(Photo by Dirt Monkey Productions)
Inside Line Promotions – COTTAGE GROVE, Ore. (July 25, 2016) – Patrick Dills extended his lead in the Cottage Grove Speedway Extreme Sprints championship standings following another strong performance last Saturday.
Dills opened the event by setting quick time during qualifying at the quarter-mile oval before he maneuvered from fourth to second place in both the dash and a heat race. That lined him up on the outside of the second row for the 25-lap main event.
“In the main event I got held up on the start,” he said. “The guy who started second didn’t really go on the start. I think I dropped back to fifth, but I got to second in six or seven laps.”
Dills rebounded from the slow start to advance into second place by the midpoint of the feature.
“There was one corner I picked two of them off on the top in turns one and two,” he said. “Everyone was running the bottom so I had to make something work and I stayed at the top. I kept trying to make it work lap after lap and eventually it did.”
Dills closed the gap to the leader before being slowed in traffic, which resulted in a runner-up result.
“The leader was cruising around the bottom and I was banging the curb,” he said. “The track was good early on the bottom and I stayed on the top the whole race. When I got to second at one point I thought I was in the lead because he was so far ahead. The lapped cars were all over the place so I had a little trouble anticipating what they were going to do.”
The second-place finish marked the sixth top five and 10th top 10 of the season for Dills, who will return to action at Cottage Grove Speedway this Saturday during a $1,000-to-win Extreme Sprints event.
QUICK RESULTS –
July 23 – Cottage Grove Speedway in Cottage Grove, Ore. – Qualifying: 1; Dash: 2 (4); Heat race: 2 (4); Feature: 2 (4).
SEASON STATS –
18 races, 2 wins, 6 top fives, 10 top 10s, 13 top 15s, 17 top 20s
UP NEXT –
Saturday at Cottage Grove Speedway in Cottage Grove, Ore.
MEDIA LINKS –
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Patrick-Dills-Racing/236840896439816?ref=br_tf
Twitter: https://twitter.com/PatrickDills90
Website: http://www.PatrickDillsRacing.com
SPONSOR SPOTLIGHT – BC Motorsports
BC Motorsports is owned and operated by longtime sprint car veteran Brian Crockett, who has numerous wins and championships under his belt. Crockett owns a parts business and is also the Western Sprint Tour competition director among other duties in the racing industry.
“I can’t thank Brian Crockett enough for giving me the opportunity to race a sprint car,” Dills said. “Brian is one of the main parts of our team.”
Dills would also like to thank Jerry Dills Trucking, Weeman’s Small Engine Repair, Jacob Daniels Attorney at Law, Faye Stewart for U.S. Senate, Cedric Ross Hayden Oregon State Representative, Oregon Research Consultants, API, Bonnichsen Repair, Devine Continuous Gutters, M.D. Yearous Logging, Inc., Lynn Mulligan Trucking, Rocket Designs, Dirt Monkey Productions and Inside Line Promotions for their continued support.
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- Shawn Miller on Jul 25, 2016
- Article Date: 7/25/2016 by Inside Line Promotions