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By Robert Haugh
Ravensdale, Washington’s Dallas Melby toppled a stellar BCRA Midget field on
Saturday evening, March 31st at the beautiful 3/8-mile Shasta Speedway in
Anderson, Ca, wheeling the #9 Chris Melby Blue Dot/Gaerte, earning his second
BCRA feature triumph.
Following the 19-year-old Melby to the checkers was 16-year-old Justin Grant in
the #30 Tim Grant Beast/Esslinger, Vader, Washington’s 19-year-old female
sensation Brea Lopez in the #25 Dan Press Beast/Pink Ford, La Conner,
Washington’s Evan Funk in the #23 Lindsey Motorsports Beast/Esslinger and
following the talented quad of young guns to the line was Sacramento's Ralphie
“The Racer” Cortez in the #31 Shores-Cortez Beast/Sesco-Mopar rounding out the
Top 5.
“The Ageless Wonder,” 7-time BCRA champion Floyd Alvis captured sixth in the #18
Champion Automotive Stealth/Van Dyne ahead of David Prickett in the #15
Neverlift Motorsports Hawk/Van Dyne, Kyle Kruger in the #22, Mike Donaldson in
the #87 Stu Donaldson Stealth/Gaerte and Scott Pierovich in the #35 Beast/Bob
Wirth Mopar rounding out the Top 10.
Multiple late race spins and tangles halted the race after 18 laps due to
curfew.
Leading after Lap 17, Portland, Oregon’s Spence Gatrell in the Steve Gatrell #8
Hawk/Chevy tangled with Paul Zimmerly of Ridgefield, Washington in the #11 DMS
Race Products Beast/Esslinger and Justin Melton in the #31d, dropping the three
frontrunners.
Cortez won Heat #1 from the outside pole in a green-to-checkers triumph over
2002 BCRA Third place driver and car owner champion Bill Lindsey in the #61 Jim
Fowler Beast/Esslinger, Donaldson, Pickett and hometown racer Rick Faeth of
Anderson in the #3 Beast/Chevy V4.
Funk, the 17-year-old Washington sensation won Heat #2 over Pierovich, Travis
Berryhill in the #11 “Spirit of American Canyon” Stealth/Gaerte, Alvis and
Lakeport’s Eric Mostin in the #12 Beast/Mopar.
Melby claimed the incident plagued Third Heat over Flower Mounds, Texas native
Justin Melton in the #31d DMS Race Products Beast/Esslinger, Zimmerly, Gatrell
and Krueger. Contact nearing the conclusion of the race displaced Gatrell from
the lead, dropping him to fourth.
Zimmerly took the winner’s laurels in the Trophy Dash over Melby, Nichols and
Lopez.
Chad Nichols outpaced the stellar field of BCRA Midgets in qualifying setting
fast time at 14.928, one of only two drivers breaking the 15-second barrier.
Zimmerly also reached into the 14s, scoring a 14.955 mark.
Melby’s other BCRA feature race triumph came last July in a BCRA and WMRA
co-sanctioned show at the 3/8-mile Douglas County Speedway in Roseburg, Oregon.
The DMS Race Products BCRA Midget Series venture back to dirt, powering into the
Sierra Nevada foothills for the first of three races at John Padjen’s beautiful
¼-mile Placerville Speedway at the El Dorado County Fairgrounds on April 14th.
Following the Placerville bout, the BCRA Midgets partake in the Vukovich Classic
at the lightning-fast 1/3-mile Madera Speedway, then venture north to Redwood
Acres Raceway in Eureka for a double-points race on May 19th.
Visit www.bcraracing.com for additional information on the BCRA Midgets.
Summary:
Qualifying:
1. Chad Nichols (17n) 14.928;
2. Paul Zimmerly (11d) 14.955;
3. Brea Lopez (25) 15.011;
4. Dallas Melby (9) 15.130;
5. Justin Melton (31d) 15.251;
6. Kyle Krueger (22) 15.275;
7. Spence Gatrell (8) 15.379;
8. Justin Grant (30) 15.419;
9. Scott Pierovich (35) 15.473;
10. Glen Carson (26) 15.501;
11. Travis Berryhill (11) 15.532;
12. Evan Funk (23) 15.570;
13. Eric Mostin (12) 15.779;
14. Floyd Alvis (18) 15.867;
15. David Prickett (15) 15.883;
16. Mike Donaldson (87) 15.891;
17. Mike Binswanger (63) 15.982;
18. Rick Faeth (3) 16.202;
19. Bill Lindsey (61) 16.272,
20. Ralph Cortez (31) 16.292;
21. Kevin Morris (17k) 16.369.
Dash: Zimmerly, Melby, Nichols, Lopez
Heat 1: Cortez, Lindsey, Donaldson, Prickett, Faeth, Binswanger, Morris
Heat 2: Funk, Pierovich, Berryhill, Alvis, Mostin, Grant, Carson
Heat 3: Melby, Melton, Zimmerly, Gatrell, Krueger, Lopez, Nichols
Main (22 laps shortened due to curfew)
1. Melby, 2. Grant, 3. Lopez, 4. Funk, 5. Cortez, 6. Alvis, 7. Prickett, 8.
Krueger, 9. Donaldson, 10. Pierovich, 11. Binswanger, 12. Melton, 13. Carson,
14. Mostin, 15. Berryhill, 16. Lindsey, 17. Faeth, 18. Morris, 19. Gatrell, 20.
Zimmerly, 21. Nichols
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