If you’re only going to have the lead for one lap, the last lap is a good one to lead.
That was the case for Brooke Tatnell (San Souci, NSW) as he drive the DeWall Racing No. 16 to a win in the Casey’s 410 Sprint Cars feature Sunday at Huset’s Speedway in Brandon.
Justin Henderson (Tea, S.D.) paced the field for the first 24 laps during a race that featured a trio of restarts in the final five laps.
The final caution of the feature set up a green-white-checkered finish and 12th-starting Ryan Timms (Oklahoma City) darted from third to second in turns one and two before he slid Henderson for the top spot in turn four as the white flag was being waved. Henderson turned underneath Timms to regain the lead before the flag stand. Both drivers entered turn one low and slid up the track into turn two.
The battle for the top spot was side by side as the duo exited the corner, but contact forced both drivers sideways and toward the infield down the backstretch. That allowed Tatnell to drive by for the lead entering turn three and win by 0.731 seconds.
Here’s the final lap as seen on Dirt Vision:
“You can never give up,” Tatnell said in Victory Lane. “Don’t ever give up until the checkered flag drops. It’s awesome for this team. I’ve won races that way. I’ve lost races that way. The scoreboard says No. 16 up front.”
Austin McCarl (Altoona) also capitalized by maneuvering into second place during the last-lap incident.
Points leader Matt Juhl (Tea, S.D.) finished fourth and Brendan Mullen (Grand Forks) was fifth.
Tatnell set quick time during qualifying before Riley Goodno (Knoxville), Kaleb Johnson (Sioux Falls) and Ian Madsen (St Mary’s, NSW) posted heat race victories.
Brandon Bosma (Rock Rapids) hustled from the eighth starting position and led the final two laps to garner his third Wyffels Hybrids RaceSaver Sprint Car Series triumph of the season at Huset’s.
John Lambertz (Sioux Falls) with Bayley Ballenger (Hasrrisburg, S.D.) rounding out the podium.
Jackson Motorplex
There are two events at Jackson Motorplex this week during the Jackson County Fair.
Tuesday is Fan Appreciation Night and admission is only $1.
It’s the final scheduled Bank Midwest IMCA Series race of the season with IMCA modifieds, IMCA sport mods, IMCA hobby stocks, IMCA sport compacts and IMCA stock cars during a $1,000-to-win Stock Car Challenge.
Brandon Beckendorf, Jared Boumeester, Jeffrey Larson, Malik Sampson and Jaedon Erickson were feature winners during the only IMCA Series event at the track this season.
On Friday it will be the third $3,000-to-win Midwest Power Series and Midwest Sprint Touring Series 360 winged sprint car show as well as the Wyffels Hybrids RaceSaver Sprint Car Series.
Aaron Reutzel and Chase Randall have split the two 360 sprint car features at the track this season.
Jody Rosenboom has won two of the three RaceSaver Sprint Car Series main events, with Trevor Serbus claiming the other.
Fairmont Raceway
Wednesday will be Stock The Classroom Teachers Appreciation Night with vintage cars at Fairmont.
On the program are B-Mods, Hobby Stocks, Modifieds, Stock Cars, and Tuners.
Knoxville Raceway
Aaron Reutzel (Clute, Tex.) was the 410 winner and Brian Brown (Grain Valley, Mo.) won the 360 feature Saturday at Knoxville.
Brown was second in the 410 feature with Chase Randall (Waco, Tex.) third.
Skylar Prochaska (Lakefield) was 13th in the A after finishing fifth in his heat.
Rounding out the 360 podium with Brown were Terry McCarl (Altoona) and Reutzel.
Kaleb Johnson was fifth in the feature after finishing third in his heat.