Troy Regier Wins the Battle and the War
by Gerald Laurie
Troy Regier not only won the Saturday’s fifty lap Supermodified feature at the LVMS Bullring, he took the 2009 Supermodified Racing Association Championship by merely starting the feature. This was the eighth time Troy has won the West Coast Championship in recent years. Although many were expecting Troy to announce his retirement from full time competition in Victory Lane, no announcement was forthcoming and he refused to get specific when asked in the pits after the races.
There were 12 Supermodifieds in the pits with five additional competitors stuck on the East side of the Rockies by a huge Blizzard. One Colorado competitor called and said they had made twenty miles in four and a half hours and they all just packed it in and went home. Maybe next year.
The first event for the SMRA Supermodifieds was qualifying. Jeff Russell set fast time at 12.803 seconds on the 3/8 mile banking. Troy Regier was next fastest at 12.820 followed by Bryan Warf at 12.853, Jim Birges at 13.042, and A.J. Russell at 13.096.