IRWINDALE SPEEDWAY: PETTIT STRIKES LATE FOR VICTORY.Byline: Keith Lair Staff Writer IRWINDALE - It did not look promising. The Irwindale Speedway Irwindale Speedway is a motorsports facility located in Irwindale, California. It features banked, paved 1/2 and 1/3 mile oval tracks. It is mainly used for USAC sprint car and regional NASCAR races. heavyweights of Rip Michels and Greg Pursley led the majority of Saturday night's NASCAR NASCAR (National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing), organization that sanctions American stock-car races, est. 1948. It held its first race in Daytona Beach, Fla. Elite Southwest Series Advantage Ford 100 in front of approximately 5,700 Saturday night at Irwindale Speedway. All series points leader Jim Pettit II had to do was stay close and wait. Michels, Pursley and Pettit held a substantial gap. With 20 laps to go, Pettit began pressuring Pursley, the 2004 Irwindale Super Late Model champion, and he went into second with 19 laps to go. Michels, the 2002-03 Irwindale Super Late Model champion, got loose in Turn 4 a lap later. Pettit went low and got the lead en route to his seventh series victory. ``We were content to be where we were, and with 30 laps to go, it was time to go and we definitely had the car,'' the 40-year-old from Prunedale resident said. But there were late-race jitters jitters 'Butterflies' Psychology An episode of nervousness or anxiety that often precedes a public event; jitters is a type of performance anxiety which may affect actors in a stage production–stage fright or soloist musicians; it may respond to anxiolytics . He survived two restarts in the final seven laps in a race that went five laps over the scheduled 100. The race finished green-white-checkered when Dan Holtz of Pacific Palisades Palisades, cliffs along the west bank of the Hudson River, NE N.J. and SE N.Y., extending from N of Jersey City, N.J., to the vicinity of Piermont, N.Y., with a general altitude of from 350 ft to 550 ft (107–168 m). spun in Turn 4 and hit the wall. ``I definitely did not need the yellows,'' Pettit said. ``Purley is great on cold tires.'' Pursley, from Canyon Country, finished second, getting by Michels, from Mission Hills, on that Turn 4 bobble bob·ble v. bob·bled, bob·bling, bob·bles v.intr. To bob up and down. v.tr. To lose one's grip on (a ball, for example) momentarily. n. A mistake or blunder. . Michels held off David Gilliland David Gilliland (born on April 1, 1976 in Riverside, California) is a NASCAR driver. He currently drives the #38 M&M's Ford for Robert Yates in Nextel Cup Series and the #25 FreeCreditReport.com in the Busch Series for Team Rensi. - a multi-race Irwindale winner - for third. Keith Lair, (626) 962-8811 keith.lair(at)sgvn.com |
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