MORRIS, Ill. — Super late model stock car racing returned to the Grundy County Speedway Friday night for the second time this season with first-time winner Caleb Adrian scoring the victory in the 40-lap division headliner.
Adrian, an Iowa native who now lives in Morris, drove his Volt Logistics/Ruane Construction Chevrolet No. 29 to the victory, beating D.J. Weltmeyer by 0.328-seconds at starter Greg Kuntz’s checkered flag.
Chasing the leading duo at the finish were early race leader Larry Schuler, Ricky Baker, fastest qualifier Eddie Hoffman and Scott Koerner.
The 29-year-old Adrian, who raced Legends cars when he was 12 and various late models before taking a 10-year hiatus from racing before late last season, scored his first career feature win at the third-mile paved speedway.
“I fired off real good there at the start,” said Adrian. “Larry (Schuler) left the door open, and I definitely took advantage of it. We raced hard for a couple of laps and he stayed on me for almost the whole race. The final 10 laps he (Schuler) seemed to be getting loose in. Once D.J. (Weltmeyer) got to second, he began reeling me in. I didn’t get around the lapped car very good, and he (Weltmeyer) really closed in.
“The car was amazing from the time we unloaded.  We found a couple of things wrong since we were here a few weeks ago. The car was hooked up.”
Breanna Riggins won the special 25-lap main event for Sixers division drivers. Riggins won her third feature win of the season ahead of Roger Emery and David Emery Jr. A last lap-pass and a photo finish described Jakob Slusarczyk’ s victory in the 20-lap pure stock (four-cylinder) feature race.  Slusarczyk nipped Mike Glenn, who led most of the way, at the finish line. Mason Meister, Jeffrey Turner and Dan Schmeissing rounded out the top five.
Camden Grommes, 17-year-old son of local midget racer Nick Grommes, captured the 15-lap super cup feature race.  Grommes scored his second win of the year ahead of Evander Petersen and Mak Regnerus.
