( Alger , WA ) 6/29/08 by Kelly Hart
Jayme Barnes is rapidly gaining a reputation as a big race racer. On the opening night of the 2008 Jim Raper Memorial Dirt Cup presented by Camping World RV at Skagit Speedway Barnes won the 30-lap Feature event passing 6 cars from his inside 4th row starting position for the win. Mitch Olson started outside front row surrounded by the Kaeding clan, Bud Kaeding on the pole and Tim and Brent Kaeding behind in row two. Olson led the first 6 laps when Tim Kaeding took over the lead. Kaeding led the 7th through 10th laps before Barnes slid up in front of him coming out of turn 4 and into the lead on lap 11. From there on it was all Barnes, fending off some serious challenges from Kaeding who would not back off. On the final corner of the last lap Barnes got caught up in slower traffic and bounced off the turn 4 wall, as Kaeding closed Barnes jumped on the gas and took the checkered flag.
The evening got off to a suspect start as rain halted the first attempt at time trials. After the Skagit Speedway crew re-worked the track it was time for a second go at qualifying. Travis Rutz set fast time at 11.432, with Roger Crockett 11.592, Jason Solwold 11.640, Tayler Malsam 11.691 and Brock Lemley 11.707 rounding out the top five.
With the top 20 cars inverted in the front 4 starting at the front of the five heat races, 3 cars transferred from each heat directly to the Feature. Winning the five heat races were Jonathon Allard, Jesse Whitney, Tim Kaeding, Barnes and Mike Henry.
The “alphabet” Mains were won by Mack Brown (D Main), Josh Edson (C Main), and Crocket (B Main).
Fifty four cars graced the Skagit Speedway pit area on night one. The top ten points standings after night one were Tyler Walker 556, Jayme Barnes 550, Brock Lemley 540, Roger Crockett 538, Tim Kaeding 534, Jonathon Allard 534, Travis Rutz 525, Jesse Whitney 522, Mitch Olson 518 and Steve Kilcup 514.
Night two Friday resumes with gates opening at 5pm and racing at 7pm. More info at http://www.SkagitSpeedway.com .
DIRT CUP NIGHT ONE RESULTS
FAST TIME: 26 Travis Rutz 11.432
Heat 1: 0 Jonathon Allard, 24 Tyler Walker, 26 Rutz, 6 Kyle Hirst, 18L Toni Lutar
Heat 2: 88 Jesse Whitney, v8 Jeff Hodgson, 15 Aaron Fell, 7n Roger Crockett, 4s Dan Simpson
Heat 3: 10 Tim Kaeding, 29 Bud Kaeding, 73 Danielle Huson, 96x Mack Brown, 6k Kyle Oman
Heat 4: 9 Jayme Barnes, 69 Brent Kaeding, 26r Tayler Malsam, 5sp Ricky Fauver, 18 Steve Kilcup
Heat 5: 93 Mike Henry, 4 Brock Lemley, 98m Mitch Olson, 59 Eric Fisher, 38 Jason Bloodgood
D Main: 96x Mack Brown, 44h Michael Harris, 25c Chad Groves , 6k Kyle Oman, 5x Chuck Ashe, 9a Steve Dyer, 14 Kelleigh Johnson (top 4 transferred to C Main)
C Main: 83 Josh Edson, 33e Evan Suggs, 4e Nick Engberg, 5d Josh DeWitt, 5h Christian Stover, 7j JJ Hickle, 20 Robby Vaughn, 23h Brandon Harkness, 77 Mike Sather, 75 Kevin Smith, 33v Henry Van Dam, 77f Kirk Fellers, 6k Oman, 25c Groves, 17 Cameron Smith, 44h Harris, 22 Blake Cook, 96x Brown
B Main: 7n Crockett, 6 Hirst, 59 Fisher, 66 Martinez , 18 Kilcup, 33e Suggs, 7o Colton Heath, 7s Rick Ziehl, 11 Marc Duperron, 38 Jason Bloodgood, 71 Johnny Gray, 33 Derek Holmwood, 4s Simpson, 83 Edson, 18L Lutar, 5sp Fauver, 23b Seth Bergman, 4e Nick Engberg
A Main : 9 Jayme Barnes, 10 T. Kaeding, 24 Walker, 98m Olson, 88 Whitney, 0 Allard, 4 Lemley, 7n Crockett, v8 Hodgson, 18 Kilcup, 26 Rutz, 15 Fell, 59 Fisher, 33e Suggs, 66 Martinez, 26r Malsam, 73 Huson, 69 Brent Kaeding, 7o Heath, 29 Bud Kaeding, 6 Hirst, 93 Henry
