"West Coast Enduro Dirt"

 

Wes Brown Wins Seventh Enduro at Chico
by Troy Hennig
CHICO, CA (5-27-08) - Chico's Wes Brown is the man when it comes to Enduro racing at Silver Dollar Speedway. Brown entered this year's race as the six time champion of the 200-lap fair Enduro race and had won the last four years in a row. The only other driver able to beat Brown was fellow Chico driver Gene Guinn. In the nine year history of this race only Brown and Guinn have visited victory lane. Yet, this year it seemed this streak was ready to end. At the half way point, Brown was 4 laps down to leader Jay Cookson of Windsor.
During the final 100 laps Brown had made back 2 of the laps but with just 20 laps to go it did not seem possible for the six-time champion to win again. But then again, this is Silver Dollar Speedway and we are talking about Wes Brown. On lap 181 Cookson had a flat tire. To his credit he drove the next seven laps with the ill-handling car. Finally on lap 188 he pulled to the pit area. The hometown crowd went wild. Brown made up the two laps and officially became the leader on lap 189. He led the final eleven laps to get the popular win. This year's race was hands down the most exciting finish we had seen.
Finishing second was Gene Guinn Jr. who had his best run to date during the Enduro race. Making his first start at Chico was third place finishing Fritz Zanker of Chico. David Papst Jr. stayed solid all race long to finish fourth. The heart break kid, Cookson, finished in the fifth spot. Cookson had led over 100 laps during this race. The Orange Crush cars and fans were once again in full-force this Monday. Two of their three drivers finished in the next two spots. Tim Vaught of Chico finished sixth while Jeremy Stone followed in seventh. Wes Brown Jr. of Chico had the early lead of the race but fell back to an eighth place finish. Kelli Ruley had some misfortune on the racing surface but still finished ninth.
Another heart breaker was Dan Reed of Santa Rosa. Reed has been competing at the Chico Enduro for many years. He is also a top competitor. This year at the half way point we was tied with Cookson for the lead. In fact, Reed passed Cookson for the lead early into the final 100 lap segment. However, disaster struck around lap 130 when he was spun around in turn four and then was able to continue on but going into turn two he spun again and got stuck on a big white tire in the infield. He was stuck until late in the race before help from another driver dislodged him off the tire. Reed finished tenth.

 

 

Halloween Pumpkin Smash 10/27/07
By Ken Winland

Enduro Cars, Pumpkins & a full moon were on tap during the season ending Pumpkin Smash Enduro @ Altamont Motorsports Park.
The West Coast Enduro regulars were joined by Caddys, Camaros, Monte Carlos and compacts for the annual running of the always popular Pumpkin Smash Enduro. 56 cars entered the arena for the chance to win the $4000.00 first place prize. The cars ranged from veteran enduro cars to the newly built entries and even one 4 cylinder joined the excitement.
The “enduro of all enduros” combined 2 tracks into one very exciting race. The cars started on the pumpkin strewn road course for 75 laps, had a short break and then completed another 75 laps. Then the intermission was followed by 150 laps on the ¼ mile oval. The track remained very slick and slippery throughout the night which tested every driver in every way possible, it was like driving on ice at times and getting out of the racing groove into the pumpkin snot guaranteed a spin or 2. The very large crowd was entertained throughout the evening as carnage happened around every corner.

As the pumpkin snot settled, David Pabst in his # 2 Camaro took the checkered flag and out-dueled runner up Joe Addison in the #02 Monte Carlo by 4 laps to capture his 5th win bringing his winnings to $9000.00 for the 2007 season. 3rd place went to Craig Mastropierro in his #73m Camaro. The #24 of Adam Bagget who won a guaranteed top 5 spot based on his performance in the August races finished 4th followed by the #8 of Chad Holeman.

WCE enduro wants to thank Altamont Motorsports Park and General Manager Jeff Macey for supporting our class of racing during the 2007 season. We have certainly built the framework to have an exciting 2008 racing season @ Altamont.

See you in 2008!

A few minutes of video, enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2DiZuHoun8




