Photo Credit: Ashley McCubbin
As part of the Inside Track Short Track Night of Champions presented by Stoneridge Insurance, Sunset Speedway Mini Stock Champion Doug Butler was honored for his accomplishments.
Butler would return to Sunset Speedway this season and found his way back to the top, scoring the 2015 Graham Landscape Mini Stock Championship.
“The field was stacked,” he admits. “But I was up for the challenge. I wasn’t necessarily going to run the full season – I was helping my dad and my girlfriend with their season, but I decided to go for it since I was there anyway. The last couple of weeks – tweaked it a little and found a bit of speed in the car, and pulled it off.”
He didn’t win the most features of his competitors, but he was simply able to avoid trouble. While other competitors suffered a couple poor finishes whether due to mechanical issues, flat tires or wrecks, Butler was clean as a whistle each week. Starting from May to the season finale last weekend, Butler finished each of the features in the top-six, including a feature victory on August 1.
Notably, throughout the whole season, Butler had only one finish outside of the top-five.
Going into this year, Butler admits that he’s not 100% sure as to what his plans are, but knows “for certain going to go for a full-time playoff schedule”.
