SAPULPA, Okla. — Sweeping the second annual Mickey Walker Classic, Wayne Johnson battled to Saturday’s $2,222 top prize with the American Bank of Oklahoma ASCS Sooner Region presented by Smiley’s Racing Products.
Leading start to finish Friday night, it was a different story Saturday as Matt Covington took off with the race lead to start the 27-lap feature event. Chasing the No. 95 into traffic as the race rolled into the eighth revolution, Covington tried the bottom to clear a pair of slower cars on lap nine, only to have Wayne Johnson hustle the cushion to the lead on lap 10.
Threading the two slower cars immediately through the third and fourth turns, Johnson put distance on the field as Covington struggled to clear the slower cars.
Working through several cautions, the later restarts saw Covington try to retake the lead, with each one thwarted.
Challenged at the same time by Rees Moran for second, the No. 22m would hook Covington’s left rear on lap 25 and spin.
That gave Covington one final shot at Johnson, but there was no stopping Johnson who pulled away by 1.318 seconds. Racing out of the B main, Brandon Anderson was the night’s hard charger with a run to third.
Sean McClelland rolled ninth to fourth with Bradley Fezard in fifth.
The finish:
Feature (27 Laps): 1. 2C-Wayne Johnson[3]; 2. 95-Matt Covington[1]; 3. 55B-Brandon Anderson[15]; 4. 87-Sean McClelland[9]; 5. 00-Bradley Fezard[5]; 6. 17-Kyle Jones[10]; 7. 15D-Andrew Deal[6]; 8. 91-Michael Day[14]; 9. 10C-Jeremy Campbell[7]; 10. 39-Joshua Tyre[20]; 11. 24-Craig Carroll[16]; 12. 90-Lance Norick[18]; 13. 33-Justin Patocka[17]; 14. 22M-Rees Moran[2]; 15. 9$-Kyle Clark[8]; 16. 8-Alex Sewell[4]; 17. 23X-Steven Shebester[13]; 18. 7F-Noah Harris[12]; 19. 77-Dean Drake Jr[11]; 20. 31K-Ross Moore[19]