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Two nights of racing took to the 3/8 banked clay oval on Saturday night as the ISCS Sprint Cars, PHRA Dwarf Cars, and Outlaw Tuners were in action. The ISCS Sprint Cars and PHRA Dwarf Cars ran all week long starting in Coos Bay, Oregon.

PHRA Dwarf Cars

Corey Estaban of Gaston, Ore took to the early lead in the PHRA Dwarf Car feature. Portland, Ore's Ryan Martinez ran in the second spot with Jeremiah Hester of Hillsboro, Ore looking to take over the runner up spot. Martinez and Estaban battled for the lead for a handful of laps as Josh King of Rio Linda, CA joined in to try and make it a three car battle. Martinez took over the lead on lap 5 and slowly pulled away. Hester brought out the caution on lap 9 while running fourth, spinning and making contact with a uke tire setting up a restart. King looked to the highside to try and make a pass at Estaban and Martinez, but didn't have enough momentum. Anthony Pope of Roseburg, Ore worked his way around King and set his sights on Estaban and Martinez. Lap 16 saw Pope make a pass for the lead down the backstretch. Pope slowly worked his way through lap traffic and went on to pick up the win, Martinez, Camron Diatte of Monterey, CA, Estaban and King rounded out the top five. heat race winners were Hester, King, Estaban, DIatte, with Happy Valley, Ore's Leo Ward winning the B-Main.

ISCS Sprint Cars

Kelsey Carpenter of Burlington and Sedro Woolley's Steve Parker set the front row of the 25 lap ISCS Limited Sprint Car feature. Carpenter took the early lead from Parker, as Tyler Thompson of Harrisburg, OR. Parker looked to the lowside on lap 2 at Carpenter for the lead taking the top spot for a split second until Carpenter regained the lead. Thompson made a pass at Parker for second, taking the spot in turn three. Thompson quickly made it to the back bumper of Carpenter as lap traffic became a big factor for Carpenter. Disaster struck on lap 12 as Carpenter made contact with the lap car of Camden Robustelli of Medford, OR in turn one bringing out the caution, giving up the lead to Thompson. Jake Helsel of Monroe moved into the second spot with Tanner Holmes of Jacksonville, OR ran third. Thompson worked his way through lap traffic flawless to go on and pick up the win over Helsel, Holmes, Parker, and Everett's Jayme Barnes. Heat race winners were Helsel, Sean Johnson of Tulalip, Roseburg's Steven Snawder, and Holmes. Bill Rude of Mt. Vernon set fast time and a new track record.

Outlaw Tuners

Robert Lovosek of Olympia took the early lead in the 15 lap feature, A four car battle for the lead saw Tyler Sundstrom of Aberdeen take the lead until the caution flag flew for Lovosek making contact with the turn four wall. Chad Norton of Tenino took over the lead after Sundstrom had mechanical issues. Jeremy Jones of Wishkah moved into second looking to chase down Norton for the lead. Norton slowly pulled away from the field during a long green flag run but the battle for second between Jones and Don Briggs Sr of Wishkah was the race to watch. Midway through the race Jones started to close in on Norton. A late race caution for Cory Sweatman of Aberdeen setup a restart allowing Jones and Briggs Sr a shot at the led. Norton would pick up the win over Jones, Briggs Sr, Tacoma's Trevor Dugent, and Sweatman. Heat race winner was Sundstrom.

Grays Harbor Raceway
August 17, 2018

Outlaw Tuners:

Heat Race:
23 Tyler Sunstrom

A-Main:

1. 75 Chad Norton, 2. 77 Jeremy Jones, 3. 13XXX Don Briggs Sr, 4. 555 Trevor Dugent, 5. 2s Cory Sweatman, 6. 95 Danny Andrews, 7. 23 Tyler Sundstrom, 8. 8 Ryker Walker, 9. 75X Robert Lokovsek

PHRA Dwarf Cars:

Heat 1:

1. 96K Jeremiah Hester, 2. 88K Josh Rodgers, 3. 9K Ryan Martinez, 4. 53 Jake VanOrtwick, 5. 2o James Brinster, 6. 63 Brandon Wiley, 7. 89Z Henry Corbin III, 8. 4s Joe Sanders, 9. 72K Kyle Frelich, 10. D4 Shawn Dorie

