Chub Wins $10,000 at Bill Sawyer's Virginia Motor SpeedwayChub Frank and crew unloaded the 1* Corry Rubber Corporation, Corry Laser
Technology, Nystrom's Auto Sales, Rocket Chassis, Paul & Pudge Pierotti Motorsports,
FLUIDYNE High Performance car that had 1 race on it for tonight's event and qualified it
in 6th out of 32 cars. In Chub's heat race Chub was leading it with 2 laps to go when he
suffered a flat tire, Chub pitted and the crew changed it when Chub returned to the track
the field had all ready restarted and Chub tagged the tail of the field and worked his way
back to 4th place and that was good enough to put him in the dash for tonight's feature
where he finished 3rd which puts him in the 3rd starting position behind Davey Johnson and
Booper Bare.
At the start of tonight's feature Johnson
led the first 5 laps with Bare and Chub in tow. Booper passed Johnson on the 6th lap and
Chub got by Johnson for 2nd on the 13th lap Bare went on to lead until the 22nd circuit
when Chub and Bare entered lapped traffic Bare went to the top and Chub went to the bottom
where he took over the lead on lap 24 a yellow flag flew which left an open track in front
of Chub and he went on to win the feature tonight that paid A $10,000 first place prize,
from the $42,000 purse at the semi-banked 1/2 mile racing facility.
"We finally got one," Stated
the very happy winner. "Actually, this is a little early for us. Usually we don't
start winning Renegade DirtCar Series races until June or July", chuckled Chub.
"The lapped traffic worked great for me but not for Booper. When we got into the rear
of the field in turn three Booper had to choose real quick whether to go high or low. When
he went outside the only thing I could do was squeeze it between the slower car and the
inside fence. Luckily, it worked out for us".
Finish Current 2002 Renegade Points
1. Chub Frank
1. Davey Johnson 1,610
2. Booper Bare
2. Mike Balzano 1,540
3. Mike Balzano
3. Chub Frank 1,520
4. Davey Johnson
4. Steve Shaver 1,270
5. Roy Deese Jr.
5. Rick Aukland 1,250
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