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Inside Line Promotions – WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. (June 13, 2017) – Marshall Skinner has momentum on his side as he enters a big race this weekend.
Skinner scored a fifth-place result at Riverside International Speedway last Saturday during an ASCS Mid-South Region event and he’ll return to the bullring this Saturday for the Hooker Hood Classic.
“I actually raced with Hooker when I first started,” he said. “Him and my uncle were fierce competitors. I really want to win that race. The fact that I grew up watching Hooker and me and Stormi (Hood) are friends … I just want to win that race. I led it down to the very end a few years ago and got passed at the end. It’d be a special one to win.”
Skinner is riding a wave of momentum thanks to a pair of USCS Series Speedweek wins and another strong result last Saturday, when Skinner wasn’t originally planning to compete.
“I was at a wedding and we were going to take the night off, but it worked out that a crew guy was able to take the car over and set everything up,” he said. “I missed hot laps, but got there in time to put heat in the engine.”
Skinner then won a heat race after starting on the outside of the front row. That locked him into the feature redraw, in which he pulled the No. 3 to start the main event third.
“I was way too tight in the feature,” he said. “I fell to ninth and got back up to fifth. I was kind of disappointed when I fell back because at home I expect to win. I’ve raced here my whole life, but I’m not the only who expects that. When you’re up there beating doors with Tim Crawley, Gary Taylor and all them, those guys are on their game all the time, too.
“As soon as the feature was over I checked the right rear (tire). We only had about four pounds. I felt like it was flat. I don’t know what happened, but on the first caution after we took back off we were tight. From about Lap 4 to Lap 25 I was real tight. That last 10 laps or so went without a caution so to only come in with a few pounds, I’d hate to know what it was down to before that.”
The fifth-place result was Skinner’s eighth top five of the season.
QUICK RESULTS –
June 10 – Riverside International Speedway in West Memphis, Ark. – Heat race: 1 (2); Feature: 5 (3).
SEASON STATS –
15 races, 2 wins, 8 top fives, 11 top 10s, 11 top 15s, 12 top 20s
UP NEXT –
Saturday at Riverside International Speedway in West Memphis, Ark., for the Hooker Hood Classic
MEDIA LINKS –
Twitter: https://twitter.com/sprint26
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Marshall-Skinner-Motorsports-207879425896412/
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“Brenda and Ricky Ransome, who own the business, sponsored Little Ricky (Stenhouse Jr.) when he first started racing a sprint car,” Skinner said. “We were at a race and he had crashed. They were hollering for us to be in the staging lanes. I was on the front row, but I was trying to help them get their car fixed to get in the race. They came over after the race and thanked me for helping get his car together when I should have been concentrating on my own car. We built a friendship off that. That was back in about 2004. They’ve stuck with me since through thick and thin.”
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- Shawn Miller on Jun 13, 2017
- Article Date: 6/13/2017 by Inside Line Promotions