CANEY, Kan. — Lapped traffic was exactly what Dylan Westbrook needed on Wednesday night at Caney Valley Speedway to get the run on race-long leader Jake Bubak and win on night five of Lucas Oil ASCS Sprint Week presented by Smiley’s Racing Products with the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series presented by the MAVTV Motorsports Network.
“Super happy. We’ve been running really good lately, so we knew it was going to happen eventually. Just kept on working at it and finally got it done,” Westbrook said. “The car was perfect, where the longer the run the better it got. Once the fuel burned off, I could really let it rip.”
Commenting on the move in traffic, Westbrook said, “The same thing that happened to me earlier, happened to him. It just happened to work out in our favor. That’s how racing goes.”
Westbrook became the 160th ASCS National Tour winner in his 51st career start. He is the 10th different winner this season and the fifth Canadian winner.
Chasing with two to go, Bubak rolled up on a pair of slower cars. Having to vacate the cushion that had carried him the entire race, Westbrook took his shot going into the first turn.
Beating Bubak to the second turn, the pair drag raced to the back straightaway with the Hills Racing No. 47x squeezing by.
Keeping his nose clean around the lingering slower cars, Westbrook pulled away by 3.232 seconds over the closing lap as Bubak and Ryan Timms commenced to trading haymaker-style slide jobs at both ends of the Caney Valley Speedway.
Getting the final slide, Timms captured the second podium step with Jake Babak holding on for the bronze.
Several times battling with Blake Hahn, Colton Hardy held on for fourth with Hahn in fifth.
The finish:
Feature (30 Laps): 1. 47X-Dylan Westbrook[3]; 2. 5T-Ryan Timms[4]; 3. 1X-Jake Bubak[1]; 4. 41-Colton Hardy[2]; 5. 52-Blake Hahn[8]; 6. 91T-Tyler Thomas[5]; 7. 95-Matt Covington[16]; 8. 63-JJ Hickle[15]; 9. 7F-Noah Harris[6]; 10. 55B-Brandon Anderson[9]; 11. 115-Nick Parker[13]; 12. 19-Colby Thornhill[10]; 13. 1-Brenham Crouch[14]; 14. 15D-Andrew Deal[19]; 15. 9$-Kyle Clark[17]; 16. 10P-Dylan Postier[22]; 17. 36-Jason Martin[18]; 18. 88-Travis Reber[24]; 19. 85-Forrest Sutherland[7]; 20. 23-Seth Bergman[11]; 21. 24-Garet Williamson[21]; 22. 5H-Michael Faccinto[12]; 23. 8-Alex Sewell[20]; 24. 17B-Ryan Bickett[23]