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08/25/12 - BCRA Midgets at Marysville Raceway Park
Bay Cities Racing Association, Inc.
Bragg win 3rd in a Row
Story by Bob Roza -- August 25, 2012
Greg Bragg of Visalia, CA won his 3rd consecutive BCRA Midget race at the revamped Marysville ¼ mile dirt track in the Dave & Wendy Thurston Spike/Esslinger #11 Midget.
The evening started out with 9 cars lined up for the 8 lap heat race. Dan Parker and Floyd Alvis were front row starters. At the green Parker took the lead over Alvis, followed by Pete Davis, and Greg Bragg. In his first Midget start, Taylor Simas followed in his Spike powered Esslinger.
Rob Lindsey, all the way from Wilsonville, OR was a non-starter in his Ellis with mechanical gremlins. Parker continued his lead until being challenged by a fast Pete Davis who made a daring outside pass in turn 1, on a rough track. Davis went on to win the heat in convincing fashion over Parker, Alvis, Bragg, and Simas.
The Main Event had a 6 inversion with Rick Holbrook on the pole, and Simas on the outside. Simas took the initial lead over Holbrook, Parker, and Bragg. As the race continued, cars were bouncing around on the challenging track and Bragg in his usual style, became faster and faster and took the lead on lap 7, followed by Simas and Davis, who were staging a fierce battle for the second position. Finally, as Bragg drove into a different time zone, Davis was able to clear himself of Simas and quickly opened a gap between himself and Simas, In 4th , but hanging on to an ill handling car was Parker. On lap 19 of the 25 lap main, Bill Lindsey and Alvis passed Parker in turn two, while he was regaining control of his car; at the same time, the leaders continued a frantic pace over the Marysville track.
At the checkered, Bragg took the win over Davis, Simas, Lindsey, Alvis, Parker, Holbrook, and everyone’s favorite, JR Williams.
08/25/12 - Greg Bragg wins 3rd BCRA Midget Main Event in a row at Marysville Raceway Park
Main Event - 1 - #11 Greg Bragg (Thurston), 2 - #00 Pete Davis (Davis), 3 - #17W Taylor Simas (Simas), 4 - #8 Bill Lindsey (Donaldson), 5 - #83 Floyd Alvis (Alvis), 6 - #21 Danny Parker (Roza), 7 - #6 Rick Holbrook (Holbrook), 8 - #74 J.R. Williams (Williams)
#11 Greg Bragg passes #6 Rick Holbrook on his way to victory!
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08/25/12 - BCRA Midgets at Marysville Raceway Park
Bay Cities Racing Association, Inc.
Bragg win 3rd in a Row
Story by Bob Roza -- August 25, 2012
Greg Bragg of Visalia, CA won his 3rd consecutive BCRA Midget race at the revamped Marysville ¼ mile dirt track in the Dave & Wendy Thurston Spike/Esslinger #11 Midget.
The evening started out with 9 cars lined up for the 8 lap heat race. Dan Parker and Floyd Alvis were front row starters. At the green Parker took the lead over Alvis, followed by Pete Davis, and Greg Bragg. In his first Midget start, Taylor Simas followed in his Spike powered Esslinger.
Rob Lindsey, all the way from Wilsonville, OR was a non-starter in his Ellis with mechanical gremlins. Parker continued his lead until being challenged by a fast Pete Davis who made a daring outside pass in turn 1, on a rough track. Davis went on to win the heat in convincing fashion over Parker, Alvis, Bragg, and Simas.
The Main Event had a 6 inversion with Rick Holbrook on the pole, and Simas on the outside. Simas took the initial lead over Holbrook, Parker, and Bragg. As the race continued, cars were bouncing around on the challenging track and Bragg in his usual style, became faster and faster and took the lead on lap 7, followed by Simas and Davis, who were staging a fierce battle for the second position. Finally, as Bragg drove into a different time zone, Davis was able to clear himself of Simas and quickly opened a gap between himself and Simas, In 4th , but hanging on to an ill handling car was Parker. On lap 19 of the 25 lap main, Bill Lindsey and Alvis passed Parker in turn two, while he was regaining control of his car; at the same time, the leaders continued a frantic pace over the Marysville track.
At the checkered, Bragg took the win over Davis, Simas, Lindsey, Alvis, Parker, Holbrook, and everyone’s favorite, JR Williams.
08/25/12 - Greg Bragg wins 3rd BCRA Midget Main Event in a row at Marysville Raceway Park
Main Event - 1 - #11 Greg Bragg (Thurston), 2 - #00 Pete Davis (Davis), 3 - #17W Taylor Simas (Simas), 4 - #8 Bill Lindsey (Donaldson), 5 - #83 Floyd Alvis (Alvis), 6 - #21 Danny Parker (Roza), 7 - #6 Rick Holbrook (Holbrook), 8 - #74 J.R. Williams (Williams)
#11 Greg Bragg passes #6 Rick Holbrook on his way to victory!
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07/14/12 - BCRA Midget Lite Main Event Podium!!
07/14/12 - BCRA Midget Lite Podium at Petaluma Speeway - Photo left to right: Craig Dillard 3rd, Brian Corso 1st, Joey Hoover 2nd
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7/6/12 BCRA Vintage Midget at Roseville Speedway
7/6/12
By June Wheeler-Ferreira
The sounds of Roseville; how loud is loud. Friday morning July the 6th we left around 11AM for a nice easy ride up to Roseville we stopped along the way as usual for a coffee call and lunch things couldn’t start happening a until after 3:30 because of the school across the street.
Once there we met up with 5 other BCRA Vintage guys to test the sounds to see how loud the cars are, there was 1 Offy, 1 Ford V8-60 and 3 Chevy II. There was also a modified to run along with us. Bonnie Chisholm and her gang from the WCRA were on hand to run the show. They put a guy at the top of turn 4 just over the wall with sound equipment to make the test. The sound level is 95 decimals at 50 feet, they sent each car out on the track by itself for 6 to 8 laps for the test after that the cars went out in groups of 4 to 5 each. Good news all the BCRA vintage midgets past with just a few minor adjustments.
We have to remember that these people are working very hard to comply with the noise levels and we have to do everything we can to try to keep the cars quiet as possible. The Roseville track has really came under some hard times with the noise levels. So guys let’s not get discourage, if we’re asked to try to make an attempt to get your car quieter if they can’t get the racers cooperation they could loose the track and Roseville is a great race track and it’s been there for many years and we don’t want it to be shut down. It’s the only track that has a vintage Classic weekend and we all have a good time at that event. All things are falling under hard times with smaller crowds and fewer cars at the tracks so lets try and deal with this noise thing and keep it going.
Driver’s that had their mufflers check; Greg Vroman #3 Offy, Don Strauch #26 Chevy II, Norm Gray #30 V8-60 Ford, Tommy Belfiore #16 Chevy II, Paul Ferreira #1 Chevy II & Jim De Jong #4.
That’s it for now hope to see all at the 5th Annual All American Classic VI, September 13 to15, June
Don Strauch #26
Greg Vroman #3
Jim De Jong #4
Norm Gray #30
Tommy Belfiore #16
Paul Ferreira #1
Roseville Vintage Pits
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