Trey Starks

After a week off, Trey Starks is more than excited for this weekend’s challenge.

The 15-year-old from Puyallup, Wash., will travel approximately 15 hours south to the middle of California for a track he’s never competed at – Ocean Speedway in Watsonville – and one of his favorites – Thunderbowl Raceway in Tulare.

After a pair of top 10s last weekend, Trey Starks secured a podium finish in the ASCS Northwest Region standings

Since Trey Starks knocked out his first career victory this season, he’s gunning for that inaugural ASCS win

A year later, Trey Starks can see his transformation as a sprint car driver.

In his rookie season last year, the Puyallup, Wash., resident struggled when the World of Outlaws made their annual end-of-summer trip to his home state. He finished 11th in the B Main both nights at Skagit Speedway in Alger, Wash.

There’s always a silver lining and Trey Starks found it.

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.

With one roll of the specialized dice, Trey Starks determined his fate.

After recording fast time in qualifying at Skagit Speedway in Alger, Wash., last Saturday

Saturday was more than a good test-and-tune session.

For Trey Starks, it was a blast and it has the 15-year-old from Puyallup, Wash., more optimistic than ever.

Although he accomplished his goal, Trey Starks isn’t quite happy with last weekend’s results.

After five top 10s in six days, capped by his best career performance, Trey Starks is riding high.

Even though he’s more than happy about the overall results, it’s hard to not imagine would could have been.

Trey Starks went to Oregon looking for momentum and that’s exactly what he discovered.

It’s frustrating enough to have an engine expire. But when it happens to take away a top five, it’s down right aggravating.

Trey Starks let out a giant sigh and relaxed his shoulders, which seemed to let the monkey jump right off.

It was a good tune-up.

That’s what Trey Starks got from Saturday’s race at Grays Harbor Raceway in Elma, Wash., where he finished eighth on a track that continued to surprise.