Regional Notes - Aug. 6, 2008
Modified competitors at Bowman Gray Stadium in Winston-Salem, N.C., organized to mourn the death of fellow-driver Brian Pack at the July 26 race. A day earlier, Pack died in a motorcycle crash. The drivers displayed decals in Pack’s honor. His No. 81 was pushed silently around the track and it took a final lap during pre-race parade laps… Robbie Crouch won the July 25 50-lap Trophy Dash at Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl in Barre, Vt. Crouch made a comeback to racing after a bout with prostate cancer, a full decade after retiring from the sport in 1997. It was Crouch’s first win at Thunder Road since the 1988 Chittenden Bank Milk Bowl… Jamie Wallace ended a six-year feature victory drought July 27 by winning the Old Wisconsin Smokehouse 60-lap late-model main event at Slinger (Wis.) Super Speedway… Late-model driver Marty Ward put together a seven-race winning streak at Greenville-Pickens Speedway in South Carolina through July 26… Lee Sutton’s July 26 super late-model victory at Fort Payne (Ala.) Motor Speedway was three years in the making. “I guess the monkey is finally off my back,” Sutton said after his first super late-model triumph… D.J. Troutman won the July 26 edition of the Maryland Clash at Allegany County Speedway in Cumberland, Md., driving the same car his father, Dave, took to victory lane in the first Clash race in May... Rodney Cook ended Speedy Faucette’s string of victories at seven, collecting the $200 bounty July 26 at North Carolina’s Ace Speedway… Steve Owings has 29 270cc micro-sprint victories at Pennsylvania’s Trail-Way Speedway and added his first 358 sprint-car victory to the track’s record books July 25. On July 26, Jim Still became the 12th different feature winner in as many races in the 270cc division this season… Chris Schild ended Heath Stewart’s streak of Texas Super Racing Series fast-qualifier awards at six July 26 at Thunderhill Raceway in Kyle, Texas…Former World of Outlaws competitor Danny Smith won his eighth 410 sprint-car feature of the season July 25 at Ohio’s Skyline Speedway… Carla Laney won the extreme late-model 25-lap main event July 26 at Perris (Calif.) Auto Speedway. It was her second-career late-model victory and her first of the season...Cory Ward captured his ninth 410 sprint-car feature victory of the season and his fifth at Fremont (Ohio) Speedway July 26.