OGILVIE, Minn. — With the Summit USMTS National Championship presented by RacinDirt invading Ogilvie Raceway, Dan Ebert and Jake Timm traded blows on Thursday with Ebert kicking off the fourth annual USMTS vs Wissota Mod Wars in the winner’s circle.
Ebert earned the pole and drove away from Timm over the first ten laps before the current series points leader was able to reduce the gap between himself and Ebert.
While Timm pulled away from Rodney Sanders and closed up behind Ebert, lapped traffic took its toll for the first of two notable occasions during the 30-lapper.
Slowed at the exit of turn two, Ebert had to drive around a back-marker while Timm split the two and bolted into the top spot to lead lap 13.
After trailing for 12 laps, Timm paced the next 11 circuits around the state-of-the-art high-banked clay oval when contact between himself and a stubborn lapped car sent Timm spinning.
Before it was over, four other machines joined the pileup. When the green flag waved again, Timm was at the rear of the pack while Ebert was back on top with seven laps to go and Sanders breathing down his neck.
Sanders gave Ebert all he could handle, but handle it he did and cruised to his second career win at Ogilvie and fifth of his USMTS career while Sanders dropped to third behind Chisholm and remains winless in 22 USMTS features here.
“It’s so hard to lead races and a lapper kind of got crossed up in front of me and I lost my run over there (tun two) and I got a little tight and Jake got me,” Ebert said. “But it was easier for me to follow him. I could try some different lines up and down. I didn’t see what happened to him down here, but man, what a fun race. These races are so hard to win and we work so hard to do this, It makes it all worth it.
“The track had some character and some grip tonight which tends to suit my style. So we’ll see what happens the next couple nights.”
Jake O’Neil finished fourth and Kyle Brown clawed his way from 16th on the grid to score a fifth-place paycheck.
The finish:
Dan Ebert, Jim Chisholm, Rodney Sanders, Jake O’Neil, Kyle Brown, A.J. Hoff, Jason Hughes, Landon Atkinson, Alex Williamson, Gary Christian, Tyler Davis, Jake Timm, Tanner Mullens, Gabe Hodges, Jacob Hobscheidt, Ryan Gierke, Lucas Schott, Zach Benson, Steve Lavasseur, Dave Cain, Terry Phillips, Eric Lamm, Taton Hansen, Zack VanderBeek, J.T. Johnson, Jeremy Nelson.Â