Close finishes excite fans at Plymouth Speedway

PLYMOUTH, Ind. – Friday, May 04, 2012 — If Friday night’s racing is
any indication of the kind of racing to be seen this season, it will
be one exciting year at Plymouth Speedway.

Kicking off the night was the most intense Hornets race out of the
four held this year. Sal Bustamante held the lead through the first
half of the race until he was passed by Daren Miller. Bustamante
wasn’t happy settling into second place, and the two battled for the
top spot. It looked as if Miller had the win coming off the white
flag, but a determined Bustamante – in front of an audience full of
people on their feet – tried to pass one last time and slipped
underneath Miller at Turn 4 to claim the checkers. This was Sal’s
second win of the season. Other winners include Miller and Garrett
Saunders, who finished fourth, following Sean Stuart in third. Jamie
Henriksen closed out the field in fifth.

Kevin Gunkel dominated a field of four Late Models. “I got around
(Shawn) Amor, and I figured he was right on me,” Gunkel said, but Amor
was battling to keep second place from Mike Horvath, who finished
third, as Gunkel pulled away. Charlie Cotton finished fourth.

It looked as if “Radical” Rich Boal was going to go two-for-two,
winning last week’s Outlaw Late Model and leading the first part of
Friday’s race, but Steve Stacy passed Boal, and “Flyin” Brian Ross of
Plymouth was soon to follow. Ross and Stacy battled to the very end –
held up by a few cautions during the race. Eventually, Stacy claimed
the victory, with Ross less than .3 seconds behind him.

“To come third to them (Stacy and Ross), this is a win for me,” Boal said.

“We’ve been a little bit off all night tonight,” Ross said,
congratulating Stacy on his first win of the season. “We want to thank
all these fans for coming out and we’ll try to do a little better next
week.”

Stacy, the 2011 track champion,  said, “I had to work my butt off for
that one. This is a good class of race cars. We need to keep working
at where we’re at now and I think we can run toward the front every
week.”

Other finishers in the field of 12 cars included: Shawn Amor, 4th;
Zach Tanner, 5th; Roger Northrop, 6th; Keith Franz, 7th; Mike
Shewchuk, 8th; Bobby Stremme, 9th and Scott Ross, 10th.

The Street Stocks finished off the evening, with David Long winning
his second of two races in two weeks. He held off a half-second behind
charge from Mike Cannon, while three hometown drivers followed: D.J.
Frost and PeeWee Warren in third and fourth place, and Jeff Stetler in
fifth.

“The top four cars finishing in less than a tenth of a second is a
pretty tight field,” Long said.

For more photos, visit the Speedway’s Facebook page, or email below to
request an image of a specific driver. All winners have been captured
at the winner’s podium and while racing.
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