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Good job done by Willie Croft for finishing 4th tonight at the Skagit Speedway on opening night of the 360 Nationals. Sounded like he had the lead for a moment, before crossing the line 4th at the checkered. Thanks once again to AK for the updates.

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ENGBERG WINS NIGHT ONE OF 360 NATIONALS

(Alger, WA) 8/1/08 by Kelly Hart

When the night was done, the final main event of the evening saw Burlington, WA driver Nick Engberg in winners circle at the end of the 30-lap main. Point standings have Engberg in the top six, with Travis Rutz, Seth Bergman, Cory Chamberlain, Danny Kirkpatrick and Rick Fauver. They will scramble for the first three row starting positions in Saturday nights feature event during the Bob's Burgers and Brew 360 Nationals.

At the drop of the green flag, Josh DeWitt flew to a nice advantage over the field with Willie Croft and Engberg in tow. The first caution flew on lap 2 with a few cars collected up in turn 3. On the restart DeWitt again took off this time opening a nice advantage over the field. A great battle was ensuing back in sixth and seventh place between Danielle Huson and Travis Rutz in the 9^th thru 11^th laps. On the thirteenth lap the yellow flag came out for Colton Heath and Cameron Smith coming off turn two. Disaster befell the leader as his header and muffler came off causing a mechanical black flag and sending him to the work area. That handed the lead to Croft.

Croft led the 14^th lap before Engberg flew under Croft and took over the lead. The yellow came out again on lap 17 for Dirt Cup champion Jayme Barnes flat left rear tire. Another yellow flew on lap 19 when Jason Bloodgood went sour in turn four. Once again with Engberg comfortably out front, all eyes were on another great battle between Huson and Rutz. Danny Kirkpatrick had passed Croft for second and was comfortably in front of Huson and Rutz. As Rutz finally got past Huson for 3^rd, Huson lost a motor on the front stretch bringing out the final caution at the 27^th lap. On the restart it was Engberg, Kirkpatrick and Rutz where they would finish the main event.

The B Main top 5 cars making the A Main via their top 5 transfer were Barnes, Jeff Hodgson, Derek Holmwood, Seth Bergman and Mitch Olson. The C Main transfer cars into the B Main Michael Harris, Mack Brown, Steve James, Randy Pierce, and Dan Dunlap. Heat race winners earlier in the night went to Alan Munn, Engberg, Huson, Fauver and Kirkpatrick. Setting fast time was Hodgson with a 12.222 second lap around the 3/10^th mile clay oval.

Tonights show will feature a 6 car, six lap scramble race for the top three rows of the C, B and A Main events. Also the C, B and A Mains will be run. There will be exhibition races with the Deming 1200 Mini Sprints and the Ford Focus Midgets.

RESULTS 8/1/08

Fast time: v8 Jeff Hodgson 12.222

Heat 1: 42 Alan Munn, 38 Jason Bloodgood, 943 Robby Vaughn, v8 Hodgson, 69 John Tharp

Heat 2: 4e Nick Engberg, 7o Colton Heath, 18 Steve Kilcup, 23 Seth Bergman, 98m Mitch Olson

Heat 3: 73 Danielle Huson, 69p Cory Chamberlain, 77 Mike Sather, 76 Shawn Rice, 12p Randy Pierce

Heat 4: F1 Rick Fauver, 5d Josh DeWitt, 5k Brian Kirkpatrick, 9j JJ Dishneau, 33 Derek Holmwood

Heat 5: 7k Danny Kirkpatrick, 26 Travis Rutz, 29c Willie Croft, 66c Jason Cocking, 19 Greg Sandquist

C Main: 44h Michael Harris, 96x Mack Brown, 29w Steve James, 12p Randy Pierce, 15d Dan Dunlap, 33r Bill Rude, 15g Brad Groves, 07x Ted Elfving, 15p Steve Parker, 16n Nick Tomlinson, 57 Bud Ashe, 77r Mark Richmond, 51 Jon Farrell, 3c Daniel Cernich, 45 Jeffrey Rivers, 30 Matt Vandersys, 6k Kyle Oman

B Main: 9 Jayme Barnes, v8 Hodgson, 33 Derek Holmwood, 23 Bergman, 98m Olson, 66c Cocking, 16x Andy Gregg, 22 Travis Jacobson, 76 Shawn Rice, 96x Brown, 12p Pierce, 44h Harris, 25c Chad Groves, 33v Henry Van Dam, 15d Dunlap, 29w Steve James, 19 Greg Sandquist, 69 Tharp, 9j JJ Dishneau

A Main: 4e Nick Engberg, 7k D. Kirkpatrick, 26 Rutz, 29c Croft, F1 Fauver, 69p Chamberlain, 9 Barnes, 23 Bergman, 18 Kilcup, 77 Sather, 98m Olson, 5d DeWitt, v8 Hodgson, 42 Munn, 73 Huson, 38 Bloodgood, 943 Vaughn, 7o Heath, 33 Holmwood, 5k B. Kirkpatrick

Brian 

"TURN AROUND; MATE !"

Brian 

"TURN AROUND; MATE !"