5 CLASSES OF ACTION AT GRAY'S HARBOR RACEWAY SATURDAY

This Saturday Night at Grays Harbor Raceway located at the Fairgrounds in Elma, the action should heat up as there will be five classes doing battle on the fast high banked 3/8’s mile paved oval on Our Community Credit Union Night. The Whitney’s Auto Group 360 Sprint Cars, Shipwreck Beads Modifieds, Cut Rate Auto Parts Hobby Stocks, Midgets and Cruisers will all be in action.

In the Whitney’s Auto Group 360 Sprint Car Division, Enumclaw’s Henry Van Dam is the current points leader with 722 points, Van Dam has been like a man possessed as of late as he has won the last two Sprint Car features and will be going for three in a row on Saturday night. Van Dam can expect a serious challenge from Shelton’s Jay Cole who sits second in points with 704, Cole who is winless so far this year would like nothing better than to break into victory circle on Our Community Credit Union night as they happen to be one of his major sponsors. Third in the standings is Tacoma’s Shawn Rice who trails Cole by four points at 700, Rice has one feature win so far in 08 and will be gunning for number two, Raymond’s Glen Borden the defending 360 Sprint Car hold down the fourth spot with 698 points followed by teenage Rookie driver TH Hartman from Puyallup, Hartman has already collected one dash win and two top five finishes so far this season.

Former Shipwreck Beads Modified Champion Blair Shoemaker from Tacoma sits atop the Modified standings with 584 points on the strength of one main event win, three top five and five top ten finishes in five races, 2007 Modified Champion Shelton’s Scott Miller and Rochester’s Leroy Lawhead are tied for second with 560 points, followed by Greg Dineen from Aberdeen with 534 points. James Wolford from Seabeck rounds out the top five with 526 points.

Marysville’s Jeff Bell leads the Ford Focus Midget class with 436 points followed by Lee St. Paul from Shelton with 432, Bonney Lake’s Shon Valland holds down third with 414, rounding out the top five are Aberdeen’s Jeff Miller and Rookie Allison Journey from Springfield, Oregon both with 410 points.

The Cut Rate Auto Parts Hobby Stock points leader is last year’s Champion Zack Simpson from Aberdeen, Simpson holds the top spot with 726 points with three feature wins, teammate Jack Parshall Jr. is a very close second with 432 points and two feature wins. Third is another Aberdeen driver Joe German with 414 points, followed by Centalia’s Scott Westly and Elma teenager Chaz Wilder who are tied with 410 points.

The team of Crawford and Hurd lead the Cruiser point standings with 438 points, Boiling and Warner are only two points behind at 436. Crawford and Crawford are in third with 418 followed by the team of Laso & Whipple at 416.

Our Community Credit Union will treat fans to giveaways through the evening on Saturday Night, the front gate opens on Saturday at 4:30 pm with the Racing to start at 6:30.

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