By Ben Deatherage
(Photo Courtesy of Lisa Dynes Photography)
Alger, Washington- After Friday night’s rain out at Deming Speedway the Northwest Focus Midget Series would make their way to Skagit Speedway on Saturday, May 6th. In their first visit of 2017 at the historic venue around thirty entries would be in attendance for competition.
Ross Rankine would make the long journey from Noblesville, Indiana to make his Skagit debut for car owners Carla and Gaylon Stewart. Rankine would be in the beautiful Fred Brownfield tribute car honoring the late legendary Pacific Northwest racer/promoter. At the drop of the checkered flag Ross would best the entire field to record the victory.
Tristin Thomas, out of Burlington, would be the runner-up over Lynwood’s Shane Smith, in third. The balance of the top five would consist of fourth finishing Garrett Thomas, from McCleary, and Granite Falls pilot Nick Evans, in fifth.
Heat race winners were Snohomish’s Cody Ridge, Nik Larson, of Graham, and Chance Crum who is also out of Snohomish. Alger driver Ryan Cully was victorious in the evening’s B Main.
“We had a great night at Skagit and the weather and track surface was great,” commented Carla Stewart, co-owner of the Northwest Focus Midget Series, “the win was in the brand new Fred Brownfield #92 car that Gaylon put together driven by our guest driver from Indiana, Ross Rankine. It was the first time that the car had even hit the track.”
The Northwest Focus Midget Series next heads to Grays Harbor Raceway on Saturday, May 20th. This coming Saturday the series will have some drivers and cars on hand for a car show/meet and greet at Jerry Smith Chevrolet in Anacortes starting around 10:00 AM. In other news Eric Turner will be the newest pilot of the Northwest Focus Midget Series Sportsman Sprint at Skagit Speedway this Saturday.
For all the latest news and info regarding the Northwest Focus Midget Series visit northwestfocusmidgets.com You can also get information via your favorite mobile device by checking out the Northwest Focus Midget Series page on Facebook or on Twitter @NW_focus. If you can’t make it to the races you can LISTEN LIVE on the RBN RacinBoys Broadcast Network at www.racinboys.com.
Race Results:
Saturday, May 6th, 2017
Skagit Speedway
Alger, Washington
Golden Wheels Heat One: 1. 69-Cody Ridge; 2. 92-Ross Rankine; 3. 31-Shane Biles; 4. 2J-Jonathan Jorgenson; 5. 82-Greg Thornhill; 6. 21-Todd Hartman; 7. 41-Ashley Thompson; 8. 17-Chris Bullock; 9. 11T-Ray Stebbins; 10. 67-Dave Mead
PCI Powder Coating Inc. Heat Two: 1. 16-Nik Larson; 2. 9T-Tristin Thomas; 3. 24-Nick Evans; 4. 44-Shane Smith; 5. 14-Garrett Thomas; 6. N8-Nate Vaughn; 7. 21J-Ryan Cully; 8. 14D-Doug Davison; 9. 2A-Renee Angel; 10. 57A-Biran Aune
Central Welding Supply Heat Three: 1. 83C-Chance Crum; 2. 3H-Hannah Lindquist; 3. 29T-Eric Turner; 4. 9S-Sawyer Lind; 5. 25-Michael Hodel; 6. 8X-Otto Jorgenson; 7. 3-Wade Spreckelmeyer; 8. 57-Hailey Bower; 9. 39-Dave Mills
B-Feature: 1. 21J-Ryan Cully; 2. 3-Wade Spreckelmeyer; 3. 2A-Renee Angel; 4. 19-Thomas Walker; 5. 14D-Doug Davison; 6. 11T-Ray Stebbins; 7. 39-Dave Mills; 8. 57-Hailey Bower; 9. 67-Dave Mead; 10. 17-Chris Bullock; 11. 41-Ashley Thompson
A-Feature: 1. 92-Ross Rankine; 2. 9T-Tristin Thomas; 3. 44-Shane Smith; 4. 14-Garrett Thomas; 5. 24-Nick Evans; 6. 83C-Chance Crum; 7. 3H-Hannah Lindquist; 8. 9S-Sawyer Lind; 9. 14D-Doug Davidson; 10. N8-Nate Vaughn; 11. 2J-Jonathan Jorgenson; 12. 21-Todd Hartman; 13. 82-Greg Thornhill; 14. 19-Thomas Walker; 15. 21J-Ryan Cully; 16. 25-Michael Hodel; 17. 3-Wade Spreckelmeyer; 18. 2A-Renee Angel; 19. 8X-Otto Jorgenson; 20. 29T-Eric Turner; 21. 16-Nik Larson; 22. 31-Shane Biles
Contingency Awards:
Triple X Race Components True Grit Award- Hailey Bower
Speedmart Inc. Hard Charger Award- Doug Davidson
RBN RacinBoys Broadcast Network Leader of the Pack Award- Ross Rankine
BR Motorsports Sportsman Award- Otto Jorgenson
Highline Performance Move of the Night Award- Hannah Lindquist
Elma Auto Racing Hall of Fame Fast Time Award- Tristin Thomas
Alger Bar & Grille High Pill Award- Dave Mead
2017 Northwest Focus Midget Series Sponsors And Marketing Partners
ABS Business
Alger Bar & Grill
Arrow Motorsports
BR Motorsports
Bardahl
Central Welding
Demitris
DeYoungInc.com
Dirt Co. Media House
Elma Auto Racing Hall of Fame
Elma Lanes
Evans Gang
Golden Wheels
Highline Mfg. Inc.
HighLine Performance
HighSide Promotions
JMS Engines
Jorgenson Manufacturing Inc.
KRKO
Kimbridge Trade
KINGS Race Products
MyTrafficMan.net
Landshark Media
nwsprintcarhistory.com
Northsound Racing
Olympic Machinery
OPC Exclusive
Pacific Performance Coating
PCI Powder Coating Inc.
Purple Moon Promotions
ProFab Northwest LLC
Pyles Motorsports
RBN RacinBoys Broadcast Network
Robbie Price Racing
Scott Murdoch Motorsports
ShadowBrook Farms, Davidson Training
SpeedMart
Triple X Race Co.
TrophyDash
VanDyne Engineering
Vics 66
WhirlyBall
WHR Motorsports
WQMA