Voight Cuts to the Quick at Ventura : Auto racing: Goleta driver grabs early lead and pulls away to easy victory in street stock main event.

After last week’s street stock main event at Ventura Raceway, winner Randy McGraw of Ventura complained that second-place finisher Greg Voight of Goleta rammed his car from behind.

Her certainly didn’t have that problem Friday night.

Starting eighth, one spot ahead of McGraw, Voight cut through the pack, took the lead coming out of the second turn on the seventh lap and never looked back, capturing a 10-length victory in the 20-lap feature race.

Two laps after grabbing the lead, Voight had a one-third lap margin over eventual second-place finisher Charlie Utts of Camarillo.

Two caution flags kept the finish only moderately close.

“At the start, (McGraw) pulled out in front of me, and I figured that I might have trouble getting around him,” Voight said. “But they threw the caution flag (due to a bad start) and I got him on the restart.”

The 13th lap proved to be unlucky for defending track champion Paul Moore of Oak View.

Moore was running in third place when a cloud of smoke came from under the hood of his car, apparently from blown engine.

Camarillo’s Cliff Tietz went wire to wire in the 15-lap mini stock main event, but only after holding off a last-lap challenge from Ventura’s Richard Webster.

The 15-lap pony stock feature was stopped twice and slowed four times due to collisions, including one at the start that knocked out two cars.

When the wreckage was cleared, Ventura’s Jim Youngerman finished first, closely followed by teammate Tracy Jewett of Oxnard.

In the 20-lap International Motor Contest Assn. modified feature, defending national champion Scott Pounds of Bakersfield took the lead on the third lap and cruised to victory.

Ryan Cole of Santa Maria was second, passing Ron Bartels of Marina del Rey on the final lap.