Fast Fridays Speedway
Gold Country Fairgrounds
Auburn, California

Week 10
Friday July 17 1998 - Fast Fridays Speedway
By: Gary Roberts

A hot evening in Auburn, but the track was again in good shape with plenty of close racing and no shortage of overtaking.

Scratch Main
1. Charlie Venegas
2. Bobby Hedden
3. Jim Sisemore
4. Mike Faria

Scratch Consolation
1. Chris Manchester
2. Bart Bast
3. Tommy Hedden
4. Chad Felicio

Handicap Main
1. Mike Faria
2. Bart Bast
3. Robert Curry
4. Chad Felicio
5. Bobby Hedden
6. Billy Janniro

Handicap Consolation
1. Ian Ferris
2. Tommy Hedden
3. Jim Sisemore
4. Pat Linn
Also qualifying, but not starting in this event were Bob Hicks, and Charlie Venegas.

Division 2 Main
1. Ted Taylor
2. Dave Booth
3. George Snodgrass
4. Harlan Bast Snr.
5. Dennis Cassidy
6. Steve Arena

Division 2 Consolation
1. Mike Browne
2. Eric Veal
3. Mike Gildersleeve
4. Shawn Eldridge
5. Dick Vargas
6. Bill Newby

Division 3 Main
1. Corey Call
2. Troy Burton
3. Harry Bradwell
4. Ivan Sevart
5. David Lee
6. Joe Whiting

Division 3 Consolation
1. Donny Powell
2. Mike Douglas
3. Derek Silva
4. Bobby Chipman
5. Don Chipman
6. Gary Moranville

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

Juniors Division 2
1. Jay Heidt
2. Matt Browne
3. JT Mabry
4. Jonathan Curry

Juniors Division 3
1. Ray Linn
2. Brenton Bast
3. Alex Marcucci
4. Amanda English

To maintain the riders information pages, on our SpeedwayBikes.Com web site, the promoters at Auburn and Cal Expo have helped out by letting me in the pits before and during the races. Its very encouraging to see the number of new riders that appear every week. Although new names may not necessarily appear in the results, they are there, in fact its averaging out at half a dozen new riders per week. Most are brand new, out for their first Speedway race, others have raced elsewhere. Examples of the latter category include Shane McAfee from Idaho, Fraser Smith from Scotland and this week, Brendan Fennessey from Montana.

Next week Fast Fridays hosts the Civil War, Northern California verses Southern California. Up until 2 years ago the south used to win, but the last couple of years its been the north. Since Steve Lucero is not riding for the south and Mike Faria's move from south to north, there is little to suggest a change this year.