The Liberal, Kan., native was on a hook after nearly flipping with four laps remaining last Saturday at I-30 Speedway in Little Rock, Ark.
“Last week my dad and I talked about sweeping the weekend,” Jack Dover said. “We wanted to go to Missouri and win it all.”
Now, it’s about pride. And wins.
“We’re out of the points just for the fact that we’ve had engine trouble two times in a row and then we got in a crash,” he said. “Pretty much I’m just going for wins now.”
After a parts failure and a crash ended both of his features last weekend with the ASCS Northwest Region at Grays Harbor Raceway in Elma, Wash., Starks pinpointed where he was at prior to those DNFs.
For Tommy Tarlton on Saturday night at Ocean Speedway in Watsonville, Calif., the timing wasn’t right and his bid for a second Johnny Key Classic win in three years came to a spinning end with nine laps remaining.
That’s because Wheatley is welcoming the World of Outlaws to his home track of Skagit Speedway in Alger, Wash., on Friday and Saturday.
The veteran picked up his record ninth track championship at the famed Knoxville Raceway in Knoxville, Iowa.
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