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Midget & Midget Lite Results
BCRA Midgets - Lakeport Speedway (Sat. May 12, 2012)
Velvet smooth Kevin Morris won the BCRA Midget Feature Saturday night at Lakeport Speedway, Lakeport California. Just 1.2 seconds behind Morris was hard charging Michael Snider, with brother Darin Snider placing 3rd just 1.6 seconds behind Michael. Past BCRA President Ralph Cortez, who brought his #31 Beast-Mopar out of the garage after a 3 year layoff looked just as sharp as he always was and came home in 4th, with Bill Lindsey rounding out the top five. The rest of the running order; Gary Conterno 6th, Floyd Alvis 7th, Rick Holbrook 8th and David Goodwill 9th.
Qualifying: 1 - Michael Snider, #6k, Snider, 12.196; 2 - Darin Snider, #2k, Snider 12.258; 3 - David Goodwill, #88, Arata, 12.463; 4 - Floyd Alvis, #83, Alvis, 12.524; 5 - Kevin Morris, #17k, Morris, 12.552; 6 - Rick Holbrook, #6, Holbrook 12.887; 7 - Bill Lindsey, #18, Alvis 13.070; Gary Conterno, #55, Conterno, 13.142; 9 - Ralph Cortez, #3, Cortez NT
Trophy Dash: Goodwill
Heat Race #1: Morris, Goodwill, M. Snider, Holbrook, Alvis, Cortez, Lindsey, and Conterno.
Main Lap Leaders, Morris 1-30
BCRA Midget Lites - Bakersfield Speedway (Sat. May 12, 2012)
Eleven (11) BCRA Midget Lites ventured south to meet thirteen (13) California Lightning Sprints in the 2012 Civil War Shootout at Bakersfield Speedway. The BCRA Lites claimed the podium spots with #9 Scott Kinney, #77 Cameron Beard and #35jr Dakota Albright coming home 1, 2, 3, followed by #72 Craig Dillard in 4th.
Heat #1: 1 - #35jr Dakota Albright, 2 - #72 Craig Dillard, 3 - #77 Cameron Beard, 4 - #7 Dyer, 5 - #17 Gamer, 6 - #62 Marshall Sexton, 7 - #30 Rick Soto, 8 - #7x Howard West
Heat #2: 1 - #9 Scott Kinney, 2 - #10x Scott Corso, 3 - #4x Limon, 4 - #29 Zauss, 5 - #28 Marcus Smith, 6 - #24 Arnett, 7 - #10 Hillberg, 8 - #90 Downing
Heat #3: 1 - #21k Michnowicz, 2 - #01 Hillberg, 3 - #14 Kramer, 4 - #74 Craig Holsted, 5 - #50 Maresch, 6 - #88 Rick Johnson, 7 - #3 Bissett, 8 - #64 Watkins
Main: 1 - #9 Kinney, 2 - #77 Beard, 3 - #35jr Albright, 4 - #72 Dillard, 5 - #14 Kramer, 6 - #21k Michnowicz, 7 - #74 Holsted, 8 - #4x Limon, 9 - #50 Maresch, 10 - #62 Sexton, 11 - #7 Dyer, 12 - #01 Hillberg, 13 - #10x Corso, 14 - #30 Soto, 15 - #24 Arnett, 16 - #88 Johnson, 17 - #17 Gamer, 18 - #3 Bissett, 19 - #29 Zauss, 20 - #7x West, 21 - #28 Smith, 22 - #90 Downing, 23 - #10 Hillberg (DNS), 24 - #64 Watkins (DNS)
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Midget Rule Clarification
At the request of several BCRA car owners and drivers, the BCRA Board of Directors has reviewed the current Combo-Car and 12” Right-Rear wheel rule. The 12” Right-Rear Wheel rule has been in place since before 2000, and has always been intended to encourage car owners with older, and/or less powerful motors, to bring their cars out and race. The 12” Right-Rear Wheel rule was meant to give these under-powered cars a little better chance to compete.
By the mid-2000s, the pavement car was dominating and owners with older cars and less powerful motors, were abandoning pavement racing. By 2006, the pavement car numbers were dwindling to single digits, based primarily on the high cost of the cars and motors.
In 2007, the BCRA Board of Directors, in an attempt to encourage owners with older, under-powered cars to come out and compete, and especially compete on pavement, enacted the Combo-Car rule and allowed Combo-cars that ran both pavement and dirt races the right to use a 12” Right-Rear wheel. Again, allowing the use of a 12” right-rear wheel was seen as an incentive to try and increase car counts, especially at pavement tracks.
In 2010, the heart of the Combo-Car rule was cut from the Rules & Regulations and any car that measures 36” or less from the front of the fire-wall to the center of the rear axle, and is a left-hand steer car, was declared a Combo-Car and allowed to use the 12” Right-Rear wheel. Again, the numbers of the older cars with under-powered motors has fallen off sharply at pavement tracks, and the car counts have dwindled once again to single digit numbers.
The 2012 BCRA Board of Directors has carefully reviewed this situation and decided that the Combo-Car rule is not helping to increase car counts, especially on pavement, and, in effect, is actually reducing car counts on pavement. So, at the request of both BCRA members and promoters, the Combo-Car clause is being dropped from the 2012 BCRA Rules & Regulations, leaving the following clause defining which cars can use a 12” Right-Rear wheel. It is hoped by the BCRA Board of Directors, its members, and especially the pavement track promoters, that this change will encourage owners with older chassis and under-powered motors to once again bring their cars out to race.
