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Two races left; three are tiedOnly two races are left on the Kokomo Speedway’s 1987 season, and three sprint car drivers are fighting for the track championship with three feature wins each.The first driver to rack up three wins was Lincoln's Dave Dariand. Next was Warsaw’s Terry Shepherd, and last week, Warsaw’s Tony Elliott won his third feature to throw the championship into a three-way deadlock.Sunday’s Late-Season Stock Championship race saw Marion’s Glen Bradley continue his dominance in the hobby stock class. He racked up his fifth straight feature win and his ninth of the season driving the No. 34 Firebird from the Rick Burns racing stable.Cliff Burns said Bradley came with the Burns’ team after Bradley's Ford went sour on him.“He helped sort the car out and get it set up the way it is, Burns said.On the opposite side of the coin, Galveston’s Jim Taylor, the dominating driver last year in hobby stocks, is still searching for his first local speedway win of the season. He ran into baa luck again last week, when he got into the wall in the 40-lap feature race.S: nee his accident happened on the fi st lap, his was the first car out of the race.In street stocks, Kokomo’s Jim Davis tied Swede Bolander for toe lead in feature wins as he racked up his second win in a row and his fifth of the season.Gates open at 5 p.m. with time trials at 7 and the first race is scheduled to take the green flag at 8.ByBobLongwithSaturday, Hewitt resumed his mastery or the one-mile dirt tracks by driving the J.W. Hunt Produce Chevy to a repeat victory in toe Tony Bettenhausen 100 at the Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield. The victory was worth $9,500and extended his lead in the Valvoline-USAC Silver Crown Championship series.Butler, third in the points race, finished 11th, driving toe No. 10 Kenneth Jarrett Farms championship car three laps down in the 100-lap race.Warsaw resultsDewayne Barker won last Saturday’s feature race at Warsaw Speedway. Friday night’s all-star program was rained out. Kokomo’s Mark Owsley finished fifth with Arcadia’s Jen Walker sixth.Fast-qualifier Denny England finished second with Van Gurley third and Brent Mann fourth.Kokomo Speedway regular Dave Dariand won the trophy dash.Heat winners were John Johnson Jr., John Althouse with Walker second, and Brent Mann.
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Kokomo Tribune
Kokomo, Indiana, US
Sat, Aug 29, 1987
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