6/26/2017
Cottage Grove Speedway
Ethan Dotson Wins CGS Wild West Modified Shootout Feature With Late Race Pass
Ethan Dotson Wins CGS Wild West Modified Shootout Feature With Late Race Pass
By Ben Deatherage
Cottage Grove, Oregon- Cottage Grove Speedway would host the third race of the 2017 Wild West Modified Shootout. Forty-five drivers would pull into the pit area for the 5:00 PM start time race. Entries would come from all over Oregon, California, Nevada, Montana, and Colorado as well as the Canadian province of British Columbia.
Collen Winebarger would pace the field early at the drop of the green flag of the main event. Near the halfway mark he would feel a lot of pressure from challengers only to keep them in check. Several cautions would occur which eliminated the factor of lapped traffic for quite some time.
Winebarger, out of Corbett, would however have a close call with the less than two laps to go. While navigating lapped traffic he would make contact with a slower car and nearly lost the lead before a caution came out for separate incident. Not too long afterwards he would get passed via the inside by Ethan Dotson.
Dotson, from Bakersfield, California, made the maneuver on lap thirty-one and took off after that. The young Central Valley native would build a sizeable interval and won his first career Wild West Modified Shootout feature in only three starts. He would become the seventeenth different driver to have won with the series while he is the fifth Californian to do so.
Collen Winebarger was a respectable second followed by Stayton’s Grey Ferrando in third. Fourth and fifth place went to John Campos, from Keizer, and Springfield chauffeur Jake Mayden. The two consolation features were won by Great Falls, Montana’s Joey Price and Brad Martin of Warren.
Five groups of heat races were ran twice earlier in the program. Winners of the first flight of heats included Danny Lauer, Matthew Drager, Grey Ferrando, Ethan Dotson, and Collen Winebarger. Heat winners in the second set were Randy Brown, Bricen James, Dustin Cady, Ethan Dotson, and Collen Winebarger.
The Wild West Modified Shootout returns to Cottage Grove Speedway on Monday, June 26th with a 6:00 PM start time. Tuesday, the 27th, is reserved for an off day before Wednesday, the 28th, sees the series head to Sunset Speedway Park in Banks. For more information follow the Wild West Modified Shootout on Facebook.
Race Results:
Wild West Modified Shootout Race #3
Sunday, June 25th, 2017
Cottage Grove Speedway
Cottage Grove, Oregon
A Feature: 1. 175-Ethan Dotson, ; 2. S-Collen Winebarger, ; 3. V13-Grey Ferrando, ; 4. 36-John Campos, ; 5. 5M-Jake Mayden, ; 6. 13-Bricen James, ; 7. 24-Curtis Towns, ; 8. 41-Danny Lauer, ; 9. 33C-Craig Hanson, ; 10. 73-Tyler Smith, ; 11. 19-Brad Martin, ; 12. 21A-Matthew Drager, ; 13. 11-Steven Sturdevant, ; 14. 37-Joey Price, ; 15. 1M-Mark Wauge, ; 16. 15P-Ryan Gaylord, ; 17. 7-Dustin Cady, ; 18. W5-Jesse Williamson, ; 19. 16B-Randy Brown, ; 20. 45S-Aaron Sheelar,
