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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.

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.