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MCCALL — Dwaine Baccus, who's making his Team 61 Bomber
Stock Car the adopted race car of the City of McCall, had another
strong showing Saturday night at Meridian Speedway.
He knocked more than a half -second off of his qualifying time, and
finished third by a half -car length in the his 8-lap heat race.
In the 15-lap main, he started fourth and was in the lead by lap 5.
He then got bumped from behind and spun out, and had to restart from
the back of the pack. By lap 11 he was back in third and closing, but
some lost traction in the final turn left him in that spot at the check-
ered flag, 100 feet behind the winner.
Baccus will be back at Meridian this Saturday night to take part in
an all -Stock Car program.
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Team 61 car hits
wall during race
McCall's Team 61 race team had a
tough weekend at Meridian Speed-
way Saturday. Driver Dwaine Baccus
shot for a narrowing gap between cars
in the main event Saturday night and
opted to careen into a wall rather than
hitting his fellow racers.
The move put Baccus out of the
race and disabled the car for racing on
Sunday.
Saturday was the first time Baccus
raced at Meridian this season, and a
gearing problem in the rear end of his
car slowed his time on the shorter
track in the qualifying laps, he said.
Baccus started the main event in
ninth place, worked his way up to
fourth, then fell a few places when he
got caught in traffic. Baccus tried to
pass other cars during lap 27 of a 30-
lap race when he collided with the
wall.
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Car models
win awards
Dwaine Baccus of McCall won
four first -place trophies for auto-
motive models displayed at the 25th
annual Boise Roadster Show held
last weekend in Boise.
Baccus entered nine automotive
models and one diorama in the
Roadster Show Model Car Cham-
pionships.
He received first -place awards
in the overall outstanding engineer-
ing, show theme, curbside and mis-
cellaneous classes. Baccus also won
second -place awards for the di-
orama and race classes, third place
in the truck and race classes, fourth
place in miscellaneous and a spe-
cial achievement ribbon in the street
machine class.