STOCKTON, Calif. — Caden Sarale, winner of three of the last four Turkey Bowls at Delta Speedway, won Friday night’s preliminary for Super 600 in a thrilling feature battle with fellow track champion Nikko Panella. Sarale was one of four Micro Sprint winners during Turkey Bowl XXIV opening night presented by East Bay Tire.
84 Micro Sprints checked into the one-seventh-mile dirt oval at the San Joaquin County Fairgrounds, with the speedway’s season presented by Valley Strong Credit Union.
Izaak “Speed” Sharp led the qualifying for the Super 600 winged division. This year’s champion Austin Wood was unable to finish his heat race, relegated to emerging from the 12-lap B-Main to make the 30-lap feature.
Wood ended up being a DNS for the A-Feature in a frustrating night for the Super and Non-Wing track champion.
The Super 600 race kicked off with 2022 double track champion Panella driving underneath Austin Torgerson to lead lap one. Panella led the field into lapped traffic a few laps later. Tucker Lacaze slipped from his third starting position back to seventh. Fourth-starting Sarale drove up into second on lap nine ahead of Torgerson. A two-by-two battle developed for third before a caution on lap 17 for Keaton Mantella stopped in turn one.
On the restart, Jett Yantis worked to the outside of Sharp for the fourth position. Sharp battled back to set up a back-and-forth duel.
Sarale hounded Panella for the top spot as the leaders again found lapped traffic. Sarale knifed inside of Panella exiting turn four to lead lap 29. Sarale led the final circuit for the narrow opening night win worth $500, followed by Panella, Torgerson, Sharp and Yantis.
Other Results
Panella redeemed himself with an outstanding Non-Wing victory worth $500. Champion Wood was unable to compete in the Non-Wing competition after an engine failure in hot laps. Yantis blitzed to fast-time over the 31-car field.
TK O’Brien claimed his first Delta Speedway Restricted win of the season in a thriller.
Haven Sherman won the 20-lap Jr. Sprints main event for her third triumph of the season.
Feature Finish (30 Laps)
1. 24-Caden Sarale[4]; 2. 73-Nikko Panella[1]; 3. 88-Austin Torgerson[2]; 4. 24S-Izaak Sharp[6]; 5. 4-Jett Yantis[5]; 6. 19-Nate Matherly[8]; 7. 12-Alex Panella[7]; 8. 19X-Tucker LaCaze[3]; 9. 84-Deegan Irey[9]; 10. 5-Mattix Salmon[11]; 11. 11-Vincent Duggan[10]; 12. 21-Raio Salmon[14]; 13. 32A-Colton Huelsmann[13]; 14. 33-Andrew Smith[20]; 15. 55J-Jayden Huppert[15]; 16. 10R-Rylee Whitehouse[18]; 17. 77K-Kyle Fernandez[17]; 18. (DNF) 9-Adrianna DeMartini[12]; 19. (DNF) 11M-Keaton Mantella[16]; 20. (DNS) 2-Austin Wood