B Feature 1: 1. 37-Joey Price, ; 2. 5M-Jake Mayden, ; 3. 84-Eric Ashley, ; 4. 77T-Tripp Gaylord, ; 5. 46-Shane Everson, ; 6. 21-Steve Moore, ; 7. 85-Gene Ashley, ; 8. 27-Robert Jeffers, ; 9. 32-D.J. Shannon, ; 10. 23-Brandon Letsom, ; 11. 31-Manny Freeman, ; (DNS) 27EH-Lawrence O'Connor, ; (DNS) 11W-Wayne Sturdevant, ; (DNS) 23A-Anthony Wahto,
B Feature 2: 1. 19-Brad Martin, ; 2. 45S-Aaron Sheelar, ; 3. 33E-Bob Bloom, ; 4. 44T-Brian Thompson, ; 5. 25-Max Augustine, ; 6. 24H-Kevin Hewitt, ; 7. 33E2-Tony Bloom, ; 8. 2G-James Welshonse, ; 9. 10-Gus Cooper, ; 10. 8KC-Kolby Clay, ; 11. 17E-Tobey Ferrando, ; 12. 34-T.J. Richman, ; (DNS) 8-Wade Taylor, ; (DNS) W7-Kevin Williamson, ; (DNS) 18-Tim Archer, ; (DNS) 44-Greg McDonald,
Heat 1: 1. 41-Danny Lauer, ; 2. 16B-Randy Brown, ; 3. W5-Jesse Williamson, ; 4. 24H-Kevin Hewitt, ; 5. 19-Brad Martin, ; 6. 84-Eric Ashley, ; 7. 85-Gene Ashley, ; 8. 17E-Tobey Ferrando, ; 9. 31-Manny Freeman, ; 10. 10-Gus Cooper,
Heat 2: 1. 21A-Matthew Drager, ; 2. 13-Bricen James, ; 3. 15P-Ryan Gaylord, ; 4. 5M-Jake Mayden, ; 5. 44T-Brian Thompson, ; 6. 45S-Aaron Sheelar, ; 7. 33E2-Tony Bloom, ; 8. 27EH-Lawrence O'Connor, ; (DNS) 44-Greg McDonald,
Heat 3: 1. V13-Grey Ferrando, ; 2. 36-John Campos, ; 3. 7-Dustin Cady, ; 4. 34-T.J. Richman, ; 5. 27-Robert Jeffers, ; 6. 11W-Wayne Sturdevant, ; 7. 33E-Bob Bloom, ; 8. 21-Steve Moore, ; 9. 8KC-Kolby Clay,
Heat 4: 1. 175-Ethan Dotson, ; 2. 1M-Mark Wauge, ; 3. 37-Joey Price, ; 4. 33C-Craig Hanson, ; 5. 2G-James Welshonse, ; 6. 23-Brandon Letsom, ; 7. 18-Tim Archer, ; 8. W7-Kevin Williamson, ; 9. 77T-Tripp Gaylord,
Heat 5: 1. S-Collen Winebarger, ; 2. 24-Curtis Towns, ; 3. 8-Wade Taylor, ; 4. 11-Steven Sturdevant, ; 5. 73-Tyler Smith, ; 6. 32-D.J. Shannon, ; 7. 46-Shane Everson, ; 8. 25-Max Augustine, ; 9. 23A-Anthony Wahto,
Heat 6: 1. 16B-Randy Brown, ; 2. W5-Jesse Williamson, ; 3. 41-Danny Lauer, ; 4. 84-Eric Ashley, ; 5. 19-Brad Martin, ; 6. 24H-Kevin Hewitt, ; 7. 10-Gus Cooper, ; 8. 31-Manny Freeman, ; 9. 17E-Tobey Ferrando, ; 10. 85-Gene Ashley,
Heat 7: 1. 13-Bricen James, ; 2. 21A-Matthew Drager, ; 3. 15P-Ryan Gaylord, ; 4. 44T-Brian Thompson, ; 5. 5M-Jake Mayden, ; 6. 33E2-Tony Bloom, ; 7. 27EH-Lawrence O'Connor, ; (DNS) 44-Greg McDonald, ; (DNS) 45S-Aaron Sheelar,
Heat 8: 1. 7-Dustin Cady, ; 2. 36-John Campos, ; 3. V13-Grey Ferrando, ; 4. 8KC-Kolby Clay, ; 5. 21-Steve Moore, ; 6. 27-Robert Jeffers, ; (DNS) 34-T.J. Richman, ; (DNS) 11W-Wayne Sturdevant, ; (DNS) 33E-Bob Bloom,
Heat 9: 1. 175-Ethan Dotson, ; 2. 1M-Mark Wauge, ; 3. 33C-Craig Hanson, ; 4. 77T-Tripp Gaylord, ; 5. 37-Joey Price, ; 6. W7-Kevin Williamson, ; 7. 2G-James Welshonse, ; (DNS) 18-Tim Archer, ; (DNS) 23-Brandon Letsom,
Heat 10: 1. S-Collen Winebarger, ; 2. 73-Tyler Smith, ; 3. 11-Steven Sturdevant, ; 4. 24-Curtis Towns, ; 5. 32-D.J. Shannon, ; 6. 46-Shane Everson, ; 7. 25-Max Augustine, ; 8. 8-Wade Taylor, ; (DNS) 23A-Anthony Wahto,
Submitted By: Ben Deatherage