Eve Of Destruction, NASCAR Racing Set For Coos Bay Speedway

Coos Bay, Oregon...The busy stretch of entertainment at Coos Bay Speedway continues Saturday night with NASCAR Whelen All American Series Sportsman Late Models, Street Stocks, Mini Outlaws, Hornets and Humboldt Motorsports Side By Sides.  Saturday is also Eve of Destruction VIII with American Dare Devil Mr. Dizzy & the Oregon Coast's Best Fireworks.  The Super Late Models are off this week, but purse money was just announced for the July 29th Tidal Wave 50/Les Swafford Classic.  The race will now pay $3,000 to win, $1,000 for second and a minimum $200 to start.  Non NASCAR members must pay a temporary NASCAR license fee of $50 in addition to the $50 entry fee for car and driver.

After his two win weekend last week gave him eight victories for the season, Brody Montgomery managed to shake third ranked Dyllan Siewell off his tail, but the tenacious Wayne Butler is still not far behind him.  Butler has been finishing second to Montgomery most of the time in addition to two feature wins for the two time reigning champion.  Montgomery leads Butler by just 20 points, and it's amazing to consider that if Brody has a bad week after all of the winning he's been doing, Butler can still take the lead.  Last weekend was not kind to 2016 point runnerup Siewell.  He still holds third, 96 points behind the leader, only 38 ahead of the steady Charlie Withers.  Withers continues to plug along in search of his first Top 3 finish of the season.   Deven Brown made his first two starts of the season last weekend and grabbed a second and a third.  Hopefully, we'll see him again this week along with Jeff Krossman, Steve Dubisar and Troy Chamberlain.

Dubisar has been on fire lately in the Street Stocks as he runs two divisions.  However, his late start has pretty much eliminated the five time winner in the championship battle unless point leader and five time winner Justin Krossman misses races.  Ken Fox is comfortably in second in the standings while recent winner Jeff Thurman is third.  These four are likely to be there this week along with Daniel Land, Josh Bearedn and Dustin Hitner.

The busy week shook up the Mini Outlaw point race last week.  After five time winner Rob Lauver's points were adjusted to reflect the fact that he has driven the #52 Beetle all season, Lauver missed last Saturday's races and blew a motor in his Monday visit to Cottage Grove.  This resulted in him falling out of contention.  Dan Daniels also missed a race, giving three time winner and 2015 champion Sam Talon a huge lead over Daniels.  Last week saw three different winners with Ken Fox, John Henry and Jason Kallam.  Kallam had been knocking on the door for a few weeks, and the win put him to within 28 points of Daniels for second.

If you were expecting point leader Ryan Siewell to fade after his DNF at the Modified Gambler, you were wrong.  Siewell dominated last weekend with a pair of victories to maintain his 70 point advantage over second.  Hannah Robison's weekend was a mixed bag.  She ended up losing second in the standings by just six points to the consistent Sam Taylor.  Both of these hard chargers are still in search of their first feature wins of the season.  Reigning champion and two time winner Jeremiah Reiber is still within 28 points of second.  These tough competitors should be there this week along with one time winners Tom Williams and Braden Fugate, Jeremy Beard, April Warmack, Patrick Nagel and Tim Young.

Eve of Destruction VIII will be an exciting night at the track, capped by a thrilling fireworks show.  For further information, go to www.coosbayspeedway.us.