Grays Harbor Raceway Park
Season Opener May 5th 2001
Shawna Wilskey holds off Tim Levin in traffic and had luck on her side winning the 25 lap 360 Sprint Car Feature Race Saturday Night in Elma, Wa making it her 3rd win in 5 starts this season
Rick Smith Winning the Sprint Car Trophy Dash over Shawna Wilskey at the Grays Harbor Season Opener May 5th
Feature Finish 25 Lap Main 1st #8 Shawna Wilskey($1,000 Win-Lake Stevens), 2nd #10 Tim Levin $ $800(Marysville, Wa), 3rd #3 Eddie Evans $600 from Alaska, 4th #6 Glen Borden Jr $500(driving his dads car), 5th #5 Trev Wilson $450(Chehalis), 6th #20 Randy VanAggten $400(Shelton-Stormy Glick's 2nd car), 7th #97c Ron Reed $370(Montesano), 8th #69 John Tharp $350, 9th #83 Rob Johnson $320(Aberdeen), 10th #21 Dan Dunlap $300(Renton), 11th #2 Ken Brogan(Olympia), 12th #14 Rob McNulty(Mt Vernon), 13th #8H Shawn Hines, 14th #91 No Name?, 15th #49 Marvin Hobson, 16th #7 Steve Walker, 17th #34 Donny Fry (Montesano, motor problems lap 7), 18th #28 Rick Smith (crash lap 3), 19th #Oj Jay Cole(Shelton, crash lap 3), 20th #44 Buddy Messick, 21st #76 Shawn Rice
Race Recap
Heat #1 Winner Shawna Wilskey
Heat #2 Trev Wilson
Heat #3 Jay Cole
5 Lap Dash- # 28 Rick Smith
Feature Highlights
Lap 2- Shawna lapping #49 rookie Marvin Hobson
Lap 3- #28 Rick Smith running in 2nd spins in turn 1 and collects 3rd place Jay Cole in the #OJ taking both cars out for the rest of the race
Lap 7- #34 Donny Fry pulling to the infield just after the flagstand
Lap 10- wilskey leading
Lap 17- Tim Levin going for the lead, tried to sneak to the inside of turn 1 trying to put the move on Shawna Wilskey who was trying to deal with lapped cars 2 and 3 wide but could"nt make the pass this time around
Lap 21- #97 Ron Reed Spins in turn 2 right in front of Wilskey with Shawna diving low to miss the spining car and avoided another obsticle
and she now had 1/4-1/2 lap on Tim Levin and back in 3rd was Eddie Evans and all the way from starting in 17th Trev Wilson to finish 5th
Modified Results
1st #76 Jon Swiglo($500 win), 2nd #47 Glen Vincent, 3rd #14 Craig Moore, 4th #80 Matt Scherer, 5th #52 Leroy Lawhead, 6th #12 Randy Ward, 7th #58 James Wolfard, 8th #40 Keith Crowel, 9th #05 Kevin Beerbower, 10th #81 Steve McDougal, 11th #23 Ron Comfort, 12th #26 Scott Miller, 13th #39 James Jensen(crashed out with a broken steering box)
Hobby Stock Main Event Results
1st #6 Rick Milbourn, 2nd #47 Wes Valentine, 3rd #50 Kris Asche, 4th #9 Jack Parshal, 5th #19 Greg Dineen, 6th #23 Shannon Bemis, 7th #43 Floyd Livingston, 8th #20 Brian Lyons, 9th #55 Wayne Lemmon, 10th #27 Joe Lambert, 11th #17 Allan Craigie, 12th #75 Roy Borgeson, 13th #34 Jason Tole, 14th #8 Ben Mosher, 15th #52 Warren Lemmon, 16th #38 Jamie Belise, 17th #83 Rob Gwerder, 18th #84 Mike McDougal
Rick Smith won the Trophy Dash over Shawna Wilskey and Jay Cole took 3rd in the 5 lap Dash
Jay Cole took won Heat#3 took 3rd in the Sprint Car Dash and in the main event was involved in a accident on lap 3 with Rick Smith taking both cars out for the rest of the event with front end damage to the cars
Trev Wilson Wins the 360 Sprint Car Heat #2 at Grays Harbor Raceway Park Saturday Night May 5th