BRANDON, S.D. — Ayrton Gennetten stood atop the Huset’s Speedway podium on Sunday during Goodin Company presents The Border Battle.
Gennetten held the point throughout the 25-lap Cressman Sanitation 410 Outlaw Sprint Cars main event, which paid $10,000 to win. It marked his first career victory at Huset’s Speedway.
“I’ve been wanting to win here for a long time so this is pretty badass to say the least,” he said. “Last year here I felt like I let one slip away. We’ve been really fast. I knew when we drew the two it’s like I had to get out on the start.”
Gennetten rocketed into the lead as the green flag waved with Tim Kaeding staying a close second throughout the race. Kaeding pulled nearly even with Gennetten a couple of times during the second half of the feature before a caution on Lap 23 eliminated traffic. Gennetten pulled away in the final three laps to win by 1.732 seconds.
“(Ryan) Bickett was so good on the bottom and I was like, ‘Man, I’m just going to ride next to him cause then (Kaeding) can’t slide me.’ And I knew it was rubber down so if I got up to them guys it’d allow TK to pull the trigger. That last yellow I was able to take a deep breath and focus on getting a good start.”
Kaeding’s runner-up result was his best outing of the season at Huset’s Speedway.
“Just being out front,” he said of what was the difference maker. “I didn’t want to get too close to him and get tight and drive up out of the rubber at any point.”
Christopher Thram posted a season-best third-place run at the track.
“Me and Mark (Dobmeier) had a pretty good time before the rubber came,” he said. “I felt like we were good in traffic. I could move around more, but then the rubber came. I wish we could have got up to a little more lapped traffic at the beginning of the race, but you’ve got to be happy with a third.”
Dobmeier was fourth and Dusty Zomer fifth.
J.J. Zebell was one of four different feature leaders as he posted his second Nordstrom’s Automotive Late Model Street Stocks triumph of the season at Huset’s Speedway with a last-lap pass.
Dalton Domagala earned his first career victory and became the sixth different winner in six Wyffels Hybrids RaceSaver Sprint Car Series main events at the track this season.
Feature Finish (25 Laps)
1. 14H-Ayrton Gennetten (2); 2. 3-Tim Kaeding (1); 3. 24T-Christopher Thram (4); 4. 13-Mark Dobmeier (6); 5. 3J-Dusty Zomer (8); 6. 11-Parker Price Miller (9); 7. 88-Austin McCarl (7); 8. 11M-Brendan Mullen (3); 9. 52-Blake Hahn (5); 10. 9-Chase Randall (11); 11. 16-Brooke Tatnell (17); 12. 6-Carson McCarl (12); 13. 12-Tyler Drueke (19); 14. 09-Matt Juhl (10); 15. 7-Lynton Jeffrey (18); 16. 22-Riley Goodno (14); 17. 8H-Jade Hastings (22); 18. 17B-Ryan Bickett (24); 19. 17-Lee Goos Jr (21); 20. 22K-Kaleb Johnson (20); 21. 83-Justin Henderson (13); 22. (DNF) 14T-Tim Estenson (16); 23. (DNF) 44-Chris Martin (23); 24. (DNF) 35-Zach Hampton (15).