunday.   1 3 8 John Hunter Nemechek 323 68 2 25 5 Dalton Sargeant 323 0 3 11 43 Derek Thorn 323 0 4 1 18 Hunter Robbins 323 57 5 29 90 Grant Enfinger 323 7 6 20 51 Stephen Nasse 323 0 7 26 99 Casey Smith 323 0 8 4 112 Augie Grill 323 11 9 35 29 Anderson Bowen 322 2 10 18 31 Kyle Grissom 322 0 11 14 29 Jeff Choquette 322 0 12 37 2R Clay Rogers 322 0 13 23 07 Corey LaJoie 321 0 14 5 83 Scotty Ellis 321 7 15 30 10 Steve Dorer 321 0 16 26 9K Mark Kraus 321 0 17 2 21 Johanna Long 321 59 18 34 57 Cole [...]

DOSS WINS FINALE AT THE BULLRING

Jeremy Doss won the 125-lap SPEARS Southwest Tour season finale as The Bullring at Las Vegas Motor Speedway closed the 2014 season on Saturday night with the West Coast Short-Track Championships. Doss, from Upper Lake, Calif., dominated the Southwest Tour main event in much the same way he ran away [...]

GARRET ARCHER WINS ROOKIE TITLE

With his season high 2nd place finish Saturday night at the Bullring, Garret Archer from Black Diamond, Washington capped off a great season in which he claimed the 2014 SPEARS Southwest Tour Series Rookie-of-the-Year championship.

Cory Elliott Wins Bullring S2 –

Photo: Sal Sigala Race Results - 11/22/14 Pos No. Name Laps Total time Diff Best time In lap Best speed 1 29 Cory Elliott 35 15:48.119 00:16.766 30 80.520 2 77 Trevor Huddleston 35 15:48.634 00:00.515 00:16.797 28 80.371 3 50 Blaine Perkins 35 15:49.177 00:01.058 00:16.847 6 80.133 4 59 Johnny Butler 35 15:49.495 00:01.376 00:16.788 28 80.415 5 24 Craig Yeaton 35 15:53.181 00:05.062 00:17.027 27 79.286 6 99 Eric Brust 35 15:57.714 00:09.595 00:17.120 33 78.855 7 45 Dave Lowenstein 35 15:58.676 00:10.557 00:17.404 17 77.568 8 0 Bill Waters 35 15:59.470 00:11.351 00:17.070 17 79.086 9 01 Erik Valdez 34 13:16.951 1 Lap 00:17.029 27 79.277 10 97 Dylan Garner 34 13:18.404 00:01.453 00:17.141 21 78.759 11 44 Karon Lowenstein 34 15:52.270 02:35.319 00:17.937 17 75.263 12 81 Nastasia Dodd 34 15:56.813 02:39.862 00:17.151 32 78.713 13 14 Brandon Weaver 34 16:00.320 02:43.369 00:17.150 17 78.717 14 42 Carlos Quintero 34 16:01.070 02:44.119 00:17.136 32 78.782 15 41 Todd Conrad 34 16:05.495 02:48.544 00:17.131  

BRANDON WEAVER is the 2014 SRL S2 TOUR SERIES CHAMPION

Photo: Sal Sigala   POS. CAR DRIVER NAME TOTAL 1 15 Brandon Weaver 1887 2 59 Johnny Butler 1751 3 0 Bill Waters 1732 4 81 Nastasia Dodd 1581 5 50 Blaine Perkins 1405 6 01 Chris Morrison 1287 7 45 Dave Lowenstein 1280 8 44 Karon Lowenstein 1187 9 43 Kenny Smith 1180 10 14 Dylan Baker 951 11 50 Trevor Huddleston 870 12 97 Dylan Garner 806 13 29 Cory Elliott 782 14 42 Carlos Quintero 693 15 24 Craig Yeaton 569 16 77 Kyle Whisner 453 17 52 Uli Perez 447 18 41 Todd Conrad 533 19 99 Eric Brust 315 20 50 Bill Sedwick 180 21 4 Ryan Cansdale 180 22 77 Travis Irving 155 23 99 John Watkinson 150 24 46 Daryl Scoggins 142 25 77 Zac Hunt 142 26 77 Tom Stanton 142 27 01 Erik Valdez 138 28 77 Bud Budavari 0

ROCHA HARD CHARGER at the BULLRING

Blaine Rocha drove from 24th starting position to a career high 3rd place finish Saturday night at the Bullring at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.  Rocha did not make a qualifying attempt for Saturday's 125-lap race, as he was competing at  the MG Tires Superkarts USA SuperNationals XVIII at the Rio. [...]

