Summer Solstice at Evergreen Speedway rocked.  It was in fact a terrific “Knight” as Jeff Knight won his first ever feature event in the Speedway Chevrolet Super Stock Division in the NASCAR Whelen All American Series.  A nice crowd enjoyed the fast pace action in all five divisions as the program went smoothly on a warm, muggy night that ended with Josh Beckel winning the Crash Car! main event. 

After heat races were finished the 8:00 o’clock hour brought the main events to the grid on “USG night presented by Seattle RV”.  The Speedway Chevrolet Super Stocks main event was a real barnburner as the lead changed hands often and the action was all around the tough 3/8’s mile oval.  Stordahl was battling point’s leader Naima Lang for the lead before a flat tire sent Lang to the pits and Stordahl continued.  On a subsequent restart Jeff Knight started outside Stordahl with Evergreen’s famous double file restarts in effect.  John Zaretzke made contact with Stordahl and a caution flag flew.  Jeff knight hung on to win his first ever Super Stock main event and was cheered long and loud by the crowd.  Kelly Mann drove his tail off to finish second followed by James Mugge third.  Mike Holden after having to start at the rear of the field did an outstanding job finishing fourth with rookie of the year candidate Steve Ptacek rounding out the top five.   

Another first happened in the Les Schwab Tires Bomber Division as Joe Kneeland drove into the lead and refused to relinquish it to a hard charging Jim Foti.  Foti, the point’s leader, tried every way possible but Kneeland kept a handle on his car to claim his first win.  With Foti second, Jill Lang, defending champion Lane Sundholm and Frank Cowgill finished third through fifth respectively.  

Pawn X-Change Super Figure Eights ran nearly flag to flag with just one caution and lots of “intersection”.  It looked good for Quinton Borreson until defending champion John Carlson caught him.  With Ricky Deitz shadowing Carlson through the field it came down to the last five laps.  Troy Seminar and Michael Barnes followed Borreson, Deitz and Carlson to complete the top five.  It was Carlson’s fifth victory of the season.

Mark Weedin was a man possessed as he dominated the heat race and the main event.  Chuck Richard could only watch and remain in contention finishing second behind Weedin.  The battle is still very close in the division with Richard, Andrew Schukar and Michael Fritz along with Dale Creager pressuring the point’s battle.

Speedway Chevrolet Super Stocks

Pos      No.            Name  

1          70            Jeff Knight 

2          9            Kelly Mann  

3          34            James Mugge 

4          11            Mike Holden

5          06            Steve Ptacek 

6          36            Brian Cottrell

7          99            Scott LaCross          

8          16            Daniel Moore 

9          51            John Zaretzke          

10        26            Michael Prudnick          

11        4            Darin Stordahl          

12        00            Naima Lang    

13        48            Tom Hughs  

Les Schwab Tires Bombers

Pos      No.            Name  

1          99            Joe Kneeland         

2          85            Jim Foti           

3          27            Jill Lang    

4          00            Lane Sundholm        

5          76            Frank Cowgill

6          77            Casey Branch

7          53            Darrel Lutovsky         

8          15            David Stewart Jr        

9          66            Ryan Hansen

10        68            Shawn Carlson           

11        05            Dwayne Humenny      

12        54            Tim Widener          

13        17            Nikki Bristol 

14        33            Russ Hales   

15        5            Travis Blackwood

(Tentative)

NASCAR Mini Stocks

Pos      No.            Name  

1          01            Mark Weedin           

2          00            Chuck Richard           

3          23            Joe Hobbs 

4          15            Brent Roher  

5          07            Andrew Schukar       

6          5            Eric Angeledes       

7          21            Dale Creager           

8          88            Bob Edwards          

9          12            Kris Harriss

10        20            Mindy Harriss

11        18            Jeff Kessler

12        30            Jeff Miller  

13        64            John Roberts           

14        66            Eric Vickery           

15        13            Douglas Hinds

16        29            Clint Lang    

17        97            Nat Barber 

18        05            Rod Helmuth           

19        53            Jim Cottrell

20        22            Robert Cooke 

21        7            Travis Woodward

Pawn X-Change Super Figure Eights

Pos      No.            Name  

1          50            John Carlson           

2          76            Ricky  Deitz   

3          12            Quinten Borreson         

4          51            Troy Seminar           

5          6            Micheal Barnes 

6          3            Bill Wade  

7          01            Doug Delfel  

8          45            Jake Repin  

9          04            Jerry Funden

10        13            Ryan Gunderson       

11        34            Harry Clements         

12        4            Nick Dunham