Pumpkin Smash Sorted on Laps
Enduro Road Course 0.250 Miles
Enduro 10/27/200703:35 PM
Race
Pos No. Name Class Laps Diff TotalTm Best Tm Nat/St Sponsor
1 2 David Papst Pumpkin 300 - 3:11:02.035 20.755
2 02 Joe Addison Pumpkin 296 4 Laps 3: 11: 10.059 19.383
3 73m Craig Mastropierro Pumpkin 296 +10.526 3:11:20.585 20.014
4 24x Adam Bagget Pumpkin 295 Slaps 3:11:21.911 20.864
5 8 Chad Holeman Pumpkin 291 9 Laps 3: 11:02.791 19.748
6 42 Gene Guinn Pumpkin 290 10 Laps 3:11:09.986 19.903
7 22 ben Lewis Pumpkin 289 11 Laps 3:11:03.136 19.719
8 88 Steven Grant Pumpkin 289 +25.240 3: 11:28.376 20.713
9 96 Jay Cookson Pumpkin 286 14 Laps 3: 11:24.096 19.677
10 3x Richard Bentz Pumpkin 285 15 Laps 3: 11:06.899 20.148
11 11 Alan Deabenderfer Pumpkin 284 16 Laps 3: 11:28.725 19.779
12 8 Allen Beasay Pumpkin 282 18 Laps 3:11:23.384 21.369
13 95 Larry Moniz Pumpkin 281 19 Laps 3: 11:02.440 19.849
14 89 Carlton Etheridge Pumpkin 260 40 Laps 3: 11 :09.064 20.732
15 8j Gene Guinn Jr. Pumpkin 256 44 Laps 3: 11: 14.162 20.121
16 66 Ken Winland Pumpkin 249 51 Laps 3:11:09.521 20.300
17 18 Richard Compton . Pumpkin 249 +6.701 3:11:16.222 21.295
18 28 Micheal Hobby Pumpkin 248 52 Laps 3:11:08.170 20.424
19 58 Dan Reed Pumpkin 247 53 Laps 3:11:19.098 19.913
20 1x Joe Allen Pumpkin 240 60 Laps 3: 11: 11.960 20.394
21 45 Perry Carrell Pumpkin 227 73 Laps 3:11:06.431 20.203
22 18b Russell Johnson Pumpkin 221 79 Laps 3:09:48.962 21.860
23 36 Greg McCullough Pumpkin 218 82 Laps 3: 11:22.517 21.057
24 9 Clyde Crowder Pumpkin 209 91 Laps 3:11:22.316 22.517
25 70 Bradford Walker Pumpkin 207 93 Laps 3: 11:03.652 20.709
26 44 Jeff Anderson Bill Lay Pumpkin 203 97 Laps 3: 11:06.050 27.571
27 13x Loren Chitwood Pumpkin 196 104 Laps 2:53:40.439 25.255
28 1 Micheal Evans Pumpkin 184 116 Laps 3:11:15.931 21.525
29 98 Ryan Striminska Pumpkin 183 117 Laps 2:18:11.369 23.662
30 4 Jim Freethy Pumpkin 182 118 Laps 2:31:54.058 25.362
31 37 Antonio Mentzer Pumpkin 175 125 Laps 2:53:06.422 25.022
32 77 Mark Heer Pumpkin 170 130 Laps 2:42:22.255 26.111
33 23 Megan Johnson Pumpkin 163 137 Laps 2:55:59.663 24.842
34 3 Nick King Pumpkin 157 143 Laps 3:11:22.418 22.016
35 77x Vick Kristie Pumpkin 155 145 Laps 3:11:15.240 21.504
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36 7 Ed Nava Pumpkin 145 155 Laps 2:12:29.980 25.843
37 90 Thomas Marcotte Pumpkin 145 +9:21.125 2:21:51.105 24.999
38 123 Rob Arndt Pumpkin 139 161 Laps 3:06:05.748 20.931
39 24 Pumpkin 130 170 Laps 2:39:23.715 24.084
Margin of Victory Avg.Speed Best LapTm BestSpd Best Lap by
4 Laps 23.556 19.383 46.432 [02] Joe Addison
Printed: 10/27/20079:38:51 PM Licensed to: Altamont Motorsports Park
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Pumpkin Smash Sorted on Laps
Enduro Road Course 0.250 Miles
Enduro 10/27/2007 03:35 PM
Race
Pos No. Name Class Laps Diff TotalTm Best Tm Nat/St Sponsor
40 57 Debbie Foreman Pumpkin 129 171 Laps 2:09:37.094 26.746
41 86 Ivan Gromala Pumpkin 126 174 Laps 2: 15:24.133 25.026
42 65 Greg Fuss Pumpkin 95 205 Laps 1:30:38.286 31.656
43 39 Austin Hernandez Pumpkin 89 211 Laps 3: 11:03.214 21.938
44 33 brandon Jones Pumpkin 85 215 Laps 1:57:48.536 27.580
45 11 Kyle Pelton Pumpkin 75 225 Laps 1:41:38.095 31.761
46 23x Criag Cambell Pumpkin 63 237 Laps 1:03:17.496 36.479
47 20 Bagley Pumpkin 62 238 Laps 1:03:53.886 35.971
48 23r Dennis Nutter Pumpkin 59 241 Laps 2:27:48.801 27.573
49 13k Kathy Sabin Pumpkin 46 254 Laps 2:51: 14.750 26.804
50 93 derick Mourice Pumpkin 36 264 Laps 1:35:47.175 32.357
51 7x Kevin Martellacci Pumpkin 19 281 Laps 1:50:06.850 33.009
52 31 Philip Shepard Pumpkin 19 +6:12.341 1:56:19.191 29.951
53 69 Sean Chappie and Helan Pumpkin 10 290 Laps 2:01:33.386 28.956
54 86b Daniel Bong Pumpkin 8 292 Laps 1: 18:42.552 33.740
55 14 Timber Cookson Pumpkin 6 294 Laps 7:42.610 39.603
56 04 Robert Daniel Pumpkin 4 296 Laps 6:07.814 39.771

