The Northwest Sprint Tour made it’s second appearance at Agassiz Speedway July 26th for the track’s Winged Sprint Car Weekend. The largest crowd in the track’s 55-year history watched Jeff Montgomery set a new Agassiz Speedway track record, turning in a sizzling 11.226 second lap which bested Aaron Willison’s previous mark of 11.294.
Ryan Willison and Sawyer Lind would take out heat race wins heading into the 40 lap main event, with Ron Larson and Tom Weston starting on the front row. Ron Larson would jump out to an early race lead before the yellow would come out on lap two for an incident involving James Miller, Tom Weston and Aaron Willison, which resulted in the 14 car hitting the turn four wall hard.
On the ensuing restart Brad Aumen would take the outside of the front row and managed to out drag Larson heading into two three to emerge as the new race leader following the yellow. The 44B pulled out to nearly a half-lap advantage, with the second yellow of the night coming out on lap 27 for Stewart Lee, who spun while running fourth.
Aumen once again got the jump on the restart, but only after surviving an incident with Jeff Montgomery where the two drivers touched wheels, sending Montgomery around and to the tail of the field.
For the rest of the way it was all Aumen once again, with the Chemainus, British Columbia based racer bringing home his second career Northwest Sprint Tour main event win. Larson, James Miller, Stewart Lee and Sawyer Lind rounding out the top five.
The next stop for the Northwest Sprint Tour is Aug. 2nd at Evergreen Speedway for the $10,000-to-win, $1,000-to-start Granite Cup.