MARGESON SCORES ANOTHER NWWT MIDGET WIN AT THE GROVE

COTTAGE GROVE, Oregon - Evan Margeson's dream season continued on Saturday night as he made another clean sweep of a IXL Metal Condtioner NorthWest Wingless Tour midget car program at Cottage Grove Speedway, which included his fourth main event victory with the NWWT in 2009.

If not for missing a show in August due to work commitments, Margeson would likely be running away with the inaugural NWWT midget championship. Instead, he chipped away at the points lead held by Mitch Hoffses, cutting it to five points unofficially with just one more points race remaining. It will come down to October 3rd's Lebanon Fall Classic at Willamette Speedway to determine the first IXL Metal Conditioner NorthWest Wingless Tour midget car champion.

Margeson, out of Tacoma, Wash. started the 20-lap main event in the sixth position thanks to a six-car invert, but wasted no time getting to the front of the field. He was in second place in just two laps and it was on Lap 4 when he passed initial leader Reno Marr for the lead. From there, Margeson never looked back to rode to a half-lap victory aboard the Margeson Racing No. 50 Esslinger-powered Beast.

After Margeson took the lead and motored away, Marr held the second position for a time before Quincy, Calif.'s Cole Peard, a first time visitor to Cottage Grove Speedway, made a pass around him to take the second position. Peard would gain no ground on Margeson, but held on for an impressive second place finish aboard the Peard Racing No. 58 Fontana-powered Twister.

Gresham, Ore.'s Marr finished third aboard the Mike Marr No. 68 Pontiac-powered Stewart. Hoffses, who held a nine-point lead over Margeson going into Saturday's race, turned in a fourth place effort aboard the Kirk Hoffses No. 5m Gaerte-powered Hawk. Steve Dickenson of Corvallis, Ore. solidified his third place points standing with a fifth place finish aboard his own No. 99 Pontiac-powered Edmunds.

Doug Kammerzell, pole-sitter Mike Gehringer, Doug McVae, Lance Hallmark and Glenn Bittrolf rounded out the Top 10.

Margeson encountered heavy traffic on Laps 11 and 12, but cleared it almost effortlessly. Margeson also has a BCRA victory in California to his credit and also earned victories on the pavement with the WMRA, of which he is a former champion.

Margeson set quick time in qualifying with a lap of 12.82 seconds around the 1/4-mile, high-banked clay oval. He'd later come from the sixth position to win the evening's second heat race over Hoffses and Peard. Kammerzell, making his first midget car start with the IXL Metal Conditioner NorthWest Wingless Tour, won the first heat race. Kammerzell and Margeson both won their heat races very easily, but the racing behind them was generally good.

While the October 3rd finale is all that remains for the NWWT, many of the drivers in the IXL Metal Conditioner NorthWest Wingless Tour will be taking part in Cottage Grove Speedway's Non-Wing Nationals on Septmeber 26th. More information on the IXL Metal Conditioner NorthWest Wingless Tour can be found online at http://www.nwwinglesstour.com.