 

 

 

Altamont Raceway results 09/30/2007

Altamont closes their large Saturday Night program with the West Coast Enduro cars!
by Ken Winland
Altamont keeps the crowd entertained with their full and exciting racing program.
Saturday evenings action highlited by the twin 50 lap Western Late Models, the mini trucks, mini stocks, Alsc, Sprints and Modifieds also saw the running of the enduro cars on the road track for 75 exciting laps.
14 cars entered the wet track at 10pm. We saw our 4th winner in 4 races as action continued to lap 75 when Jay Cookson in the 96 chevy powered camaro beat the 04 Monte Carlo of Robert Daniels to the finish line by 4.78 seconds. Jay has been a consistant front runner all season long at Altamont playing runner up on a few occasions, in fact Jay is solidly locked into the 10/27 Pumpkin Smash by virtue of great finishes. The top 5 included #8 Kanai Scantlen in 3rd, #95 of Larry Moniz and the #22 of Ben Lewis a previous Altamont winner.
New comer Fred Burgener in the #66W car had his hands full with mechancal issues and the #4 of John Byram, out of racing since 2002, did his best to work out the bugs in his newly built camaro. Derek Schimmel in the #93 got a solid 10th place finish after installing a motor the night before and #37 freshly built camaro of Tony Mentzer(3rd car of the season and built in one week) worked out a few bugs with an 11th place finish.
All in all it was a great ending to a great action packed program at Altamont Motorpsorts Park.
October will be an exciting month for the enduro cars as Roseville, Petaluma, Madera and Altamont have large races scheduled.

Here is some footage of the race
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfFmH_Vz1Og

#1 Jay Cookson #96 75
#2 Robert Daniels #04 75 -4.78 sec
#3 Kanai Scantlen #8 74
#4 Larry Moniz #95 73
#5 Ben Lewis 73 #22 -5.5 sec
#6 Timber Cookson #14 70
#7 Dave King #3 69
#8 Thomas Przemielewski #25 65
#9 Bill Lay #44 62
#10 Derek Schimmel #93 50
#11 Tony Mentzer #37 49
#12 Fred Burgener#66w 43
#13 Michael Faldet #13 38
#14 John Byram #4 26

 

Altamont Raceway results 08/26/2007

WCE Press Release
Orland 200 Lap Enduro 7/28/07

Race report by Ken Winland

In my diligence to get me car ready to help out the car count for Orland, I ripped my bicep, relegating me to the fan perspective for the remainder of the 2007 season.

Orland Raceway 1/5 mile clay oval was the host for the latest rendition of the West Coast Enduro 200 lap race. A 98 degree day greeted drivers and fans alike. A day that seemed to get warmer as the sun set.

10 drivers took the green flag for the first 100 laps in the counter clockwise direction. All cars were strong during the first 100 lap shoot out. Action was stopped at lap 50 to
re-wet the track(note to promoters: do this quickly as a 98 degree day takes its toll on the drivers cars, 15 minutes is too long) . Half way leaders included the 18, 42, 92, 58,12.

All of the original cars were joined by a newly built Monte Carlo for the second 100 lap segment.

Race favorites including the #2 had problems early with a flat tire and eventual fire which ended his night early,(good job to the fire crew who put the fire out in the infield)the other race favorite in the 92 lost 5 or so laps with a flat tire in the second half .

This allowed the very consistent and deserving Brian Compton in the Chevy Camaro #18 to become the winner. The local Chico driver recently took 2nd and 3rd during enduro action in May. Durham driver Gene Guinn took 2nd and Santa Rosa driver Dan Reed took 3rd.

WCE want to thank Orland for their hosting of this enduro. Other than the long red flags to rewet the track and inconsistent restarting of the race, we all enjoyed our experience. We hope that Orland can get the business side of the business figured out so we can continue to run there in the future. It takes more fans and more racers to keep this sport successful. Please do your part supporting a track near you!

This race was a perfect warm up for the Altamont 200 laps on the road course on Sunday August 5th.