Jim Edmiston celebrated another first in his racing career Saturday night at Orange Show Speedway.
The 48-year-old Highland resident clinched his third straight JAM Sportswear Pony Stock championship by finishing second to Robby Hornsby in a 35-lap main event.
That means that when the others in the class assemble for their final race of the season on Oct. 3, Edmiston can take the night off if he chooses.
“I’ve never won one this early. I’ve always had to at least start the (final) race before, ” Edmiston said after claiming his fifth Pony Stock title and his sixth track championship overall. He got his first Pony Stock crown in 1996, won that class again in 2005, took Sport Truck honors in 2006, and has dominated the Pony Stock division since 2007.
Since 2005, Edmiston has won 20 of the 55 Pony Stock races and finished in the top three an incredible 46 times. He has five victories and three seconds this season in his Clearwater Pipeline/StickShift Transmissions/Kidd Racing Engines Ford Pinto, and he has finished lower than third just once in the past two years – a fourth on Aug. 9, 2008.
The pipeline foreman has a good memory, too, because every title since 2005 has been won on the final night. But he promised he’d still show up on Oct. 3.
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