LAWTON, Okla. — Leading start-to-finish and going green-to-checkered at Lawton Speedway, Tulsa’s Jeffrey Newell captured his first victory Thursday night with the American Sprint Car Series.
The 167th different winner with the American Sprint Car Series, Newell is the fifth driver from Tulsa, Okla., to do so, and the seventh different winner this season.
“Man, we’ve had a pretty tough start to our season, and I appreciate Rick and Corinna at Drywall Systems for sticking with me. We’ve been close to winning on a few really big micro races, and this…this is only our second sprint car outing this year, so to get a win; says a lot about this team. They work their butts off,” said Newell.
Pocketing $4,000 for his efforts, the 2022 Tulsa Shootout Stock Non-Wing winner shot to the point through the opening two turns over Jason Martin.
Finding traffic by lap eight as the race for second went the way of Matt Covington, the T&L Foundry No. 95 rolled up to challenge for the point on lap 12. On Jeffrey’s back bumper off the fourth turn, Covington took a look but could not get the run.
Working low on lapped traffic through the final laps, Newell made it to the checkered flag with 1.643-seconds to spare.
Covington held onto second, with Howard Moore third. Jason Martin ended up fourth, with Andrew Deal fifth.
The finish:
Feature (30 Laps): 1. 12-Jeffrey Newell[1]; 2. 95-Matt Covington[4]; 3. 3-Howard Moore[5]; 4. 36-Jason Martin[2]; 5. 15D-Andrew Deal[6]; 6. 14-Jordon Mallett[12]; 7. 10-Landon Britt[13]; 8. 55B-Brandon Anderson[16]; 9. 03-Joe Wood Jr[3]; 10. 87J-Jace Park[7]; 11. 6-Christopher Townsend[8]; 12. 16S-Steven Shebester[11]; 13. 8M-Kade Morton[9]; 14. 31-Casey Wills[10]; 15. 2B-Brett Becker[17]; 16. 0J-Jeremy McCune[15]; 17. 1-Brian Gramm[14]; 18. 96-Brandon Sampson[19]; 19. 45X-Kyler Johnson[20]; 20. 91-Michael Day[21]; 21. (DNS) 10P-Parker Ezell