KNOXVILLE, Iowa — Ryan Timms stalked leader Brian Brown after a late restart and made a last lap pass to capture the Randall Roofing 360 feature for the second year in a row during the Corn Belt Clash at Knoxville Raceway.
Brown shot out from the front row in the Randall Roofing 360 20-lap main event ahead of Riley Goodno, Ryan Timms, Tasker Phillips and Chris Martin.
Two laps in, Sam Hafertepe Jr. took a hard ride on the frontstretch after contact with another car. He climbed out on his own.
Tasker gained third from Timms on the restart, but on lap four, Timms roared back by in a good battle. Brown was in lapped traffic by the tenth circuit.
At that point, Timms shot around Goodno for the runner-up position. He slowly gained on Brown in the heavy lapped traffic, and was within a half second when something broke on Ryan Leavitt’s car, sending him into the turn two wall in his second hard crash in that spot this year. He climbed from the car on his own.
Martin had gotten by Goodno and Tasker for third just before the red flag period. Tasker had suffered a broken wheel and the point leader had to retire from his top five running spot.
Brown’s dilemma was where to run on the restart, and he chose the low line he’d been running. Timms chose opposite. The four-lap Dash saw Brown pull away, and then Timms gained ground on the high side of one and two, and the middle of three and four.
Coming into turn three on the final lap, Timms beat Brown to the bottom and slid into the lead and the win. Martin finished third, ahead of Austin McCarl and Goodno.
“(Owner) Shane (Liebig) was telling me to go opposite (Brown) on the restart,” said Timms. “I was going so good on the bottom, I tried to stick the bottom. He ended up running down there. I ended up making up my ground on the top, which I just didn’t think was happening in the 360 deal here. What a crazy finish…I just started inching, making up a little ground on the top of one and two there, and I was running the middle in three and four. I wasn’t really gaining a ton on him there. I caught a run on him off two and I knew that was my only opportunity. I just went down there and took it. Hats off to Brian for not squeezing me too bad there. I knew I could drive it in there, but I didn’t know I would come out first. I thought he’d get a run on the bottom off four.”
The finish:
Feature (20 Laps): 1. 10, Ryan Timms (4); 2. 21, Brian Brown (2); 3. 4, Chris Martin (6); 4. 88, Austin McCarl (5); 5. 22X, Riley Goodno (1); 6. 01, Carson McCarl (7); 7. 28, Jace Park (16); 8. 24H, Kade Higday (9); 9. 63, JJ Hickle (15); 10. 95, Matt Covington (10); 11. 11, Justin Henderson (13); 12. 9JR, Derek Hagar (11); 13. 40, Clint Garner (19); 14. 4W, Jamie Ball (8); 15. 1TZ, Tasker Phillips (3); 16. 49, Josh Schneiderman (14); 17. 7S, Sawyer Phillips (20); 18. 55B, Chase Brown (24); 19. 7, Dustin Selvage (22); 20. 7B, Ben Brown (17); 21. 83, Kurt Mueller (18); 22. 22, Ryan Leavitt (21); 23. 5A, Alex Vande Voort (23); 24. 15H, Sam Hafertepe Jr (12).
