BILLINGS, Montana- Twenty-one year David Hoiness can call himself a sprint car feature winner, after he won Saturday’s Big Sky Sprint Tour event at Billings Motorsports Park.
Hoiness, out of Billings, started the feature event in the sixth position and won his career main event over Big Sky Sprint Tour points leader Joe Ramaker of Boise, Idaho. Hoiness solidified his third place standing in points and is now closing in on defending series champion Phil Dietz for second.
Ramaker, who has two wins of his own this season with the BSST, finished second ahead of Jeremy McCune, Wyomin’s William Hernandez and Dietz. Joe Perry, Tyler Gabel, Josh Ostermiller, former series champion Paxton Lambrect and Shane Moore rounded out the top ten.
McCune topped Ramaker in the first heat race and Jerry Brey won the second heat race over Gabel. Ramaker won the cash dash over Brey, McCune, Hoiness, Gabel and Hernandez.
Ramaker extended his point lead over Dietz to 116 tallies with five races remaining. Hoiness, with his victory, is now only eight points behind Dietz. Lambrect is fourth and Kirkland is holding down the fifth position.
The Big Sky Sprint Tour will have its last race at Billings Motorsports Park this season on Saturday, August 23. The series has a big three-race weekend on Labor Day weekend. Friday, August 29 the tour returns to Gallatin Speedway in Belgrade before going to Electric City Speedway in Great Falls for two nights of racing on Saturday and Sunday, August 30 and 31. The series closes its season out with the Big Sky Super Nationals at Gallatin on Saturday
