5/13/2016
Cottage Grove Speedway
D. Redmond And King Win During Firday Night Thriller At CGS
D. Redmond And King Win During Firday Night Thriller At CGS
By Ben Deatherage
Cottage Grove, Oregon- If you missed the May 13th $5.00 Fast Friday then you missed one of the best races of the whole season. Despite only two classes on the card a great turnout of forty-eight cars would fill the pit area. The two classes were the Clark Printing Extreme Sprints and Dwarf Cars.
Sixteen Clark Printing Extreme Sprints signed in on the registration sheets and they had a thrilling race. Medford teenager Bailey Hibbard showed the way for the most laps. Hibbard, in his Hansen & Sons Trucking/Outlaw Powdercoating/Dave’s Carpet & Vinyl Liquidators/PJW Trucking #1 XXX, took the lead on the opening lap and it seemed was on his way to his first career victory. Two cautions would keep the field bunched up but Bailey was good on the restarts.
As the race started to enter the final stages some heavy lapped traffic was approaching the leaders. Roseburg’s Dusty Redmond was able to somehow find a way to master the bottom, when the high side seemed to be the fastest way around, and got past Hibbard with just a few laps to go. Redmond managed to create a little bit of space to have some breathing room. When the checkered flag was dropped it would be Redmond with the victory and the second time that the Whit Log Trailers/Redmond Trucking/Double R Powdercoating #57 Rocket entry has visited victory lane in 2016.
The Umpqua Sand & Gravel/Double R Powdercoating/Redmond Trucking #12 machine of Orion Redmond, also from Roseburg and Dusty’s son, edged out Bailey Hibbard for second place at the line. The rest of the top five was made up of fourth finishing Albany teenager Bricen James, driving the Myers Logging/Eugene Denture Clinic #51 entry for car owner Tim Galloway, and Eugene’s Raquel Ivie in fifth piloting her Three Rivers Casino & Resort/Bi-Mart/MSD Ignitions/Puddle Jumper Towing #70 XXX.
Raquel Ivie was fast time of the night and the winner of the Dot’s Trophy Shop Trophy Dash was the Hansen & Sons Trucking/Outlaw Powdercoating/Dave’s Carpet & Vinyl Liquidators/PJW Trucking #3 Zeitler of Medford native Dave Hibbard. Heat race winners were the BC Motorsports/Rocket Designs/Auto Stitch Embrodary #6N Zeitler of Medford’s Brandi Crockett and Ricky Ashley from Thurston in his Todd’s Auto Body/Clark Printing/Double R Powdercoating/Fastenal #85 Maxim.
A whopping thirty-two Dwarf Cars would make the trip from the states of Oregon, Washington, and California. Kelso, Washington’s Jess Turner Sr. was the leader of lap one in the JT’s Go Fast Shoppe #21K JT. Turner would lose the lead on lap three to Eagle Point chauffeur Brock Peters. Peters, in his Brock Peters Painting/PPG Paints/Chandler Custom Fabrication #2S M&M, looked to complete a clean sweep after dominating preliminary action.
Unfortunately for Brock Peters he would be passed on lap nine by Josh King. King, who now resides in Red Bluff, California, would check out from the rest of the field but several cautions would not allow him to build too big of a lead. He briefly would lose the lead to the Brock Peters Painting/Dave Morton Auto Sales #18S M&M, of Medford’s Kalvin Morton, but the yellow would come out giving the lead back to King. King would master the rest of the restarts to put his D&R Race Cars/Teddy Bear Racing/NGK Spark Plugs/St. John Family Tree Farm #109S D&R in the winner’s circle.
Kalvin Morton was the runner-up while third went to Brock Peters. The Corbin Family Racing #1 entry of Molalla’s Henry Corbin III crossed the fourth and Jess Turner Sr. ended his night in fifth. Heat races were won by Josh King, the Iron Oar Bar & Grill/Wrapped Graphix #17S Hot Rod of Rob Gergel from Grants Pass, Brock Peters, and Kalvin Morton. Peters was able to top the field in the Dot’s Trophy Shop Trophy Dash while Grant Pass driver Kaycee Sheeler, in her Rogue River Denture/Sheeler Racing #95S M&M, was victorious in the consolation feature.
Submitted By: Ben Deatherage
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