This award has
been put in place to recognize outstanding achievements or accomplishment
throughout the past season.
The
first “Outstanding Achievement” Award goes to the youngest member of our
award winners tonight. And when we
say you we do mean young. He made
his career debut on May 12, but mechanical problems forced him to be a spectator
for the feature that night. One
week later he made his first feature start and raced home to a respectable sixth
place finish. More mechanical woes
kept him from finishing the next three events.
As
the summer progressed he got more comfortable behind the wheel and actually led
some laps in the features. On
August 11 he took his first checkered flag by winning his heat race and backed
that up one week later with a second straight heat race win.
Later on during the night of August 18, history was made at Mercer
Raceway Park. Dillon Barr became
the youngest driver in the 57-year history of Mercer Raceway Park to win a
feature two years removed from receiving his driver’s license at the age of
14.
Barr
started third that night and took the lead on the opening lap and never looked
back racing his #15 Mini Stock to the checkered flag first topping one of the
season’s biggest fields to date at 16 cars.
Barr came back the next two weeks to finish a strong third and fifth,
which was able to move him into the top 10 in points.
The
Volant driver’s family has been longtime supporters of Mercer as his grandpa
Ed Hallstein was a former racer and his uncle Steve Barr still races his
modified. Now we expect to be
hearing a lot more from the youngest of the Barr family.
Dillon
please come forward to receive your Outstanding Achievement Award.