LEBANON, Ore. — British Columbia’s Robbie Price dominated the 30-lap NARC 410 sprint car feature at Willamette Speedway to score the $5,000 payday and etch his name in tour history as the newest winner on the all-time win list.
He is the fourth different winner in as many nights with the ultra-competitive Fastest Five Days in Motorsports.
“Man, I wanted to win so bad,” an overjoyed Price said in victory lane. “It’s been a tough week, but I just got a great group of guys, and I tortured that thing on the last lap.”
Price shot out to the lead once the race on the initial green and rapidly negotiated the one-third-mile clay oval. Driving the Rob and Lee Leighton-fielded Saratoga Motorsports Park No. 21p Maxim, the leader had to deal with traffic in only six laps.
Each time the frontrunners entered traffic; Price made the right moves. He also nailed a pair of restarts around the midway point of the headliner. Justin Sanders shadowed the leader and attempted several charges to try and find a way around Price, but to no avail. Price secured the win by a 0.479-second margin.
“I knew (Sanders) was going to be there, I could see his guy signaling him, and I tried not to overthink it and just ran my race. It got tight in lapped traffic, but I was going to do my thing and hope for the best, and if I saw him, I was going to search around a little bit. Thankfully, I didn’t see him,” continued Price.
The Mittry Motorsports-owned Farmers Brewing Company No. 2x KPC piloted by Sanders was second.
Australian Jessie Attard successfully and methodically picked off cars in his Supreme Poultry No. 53 XXX to record his first career NARC podium.
NARC point leader Cole Macedo posted a fourth-place result for Tarlton Motorsports. Tyler Thompson earned his second career top-five finish.
The finish:
Feature (30 Laps): 1. 21P-Robbie Price [1]; 2. 2X-Justin Sanders [2]; 3. 53-Jessie Attard [10]; 4. 21-Cole Macedo [5]; 5. 7-Tyler Thompson [3]; 6. 42X-Justyn Cox [11]; 7. 10-Dominic Gorden [7]; 8. 24-Chase Johnson [14]; 9. 121-Caeden Steele [8]; 10. 41-Dominic Scelzi [12]; 11. 29-Bud Kaeding [17]; 12. 18T-Tanner Holmes [4]; 13. 83T-Tanner Carrick [13]; 14. 26-Billy Aton [19]; 15. 2K-Gauge Garcia [15]; 16. 15-Nick Parker [20]; 17. 9T-Camden Robustelli [16]; 18. 96-Greg Hamilton [21]; 19. 5K-Kinzer Cox [9]; 20. 83V-Dylan Bloomfield [6]; 21. 12J-John Clark [18]