From: Gary Roberts
Another good evening of racing at Santa Maria. Results as follows:
Randy DiFrancesco 15 Rick Pearce 14 Paul Binnquist 12 Brian Burch 10 Bill Green 9 Kenny Hansen 9 Kon Baur 8 Brian Thompson 7 Billy Lyons 7 Gerry Duttweiler 7 Sean Larned 6 4 rides Erin Larsen 4 John VanderMuellen 3 3 rides Jeff Smith 3 Marvin Sonnier 2 Michael Storms 2 reserve, 2 rides Tim Appel 1 reserve, 2 rides Allan Wright 0 4 rides D final: Sonnier. Storms and Smith DNF. C final: Lyons, Duttweiler, Larsen, Sonnier, VanderMuellen was a non-starter. B final: Baur, Hansen, Thompson, Green. Lyons was a non-starter. A final: Pearce, DiFrancesco, Binnquist, Baur, Burch.
There were several very close races. Visible improvements were noted by many of the riders who began racing in the last 2 months. To help with this process, Phil Collins held a training session at the track on the Sunday. The crowd was again slightly up on last week, but there are still plenty of empty seats.