By Gary Jacob
Great Falls, MT -- Rock Degele from Glasgow joined series point leader Josh Adams as a multiple feature winner on the 2004 Montana Outlaw Late Model Tour with his $600 win at Electric City Speedway on Saturday night. The dirt late model portion of the show was hastily scheduled when Gallatin Speedway elected to make up a rainout on Friday night and Great Falls jumped in to give the teams two nights of action. The last minute scheduling limited the field to ten teams and the feature race had 9 starters after Len Brinlee scratched. Degele drove his Rayburn to the win with Great Falls own Rory Minster driving his Fegrs to the $450 runnerup slot. Bob Scott from Bozeman was third and Friday night Gallatin winner Adams ran fourth ahead of Gallatin fourth place finisher Dave Herman. Third paid $350, fourth $300 and fifth $250.
Adams went into the weekend as the point leader and his win and a fourth where the best combined effort of anyone on the weekend. Herman put together a 4th and a 5th. Jim Zaremski was only 11 points back of Adams starting the weekend, but he ran 7th and 8th on the two nights. Degele was only 13 points back of Zaremski and his fifth and a win will push him up to second place. Herman remains the other series title contender. Both Gallatin runnerup Mike McCord and third place Darryn Waldo were among the missing cars tonight. The feature track was extremely dry slick after unsual 100 degree daytime temperatures hit the area. Degele, Minster, Scott, Adams and Herman were trailed by John Dowson, Pee Wee Drazich, Zaremski and Dave Freeman tonight.
The Montana Outlaw Tour continues with co-sanctioned action at Gallatin and Billings on July 23-24. The Gallatin event has already announced a $1000 to win purse structure to draw more of the Wyoming and western South Dakota teams north.
Summary Main-Rock Degele, Rory Minster, Bob Scott, Josh Adams, Rich Herman, John Dowson, Pee Wee Drazich, Jim Zaremski, Dave Freeman.