William Garner won the Medieval USRA Stock Car main event.

William Garner broke through for his first Lucas Oil Speedway O'Reilly Auto Parts Medieval USRA Stock Car feature win of the season Saturday night.

Garner, of Lebanon, grabbed the lead with a huge opening lap and paced all 25 circuits to earn the $750 victory.

Other feature winners on Ozarks Food Harvest Food Drive Night presented by OzarksFirst.com were Terry Kirk (Cedar Creek Beef Jerky USRA Modifieds) and Dayton Pursley (Ozark Golf Cars USRA B-Mods).

Garner soared from sixth to first on the opening lap. As cars in front of him shuffled out of turn two, Garner shot through a gap in the middle to pick up five positions in a hurry.

By lap five, Garner had a 1.3-second lead over Ellis with season points leader Mason Beck in third. Beck passed Ellis the next time around and set his sights on Garner.

Garner’s lead held steady to just under two seconds until a caution on lap 12 wiped out that gap. Beck lost a position after the restart to Ellis as Garner led the way by five car lengths.

As Beck regained second by lap 18, Garner’s lead was 1.5 seconds. He cruised from there to earn his first feature win of the season at Lucas Oil Speedway, beating Beck by 2.1 seconds.

"I was just trying to hit my marks each lap," Garner said. "I thought I gave it up a couple of times, but I think we're finally working with something. We've been struggling the last couple of weeks and we finally have something to work with."

Garner posted his ninth top-five finish of the season as he began the night 82 points behind Beck.

Ellis came home in third, with Waylon Dimmitt fourth and Johnny Fennewald fifth after starting 10th.

Kirk goes wire-to-wire in USRA Modifieds: Terry Kirk of Urbana started up front and wired the field, leading all 20 laps to outdistance season points leader Ryan Middaugh for the Cedar Creek Beef Jerky USRA Modified victory.

Kirk, with his first win in four years at Lucas Oil Speedway, finished 2.8 seconds in front of Middaugh in a caution-free event.

While his son Colson Kirk won at Lucas Oil Speedway a month ago in a USRA B-Mod, this was Terry's first trip to victory lane in a long while.

"It's the first time I've won one here in 10 or 15 years," Terry Kirk said. "It's been a long time since I won a race and I'm glad to do it."

Middaugh advanced from fifth to second in just two laps, but trailed Kirk by 1.3 seconds. Kirk added on to his margin over the next few laps, with a 2.3 lead by lap seven and 2.6 by the midpoint.

With the racing clicking along without any cautions, Kirk kept pouring it on from there to win by a comfortable margin.

Jason Pursley finished third with Shad Badder fourth and Tracy Wolf in fifth.

Young Pursley earns B-Mod triumph: Second-generation driver Dayton Pursley of Hermitage out-dueled veteran JC Morton and went on to capture his first feature win in the Ozark Golf Cars USRA B-Mods.

The son of long-time local USRA Modified competitor Jason Pursley lead 18 of the 20 laps to earn the memorable triumph, beating Morton by 1.7 seconds after a terrific early-race duel.

"First off, I want to thank the good Lord above for getting me here in the first place," Pursley said in victory lane. "Second, I want to thank my dad, my mom and my girlfriend. Just this Lucas Oil facility, everything is top notch. I don't even know" what to say.

Pursley led the way through the opening lap, but Morton took to the high side to grab the top spot on lap two. Then it was Pursley’s return to re-take the top spot on lap four.

Over the next few laps, those two front-row starters waged a side-by-side battle with Pursley riding the low groove and holding off the cushion-riding Morton with Bobby Williams a second behind in third.

Pursley’s lead was one second and steadily increasing at the midway point. Pursley’s main issue from there was picking his way through lapped traffic, which he was able to do and he wound up 1.7 seconds clear of Morton.

Williams hung on for third with Cody Brill fourth and Jon Sheets finishing fifth.

Drag boats and dirt track action next weekend: Next weekend finds two forms of racing at Lucas Oil Speedway, with Round 13 of the Big Adventure RV Weekly Racing Series on Saturday night. It will be Fan Appreciation night with food and drink specials including $1 nachos & cheese, $2 hot dogs and $2 soft drinks or water.

The Cedar Creek Beef Jerky USRA Modifieds will be the featured division, with a 25-lap, $1,000-to-win main event. Meanwhle, the Show Me Vintage Racing Club Cars will be on hand as our guest class and will be displaying their cars on the midway prior to the event.

Next door the Kentucky Drag Boat Association returns for KDBA Show-Me Shootout on Lake Lucas, with action on Saturday and Sunday. All fans purchasing Saturday drag boat tickets or two-day drag boat passes will be admitted free to the dirt track on Saturday evening.

OFFICIAL RESULTS
United States Racing Association
Summit USRA Weekly Racing Series
Lucas Oil Speedway, Wheatland, Mo.
Saturday, July 22, 2023

Showing finishing position, starting position in parentheses, car number, driver and hometown

USRA MODIFIEDS

Heat #1:
1. (1) 155 Terry Kirk, Urbana, Mo.
2. (4) 21M Ryan Middaugh, Fulton, Mo.
3. (2) 10T Tyler Brown, Richland, Mo.
4. (3) 8 Justin Allen, Webb City, Mo.
5. (5) C3 Chad Staus, Otterville, Mo.
DNS – 98 Jeff Cutshaw, Bolivar, Mo.

