GREENWOOD, La. — Adding a second win to his season with the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series presented by the MAVTV Motorsports Network, Wayne Johnson was masterful around the bottom of the Boothill Speedway Saturday night.
Johnson claimed $4,000 for his 56th National Tour triumph.
He chased Blake Hahn through the opening seven laps. Ripping the top at the start as Blake held the bottom from the pole, Hahn rolled a little too close to an infield tire in the first and second turns.
Hahn spun and Johnson had the lead.
“I was really just riding to feel out what he [Blake] was planning. I ran the top in one and two, and I knew that wasn’t the place to be. Riding around there before we went green, I could tell the bottom was going to be juiced up in one and two, and there was a lot of grip on entry through the bottom of three,” Johnson said.
Taking off from the field on the restart, the race halted on lap 10 a couple of times. Finally, having to open up the red flag after Jason Martin and Joey Schmidt went upside down, the race resumed with Johnson again pulling away from the field.
Working into traffic at two to go, the final caution came out as a pair of cars tangled in from the Johnson. Able to avoid, the dash to the finish saw Wayne regain 1.852 seconds of the 4.789 seconds he had before the yellow.
Brandon Anderson held off Tim Crawley for second.
Anderson’s career-best finish with the National Tour, the show run for Crawley is his second on the weekend and 125th career podium appearance.
A rebound night from a failed driveline on Friday, Eric Baldaccini in fourth is the third time he’s finished inside the top five. Changing engines after Friday night’s race, Tony Bruce, Jr. rolled the bottom to a fifth-place finish.
Matt Covington established the track record over the field of 21 with a time of 12.743-seconds.
The finish:
Feature (25 Laps): 1. 2C-Wayne Johnson[2]; 2. 55B-Brandon Anderson[3]; 3. 1X-Tim Crawley[5]; 4. 0-Eric Baldaccini[4]; 5. 12H-Tony Bruce Jr[6]; 6. 187-Landon Crawley[12]; 7. 6-Dustin Gates[7]; 8. 52-Blake Hahn[1]; 9. 17B-Ryan Bickett[19]; 10. 71-Bradyn Baker[8]; 11. 85-Josh McCord[10]; 12. 10P-Dylan Postier[18]; 13. 24-Garet Williamson[11]; 14. 10-Landon Britt[13]; 15. 95-Matt Covington[15]; 16. 36-Jason Martin[9]; 17. 1S-Joey Schmidt[14]; 18. 45X-Kyler Johnson[16]; 19. 2H-Tommy Hall[21]; 20. 2-Dylan Opdahl[17]; 21. 27T-Timothy Watson III[20]