Five track championships decided at Irwindale

Connor Cantrell of Santa Clarita wrapped up the Super Trucks championship by finishing second in the season finale race at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale on Saturday night.
Ryan Partridge of Rancho Cucamonga won the final race of the season.
Cantrell came into the season finale with a four-race winning streak and a 40-point lead over Partridge, who won the Super Trucks championship at Irwindale last year.
Todd Cameron of Monrovia was third, followed by Matt Kimball and Ken Brown.
Andrew Anderson of Lancaster won the S2 stock car championship by winning the season finale at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale on Saturday night.
Anderson had an 18-point lead over Andrew Porter of La Verne in the S2 stock car standings. Anderson won his fourth S2 stock car races this season. Porter won three races and finished second in the season finale.
Jessica Clark, a senior at Westlake High School, scored her first podium finish in the S2 stock cars. She finished third, her second top-five finish of the season.
Chad Schug of Oak Hills won the Legends Cars championship. He won eight races at Irwindale and came into the season finale with a 52-point lead over Brent Scheidmantle of Alta Loma.
Christian McGhee capped his championship season in the Bandoleros by winning the season finale. He finished ahead of Daniel Nikolai of Granada Hills, who was second, and Mikael Lovas of Menifee in third.
McGhee had a four-point lead over Nikolai in the Bandoleros standings at the start of the night.
Curtis White of Norwalk won the NASCAR Super Stocks race and track championship, leap-frogging Rich DeLong III of Santa Clarita on the last race of the season.
White won the championship by two points over De Long. It was his second win of the season.
De Long came into the season finale with a slim two-point lead over White in the Super Stocks standings. Zack Green of Long Beach was 18 points out of first.
De Long finished third in the season finale race. Green was fourth.

Monrovia's Todd Cameron engineering break-out season

Todd Cameron, a driver from Monrovia, has won two NASCAR Super Trucks races at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale.
He started racing in the Super Trucks in 2006 and won his first race in April. He said it was amazing to finally win a race after so many years.
Cameron is also a mechanical engineer. Having an engineering background gives him a bit of an edge when it comes to preparing his truck for races.
Go to the Monrovia Patch site for more on Cameron and the Super Trucks.

Photo: Todd Cameron has won two races and is in fourth place in the NASCAR Super Trucks standings at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale.

Ken Maler Jr. moves up to NASCAR Super Trucks at Irwindale

Ken Maler Jr., a driver from Acton, has moved from the Legend Cars to the NASCAR Super Trucks. Maler posted two top-10 finishes and was 17th in the Legend Cars standings last year.
He is driving the Super Truck that Jon Campbell raced at Irwindale and Mesa Marin in Bakersfield. Maler has had the truck for a few years, but opted to race go-karts and Legend Cars while he and his dad prepared the truck to return the track.
Maler qualified 10th and finished sixth for the first Super Trucks race of the season. He was awarded the hard charger for the race, making up the most spots.

RJ Johnson struggles on opening night at Irwindale

RJ Johnson won the last two NASCAR Super Trucks races of the 2008 season at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale. But he struggled in the season opener at Irwindale on Saturday night.
He finished 13th after running in the top three for the first part of the race.
Before the race, he talked about his hot finish last year and if he could carry that momentum into 2009.
Click here for a video of how Johnson prepared for opening night at Irwindale.