CHATHAM, La. — Missouri rising star Dillon McCowan raced to the lead on lap 12 of Friday night’s opener of the 30th annual Spooky 50 with the COMP Cams Super Dirt Series (Super Late Model Series and never looked back en route to his first victory with the tour.
The maiden trip to victory lane for McCowan was worth $5,000 at Super Bee Speedway.
“You gotta make something happen, I was back there in sixth and it was (kinda) time for a hail Mary,” McCowan said. “We’ve been here once in our modified and I really enjoyed it, we definitely wanted to get down (to race) here and have another go at it. It was a super good track tonight, we traveled eight hours and it definitely makes it worth our while. (Sweeping the weekend) would mean more than a lot of people would ever dream of; winning one of these has always been our dream, my dream especially, this is our first sanctioned Late Model win and I’m pretty speechless, honestly.”
Kyle Beard and Bubba Mullins brought the field to the green flag with the home state Mullins snaring the lead for the first 11 circuits before McCowan rocketed from the sixth-starting spot into the lead.
Once out front McCowan never looked back, taking his inaugural CCSDS checkered flag by 1.131 seconds.
Meanwhile, Beard crossed the finish line in the second position and his finish paired with Billy Moyer Jr.’s eighth-place finish reduced Beard’s deficit for the championship behind Moyer Jr. to just 23 markers heading into Saturday night’s season finale.
The finish:
Feature (40 Laps): 1. 8-Dillon McCowan[6]; 2. 86B-Kyle Beard[1]; 3. 11A-Bubba Mullins[2]; 4. 3K-Tanner Kellick[4]; 5. B17-Brandon Ball[10]; 6. 2T-Tyler Stevens[7]; 7. 14M-Morgan Bagley[14]; 8. 21JR-Billy Moyer Jr[5]; 9. 48-Billy Moyer Sr[16]; 10. 19-Jamie Burford[20]; 11. 86R-Neil Baggett[9]; 12. 6R-Robbie Stuart[8]; 13. 5-Jon Mitchell[12]; 14. 15-Clayton Stuckey[3]; 15. 12-Jamie Elam[11]; 16. R5-Hunter Rasdon[19]; 17. 1-BJ Robinson[17]; 18. 17-Jarret Stuckey[21]; 19. 5C-Brad Couch[15]; 20. 90R-Brian Rickman[13]; 21. 18-Ross Camponovo[18]