ALGER, Wash. — Dominic Scelzi continued his dominance of the West Coast with his 11th overall victory of the season and first against the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series presented by the MAVTV Motorsports Network on night two of the 49th running of the Jim Raper Memorial Dirt Cup presented by the Skagit Casino Resort.
“It is really cool to win here. The last trip I took up here, I left in an ambulance with a broken leg, so it feels good to come back and win,” Scelzi said. “We were good last night, but I did not get any sleep just thinking about losing that race. I felt like we had the car to win, so to come back and get it done means a lot, but tomorrow’s the big race and we want to take the big money back to California.”
The 159th winner with the series, the first from Fresno and the ninth from California to top the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series, Scelzi’s runner-up finish on Thursday and victory on Friday, will position the Scelzi Enterprises No. 41 on the pole of Saturday’s $15,000 to win A-Feature.
Chasing the opening eight laps, Scelzi worked past Skagit Speedway weekly competitor, Colton Heath, for the lead. Chased but rarely challenged, Scelzi followed the track to the bottom through the closing laps to keep the field at bay by 1.680 seconds.
Battling back and forth several times with Dylan Westbrook, the Hills Racing No. 47x was close but could not upset Colton Heath for second. Westbrook held on for third with early race leader, Matt Covington, ending up fourth.
Moving up from 10th, Blake Hahn crossed fifth and will take the green from the right of the front row on Saturday.
The finish:
Feature (25 Laps): 1. 41-Dominic Scelzi[4]; 2. 33-Colton Heath[3]; 3. 47X-Dylan Westbrook[2]; 4. 95-Matt Covington[1]; 5. 52-Blake Hahn[10]; 6. 18-Jason Solwold[6]; 7. 5T-Ryan Timms[16]; 8. 22L-Garen Linder[5]; 9. 16A-Justin Sanders[17]; 10. 55-Trey Starks[18]; 11. 23-Seth Bergman[19]; 12. 56-Ryan Robinson[7]; 13. 21P-Robbie Price[9]; 14. 28-Scott Bogucki[11]; 15. 59-Eric Fisher[13]; 16. 17-Cam Smith[22]; 17. 19-Colby Thornhill[15]; 18. 37-Trever Kirkland[14]; 19. 63-JJ Hickle[8]; 20. 29-Willie Croft[12]; 21. 2X-Chase Majdic[20]; 22. 96-Greg Hamilton[21]