Austin Reed Closes Season with First SRL Start

  Austin Reed Closes Season with First SRL Start 21-Year Old Ready to Roll Dice in Vegas Shootout at SRL FinaleCOTO de CAZA, CA (November 18, 2014) Austin Reed has been behind the wheel of a variety of race cars this season from Outlaw Karts at Millbridge Speedway in North Carolina, to a [...]

BIG BONUS AWARDED AT “THE SHOWDOWNS”

Bakersfield, CA – Two of the richest Super Late Model events of 2015, just raised the stakes. As Doug Hobbs of Evergreen Speedway, the host of the June 27th, 2015 “Summer Showdown”, and Larry Collins, who’s team will bring the “Winter Showdown” to Kern County Raceway Park on February [...]

Thorn Eyes Second Championship

Bakersfield, CA – As the SPEARS Southwest Tour Series approaches the final race of its 2014 season, Derek Thorn is in position to win his second series championship in three years. Thorn won his first SPEARS Southwest Tour Series championship in 2012. In 2013, he missed a couple of [...]

Thorn In Charge of Championship – Archer to be Crowned 2014 Rookie-of-the-Year

  1 43 Derek Thorn 1507 127 170 180 180 180 150 170 180 170 2 75 Jeremy Doss 1415 160 180 170 155 160 180 155 155 100 3 19 Brandon White 1326 180 160 165 170 112 165 146 134 94 4 29 Greg Voigt 1324 146 142 130 165 124 112 180 160 165 5 16 Jacob Gomes 1299 165 150 109 160 115 170 150 130 150 6 21 Garrett Archer ** 1279 150 112 160 146 109 160 160 170 112 7 37 Keith Spangler 1231 142 134 127 142 142 142 134 138 130 8 90 Ross Strmiska 1203 170 127 134 150 170 155 142 - 155 9 51 Carlos Vieira 1191 155 124 150 115 121 124 118 142 142 10 20 Tracy Bolin 1170 106 100 146 138 150 118 138 150 124 11 24 Scott Sanchez 1094 115 118 155 134 130 109 103 124 106 12 66 Jeff Bischofberger   ** 745 124 130 124 127 - 134 106 - - 13 6 Donny St. Ours 738 138 106 121 118 146 - - - 109 14 98 Blaine Rocha ** 658 - - - 130 155 146 130 - 97 15 52 Cole Loftsgard ** 652 134 138 138 124 118 - - - - 16 89 Bobby Hodges 635 100 - - - 165 - 109 146 115 17 44 Bob Lyon 599 118 - 112 - - 127 115 - 127 18 57 David Ross 490 - 109 142 - 127 - 112 - - 19 18 Jim Pettit II 373 130 97 - - - - - - 146 20 12 Colby Potts 358 103 - - - 134 121 - - - 21 33 M.K. Kanke 351 109 121 - - - - 121 - - 22 17 David Mayhew 345 - 165 - - - - - - 180 23 14 Craig Raudman 306 - 146 - - - - - - 160 24 88 Jason Gilbert 262 - - - - - 138 124 - - 25 02 Dave Byrd 253 - - - - 138 115 - - - 26 73 Ken Benhamou 251 121 - - - - 130 0 - - 27 17 Jonathan Mawhinney 239 - - 118 121 - - - - - 28 61 Hannah Newhouse   ** 215 112 103 - - - - - - - 29 64 Matthew Meech ** 215 - - 115 - - - 100 - - 30 77 Toni McCray ** 165 - - - - - - 165 - - 31 09 Brennan Newberry 165 - - - - - - - 165 - 32 22 Jonathan Gomez 155 - 155 - - - - - - - 33 05 Eric Schmidt 138 - - - - - - - - 138 34 3 JR Courage     ** 134 - - - - - - - - 134 35 71 Christian [...]

