ALGER, Wash. — There’s one question circling the Skagit Speedway pit area after both preliminary nights of the Skagit Nationals — how do we stop Rico Abreu?
For the second night in a row, the No. 24 machine roared from seventh to the lead and ran away with his fourth-straight win at the Alger, Wash., track, his fifth score in his last seven tries at Kevin Rudeen’s facility.
Shooting to the lead even quicker than he did last night, the St. Helena, California native was already running in a podium spot from the fourth row by Lap 10. He made his winning move on Lap 22 when a thick dose of lapped traffic held up early leader Robbie Price and allowed Abreu to circle him on the outside of turns one and two.
From there, Abreu threw the keys on the counter and checked out – crossing the stripe with a 3.081-second advantage over the field.
It was his 15th overall win of the 2025 season with eight of those coming in High Limit competition. He extends his mark as the winningest driver in series history, now sitting at 20 career wins.
Abreu easily locked-up high point man honors of the Skagit Nationals, guaranteeing himself a top-four starting spot in Saturday’s dash of the $126,000-to-win program.
Securing a spot in the dash as well was fellow High Rollers Daison Pursley in the Buch Motorsports No. 13, Justin Peck in the Rudeen Racing No. 26, and Tanner Thorson in the Rod Gross Motorsports No. 88.
Following Abreu to the line in Friday’s feature was Robbie Price with a bittersweet runner-up effort.
The Canadian led the opening 21 laps of the race but traffic allowed Abreu to run off and force the No. 21p to settle for a still-impressive career-best P2 for $10,000.
It was a northwest boy rounding out the podium for the second night in a row as Harrisburg, Oregon’s Tyler Thompson finished third-from-fifth in the Lemley No. 13L.
Jason Solwold, Brenham Crouch, Justin Peck, Brent Marks, Danny Sams III, Daison Pursley and Tanner Thorson closed out the top 10.
The finish:
Feature (30 Laps): 1. 24-Rico Abreu[7]; 2. 21P-Robbie Price[3]; 3. 13L-Tyler Thompson[5]; 4. 18-Jason Solwold[4]; 5. 5-Brenham Crouch[6]; 6. 26-Justin Peck[13]; 7. 19-Brent Marks[12]; 8. 24D-Danny Sams III[1]; 9. 13-Daison Pursley[8]; 10. 88-Tanner Thorson[21]; 11. 45-Cory Eliason[11]; 12. 18T-Tanner Holmes[16]; 13. 49-Brad Sweet[25]; 14. 21S-Jesse Schlotfeldt[2]; 15. 87-Justin Sanders[14]; 16. 2XM-Max Mittry[10]; 17. 9-Chase Randall[9]; 18. 19JR-Joel Myers Jr[17]; 19. 55XL-Dominic Scelzi[23]; 20. 55-Trey Starks[19]; 21. 7BC-Giovanni Scelzi[26]; 22. 95-Justin Youngquist[15]; 23. 2K-Gauge Garcia[20]; 24. 21L-Landon Brooks[22]; 25. 14-Daryn Pittman[27]; 26. 42-Sye Lynch[28]; 27. 26F-Eric Fisher[24]; 28. 27C-Camden Robustelli[18]
