The  East vs West Bottoms Up 100 Lap race was held Saturday night at Bakersfield Speedway.   The event was one of the biggest races of the season in both payoff and as a double points for the drivers. The race purse was over $9,150.00 with additional incentives donated by individuals and businesses for an additional $1,275.00.  [note- final total purse may be greater than mentioned above]

Twenty-two cars showed up to compete in the evenings 100 lap main event but only twenty-one started the race after one blew a motor during practice session. 

Sawyer started in the tenth position after finishing second in his heat race.   The front row saw the #2 of Darrel Hood sitting on the pole with the #38 of Nick Sylvester on the outside.  Hood led the pack coming out of the first turn.  The early running order saw #2-Hood, #04 - Randolf, and #38-Sylvester as the top three with the first yellow being thrown on lap 22.  The green flag was thrown again  and  drivers swapped positions for the next eight laps when a second yellow was thrown on lap 30.  The 100 lap race would have yet ten more yellows before the checkered would be waved.  Hood was leading again after swapping positions with Randolph, but on lap 49 Nick Sylvester would take over the lead as the #2 of Hood began to fall off the pace.  Lap 55 saw yet another yellow and Sawyer had now moved his #98 up to fifth. A red flag was flew on lap 71 when the #5 car out of Manteca caught fire on the front stretch. After the car was taken off to the pits the drivers would see another six laps of racing under the yellow flag as track officials cleared debris off the racetrack. Lap 80 would see the #36 spinning and then being sent to the pits because of the two spin rule.  Lap 89  was the final yellow of the evening and  at this time Sawyer had worked his way to third place.  In the final 11 laps the top three  were #38, #04, #98 with  fourth through sixth swapping positions as #2, #27, and #32 battled to stay in the top five.  When the checkered fell the final finish was as follows:

1. #38 Nick Sylvester 100 laps

2. #04 Tim Randolph 100 laps

3. #98 Robby Sawyer 100 laps

4. #27 Kyle Heckman 100 laps

5. #32 Tina McGowan 100 laps

6. #2 Darrell Hood 100 laps

7. #8 Tom Grzincic 100 laps

8. #1n Mike Corwin 100 laps

9. #20t Toby Randolph 100 laps

10. #9 Red Williams 97 laps

11. #74 Wayne Dotson 96 laps

12. #09 Mitch Enos 95 laps

13. #5 Wayne Coffman 94 laps

14. #36 Morris Sealy 77 laps

15. #5x Darrell Hughes 69 laps

16. #97 Brian Shepherd 62 laps

17. #17 Eric Cimental 38 laps

18. #14t Darren Thomas 31 lap

19. #78s Matt Schweitzer 29 laps

20. #01 Roy Degeer Sr 21 laps

21. #00 Lonnie Welch 21 laps

DNS #29 Rich Denman 0 laps

Sawyer’s third place finish kept him in the East vs West Points lead and also as the Bakersfield Speedway  points leader. The Super Streets  East vs West races again on June 19th at Bakersfield Speedway.