There was fear in the air Saturday night at Saratoga Speedway. Or more precisely, there were cars tossed by Ken Fear in the air.
On a night sponsored by Fearless Contracting of Campbell River, Ken Fear won the speedway’s annual Car Toss Competition over four other competitors with a throw of 60.7 feet, then won the Engine Removal Contest in 41.440 seconds.
The evening featured season-high car counts in three classes, with 33 Hornets, 11 Crash to Pass cars and eight Roadrunners in action.
In the Roadrunner class, the #99 car had a new driver for the night. Dennis Cork, who helped build the track many years ago, was living out one of his dreams, getting the chance to race one last time as he has terminal cancer, and making it count by winning the B dash. Other dash winners were #88 Ryan Guest, #14 Jacob Ferrier, #45 Darren Monk and #40 Cam Edward.
Heat race wins went to Guest in the Roadrunners; #37 Garret-Ann Rosner, #59 Dana Ackerman, #11 Trevor Vogel and #12 Raymond Fortier in the Hornets, and #73 Sheldon Hopp in Crash to Pass.
In the 25-lap Roadrunners main event Guest completely dominated the field, jumping into the lead on lap three en route to his fifth straight main event win and a clean sweep of his night’s races.
Twenty-one cars entered the 25-lap B main event. Ackerman grabbed an early lead until #16 Ashley White made her away around him on lap 10 then pulled away for her first main event win of the year. #81 Andy Inglis was second and #11 Trevor Vogel third.
In the 25-lap A main, #05 Luke Dixon jumped to the lead on the first lap and led the rest of the way to take home his first main event win of the year, with #98 Nigel Neufeld second and #12 Raymond Fortier third.
Nine cars entered the extremely exciting Crash to Pass 20-lap main event, where #40 Cam Edward took an early lead en route to his second main event win of the year in what was hands down the best Crash to Pass main event of the year. #41 TJ Lippy finished second and #09 Mike Jenkins was third.
EXTRA LAPS This weekend Saratoga welcomes back the Wilroc Lite Sprints … these are the fastest cars that come to the Speedway, averaging 14-15 seconds a lap … accompanying these speed demons will be the I.M.C.A Modifieds, Dwarf cars and Bombers … our local Modified class attended Western Speedway this past weekend for a points race that will tie into Saratoga’s points race … seven cars went down Island with the dash going to #91 Chris Beaulieu and the eight-lap heat to #72 Travis Stevenson … the 25-lap main event was a tight battle all the way among Beaulieu, Stevenson, Tarbuck, and Sagmoen; Tarbuck took the last lead change on lap eight and held off a hard-charging Stevenson to win, with Beaulieu third …
– Saratoga Speedway
