KNOXVILLE, Iowa — Ryan Timms stalked Brian Brown for 18 out of the 20 laps in Saturday night’s feature at the Knoxville Raceway, but pounced on a late green white checkered to steal one away from the 68 time 410 winner for his fourth win of the season on Farm Bureau Financial Services Night.
Tyler Groenendyk started on the pole and never left the bottom in a dominant 360 Randall Roofing feature performance. J Kinder started slow but used a restart with 7 laps to go to pass Brody Johnson and grab his fourth win of the season.
Parker Price Miller started on the pole of the 410 feature with Brian Brown on his outside. The fans at Knoxville were treated to the first ever showing of the “Think-n-Ink A Main Invert Draw” that was shown on DirtVision and the video boards around the track at the conclusion of the final heat races for each class. Ian Madsen drew a 6 for the invert which gave PPM and Brown the front row.
Brian Brown got around PPM on the first lap and led for a majority of the race with Kerry Madsen, Austin McCarl and Ryan Timms, who rolled off 8th, all within striking distance. Within just 8 laps, Ryan Timms got up to 2nd place running Kerry Madsen and made a daring move between the 55 and the 95 lapped car of Tyler Drueke in turn one to set his sights on Brian Brown.
Tasker Phillips had a mechanical issue and came to a stop in turn 2 which brought out the caution with 9 laps to run.
On the restart, Brown took off and Kerry Madsen slid up in front of Timms to take the 2nd spot away but was only able to hold on for a short while, as Timms got back by the very next lap. Austin McCarl was also able to work his way around Madsen with 7 laps to go.
A great story of the night throughout the feature was 18-year-old Jack Anderson. Anderson, who is currently in his first season driving a 410, started in the 14th position and had made his way all the way up to fifth before something in the left front broke which sent the 17A tumbling into the turn one fence.
Just as that wreck was happening, Ryan Timms had just completed a slider for the lead on Brown but because a lap was not complete, Timms was moved back to second on the ensuing restart.
On the final restart of the night Brian Brown got a good launch and chose to run the top in turns one and two which forced Timms to run the bottom. Timms was able to find solid grip and used a big run down the backstretch to get even with Brown as they took the white flag. In turn one on the final lap, Brown slid up to try to defend, but Timms was able to cut down and grab a run and rocket past the 21 and hold on for the victory.
“It’s definitely been a year…I never thought I’d win four 410 races at Knoxville so quick,” said Timms. “It’s just so surreal to pass a guy like Brian Brown, you know pass him once and then get a little unlucky there, but to get to capitalize on it and be able to get him again was just phenomenal. The car was great all night but I just sucked the whole time minus the feature and it was a big improvement from heat race to feature. We’re just gonna keep working on it and keep trying to perfect my craft and we’ll keep winning more races.”
The finish:
Feature (20 Laps): 1. 10-Ryan Timms[8]; 2. 21-Brian Brown[2]; 3. 88-Austin McCarl[6]; 4. 55-Kerry Madsen[5]; 5. 2M-JJ Hickle[15]; 6. 25-Jy Corbet[10]; 7. 71X-Parker Price Miller[1]; 8. 22-Riley Goodno[7]; 9. 27-Carson McCarl[12]; 10. 27W-Emerson Axsom[4]; 11. 2KS-Ian Madsen[19]; 12. 6K-Kaleb Johnson[21]; 13. 27B-Jake Bubak[16]; 14. 78-Scott Bogucki[11]; 15. 44-Chris Martin[13]; 16. 4W-Jamie Ball[3]; 17. 39-Lynton Jeffrey[9]; 18. 09-Matt Juhl[18]; 19. 49-Josh Schneiderman[23]; 20. 95-Tyler Drueke[20]; 21. 17A-Jack Anderson[14]; 22. 1-Thomas Meseraull[17]; 23. 7TZ-Tasker Phillips[22]; 24. 24-Terry McCarl[24]
