This was a weekend of contrasts between two events.

FALLON (Sept 24/25) – Dirt Track Championships and Super Crawl were two very different four-wheel events that dominated the racing in this area. One was fast while the other was way more technical and a heck of a lot slower.

For the past two decades the annual DTC as it’s known ends the season at Rattlesnake Raceway located just east of downtown Fallon. Not only is money at stake but bragging rights as well.

The weekend has two complete shows, one Saturday evening while the second is Sunday afternoon. And a driver’s total points, coming from the heat races and mains are added and whoever has the highest total is the champion for their class.

This was also the final points race for the newly constituted Nevada Pro Stock Association. As normal when Gene Kay gets the lead he’s been virtually unbeatable and he was during the DTC.

Gene Kay on his way to topping he Nevada Pro Stock Association’s title as well as picking up this year’s Dirt Track Championship.

Behind him Jesse Gonzalez was second ahead of James Gonzalez so it was a family two-three finish. In the end they were only two points apart while Kay had a five-point margin.

Next were the IMCA Modifieds and that class was very competitive. At the end only three points separated the top drivers in the class.

Chris Nieman on his way to winning the DTC for the IMCA division.

In the end Chris Nieman won the TDC but right behind him were Cory Sample, who won the second day’s race, and Shawn Natenstedt.

The largest class, as it’s been all year, is Hobby Stock. On this day Street Stocks from 95A Speedway could race but they had to do a couple of things to make their cars legal for the show.

On Saturday Rocky Goetz won his heat and the main event but Shane Ramthun topped the scoring sheets on Sunday while Goetz didn’t. The result was Ramthun won the DTC with Goetz only one point behind him.

Shane Ramthun, due to his winning everything on Sunday was the Hobby Stock DTC winner.

Third place went to Cody Morris while Bob Vaden and Mikki Beuchat were tied for fourth.

Moving into the small cars Jesse James won the DTC for the SS4 class by a scant point as he just beat Steve Singley for the title. Kenny Schmitt was a bit further back in third but only two points ahead of Rich Innis.

Jesse James laps passes another car on Saturday night. He would win the DTC for the SS4 division.

The GenX division almost disappeared from Rattlesnake Raceway but on this weekend it was back. Eugene Felker, who apparently towed all the way up from Las Vegas, won the DTC for the class.

Five points back in second place was Madison Hood. Unfortunately many of the some of the names of the racers were not listed in the results.

The Outlaw Kart also were part of the two-day show and three of their divisions were on hand to compete. Only the 250’s were missing.

This year there was some prize money along with earning their version of the Dirt Track Championships. In the Beginner class it was Austin Enox while Joel Myers Jr. topped the Box Stock division and Blake Rauscher won the 500’s title.

Usually this pretty well ends racing at Rattlesnake but not this year. Picking up the two-day show dropped by 95A Speedway there will be another two-day shootout on October 8 and 9 that will probably follow the same format as the DTC.

• The other event, Super Crawl presented by Trail-Gear. While it lacked the speed found at Rattlesnake the crawl more than made up for it in technical challenges.

An observer directs his driver up an obstacle at the Super Crawl event.

Many of the cars, which are very highly modified for this type of event, usually had a driver and observer, who usually isn’t riding in the car. He helps direct the driver through the course and sometimes will use a line to pull one end or the other sideways to help the driver.

Here an observer is pulling the back end of the car over so the driver can get around an obstacle.

There are several classes and one of the basically used a regular 4X4 with some suspension modification like tires and suspension tweaks.

Unusual attitudes are the norm at a Super Crawl event.

The courses are very short and teams have a time limit plus penalty points if they knock over a cone or other things. So it’s scored somewhat like golf, the fewer penalty points the higher a driver is rate.

The finishing results are posted at the end of this article.

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RESULTS

• Rattlesnake Raceway – Sept 23/24

Dirt Track Championships Points totals*

+ IMCA: 1. Chris Nieman, 2. Cory Sample, 3. Shawn Natenstedt, 4. 26 Paris Archie, 5. Mike Martin, 6. Shawn LaRocque, 7. Joel Myers, 8. Andy Strait, 9. Chris Christiano, 10. Mark Skender, 11. James Thibodeaux, 12. James Riggs, 13. Alec Childs, 14. Barry Stone, 15. 9, 16. Joe Blackwell, 17. Byron Hutchinson, 18. Royce Goetz, 19. Dave Karrera, 20. Unlisted, 21. J.D. Gerard, 22. Don Childs, 23. Scott Foreman, 24. Fred White, 25. Jeff Olschowka.

+ Pro Stock: 1. Gene Kay, 2. Jesse Gonzalez, 3. James      Gonzalez, 4. Travis White, 5. Gary Nevers, 6. Mike Learn, 7. Darrick Rauscher, 8. Robby Grace, 9. Ed Goss, 10. Al Goss, 11. 21, 12. Shawn Natenstedt, 13. Unlisted, 14. Jerry Allec Jr., 15. Gordon Russell, 16. David Paine, 17. Jeff Olschowka, 18. Ed Stidham, 19. James Greewalt.

