WHEATLAND, Mo. — Another full night of action at the Summit USRA Nationals, with 213 cars in four classes at Lucas Oil Speedway, saw more drivers in four divisions lock in starting positions for features on Saturday night.
Drivers are building toward Saturday’s final program, which will feature an “alphabet soup” of main events leading up to the championship features for each class. Summit USRA Weekly Racing Series national points will be awarded each night with 100 bonus points awarded to each driver in attendance that competes two or more nights.
J.T. Carroll took the first B-Mod feature win over Reece Solander as those two locked into Saturday night’s B-Mod finale.
Carroll took the lead on lap five and was being pressured when a caution came out with five to go. Carroll rode the high side the rest of the way to hold off Solander for the win by 1.2 seconds. USRA national points leader Joe Chisholm finished third.
Pole-position starting Tim Eaton of St. Jospeh led all 20 laps to take the second B-Mod feature, beating Cayden Stacye who rallied from seventh.
Dalton Ragsdale charged from his ninth-starting spot to win the third B-Mod feature. Ragsdale passed race-long leader Turner on lap 16. Following a caution right after the pass for the lead, Turner had a poor restart and faded with Ragsdale holding on for the win over the final three laps.
Dayton Pursley earned the final qualifier spot for Saturday’s feature, edging Kyle Slader for second. third.
Tyler Wolff scored a wire-to-wire victory in the opening USRA Modified feature, leading all 20 laps as he finished 1.6 seconds clear of runner-up Dillon McCowan. Third-place Chad Clancy joined the top pair in locking himself into Saturday’s feature.
McCowan cut Wolff’s lead to .716 seconds with five laps remaining before Wolff stretched it out from there.
It was all Kevin Stoa in the second modified feature as the Albert Lea, Minn., driver went from the front row starting position and led every lap. He beat runner-up Jake Timm by a half-second with Timm making one of the night’s most-impressive runs going from 20th to challenging for the win.
Al Hejna wound up third to join the top two are qualifiers for the final-night feature.
Derek Green, dominated the first Stock Cars heat, leading all 20 laps after starting outside of row one. Green won by a whopping 5.2 seconds over Mason Beck, the 2023 Lucas Oil Speedway Stock Cars track champion.
Both Green and the sixth-starting Beck locked in starting positions for the main on Saturday. Beck edged by Randy Brown for third.
Bryan Bennett held off Andy Morris for the Stock Cars second feature victory. Bennett took over the lead on lap seven and never lost it during a caution-filled main event.
The third Stock Cars feature saw a lengthy delay for a red flag on lap three. Doug Keller’s car suffered a mechanical issue on the backstretch and slowed, with Jeff Dixon hitting him from behind. Dixon’s car burst into flames while Keller’s car went upside down against the wall when Johnny Fennewald slid into it.
All the drivers walked away from the scary-looking incident.
Dean Wille led all the way to post the victory, checking out on the field with a 2.5-second final margin over runner-up Jaylen Wettengel.
Dustin Coop of Rockwell, Iowa, took over the top spot on lap five and went on to win the USRA Hobby Stocks main event, He held off hard-charging Tracy Halouska by .207 seconds at the finish.