From Kelly Hart
Alger, WA — (May 25, 2013) — Memorial Weekend racing at Skagit Speedway featured five divisions before a packed house and full-moon sky. At times the old adage about racing on a full moon seemed to be true. Annually the John Carroll Classic presented by Industrial Resources Inc. produces some of the best racing of the season as racers treasure the Classic Trophies and prestige of winning a race named after one of the tracks legendary racers.
There were twenty five 360 Sprint cars ready to race bringing a B Main into play. The “Hooligan” as B Mains are sometimes called proved to be the only Main event to go completely caution free with Reece Goetz leading the last six laps of the ten lap race to move into the A Main along with fellow top 3 finishers Tyler Anderson and Jeff Dunlap. Goetz parlayed that B Main win into both Hard Charger status for the night as well as a top 3 finish on the final. The A Main was a hard fought affair that took its toll on competitors. After Trey Starks took the lead from Jason Solwold on lap six he was off to the races. Starks sliced and diced his way through traffic pulling away at times while the rest of the field was having the race of a lifetime. There were position battles all over the track and the race was looking good to go green-to-checkered when disaster occurred on the 18th lap. Mitch Olson tangled with a slowing car, ending with Olson going over in one of those twisting, snap rolling wrecks that brought out the first of 3 red flags in a row. On the next restart Travis Rilat and Jason Solwold tangled coming out of turn four with both cars flipping hard. The very next restart saw Liam Ryan turn it over in turn three. An eventful final few laps following a very fast and racy first 18 on a full moon Saturday night. Starks finished off the race with Colton Heath and Reece Goetz on his heels for one last green-white-checkered run and picked up the win. Solwold, Rilat and Ryan were the heat race winners, while Heath was fast time at 11.553.
Eric Fisher picked up his first win of the year in the Bob and Lori Scott 7s car. Fisher inherited the lead when Jason Bloodgood had a motor expire when leading early. Fisher paced the field the remaining 19 laps for the win over rapidly improving Jonathan Jorgenson and new point leader Chad Hillier. Bloodgood won the heat. Travis Jacobson set fast time at 11.196 seconds around the 3/10th mile clay oval.
Current point leader and defending champion Steve Parker won the 15 lap main event in the Sportsman Sprint division. Parker also captured one of the three heat races with the other two going to Ben Gunderson and Cory Swatzina.
Chase Goetz made it two in a row for the USAC Midget main event wins at Skagit Speedway and point leader Freddie Vela picked up the Outlaw Tuner victory.
RESULTS
410 Sprints
Qualifying – 1. 18-Travis Jacobson 11.196
Heat – 1. 6-Jason Bloodgood, 2. 7s Eric Fisher, 3. 24c Chad Hillier, 4. 18-Travis Jacobson, 5. 7-Kevin Smith, 6. 2j Jonathan Jorgenson, 7. 7k-Steve Kilcup, 8. 44-Daniel Anderson
