By Kelly Hart for Skagit Speedway, 8/1/09
ALGER, Wash. — The winner of the Bob’s Burgers and Brew 360 Nationals at ASA Sanctioned Skagit Speedway was Tim Crawley of Benton, Ariz..
Crawley led twice, for a total of 22 laps of the 40-lap feature. Crawley became a first time winner in a field dotted with past champions of the event and made his West Coast month-long visit to the Northwest end on a high note. Crawley also took home the $10,000 winners check.
On the initial green flag, defending 360 Nationals champion Travis Rutz took off from his outside front row starting spot into the lead with Crawley, Paul McMahon, Rick Fauver, and Chad Hillier in tow. They approached traffic on the eight lap when the battle intensified. Crawley found an opening and squeezed around Rutz for the lead on the ninth circuit. The first yellow flag flew on lap 10 when Colton Heath spun in turn two. Two more yellow flags fell as the leaders battled in heavy traffic on the high banked 3/10th mile track.
By the 28th lap Rutz had battle back and into the lead with Crawley holding off McMahon and Hillier. As the 36th lap unfolded, 2008 track Champion Brian Kirkpatrick had the car get away from him in front of the leaders heading into turn number 3. As Rutz took evasive action, Crawley squeezed through a very narrow opening which Hillier could not make, tipping over the #4 car and ending his evening. McMahon was also involved and out of the running. While Rutz cleared the wreck, his motor did not and there was water everywhere as he slid to a stop in the pit area. With the red flag out and the race stopped it was Crawley emerging as the Main Event leader with 4 laps to go.
Rick Fauver and Barry Martinez finished second and third to round out the top 3.
There were battles all over the track keeping the fans on the edge of their seat. Barry Martinez and Brock Lemley waging epic war swapping positions for lap after lap. Travis Rilat picking up 3 positions at a time with huge slide jobs. Jason Solwold moving from the B Main to the A Main and top ten finish from the back row along with Jesse Whitney. Clearly on this night on a beautifully prepared race track under a warm summer night the race fans were treated to one of the best 360 Nationals in Skagit Speedway history.
The B Main was won by local favorite Rod Perkins and the non-stop, green flag to checkered flag C Main event was captured by Chad Groves. The C Scramble winner was Steve Parker, over Groves, Michael Harris, Robby Vaughn, Jesse Dakus and Kelsey Carpenter. The B Scramble went to Whitney over Brian Kirkpatrick, Cody Anderlini, Perkins, Cory Chamberlain and Danny Kirkpatrick. Winning the A Scramble was Paul McMahon over Rutz, Hillier, Crawley, Fauver and Jason Johnson the Friday night Main Event winner.
Also taking place was the 2009 Hornet Nationals, and winning for the second time in two years was Cory Swatzina over Don Ward and Wade Swatzina. Ward won the Hornet Scramble over both Swatzinas, Freddy Vela, Tyler Ketchum and Ben Gunderson.
SKAGIT SPEEDWAY RESULTS
360 Nationals
A Main: 88t Tim Crawley, F1 Rick Fauver, 66 Barry Martinez, 40 Brock Lemley, 29 Travis Rilat, 23 Seth Bergman, 51 Jason Solwold, 98m Mitch Olson, 88 Jesse Whitney, 2 Mike Melwicks, 5x Colton Heath, v8 Jeff Hodgson, 2L Logan Forler, 18 Travis Jacobson, 26 Travis Rutz, 3d Paul McMahon, 4h Chad Hillier, 5k Brian Kirkpatrick, 11c Roger Crockett, 69p Rod Perkins, 41 Jason Johnson, 10 Cory Chamberlain
Lap Leaders: 26 Rutz 1-8, 88t Crawley 9-27, 26 Rutz 28-36, Crawley 37-40
B Main: 69p Perkins, 88 Whitney, 5k B. Kirkpatrick, 10 Chamberlain, 51 Solwold, v8 Hodgson, 76 Shawn Rice, 29v Robby Vaughn, 38 Jason Bloodgood, 4e Nick Engberg, 25c Chad Groves, 11 Shane Broers, 75 Jesse Dakus, 44h Michael Harris, 9p Jared Peterson, 15c Cody Anderlini, 33v Henry VanDam, 7k Danny Kirkpatrick
C Main: 25c Chad Groves, 75 Dakus, 44h Harris, 29v Vaughn, 22 Eric Fisher, 79k Kelsey Carpenter, 15 Steve Parker, 9a Steve Dyer, 33 Bill Rude, 29w Steve James, 30 Matt VanDerSys, 49 Paul Hopkins, 13gr Glen Reinstra, 8 Clayton Sibley, 16 Nick Tomlinson, 4b Cale Brooke, 77 Mark Richmond, 29p Dan Philpott, 73 Michael Bollinger, 15d Dan Dunlap
A Scramble: 3d McMahon, 26 Rutz, 4h Hillier, 88t Crawley, F1 Fauver, 41 Johnson
B Scramble: 88 Whitney, 5k B. Kirkpatrick, 15c Anderlini, 69p Perkins, 10 Chamberlain, 7k D. Kirkpatrick
C Scramble: 15 Parker, 25c Groves, 44h Harris, 29v Vaughn, 75 Dakus, 79k Carpenter
Hornet Nationals
A Main: 07 Cory Swatzina, 72 Don Ward, 11w Wade Swatzina, 68 Ben Gunderson, 20 Freddy Vela, 04 Cody Koroshes, 69 Cliff Gill, 03 Howard Vos, 13a Ashley Lewellen, 11k Kenny Harris, 2 Thomas Campbell, 51 Adam Holtrop, 41 Larry Young, 85 Kaleb Hart, 66s Larry Kwik, 57 James Bundy, 39 Tyler Ketchum, 4.5 James Sanford, 9 Ken Higby, 50 John Edwards, 71 Rick Young
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