Skagit Speedway season championships this Saturday

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  • Friday, September 12, 2008 9:38am
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ALGER, Wash. — The 2008 Foothills Toyota Tundra Racing Series wraps up its season this Saturday night at Skagit Speedway. It’s Coach Corral Season Championships and Fireworks Night, with an impressive Fireworks Extravaganza planned for immediately following the night of racing.

Barry Martinez of Lynnwood, Wash., has a second Outlaw 410 Sprint Championship in sight. The 2005 division leader seeks to add his name to an impressive list of drivers that have won two or more Outlaw 410 championships.

In order to do so, he is going to have to fend off the hard-charging 2007 Rookie-of-the-Year winner Colton Heath, who has kept things interesting for his former mentor.

It was Martinez who helped get Heath into a 410 for the first time last season. And now the two face off in the biggest race of the season, somewhere in the first 3 rows of the Main Event Saturday night. Just 13 points separate the two.

In the Budweiser 360 Sprint division the 15 points that separate Woodinville, Wash., driver Brian Kirkpatrick and Alan Munn of Granite Falls, Wash., are all that stand between both drivers earning their first track title.

For the younger Kirkpatrick the title comes in just a few short years of driving Sprint cars. For Munn the veteran, it would be his first title at Skagit Speedway as one of the longest-tenured drivers at the track and the last to race at both Skagit Speedway and Sky Valley Speedway.

Munn’s achievement is made all the more memorable because he retired from racing at the end of the 2006 season, only to come back for more racing action here in 2008.

Racing for his first track championship is Kelsey Carpenter, who has an almost insurmountable 54 point lead heading into Championship night for the Cook Road Shell Sportsman Sprint title.

But with just 14 points separating them, the fight is for second place between third generation driver Marc Schutte, Devin Madonia and rookie Kyle Oman.

There are two weekends of racing left for the Wilson Auto Brokers Outlaw Hornets. The fourth annual US Hornet Nationals is Sept. 20 and first Annual Hornet Enduro is Sept. 21 at Skagit Speedway.

The regular-season Outlaw Hornet championship looks to be all sewn up for Ben Gunderson, who just needs to get show-up points to nail down his first title. Ken Higby and Cory Swatzina are tied for second, and Wendy Johnson and Ashley Lewellen hope to lock down top 10 spots for the ladies in the division.

For ticket information and driving instructions, visit www.skagitspeedway.com for details.

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