It was a night of repeats at ASA Sanctioned Placerville Speedway Saturday night. A streamlined program that allowed for the annual Kids Night festivities presented in part by Strauss Food Service and Golden Spoke Bike Shop brought three very familiar faces to victory lane.
In the Sprint Car feature event, Andy Forsberg of Auburn drove to his fifth Red Hawk Casino Championship win of the season. Division point leaders Tom Tilford of Citrus Heights and Jerry Bartlett of Yuba City continued their winning ways in the stock car classes. Tilford posted his seventh win of the year in the Pure Stock class while Bartlett did the same in the Limited Late model feature.
In the Pure Stock division, Tilford continued his recent win streak Saturday night. It was his seventh victory of the season and his 29th career win. His is confirmed this winningest Pure Stock driver at Placerville Speedway, surpassing Marek Bernert’s previous total of 22 wins. Bernert now supports Tilford with assistance in the pit area as well as sponsorship through NorCal Fleet Care.
“It’s funny,” said Tilford in Carl’s Junior victory lane. “I use to boo him back then. Now I couldn’t be doing this without him. There are a lot of people that work hard to keep me out here every week. Last week we bent a leaf spring, I had to work a lot and all of a sudden there were all sorts of people at the shop to help get the car ready. I’m ready to come back here these next two nights and win a second championship.”
Tilford started the event in the fourth position and took the lead from Kris Wirth of Pollock Pines on the seventh lap. Once in front he was soon joined by Heather Bartlett of Chico. Bartlett is Tilford rival in the run for the 2009 Red Hawk Casino Championship. Bartlett closed in on Tilford on several occasions. It was apparent that the sight of Bartlett’s bright pink front fender motivated Tilford to drive even faster as he continually powered ahead all the way to the checkered flag where he was followed by Bartlett, Wirth, Eddie Gardner of Sacramento and John Durrett of Pollock Pines who was the McDonald’s HardCharger of the race, gaining eight positions.
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