What a nightmare weekend that was. Started out 1.5 hours behind because when went to hook up trailer found the friggin' neighborhood kids had ripped plug off end of cord, 7 wires hanging w/ no clue as to what was what, 49 possible combinations, after 1.5 hours got brake lights & turn signals but that was it. Had a tire lose it's tread on way up right before getting a ticket doing 82 in a 55. DOOHH!!! I don't even wanna know what that's gonna cost, I bet I won't be able to go to traffic school, anybody know? Anyway races were supposed to start at 600, at 730 they had drivers meeting, you heard how the night went except that some new person there watered the track about twice as much as Chico ever had, It took our 11 cars & a bunch of 4wd trucks about 2 hours to somewhat pack the track. I tried to argue that they actually had an enduro track & should just let us go do 50 to 100 laps, obviously they didn't do it even though we actually had 8 enduro cars & 1 pure stock there? I got 2nd from 4th start in heat, started 6 in main & got to second on 1st lap despite loosing power steering belt on 1st lap. held through a few cautions, maybe 20 green flag laps & belt must of took out rest of them, got hot & pulled off, didn't even try to go back out. Turns out mud was packed in solid between a-frames & tie-rods, crossmember & drag link, shroud & crank pulleys, I'm surprised they stayed on that long. that mud was deep, enough so that you could sail into the corner & if you got out of groove it would slow you down like getting glued to track. Anyway after a shitty day I couldn't even head home cause I had no running lights, waited til 0500 in morning & took off. About 30 minutes down the road the spare we put on at track blew out completely, it was smaller than regular tires & couldn't take the weight I suppose, put tire back on w/ no tread & drove back to Hanford to find a tire shop. 930 we are finally back on road after pep boys opened & I got a truck tire. This is what time I should of been getting back to Santa Rosa! 1.5 hours later a 2nd tire started loosing it's tread, rather than go backwards we decided to go ahead to Santa Nella, next chance at tires. Only 18 wheeler stuff there, asshole sent me 28 miles down 1 lane road to los Banos (was 4 miles back up freeway), found 5 tire shops all closed on Sunday. Found a little mexican garage w/ big wheels etc. & had a tire close to my size, had to flare out fender for clearance & off we go again. just before richmond bridge a 3rd tire started loosing tread, said screw it went all way home on it. I've never had anywhere near that much trouble on a trip. my 4 hour ride ended up being 11 hours. Very expensive & didn't have any fun the whole time. I don't know what's up w/ the track there but they aren't going to be able to survive like that. I still hope they get it together because it can be an awesome place to race. Anyway hopefully I can get everything turned around this week & make it to Roseville. Dan
Ken <winlandracing@...> wrote:

Olivera Wins At Kings Speedway, Brian Holt Captures Derby

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OLIVERA WINS AT KINGS SPEEDWAY, BRIAN HOLT CAPTURES DERBY
Pure Stocks, Super Stocks and Demo Derby by Gary Jacob….Hanford, CA…
April 29.….Steve Oliveira won the 30 lap pure stock main event at
Kings Speedway on Saturday night ahead of Jeff Lay and Michael
Redding. A 100 lap enduro had been scheduled, but a short field of
both enduro cars and pure stocks saw the two classes combined into
one with a 30 lap feature. Only two super stocks were on hand and
double division racer Michael Redding from Coalinga won that 10
lapper ahead of Joe Ealy. A hard hitting destruction derby rounded
out the race night and Brian Holt got that win ahead of Doug Holt,
Dale Nelson, Rick Roberts and Andre Metzler.

The pure stock action divided nine cars into a pair of heat races.
Rick Sylvester won the first heat ovedr Gary Pugh and Michael
Anderson. Rick Rapada beat Petaluma's Dan Reed and Redding in heat
2. The feature action was an 8 car inversion from the heat race
results and Oliveira won from his pole start. Outside front row
starter Lay ran second ahead of Reddding, Anderson, Sylvester,,
rookie Kellen Case, Pugh, Reed and Rapada.

The dirt modifieds are scheduled to headline the shows on May 6 and
May 13 with the streets stocks, pure stocks and mini stocks also
racing.

Summary Pure Stock Heat 1-Rick Sylvester, Gary Pugh, Michael
Anderson, Steve Oliveira, Kellen Case. Heat 2-Rick Rapada, Dan Reed,
Michael Redding, Jeff Lay. Main-Oliveira, Lay, Redding, Anderson,
Sylvester, Case, Pugh, Reed, Rapada.