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Congrats to Jonathan Allard on his Dirt Cup win in the Williams Motorsports #0 and to Peter Murphy, the former driver of the #0 on his second place run. Wish I could have witnessed this race. Thanks to the www.skagitspeedway.com for the below info.
CUP CHAMPION
Alger, WA 6/22/13 by Kelly Hart
Cementing his place in the record books at Skagit Speedway, Jonathan Allard led all 40 laps in route to his fourth Jim Raper Memorial Dirt Cup title.
With the rained out Thursday night race, the newly rearranged schedule saw Thursday nights race run on Saturday afternoon and the regular scheduled finale Saturday night. This pressed teams into double duty and they responded with two spectacular shows.
Setting the stage for Allard’s record setting victory was the afternoon event where Allard set fast time. Heat race wins went to Sam Hafertepe, Jr., Peter Murphy, Friday night main winner Shane Stewart, Jason Meyers and Roger Crockett. The dry and windy hot afternoon baked the track and caused a delay as the B Main was interrupted twice by starts that saw multiple car incidents and subsequent re-working the track surface. Under those dry conditions Travis Jacobson won the B Main event and along with the other top seven finishers moved onto the feature.
In the afternoon feature, just three stoppages happened, the biggest of which was a lap 24 red flag featuring three cars in turn four. Murphy masterfully negotiated the slickened off track and won the “Thursday Night” feature run on Saturday afternoon by getting past race long leader Austen Wheatley in turn two of the 27th lap and pulled away for the win. Shane Stewart also passed Wheatley who wound up third.
With all the points earned over the first two events the stage was set for Allard’s historic win. Allard started the nighttime portion of the program winning the A Scramble setting him on the pole for the $20,000 to win feature. At the drop of the green flag Allard took off with Murphy in tow. Murphy dogged Allard in both open track and tight traffic not letting him open too wide an advantage. The lone yellow of the race came out for Stewart and Crockett who tangled coming out of turn two while running for third and fourth place. That opened the door for fast charging Rico Abreu. On the restart, Abreu started pestering Murphy for second at late in the event even passed Murphy briefly for second only to give it back when he jumped the cushion in turn four. At the finish Allard had opened up a nice lead with Murphy holding off Abreu for the podium finishers.
Travis Jacobson won the B main event and the B Scramble
I LEARNED ESP FROM MY MOM
"PUT YOUR SWEATER ON: DON'T YOU THINK I KNOW WHEN
YOU'RE COLD?"
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