By ERIC GAEDE

Special to The Hays Daily News

COLBY -- The Thomas County Speedway season had a late start with the first scheduled races canceled because of rain. This Sunday however the weather was perfect for a great night of racing. Darren Deloach, Bryan LaRiviere, BJ Dauer, and Alex West started the season with wins in their classes. The next races will be Sunday May 31st. See you at the races!

#21 Darren Deloach won a restart plagued main event. It took 3 tries to get the race started but then all 20 laps were ran without a caution. 21m Matt Morris, 37 Jeff Tubbs and 737 Nick Tubbs were all knocked out of contention before the race got started. #42 John Fabrizius made it past six racers to take 2nd and 21b Jason Brees held onto his 3rd place starting spot at the finish. 8x Adam Morris came in 4th and 6c Wheat Lippelmann finished 5th in his second main of the night. There were 18 Modifieds on hand.

#2 Bryan LaRiviere came to Colby for the first time and came away with a win in the Stock Car class. The top 5 racers put on a great show for the fans in the final 5 laps. LaRiviere used a restart to get past #37 Jason Rogers who ended up 3rd after #3 Travis Towns used the bottom of the track to almost get the win but had to settle for 2nd. #8 Ryan Wark came from the back of the pack to grab 4th and just a car length from the win. #95 Randy Tipton was also very close at the finish and ended up 5th. 13 started the main.

The Hobby Stock division also had a first time winner at Colby. #33 BJ Dauer finished his week off with his third win in three days with wins in Hays and Goodland also. #26 Travis Glassman tried to get past Dauer on a couple restarts but had to settle for 2nd. #6m Jason McIntyre dodged a multi car crash and came in 3rd with # 96 Josh Latka in 4th finishing ahead of #3d Jeff Doty in 5th. There were 14 cars in the Hobby Stock class.

The Econo main was a rare race in that there was no cautions. #31 Alex West took the lead early and held on for the win. #07 Joe Austin was 2nd with #37 John Luckert coming in 3rd. #12 Tyrel Smith stayed ahead of #32 Jason Gray for 4th and 5th. Eleven cars were on hand.