5/25/2014
Cottage Grove Speedway
Jesse Thistle Captures First Career CGS Victory
Jesse Thistle Captures First Career CGS Victory
By Ben Deatherage
(Photo Courtesy of Madman Photography)
Not only were the ASCS-Northwest Region 360 Sprints the only class competing at Cottage Grove Speedway on Saturday May 24th but so was the Northwest Extreme Sprints. A good field of ten drivers signed in on the registration sheets to race for the evening at the historic ¼-mile clay oval.
In the main event the C&H Motorsports/Tangible Real Estate Investments/Carpet & Vinyl Liquidators #3 Zeitler of Dave Hibbard was the early race leader. The Medford driver would set a wicked pace out front but would soon be challenged by Jesse Thistle of Creswell. Thistle would capture the lead on lap four and would despite a handful of cautions would hold on for his second career Sprint Car win but his first at CGS. It was also a complete sweep of the evening’s events for Thistle and the RCV Custom Coach Service/William & Mathis Accounting/Cobalt Computer Services/All Around Printing #4 XXX team.
Dave Hibbard was second followed by the Griffith Family Racing #21 Gambler of Mike Griffith from Fall Creek in third. The rest of the top five would consist of Roseburg’s Dusty Redmond in his Redmond Trucking/Independent Thinning/Whit-Log Trailers #57 Rocket in fourth while fifth was Cottage Grove native Patrick Dills piloting his All Seasons Equipment/Keith Whitaker Trucking/Inside Line Promotions/Jerry Dills Trucking #5D Hurricane.
Race Summary:
Saturday May 24th, 2014
Cottage Grove Speedway
Cottage Grove, Oregon
A Feature: 1. 4-Jesse Thistle; 2. 3-David Hibbard; 3. 21-Mike Griffith; 4. 57-Dusty Redmond; 5. 5D-Patrick Dills; 6. 10K-Don Waddell; 7. 12-Orion Redmond; 8. 78-Daniel McGrew; DNS 70-Raquel Ivie; DNS 75H-Danny Horner
Submitted By: Ben Deatherage