Knoxville,
Iowa (July 19, 1969) – After a month’s absence from the super modified circuit,
Bob Williams of Independence, Mo., returned to racing on Saturday night and did
it in the Williams’ tradition.
From the
outside of the front row, Williams jumped into the lead in the 25-lap feature
and won going away with the rest of the field scattered throughout the lapped
traffic.
The victory
was Williams’ fourth of the year, was worth $600 and earned him the
super-modified mid-season title at the Marion County Fairgrounds half-mile
track.
A crowd of
well over 5,000 race fans enjoyed watching Williams and Earl Wagner of
Pleasantville, Iowa, duel side-by-side for the first 15 circuits before
Williams opened daylight and Wagner got tied up in lapped traffic.
Williams
would cruise to the easy win while Wagner would settle for second. Dick
Sutcliffe of Kansas City, Joe Saldana of Lincoln, Neb., and Ray Lee Goodwin,
also from Kansas City, would round out the top five.
Only one
accident marred the feature when Eddie Leavitt of Kearney, Mo., would tag the turn
three wall but he was unhurt.
Joe Saldana
turned quick time during qualifying with a 22.43 second showing on the
half-mile.
Earl Wagner
would win the trophy dash, while heat winners were Ray Lee Goodwin, Earl Wagner
and Eddie Leavitt. Ron Jackson of Burlington, Iowa, would win the consolation.
It was the
first night of super-modified racing at Knoxville in three weeks because of the
recent string of bad weather.
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