CANTON, Ill. — Kaleb Johnson’s weekend with the Morrow Brothers Ford MOWA Sprint Car Series ended on a good note after the South Dakota native scored the win on Saturday at Spoon River Speedway.
The driver of the Team DGRD LLC No. 6l was racing for the lead on Friday at Jacksonville Speedway when contact with Joey Moughan resulted in both drivers earning a DNF for the evening.
Johnson started the feature in the sixth position and was able to move all across the surface of the three-eighths-mile oval searching for grip as he charged forward. Polesitter Cory Bruns jumped to the early race lead over fellow front row starter Mario Clouser.
Bruns, in his familiar orange No. 44 sprint car, held serve over the field for a majority of the race. Kaleb Johnson had moved forward from sixth and began to challenge Mario Clouser for the runner up position with laps winding down. The field slowed with only a handful of laps remaining when Jeremy Standridge slowed on the frontstretch.
Leading the field back to green, Bruns had Johnson and Clouser close behind with a hard-charging Bryce Norris in fourth, who had moved forward from 14th into the top five.
Johnson waited for the right moment to overtake the top spot and moved past Bruns on lap 21 and never looked back as he sailed to his first MOWA Sprint Car Series victory over Mario Clouser, Bryce Norris, Riley Goodno and Jimmy Light. Cory Bruns, who led the majority of the A-Main, fell to 13th after having a tire deflate that sent him off the racing surface on the final lap.
Mack Leopard topped the MARA midget feature.
The finish:
Feature(25 Laps): 1. 6K-Kaleb Johnson[6]; 2. 6-Mario Clouser[2]; 3. 37-Bryce Norris[14]; 4. 22-Riley Goodno[4]; 5. 23-Jimmy Light[11]; 6. 3N-Jake Neuman[17]; 7. 31-McCain Richards[3]; 8. 99D-Zach Daum[16]; 9. 7A-Will Armitage[13]; 10. 87-Reed Whitney[12]; 11. 01-Justin Standridge[15]; 12. 29-Brayton Lynch[20]; 13. 44-Cory Bruns[1]; 14. 5H-Colton Fisher[7]; 15. 10S-Jeremy Standridge[8]; 16. 31M-Joey Moughan[9]; 17. 77U-Chris Urish[10]; 18. 87A-Austin Hartmann[19]; 19. 56-Mitchell Davis[18]; 20. 66-Ryan Newton[5]
