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Chad Goff (center) shares the podium with Brayden Cromwell and Ty Hulsey. (TWC photo)

Goff Goes In Humboldt Sprint

HUMBOLDT, Kan. — Chad Goff held off late charges from Ty Hulse and then Braydon Cromwell to win Friday night’s USAC Midwest Wingless Racing Ass’n sprint car feature at Humboldt Speedway.

Goff battled past early pacesetter Brad Wyatt after a handful of laps to take command.  Hulsey moved into second soon after and closed in over the closing laps only to have the red flag fly on the final circuit when Chris Parkinson tumbled into turn one after contact with Wyatt Burks while battling for third.

On the green-white-checkered restart, third-runner Cromwell took advantage of a Hulsey miscue on the final circuit and made a last-lap run on Goff only to fall less than two car-lengths short at the checkered flag.  While Goff, Cromwell and Hulsey made up the podium, Texas shoe Kobe Simpson and Chad Winfrey rounded out the top five.

“I realized when we pushed back off after the red that our brakes were boiled, so the brake pedal was on the floor,” Goff explained afterward.  “The last lap going into one, I jumped the cushion and by the grace of God it bit and turned.”

The finish:

Feature (25 Laps):  1. 9X-Chad Goff[1]; 2. 4-Braydon Cromwell[7]; 3. 24H-Ty Hulsey[4]; 4. 21K-Kobe Simpson[5]; 5. 65W-Chad Winfrey[11]; 6. 24C-Craig Carroll[10]; 7. 26-Zachary Clark[6]; 8. 93-Buddy Parker[12]; 9. 11W-Wyatt Burks[8]; 10. 65-Chris Parkinson[3]; 11. 41-Brad Wyatt[2]; 12. 2-Chad Frewaldt[9]; 13. 27J-Justin Johnson[13]; 14. (DNS) 11X-Tom Curran