Main (20 laps) – 1. 7s Eric Fisher, 2. 2j-Jorgenson, 3. 24c Hillier, 4. 18-Jacobson, 5. 7-Smith, 6. 7k-Kilcup, 7. 44-Anderson, 8. 6-Bloodgood
Lap leaders 6-Bloodgood 1, 7s-Fisher 2-20
Hard Charger 2j – Jorgenson +4 positions gained
360 Sprints
Qualifying – 1. 33-Colton Heath 11.553
Heat 1 – 1. 7k-Jason Solwold, 2. 42-Derek Roberts, 3. 96x-Mack Brown, 4. 98-Matt Jensen, 5. 33-Colton Heath, 6. 9r-Reece Goetz, 7. 42m-Devin Madonia, 8. 15 Jeff Dunlap, 9. 4b Cale Brooke
Heat 2 – 1. 39c-Travis Rilat, 2. 27-Mitch Olson, 3. 79k-Kelsey Carpenter, 4. 12-Cody Ridge, 5. 50-Michael Bollinger, 6. 29w-Steven James, 7. 27z-Zeth Custer, 8. 17-Cam Smith
Heat 3 – 1. 87-Liam Ryan, 2. 55-Trey Starks, 3. 29 Randy Price, 4. 88-Jesse Whitney, 5. 33v-Henry Van Dam, 6. 24-Tyler Anderson, 7. 57-Bud Ashe, 8. 62-Lawrence Kirkham
B Main (10 laps) – 1. 9r-Goetz, 2. 24-Anderson, 3. 15-Dunlap, 4. 29w-James, 5. 42m-Madonia, 6. 57-Ashe, 7. 62-Kirkham, 8. 4b-Brooke, 9. 27z-Custer
A Main (20 laps) 1. 55-Trey Starks, 2. 33-Heath, 3. 9r-Goetz, 4. 88-Whitney, 5. 42-Roberts, 6. 98-Jensen, 7. 79k-Carpenter, 8. 33v-Van Dam, 9. 50-Bollinger, 10. 96x-Brown, 11. 87-Ryan, 12. 7k-Solwold, 13. 39c-Rilat, 14. 29-Price, 15. 27-Olson, 16. 24-Anderson, 17. 12-Ridge, 18. 15-Dunlap
Lap leaders 7k-Solwold 1-5, 55 Starks 6-20
Hard Charger 9r-Goetz +13 positions gained
Sportsman Sprints
Heat 1 – 1. 68-Ben Gunderson, 2. 78-Steve Reeves, 3. 57-James Bundy, 4. 33-Bill Rude, 5. 2c-Curtis Clark, 6. 43-Paul Verhagen
Heat 2 – 1. 23-Steve Parker, 2. 46-Zach McCabe, 3. 0-Tyler Fox, 4. 85-Clayton Sibley, 5. 18-Brandon Benson, 6. 9-Greg Otis
Heat 3 – 1. 2s-Cory Swatzina, 2. 3m-Dave Mead, 3. 15-Mike Murphy, 4. 5L-Joshua Griffiths, 5. 13a-Ashley Lewellen
Main 1. 23-Steve Parker, 2. 2s-Swatzina, 3. 78-Reeves, 4. 0-Fox, 5. 33-Rude, 6. 68-Gunderson, 7. 2c-Clark, 8. 46-McCabe, 9. 18-Benson, 10. 9-Otis, 11. 8s-Sibley, 12. 5L-Griffiths, 13. 57-Bundy, 14. 15-Murphy, 15. 43-Verhagen, 16. 3m-Mead
Lap leaders 2s-Swatzina 1-6, 23-Parker 7-15
Hard Charger 9-Otis +5 positions gained
USAC Midgets
Heat 1 – 1. 3s-Jared Peterson, 2. 91-Chase Goetz, 3. 11e-Ariel Biggs, 4. 14-Garrett Thomas, 5. 21-Todd Hartman, 6. 91s-Chance Crum, 7. 5-Madison Hess, 8. 29-Dougie James
Main 1. 91-Chase Goetz, 2. 3s-Peterson, 3. 11e-Biggs, 4. 14-Thomas, 5. 29-James, 6. 91s-Crum, 7. 5-Hess, 8. 21-Hartman
Lap leaders 11e-Biggs 1, 91-Goetz 2-15
Hard Charger 29-James +3 positions gained
Outlaw Tuners
Heat 1 – 1. 20-Freddie Vela, 2. 81-Jon Gunderson, 3. 74-Jenn Matteson, 4. 50-Jon Edwards, 5. 03-Howard Vos, 6. 89-Duane Warner, 7. 12-Tina Thibert, 8. 1-Andy Dillon, 9. 29b-Mark E Toth III
Heat 2 – 1. K9 –Becky Boudreau, 2. 71-Rick Young, 3. 29p-Patrick Adams, 4. 24p-Matt Ploeg, 5. 72-Brandon Berg, 6. 77mr Clint Meins, 7. 29z-Trevor Helms, 8. 23-Cliff Ballenger
Main 1. 20-Freddie Vela, 2. 81-Gunderson, 3. 72-Berg, 4. 71-Young, 5. 77mr-Meins, 6. K9-Boudreau, 7. 23-Eric Thibert, 8. 29p-Adams, 9. 24p-Ploeg, 10. 03-Vos, 11. 50-Edwards, 12. 12-Tina Thibert, 13. 29b-Toth III, 14. 1-Dillon, 15. 29z-Helms, 16. 89-Warner, 17. 74-Kayla Cameron
Lap leaders 71-Young 1-4, 20-Vela 5-12
Hard Charger 23-Eric Thibert +7 positions gained