RICE LAKE, Wis. – Teenager Brady Larson collected his first victory in the Midwest Modified division Saturday night during a busy evening of racing at Rice Lake Speedway.
Larson started on the pole for the Midwest Modified feature and moved into the lead after battling with another teenager, Kennedy Swan, early on. The action got wild early as only two laps were completed before Shane Halopka got boosted from behind in turn one, sending him spinning. Several other cars were also involved before the action could be slowed. Fortunately, all cars were still running and the race continued.
Larson continued to lead as Travis Anderson and Halopka battled for the second spot, trading that position back and forth between them several times. While all this was going on, Larson just continued to drive up front and maintain a steady pace. Besides Anderson and Halopka, right behind them Cody Borgeson and Kent Baxter were going back and forth as they also battled for position.
Halopka went to the outside and drove around Anderson once again to reclaim second and he then made one last strong challenge for the win. One last late yellow flag set up a run to the finish and while Halopka was able to get to the rear bumper of Larson, Brady held his line and maintained his speed as he held off the last challenge and drove home for his first ever feature win at Rice Lake.
Halopka was later set back two positions for a violation on the last restart so Anderson was officially credited with second ahead of Borgeson, Halopka and Baxter.
The win by Larson set off a wild celebration, with donuts being spun on the track and dust raised in the infield as he celebrated the memorable win.
In other action, Travis Loew made a spectacular three-wide pass to win one of the best Street Stock main events seen at the track in quite some time and multi-time feature winners Mike Schnider (pure stocks), Curt Myers (super stocks) and Mike Anderson (modifieds) all added to their win totals as the regular season wrapped up on Saturday.