Deforest Leads Taxi Cab Event
Deforest Leads Marysville Taxi Cab Event
(For Immediate Release)
(Marysville, CA 10/19/2024) Shawn Deforest led a star studded field of Late Model racers at Marysville Raceway Saturday night to score the 20 lap feature event at the annual Taxi Cab Challenge at the Speedway. He was joined in Victory lane by Pro Stock feature winner Steve Studebaker, Wayne Trimble in the Pure stocks and IMCA stocks, and local Hobby stock driver Brian Cooper.
65 stock cars descended on the ¼ mile clay oval located on Simpson Lane next to the Marysville Flea Market. Winds the day before were enough to damage a portion of the raceway wall which had to repaired Saturday morning.
The luck of draw place Deforest and Terry Kaiser in the front row of the late model feature where Deforest blasted past Kaiser for the point. Ray Trimble worked his way into second as Matt Micheli advanced from 6th starting and Dan Oliver closed from 7th. Soon it became a 3-way battle between Deforest, Oliver and Micheli. Twice in the late stages Oliver got alongside Deforest but couldn’t execute the pass. Once Micheli a shot at second. But as the Mike Shirley checkered flew It was Deforest followed by Oliver, Micheli, Anthony Slaney, and Tim Yeager.
Phillip Shelby briefly led the Pro Stocks before Studebaker found his way to the front. Both Corey Hall and Walter Ball challenged and Hall dogged Studebaker until his car began misfiring. Meanwhile, Richard Brace came from the rear of the pack to track down Hall and pass him for second just moments before the final flag. After Brace and Hall came Ball and Shelby.
Trimble was on a rail in both his of victories easily winning the IMCA stocks but Ryan Peter and Michael Murphy gave him a stronger challenge in the pure stock event.
The Hobby stocks were led most of the way by Jacob Bright while Cooper worked from 8th starting to split Bright and Jason Clayton to take the lead. Bright held on to second, Andrew Peckham was third, followed by Matt Beardslee and Gary Holsey.
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