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Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida's Simon Gregg took both the six lap sprint race
and the twenty lap feature race at the The American Road Race of Champions
November 6 & 7 at Road Atlanta Raceway. The event was also the final round
of the V8 StockCar Road Racing Series. Gregg, driving the number 59 Derhaag
Motorsports Corvette started from the pole in both races after posting a
quick 1:24.471 in qualifying with Bill Smith in his winged late model stock
car and former Grand Am
Series champ Dave Machavern in his Tommy Riggins Corvette right behind. At
the green in Friday's sprint race, Gregg got a great start and slipped away
to a several second advantage as Smith and Machavern battled for second.
Machavern held the number two slot the entire race, but was under constant
attack from "Wild Bill" in the winged stock car that is painted and decaled
up to look like a 1955 Chevy Bel Air. Gregg's margin of victory at the
checker was nearly five seconds.
With his second place finish, Machavern locked up the V8 StockCar Series V8
GT-1 title for the second straight year, taking home the Mo's Gold
Championship Ring.
Gregg started Saturday's feature race from the pole again and used the big
horsepower in his orange rocket to power away from Smith and Machavern.
Smith started second and pulled away from Machavern about one half second a
lap. The race was pretty uneventful for the top three in the V8 GT-1 with
Gregg finishing some twenty plus seconds ahead of Smith, with Machavern
another five seconds or so behind. Bob Monette had a fine drive in his new
Tony Ave built Mustang coming home fourth. Monette's daughter, Paige,
demonstrated she can handle the big horsepower as well coming home seventh
overall and fifth in V8 GT-1 in her Ave prepped Corvette. Paige was quickly
adapting to her new ride and was running her best laps at the end.
In the V8 SPO class for the high horsepower stock cars, Paul Breehne drove
his best race ever, holding off three time Nascar Dash Series champ Larry
Hoopaugh and a very quick Grant Leadbetter. Breehne was running his best
laps ever at Road Atlanta and was really liking the set up car chief Mike
Breault gave him.
Hoopaugh kept trying to make a move inside of Breehne lap after lap in the
high speed turn one, but could never quite make it stick. On about lap
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