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Spring Challenge Night 1 a HUGE Success

Josh Warbis - Moxie Media & Promotions
Photo By Wildlight Motorsports Photography

This weekend at Sunset Speedway was by far the place to be for dirt racing action on this Memorial weekend. With two full days of racing, the excitement truly started Friday afternoon when cars and crew started filling up the pits, with motorhomes and trailers everywhere! Even all the Sunset Speedway crew was on hand getting ready!

Both Saturday and Sunday nights racing provided 7 incredibly fast classes for the fastest ¼ mile bullring. We had 110 cars show up to battle it out each night. On the card were “NW Extreme late Models/Super Late Models, Budweiser IMCA Modifieds, Bridgeport Logistics Street Stocks, Micro Sprints 1200, 600 open and 600 restricted.

DAY #1 RECAP: May 28-2016
Fast Qualifying in all classes would go as such; Bridgeport Logistics Street stock- #04 of Joey Tardio, Budweiser IMCA Modifieds “hot laps” #25 Craig Cassell, Micro 1200’s #92 Seth Hespe, 600-open 14w Keith Wickard, 600-Res #19 Colby Thornhill, NW Extreme / Super LM #111 Joey Tanner.

Micro Sprints would see over 50 cars making for ‘B’ Main events. 1200 “A” Main would go to the very fast Brock Lemley. 600 Open “A” main would have a shootout between two very fast drivers #21 of Jesse Schlotfeldt and #78 Joe Constance. Constance ran the bottom most of the night with Schlotfeldt trying to find any forward bite top and bottom but would end up 2nd behind a strong Constance.
600 Res “A” main would see some crazy racing. Opening green flag both the #22D of Dakota Drake and 11c of Colin Mackey would tangle coming out of turn 2 resulting in Mackey leaving the track and Drake with some heavy front wing damage. #19 of Colby Thornhill who started 8th would grab the top groove at the restart and into 1&2 would pass 5 cars putting him into 3rd. He would take the lead on lap 5 over Drake and start to pull away from the field. With 12 laps to go Thornhill lost a water hose sending out a caution giving the lead back to Drake. Drake would held off the field with a heavily damage front wing to take her first A-main event win on night one!

Finishing order: 1200- 1st Brock Lemley 2nd Seth Hespe 3rd Jared Gundersen 4th Tanner Holm 5th Dwayne Walker 6th Chad Reid 7th Chris Whipple.

Finishing order: 600 Open A - Feature 1: 1. 78-Joe Constance; 2. 21-Jesse Schlotfeldt; 3. 47-Derek Torkelson; 4. 14W-Keith Wickard; 5. 8-Devon Borden; 6. 23R-Dylan Resch; 7. 51F-Jon Farrell; 8. 91-Isaac Abernath; 9. 0-Ashleigh Johnson; 10. 48T-Tanner Holm; 11. 51-Dallas Melby; 12. 10J-Skyler Jennings; 13. 14-Reese Wickard; 14. 8R-Rachel Westmoreland; 15. J10-Jaden Thomas; 16. 86-Jeff Little

600 Open B Feature 1: 1. 48T-Tanner Holm; 2. 51-Dallas Melby; 3. 10J-Skyler Jennings; 4. J10-Jaden Thomas; 5. 22-Sawyer Sorgenfrei; 6. 00-Alden Ostrom; 7. 89-Josh Monroe; 8. 4B-Jeff Broadwell; 9. 1W-Brandee Wood; 10. 151-Duke Johnson; 11. 84-Rob Artzen; 12. 00X-Doug Pirtle; 13. 01-Calvin Jacobs; 14. 2-Crystal Flath

Finishing order: 600 Restricted - A Feature 1: 1. 22D-Dakota Drake; 2. 4L-Lane Taylor; 3. 19C-Haley Constance; 4. 25-Darius Walker-Perkens; 5. 13*-Casey Starr; 6. K9-Kaden Holm; 7. 02-Tyler McLeod; 8. 10JR-Tyson Lemley; 9. 18-Peyton Hagen; 10. 4-Allison Johnson; 11. 14B-Bailey Jean; 12. 11H-Parker Hadlock; 13. 2-Mason Dineen; 14. 19-Colby Thornhill; 15. 75C-Casey Smith; 16. 11C-Colin Mackey

