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THIRTEEN YEAR OLD CHAD
BOAT
GETS FIRST MIDGET WIN
Prescott Valley, AZ
-- Forced to come from tenth starting on a straight up start, thirteen year old
Chad Boat turned heads as he drove to his first Arizona Midget win in just
his fifth midget race Saturday night at Prescott Valley Raceway. Boat had
an incredible 2004 season when he scored 14 wins and 7 seconds in 26
starts in his mini sprint 600. He opened 2005 with another pair of mini
sprint 600 wins and is now busy dividing his time between a full size mini
sprint and his midget efforts. He has won five straight mini sprint
features and now has his first midget win in his Gaerte Ford powered
Stealth. Boat drove underneath Mike Courtney to get the lead and he was
out front when the track's 11 o'clock stopped the feature short of it's
scheduled distance. Darrin Bolton also got by Courtney to finish second
and Courtney settled for third ahead of Bugs Norbury.
The four drivers
dueling for the pure stock championship finished 1-2-3-4 in that feature
with point leader Steve Rezek winning in front of Bill Moore Jr, Ed Parry
and Ron Hull. Rezek also won his heat race and now leads Parry by two
points, Moore by three and Hull by 10. Mini Stock point leader Ray Bramlet
won their 18 car feature.
Ray Taylor dropped to fourth in points with a
17th place finish and Shayne Durrance ran second ahead of Fritz Croy.
Terry McCraw finished fourth and trails Bramlet by just four points.
There were 11 midgets and Cole Houser won the dash ahead of Bolton, Mike
Welker and Dustin Burkhart. Stevie Sussex Jr won the pole for the feature
by capturing heat 1 over Courtney and Darin Fala. Bolton got the other
front row assignment by winning heat 2 over Welker and Burkhart. The track
was too wet to pass on and sixth starting Boat had to settle for a fifth.
Tenth starting Boat avoided early feature race crashes and had already
worked his way to third using a bottom line when a lap four yellow slowed
the action. The leader pitted during this caution and Boat got underneath
Courtney on the backstretch to claim the top spot. Boat added two car
lengths to his lead over Courtney each lap and he was well in front at the
early checkered flag. Boat thanked his team for getting his motor back
together after problems at Manzanita Speedway the previous weekend. Bolton
finished off a big night with a second ahead of Courtney, Norbury, John
Sarna, Houser, Sussex, Fala and Burkhart. Boat faces a bigger challenge on
June 25 when the Arizona Midgets run a co-sanctioned show with the USAC
Western States Midgets at USA Race Park in Tucson.
The pure stocks split 16 cars into three heats, but only 13 survived to
race in the feature race. Rezek beat Hull and Brad Bartsch in heat 1 and
Mark McWorthy won heat 2 over Jeff Hopper. Parry and Moore were 1-2 in
heat 3 ahead of Rob Sanders. Rezek got the feature win in front of Moore,
Parry, Hull, Jeff Kuykendall, McWorthy, Hopper and Sanders.
The mini
stocks split 18 cars into three heats. McCraw won the opening heat race
over Kent Ewart and Wendall Croy. Bramlet had a perfect night as he won
heat 2 ahead of Taylor and F Croy. Durrance beat Carl Riley and Rob
Butcher in heat 3. Bramlet won the main event ahead of Durrance, F Croy,
McCraw, Doug Clements, W Croy, Ewart, Butcher and Jason Parks. Third
ranked Ewart is 13 points back of McCraw and 2 ahead of Taylor.
The June 25 celebration and Prescott Valley Days features a mini stock
showdown with the pure stocks and NADCAR dwarf cars also in action.
Summary: Mini Stock Heat 1-Terry McCraw, Kent Ewart, Wendall Croy, Jason
Parks, Bernie Williams. Heat 2-Ray Bramlet, Ray Taylor, Fitz Croy, #55,
Shane Slay. Heat 3-Shayne Durrance, Carl Riley, Rob Butcher, Sam Cutlip,
Harley Miner. Main-Bramlet, Durrance, F Croy, McCraw, Doug Clements, W
Croy, Ewart, Butcher, Parks, Slay, Miner, Amy Edwards, #66, #55, Williams,
Riley, Taylor, Cutlip.
Pure Stock Heat 1-Steve Rezek, Ron Hull, Brad
Bartsch, #67, Wayne Bishop. Heat 2-Mark McWorthy, Jeff Hopper, #55, Brian
Davis, Tommy Utts. Heat 3-Ed Parry, Bill Moore Jr, Rob Sanders, Michael
Davis. Main-Rezek, Moore, Parry, Hull, Jeff Kuykendall, McWorthy, Hopper,
Sanders, #55, Bishop, M Davis, B Davis, #67.
Midget Dash-Cole Houser,
Darrin Bolton, Mike Welker. Heat 1-Stevie Sussex Jr, Mike Courtney, Darin
Fala, John Sarna, Bugs Norbury. Heat 2-Bolton, Welker, Dustin Burkhart,
Houser, Chad Boat. Main-Boat, Bolton, Courtney, Norbury, Sarna, House,
Sussex, Fala, Burkhart, Tony Osuch, Welker
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