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Summer Showdown main event rained out

Published 1:30 am Saturday, June 30, 2018

By Nick Patterson

A race flagger signals that there is a hazard on the track to the drivers during the Street Stocks race during the Summer Showdown at the Evergreen Speedway on Saturday, June 30, 2018 in Monroe, Wa. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)
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A race flagger signals that there is a hazard on the track to the drivers during the Street Stocks race during the Summer Showdown at the Evergreen Speedway on Saturday, June 30, 2018 in Monroe, Wa. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

A race flagger signals that there is a hazard on the track to the drivers during the Street Stocks race during the Summer Showdown at the Evergreen Speedway on Saturday, June 30, 2018 in Monroe, Wa. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)
A yellow flag is waved to signal there is a hazard on the track during a Street Stocks race at Evergreen Speedway on June 30, 2018, in Monroe. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)
Tonya Collings (right) holds Stana Ball, 2, as they look at the cars on the track during the Summer Showdown at Evergreen Speedway on June 30, 2018, in Monroe. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)
Bruce Pendergress talks with a driver before the start of their race at Evergreen Speedway on June 30, 2018, in Monroe. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)
Traci Craig sits in her team’s race car as the car is prepped for the 200-lap Super Late Model race at the Summer Showdown at the Evergreen Speedway on Saturday in Monroe. (Olivia Vanni / The Herald)

MONROE — The seventh annual Summer Showdown, the premier Super Late Models race at Evergreen Speedway which was scheduled for Saturday night, was postponed because of rain.

The 200-lap main event, in which the winner claims $25,000, is now scheduled to begin at noon Sunday. Gates at Evergreen Speedway open to the public at 10 a.m.

The Street Stocks and Legends were able to get their races completed despite the drizzly conditions. However, the Super Late Models’ last-chance qualifier was scrapped earlier in the day, meaning all 41 cars were set for the main event, whereas the last-chance qualifier would have pared the field down to 38. The main event was called off at about 8:10 p.m.

Owen Riddle of Naches, who on Friday posted the fast time during qualifying and also won his qualifying heat, is set to start on the pole alongside Monroe’s Lex Johnson, an Evergreen regular who finished second last year. Auburn’s Tyler Tanner, another Evergreen regular who placed third last year, and defending champion Preston Peltier of Brighton, Colorado start on row two. Jeremy Doss of Upperlake, California, who was the Opening Night winner at Evergreen, and Chris Davidson of Pearland, Texas, who was third at last year’s Summer Showdown, comprise row three.

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