ALGER, Wash. — There aren’t sufficient superlatives within the English dictionary to explain Rico Abreu’s efficiency at Skagit Speedway this weekend.
The 33-year-old native of St. Helena, California leaves the 2025 Skagit Nationals with out a blemish on his outcomes — successful Thursday from seventh, successful Friday from seventh, and successful Saturday from third — for a whole weekend sweep value $156,000.
Every night time, the No. 24 group needed to work for it and Saturday’s 40-lap finale was no completely different. Actually, his Lap-33 slider on Justin Peck was the newest he charged to the lead all weekend lengthy.
Falling way back to 4th within the early operating, Abreu slowly however absolutely picked his means by Tyler Thompson after which Daison Pursley earlier than chasing Peck’s Rudeen Racing No. 26 into lap site visitors down the ultimate stretch.
As soon as he made the successful transfer into flip one, Rico by no means appeared again and managed the again markers to perfection as he crossed the checkered flag with a 0.900-second margin of victory.
Rico’s ninth journey to Whiskey Myers Victory Lane this 12 months places him at 16 general wins, one of many highest marks in all of dash automotive racing. His twenty first profession win with Kubota Excessive Restrict Racing – within the one centesimal occasion for the sequence — marked the single-richest payday of his profession at $126,000.
After main the opening 32 laps, a disillusioned however still-impressive Justin Peck held on for runner-up honors within the Rudeen Racing, Ford Efficiency, Rayce Rudeen Basis No. 26. His reward for such a efficiency on the residence monitor for his automotive house owners Kevin & Monika Rudeen was a $40,000 second-place verify.
Saving for his first-career Kubota Excessive Restrict Racing podium for Saturday night time, Daison Pursley made his first one a giant one.
The Oklahoma pilot of the Buch Motorsports No. 13 labored by Tyler Thompson on Lap 38/40 and cashed a $26,000 payday for his third-place run.
Thompson completed in fourth-place with $15,000 in earnings, whereas Justin Sanders took the Ridge & Sons Racing No. 87 to a fifth-place consequence value $10,000.
For the primary time in his profession, Abreu leads the Kubota Excessive Restrict Racing championship. All of the extra spectacular when you think about the truth that this group was 71-points again leaving Placerville, solely 4 level races in the past. The highest-five stays hotly contested with 5 groups inside 100 factors for the title.
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Function (40 Laps): 1. 24-Rico Abreu[3]; 2. 26-Justin Peck[1]; 3. 13-Daison Pursley[2]; 4. 13L-Tyler Thompson[4]; 5. 87-Justin Sanders[6]; 6. 19-Brent Marks[11]; 7. 88-Tanner Thorson[5]; 8. 18-Jason Solwold[8]; 9. 45-Cory Eliason[7]; 10. 1C-Colton Heath[15]; 11. 7BC-Giovanni Scelzi[10]; 12. 55-Trey Starks[22]; 13. 42-Sye Lynch[19]; 14. 21S-Jesse Schlotfeldt[21]; 15. 9-Chase Randall[18]; 16. 19JR-Joel Myers Jr[14]; 17. 5-Brenham Crouch[9]; 18. 14-Daryn Pittman[17]; 19. 49-Brad Candy[16]; 20. 55XL-Dominic Scelzi[20]; 21. 24D-Danny Sams III[12]; 22. 18T-Tanner Holmes[13]; 23. 2XM-Max Mittry[23]; 24. 21P-Robbie Value[24]
