Brandon Hare of Elma, Iowa, won the USRA Karl Performance Parts B-Mod feature on Saturday night, May 22, at the Deer Creek Speedway in Spring Valley, Minn. (Jason Durst Photo)

SPRING VALLEY, Minn. - Eighty degrees with a mid-afternoon sprinkle followed by what seemed like 100-mph winds all night long are not conducive to great racing conditions Saturday at the Deer Creek Speedway, but throughout the night's watering, misting and packing the track got consistent and smoother as the night wore on.

Colter Deutsch led the pack out of turn two for the USRA Karl Performance Parts B-Mods. Dan Tenold took over second with Brandon Hare looking to his inside. With two complete the yellow waved and on the restart Tenold and Hare raced for second behind Deutsch. Then the yellows waved again struggling to get the next three laps completed but as lap six was completed the field ran to the checkers without any more incidents.

With seven completed Hare moved into the lead while Deutsch, Tenold and Nate Chodur raced for second. Chodur took the spot briefly before Deutsch worked back into the second spot. Kylie Kath sat in fourth watching the battle for second and looking for his way into the fight. Mike Jaeger worked into the top five late in the race.

At the finish it was Hare with the win followed by Deutsch and Chodur.

On the restart Shryock pulled alongside of Swanson for the lead but Swanson was able to hold him off flying around the rail. On lap six Donlinger slid up in front of Shryock with Kelly cutting back down the track and retaking second going into turn one. Jason Cummins worked under Ruter for the fourth spot.

With thirteen down Swanson pulled out to a six-car-length lead but lapped traffic was coming up fast. Swanson worked the traffic well as he drove low into the turns and moved up in front of the lapped cars down the straights but Shryock was getting through them better. By lap twenty two the top four cars were nearly nose to tail as they circled the track with Cummins working past Donlinger to take over the third spot.

Swanson held on for his first USRA RHS Modified feature win at the speedway holding off Shryock, Cummins, Donlinger and Ruter. Steve Wetzstein started in seventeenth and was side by side with Ruter at the line for fifth.

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OFFICIAL RESULTS
American Racer USRA Weekly Racing Series
Deer Creek Speedway, Spring Valley, Minn.
Saturday, May 22, 2010

USRA KARL PERFORMANCE PARTS B-MODS

Feature: Brandon Hare, Colter Deutsch, Nate Chodur, Kylie Kath, Mike Jaeger, Jason Schlangen, Dan Tenold, Jacob Bleess, Terry Kohnert, Ed Appel, Ben Moudry, Michael Wytaske, Jake Timm, Parker Brumm, Parker Hale.

Heat 1: Moudry, Deutsch, Hale, Tenold, Appel, Bleess, Wytaske, Schlangen.

Heat 2: Kath, Brumm, Hare, Chodur, Jaeger, Timm, Kohnert.

USRA RHS MODIFIEDS

Feature: Bobby Swanson, Kelly Shryock, Jason Cummins, Tim Donlinger, Ryan Ruter, Steve Wetzstein, Jason Krohn, Andy Bohnstengel, AJ Wiste, Joel Alberts, Dan Bohr, Josh Reisch, Josh Angst, Mike Steensma, Doug Hillson, Lucas Schott, Joe Horgdal, Phil Wernert, Tom Paulson, Chris Gilbertson, Tom Brink, Nate Wasmund, Todd Scharkey, Jay Ihrke, Greg Jensen, Mike Sorensen.

Heat 1: Shryock, Krohn, Donlinger, Steensma, Wetzstein, Gilbertson, Alberts.

Heat 2: Wiste, Ihrke, Cummins, Reisch, Hillson, Jensen, Sorensen.

Heat 3: Bohnstengel, Wasmund, Bohr, Wernert, Angst, Brink.

Heat 4: Ruter, Swanson, Schott, Paulson, Scharkey, Horgdal.