Defending Super Late Model champion gets first win of the year at Orange Show Speedway

SAN BERNARDINO – Defending champion Glen Cummings made it three different winners in three races and Rick Chavez took the points lead in the Hype Manufacturing Super Late Model class at Orange Show Speedway Saturday night.

Cummings, 52, of Highland, started the evening by setting fast time in his F.J. Meyer Pontiac Grand Prix, but pulled a seven in the draw to determine how many starting positions would be inverted for the main event. That put the 30-year veteran on the inside of the fourth row in the 19-car field.

Chavez, the winner of the most recent Super Late Model race March 31, started on the outside of the front row and took the lead on lap one. The Santee resident held the top spot through lap 19 while accidents eliminated 2005 champion John Manke and Brett Edwards as contenders and helped Cummings move into second.

Cummings got inside Chavez exiting Turn 4 of the quarter-mile oval on lap 19 and took the lead for good on lap 20. Charles Price, 20, of Redlands, moved his Chevrolet into second a lap later, and on lap 25 Price got the front end of his car under the rear end of Cummings’ vehicle exiting Turn 4. Cummings got sideways momentarily, but Price backed off to allow the leader to regain control and never challenged again.

“Let me tell you, it was tough,” Cummings said to the crowd of 1,307. “I was wondering what was going on there for a minute. I was getting bounced around like a pinball. I just kept going and it worked out.”

Price was second, Barry Karr of Redlands third and Chavez fourth. That gave him a 140-136 lead over Price in the point standings after three of 15 races. Linny White, who had been tied with Chavez, did not race Saturday night.

Eddie Secord of Oak Hills won his second Pro 4 main event of the season, leading 26 of the 35 laps and besting Rex Lockwood of Victorville and Tim Carruthers of Yucaipa, who was making his first start of the season.

Spencer Samaro, 17, of San Bernardino, was third on the track but finished the night first in the Aflac Factory Fours main after the two drivers ahead of him – and three of the top four – were disqualified for rules violations found during post-race technical inspection.

Mike O’Hara of Canyon Country and Benjamin Mahan of Hesperia continued to dominate the Mini StocKar and Jr. Mini StocKar classes, respectively, by winning their 15-lap main events. It was the third win in as many races this year for O’Hara and the second this year and 10th in a row over two years for Mahan, 11.

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Source: Jim Short | OSS PR