Heat #2:
1. (2) 73B Shad Badder, Bates City, Mo.
2. (4) 38C Jason Pursley, Hermitage, Mo.
3. (3) 23 Lucas Dobbs, El Dorado Springs, Mo.
4. (1) 21 Greg Scheffler, Pittsburg, Mo.
5. (5) 21W Tracy Wolf, Buffalo, Mo.

Feature:
1. (1) 155 Terry Kirk, Urbana, Mo.
2. (5) 21M Ryan Middaugh, Fulton, Mo.
3. (3) 38C Jason Pursley, Hermitage, Mo.
4. (2) 73B Shad Badder, Bates City, Mo.
5. (10) 21W Tracy Wolf, Buffalo, Mo.
6. (8) 8 Justin Allen, Webb City, Mo.
7. (6) 23 Lucas Dobbs, El Dorado Springs, Mo.
8. (7) 21 Greg Scheffler, Pittsburg, Mo.
9. (9) C3 Chad Staus, Otterville, Mo.
10. (4) 10T Tyler Brown, Richland, Mo.
DNS – 98 Jeff Cutshaw, Bolivar, Mo.

MEDIEVAL USRA STOCK CARS

Heat #1:
1. (2) 11 Waylon Dimmitt, Camdenton, Mo.
2. (1) 0F Mason Beck, Urbana, Mo.
3. (4) 83 James Ellis, Richland, Mo.
4. (3) 34 Blake Bolton, Appleton City, Mo.
DQ – (5) 91 Johnny Fennewald, Appleton City, Mo.

Heat #2:
1. (2) 74 Rodney Schweizer, Kansas City, Kan.
2. (3) 2 Colton Bourland, Appleton City, Mo.
3. (5) 7 William Garner, Lebanon, Mo.
4. (1) 8M James McMillin, Warrensburg, Mo.
5. (4) 24 Blayne McMillin, Warrensburg, Mo.

Feature:
1. (6) 7 William Garner, Lebanon, Mo.
2. (5) 0F Mason Beck, Urbana, Mo.
3. (1) 83 James Ellis, Richland, Mo.
4. (4) 11 Waylon Dimmitt, Camdenton, Mo.
5. (10) 91 Johnny Fennewald, Appleton City, Mo.
6. (3) 74 Rodney Schweizer, Kansas City, Kan.
7. (2) 2 Colton Bourland, Appleton City, Mo.
8. (8) 34 Blake Bolton, Appleton City, Mo.
9. (9) 24 Blayne McMillin, Warrensburg, Mo.
10. (7) 8M James McMillin, Warrensburg, Mo.

USRA B-MODS

Heat #1:
1. (4) 55 Colson Kirk, Urbana, Mo.
2. (2) 8S Jon Sheets, Nevada, Mo.
3. (5) 2 Quentin Taylor, Wheatland, Mo.
4. (3) 24L Dakota Lowe, Prescott, Kan.
DQ – (1) 56 Shadren Turner, St. Joseph, Mo.
DNS – 91 Hoyt Miller, Cross Timbers, Mo.

Heat #2:
1. (2) 18 J.C. Morton, Springfield, Mo.
2. (1) 10P Dayton Pursley, Hermitage, Mo.
3. (6) 96B Cody Brill, Bates City, Mo.
4. (4) 54JR Eddie Ingram Jr., Kansas City, Kan.
5. (5) 96 Dylan Daniels, Humboldt, Kan.
6. (3) 0K Tracy Killian, Lee Summit, Mo.

Heat #3:
1. (2) 1B Bobby Williams, Hermitage, Mo.
2. (1) 15 Ryan Edde, Cross Timbers, Mo.
3. (3) 11L Logan Smith, El Dorado Springs, Mo.
4. (5) F1 Mitchell Franklin, Camdenton, Mo.
5. (4) 3D Dexton Daniels, Van Alstyne, Texas
6. (6) 24D Donnie Fellers, Wheatland, Mo.

Feature:
1. (1) 10P Dayton Pursley, Hermitage, Mo.
2. (2) 18 J.C. Morton, Springfield, Mo.
3. (4) 1B Bobby Williams, Hermitage, Mo.
4. (3) 96B Cody Brill, Bates City, Mo.
5. (8) 8S Jon Sheets, Nevada, Mo.
6. (5) 55 Colson Kirk, Urbana, Mo.
7. (7) 15 Ryan Edde, Cross Timbers, Mo.
8. (6) 2 Quentin Taylor, Wheatland, Mo.
9. (9) 11L Logan Smith, El Dorado Springs, Mo.
10. (18) 56 Shadren Turner, St. Joseph, Mo.
11. (11) 24L Dakota Lowe, Prescott, Kan.
12. (12) 54JR Eddie Ingram Jr., Kansas City, Kan.
13. (16) 24D Donnie Fellers, Wheatland, Mo.
14. (13) 3D Dexton Daniels, Van Alstyne, Texas
15. (15) 0K Tracy Killian, Lee Summit, Mo.
16. (17) 91 Hoyt Miller, Cross Timbers, Mo.
17. (14) 96 Dylan Daniels, Humboldt, Kan.
18. (10) F1 Mitchell Franklin, Camdenton, Mo.

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