Schultz Looks For Turnaround On Oval
Rick Schultz won’t find much sympathy among his competition for all the bad luck he seems to be having while competing in the 1995 NASCAR Northwest Tour. Little things like flat tires and untimely fenderbenders have kept Schultz from accomplishing his preseason goal of winning the series championship.
So instead of having, perhaps, two victories that appeared in his grasp in the 12 races to date, Schultz has none. Currently in seventh place in points, Schultz tries to correct that Saturday night at Wenatchee Valley Raceway in the Dusty Burger 125.
A month ago at Portland International Raceway in the series’ first road race, Schultz was among the leaders, up to fourth, in fact, when he got involved in a late-race wreck that dropped him to sixth.
The season has been frustrating for Schultz, who competed in a handful of ‘Tour races last year, and had high hopes of doing well.
The Wenatchee race is followed July 30 by the Western 250 at Monroe’s Evergreen Speedway.
It’ll be a short week of preparation for the series’ longest race and biggest payout, but then maybe it will be that much less time for more to go wrong.
Northport returns on Saturdays
Northport International Raceway ends a three-week layoff Saturday night when the dirt track presents the Mission Distributors Dirt Cup.
The track will run all three regular classes - Modifieds, Superstocks and Volkswagens - beginning with racing starting promptly at 4.
A boat out of water
The Spokane-based U-19 Appian Renegade unlimited hydroplane will be on display at a variety of area businesses in the next few days, prior to its debut in next weekend’s Columbia Cup at Tri Cities. Friday, the boat will be at Spokane Propeller, N5625 Freya; Saturday, the boat moves to the Spokane Valley at All-Sport Polaris on Sprague, East of Sullivan from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. and at the Chevron Food Center at Sullivan and Mission from 2-6 p.m.; Monday the boat will be on display outside its Spokane shop at Macklin Welding at E15722 Sprague.
Pit stops
Spokane Raceway Park returns to its normal weekly bracket drag racing Saturday night with time trials beginning at 4:30. Stock car racing is also back on the half-mile after taking the week off for the annual Fox Hunt. Qualifying begins at 5:30… . Sunday, SRP will host the third Dukes Auto Club Nostalgia Drags, featuring old-fashioned heads-up racing for cars from 1968 and before. Sunday racing begins with time trials at 10:30.
The Mini-Indy’s return to Stateline Speedway on Saturday night. The scaled-down open-wheelers will team with Street Stocks, Hobby Cars and Sportsman in a program that begins at 6 p.m… . Todd Hoerner survived the longest in last weekend’s NHRA Division Six points race in Seattle, making it to round five in the 68 car field of Super Gas before red-lighting. Hoerner and a handful of other drag racers take this weekend off before heading south to an NHRA national event in Sonoma, Calif. next weekend.
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