TEXARKANA, Ark. — Taking control of the lead on lap 20, B.J. Robinson paced the remainder of Friday night’s feature at Texarkana 67 Speedway en route to his third COMP Cams Super Dirt Series victory in his last five starts.
Robinson powered around leader Shane Hebert at the ¼-mile oval to pick up the $5,000 win during the track’s First Responders Night.
“I don’t know necessarily that it’s hitting our stride, finally just had some stuff go our way,” B.J. Robinson said. “(We’ve) been working hard all year, there’s several races we feel like we should’ve won and didn’t capitalize. Either something broke or the driver made a stupid mistake … I had to bide my time (in passing Shane Hebert) … I could see that Hebert was getting tight. I just knew I had to get the right opportunity or caution.”
Hebert and Robinson brought the field to the green flag with Hebert racing to the early lead. Robinson pursued Hebert until lap 20, when the Bossier City, Louisiana racer piloted to the lead exiting turn four.
Robinson led the remainder of the way to collect his third series win of the year and the sixth of his career by 1.154 seconds over third-starting Jon Mitchell.
With the win Robinson is just 15 points behind Midwest Sheet Metal Marked Man Logan Martin for the lead in the standings with just one event remaining. Morgan Bagley is third in the standings 31 markers removed from the lead.
The finish:
Feature (40 Laps): 1. 1-BJ Robinson[2]; 2. 5-Jon Mitchell[3]; 3. 9-Shane Hebert[1]; 4. 36-Logan Martin[5]; 5. 86B-Kyle Beard[7]; 6. 14M-Morgan Bagley[8]; 7. 17-Jarret Stuckey[6]; 8. 47P-Chandler Petty[22]; 9. 12-Scott Crigler[20]; 10. 66-Eli Ross[11]; 11. B17-Brandon Ball[14]; 12. T2-Terry Henson[17]; 13. (DNF) 15-Clayton Stuckey[15]; 14. (DNF) 5V-Austin Vincent[23]; 15. (DNF) 16H-Wesley Hamilton[19]; 16. (DNF) 14JR-Michael King Jr[12]; 17. (DNF) 29-Keith Hammett[4]; 18. (DNF) 5C-Brad Couch[10]; 19. (DNF) GT1-Kyle Cummings[13]; 20. (DNF) 88-Chance Mann[16]; 21. (DNF) 2-Charlie Cole[21]; 22. (DNS) 18-Shannon Parker; 23. (DNS) 7JR-Shane Stephens