LINCOLN, Ill. — Parker Jones raced from outside the third row to win Friday night’s MARA Midget feature at Lincoln Speedway.
Jones ran down early leader Mario Clouser and grabbed the lead near the midpoint of the 25-lap run on the quarter-mile race track.
Once in the lead, Jones raced away to victory with Clouser, Alex Midkiff, Jedd Ross and Daltyn England following.
The exciting move of the race came in the 20-lap green to checkered DIRTcar Modified feature. Mason Duncan held control early in the feature event but Tim Luttrell closed the gap slowly.
Luttrell found the opportunity to pounce when Duncan caught slower traffic at the back of the field. Luttrell was able to thread the needle and take the lead and eventually the win, while Duncan, Kenny Wallace, Kelly Kovski and Jared Thomas completed the top five.
The DIRTcar Pro Late Model feature had its share of excitement as last year’s champion Braden Johnson moved from his fifth starting position to run down race leader Aaron Heck.
Heck was entering the corners slowly, giving Johnson a chance to close the gap upon entry. Johnson had his shot come up just short as Heck claimed his first win in his first start of the season. Johnson, Colby Eller, Blaise Baker, and Brandon Sweitzer completed the top five.
Guy Taylor won the sportsman feature and Aaron Andruskevitch topped the 305 sprint car main event.
The finish:
Feature (25 laps): 1. 41-Parker Jones[6]; 2. 75-Mario Clouser[1]; 3. 05-Alex Midkiff[10]; 4. 99R-Jedd Ross[7]; 5. 19E-Daltyn England[12]; 6. 73W-Luke Wackerlin[5]; 7. 11K-Charles Kunz[8]; 8. 40-Jace Sparks[9]; 9. 57M-Mark McMahill[19]; 10. 6B-Patrick Bruns[11]; 11. 29-Harrison Kleven[15]; 12. 12C-Dominic Bruns[16]; 13. 18-Tyler Roth[4]; 14. 9-Keith Wilson[18]; 15. 51-Chris Young[17]; 16. (DNF) 15C-RJ Corson[2]; 17. (DNF) 20H-Reuben Haslett[13]; 18. (DNF) 36-Chris Baue[3]; 19. (DNS) 51R-Thomas Harris; 20. (DNS) 00-John Heitzman; 21. (DNS) 5-Jacob Sollenberger