2012 – Midget Rule Clarification - Page 16, Section D, Sub-Section 27
27.) All midgets racing with BCRA will be allowed to use a maximum 10" wide right rear wheel, 13" in diameter. Exception: Midgets that utilize an OEM block (Pontiac, ECOTEC, any engine meeting the OEM spec in Section B – Sub-Section 4 on Page 15) or are 174 CID VW or 132 CID Cosworth may use a 12" wide right rear wheel. All three remaining wheels can only be a maximum of 8" wide and 13" in diameter.
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05-05-12 Midget Lites at Placerville
BCRA Midget Lites - Placerville Speedway - May 5, 2012
Race #2 of the 2012 Mighty Midget Lite season is complete.
Congratulations go out to Scott Kinney in the Red Hawk #9 for his second win in two races. Scott also won his heat for a nice clean sweep for the evening.
The evening was a nice clean racing evening. A few engines ended the evening in smoke.
Heat #1 has Doug Nunes #2 starting on the poll and holding on to the win, followed closely by the fast running newcomer Craig Diller #72. Richie Hoover #75 got his 1st start after breaking the first week, finished 3rd, Marshall Sexton #62 was 4th followed by Marcus Smith 28, Rick Johnson #88 and Terry Bergstrom #64 back running after a few years off.
Heat #2, Scott Kinney starting on the outside row #1 lead all the way for a good win, followed in 2nd position by Cory Green #53c who battle with Joey Hoover #76, who like his brother making his first start of the season. #30 Rick Soto came in 4th, Dakota Albright #35c in 5th followed by #7 Howard West who was fighting engine gremlins all evening. Craig Holsted #74 lost a valve in #1 cylinder did not finish and was done racing for the evening.
The feature saw the same 3 on the podium for the 2nd race in a row. With Scott Kinney #9 winning and #2 Doug Nunes finishing in the runner up position. Craig Dillard #72s and 35jr Dakota Albright put on a great race between the Albright cars with Craig edging Dakota out at the finish line. Cory Green #53c had a strong finish 5th after being bumped and spinning on lap 13 was followed by #62 Marshall Sexton , Marcus Smith #28, and Rick Soto #30. A few cars exited the race early, Richie Hoover #75 had electrical problems and did not make the green flag, his brother Joey Hoover #76 blew a chain on lap #1 after a fast start. Also not finishing the race was Rick Johnson #88, smoking engine, #7 Howard West had engine problems, #64 Terry Bergstrom also had engine problems.
The BCRA Mighty Midget Lites travel to Bakersfield this Sat. night to do battle with the CLS Lightning Sprints from Southern California. We are looking for a 30 car battle in this Civil War event.
Left to right: Craig Dillard 3rd, Scott Kinney 1st, Doug Nunes 2nd
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BCRA Vintage Views - Madera 5/5/2012
Vukovich Classic
By June Wheeler-Ferreira
The news from BCRA Vintage Views, Madera May the 5th was the Vukovich Classic. Full night of open wheel racing with USAC/BCRA midgets, USAC /NMCA sprints, Super Modifieds, South West tour trucks and the mighty BCRA Vintage midgets.
The weather was great mid 70’s the crowd was fair could have been better and as always the racing was great. All the groups got warm ups and hot laps, but unfortunately the mains was cut short because of a 2 hour track repair job which was the aftermath of a wild ride that Mike Donaldson took down the front straight away in the competitive midget heat. The vintage guys got one short warm up on the track. Because of the time frame we were unable to run the heat and main, but the guys still had a good time in the pits visiting and kicking tires. Lots of notables came over to look at the cars. We were visited by Burt Foland , who gave Paul a little hand with his throttle always good to see him at the track. Also Tommy Astone Jr. was looking things over too.
Our Vintage director Tommy Belfiore inspected cars for safety so that help to past the time away. Unfortunately things happen at the track that can’t be helped and we are the first that have to set the night out. Remember guys, the promoters work real hard to put people in the stands and put on a good show and they don’t like it when they have to cut a group out and unfortunately that’s the vintage group. We have to remember that they let us run as an extra benefit for the fans and must realize that sometimes, we won’t make the show. Most of us stay busy working on our cars and watching the other racing events. We can’t go away mad if things go wrong. But you must realize that there is no guarantee that we will be able to run, it doesn’t happen to often, but it does happen. We will be going back to Madera on June the 9th and I’m sure if all goes well we’ll get plenty of track time, So lets keep this date in mind and get plenty of cars and put on a great exhibition for the fans.
The Vintage guys: Tommy & Sammy Belfiore #16 Edmunds Chevy II, Norm Gray and Brian # 30 Kurtis Ford V8-60, Harold & Nancy Allen, #04 Kurtis Ford V8-60, Don Strauch & Nephew #26 Kane Chevy II, Richard Walsh #8 Marmon-4, Doug Shanoian #17 Offy and Paul and June Ferreira #1 Edmunds Chevy II.
Richard Walsh did a static display with his Marmon-4 for Kenny Shepherd in front of the grandstands, what a beautiful car it was own and driven by his uncle Clay Walsh.
Remember guys we’re too old to be famous now, see you at Madera, June & Paul
Tommy Belfiore Inspecting Harold Allen's Midget #04
Madera's pits for BCRA Vintage
Tommy Belfiore #16 & Doug Shanoian #17
Turn 2. Doug Shanoian #17. Harold Allen #04, Tommy Belfiore #16 & Norm Gray #30
Staging Area
Paul Ferreira #1
Harold Allen #04
Don Strauch #26
Norm Gray #30
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