MARION, Ill. — Steven Snyder Jr. would strike at the precise moment and lead the final 22 laps in the $10,000-to-Win Eibach Racing Championship Night of the third yearly installment of the Keith Kunz Motorsports Challenge presented by Start2Finish TV to claim his 10th career victory with the POWRi Non-Wing Outlaw Micro League at Southern Illinois Raceway.
Going through a strong field of 59 entries would find Mack Leopard set the quick non-lock-in hot lap time with 9.983 seconds. Jeffrey Newell and Brant Woods would gain the semi-feature wins with Autumn Criste and Colton Robinson taking the C-feature checkers.
Automatically locking into the main event through top-four placements in preliminary night competitions, would find a ‘King of SIR’ Pole-Shuffle setting the first four starting rows with Snyder victorious over Chelby Hinton, Kole Kirkman, Justis Sokol, Kris Carroll, Johnny Boland, Frank Flud and Russ Disinger.
Soaring onto the smooth Southern Illinois Raceway surface would see high-event qualifier Snyder battle outside front-row contender Hinton as the green flew with Hinton holding the front of the field with Snyder, Justis Sokol, Johnny Boland and Kole Kirkman all staying close inside the early contending top five.
After a caution flag, low-line running Hinton would protect the front of the field from Snyder as Carroll would shoot into the final podium placement with Boland and Kirkman stayed within the running top five with the second feature caution coming on lap 13.
Refiring with perfection, high-side restarting Snyder would wheelie-ride his way into the lead on lap 14 with Hinton attempting to slide back into the top spot with Kirkman looming and Carrol right behind as Flud moved into the top five.
Resuming over a pair of late cautions with dramatic flair, Snyder would maintain the preferred position out front.
Holding steady upfront through lap traffic, Snyder would never waver to collect his fifth yearly POWRi Non-Wing Outlaw Micro victory as Kirkman would finish in the closely contended second spot from starting third with Sokol finalizing the podium placements.
“I knew the top was fast but I didn’t think it was going to be that fast that quick,” said Snyder. “I think over one of the cautions Chelby got tight and that was key to gaining the lead, and I wasn’t going to lift there going down the backstretch.”
Driving from starting fifth, Carroll would place fourth as Flud rounded out the top-five finishers.
Feature Finish (35 Laps)
1. 21S-Steven Snyder Jr[1]; 2. 22-Kole Kirkman[3]; 3. 25S-Justis Sokol[4]; 4. 5C-Kris Carroll[5]; 5. 81-Frank Flud[7]; 6. 1V-Johnny Boland[6]; 7. 24G-Greyson Springer[13]; 8. 11C-Darren Brown[24]; 9. 71K-Gavin Miller[15]; 10. 59-Brody Mclaughlin[14]; 11. 12X-Jeffrey Newell[9]; 12. 99B-Robbie Smith[20]; 13. 28H-Chelby Hinton[2]; 14. 29-Jake Andreotti[12]; 15. 33-Cruz Dickerson[19]; 16. 51B-Joe B Miller[18]; 17. 87-Mack Leopard[22]; 18. 20Q-Brecken Reese[17]; 19. 27S-Angelo Karoussis[21]; 20. 12-Brant Woods[10]; 21. 8-Brian Carber[11]; 22. 24S-Colby Sokol[23]; 23. 39-Russ Disinger[8]; 24. 10-Daniel Robinson[16].