PRESS RELEASE
David Mayhew won his 14th and 15th races on Saturday in the NASCAR CITGO Lubricants Late Model 35 lap events on the half-mile speedway at Kern County Raceway Park.

Don’t miss a thing. Get breaking Santa Clarita news alerts delivered right to your inbox.

Other winners included Tim Smith, Rich Delong III and Dylan Baker.  Eric Richardson lowered the CITGO Late Model track record to 18.462 a lap.

Mayhew ran a nearly flawless race in the first NASCAR CITGO Lubricants Late Models 35.  Mayhew led all 35 laps of the caution-free affair, lapping up to sixth place and taking a 3.181 second win.  The balance of the top-six included cousins and former Mesa Marin champions Brian and Eric Richardson, ahead of teammate Johnny White, Cole Custer, and Josh Horn.

“We don’t get races like that when the car is that good, so when we can take em, we’ll take em,” Mayhew said.  “We just hit the car just right.  The last couple of months have been a dogfight every week.”

Custer led the opening lap of the second 35 lap race before being passed by White.  Custer went side-by-side with Eric Richardson before Richardson spun in turns one and two.  Richardson lost three laps in the pits changing both rear tires.

Johnny White paced David Mayhew and Brian Richardson through heavy lapped traffic with Mayhew jumping inside White on several occasions to challenge for the lead.

Paul Ebersbacher spun on lap 24 to bring out a caution with 11 to go, and White slowed dramatically on the restart with a flat tire to hand the lead to Mayhew.  Mayhew took control of the race to carry a three second lead before a caution on lap 32 for Cole Custer spinning with contact from Brian Richardson.

Mayhew pulled away from Brian Richardson on the final restart to take the win for his 15th win with Robby Sawyer scoring a third place finish.

Upland’s Donny St. Ours set fast time in both the Pro Late Models and Mini Stocks, in his debut in that class.  Points leader Tim Smith became the first repeat winner of 2013 in the NASCAR Pro Late Models, leading all 50 laps to pull away from Ryan Reed and Donny St. Ours for the six second victory.  Reed was placed at the end of the finishing order for failing to report to tech inspection.

Second in Mini Stock points Dylan Baker used a last lap pass to take his second victory in the division.  Randy Smith led the first two laps before Baker led laps three through 23 with St. Ours on his tail.  St. Ours took the lead on lap 24 but Baker remained in pursuit.

Baker made his move on the white flag lap to a thrilling .321 second win over St. Ours with Randy Smith rounding out the top-three.

“That was the best race I’ve ever been in,” Baker said.  “I need to start getting a little more aggressive so I did what I could.”

It was a father and son duel between Rich Delong III and his father Rich Delong, Jr. in the Street Stock 25 lap main event.  It was the Castaic driver Rich Delong III holding off “pops” to continue a perfect three-for-three this year.  Perrin Koostra rounded out the top-three finishers with only one second between the group.

Kern County Raceway Park is online at www.kernraceway.com  More information is available on Facebook at www.facebook.com/kernraceway and on Twitter at www.twitter.com/kernraceway

Major marketing partners include Coca Cola, Budweiser, CITGO Lubricants, Monster Energy, Advance Beverage Company, Three-Way Chevrolet, and Whelen Engineering.

For marketing information on Kern County Raceway Park, contact Steven Blakesley of Blakesley Sports Media by email at sblakesley@kernraceway.com or by phone at (916) 509-7050.

September 14, 2013 NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Results

Kern County Raceway Park – Bakersfield, CA

NASCAR Pro Late Model – 50 laps

1) 99 Tim Smith, 2) 2 Donny St. Ours, 3) 23 Dan Holtz, 4) 35 Rodney Peacher, 5) 1 Paul Ebersbacher, 6) 19 Johnny White, 7) 13 Josh Horn, 8) 9 Robby Sawyer, 9) 16 Ryan Reed DNS: 70 Kevin Thompson 17:38.196

NASCAR CITGO Lubricants Late Model #1 – 35 laps

1) 17 David Mayhew, 2) 4 Brian Richardson, 3) 44 Eric Richardson, 4) 19 Johnny White, 5) 55 Cole Custer, 6) 13 Josh Horn, 7) 50 Trevor Huddleston, 8) 9 Robby Sawyer, 9) 98 Cole Adamo, 10) 35 Rodney Peacher, 11) 1 Paul Ebersbacher 11:20.128

NASCAR CITGO Lubricants Late Model #2 – 35 laps

1) 17 David Mayhew, 2) 4 Brian Richardson, 3) 9 Robby Sawyer, 4) 50 Trevor Huddleston, 5) 55 Cole Custer, 6) 98 Cole Adamo, 7) 13 Josh Horn, 8) 35 Rodney Peacher, 9) 44 Eric Richardson, 10) 1 Paul Ebersbacher, 11) 19 Johnny White 24:37.620

NASCAR Mini Stock – 30 laps

1) 14 Dylan Baker, 2) 51 Donny St. Ours, 3) 55 Randy Smith, 4) 98 Jordan Brown, 5) 3 Justin Fine, 6) 7 Billy Lay 8:24.780

Street Stock – 25 laps

1) 84 Rich Delong III, 2) 64 Rich Delong, Jr., 3) 1 Perrin Koostra, 4) 34 Michael Parr DNS 4 Howie Smith 13:34.691

Do you have a news tip? Call us at (661) 298-1220, or drop us a line at community@hometownstation.com.

[node:title]

Article: [node:title]
Source: Santa Clarita News
Author: [node:author]