Press Release by Jim Pluhar
Santa Maria, CA 8-5-09

Saturday night's "Z93.3 KZOZ Night at the Races" is a big event for sprint car fans with 40 plus of California's top cars and drivers expected for the VRA Grand Slam/West Coast 360 Sprint Car finale. Papich Construction IMCA Modifieds and Toste Grading & Paving Mini Stocks will also be in action. KZOZ's Jeff and Jeramy of the Jeff and Jeramy show will be guest pit announcers.

Stockton's Jonathan Henry has a 6 point lead over Davey Pombo, of Kerman, in the battle for the Grand Slam championship and it will all be decided Saturday night. Kevin Kierce, of Reseda, and Troy Rutherford, of Ojai, are also in the running, trailing the leader by 26 and 28 points respectively. San Bernardino's Don Gansen is 44 points behind in fifth.

Two Arroyo Grande drivers and three from Santa Maria fill the top-five positions in the Modified division with the A.G. drivers first and third, and Chad Weber in the lead. Weber has a 20 point edge over Doug Thornton and is 35 points up on Tony Toste. Danny Lauer is 46 markers behind in fourth and fifth place Daylan Coffey is 67 points off the pace.

Tom Grzincic, of Atascadero, is "king" of the Mini Stock division this season. In 10 events Grzincic has a second, a third, and eight straight first place main event victories. Grzincic's lead over second place Jeremy Heroux, of Nipomo, is 60 markers. The only thing that has kept Heroux this close is 8 top-five finishes, including four seconds and three thirds. Nipomo drivers Kurt Larsen (-114) and Dustin Ensign (-136), and Santa Barbara's Ben Caswell (-152) are third through fifth in the standings.  

Spectator gates for Saturday night's event will open at 3:00 p.m., with qualifying at 5:00 p.m. and racing at 6:00 p.m. Ticket prices will be: $16.00 for adults, $14.00 for seniors & military and their spouses, $5.00 for children 6 to 12, five and under free. The Speedway is located 1/4-mile north of the 101/166 interchange on Hutton Road.

30 Imca Mods, 31 W/C 360 Sprints, 20 Mini's.

W/C 360 Sprints:
Heat #1 88
Heat #2 75
Heat #3 9
Heat#4 14
B-Main
27,86,55,91,2

A-Main
75,8,15,86,9

IMCA MOds
Heat #1 91P
Heat #2 15B
Heat #3 55
Heat #4 58

B-Main 20,1,32,98,8

A-Main 20,15,37,91T 5. only 11 finish out of 24 Starting

Mini's
Heat #1 18
Heat #2 4
Heat #3 8

Main 8,17,47,1,18

The 8 car lapped all of the field except for the second place finisher of #17, who was at least half a lap behind.

Sorrry for no names or any other stats.  Hope this helps until the official finishing order and names is released. Very good night of racing, lots of damaged cars in the IMCA and sprints had think 2 reds and 3 or 4 yellows, 2 cars did the loop de loop and one car ended up on the wall in the main streach

fiday night local driver joey claborn (my uncle) lost his uncle dale claborn. he worked for the speedway for many years and to remember his lost the track asked for a moment of silence after qualifying was over.