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July 4th Racing Brought New Winners

July 4th was the beginning of a three-day race weekend at Sweetwater Speedway. There was a record 120 entries plus an additional 10 late models for practice. The hot temperatures made for a slick track, but the drivers in all divisions put on a great show.

In the IMCA Sport Mod there were a record 31 entries for the season making drivers battle their way through a B main to make the A main event. It was a great race with Tony Dugan, 2023 Track Champion, coming from a 4th place start to become the feature winner. This was his first feature win this season after having a dominating season last year. In customary fashion he saluted the fans on the the front stretch after his win.
IMCA Sport Mod A Feature Results

1. 5D-Tony Dugan[4]; 2. 28-David Pitt[10]; 3. 55C-Brian Carey[11]; 4. 99H-Nick Hankins[14]; 5. 13C-Camden Wilson[17]; 6. 33J-Josh Pate[3]; 7. 49K-Kade Dimick[12]; 8. 35-Slade Pitt[1]; 9. 397-William Valdez[13]; 10. 5-Verlon Lee[24]; 11. 183-Justin Wright[7]; 12. 31SR-Kenny Parish[2]; 13. 18K-Jay Mathews[18]; 14. 99R-Jeff Ray[19]; 15. 300-Justin Verner[22]; 16. 24X-Shawn Peterson[23]; 17. (DNF) 14S-Traeger Sperry[15]; 18. (DNF) 4V-Scott Verner[9]; 19. (DNF) 88-Cole Marlatt[5]; 20. (DNF) 64A-alek marsing[21]; 21. (DNF) 16C-Kendrick Chapman[20]; 22. (DNF) 31JR-Shawn Parish[8]; 23. (DNF) 20-Larry Kaml[6]; 24. (DNF) 23J-Jacob Vasquez[16]
   IMCA Sport Mod B Feature Results
2. 397-William Valdez[2]; 2. 99H-Nick Hankins[3]; 3. 14S-Traeger Sperry[6]; 4. 23J-Jacob Vasquez[1]; 5. 13C-Camden Wilson[8]; 6. 18K-Jay Mathews[7]; 7. 99R-Jeff Ray[4]; 8. 16C-Kendrick Chapman[9]; 9. 64A-alek marsing[10]; 10. 300-Justin Verner[5]; 11. 24X-Shawn Peterson[11]; 12. 5-Verlon Lee[12]; 13. 17N-Curt Nance[14]; 14. 57-Ron Swanson[15]; 15. 19-Myron Kaml[13]; 16. (DNF) 745-Eric George[16]; 17. (DNF) 18-Joe Gamper[18]; 18. (DNS) B80-Jordan Booth; 19. (DNS) 32T-Tyler Beaman

There were 28 cars starting the field in the IMCA Modified division. Brian Ungaro in the 94u of Green River had a dominating performance meanwhile Trayke Metz in the 21 of Idaho was battled from 9th to the throw a slider on the last corner of the last lap to pass for the win by a margin of victory at .020 seconds. This is the first win for Metz at the Speedway and was probably the the closest race in the modifieds all year.
IMCA Modified A Feature Results

1. 21-Trayke Metz[9]; 2. 94U-Brian Ungaro[2]; 3. 33Y-Bryson Yeager[8]; 4. 2W-Casey Delp[5]; 5. 51-Terrell Payne[7]; 6. 22-Chris Delp[4]; 7. 9M-Cody Malcom[6]; 8. 01H-Michael Hale[13]; 9. 99-Scott Gray[11]; 10. 01C-Lakota Cleveland[16]; 11. 46-Bert Beech[3]; 12. 18-Tucker Hislop[15]; 13. 69-Jim Beaman[14]; 14. 21H-Ed Henderson[19]; 15. 73U-Joe Miller[1]; 16. 65-Greg Sharpe[18]; 17. 29-Jim Shoemaker[27]; 18. 2D-Chuck Delp[23]; 19. 14S-Kelly Smith[28]; 20. 13-Ronnie Roy[24]; 21. 81-Bill Cornwall[25]; 22. 14-Richard ungaro[22]; 23. 50SR-Tony Ross[26]; 24. 57B-Brandon Phillips[21]; 25. (DNF) 33BY-Braxton Yeager[10]; 26. (DNF) 72W-Wyatt Howard[12]; 27. (DNF) 81K-Andrew Kiefer[20]; 28. (DNF) 9R-Anthony Rhoades[17]

