DEVILBISS DOUBLES UP IN EQ IMCA WILD WEST TOUR TWINBILL
Story by: Chris Martinez

PRICE, UTAH. (Friday & Saturday, June 4 & 5, 2010)- A pair of middle of the pack starts led to a pair of $1,000 IMCA Modified feature wins for Zane DeVilbiss.

The New Mexico hotshoe swept the June 4-5 EQ Cylinder Heads Wild West Tour twinbill at Desert Thunder Raceway, driving from 14th on Friday and from 10th on Saturday.

“It gives me more motivation when I have to start from further back,” said DeVilbiss, already the winner of a career best 10 sanctioned features this season. “It was a good weekend for us. It’s been a good year.”

Colten Vanderherp led much of the way on opening night, bringing DeVilbiss along into lapped traffic before coming out on the short end of a late dustup with his challenger.

2009 series champion and “B” qualifier Justen Yeager also had his pedal to the metal, advancing 14 positions to finish second. Michael Hale, Aaron Spangler and Mark Rogers rounded out the top five.

Defending track champion Spangler and Vanderherp drew front row starting spots and Spangler looked like the car to beat early on, pulling to three car length lead over a tightening tussle for second.

Unable to maintain the fast pace, Spangler gave way to Vanderherp, who ran at the front before the backstretch mixup sent him to re-start at the back of the pack.

DeVilbiss led the last three times around the track; Vanderherp salvaged 13th place points.

Yeager drew the outside row one start on Saturday, holding off early challenges from Hale and Vanderherp while DeVilbiss dealt with two- and three-wide racing to work slowly from the middle of the field.

Ryan Cotrell and DeVilbiss eventually settled into second and third, respectively, while Travis Metz made his move from way back into the top 10.

DeVilbiss snuck into second and, after a couple quick cautions, went to the high side for the lead, bringing Cotrell along.

Yeager held on for third place points and pay while Metz finished his night 17 positions to the good in fourth. Vanderherp followed in fifth.

The sweep gave DeVilbiss his sixth career victory on the circuit, and his third win in three series events this season.

“We’ve got new homebuilt car and it’s been a killer,” he said. “We went back to the drawing board, did a lot of research during the off-season and figured some stuff out.”

Forty-six Modifieds were on hand Friday, with one newcomer joining the field on Saturday.

Next up for the EQ Cylinder Heads Wild West Tour is the June 25-26 twinbill at Battle Mountain, Nev., Raceway.

DEVILBISS SWEEPS WEEKEND IN PRICE WWMT RACES!
Story by: Team Jet Lift Racing

PRICE, UTAH. (June 4 & 5, 2010)- Zippy Zane of Farmington, New Mexico headed up to Price, Utah for some WWMT racing action at the high banked oval called the Desert Thunder Raceway. DeVilbiss just barely came off a win at the Fairgrounds Speedway in Cortez, Colorado the weekend before and was looking to do the same thing in Price. Zane came into the weekend in third place in the point standing with the WWMT with only two points out of the points lead. DeVilbiss came with a new setup to try at the track, DeVilbiss did not draw well which put him on the outside third row in heat race number two next to teammate Chase Hansen. DeVilbiss immediately changed the setup after he had spun out in the heat race, which put him starting in the rear of the B-feature. It was time to run the B-Feature, Zane had to at least finish in the fourth spot to transfer to the feature. DeVilbiss started eleventh and immediately worked his way to second and tried to reel in Chase Hansen for the lead but he would finish in the second spot. Hansen did not go to the tech area so, DeVilbiss claimed the victory. Zane now had to work his way from the fourteenth starting spot in the feature to get to the front. Zane worked his way through traffic and about halfway through the race he caught race leader Colten Vanderherp. The two battled heavily through lap traffic and ended up getting together with Vanderherp. DeVilbiss led the rest of the way to win his fifth WWMT race win in his career. The next day, Zane DeVilbiss was looking to do that once again. This time he had to start in the rear of the heat race and had to race hard to the front. Zane was a rocket as he flew to the front and passed Justen Yeager on a restart and won the heat by a straightaway. Zane then had to redraw for his starting spot in the feature, number ten, Zane now had to start on the outside fifth row. That didn’t matter as he was in the race lead by lap eight and never looked back and collected his second feature win in a row with the WWMT. Stay tuned to see where DeVilbiss will be at next.