Fall like weather prevailed as the Vintage Modified drivers gathered once again at South Sound Speedway. Some new faces were on hand as well as some visiting drivers. Jeff Peterson was driving President Leonard Schmidt’s car, Tony Carabello was test driving Chuck Peterson’s car, Pete Tice Jr. made it back after almost a full season absence and Tom Smitham was filling the seat for the vacationing Robert Rux.

Just off his win at Yakima two weeks ago Paul Field set the fast time of the night at 15:00 seconds.

The A dash line up had Tony Carabello on the pole, point leader Bobby Wheeler on his right. Bob Fulmer and Field started behind them. Carabello led the first 3 laps but was overtaken by Fulmer on the last lap and barely avoided crashing when Field spun out trying to win it all in the last turn. Fulmer got the trophy.

There was only one heat race at this event, a big one. Smitham took the pole with Peterson beside him. John Mustered and Mike Clother were in the second row followed by defending champion Jim Jones and Kevin Rinkel. The pack stayed tight side by side for the first two laps before Peterson moved around Smitham to take the lead. Peterson held the lead for the remaining laps and was followed to the checkered flag by Mustered, Fulmer, Jones and Wheeler.

The 30 lap main event lined up exactly like the heat race. Once again Peterson took the lead early and put some distance between him and the rest of the field of cars. Mustered took over second as Clother faded to the rear on the outside. Mustered did a masterful job of holding on to second place. Meanwhile, Fulmer, Field, Rinkel and Jones were battling to see who would move up to take try to take that position form Mustered. It was Field that prevailed in that battle and with only a hand full of laps left in the race he moved Mustered out of his way to take over second. Field closed quickly on Peterson who had led from the start. With two laps to go Field once again made his presence known by use of his front bumper. That resulted in Peterson spinning from the lead into the dusty infield between turns 1 and 2. This did not please driver Peterson who kept his foot and the gas. The ensuing dust cloud covered the track with dirt and blinded anyone following. Even so no caution flag flew and the group received the white flag, one lap to go. Jones had fallen behind Clother in the dust storm but saw some daylight entering turn one. Clother closed the door but unfortunately Jones didn’t slow enough to prevent spinning both he and Clother into the still dusty infield. More clouds of dust covered the track, several drivers were not too happy, but Paul Field took the trophy. Kevin Rinkel was second followed by Mustered, Fulmer and Wheeler. Carabello moved up to 6th in the dust storm with Jones, Clother, Peterson and Smitham making up the rest of the top ten.

Only two races remain in the 2010 season for the Vintage Modifieds. Bobby Wheeler currently is the point leader but Jim Jones is close behind. John Mustered and Mike Clother are hotly contesting the next point position. There should be some good racing at Wenatchee Valley Super Oval September 11th and at the championship race at South Sound on September 25th.