Ryan Heuser comes into Michigan looking to win three-straight events. He has to endure the entire Race-2-Win Motorsports team to do so, as they occupy three of the top-4 positions to start the event. If anything goes wrong for the #138, only Tony Pizzaro can realistically come out ahead of him as the points leader. They are both the odds-on favorites to win today.

Race Results

Points Standings

Schedule

Lap 1 already saw catastrophe on the backstretch. Bill Werkhesier and Tony Pizzaro made contact off of turn-2, sending Pizzaro for a tailspin across the racetrack. Adam Crapser nailed him, flying into traffic and starting a double-digit car incident as the entire track filled with smoke. Pizzaro, Crapser, Randy Dobbins and Zakk Miller recieved the most damage and remained un-competitive all day.

Bill was involved in another heavy accident on lap 19. This time, he was the doing the heavy-hitting, flipping over after immaculate contact with the outside wall and sliding to a stop on the turn-2 apron. He would end up okay, finishing 35th in the event. Lap 28 saw Glenn Kaufmann, Adam Crapser and Mark Guthrie all go for spins in the same corner, all hitting the wall but continuing on.

Alan Nesfeder led a good portion of the first 20 laps. After pit stops, Scott Deutsch took the lead by staying out, as Scott Jackson and the freight-train flew by with ease. Matt Raboin, Johnny Reed Foley, Ken Pettit, and Scott all swapped the lead for the next 10 laps. Craig Lee would dominate the event from lap 40 to lap 50.

Ben Geer and Ken Pettit tandemed from lap 54 to lap 60, tying to pull away from the field. It did not work, as Alan was able to run them down with the help of Alex Crapser and fly by both of them in turn-2. He would lead the next 15 laps before Tim McDonnell took charge.

Alex Crapser and Mark Murphy made contact in turn-3 on lap 78. The result was pure chaos, as Jack Paynter, Jimmie Stevens, Jonathan Skrabacz and Brandon Raines all slammed into the two near-stopped cars as they slid back onto the racetrack. Crapser, Paynter and Raines were all out, while Skrabacz would struggle to continue before blowing up 54 laps later.

Tim dominated the show towards the halfway point, leading 21 total laps before handing the lead to Ken Pettit on lap 96. 15 laps later, Ben Geer made a bold three-wide move to pass both Ken and Tim for the lead entering turn-1, completing the pass successfully. He would lead for 2 laps before Scott Jackson took the top-spot.

Scott and Ryan Heuser would battle for the lead tooth and nail during the next green flag run. They swapped the lead 8 times in 48 laps, battling lapped-traffic while staying in each other's draft line. They came in to pit with just 39 laps to go.

David Butterworth went for a turn-3 spin near the end of green flag pit stops. Only four cars didn't pit, with John Tharp at the helm and Scott Jackson barely staying ahead of him to take the caution flag. Ryan Heuser barely got trapped a lap down, along with the rest of the field. Scott, John, Ken Pettit, Rick Jackson and Craig Lee would battle it out for the win.

With the entire field ahead of the leaders, Scott got mired in heavy traffic, handing the lead to Ken. He flew by on the inside with Craig Lee behind, but endured the same issue. John Tharp and Rick Jackson were able to pass Craig and make a charge, with Rick flying b the #14 with 20 laps to go. He was three second behind, but would work it to 7/10th's of a second by the 10-to-go mark. After passing the lapped cars of Brain Lowe and Dave Miller, he was right on his tail.

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