Sideways Saturdays Speedway
Cal Expo - Sacramento, California

Week 4
Saturday July 11, 1998 - Cal Expo
By: Gary Roberts

More good racing at Cal Expo, but again a rather disappointing turn-out crowd-wise. There were some horrendous looking accidents. Harlan Bast Junior lead the Handicap Main most of the way, but Tommy Hedden got past him on the last corner. Harlan made a final dash for the corner, found traction, the front came up and he went from the tapes to turn one along the ground. Right on his tail, Mike Faria managed to miss him somehow, and Bobby Hedden did a super quick Laydown. Earlier, in only the second race of the evening, Pat Linn fell down in about the same place, again after completing the race distance, but landed awkwardly when he got tangled with his bike. He sat the rest of the evening out, and I understand, spent the night in hospital with a slight concussion.

Scratch Main
1. Bobby Hedden
2. Bart Bast
3. Mike Faria
4. Billy Janniro
This was Bobby Hedden's first scratch win this year. The first division points for the season are closing up.

Scratch Consolation
1. Bob Hicks
2. Jim Sisemore
3. Chad Felicio
4. Tommy Hedden

Handicap Main
1. Tommy Hedden
2. Harlan Bast Jr.
3. Mike Faria
4. Bobby Hedden
5. Bart Bast
6. Jim Sisemore

Handicap Consolation
1. Chad Felicio
2. Billy Janniro
3. Ian Ferris
4. Bob Hicks

Division 2 Main
1. John O'Connell
2. Mike Browne
3. Dick Vargas
4. Ted Taylor
Tom Adams and Scott Olney qualified, competed, but fell.

Division 2 Consolation
1. Dave Booth
2. Harlan Bast Snr.
3. Mike Gildersleeve
4. Dennis Cassidy
Shane McAfee, (from Idaho) and Bill Thomas, both qualified, competed but fell.

Division 3 Main
1. Corey Call
2. Harry Bradwell
3. Richard Powell
4. Troy Burton
5. Donny Powell
6. Geno Bellino
7. Derek Silva
8. Ivan Sevart

Division 3 Consolation
1. David Lee
2. Bill Warnock
3. Billy Dixon
4. Brian Leventon
Luke Rogers, Les Veal, Bobby Chipman
and Kevin Fereira, all qualified and some finished. I lost count.

Division 1 Juniors
1. Ryan Fisher
2. Eric Carrillo
3. AJ Jones
4. Bryan Yarrow
5. JJ Martynse

Division 2 Juniors
1. Matt Browne
2. Jonathan Curry
3. Scott Hawley

Division 3 Juniors
1. Brenton Bast
2. Ray Linn
3. Chris Smith

Gary Roberts - gary_rob@ix.netcom.com