SHOW ME SPECIAL
Lake Hill Speedway
Valley Park, Mo.
Wednesday, May 12, 1971
Race #4 of the 1971 season was originally going to be at the Illinois State Fairgrounds dirt track on May 9 th under the promotion of Robert Baskowitz and Red Baron Productions but the race was red flagged after 24 laps and postponed until the 16 th . More on this later.
Race #4 was held at the Lake Hill Speedway a 1/3 mile paved oval in Valley Park, Mo. before a crowd of 2,500 after some much needed R and R at the St. Louis Cardinals training facilities arranged by Lund and Baskowitz. Team doctors treated Wayne Andrews by draining fluid from a knee injured in the crash at Springfield. Only 13 cars had attempted to make the Springfield race and at least 4 of them were torn up before the race was stopped but 18 cars made the grid at Lake Hill. After losing the 71 Mustang at Dover and the 70 Cougar at Springfield Reid Shaw was out of race cars leaving Andrews with nothing to drive. Tiny Lund called home and found Bobby Wilsons 68 Camaro sitting in his shop. Wilson was willing to loan his car out so Hank Richardson loaded it up and made the 1000 mile pull from South Carolina to St. Louis for Andrews to drive. Arriving a couple of hours before the scheduled starting time Andrews got in one short practice before the first heat race which he won with Tommy Andrews second and David Boggs third. Tiny Lund won the second heat race followed by Al Arnold and Jimmy Vaughn. Arnold won the Trophy Dash with Lund second and Andrews third.
At drop of the green flag Andrews put the Camaro out front for the first 12 laps before yielding to Lund who led to lap 20 when he and Arnold would swap the lead 4 times until lap 48. At that point it was Lund, Arnold and Andrews until lap 62 when Arnold headed to the pits with a broken water pump. Lund assumed the lead with Andrews second until the caution came out on lap 64 when James Ramey spun into the guard rail on the front stretch. Andrews ducked into the pits during the caution as the car had started to trail a bit of smoke. A quick inspection found only a leaking oil pan so he went back out to pressure Lund for the next several laps before the brakes started to fade allowing Vaughn to get by for second. From there Jimmy quickly went into the lead on lap 85 and held it until pitting on lap 136. From there Lund stretched his lead over Andrews who by now had little brakes left to take win. Andrews held on for second with Vaughn coming home third.
Lund collected $1,480 of the $5,975 purse. There was only one caution for a total of 8 laps. 14 of the 18 starters were running at the finish.
Fin Srt Car # Driver Car Laps Reason out
1 1 55 Tiny Lund 70 Camaro 180 Running
2 2 24 Wayne Andrews 68 Camaro 178 Running
3 5 7 Jimmy Vaughn 69 Camaro 177 Running
4 7 74 Al Straub 71 Mustang 177 Running
5 6 86 David Boggs 71 Firebird 174 Running
6 18 70 George Bauer 69 Camaro 173 Running
7 11 19 Bobby Brewer 68 Camaro 172 Running
8 15 54 Bobby Fleming 69 Camaro 171 Running
9 9 90 Jimmy Capps 69 Camaro 167 Running
10 10 43 Bobby Sands 69 Camaro 166 Running
11 12 39 James Raimey 68 Camaro 156 Running
12 16 87 Buck Baker 71 Firebird 154 Running
13 17 06 Bob Williams 70 Mustang 143 Valve
14 4 21 Tommy Andrews 70 Mustang 137 Engine
15 8 17 Ernie Shaw 70 Mustang 134 Running
16 14 9 Stan Starr, Jr. 70 Chevy II 102 Engine
17 3 47 Al Arnold 70 Camaro 62 Water Pump
18 13 27 Steve McWhite 70 Camaro 23 Technical
This picture was taken at Bowman-Gray and not Lake Hill but I think this is the car Tiny drove to the win there.
updated by @dennis-andrews: 12/05/16 04:00:58PM
