I don't normally get on this message board and comment, but because of the remarks that Dirt Boy 31 and Specsprint made,I feel I need to. From what I seen.. Alex was running 3rd about 6 car lengths back for 10 laps.. NOT gaining at all. The whole race was between Brad and Stormy. And with yellow flag restarts being double file, and Brad racing Stormy clean, Stormy got loose in turns 1 and 2, Brad turned down underneath him and Alex doored Brad and got him sideways.. they went down the back straightaway and Brad was still half a car lenght ahead of Alex and they both were going for the same bottom groove of the track.. Alex got the bad end of the deal because Brad just so happened to make it there first. Brad and Alex race aginst each other all the time and respect eachother. There was a lot of money on the line and it was a racing deal. So don't get on here and talk crap, if you dont know what your talking about.

Thanks,
Scott Pounds
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This racing deal never seems to amaze me DirtBoy31& JimBob37. Your right, people have their own openions on what they say they see. For every reaction in most cases its because of how they are raced to begin with. I can tell you guys are big Alex Stanford fans but.. Brad felt that the door slam that Alex gave him, was agressive. So yes he protected his position. If Alex wouldnt have gotten into him to start with.. he never would have gotten beside Brad. So do you expect Brad to just pull over and let him by? I dont think so! if Alex would have raced Brad clean.. Brad would have raced Alex clean. In my 35 years of experiance.. thats how this racing deal goes. and for this JimBob37, whoever you are... I was standing in our pits, Brad didnt come within 20 feet of pauls pits. and yes he was trying to get into the pits to get a tire changed.. he was in a heat race and was trying to get back on the track. I would say why dont you put your name on here and we can talk about it, however i probably wouldnt knew who you are anyways. but any time you guys want to go sit down and have a cup of coffee... ill explain to you how this racing deal really works.

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SCOTT POUNDS
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Scott in your first post you said it was a RACING DEAL??? In your 2nd post you said Brad was not going to just let Alex by??? I watched the video sunday night. First off Alex did "NOT" door slam Brad!!! Second Brad was "NOT" a half a car lenght ahead of Alex down the back straightaway!!! At one point Alex was ahead of Brad in the middle of the back straightaway!!! I dont think you can call this a racing deal!!! But you are right about one thing Brad was protecting his position!    It's all on video....

Truth be told, if there weren't so many yellows and restarts the later half of this race, nobody would have even seen Scott at the end.

petef52 wrote on 06/22/10 at 12:35pm:


No the crew chief wiped it all up!lol

But on a factual note, when Brad is on his game he is almost unbeatable in my eyes.

This was one race.  Stormy won it.  Who knows about the what ifs?

Hogge almost got the lead...he might have checked out on the field if he did.  But it didn't happen.  Brad had the lead...Stormy overtook him.  Did Brad have something left for him if all the cautions did not fly?  Perhaps.  Stanford was charging towards the front...didn't get quite there.  Chadwick was charging with about 15 to go...was he holding back till the end?  McDaniel was just outside the top 5 riding most of the race till late when he got caught up in an accident battling for 4th.  He might have had a charge left in him.

Any one of these guys could have won it.  On Saturday, Stormy prevailed.  If we ran that race 5 times, I could easily see 5 different winners.  Anybody got an extra $100,000 to schedule a 5 race series?  

I believe you had the 18 best cars that night in the feature.  Only 1 can win but all 18 were really strong cars.  They all had to race their way in....and they did.

Did this one race settle the question...Who is the best in California?  No.  But what I saw is that there are 8 to 10 super talented race car drivers in the Modifieds.  On any given night, any one of them can win.  On another night, it might be the next guy.  Plus a few more just outside the top 10 can also compete on any given night and get to victory lane.

I, for one, was glad to see such a highly talented field compete.  It was almost like an All Star race for the top drivers on the West Coast.

Kudos to all of them.  It was not a one lane freight train race.  There were cars side-by-side on just about every single lap.  They battled and raced for it.

Got a chance to watch the video as well, about 3times trying to get a good view and me and Scott aren't the best of friends! But what it seemed like to me was exactly the way Scott typed it.

Brad went one groove up from bottom and Alex drove to the bottom, No contact was even made until Alex speed carried him up the track in the middle of 3 and 4 and into the 15B. Everyone has their view of the race but I have to say he right on what seemed to happen per the video.

Video was pretty good, but buying it could show a better view being its down sized a little.
JMO

DeBenedetti did the same thing to Hogge that Pounds did to Stanford. When your gonna get passed low just shove the guy down to the bottom and let all hell break loose, then sort it out later or call it a racin' deal, I call it a crashin' deal. That race was crap, 18 of the "Best Modified Drivers in the West" and only 8 finished. The rest of them where torn up to shi. Oh, yeah, just my opinion for what that's worth, which ain't much. How's that one Pete?

I just watched the video and I know and you know I am obviously a Brad Pounds fan, but in the video Brad did get a little loose but Alex got more loose and scooted up the track into Brad in turn 4 and caused a little pile up!! No where except maybe in turn 1 and 2 did I see Brad make contact with Alex, especially as much as you guys are saying!! That was a very good race between Scott, Pounds and even Stanford!! Good job Brad!!