Staff
Sometimes, the most significant parts of life can pass by without truly appreciating what they mean at the time.
Local stock car fans therefore should make the effort to savour every moment of what is turning out to be quite possibly the greatest single-season performance in Borderland Racing Association history.
Jamie Davis raised an already sky-high bar even higher Saturday night as he yet again captured the checkered flag in both the WISSOTA Modifieds and Midwest Modifieds feature races at the Emo Speedway.
That makes it four times over the past five nights of racing that Davis has won both features–something reportedly done just once before this season ever–not surprisingly, by the current Fort Frances resident himself.
The victory in the Midwest Mods was his seventh of the season in that division and the fifth-straight feature triumph in that class, with May 27 being the last time he didn’t win (the biggest reason being he wasn’t competing that night).
Davis won a 17-car final Saturday night that saw six drivers not make it to the finish line.
Don Scholler (International Falls) was second while Davis’ brother, Jeff, of Devlin took third.
Defending division champ Cody Ossachuk (Pinewood) was fifth, which barely was enough to hold onto the division lead with 449 points–just one up on Davis in second.
James Lambert of Fort Frances sits in third (407).
In the Modifieds feature, it was the Davis siblings battling it out at the front of the pack, with Jamie able to keep Jeff at bay for his fifth feature win of the campaign in that division.
Jeff Davis finished second, followed by Brady Caul of Fort Frances in third.
With the win, Davis moved closer to the Modifieds points lead, increasing his season mark to 411 to sit third behind Emo’s Brody Strachan (440) and Matt DePiero of Fort Frances (416).
Both those drivers were part of a four-car group that didn’t finish the 12-team feature.
In the Street Stocks division, Jake Froemke survived a trouble-filled 11-car final to earn his first feature win of the season.
Just five cars crossed the finish line as the other six fell by the wayside.
Division leader Kevin Desserre (Dryden) wound up second and moved past Tylar Wilson of Fort Frances for the division lead by four points (345-341) after Wilson failed to finish the race.
Raice Westover (Fort Frances) was third in the feature while Froemke is now third in the points race (283).
Action resumes this Saturday, with hot laps at 7 p.m. and the first race at 7:30 (weather permitting).
