William Sawalich survived a scary late-race restart and held on to win Friday’s ARCA West race at Portland International Raceway.
Sawalich, who competes in ARCA and NASCAR for Joe Gibbs Racing, grabbed the lead from Xfinity Series driver Brandon Jones just before the halfway break and led every lap in the second half. Sawalich and Jones both got a scare late in the race. Eric Johnson Jr. ran off the track in Turn 12 and hit the tire barrier which brought out a caution that set up a restart with seven laps remaining.
The 17-year-old Sawalich now has a pair of ARCA West wins, five in ARCA East and five wins in the national ARCA Menards Series. “We definitely worked on our road course program in the offseason. I worked on myself because I wasn’t that good last year,” Sawalich said. “We put in the work and got the win here so that feels really good. “That gives me a lot of confidence going into Sonoma that we’re going to be really good there. We’ll test out the new repave and see how it goes.
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