Justin Grant Goes Off The Wall For USAC #LetsRaceTwo Win At Eldora Speedway
Justin Grant Goes Off The Wall For USAC #LetsRaceTwo Win At Eldora Speedway
Justin Grant used every inch of Eldora Speedway and more on his way to winning Friday's USAC Sprint Car #LetsRaceTwo race.
Justin Grant knows about the wall.
It can be treacherous. It can bend and break the parts on a race car. It can ruin a perfectly good evening at the racetrack, and in most cases, it’s a place to stay away from.
But there’s also the flip-side of the wall. Jimmy Bryan busted through the wooden fence to win at the Arizona State Fairgrounds in 1957. Jack Hewitt routinely used Eldora’s outside wall to glance off and propel himself down the straightaways to many a victory in his legendary domination of the place. Ross Chastain entertained with a viral video game-like wall ride on the final lap at Martinsville in 2022.
A couple bumps and scrapes here and there for the right rear and the right front against Eldora’s concrete was more or less a no-harm, no-foul situation in deterring Grant’s ultimate goal during Friday night’s #LetsRaceTwo opener for the USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship at Rossburg, Ohio’s Eldora Speedway in which he netted a $10,000 sum for his victorious efforts.
Grant’s margin of victory was 2.347 seconds at the stripe. Brady Bacon was scored second at the line with Kyle Cummins third, Emerson Axsom fourth and Kevin Thomas Jr. fifth.
USAC Sprint Cars At Eldora Speedway Highlights
Highlights: Watch highlights from Friday's USAC #LetsRaceTwo sprint car race at Eldora Speedway.
Winning Quote From Justin Grant
“I cleaned the right front off it, and I cleaned the right rear corner off it. (Crew Chief) Dylan (Cook) said, ‘Hey, you were like a half lap ahead.’ But when I tried to slow down, that’s when I’d hit the fence. I was better off just ringing laps.”
USAC Sprints #LetsRaceTwo Eldora Speedway Results
Position | Driver |
1 | Justin Grant |
2 | Brady Bacon |
3 | Kyle Cummins |
4 | Emerson Axsom |
5 | Kevin Thomas, Jr. |
6 | Scotty Weir |
7 | C.J. Leary |
8 | Kody Swanson |
9 | Jake Swanson |
10 | Mitchel Moles |
11 | Chase Stockon |
12 | Dallas Hewitt |
13 | Robert Ballou |
14 | Brandon Mattox |
15 | Briggs Danner |
16 | Daison Pursley |
17 | Matt Westfall |
18 | Logan Seavey |
19 | Eddie Tafoya Jr. |
20 | Jadon Rogers |
21 | Carson Garrett |
22 | Max Adams |
23 | Dalton Stevens |
USAC National Sprint Car Point Standings After Eldora Speedway
With his victory on Friday night, Justin Grant extends his lead to 42 points over Brady Bacon. Behind Grant, the standing are tight with Bacon, Emerson Axsom and C.J. Leary all within four points.