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First-ever marriage proposal at Black Creek racetrack

The biggest crowd of the season Saturday at Saratoga Speedway saw a full size limo jump, a hard hitting Crash to Pass boat race, 15 car races and the first-ever speedway marriage proposal.
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The biggest crowd of the season Saturday at Saratoga Speedway saw a full size limo jump, a hard hitting Crash to Pass boat race, 15 car races and the first-ever speedway marriage proposal.

Josh Beckell, aka The Crusher, performed his second car jump of the season by jumping a full size limo into a stack of cars. It was the first time in his nine years of car jumping he jumped a Limo.

The second feature of the night was the season’s last Crash to Pass boat race, which featured a hard crash on the first lap knocking out two of the 11 cars. After all the boats were destroyed, Crash to Pass point leader Mike Jenkins ended up the winner by having the most boat remaining, which ended up as five feet of fiber class.

The Marine Harvest sponsored night of racing began with the marriage proposal before the national anthem — and she said yes.

In Crash to Pass, Chris Campbell picked up the heat race win while defending point champion Sheldon Hopp returned for the first time in 2017. He collected the main event win in Cam Edwards’ car, which was later involved in the first lap hard crash in the boat race. In Road Runner racing, defending point champion Ryan Guest continued his second half of season push as he took a clean sweep of the night’s races. In so doing, he improved his overall lead to 48 points in the season race. In Mad Max racing, point leader Dannielle Antonik improved her total by winning the heat while Brad Dimitrov won his first main of the season in his fourth different car. A full field of Hornets were on hand with race wins in the B class going to Josh Taks, Daniel Morrissey, Stephanie Addison and James Laidlaw in the heats, while main event wins went to Kyle Leouzio in the B and Addison in the A. In Hornet A racing, heat wins went to Darren Monk and Nigel Neufeld in his third different car this season while the A main had a last lap pass for the win for Micheal White, who passed sister Ashley for the win.

This Saturday is the last visit by the Wilroc Sprint cars along with the IMCA Modifiedes and the Dwarf cars.

Wednesday night practices return this Wednesday and will be held every week until the end of the season.