CHATHAM, La. — Dale Howard stopped teammate Mark Smith’s USCS feature winning streak at eight wins going back to last season with a victory Friday night at Chatham Speedway.
Howard had to battle a string of caution situations that kept negating his pass of early race leader Dustin Gates to take the lead with nine laps to go.
From there he held off Smith for the victory in the 25-lap event.
Greg Wilson, young gun Conner Leoffler and sprint car legend Danny Smith completed the top five.
The finish:
Feature (25 laps): 1. 47-Dale Howard[4]; 2. M1-Mark Smith[5]; 3. W20-Greg Wilson[3]; 4. 22-Conner Leoffler[14]; 5. 4-Danny Smith[7]; 6. 10M-Morgan Turpen[10]; 7. 10-Terry Gray[8]; 8. 14-Tony Stewart[6]; 9. 17G-Channin Tankersley[11]; 10. 10L-Landon Britt[16]; 11. 16-Koty Adams[9]; 12. 20-Jim Shuster[18]; 13. 8A-Alan Myers[24]; 14. 17L-Alex Lyles[23]; 15. 28-Jeff Willingham[12]; 16. 7E-Eric Gunderson[20]; 17. (DNF) 93-Jake Knight[22]; 18. (DNF) 6-Dustin Gates[1]; 19. (DNF) 2H-Tommy Hall[25]; 20. (DNF) 49-Mallie Shuster[15]; 21. (DNF) 5-Richard Reynolds[17]; 22. (DNF) 44-Ronny Howard[21]; 23. (DNF) 17-Seth Bergman[13]; 24. (DNF) 3-Howard Moore[2]; 25. (DNF) 13-Chase Howard[19]