RICE LAKE, Wis. – Kevin Burdick motored down the hill from Proctor Minnesota and topped a hard fought Super Stock feature race to win the $1,000-to-win feature that highlighted the racing program Saturday night at Rice Lake Speedway.
While Burdick would be scored the leader of all 20 laps of the Super Stock race, that statistic would be misleading as the win was anything but an easy one for the Minnesota driver locked in a battle for the national point title in the Super Stocks at this juncture of the season.
He would start on the outside pole and take the early lead from Eric Olson and would put some distance on the field early. Olson was under the gun as he was being pressured by Tarran Spacek for second with Dave Flynn close behind. Spacek would look low and high and would finally slip past Olson to take second with Flynn following suit a couple laps later.
The chase would then be on as Spacek was really eating up ground and by the halfway point of the race, was locked on Burdick’s rear bumper and testing the waters for an attempted pass on the leader as Flynn also started to reel in the top two.
Spacek nearly got by Burdick on two occasions, getting up to his door but not quite being able to make the pass. Then the race, which had gone sixteen laps nonstop, was slowed by the first yellow of the contest and this changed things up. There would be two more yellows in the next two laps before the race could be completed and on the final green restart, Flynn would get under Spacek to take over second and would then attack the leader, trying to drive under him.
However, Spacek fought back and while the battle for second raged, Burdick would slip away and lead the final two circuits to take the win. Flynn would settle for second and Olson would make a big comeback, slipping past Spacek on the last corner to steal third.
For Burdick, it was his first win at Rice Lake since the 2018 racing season and third of his career here. He would also become the sixth different winner in the Super Stock class this season.
Shawn Amundson was the winner in an extremely competitive Street Stock feature that had more three wide racing than double file while Mike Anderson (modifieds), James Rahn (pure stock) and Cody Carlson (Midwest modifieds) also took home wins on Saturday.