Heat 2:

1. 09s Josh King, 2. 17M Mac Marmon, 3. 63X Jonathan Henry, 4. 5K Brandon Ross, 5. 86K Doug McVae, 6. 74K Leo Ward, 7. 5A Danny Altom, 8. 777 Mike Johnson, 9. 18C Rick Taylor, 10. 4W Brian Taylor

Heat 3:

1. 36 Corey Estaban, 2. 88s John Chrisman, 3. 69K Ronnie Gilmore, 4. 37W Troy Kunas, 5. 3K Jim Fischer, 6. 54C Clayton Parsons, 7. 90Z Henry Corbin II, 8. 00 Jim Pavel, 9. 54 Dave Brune, 10. 48C Brian Lee

Heat 4:

1. 75 Camron Diatte, 2. 18o Shane Youngren, 3. 22K Anthony Pope, 4. 29o Jake Tupper, 5. 24K Justin DeMars, 6. 4K Mikie Clark, 7. 10s Fred Hay, 8. 51 Bailey Bell, 9. 17W Chuck Jones, 10. 45W Tony Evans

B-Main:

1. Ward, 2. McVae, 3. DeMars, 4. Altom, 5. Wiley, 6. Clark, 7. Lee, 8. Hay, 9. Bell, 10. Jones, 11. Sanders, 12. Johnson, 13. Rick Taylor, 14. Evans, 15. Fischer, 16. Corbin II, 17. Pavel, 18. Brune, 19. Brian Taylor, 20. Corbin III, 21. Frelich

A-Main:

1. Pope, 2. Martinez, 3. Diatte, 4. Estaban, 5. King, 6. Marmon, 7. VanOrtwick, 8. Youngren, 9. Henry, 10. Tupper, 11. Ward, 12. Chrisman, 13. Ross, 14. Brinster, 15. Clark, 16. Gilmore, 17. McVae, 18. DeMars, 19. Rodgers, 20. Parsons, 21. Wiley, 22. Hester, 23. Altom, 24. Kunas

ISCS Limited Sprint Cars:

Fast Time:
33 Bill Rude - 13.148 - New Track Record

Heat 1:

1. 44 Jake Helsel, 2. 87 Kyler Barazza, 3. 06 Jayme Barnes, 4. 0 Ashleigh Johnson, 5. 17 Shane Forte, 6. 42 Christian Osborne, 7. 3B Ian Bandey, 8. 7K Kevin Kirkpatrick

Heat 2:

1. 14 Sean Johnson, 2. 1W Mike Wheeler, 3. 18H AJ Harbaugh, 4. 4J Allison Journey, 5. 1K Kinzer Cox, 6. 21W Jake Wheeler, 7. 06F John Tharp, 8. 3H Dave Hibbard

Heat 3:

1. 12 Steven Snawder, 2. 7 Tyler Thompson, 3. 79K Kelsey Carpenter, 4. 1 Bailey Hibbard, 5. 73 Michael Bollinger, 6. 33 Bill Rude, 7. 38 Eric Bowers, 8. 4T Justin Tracy

Heat 4:

1. 18T Tanner Holmes, 2. 23 Steve Parker, 3. 25s Camden Robustelli, 4. 8X Jonathan Jorgenson, 5. 22D Devin Barnes, 6. 9J Bert Johnson, 7. 14B Bailey Sucich, 8. 66 Brett McGhie

B-Main:

1. Bailey Hibbard, 2. Jake Wheeler, 3. Bollinger, 4. Robustelli, 5. Sucich, 6. McGhie, 7. Bert Johnson, 8. Rude, 9. Tharp, 10. Kirkpatrick, 11. Jorgenson, 12. Osborne, 13. Bowers, 14. Tracy, 15. Bandey

A-Main:

1. Thompson, 2. Helsel, 3. Holmes, 4. Parker, 5. Jayme Barnes, 6. Devin Barnes, 7. Harbaugh, 8. Forte, 9. Sean Johnson, 10. Cox, 11. Barazza, 12. Mike Wheeler, 13. Jake Heeler, 14. Bailey Hibbard, 15. Bollinger, 16. Snawder, 17. Robustelli, 18. Journey, 19. Carpenter, 20. Ashleigh Johnson

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• Article Date: 8/17/2018 by Aaron Reed