In the IMCA Sport Compacts there were 27 entries making drivers transfer through a B Main Event. Ethan Poll and Marc Hammond put on a dominating performance with. Poll of Green River came away with another win for the season.
IMCA Sport Compact A Feature Results

1. 59-Ethan Poll[12]; 2. 2-Marc Hammond[11]; 3. 43-Travis Bott[5]; 4. 86-Jonathon Crawford[6]; 5. 18-cody poll[10]; 6. 3T-Tavian Leonard[9]; 7. 79L-Ernie Licking[18]; 8. 745-Eric George[19]; 9. 26G-Guy Gardner[15]; 10. 22L-kolby licking[7]; 11. 29-Kaleb Clark[14]; 12. 55K-Kaleb Bell[17]; 13. 17N-Harlie Nance[3]; 14. 20K-Lisa Adams[4]; 15. 8-Sam Ogden[16]; 16. 16CC-Jamie Amrine[20]; 17. 15L-Lila Pacheco[21]; 18. 13D-Laurie Davis[23]; 19. 14M-Michael Piazza[24]; 20. 35L-Kathrine Herbin[22]; 21. 21C-McKay Clark[2]; 22. 81-Ashley Warner[13]; 23. 26-Lane Owens[8]; 24. 2V-Jordyn VanAusdle[1]
   IMCA Sport Compact B Feature Results
2. 81-Ashley Warner[6]; 2. 29-Kaleb Clark[4]; 3. 26G-Guy Gardner[8]; 4. 8-Sam Ogden[3]; 5. 55K-Kaleb Bell[14]; 6. 79L-Ernie Licking[1]; 7. 745-Eric George[13]; 8. 16CC-Jamie Amrine[9]; 9. 15L-Lila Pacheco[10]; 10. 35L-Kathrine Herbin[2]; 11. 13D-Laurie Davis[5]; 12. 14M-Michael Piazza[7]; 13. (DNF) 16C-Shane Amrine[12]; 14. (DNS) 53V-Austin Vigil
   IMCA Hobby Stocks joined the track for the weekend.

Payce Herrera, the current IMCA Hobby Stock Rookie Points Leader, had a commanding performance and won the first night out.
Hobby Stock A Feature Results

1. 711-Payce Herrera[1]; 2. 76-Jack Danos[4]; 3. 249-Ryan Dimick[5]; 4. 14X-CJ Thorne[3]; 5. 49W-Glen Johansen[2]; 6. 64Z-Preslie Thorne[7]; 7. 33R-Race Vasquez[6]

The IMCA Stock Cars also joined the field for the weekend of racing brining 10 cars from Utah and Wyoming. Justen Yeager won the event in the 83Y owned by Kevin Wright.
IMCA Stock Car Feature

1. 83Y-Justen Yeager[4]; 2. 23-Brad Ostler[1]; 3. 183-Braxton Yeager[6]; 4. 77-Levi Card[5]; 5. 57-Kyle Young[8]; 6. 88S-Dave Marlatt[9]; 7. 21-Racely Card[7]; 8. (DNF) 12C-Derick Robison[10]; 9. (DNF) 88-Beau Hutchison[3]; 10. (DNF) 3L-Dillon Lawrence[2]

The kids Go-Kart three divisions brought in 17 drivers. They did a great job and had a fun night.
Go Kart - Beginner Feature Results

1. 7-Keegan Bertagnolli[3]; 2. 9-McCoy Puckett[2]; 3. 5-Justice Lee[4]; 4. 24K-Karson Peterson[6]; 5. 8-karter Gann[5]; 6. 2B-Beau Delp[7]; 7. 8K-Urijah pitt[1]
   Go Kart - Intermediate Feature Results
2. 8-Harley Jacobs[5]; 2. 12C-Cooper Wright[1]; 3. 73U-Clay Miller[3]; 4. 94U-weston ungaro[4]; 5. 7-Mia Piazza[6]; 6. (DNF) 28-Tyson Stauffer[2]
   Go Kart - Advanced Feature Results
3. 73U-Cale Miller[2]; 2. 2W-Danica Delp[3]; 3. 89-Michael Dever[1]; 4. (DNF) 14D-Derrick Wilkins[4]

There was also a field of Late Models who joined for practice throughout the night. This gave them the opportunity to tune their cars for the races on Friday and Saturday. Fans also got to witness a spectacular Fireworks Display put on by the City of Rock Springs. All the extra cars and additional main events made for a late night of racing, but it was action packed and kept fans wanting to come back for nights two and three.

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