Las Vegas Autoring Qualifying Race

The race was pretty uneventful for the first 10 laps or so as Joe Craig pulled out to a large lead over the rest of the field.

On lap 11, Greg Maddox in the 78 slapped the wall and lost a lot of speed from a transfer spot. Up the track a bit at the same time, our good friend Stringfellow Vincent decides to push the issue between the 7 of Whitney Fuller and the 64 of Frank Azzaretto, turning them in front of about 8 cars. Azzarretto spun to the bottom of the track in front of Fuller, while Vincent suffered instant karmic retribution as AJ Murphy hooked him to the outside. Vincent spun in front of the 34 of Andy Lambert, who took a bit of damage. Along comes Greg Maddox, who runs into Azzaretto, who spins in front of the 111 of Greg Woodard. The 20 of Kensington, Jr. would also be collected as well as the 53 of Tammerzan. Vincent would be called to the hauler after the race.

After the restart, Lambert was heavily damaged and refused to repair his damage, knowing that he would be granted a Past Champion's Provisional. However, on lap 22, while he was being lapped, he pulled in front of the 3rd place driver Bobby Dollar. Dollar spun out the 34, then got run over from behind by the 91 of Ryan Jefferies. All 3 would continue on.

Casey Lester blew up from 10th under caution.

With only three laps to go while leading, Ramsey Coqinner in the 82 would slow on the frontstretch. He would pull into the pits and retire with a suspension failure.

Joe Craig pretty much dominated from that point on.

F S # DRIVER INTERVAL LAPS LED POINTS STATUS
1 1 29 J Craig 130.781 38 21* 185 Running
2 5 6 B Worthington -R- -0.31 38 2 175 Running
3 18 110 D Leckliter -R- -0.59 38 0 165 Running
4 2 37 A Murphy -R- -0.72 38 0 160 Running
5 8 87 F Stoneman -R- -1.02 38 0 155 Running
6 9 85 R MacGyver -1.30 38 0 150 Running
7 20 30 C Benson -1.60 38 0 146 Running
8 6 222 D Foray -R- -2.26 38 0 142 Running
9 14 62 F D'Annenzo -2.47 38 0 138 Running
10 11 48 D Jones -R- -3.04 38 0 134 Running
11 19 7 W Fuller -3.50 38 0 130 Running
12 21 02 S Whullen -R- -3.60 38 0 127 Running
13 12 98 B Dollar -R- -10.15 38 0 124 Running
14 23 53 A Tammerzan -13.15 38 0 121 Running
15 25 47 A Alenko -R- -14.32 38 0 118 Running
16 24 888 D Branch -17.60 38 0 115 Running
17 4 91 R Jefferies -1L 37 1 117 Running
18 17 34 A Lambert -2L 36 0 109 Running
19 3 82 R Coqinner -R- -3L 35 14 111 Susp
20 16 44 C Lester -15L 23 0 103 Camshaft
21 13 84 S Vincent -26L 12 0 100 Retired
22 7 78 G Maddox -26L 12 0 97 Camshaft
23 15 64 F Azzaretto -R- -26L 12 0 94 Header
24 22 20 D Kensington Jr. -27L 11 0 91 Header
25 10 111 G Woodard -R- -27L 11 0 88 Accident


First starts of the year for Chester Benson and Scott Whullen.

First career starts for Dan Leckliter, Flint Stoneman, Damon Jones, and Whitney Fuller (the first part-time car to qualify for a race this year).

Please discuss.

Dan Branch: I DIDN'T MAKE IT THIS RACE IS GAY. HEEEEEEEH.

Woodard angry that he was involved in something, he failed to make it past the qualifying race.

"Here we go again," Woodard would do a little circular motion with his hand, "I get a good qualifying position to race into the main event and whammo, Retro80 racing decides it's best for them to create a situation that collects others who didn't need to be involved." Woodard continued. "Sure Maddox had a part to play, he entered the corner too fast and hit the wall. But Vincent... he really didn't need to do that."

Daniel Foray will participate, seeing he finished the last race 3 laps down, and that he was able to avoid the catastrophe known as the qualifier.

Damon Jones: glad I made a transfer spot for the race. That pretty much what I have to say

Bobby Dollar: What is Lambert doing.

Alenko glad to finish despite not making it.

"Its better to at least come back to the pits with a complete car then to wreck it. Right now, we're really off the pace so my focus is to finish every session and this is a good step so far. Naturally, we'll start making an effort to get into the show once we get our consistancy up"

Frank Azzaretto: Way to go Vincent.

Casey Lester: Uh... well, I was just running under the caution laps and then I felt the camshaft let go. That's all I can say. I really hate it for our guys to not give them a decent showing, although 10th wasn't bad. We probably would've got shuffled out of a transfer spot anyway. *angrily storms to hauler, bsically throws the door shut*

Joe Craig: That was awesome. The car drove great, and I didn't get wrecked by any teammates. I'm confident we'll have a great car on race day.

Fazi D'Annezo after the race: "Really glad we got that qualifier in check, man. I never want to deal with that again..."

Whitney Fuller: "Our #7 Charger was awesome today, and I wanna thank everyone involved on this car. Ready to go racing! VIVAAAAAA LAS VEGAS!"

Tammerzan: it's a shame really. This has been a tough year for us so far, and we had bad luck here at Las Vegas.

David Hetzel: Why am I being interviewed? I wasn't even in this bloody race!