KELLYVILLE, Okla. — Persistence paid off in a first AmeriFlex/OCRS IMCA sprint car victory for Noah Harris Friday night at Creek County Speedway.
Harris chased down race long leader Josh Tyre and finally passed him with three laps remaining for the lead and eventual victory.
“I struggled around the bottom. I thought that is where we had to be,” Harris said of his early laps in the 25-lap race. “I ran a couple of laps down there then we went to the top.”
That is when Harris started to advance. After a lap 12 restart Harris drove around veteran Danny Wood for second and chased after Tyre. It took Harris 10 laps before he was finally able to pull even with Tyre.
“He ran a really great race,” Harris said of Tyre. “Josh is a great racer and I was finally getting lucky through (turns) three and four to get a run to catch him.
“It was really slick tonight. There was not much of a curb and there was not really anything around the bottom. You had to do a lot to the car itself to make it happen.
“My guys did a great job getting the car ready and making the changes we needed to do.
“It is my first OCRS win and it was good to get that off my check list.”
The finish:
Feature (25 laps): 1. 7F-Noah Harris[4]; 2. 55W-Danny Wood[3]; 3. 25-Joshua Tyre[1]; 4. 50Z-Zach Chappell[5]; 5. 31-Casey Wills[6]; 6. 8-Alex Sewell[7]; 7. 15D-Andrew Deal[11]; 8. 32K-Chris Kelly[12]; 9. 26M-Fred Mattox[14]; 10. 55M-Corey McGehee[20]; 11. 79-Tim Kent[13]; 12. 777-Bailey Hughes[2]; 13. 24-Ty Hulsey[17]; 14. 15-Jase Randolph[19]; 15. 18-Dillon Laden[8]; 16. 22T-Frank Taft[15]; 17. 45X-Kyler Johnson[18]; 18. 6-Alison Slaton[9]; 19. 8X-Austin Shores[10]; 20. 55-Johnny Kent[16]