BELLEVILLE, Ill. — Ryan Timms made the overnight trip from wing racing in Eldora worth the haul to Spoon River Speedway to earn his sixth career feature win with the POWRi National Midget League, running in conjunction with Xtreme Outlaw Midget Series presented by Toyota, on Friday night after leading all 25 feature laps.
Early on-track excitement with twenty top-notch entries to the POWRi National Midgets running in conjunction with Xtreme Outlaw Midgets found Tyler Edwards start the action off with a track record quick time in group hot-lap qualifying with a 13.377-second lap as Cannon McIntosh, Timms and Chase McDermand each notched heat racing victories.
Setting the feature field would find the high-point qualifier McIntosh roll an invert of zero to set himself and Timms on the front row leading the field as the green flag flew with Timms gaining the initial advantage on the opening lap as McDermand, McIntosh, Edwards and Hayden Reinbold battled inside the early top five.
Quickly separating from the field, the top three with Timms, McDermand McIntosh started to search for speed around Spoon River Speedway with Reinbold and Edwards in tow within the top five as Kale Drake and Zach Daum battled intently behind.
Checking out to over a two-second advantage, Timms appeared to be the fastest of the field with McDermand and McIntosh keeping Reinbold and Drake at bay inside the running top five as Edwards, Daum, Ashton Torgerson, Gavin Miller and Jacob Denney — from starting rear in a back-up car — rounded out the running top ten.
Bunching the field back together with a lap 16 caution saw Timms pace the competition with nine laps left as McIntosh shot to second on the restart with McDermand, Reinbold and Edwards stalking the leading Timms.
Separating again by over three seconds in the closing laps of the feature, Timms would not be denied in gaining his second seasonal victory with McIntosh solidifying the runner-up spot as a late-closing hard-charging Miller finalized the podium placements in a hard-fought feature.
“I knew starting outside pole was going to be really convenient with the high line getting the early jumps, I saw Chase early but I just felt so fast and comfortable out front.” said the victorious Timms in the Spoon River winner’s circle. Adding, “I felt like running the wing car at Eldora actually helped here because I was able to just stand on it can keep this car as straight as I could.”
Flying through the field would find Reinbold finish fourth with McDermand rounding out the POWRi National Midget League, running in conjunction with the Xtreme Outlaw Midget Series presented by Toyota, top-five finishers at Spoon River Speedway.
The finish: 1. 67-Ryan Timms[2]; 2. 71K-Cannon McIntosh[1]; 3. 97-Gavin Miller[9]; 4. 19AZ-Hayden Reinbold[6]; 5. 40-Chase McDermand[3]; 6. 14S-Tyler Edwards[4]; 7. 25-Jacob Denney[10]; 8. 7U-Zach Daum[5]; 9. 97K-Kale Drake[11]; 10. 67K-Ashton Torgerson[8]; 11. 21K-Karter Sarff[7]; 12. 56D-Mitchell Davis[12]; 13. 55-Trevor Cline[13]; 14. 1K-Brayton Lynch[16]; 15. 66-Jayden Clay[18]; 16. 7T-Adam Taylor[15]; 17. 43-Gunnar Setser[14]; 18. 42-Kevin Battefeld[20]; 19. 83-Will Armitage[17]; 20. 98-Elijah Gile[19].