ROSEBURG, Ore. — Cole Macedo scored a hard-fought victory in the second round of the Fastest Five Days In Motorsports when the NARC 410 Sprint Car Series invaded the Douglas County Dirt Track.
He took the lead on lap three of the 30-lapper aboard the Tarlton Motorsports Maxim and fought off multi challenges from Justin Sanders to score his third win of season.
When the initial green flag waved, Sanders set the standard for the 23-car field, piloting the Farmers Brewing Company No. 2x KPC. Macedo wasn’t about to let him run away and pestered the leader until he won a drag race down the back chute for the lead.
“When (Justin Sanders) and I race together, being the top two in points, it is going to be a pretty good race,” Macedo said. “There were key points to that race that made it all happen, I knew the bottom wasn’t going to be there for too long so I told my crew chief Drew Warner that I was going to the top and luckily I got there first and my car was absolutely phenomenal.”
Lapped traffic made things interesting and put much pressure on the frontrunners to make the appropriate decisions to get past slower cars. Sanders mounted a late race charge on Macedo and got within three-car lengths before getting hung up behind two back markers which effective slowed his charge.
Macedo held on to score his fourth career NARC victory and his first at the three-tenths-mile clay oval. He earned a $5,000 payday.
Sanders was credited with second and Tanner Holmes rallied late to finish third after starting his Shane DeWald Trucking No. 18t XXX after starting 12th.
Dylan Bloomfield was consistently throughout the contest aboard Vertullo Racing Starr Property Management No. 83v Maxim and scored fourth. Chase Johnson had an impressive 13th to fifth outing to round out the top five in his No. 24 Maxim.
The finish:
Feature (30 Laps): 1. 21-Cole Macedo [3]; 2. 2X-Justin Sanders [1]; 3. 18T-Tanner Holmes [12]; 4. 83V-Dylan Bloomfield [5]; 5. 24-Chase Johnson [13]; 6. 42X-Justyn Cox [10]; 7. 2K-Gauge Garcia [22]; 8. 29-Bud Kaeding [9]; 9. 121-Caeden Steele [11]; 10. 1-Bailey Hibbard [17]; 11. 83T-Tanner Carrick [4]; 12. 02-Ashton Torgerson [16]; 13. 53-Jesse Attard [14]; 14. 9T-Camden Robustelli [19]; 15. 15-Nick Parker [18]; 16. 5K-Kinzer Cox [15]; 17. 26-Billy Aton [21]; 18. 12J-John Clark [20]; 19. 10-Dominic Gorden [7]; 20. 21P-Robbie Price [6]; 21. 7-Tyler Thompson [8]; 22. 41-Dominic Scelzi [2]; 23. 75-Brian Boswell [23]
