Greg Taylor wins the Bandit-VRA Championship

Greg Taylor wins the Bandit-VRA Challenge Championship over Josh Ford and Jesse Mack.

Troy Rutherford won the battle, but Greg Taylor won the war
Troy Rutherford won the battle, but Greg Taylor won the war as the final VRA/Bandit Grand Slam Series Race of 2007 took place last Saturday night October 27. As Rutherford took his fourth win in the last five Ventura Raceway events, Taylor clinched his first Grand Slam Series Championship with a third place finish in the thirty lap feature. Josh Ford finished second in the race and second in the series 14 points behind Taylor. Johnathon Henry finished fourth in the feature and third in the series. 2007 Bandit Jesse Mack had a bad night Saturday when a rock knocked a fitting off his brake line and he went out on lap 2. He finished the series in fourth in points due to excellent finished in earlier competition at Bakersfield and Santa Maria.

Saturday’s event was another great race night with heat wins going to Luis Espinoza, Kevin Kierce, Jesse Mack and Greg Taylor. Derek Buckley took the win in the 12 lap Semi Main. With the threat of rain all around the raceway, the races were lined up by regular VRA Pill Pick format rather than by qualifications. This allowed us to get the entire race in, in a more timely fashion. The 30 lap feature was a race that saw Troy Rutherford once again go to the front to take the win. Several early yellow flags took out some competitors in the first 9 laps. Once the race got rolling in a clean manner, Rutherford led a hard charging Josh Ford, who came from 9th to 2nd across the finish line. Finishing third through fifth were Taylor, Henry and Luis Espinoza. Taylor’s third place finish gives him a 500 point lead over Kevin Kierce going into the final two events of the year. He only needs to score 25 points on November 10, to clinch his first VRA Championship

October 27th at Ventura

Troy Rutherford takes number five of the last six VRA Features last Saturday night and the $2000 main purse.

Santa Maria October 13th
Greg Porte wins round three of the Bandit-VRA Challenge at Santa Maria.

Santa Maria July 28th
Josh Ford wins VRA/Bandit Grand Slam at Santa Maria July 28th

Bakersfield April 7th.
Greg Taylor takes the opener at Bakersfield April 7th.

Bandit/VRA Results from Bakersfield April 7th

Bandit/VRA Results from Santa Maria July 28th

1. Greg Taylor #7
2. Jesse Mack #71m
3. Davey Pombo #38
4. Josh Ford #73
5. Peter Murphy #21
6. Michael Trimble #31
7. Brandon Thomson #19
8. Kevin Kierce #2c
9. Johnathan Henry #17
10. John Nock #83
11. Rick Hendrix #15
12. Zak Hawthorne #1s
13. Steve Demott #35d
14. Heidi Tressler #3
15. Tom Stansberry #75t
16. Eric Severson #36
17. Jayson May #8m
18. Rusty Carlile #51
19. Ron Tjaarda #0
20. Dwayne Marcum #91
21. Steve Williams #93
22. Luis Espinosa #09
1.  Josh Ford #73
2.  Greg Porte #3g
3.  Jimmy Crawford #51x
4.  Davey Pombo #51x
5.  Greg Taylor #7
6.  Johnathon Henry #4w
7.  Jesse Mack #71M
8.  John Niggli #9
9.  Jimmy Thompson #71R
10. Richard Vander Weerd #10
11. Chris Wakim #9w
12. Luis Espinoza #09
13. Danny Faria Jr. #17v
14. Rusty Carlile #51
15. Myles Bishop #7x
16. Danny Sheridan #18
17. Brandon Thomson #19
18. Jeff Culver #71c
19. Clark Templeman III #18T
20. Brian Camarillo #22c

Bandit/VRA Results from Santa Maria October 13th

Top 20 in Points

1.  Greg Porte #3g
2.  Greg Bragg #11
3.  Justyne Hamblin #8
4.  Jesse Mack #71M
5.  Clark Templeman III #18T
6.  Greg Taylor #7
7.  Derek Buckley #76
8.  Jimmy Thompson #71R
9.  Eric Severson #11E
10. Kevin Kierce #2c
11. Johnathon Henry #17
12. Josh Ford #73
13. Dave Knott #28
14. Albert Pombo #35
15. Ron Tjaarda #5R
16. Joey Layman #11x
17. Josh Davis #98D
18. Mike Knopf #5K
19. Bruce Douglass #31
20. Henry Clark #2B
21. Zak Hawthorne #21x
22. Gordon Edwards #50
Pos Driver Name Points Wins Top 5s Top 10s
1 Greg Taylor 326 1 2 3
2 Jesse Mack 324 0 2 3
3 Josh Ford 312 1 2 2
4 Johnathon Henry 298 0 0 2
5 Eric Severson 252 0 0 1
6 Davey Pombo 232 0 2 2
7 Greg Porte 228 1 2 2
8 Kevin Kierce 224 0 0 2
9 Jimmy Thompson 194 0 0 2
10 Clark Templeman III 182 0 1 1
11 Brandon Thomson 172 0 0 1
12 Rusty Carlile 170 0 0 0
13 Ron Tjaarda 166 0 0 0
14 Luis Espinoza 160 0 0 0
15 Rick Hendrix 156 0 0 0
16 Zak Hawthorne 150 0 0 0
17 Bruce Douglass 148 0 0 0
18 Joey Layman 144 0 0 0
19 John Nock 124 0 0 1
  Albert Pombo 124 0 0 0
  Jayson May 124 0 0 0
 

 
2008 Bandit/VRA Schedule
April

12 VRA Sprints @ King's Speedway (Bandit- VRA Grand Slam #1)
June
28 VRA Sprints @ Bakersfield Speedway (Bandit- VRA Grand Slam #2)
July
26 VRA Sprints @ Santa Maria Speedway (Bandit- VRA Grand Slam #3)
August

23
VRA Sprints & Dwarf Cars @ Ventura (Bandit- VRA Grand Slam Final)