ALGER, Washington -- It was the perfect night to win his first ever winged sprint car main event taking home the Thursday night Preliminary Main Event win at the 2007 Jim Raper Memorial Dirt Cup.
Roger Crockett set fast time at 11.666 to lead the field of 47 cars that qualified. Heat races were captured by Suggs, Danny Bullock, Barry Martinez, and John Tharp.
The C Main event moved up three cars, winner Bud Kaeding, second place Josh DeWitt and alternate Steve Parker by virtue of a B Main scratch.
Winning the B Main was Crockett who transferred along with second through fourth place finishers Tayler Malsam, Jonathon Allard and Brock Lemley.
Suggs won the 30-lap feature, slicing through traffic and running high or low whenever he needed to. Jason York led the first 7 laps before finishing second with Johnny Grey, Tim Gee and B Main transfer Brock Lemley third through fifth.
| 2007 Dirt Cup Night One |
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| Fast time: #7m Roger Crockett 11.666 Heat 1: 33 Evan Suggs, 7k Shane Stewart, v8 Jeff Hodgson, 1 Ronnie Day, 26t Tim Kaeding Heat 2: 31 Danny Bullock, 83jr Brandon Wimmer, 4g Tim Gee, 4x Toni Lutar, 26 Tayler Malsam Heat 3: 66 Barry Martinez, 98m Mitch Olson, 29c Willie Croft, 18k Steve Kilcup, 35m Sean Becker Heat 4:69t John Tharp, 71 Johnny Grey, 5sp Jason York, 69bk Brent Kaeding, 7o Travis Jacobson C Main: (Top 3 transferred) 26r Bud Kaeding, 7d Josh DeWitt, 23p Steve Parker, 44h Michael Harris, 7o Jacobson, 23b Seth Bergman, 57c Chris Schmelzle, 83 Josh Edson, 25 Adriana Klein, 9a Steve Dyer, 13gr Glen Reinstra, 13c Colton Heath, 3 Dan Pierson B Main: (Top 4 transferred) 7n Crockett, 26 Malsam, 0 Jonathon Allard, 40 Brock Lemley, 9b Jayme Barnes, 18p Peter Murphy, 5h Kyle Hirst, 11 Marc Duperon, 26r Bud Kaeding, 7s Rod Perkins, 8e Evan Funk, 35m Becker, 23p Parker, 29r Travis Rilat, 11au Trevor Green, 26t Tim Kaeding, 35 Jason Statler, 7d DeWitt A Main: 33 Evan Suggs, 5sp York, 71 Grey, 4g Gee, 40 Brock Lemley, 4x Lutar, 0 Allard, 29c Croft, 7n Crockett, 83jr Wimmer, 66 Martinez, v8 Hodgson, 18k Kilcup, 31 Bullock, 26 Malsam, 1 Day, 98m Olson, 7k Stewart, 69bk Brent Kaeding, 69t John Tharp Lap leaders: 1-7 5sp York, 8-30 33 Evan Suggs. |
