SAPULPA, Okla. — Rolling into victory lane for the first time with the American Bank of Oklahoma ASCS Sooner Region presented by Smiley’s Racing Products, Tyler Thomas held off the charge of Alex Sewell in the closing laps to become the 57th different winner in ASCS competition at Creek County Speedway.
Leading start to finish, the closing laps presented a challenging run through traffic for Thomas.
Having to use the slower cars a picks along the bottom of the quarter-mile oval, Thomas was stalked through the final laps by Sewell.
Making one final run on the closing lap, the No. 8 came up 0.316-seconds shy of the win. Kyle Clark made it to the final podium step with five laps to go, with Jeremy Campbell taking fourth. Running third the majority of the race, Ryan Timms slipped to fifth.
The finish:
Feature (25 Laps): 1. 91T-Tyler Thomas[1]; 2. 8-Alex Sewell[3]; 3. 9$-Kyle Clark[2]; 4. 10C-Jeremy Campbell[5]; 5. 5T-Ryan Timms[6]; 6. 7F-Noah Harris[9]; 7. 23B-Steven Shebester[7]; 8. 50Z-Zach Chappell[17]; 9. 15D-Andrew Deal[8]; 10. 2C-Whit Gastineau[11]; 11. 15-Jase Randolph[10]; 12. 8M-Kade Morton[12]; 13. 7M-Chance Morton[19]; 14. 3C-Roy Larkin[13]; 15. 97-Kevin Cummings[14]; 16. 31-Casey Wills[15]; 17. 22S-Slater Helt[20]; 18. 11-Michael Tyre II[16]; 19. 32-Kolton Gariss[18]; 20. 55B-Brandon Anderson[4]