Oxley emerges from the confusion

by Tom Simrak, Speedway from turn two
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Tonight was the night many people waited for. The rematch between Tyson and Holyfield. This was to be the fight to see. Well, you all were wrong. Tyson got to hungry and had ear for dinner and the fight was over. For those of you that stayed home to see this, You missed the real deal. we were all treated to a great night of racing, a small crowd and even a little fighting of our own. The racing started out slow for the heat races, that's ok. Some of the top riders were missing and that's ok too. In the semi's things heated up a bit. But in the mains, Look out. First in the sratch main, John "THE ICEMAN" Aden got the gate. Aden held off the field for almost one lap. With an awsome pass on the outside, Mike Faria made the pass. You may have thought Faria had this thing all wrapped up but then came McConnell. McConnell fought his way up to the front and some say he even won the race by a few inches. I don't know, I did not see it but Faria was givin the win. Then it was time for the handicap main event and those famous words, LETS GET READY TO RUMMMMMBLE. In the first try Jerry Black laid it down all by himself. The ref tossed the red flag and stopped the race. For unknown reasons he allowed a complete restart. During the discusion, Aden decided to go to a back-up bike. He pulled into the pits and started looking as he did not have one of his own. Randy DiFrancesco, who owns Adens bike from last year Stepped up and offered Aden a bike. The only problem is that Randy had already backed off the clutch. Aden went to the track to wait for the bike. As soon as the clutch was set Randy brought the bike to Aden. By then the drag truck was parked in the tunnel. Randy could not get the bike to the track. Soon the ref called the two minute time and tossed Aden out. Aden finnally got the bike but refussed to leave the track. He did pull to the gate to leave once but the people at the gate would not open it to let him off the track. The ref said if Aden doesn't leave he will not be scored. Bobby Schwartz had enough of this and pulled off the track and did not race. So when all was said and done, Aden finished third but was credited with eighth. There was lots of talk about fines being handed out but we will have to wait to see what comes of this. now, the stuff 

Scratch semi #1                      scratch semi#2

1st  Faria                           1st  Aden
2nd  Oxley                           2nd  Schwartz
3rd  McConnell                       3rd  DiFransesco
4th  Ackroyd                         4th  Chism

1st and 2nd went to main event, 3rd and 4th to last chance


last chance main event

1st  McConnell
2nd  Ackroyd
3rd  Chism
4th  DiFransesco

winner only to scratch main event



Scratch main event


1st Faria
2nd McConnell
3rd Oxley
4th Schwartz
5th Aden


Handicap semi #1                Handicap semi #2

1st  McConnell                  1st  Oxley 
2nd  Faria                      2nd  Aden
3rd  Black                      3rd  Bauer
4th  Schwartz                   4th  Pappalardo
5th  DiFransesco                5th  Chism
6th  Cooley                     6th  Ayers

top 4 went to main event


handicap main event


1st Oxley 
2nd McConnell
3rd Black
4th Pappalardo 
5th Bauer
6th Faria 
7th Schwartz  (dns)
8th Aden      (dns)(DQed)


Support main event


1st Johhnie Walker  (red)



The next race is the Fair derby. You don't want to miss this 
one.

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