THORN BATS 1000 AT KCRP IN 2015


THORN BATS 1000 AT KCRP IN 2015

BY ALLISON GRIFFITH, For The Californian  / Photo provided by KCRP

It was a fast paced evening at Kern County Raceway Park Saturday for the 2nd Annual CITGO Lubricants Fall Shootout.

The Spears Southwest Tour DC’s RV Center 100 presented  by Race For Autism.net had 96 consecutive laps of green flag racing.

Dominating at his hometown track, Derek Thorn not only had the No. 1 qualifying time of 17.592, but went on to w1n his second feature of 2015 at KCRP.

“We can leave here with our heads held high, knowing we’ve won.” said Thorn, who also won the the last Southwest Tour race held at KCRP in April.

Thorn fought his way from the sixth position, taking first place going into turn four on lap 35.

From then on Thorn showed how fast his car was, lapping all the way up to the seventh position.

Bobby Hodges, who started first, finished second.

“It was a long run, definitely wore me out,” Hodges said of the nonstop racing. “I tried to hold on to Derek, but he’s unreal out there.”

Finishing third, Jacob Gomes was able to rack up more point for the season and is now only three points behind Greg Voigt with just one race remaining. Voigt placed fourth.

Pos No. Name Laps Total time Diff Best time In lap Best speed
1 43 Derek Thorn 100 37:19.047 00:18.513 14 97.229
2 89 Bobby Hodges 100 37:30.697 00:11.650 00:18.421 6 97.715
3 16 Jacob Gomes 100 37:33.050 00:14.003 00:18.589 8 96.831
4 29 Greg Voigt 100 37:34.102 00:15.055 00:18.659 23 96.468
5 28 Parker Stephens * 100 37:35.807 00:16.760 00:18.720 1 96.154
6 23 Dan Holtz 100 37:38.345 00:19.298 00:18.637 22 96.582
7 21 Blaine Rocha 99 37:19.407 1 Lap 00:18.627 19 96.634
8 14 Austin Reed * 99 37:24.195 00:04.788 00:18.754 9 95.980
9 31 Ryan Cansdale * 99 37:27.045 00:07.638 00:18.681 22 96.355
10 2 Craig Raudman 99 37:32.231 00:12.824 00:18.810 23 95.694
11 44 Bob Lyon 98 37:27.429 2 Laps 00:18.832 7 95.582
12 9 Justin Westmoreland 97 37:31.804 3 Laps 00:18.932 11 95.077
13 51 Carlos Vieira 95 37:37.737 5 Laps 00:18.871 20 95.384
14 71 Christian McGhee * 94 35:55.010 6 Laps 00:18.884 7 95.319
15 88 Jason Gilbert 47 21:08.505 53 Laps 00:18.908 23 95.198
16 4 Brian Richardson * 43 19:36.904 57 Laps 00:18.628 6 96.629
17 64 Matthew Meech * 21 13:02.477 79 Laps 00:19.097 19 94.256
18 37 Keith Spangler 2 01:02.730 98 Laps 00:21.283 1 84.575
19 19 Brandon White 1 00:21.353 99 Laps 00:19.307 1 93.230
20 24 Scott Sanchez 1 00:26.192 00:04.839 00:21.478 1 83.807