Fuqua, Dixon, Royalty vault to victory on Pro Ag Night at I-35 Speedway
Patrick Royalty won the Out-Pace USRA B-Mod main event on Saturday, July 7, 2018, at the I-35 Spedway in Winston, Mo.
Darron Fuqua rolled into I-35 Speedway on Saturday night as the USRA Modified national points leader. With 23 entries on hand for the feature, valuable points were up for grabs.
Fuqua seized the opportunity and powered his way from a fourth-place starting position into McCarthy Auto Group Winner’s Circle. Mark Dotson did not make it easy for Fuqua and challenged him all race long.
Only one caution slowed the race and it came at the right time for Fuqua as he entered lapped traffic the lap before it came out. Lance Town drove to a solid third-place finish. Gunner Martin drove through the field for a fourth-place finish and Tyler Hibner rounded out the top five.
The Holley USRA Stock Cars witnessed Jeff Dixon run a smooth race on his way to his third win this season. Aaron Sauter finished second, Gene Stigall third and Cletus Murray fourth.
The Out-Pace USRA B-Mods, 26 entries strong, made sure the fireworks started before the end of the night. Four heat races and a "B" feature set the field of 24 cars.
Patrick Royalty and Brad Smith started the race-long battle for lead, which turned out to be the only safe place on track. On lap 10, two cars got together around third and left nowhere to go for the rest of the field, as almost every car from there on back became collected or effected some way in the 12-plus-car pile-up. For a minute turn three looked like a scrapyard but fortunately most of those involved were able to continue with only cosmetic damage.
Once the race restarted, Royalty held off Smith to pick up the win. Smith finished second. Chase Galvan emerged from the lap-10 mess to finish third. Doug Keller charged up to fourth and Tim Powell finished fifth.
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OFFICIAL RESULTS
United States Racing Association
Summit USRA Weekly Racing Series
I-35 Speedway, Winston, Mo.
Saturday, July 7, 2018
Feature race results showing finishing position, starting position in parentheses, car number, driver and hometown.
USRA MODIFIEDS
1. (4) 87 Darron Fuqua
2. (2) 85D Mark Dotson
3. (5) 21T Lance Town
4. (10) 75X Gunner Martin
5. (1) 89 Tyler Hibner
6. (7) 98 Austin Johnson
7. (3) 5 Robbie Reed
8. (20) 29 Dennis Elliott
9. (8) 78 Derrick Hicks
10. (15) 97 Houston Johnson
11. (6) 17$ Shane Lawson
12. (11) 11 Darren Shaw
13. (12) 88 Jimmy Dowell
14. (21) 99J Billie Hoover
15. (19) 42 Sam Florence
16. (14) 2H John Hanson
17. (22) 12V Nathan Vaughn
18. (9) 14 Kameron Grindstaff
19. (18) 96 Danny Barker
20. (17) 31 David Coates
21. (23) 75 Jacob Blair
22. (13) 90 Terry Schultz
23. (16) 97K Brian Johnson
HOLLEY USRA STOCK CARS
1. (2) 88 Jeff Dixon
2. (1) 83 Aaron Sauter
3. (3) S20 Gene Stigall
4. (4) 75 Cletus Murray
OUT-PACE USRA B-MODS
1. (1) 49 Patrick Royalty
2. (3) 99 Brad Smith
3. (6) 0 Chase Galvan
4. (11) 7 Doug Keller
5. (12) 57X Tim Powell
6. (13) 52M Randy Smith Jr.
7. (15) 32P Jeremy Pittsenbarger
8. (5) 1 Kyle Henning
9. (8) 81 Jacob Blair
10. (19) 10 Johnny McGinnis
11. (4) 15X Corey Myers
12. (17) 57 Randy Ainsworth
13. (10) 181 Luke Nieman
14. (23) 2T Todd Luke
15. (2) 4 Kiel Morton
16. (7) 3X3 Nick Newton
17. (24) 14 Sebastion Wolfenbarger
18. (9) 07 Daniel Harris
19. (14) 15 Ed Noll
20. (21) 17X Clint Baker
21. (20) 19 P.J. Conger
22. (22) 10H Garrett Hill
23. (16) 05 Jeremy Lile
24. (18) 22 Yancy Shepard
DNS – 94 Jared Hillyard
DNS – 99C Jack Cunningham III