SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE SPEEDWAY ACCORDING TO TIM K.

Pro Trks, Legends, Bandoleros, Demo Derby, Monster Trks - 

By Tim Kennedy 
Irwindale, CA., Sept. 3 - Close and controversial finishes were the order 
of the night Saturday at Irwindale Speedway with about 4,000 spectators 
present. Winners were Jeff Williams, 34, in the Jasper West Coast Pro Trucks on the 
half-mile, second-year driver Matt Hicks, 18, in King Taco Legend Cars on the 
third-mile, and Donny St. Ours, 11, in Bandoleros on the third-mile. Other 
winners were Mark Hall in the 2005 Dodge Raminator Monster Truck Series and Stan 
McDonald in a $2,000 Pick Your Part Demolition Derby with 17 competitors. 
Past DD winner McDonald, a USMC gunnery Sgt. at Camp Pendleton, earned 
$1,000 for outwitting, outhitting and outlasting other DD drivers in a 16-minute 
event that concluded the evening. One car carried an onboard TV camera for 
KTTV Channel 11 in Los Angeles. A camera crew in the starters' stand also taped 
the demo derby for later telecast. Six drivers competed in monster trucks. 
Hall's Raminator won the 40-minute bracket racing over small dirt launch ramps 
and crushed old cars. He later took the 15-minute free-style competition and 
overall honors over the Bigfoot Ford driven by Dave Harkey. 
A 20-truck Jasper WCPT race provided the controversial finish. Point 
leader and six-time feature winner Chris Johnson, 22, started second in his Ford 
F-150 and led the first 36 laps. Then he slid high in the first turn and almost 
hit the wall. Johnson dropped to fourth position before he gathered up his 
truck and continued. He took third place from Williams with an inside pass on 
lap 43. Don Helgeson inherited the point when Johnson slid high and he seemed 
headed for his first victory this year over fastest qualifier/rookie Rick Wall. 
Two laps from the lap 50 checkers, Ivan Arias spun in turn two and Buddy 
Antunez caught the wall sideways and stopped. 
At the start of lap 49, Wall "jumped the start" on the front straight 
according to officials and took the lead on the inside entering turn one. Wall 
led lap 49 over Johnson, Helgeson and Williams with the top three drivers 
nose-to-tail. On the final lap Johnson shot past Wall for the lead exiting turn two 
and Helgeson moved under Wall. Entering the third turn Helgeson ran in hard 
and his right front hit the left rear of Johnson's truck, moving him up and 
leading to Johnson's spin in the fourth turn. Helgeson and Wall finished first and 
second. Williams took the checkered flag third after barely avoiding 
Johnson's spinning truck in turn four. Neil Conrad crossed the line fourth after he 
braked hard to avoid tee-boning Johnson's sideways truck. Johnson crossed the 
line last in ninth place and the last driver on the lead lap. 
Helgeson, Wall and Williams stopped at the finish line and climbed out 
for the usual award ceremonies. Then they learned via the track PA "the race 
winner is Jeff Williams." Helgeson was positioned at the back of the lead lap 
"for rough driving". Wall received a similar penalty "for passing before the 
green flag." They both climbed back into the trucks and drove to the pits beyond 
the first two turns. Every other lead lap driver gained two positions with 
Williams (Ford F-150) netting his third IS career victory and first since 2003. 
Conrad and Jim Satterfield were second and third officially. Johnson placed 
seventh, Helgeson eighth and Wall ninth. 
The 30-car Legends 35-lap main was a battle between point 
leader/three-time IS champion Tom Landreth and his 2005 championship rival Hicks, the fastest 
qualifier and third starter. Pole starter Landreth shot into an early lead 
and Hicks took second on lap seven. Hicks raced Landreth to lap 28 when Landreth 
slid high in the slick first turn and dropped to fifth. Hicks led lap 28-35 
and just held off Gary Scheurell by half a length (0.052 seconds). Landreth got 
back to fourth and now leads Hicks by ten points (442-432) with one race and 
50-points maximum remaining in the 11 point-race schedule. 
The Legends rookie of the year contest between female driver Lindsay 
King, 16, and one-time main event winner Connor Cantrell, 14, was compelling also. 
King started second as second quickest qualifier and Cantrell started fifth 
as fifth quickest driver in a 31-car field. King began the evening fourth in 
track points and Cantrell fifth, eight points behind her. King ran second for 
six laps and was fifth from lap eight-17 before finishing ninth. Cantrell took 
third place on lap 21 and finished third to take the rookie point lead by four 
points. He now ranks fourth with 310 and King is fifth with 306 points. Sixty 
drivers have earned IS Legends series points this season. 
The eight-car Bandolero 15-lap main for youth aged nine to 14 had two 
leaders-Carter Calhoun and St. Ours. Six cars spun together on the first lap and 
four restarted. A red flag flew on the ninth lap when two cars collided in 
turn two and Donald Greenberg flipped. His car slid upside down to the wall and 
bounced back onto its wheels, minus the roof. He was uninjured. 
Legend Car driver Ryan Partridge, 17, raced his 1,300 cc, 150 horsepower, 
5/8-scale 1937 Chevrolet sedan replica to aid victims of hurricane Katrina. 
He qualified seventh and voluntarily started the 35-lap race last to collect 
money pledged to aid hurricane victims for every car he passed during the race. 
Some persons pledged a dollar and some $5 or $10, with all money going to the 
American Red Cross. Partridge has one feature victory this season and ranks 
15th in points after not competing in one of the 11 events. He started 30th and 
finished 15th and raised $1,200 for the Red Cross. 
IS track management also started their aid to Gulf hurricane victims program earlier in the week by 
offering at least 500 free tickets each week to IS races to persons donating money at 
the box office to hurricane victims. 

