Chateau Raceway Classic Dwarf Report May 12, 2007
By Matthew Grage

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A perfect spring night greeted fans and drivers for weekend number three of racing action at Chateau Raceway in Lansing powered by Husqvarna. The car count continued to grow as well with sixteen drivers making there first appearances at the track this season and four of the six classes saw there highest individual car counts as well.

With so many new faces it only stood to reason that plenty of new faces could be showing up in victory lane for the first time this season and by the end of the night there were ten drivers who had that first checkered flag of the year, just two of those however were first time visitors.

The "Triple J Disposal Classic Dwarf Class" has been dominated so far this season by Rick Utley of Byron. Utley picked up where he left off the first two weeks of the season by taking the heat win and continuing to be the only driver to see victory lane in the class. In the feature Dave Anderson of Lyle and John Griffen of Caledonia got away first and second, and with Rick stuck back in traffic tried to break away. They had things there way until Utley caught them about midrace. With Rick making his move for the lead he caught a bit of the wall on the back straightaway and appeared to bend something in the right rear as tire smoke could be seen coming off the car as it came around to complete lap eight. It lasted just one more lap and he pulled from the track leaving Anderson and Griffen to settle it. Dave seemed to be on his way until a slight bobble in turn two on lap eleven took him up the track and opened the door for Griffen on the bottom. John drove right through that open door and went on to not only his first win of the year but his first career Chateau Feature win.

The nights race program, sponsored by Power 96, featured Stock Car rides for all the kids at the beginning of the night. Chateau Raceway will continue its season long kid’s promotions next week with a "Kids-R-Free" night. The track will also bring out a couple of the "Box Cars" for the kids to see next week. There Small Box shaped cars that the kids wear over there shoulders to race in. Then after giving the kids a few weeks to make one of there own the track will have "Kids Box-Car Races" on June 1st. Race time every Friday Night for Chateau Raceway Thunder in the Dirt is 7:30.

Heat 1	Feature
1. Rick Utley 2. John Griffin 3. Kevin Bigalk 4. Trent Gorton 5. Brett Anderson 6. Dave Anderson 7. Jeremey Anderson 8. David Sikor 9. Tom Gandy	1. John Griffin 2. Dave Anderson 3. Jeremey Anderson 4. David Sikora 5. Trent Gorton 6. Rick Utley (dnf) 7. Tom Gandy (dnf) 8. Kevin Bigalk (dnf) 9. Brett Anderson (dnf)