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Tim Huddleston of Agoura Hills is six points ahead of Nick Joanides of Woodland Hills in the NASCAR Late Models at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale with one race to go -- a 100-lap season finale Saturday night.
Huddleston, the reigning Late Model champion at the track, has won five races this year,
including three of the past five. Joanides, the track champion in the Super Late Model
division, has won three races this year and has three runner-ups in his past five races.
The final races in the Super Stocks, Mini Stocks and Legend Cars are scheduled at the track
Saturday night. Gates open at 4 p.m. Races start at 7.
Bryan Harrell of Riverside has already wrapped up the Super Stock championship. He has a 58-point lead over Rich DeLong III of Santa Clarita.
Rich Garver of Torrance has a 24-point lead over Jacob Rogers of Riverside in the Mini Stocks division. Tom Landreth won the Legend Cars championship two weeks ago.

The standings in the NASCAR Late Models at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale tightened up Saturday night.
Andrew Myers snapped an 11-race winless streak, winning his first race since May 10. He won the first five races of the year, then posted only a couple third places in his past 11 races.
Tim Huddleston of Agoura Hills, the leader in the Late Model standings, finished 14th and saw his lead over Nick Joanides of Woodland Hills cut to six points.
Joanides finished ninth in the race Saturday night. Myers is 40 points out of first and mathematically still in the championship hunt.
The season ends next Saturday night with a 100-lap race for the Late Models.
In other action, Rod Johnson Jr. of Canyon Country won his second straight race in the NASCAR Super Trucks and Pat Mintey Jr. of Quartz Hill won the Super Trucks championship. Connor Cantrell of Valencia, who won a division leading six races at the track, was second in the race and second in the Super Trucks standings.

Two drivers can wrap up track championships at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale on Saturday night. Tim Huddleston of Agoura Hills, the reigning champion in the NASCAR Late Models at the track, has a 16-point lead over Nick Joanides of Woodland Hills. Pat Mintey Jr. of Quartz Hill has an 18-point edge over Connor Cantrell of Valencia in the NASCAR Super Trucks standings.
Mintey had a chance to win the Super Trucks championship on Satuday night, but a flat tire knocked him out of contention. He finished 19th in a 20-car field. Cantrell, who has a series leading six wins, finished third and turned a 50-point deficit into 18.
Cantrell, a senior at Valencia High School, needs to finish 10 spots ahead of Mintey to overtake him in the Super Trucks standings.
The season finale in the Super Trucks, a 100-lap race, is Saturday night. It will be the longest race of the year for the Super Trucks drivers.
The Late Models race two more times at the track, Saturday and a 100-lapper on Oct. 4.
NASCAR Super Stocks, Pure Stocks and USAC Ford Focus Midgets are scheduled to race Saturday night at Irwindale. Gates open at 4 p.m. Races start at 7.
Joanides finished second in the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series California standings. He won the NASCAR Super Late Model championship at Irwindale with 10 wins, 17 top fives and 19 top 10s in 21 starts.
He finished second in the California standings to Jason Gilbert, a driver at Altamont Motorsports Park in Tracy, who had 10 wins, 17 top fives and 20 top 10s in 21 starts.
Newhall's Travis Thirkettle was fourth and Burbank's Dan Moore was sixth. Six drivers from Irwindale finished in the top 20.

Tim Huddleston of Agoura Hills won his second NASCAR Late Model race in a row and his fifth of the year at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale on Saturday night to extend his lead in the standings to 16 points over Nick Joanides of Woodland Hills.
Joanides, who won the Super Late Model championship at the track, finished eighth in the most recent Late Model race. It was his worst finish since July 26 when he finished 18th.
The NASCAR Super Trucks, Mini Stocks, West Coast Pro Trucks, Legend Cars, figure 8s and demolition derby are scheduled at Irwindale Saturday night. Gates open at 4 p.m. Races start at 7.

Nick Joanides of Woodland Hills, the NASCAR Super Late Model champion at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale, was ninth in the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series national championship standings.
Philip Morris, a driver at Motor Mile Speedway in Radford, Va., won the short track national championship and a berth in the Toyota All-Star Showdown at Irwindale in January.
Morris won the national championship by two points over Brian Harris of Davenport, Iowa, who raced at three tracks in Iowa: West Liberty Raceway, Farley Speedway and Dubuque Fairgrounds Speedway.
It was the second national championship for Morris, who had 14 wins and 24 top fives in 28 races. Joanides had 10 wins and 17 top fives in 21 starts at Irwindale.
The champion is determined based on a driver's best 18 finishes at NASCAR-sanctioned tracks.
The Toyota All-Star Showdown, which includes a race that pits the top drivers from the NASCAR Camping World Series East and West and the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series drivers, is Jan. 23-24 at Irwindale.

Rip Michels, the winningest driver at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale, will make his season debut in the NASCAR Super Late Model division at the track on Saturday night.
He will be driving a car prepared by Dan Moore's Super Late Model team. Dan Moore Racing will have three cars entered in the Super Late Models season finale at the track.
Rod Johnson Jr., a driver in the NASCAR Super Trucks division at the track, will make his Super Late Models debut in the third car for Dan Moore Racing.
Johnson is the leading rookie and in fourth place in the Super Truck standings at the track. He is the son of Rod Johnson, the 1999 Super Late Model champion at Irwindale.
Moore, a driver from Burbank, has been racing in the Super Late Model division all year. He is third in the Super Late Model standings at the track.
"I am looking forward to having teammates on the track," said Dan Moore. "R.J. has been a great mechanic for me, and Rip, well what can you say, except he is simply the best. I wanted to thank them all for a great year, and what better way then racing against them."
Nick Joanides, a driver from Woodland Hills, wrapped up the Super Late Model championship at Irwindale on Saturday night. He has a chance to win a NASCAR state championship for short track drivers, but he has to win the season finale Super Late Model race to stay in contention.
"The party's over Nick, we're bringing three cars and were not racing for second," Michels joked.
"I have a feeling that R.J. is going to make both Dan and I get on top of the wheel and lay down qualifiers all night, otherwise he's is going to blow right by us," Michels said. "Just in case, I made sure to fill his iPod with the Jonas Brothers music to mess with his head, but I don't think it is going to work. He's a good kid, a hard worker and a smart racer he'll do great."

Tim Huddleston of Agoura Hills won one of two NASCAR Late Model races at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale on Saturday night and took over the lead in the Late Model standings.
Huddleston, the reigning Late Model champion at the track, has a two-point lead over Nick Joanides of Woodland Hills. Joanides was second and fourth in the two races.
Huddleston added a third-place finish in the other Late Model race. Travis Irving, a driver from Long Beach, was the winner of the second Late Model race. It was his first win of the year.
Huddleston won his fourth race of the year and his third in the past five races.
Joanides has three wins in the Late Model division. There are two races left in the Late Model season at the track.