Dusty Davis wins second NASCAR Super Late Model race in a row at Irwindale

Dusty Davis of Las Vegas won the NASCAR Super Late Model race at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale on Saturday night. It was his second Super Late Model win in a row and his second of the season.
Davis inherited the lead after Jason Patison slid into the turn one wall on the last lap of the race. Justin Johnson, who was running in second at the time, was penalized for pushing Patison into the wall. He was sent to the back of the field and the race ended under a green-white-checker flag finish.
“All I’m going to say is they ran out of room,” Davis said.
Patison’s car had to be towed off the track. He did not finish the race after leading for 44 laps of the 50 lapper.
“Got taken out,” said Patison, a driver from Corona, who has also been racing in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East. “It’s probably hurt pretty bad. We’ll go back and check it out.”
The 17-year-old Davis, the youngest driver to win a Super Late Model race at Irwindale, held off a late charge by rookie Ryan Reed and Randel King. Davis said his team’s strategy was to race conservatively and it paid off. He was in third place for most of the race and was able to take the lead when the top two drivers tangled on the last lap.
“This one was a lot harder to get,” Davis said. “We had a green-white-checker and it was all up to me.”
Davis had a little bit of luck on his side in winning his second race of the season. His mom and grandmother might have played a part in bringing Davis some of that luck. His mom has a shell she brings to every race for luck. His grandmother has an angel she brings to every race. Both sit in the same seats at the race track when they watch Davis race. Davis dedicated the win to his mom and grandmother for Mothers Day.
Johnson, a driver from Las Vegas, went from 11th to sixth in the final two laps of the race and maintained his lead in the Super Late Model standings.
Reed ended up second, followed by King in third.
Johnson, Davis’ teammate at Vision Aviation Racing, has an eight-point lead over Reed in the Super Late Model standings at the track. Davis is tied for third, 10 points out of first in the standings.
In other races, Brent Scheidelmantle of Alta Loma won his second Legend Cars race of the year and his first since opening night. Chad Schug of Oak Hills was second and Mark Borchetta of Valencia was third.
Scheidelmantle leads the Legends Cars standings by 20 points over Mark Iungerich of Granada Hills.
Neil Conrad of Arcadia won his first South West Tour Trucks Series race in seven years. He snapped the three-race winning streak of Jeff Williams of Newbury Park, who finished second. Brady Helm of Huntington Beach was third.
Conrad has two runner-up finishes and is second in the South West Tour Trucks Series standings. Williams has a six-point lead over Conrad.
Daryl Scoggins of Sunland won the NASCAR Mini Stocks race, his second in a row. Richie Altman of Wildomar was second, followed by Rod Schmitt of Alta Loma in third.
Scoggins has a 14-point lead over Jacob Rogers of Riverside in the Mini Stocks standings. Rogers finished seventh in the race on Saturday night.
Kenny Smith of Oak Hills won the S2 stock car race for the second time in a row. After missing the first two S2 races of the year, Smith has won the last two.
Bobby Kelley of Riverside was second and Dylan Lupton of Wilton was third.

Justin Johnson wins NASCAR Super Late Model race at Irwindale, takes over lead in standings

Justin Johnson of Las Vegas parlayed a couple of podium finishes and took over the lead in the NASCAR Super Late Model standings at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale on Saturday night.
Johnson won the first of two Super Late Model races at the track. He was third in the second race and passed Nick Joanides of Woodland Hills for the lead in the Super Late Model standings after four races.
“It was pretty fun tonight,” Johnson said. “We had a fast car the first race. The second race we went and tweaked on it a little bit, messed ourselves up a little bit. All in all a great effort by Vision Airlines.”
Joanides had a rough night. The reigning Super Late Model champion was sixth in the first race. His motor broke at the end of the second race and he finished 13th out of 14 cars.
Dusty Davis of Las Vegas, Johnson’s teammate at Vision Aviation Racing, won the second Super Late Model race.  He finished second to Johnson in the first Super Late Model race.
“I knew that I had a fast enough car to win,” Davis said. “I was driving every lap as hard as I could until I got the checker.”
Johnson and Davis are first and second in the Super Late Model standings. Johnson has a four-point lead over Davis.
Daryl Scoggins of Sunland won his first NASCAR Mini Stocks race of the season. Richie Altman of Wildomer was second, followed by Jacob Rivers of Riverside.
Jeff Williams of Newbury Park won his third straight South West Tour Trucks series race. Neil Conrad of Arcadia was second, followed by Michael Zimmerman of Hemet was third.
Kenny Smith of Oak Hills won his first S2 stock car race at Irwindale. He finished ahead of Roman Lagudi of Las Vegas in second and David Busby of Laguna Beach in third.