PLYMOUTH, Wis. — It was Remembering Randy Tracy Night at Plymouth Dirt Track on Saturday.
A former sprint car driver, family and friends raised over $,6000 to be added to the sprint purse in memory of Randy.
Normally a $700 to win, $175 to start purse, the winged 360 sprints had an added $442 for 1st, $342 for second, $242 for third through sixth, and $142 for every other sprint car on hand. Randy Tracy had raced the No. 42.
The 36-car field of sprints ran a quartet of draw heats using passing/finishing points to determine the top 16 to become A main transfers.
Josh Walter had the pole spot after the top eight in points were inverted. He jumped to the lead using the cushion around the racy track and his lead was erased with a lap 12 yellow, the only slowdown the entire 30 laps.
With 19 laps going nonstop traffic came into play, working for Travis Arenz when he took second with an outside pass on lap 26. Arenz closed quickly on Walter, nearly taking the lead on a 29th lap low into turn-one effort.
A final lap showdown was looming but Walter got a strong run out of turn two and squeezed beneath a lapped car on the bottom of turn four to keep Arenz in second at the checkers.
Ben Schmidt, Will Gerrits and point leader Kurt Davis competed the top five. Walter’s win paid $1,142 as part of the Remembering Randy Tracy bonus.
In other divisions, Taylor Scheffler used traffic to make his winning pass in a nonstop late model main and J.J. Pagel captured the Grand National finale. Jeff Steenbergen raced a borrowed car to win the B mod main.
Ninety cars were in the pit area with Lake Michigan cooling the air making for a very pleasant evening.