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Rain claims
Dirt Cup Friday Main Events
by Andrew Kunas
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June 16,
2006...
Skagit Speedway tried, tried very hard, but couldn’t
defeat Mother Nature, who claimed the Friday’s second
preliminary event of the 35th Jim Raper Memorial Dirt
Cup.
The program was already delayed by rain for hours, with
qualifying beginning at 9:45 p.m. Qualifying and heat
races were completed as well as the last chance D-Main
race. The rain came again during the C-Main around 12:45
a.m., making the track unsuitable for racing.
Winning four heat races were touring racer Jason Meyers,
Alberta’s Jeff Hodgson, many-time “King of
California” Brent Kaeding, and Iowa’s Dennis Moore
Jr. John Tharp won the shortened, ten-lap D-Main race.
Out of 63 cars on hand for Friday’s preliminary
action, Jonathan Allard set fast time in qualifying with
a lap of 11.625 seconds around the 3/10-mile,
high-baked, clay oval.
Points from Thursday’s and Friday’s events will be
combined to determine line-ups in Saturday’s main
events. Sixty-six different cars have competed in this
year’s 35th edition of Skagit Speedway’s crown jewel
event.
63 cars
Fast time: 0 Jonathan Allard, 11.625 seconds
Heat 1, ten laps, top four transfer: 1. 14 Jason Meyers,
2. 35a Sean Becker, 3. 40 Brock Lemley, 4. 0 Jonathan
Allard, 5. 73 Jason Solwold, 6. 41B Brad Pritchard, 7.
71 Johnny Gray, 8. 28 Rick Smith, 9. 14J Brandon
Johnson, 10. 38 Jason Bloodgood, 11. 25m Taylor Malsam,
12. 83 Tim Kaeding.
Heat 2, ten laps, top four transfer: 1. V8 Jeff Hodgson,
2. 57c Chris Scmelze, 3. 5sp Jason York, 4. 66 Barry
Martinez, 5. 29 Brandon Harkness, 6. 88 Jesse Whitney,
7. 17v Danny Faria, 8. 23B Seth Bergman, 9. 7N Steve
Kent, 10. 12 Jared Ridge, 11. 23 Steve Parker.
Heat 3, ten laps, top four transfer: 1. 69 Brent
Kaeding, 2. 9 Jayme Barnes, 3. 75 Roy Blumenhagen, 4.
12B Robert Ballou,
5. 26s Shane Stewart, 6. 10 Stephan Allard, 7. 8B Blake
Brigge, 8. 1D Ronnie Day, 9. 8e Evan Funk, 10. 18 Steve
Kilcup, 11. 33v Henry Van Dam, 12. 76e Josh Edson.
Heat 4, ten laps: 1. 0K Dennis Moore Jr., 2. 77 Kirk
Fellers, 3. 5 Chad Hillier, 4. 26 Rick Fauver, 5. 4x
Toni Lutar, 6. 44j Abe Sherwood, 7. 7J Travis Jacobson,
8. 31 Danny Bullock, 9. 8r Travis Rutz, 10. 29r Travis
Rilat, 11. 2 Brad Furr, 12. 00 Jason Statler.
D-Main, ten laps (time): 1. 69 John Tharp, 2. 59 Andy
Jacobson, 3. 7o Roger Oudman, 4. 17 Kelly Barnett, 5. 3
Dan Pierson, 6. 99e Alex Hantell, 7. 7ak Steve Martin,
8. 15D Dan Dunlap, 9. 9b Paul Burdick, 10. 14j Kelleigh
Johnson, 11. 25a Adriana Klein, 12. 13r Glenn Reinstra,
13. 57 Bud Ashe, 14. 99 Kyle Hirst.
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