Secord gets another Pro 4 victory

SAN BERNARDINO – Sinister Motorsports driver Eddie Secord continued to demonstrate that he is the one to beat in the ASA Pro 4 class at Orange Show Speedway by winning his fourth main event of the season Saturday night (May 19).

Secord, 36, of Oak Hills, started the night by setting fast time in his Ford-powered, Fiesta Village Pontiac Grand Prix, then won his 8-lap heat race. He started the 30-lap main event on the outside of the front row, alongside Rex Lockwood, but took the lead on the fourth lap of the quarter-mile paved oval and never was in danger of surrendering it thereafter. Lockwood was second and Bryan Glidewell third.

“The car was on a rail,” Secord said of the Pontiac that is owned by his father-in-law, Frank O’Brien, and prepared by Secord, O’Brien and Ken Hetrick. “The car felt pretty good and I was able to pull away when I wanted.”

Secord has won four of the five races, but stands only third in points, 28 behind Lockwood, who has one win, and 14 behind Chuck Becker II. That’s because the race Secord didn’t win, March 31, was one he was unable to compete in after breaking a clutch fork in practice. So he has a zero in the points column for that day.

“The wins make me regret it (missing that race) a little,” Secord said. “But there are still 10 races to go and a lot can change.”

The next round of the pro 4 series is scheduled for June 2.