COURAGE TOP ROOKIE AT KCRP

J.R. Courage posted a 10th place finish in his first career SPEARS Southwest Tour Series start, which was the best of the five rookies who competed in Saturday's Fall Shootout 100 presented by World's Champion Hand Cleaner. 

MAYHEW WINS FALL SHOOTOUT 100

From KCPR PR Photo: Rex Emerson BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA (November 2, 2014) - 2014 Kern County Raceway Park track champions David Mayhew and Brian Richardson successfully defended home turf, taking the SPEARS Southwest Tour Series and CITGO Late Model wins in Saturday's inaugural CITGO Lubricants Fall Shootout.  Track crews persevered through a [...]

Perkins Wins S2 at KCRP – Weaver Maintains S2 Championship Lead

  Pos No. Name Laps Total time Diff Best time In lap Best speed 1 50 Blaine Perkins 40 17:18.099 00:20.818 31 86.464 2 15 Brandon Weaver 40 17:18.898 00:00.799 00:20.954 32 85.902 3 99 Eric Brust 40 17:22.021 00:03.922 00:21.002 34 85.706 4 59 Johnny Butler 40 17:22.800 00:04.701 00:21.019 16 85.637 5 81 Nastasia Dodd 40 17:25.280 00:07.181 00:21.128 35 85.195 6 42 Carlos Quintero 40 17:26.642 00:08.543 00:20.921 36 86.038 7 0 Bill Waters 40 17:27.730 00:09.631 00:21.042 32 85.543 8 77 Zac Hunt 40 17:29.487 00:11.388 00:20.927 21 86.013 9 45 Dave Lowenstein 40 17:31.083 00:12.984 00:21.339 18 84.353 10 14 Dylan Baker 40 17:31.358 00:13.259 00:21.043 35 85.539 11 24 Craig Yeaton 40 17:32.123 00:14.024 00:21.274 3 84.610 12 29 Cory Elliott 38 17:21.375 2 Laps 00:20.536 32 87.651 13 01 Chris Morrison 37 16:18.518 3 Laps 00:21.039 33 85.555 14 44 Karon Lowenstein 23 10:53.432 17 Laps 00:22.132 20 81.330 15 97 Dylan Garner 10 03:40.716 30 Laps 00:20.847 10 86.343 16 41 Todd Conrad 0 00:00.000 00:00.000 --:--:--  

Bob Strandwold Racing Returns to the SRL

FOR RELEASE BOB STRANDWOLD RACING   Modesto, CA - Two-time SPEARS SRL Southwest Tour Series championship team, Bob Strandwold Racing will be making their 2014 debut at Kern Raceway Park on November 1, with series rookie JR Courage driving the PODS/Chicken Barn Restaurant #3 BSR Chevrolet. BSR is very pleased to have the [...]

DOSS DOMINATES VEGAS OPEN COMP

Although Doss had one of the fastest NASCAR Super Late Models all weekend, he qualified a disappointing 14th out of 39 cars on Friday and had to race his way into the 26-car Open Comp because only the top eight qualifiers were guaranteed a spot in the field. Doss, a [...]

Blaine Perkins Wins Irwindale S2

Blaine Perkins picked up his fourth consecutive win of 2014, by setting fast time (new track record) and winning at Irwindale Speedway Saturday night.   RESULTS: Pos No. Name Laps Total time Diff Best time In lap Best speed 1 50 Blaine Perkins 35 12:07.630 00:20.364 0 88.391 2 59 Johnny Butler 35 12:08.848 00:01.218 00:20.303 0 88.657 3 15 Brandon Weaver 35 12:09.036 00:01.406 00:20.382 0 88.313 4 97 Dylan Garner 35 12:19.713 00:12.083 00:20.218 0 89.030 5 41 Todd Conrad 35 12:21.383 00:13.753 00:20.665 0 87.104 6 0 Bill Waters 35 12:23.754 00:16.124 00:20.852 0 86.323 7 99 John Watkinson 35 12:23.946 00:16.316 00:20.875 0 86.228 8 45 Dave Lowenstein 35 12:25.044 00:17.414 00:20.739 0 86.793 9 24 Craig Yeaton 34 12:08.755 1 Lap 00:20.828 0 86.422 10 44 Karon Lowenstein 32 12:16.990 3 Laps 00:21.745 0 82.778 11 14 Dylan Baker 26 09:40.000 9 Laps 00:21.998