BRANDON, S.D. — Ryan Timms, Hunter Hanson and Shaun Taylor cashed in at Huset’s Speedway on Sunday during Royal River Casino Night.
Timms produced his track-best fourth feature victory of the season by leading the entirety of the Cressman Sanitation 410 Outlaw Sprint Cars main event, which was co-sanctioned with the Cressman Sanitation Midwest Sprint Touring Series 410 Sprint Cars.
It was his third MSTS 410 Sprint Cars win of the season.
“At the beginning of the night I thought it’d be just dry slick to the wall, really wide, two lanes,” he said. “The track kept getting better and better. I got going around there. I was watching the board and looking at the difference between me and second. I was really good in (turns) one and two the whole time on the bottom. It was a really good race. I wasn’t sure what to do on that (final) restart, but I’m glad it worked out.”
The only thing that slowed Timms was a red flag on Lap 2 followed by cautions on Lap 10 and Lap 24, setting up a green-white-checkered finish.
While Timms was strong out front, the show after the final restart was Gage Pulkrabek, who jumped to the top of the track and hustled from fifth on the final restart to a career-best second-place finish.
“I just seen it was a good time when everyone went to the bottom,” he said. “It means everything.”
Matt Juhl rounded out the podium for his season-best result at the track.
“The last couple of years have been really tough, but it’s good to be standing up here,” he said.
Mark Dobmeier advanced from 10th to fourth place and points leader Kaleb Johnson was fifth.
Hanson became the ninth different Heser Auto & Detailing RaceSaver Sprint Car Series feature winner in nine races at the track this season. It marked the first career win at Huset’s Speedway for the 15-year-old.
“It means a lot,” he said. “We’ve been racing here pretty much every weekend since I started racing sprint cars. We’ve come close before, but hadn’t been able to fully complete a full night.”
Hanson held off Zach Patterson through the first half of the race before Brady Donnohue moved into second place near the midpoint of the 20-lap feature. Donnohue – like Patterson before him – attempted to make the top of the track work to make a bid for the lead, but Hanson was consistent on the favored bottom lane to win by 0.855 seconds.
Donnohue ran second with points leader Dylan Waxdahl placing third. John Lambertz was fourth and Patterson finished fifth.
Taylor led the distance of the 18-lap Nordstrom’s Automotive Late Model Street Stocks main event for his second triumph of the season at the track.
It marked his 10th division win and his 30th career victory at Huset’s Speedway.
“The car handles like a dream,” he said. “I’ve got to thank my wife and kids at home for letting me do what I love to do. It’s really special tonight. My son is here. He’s never been to a win ever. He’s 8-years-old. I’m just blessed to be here.”
While Taylor paced the field for the duration of the race, Tim Dann ran a close second throughout. Dann favored the very bottom lane of the track – a car length lower than Taylor – and nearly pulled even in the waning laps before finishing 0.225 seconds behind Taylor.
Matt Steuerwald finished third with Ryan DeBoer ending fourth and J.J. Zebell fifth.
The finish:
Feature (25 Laps): 1. 10-Ryan Timms (1); 2. G5-Gage Pulkrabek (4); 3. 09-Matt Juhl (2); 4. 13-Mark Dobmeier (10); 5. 6K-Kaleb Johnson (6); 6. 45X-Landon Crawley (5); 7. 11M-Brendan Mullen (14); 8. 64-Andy Pake (15); 9. 24T-Christopher Thram (7); 10. 14H-Kelby Watt (13); 11. 16-Riley Goodno (16); 12. 83JR-Sam Henderson (21); 13. 27-Weston Olson (9); 14. 96-Blaine Stegenga (19); 15. 31-Koby Werkmeister (17); 16. 35-Skylar Prochaska (24); 17. 80P-Jacob Peterson (22); 18. 95-Tyler Drueke (23); 19. (DNF) 10J-Justin Jacobsma (18); 20. (DNF) 53-Jack Dover (11); 21. (DNF) 9-Dominic Dobesh (12); 22. (DNF) 10X-Trevor Serbus (8); 23. (DNF) 23W-Scott Winters (3); 24. (DNS) 2-Alex Pettas.