+ Hobby Stocks: 1. Shane Ramthun, 2. Rocky Goetz, 3. Cody Morris, 4. Bob Vaden, 5. Unlisted, 6. Jeff Tuttle, 7. Rick Miller, 8. Dan Dias, 9. Randy Boyd, 10. Bob Shank, 11. Dillan Kintz, 12. Jimmy Berhorst, 13.      Brian Thorp, 14. Edwin Cadeno, 15. Dave Ausano, 16. Ben Cruiz, 19, Dennis Buehn, 18. Chris Christiano, 19. Tami Buehn, 20. Dan Edgington, 21. Shana Robertson, 22. Alex Pettit, 23. Tim Russel, 24. Raymond Davis, 25. Unlisted, 26. Unlisted, 27. Travis White, 28. Dennis Johnson, 29. Unlisted, 30. Tori Edgington.

+ SS4: 1. Jesse James, 2. Steve Singley, 3. Kenny Schmitt, 4. Rich Innis, 5. Galen Reese, 6. Susie Schmitt, 7.      Danielle Paine, 8. Dennis Crook, 8. Justin McIlvain, 9. Jeff Tuttle, 10. Steven Crook Sr., 11. Unlisted, 12. Unlisted, 13. Donovan Shilton.

+ GenX*: 1. Eugene Felker, 2. Madison Hood, 3. Unlisted, 4. Stephanie Hornback, 5. Unlisted, 6. Josh Evans, 7. Unlisted.

• Rattlesnake Outlaw Karts

Karts DTC Results

+ Beginners: 1. Austin Enox, 2. Ryatt Older, 3. Jaden  Allec, 4. Landon Tangreen, 5. Caleb Stoddard, 6. Aallyah Galindo, 7. Alexis McBroome, 8. Michael Boyd, 9. Kaden Detomasi, 10. Jesse Boyd, 11. Peyton Albury, 12. Logan Cassel, 13. Jake Myers.

+ Box stocks: 1. Joel Myers Jr., 2. Evan Gularte, 3. Brysyn Simeral, 4. Gauge Felzke, 5. Robert McBroome, 6. Rowyn Shupe, 7. Ragen Shupe, 8. Ollie Gibbins, 9. Hayden White, 10. Orlando Chilton.

+500’s:1. Blake Raucher, 2. Robby Wickland, 3. Evan Rauscher, 4. Mark Dempsey, 5. Brandon Tangreen, 6.      Brandon Rosencrantz, 7. Kevin Kentopp, 8 Axle Smith, 9. Colt Stoddard, 10. Mike Tiehm, 11. Jason Paul, 12. Gary Owen, 14. Chris Annas.

• Super Crawl Results

Wild West Motorsports Park – Sept 24/25

+ Unlimited: 1. Todd Young, 2. Jeff Rowland, 3. Justin Hall, 4. Cody Waggoner, 5. Matt Deas, 6. Matt Messer, 7. Carl Shortridge, 8. James Treacy, 9. Dion Wakefield, 10. Olivia Messer, 11. Cody Gabriel, 12. Naozumi Tsuda, 13. Brian Millsap, 14. Dave Wong.

+ Pro Mod: 1. Kevin Reimer, 2. Jared Neff, 3. Dan Patterson, 4. Pip Justice, 5. Jeremy Ofstad, 6. Shawn      McNearney, 7. Dennis Volkoff, 8. Branden Blume, 9. Eric Wicks, 10. Aaron Sykes, 11. Tate Elquist.

+ Trail Buggy: 1. Jake Hallenbeck, 2. Ricky Nujzum, 3. Brian Yates, 4. Uriel Varela, 5. Adam Gordon, 6. Roger Conroy, 7. Casey Cline, 8. Michael Moore, 9. Jon Conner, 10. Kyle Sage, 11. Jacob Peek, 12. Ryan Lenior, 13. Cory Allison, 14. Jeremy Winters, 15. Tony Dore, 16. Greorge Zoros.

+ Legends: 1. Jack Riggi, 2. Kolt Mieras, 3. Troy Alvarez, 4. Cody Schaber, 5. Michael Steelman, 6. David Clemensen, 7. Nate Hurst.

+ Street Stock: 1. Mick Ochoa, 2. Hansi Still, 3. Wdney Nickell, 4. Jared Gloistein, 5. Daniel Roush, 6. Jay Yeomans, 7. Danny Houston, 8. Dakota Converse, 9. Roy Clegg, 10. Mark Hodges, 11. Jim Martino, 12. Paschal Giacomo, 13. John Black, 14. Unus Brewer, 15. Al Lockett, 16. Ryan Maxfield, 17. Josh Wilkins.