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Industry, CA., Sept. 2 – Mike Faria, a speedway motorcycle racing star from Reno now residing in Colton, led all four laps from pole position Wednesday evening at Industry Speedway. He scored his second 500cc Division 1 feature victory on the dirt track in The Grand at Industry Hills Expo Center in front of about 800 spectators. Jimmy Fishback trailed by two lengths, with Buck Blair a length back and last chance race winner Shawn McConnell another length back in fourth. Neil Facchini was the final finisher in the five rider field. Blair and Faria won the two semi-final races.
Joey Holt won the six rider Division 2 500cc main after starting from the middle of the front row. It was the fifth D-2 triumph this season at Industry for the 14-year old from Oak Hill. Chris Jones, of Aliso Viejo, started and finished first in the 500cc Division 3 race for rookies and riders with minimal experience. It was the initial triumph for the rider was has competed only during the 14th and 15th weeks of the Industry season.
Paraplegic Brian Motis, of Garden Grove, and his sidecar rider, Brandi McElroy, of Ontario, won their first sidecar 4-lap feature in their second week as a team. Motis has been a paraplegic and uses a wheelchair since 1984 when he crashed in a desert sand-drag event. He has driven sidecars for several years. “This is my first win,” he stated after picking up his trophy. McElroy, one of two female sidecar riders in the four sidecar field, teamed with Joe Jones several years ago to win many sidecar features. Jones and his current rider Jimmy Olsen placed a close second. Gerard Jackson/Dave German were third. The husband/wife team of Sean and Missy Driggers finished fourth after overturning on the initial lap in turn two and causing a complete restart.
Rocco Scopellite, 13, from Huntington Beach, won the three-rider Junior main on his 250cc cycle. Nicky Reimer, 10, won the four-lap, four rider pee-wee main and logged his 100th main event victory. The 10-year old Seal Beach resident races a 50cc mini cycle in pee wee events and has raced for the last two years in Junior Division 200cc races. He began racing at age 5 and has raced flat track, super-moto and speedway cycles
The Harley-Davidson Night major winner in an eight rider field was Joe Pape, 53, from Culver City. Known as “horny guy” because he wears a Viking-style helmet with horns on both sides, Pape also won his heat race. The other Harley heat winner rode a long-wheelbase Harley. Pape made his winning pass on the third lap and won the four-lap race easily over the long-wheelbase Harley. Pape earlier won a five-rider “go as slow as you can without being disqualified for putting a foot on the ground race”. Next Wednesday will be Industry track championship night and the final mid-week event. The final three races of the 19 race sixth season of speedway cycle racing at Industry will be Saturday nights, November 28 plus December 5 and 12.
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