600 – Restricted B Feature 1: 1. 11H-Parker Hadlock; 2. 75C-Casey Smith; 3. 13*-Casey Starr; 4. 18-Peyton Hagen; 5. 21-Dario Retych; 6. 12-Haylee Bloodgood; 7. 88-David Ward

Bridgeport logistics Street Stocks “A” Main Was definitely a nail biter every lap. # 18 Roger Hubbard would take the lead on the opening green, he would battle bumper to bumper with the #50 Stephen Strawn and the #14 Brian Roden for the top spot. The racing really got heated up when the #33 of Arnie Case and the #21 of Travis Koch started making the way through the field both side by side at times splitting cars to gain the next spot. After a restart Case would spin out and Koch would be involved in a late race wreck, but Hubbard who lead flag to flag took home the victory over Roden.

Finishing order: A Feature 1: 1. 18-Roger Hubbard; 2. 14-Brian Roden; 3. 7W-Chris West; 4. 7-Doug Pitsch; 5. 23-Marty Holmason; 6. 01-Craig Loomis; 7. 33-Arnie Case; 8. 14X-Jeff Daniel; 9. 71-Benny Sauter; 10. 10-James Baker; 11. 04-Joey Tardio; 12. 50-Stephen Strawn; 13. 12-Jared Haynes; 14. 21-Travis Koch; 15. 8X-Don Jenner; 16. 18C-Justen Case

B Feature 1: 1. 04-Joey Tardio; 2. 12-Jared Haynes; 3. 14X-Jeff Daniel; 4. 71-Benny Sauter; 5. 00-Terry Mason; 6. 78-Josh Anthony; 7. 12X-Doug Brewster

NW Extreme/Super LM “A” Main Last time the late models were at Sunset was on April 30th and just like then they gave the fans side by side action for 35 laps. Fast qualifier #111 of Joey Tanner would take the lead and at lap 5 would have almost a straight away lead over 2nd place Doug Davenport and the rest of the pack. With 5 laps to go late race caution comes out for the two cars of Jimmy Schram #22s and Superman Collen Winebarger #S getting together going into turn 1 with both ending up next to the wall on the exit of turn 2. Winebarger was able to restart but Schram needed to be towed off the track. Joey Tanner would lead every lap and take home a cool $1,000 pay day!

Finishing order: A Feature 1: 1. 111-Joey Tanner; 2. 21-Steve Moore; 3. 16-Jerry Schram; 4. 76-Jason Johnson; 5. 8D-Doug Davenport; 6. 67-Dave Walters; 7. 1-Collen Winebarger; 8. 8-Daniel Modaff; 9. 22S-Jimmy Schram; 10. 26-Celeste Hardesty; 11. 88-John Gamell; 12. 28-Shane Jordan

Budweiser IMCA Modifieds would see 24 car show up to battle for the $650 to win. That too would start a “B” main.
“A” Main would see some exciting action keeping the fans on their feet for the last 17 of 30 lap main event. Both “Lighting” John Campos #36 and Collen Winebarger #S would battle for the lead side by side, Campos on the high side Winebarger on the bottom. When the Checkered flag came out the margin of victory was 0.001 at the line giving Winebarger the win!!

Finishing Order: A Feature 1: 1. 1-Collen Winebarger; 2. 36-John Campos; 3. 68-Bubba Foster; 4. 8-Rob Ireland; 5. 57-Kenny Miller; 6. 25-Craig Cassell; 7. 21-Mark Reser; 8. 13V-Grey Ferrando; 9. 16-Jerry Schram; 10. 11X-Donald Schott; 11. 48-Aaron Elwess; 12. 20G-Sean Gentry; 13. 5G-Marc Farrar; 14. 66-Doug Lockwood; 15. 44-Kristi Somers; 16. 11-Brandon Potter

B Feature 1: 1. 21-Mark Reser; 2. 66-Doug Lockwood; 3. 20G-Sean Gentry; 4. 16-Jerry Schram; 5. 47-Kyle Yeack; 6. 96-Danny O'Neil; 7. 12-Zack Simpson; 8. 28-Brian Harding; 9. 34-T.J. Richman; 10. 4R-Bill Rowe; 11. 22-Jimmy Schram; 12. 40-Jeff Lovell

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