MOTOR RACING / SHAV GLICK : Davey Allison Will Take Side Trip to Bakersfield for a $45,000 Race

Davey Allison, a leading contender for Winston Cup’s $1-million championship bonus, will take a busman’s holiday this weekend during a rare break in the NASCAR schedule to fly west from Hueytown, Ala., for a Winston West race on Sunday at Mesa Marin Raceway in Bakersfield.

Allison, who trails Bill Elliott by 39 points, 3,653-3,614, with three races remaining--Oct. 25 at Rockingham, N.C., Nov. 1 at Phoenix and Nov. 15 at Atlanta--will be accompanied by his father, Bobby, and his crew chief-sidekick from Hueytown, Red Farmer.

The $45,000 Winston October Classic 300 on Sunday will climax three days of stock car racing on Mesa Marin’s half-mile banked oval.

Friday night will feature the Texaco-Havoline 100, final event of a three-race $11,000 Fall Spectacular for sportsman cars. Previous races were held at Saugus and Cajon Speedways. Lance Hooper won at Saugus, with Ed Hale second; and at Cajon, Hale won and Hooper was second. Frank Adamo, two-time Mesa Marin champion, will be their main competition.

Qualifying for the first 25 positions in the Winston West race will also take place Friday night.

Saturday night, the main event will be a 200-lap Featherlite Southwest Tour race for late model stock cars--the next-to-last event in the 17-race series. Only 97 points cover leader Ron Hornaday Jr. of Palmdale (2,383), Doug George of Atwater, Calif., (2,318) and defending champion Rick Carelli of Denver (2,286), with two races remaining--Saturday night and Oct. 31 at Phoenix. Carelli has won seven of 15 races, including two weeks ago at the Orange Show Speedway in San Bernardino.

Sunday’s 300-lap race is the final stand-alone event of the Winston West season, and the points race is even closer than the Southwest Tour. Bill Schmitt of Redding, a four-time series champion driving a Ford, has a 29-point lead over 1991 champion Bill Sedgwick of Granada Hills, 1,501-1,472, and still in the hunt is Carelli, a series rookie, who has 1,452 points. Sedgwick and Carelli drive Chevrolets.

The only race remaining after Sunday is the Goodwrench 300 at Phoenix, where the West Coast drivers compete with Winston Cup regulars on a mile oval.

Schmitt, 56, has not won a race at Mesa Marin since 1979, and Sedgwick, 37, won last year’s October Classic. Carelli, 36, won the season-opener last May at Mesa Marin in a photo finish with Sedgwick.

“It’s kind of neat running with Bill Sedgwick,” Schmitt said. “It seems like it’s him and me most places we run. Bill will race you hard, but he always knows where the edge is.” The two have finished one-two on nine occasions since 1989, with Schmitt holding a 6-3 edge.

Joe Heath of Northridge, a sportsman driver who won three races this year at Saugus, will make his Winston West debut in a Ford Thunderbird.

Davey Allison will be driving a black No. 28 Thunderbird, virtually identical to the one he drove while winning the Daytona 500 last February.

Bobby Allison, a former Winston Cup champion and three-time winner of the Daytona 500, will serve as grand marshal of the October Classic weekend in Bakersfield and will appear Saturday at a fund-raising bowl-a-thon at La Habra 300 Bowling Center for the children of his late son, Clifford, who died after a crash Aug. 13 at Michigan International Raceway.

The elder Allison will sign autographs during the two bowling sessions at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. La Habra Bowl is located at 370 E. Whittier Blvd.

Motor Racing Notes

INDY CARS--Bobby Rahal is in the driver’s seat to win his third PPG Indy Car championship on Sunday in the 35th Toyota Monterey Grand Prix at Laguna Seca, but if he falters, both 1991 champion Michael Andretti and 1990 champion Al Unser Jr. will be ready to pounce on the $1-million champion’s bonus. Rahal, after winning two weeks ago at Nazareth, Pa., has a 12-point lead over Andretti, with Unser 18 behind.

The maximum points available are 22--one each for fast qualifier and most laps led and 20 for winning. Sunday’s 300-kilometer (186-mile) race over the 2.214-mile hillside course will conclude the CART Indy car season.

MISCELLANY--Southern California Timing Assn. members will be at the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah this weekend for the annual World Finals on the measured mile.

The Willow Springs Motorcycle Club will hold its monthly races Sunday on the home track.

The American Historic Racing Motorcycle Assn. and the California Racing Club will host a vintage motocross Sunday at the L.A. County Raceway in Palmdale. Only machines from 1974 or earlier are eligible.