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Hazards Are Dominant Factor For Hobby CarsTHERE IS absolutely no ua\ to be certain of picking a vs inner when the Lavs ton Speedway's hobby stinkers go onto th«* trackEven the guys vs ho were runaway season champions — I-iwton's Gary Prestage, and Norman’s Arley Anderson — couldn’t count on getting through the hazards of hobby stock traffic and into first place in their races The same situation will apply this year, when about 3(1 of the hobbies hook up in their annual free-for-all struggle for the season point championshipANDERSON, ON the basis of his performance last year when he won the season title, has to be the favorite before rac ing begins in 1974 Hut the fiery Norman redhead can't count on having his car in one- piece by the end of the- first night of competition. That’s the way hobby stock action is Basic ally the* hobbies try to follow the* usual Speedway formatThey start at the* flagstand. run in a counter-clockwise pattern and try to finish at the flagstandHI T THU STARTS are unpredictable and the running counter-clcnkw ise worse than thatSomeone almost always finishes. more often than not. front-end first Anderson did it that way much more often than anyone else.If the Norman driver doesn’t repeat as champion, it's anyone’s guess who will replace him Lawton’s Boodle Dial ran second last year, but was a distant 138 points behind the winner Norman’s Dean Abraham was third, exactly 100 IMtints behind Dial.BOTH ARE possibilities this timeSo is ( hickasha’s Buddy Robertson, Lawton’s Randy Cragle and Al Metz, Altus’ David Bryce and Waurika's Harold Winton Then there are about 75 others who might figure in the picture before the season is over A total of 88 drivers picked up points during the hobby stock season last year, and most of them have the potential to be contenders for the title Luck is always regarded as a key factor in season championships. though The principal piece of luck necessary is being able to avoid getting in the wrong place at the wrong timeTHE PROBLEM in the- hobbies is that there are so many more wrong places and so many more wrong times, that any car which goes onto the track is subject to being demolished before the first lap is completed There aren't many points to go around in the hobby division The investment is small, in comparison with the supers and ntodifieds, and the return is muc h smaller, tooANDERSON Bt'ILT his 788-|M»int total by dominating the A features, where first place is worth 30 points and second worth 25 A heat race victory provides only 12 points But to win big. a driver almost has to place in the top three cars in the hobby feature almost every night.If the pack can become balanced enough to prevent a driver from taking the A feature points home regularly, the hobby stock division championship brawl could wind up being the fiercest title action in Speedway history
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Lawton Sunday Constitution
Lawton, Oklahoma, US
Sun, Mar 24, 1974
Page 78
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