Nate Hardiman, the first alternate IS diversity program driver, made his second start in the house No. 05 sedan. 
He came from 22nd grid position to finish 16th on the lead lap. 

MONSTER TRUCKS (6 trucks) 
Overall Winner: Mark Hall in Raminator over Dave Harkey in Bigfoot. 
BANDOLEROS: (8 cars) 
Fast Time: Andre Prescott, 18.009. 
Main: Donny St Ours, Carter Calhoun, Prescott, Johnathan St Ours, Brent 
Schneidermantle, Donald Greenberg, Jack Madrid, Michael Greenberg. 
KING TACO LEGEND CARS: (32 cars) 
Fast Time: Matt Hicks, 16.956. 
Main: Hicks, Gary Schurell, Connor Cantrell, Tom Landreth, J. D. Hendley, 
Bill Bonney, Mark Gaiser, Steve Twilligear, Lindsay King, Chad Schug, Jim Smith, 
Bob Landreth, Van Iungerich, Steve Rogers, Ryan Partridge, Nate Hardiman, 
Joseph Daniello, Larry Alsop, Robert Meneley, Michael Smith, Scott Cocke, Brian 
Wong, Jason Alsop, Lynn Sours, Carl Wuersch, Larry Stone, Bill Calhoun. DNS-Ed 
Rashid. 
JASPER WEST COAST PRO TRUCKS: (20 trucks) 
Fast Time: Rick Wall, 20.280. 
Main: Jeff Williams, Neil Conrad, Jim Satterfield, Tim McMillin, Todd 
Cameron, Barry Kalperis, Jr., Chris Johnson, Don Helgeson, Wall, Dustin Vandermooren, 
Ron Mongenel, Bob Wright, Ivan Arias, Buddy Antunez, Dan Ciraulo, William 
Huff, David Timewell, Cecil Phelps, Ronnie Davis, Jeff Broughton. 
PICK YOUR PART DEMO DERBY: (17 cars) 
Main: Stan McDonald, Justin Malone, Steve Cook, Bill Alt, Milton Eisenhauer. 
Others-Mike Duran, Al Rocha, John Zimmerman, Dan Pachella, Tyrone Klingbeil, 
Robert Hill, Justin Stress, Jeremy Cook, Mark Carter, Enrique Gomez, Gary Hilr, 
Bryan Hendry. 
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THANKS!
-STOKES