WHEATLAND, Mo. — Tyler Wolff capped Night of the 12th annual Summit USRA Nationals at Lucas Oil Speedway on Thursday night with a late move to grab the USRA Modified victory.
Other feature winners as the four-night event continued were Chad Clancy in the USRA B Mods, Jaylen Wettengel in USRA Stock Cars and Scott Dobel in the Hobby Stocks.
A total of 259 cars checked into the pits in the four competing divisions on the second of four nights of action.
Wolff was ready to pounce when given the opportunity after a late-race restart and the Fayetteville, Arkansas, driver went on to lead the final six laps of the USRA Modified main event. It was his second modified win of the season at Lucas Oil Speedway, where he also had two late model feature wins.
“I’m definitely not gonna complain. It’s a great place to be,” Wolff said. “There’s a bunch of people that help us and it makes it even better when we get to come out there” to victory lane.
Wolff beat Harley Dais, who wound up second for the second straight night.
Scotty Roberts took the early going from his third-starting spot and set the pace until lap four, when Williams powered past out of turn four to take. The fourth-starting Williams quickly opened a 1.1-second lead over Tyler Wolff as Roberts slipped to third.
Williams maintained his lead at about one second as action settled into a prolonged green-flag run, with Wolff 2.5 seconds clear of Roberts. Williams’ lead was nearly two seconds as he caught lapped traffic by lap 16 and that traffic proved a challenge for the leader.
Wolff began to cut into the margin when caution flew on lap 17 to bunch the field with eight to go. The restart was all Wolff needed as he took over the lead on lap 19, passing Williams coming off turn four.
It was all Wolff the rest of the way as he ran away to beat Harley Dais by 2.1 seconds. Williams, slipping to third with two to go, settled for that spot with Wednesday-night feature winner Brandon Davis fourth and Brandon Givens coming home fifth.
Clancy took over the lead on lap five and never gave it up in capturing the 20-lap USRA B-Mod main event. He beat hard-charging Kris Jackson, who made up 13 positions.
Trevor Drake, who started third, took the lead on lap two away from pole-starter Daniel Harris. Clancy, who started seventh, made his move to the front on lap five to make it three leaders in the early going.
Clancy rolled to a 1.1-second lead over Colson Kirk by lap 10 with Kris Jackson advancing to third after starting 14th. Jackson’s charge continued two laps later as he drove around Kirk for second.
Clancy kept pouring it on as he weaved through lapped traffic, expanding his margin got 2.3 seconds with four remaining. Clancy finished it off by maintaining that margin at the finish over Jackson with Kirk settling for third. Drake came home fourth and Cody King took fifth.
A wild, caution-plagued USRA Stock Cars feature saw Wettengel pick up the win as he came from the 20th starting position.
Eddie Ingram led the first lap with Boone Evans shooting to the front on the inside to complete lap two. Caution on lap five took away Evans’ .906-second margin over second-place Travis Shipman.
Evans’ lead was .233 seconds over Jaylen Wettengel when another in a series of cautions flew on lap 12. This restart saw Tyler Cadwallader drive around Evans on the outside and emerge with the lead, just before a multi-car pileup on the front stretch, which included Evans, brought out another yellow flag.
Wettengel emerged with the lead on the ensuing restart with Cadwallader regaining it on lap 15. Two laps later, Troy Hansmeier went from third to first to become the race’s sixth leader – but Cadwallader took a spin in turn four to bring out another caution.
Wettengel made the winning pass on lap 19 and held off Hansmeier for the win, prevailing by .858 seconds. Derek Green finished third after starting 26th with Josh Cain fourth and Clancy fifth.
Dobel took the lead on lap four and went on to lead the rest of the way for the USRA Hobby Stocks feature win. Dobel started fifth and he went on to beat Arthur Schott by just over a second.
The third-starting Dustin Gulbrandson wasted no time grabbing the lead, taking it before the first lap was complete. The USRA Hobby Stocks national points leader lost the top spot to Dobel on lap four and the first caution flew the next time around as Dobel led by a half-second.
Dobel continued his march after the restart, opening up a 1.5-second lead at the halfway mark on lap nine. He had a four-second lead when a lap-15 caution gave the challengers a chance. Dobel was able to hang on to beat Arthur Schott by 1.2 seconds.
Keven Lacy was third, Parker Anderson fourth and Jeremy Crimmins wound up fifth.
The finish:
Modified Feature: 1. 4W-Tyler Wolff[8]; 2. 87H-Harley Dais[17]; 3. 1B-Bobby Williams[4]; 4. 50III-Brandon Davis[6]; 5. 10B-Brandon Givens[12]; 6. 25-Scotty Roberts[3]; 7. 56-Shadren Turner[15]; 8. 21K-Kyle Brown[20]; 9. 75-Terry Phillips[19]; 10. 95-Keith Foss[21]; 11. 38C-Jason Pursley[7]; 12. 5F-Drake Findley[14]; 13. 97-Houston Johnson[13]; 14. 23JR-Nick Roberts[10]; 15. 15W-Wyatt Gaggero[9]; 16. 17C-Henry Chambers[26]; 17. 55-Nathan Hagar[16]; 18. 98-Kevin Stoa[23]; 19. 88-Sam Osman[18]; 20. 21T-Troy Gudmonson[24]; 21. 6-Jason Payton[25]; 22. 9L-Vince Lucas[5]; 23. 7D-Davis Givens[1]; 24. (DNF) 26-Austin Howes[22]; 25. (DNF) 55K-Colson Kirk[2]; 26. (DNF) 3B-Nic Bidinger[11]
