Riehl Wins ASA NW Tour at Stateline

by Scott Ellsworth, ASA NWT Media

Post Falls, ID - Brandon Riehl (Boring, OR) won an ASA Northwest Tour event for the second time in 2007. Both wins have been at Stateline Speedway in Post Falls, Idaho. At the end of the Access Road Solutions 150 BJ Tidrick (Yakima, WA) finished second and strengthened his hold on the 2007 points championship. Part time Tour racer Mike Longton (Moxee, WA) finished third.

As Riehl climbed out of the car he said, “I like this track. It feels like a home track as does Yakima Speedway. Last nights second place in the INSSA race helped me a lot.”

Tidrick’s comments after the race were, “We were crap and I wanted to win but second will have to do.” When asked if the championship was the important thing at this time he stated, “No I want to win. I know my Dad does not want me to say this but I want to go for the win at Yakima. I won the last Tour race in 2006 at Yakima Speedway.”

“I felt we had a good car at the beginning but I did not get a good start and ended playing catch up the rest of the night,” said Longton.

The highest finishing local driver was the 2007 INSSA point leader Dave Garber (Spokane, WA).

Riehl took the lead on lap 31 of the 150 and was pulling away at the end. Second in points at the beginning of the night Kelly Tanner (Auburn, WA) got into the back of Dan Garber (Spokane, WA) in traffic and with the ensuing long stop finished tenth and slipped from 1-point back to 37-points in third. A not so good night for Jay Sauls (Puyallup, WA) moved him from third to second in points 32 back of Tidrick.

Next up for the ASA Aero Exhaust Northwest Tour is the 150-lap season finale at Yakima Speedway on Sunday, September 2, 2007. A large field of competitors are expected to help end the turn around year for the 23-year old Northwest Tour.

Official Results:

ASA Aero Exhaust Northwest Tour

Stateline Speedway - August 25, 2007

Access Road Solutions 150:

Fast Time: BJ Tidrick :13.883

 

Pos                  Driver Name
Laps Complete   Reason Out

1                      Brandon Riehl
150

2                      BJ Tidrick
150

3                      Mike Longton
150

4                      Travis Bennett
149

5                      Dave Garber
149

6                      Jay Sauls
149

7                      Andy Brown
149

8                      Matt Hall
147

9                      Kevin Richards
146

10                    Kelly Tanner
99

11                    Kevin Moland
82                        Electrical

12                    Jeff Ford
75                        Rear End

13                    Dan Garber
71                        Motor

14                    Tony Berry
62                        Motor