Utts Solidifies Position With Win at Ventura
Charles Utts of Camarillo, the Street Stock oval track points leader, continued his winning ways at Ventura Raceway on Friday night, winning a hard-fought 20-lap main event race.
Utts rode the rear end of leader Bill Meyer of Anaheim for 18 laps before taking advantage of the congested 17-car field to overtake Meyer on the front straightaway at the newly expanded quarter-mile dirt track. Don Green of Ventura was second and Meyer finished third.
The raceway was enlarged from a one-fifth-mile oval during a three-week break from racing while the Ventura County Fair was in progress.
Street Stock figure 8 points leader Jeff Bosley of Camarillo won the eight-lap main event after overtaking Ventura’s Tom Stephens, the victim of a flat tire on Lap 6.
Steve Moser of Carson and Jim Firsich of Port Hueneme placed second and third.
Bill Floyd of Ventura won the 20-lap Mini Stock oval track main event. Oxnard’s Jim Jewett was second and Marty Desbrow of Ventura finished third.
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