LINCOLN, Ill. — After many attempts in recent years, Riley Goodno can finally say that he is a feature winner with the Morrow Brothers Ford MOWA Sprint Car Series.
Goodno took the lead from Joey Moughan on lap 15 of the 25-lap affair at Lincoln Speedway on Friday night.
The Knoxville, Iowa, driver started outside pole in the A-Main after winning one of four heat races earlier in the program and drawing a “2” in the night’s redraw.
Moughan jumped to the lead of the A-Main with Goodno in tow. Moughan’s No. 5h machine was able to maneuver around the quarter-mile oval in all grooves.
At the front of the field, Moughan had to plan his way through lapped traffic that was met by lap eight.
Goodno slowly reeled in the leader and pulled alongside by lap 12. Behind the top two, Sterling Cling, Joel Myers Jr and Joe B. Miller started to quickly pick off cars on their way to the front of the field.
A caution flew over the field at lap 16 for Korey Weyant atop turn four just after Goodno had taken the top spot. Returning to green, Goodno’s pace over the field continued as he set his sights on a checkered flag.
Once more the field slowed when Chris Urish spun only a few laps later. Urish’s night ended early after damage with the turn-four wall forced the No. 77u machine to require the use of a tow truck back to his pit.
Goodno led the field back to green on the ensuing restart and started to click the laps away. Tyler Duff made contact with the turn-two wall resulting in a red-flag period, which turned out to be the first of two during the 25-lap affair.
Working lap 22, Moughan had slipped back to fourth where he was alongside Sterling Cling and made contact resulting in a multi-car pileup in turn one with Will Armitage and Shelby Bosie. Boise rode the highline into turn one trying to avoid the incident but found the wall and quickly put his No. 3b on its side before landing on all four wheels again.
After cleaning the accident scene, the field was set for a three-lap shootout. Goodno quickly got into defensive mode, knowing that there were two hard-charging drivers behind him in Joel Myers and Jake Blackhurst.
Holding back a charge, Goodno went on to cross under the checkers for his first MOWA Sprint Car Series win over Myers, who charged from 10th starting spot.
Jake Blackhurst, Sterling Cling and Darin Naida completed the top five.
Parker Jones won the MARA midget feature.
The finish:
Feature (25 Laps): 1. 22-Riley Goodno[2]; 2. 46JR-Joel Myers Jr[10]; 3. 96-Jake Blackhurst[4]; 4. 34-Sterling Cling[11]; 5. 7N-Darin Naida[9]; 6. 51B-Joe B Miller[22]; 7. 3N-Jake Neuman[13]; 8. 42-Preston Perlmutter[7]; 9. 87-Reed Whitney[5]; 10. 14N-Kevin Newton[17]; 11. 6R-Ryan Bunton[21]; 12. 7A-Will Armitage[20]; 13. 52F-Logan Faucon[18]; 14. 28-Korbin Keith[19]; 15. B8-John Barnard[23]; 16. 10S-Jeremy Standridge[24]; 17. 8S-Steve Short[15]; 18. (DNF) 5H-Joey Moughan[1]; 19. (DNF) 3B-Shelby Bosie[6]; 20. (DNF) 9-Tyler Duff[8]; 21. (DNF) 77U-Chris Urish[16]; 22. (DNF) 47-Korey Weyant[14]; 23. (DNF) 5-Zackary Sokol[12]; 24. (DNF) 73-Scotty Thiel[3]