A season dominated by two drivers starts with both on the inside lane up front. Tim McDonnell is the pole sitter, looking for his 2nd victory at the facility in it's three year history.

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Tony Pizzaro takes the lead on lap one as the #12 and #22 scurry away from the field. Pizzaro would lead the first 14 laps while Matt Raboin, Scott Jackson and Jimmie Stevens try to hold up the road ringers behind.

Extremely bad starting spots left many of the chase contenders in a hole from the start. Craig Lee, Dave Miller, Johnny Reed Foley and Ken Pettit endured the rapid pace of the front-goers and could not keep pace. Three of the four would finish one lap down and outside of the top-30. Foley was able to navigate to 16th with the help of a caution flag to bunch up the field.

Between laps 15 and 21, McDonnell and Pizzaro swapped the lead five different times. Later in the run, they would exchange the spot five more times before McDonnell took it outright on lap 50.

During the hard-fought battling up front, John Battista and Zach Michael scurried hard to make up the distance. It was a four-car race for the lead coming up to the halfway bacon bonus.

Battista took the lead on lap 58, keeping his pace through the first green flag pit stop. He would extend his lead by two seconds after the stops, contending with lapped traffic and putting down Pettit, Jackson and Lee.

The battle behind the four leaders and the two Quantum Racing cars proved among the best all day. John Tharp, Scott Jackson, Alex Crapser and Jimmie Stevens were in the safety zone, just inside of the top-10 and nearly completing their goal of a chase-pace finish.

After the first and only caution for debris, Dakota Wilkins took the lead and maintained it for several laps. Zakk Miller took the charge on lap 116, but had to come in for fuel just a few laps later.

Wilkins re-gained the lead and stayed through lap 122 when the rest of the field flew by with fresher tires. Tim McDonnell and John Battista made their way to a great battle towards the end.

The final 15 laps saw Battista following McDonnell through the lapped traffic and beyond. With two laps to go, Battista made his move in the second right-hander and passed the #22 machine, dropping him back to fourth after a last lap holocaust.

John Battista would win his fifth victory of the season, placing him #1 on the winner leaderboard for 2021 and up to 3rd in points. Congrats to John, crew chief Lew Money, and the entire Lucas Racing team for an excellent victory!

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