WHEATLAND, Mo. — Clay Goodman outlasted 36 others in the inaugural Enduro Easter Bowl 150 at Lucas Oil Speedway, coming home two laps in front of runner-up Troy Mitchell in the 150-lap feature.
“I’ll get to keep that one forever,” Goodman said in victory lane, after becoming the first winner of an Enduro race at Lucas Oil Speedway.
Goodman, who started 18th, earned $1,500 for the victory in the first racing event of the 2022 Lucas Oil Speedway season.
The field was filled with street-legal cars with some racing modifications for safety.
Mitchell was a distant second and Jeremy Wilson wound up third after starting 33rd. Butch Knox was fourth and Scott Lampe, who led a race-high 77 laps, wound up fifth.
Lampe had taken over the lead on lap 83 when Sims Nick spun after encountering a lapped car, appeared to have things going his way.
But Lampe, who had put Goodman a lap down, began to slow on lap 127 with steering issues.
Lampe’s car failed to corner properly twice in turn one and Goodman was able to take advantage and drive past on lap 133. He drove away from there to prevail.
“I really appreciate everybody that helped me out on this,” Goodman said. “It feels pretty good. I didn’t expect this to happen. I’m pretty happy.”
The finish:
Feature (150 laps): 1. 32-Clay Goodman[18]; 2. 22-Troy Mitchell[17]; 3. 14-Jeremy Wilson[33]; 4. 1-Butch Knox[1]; 5. 179-Scott Lampe[12]; 6. 3-Kevin Perkins[2]; 7. 171-Eric Lampe[8]; 8. 83-Sims Nick[26]; 9. 56-Joey Prater[28]; 10. 6-Jeremy Jones[5]; 11. 412-Justin Lake[27]; 12. 06-Scott Symmonds[13]; 13. 11-Jeremy Polston[24]; 14. 42-Alex P Thomas[19]; 15. 17L-Rick Lampe[7]; 16. 174-Derek Lampe[9]; 17. 175-John Lampe[11]; 18. 32M-Michael Groesbeck[35]; 19. 1S-Rick Sharp[25]; 20. 203-George Turpin[34]; 21. 27-Payten Dinges[21]; 22. 6X-Eric Atwood[37]; 23. 777-Randall Calvert[22]; 24. 10-Josh Stringer[30]; 25. 85-Sean Steward[29]; 26. 2L-Tom Lampe[10]; 27. 2C-Kent Cruzan[31]; 28. 9-Darrin Crisler[14]; 29. 33-Michael Gillis[20]; 30. 5-Scott Benedix[4]; 31. 01-Dominick Dattoli[16]; 32. 54-Ken Snyder[6]; 33. 20-Justin Day[36]; 34. 85C-Brett Cox[3]; 35. 15T-Curt Turpin[15]; 36. 32D-Darrin Moyers[32]; 37. (DNS) 14M-Skyler Myers