Matt Westfall Wins First USAC Race In 17 Years At Texarkana
Matt Westfall Wins First USAC Race In 17 Years At Texarkana
Matt Westfall worked the bottom of the Texarkana 67 Speedway to perfection and won his first USAC Sprint Car race in 17 years.
Seventeen years, two months and twenty-three days.
That was the wait Matt Westfall endured between his first and second career USAC AMSOIL Sprint Car National Championship feature victories.
The dash in the years between his 2006 triumph at Ohio’s Eldora Speedway and Saturday night’s score at Arkansas’ Texarkana 67 Speedway was filled with countless hours of traveling the country chasing everything from sprint cars to midgets to Silver Crown cars to late models to modifieds to SpeedSTRs and nearly everything else in between.
However, the feeling of joy he experienced to finally put a cap on the gap between USAC win number one and two was both satisfying and gratifying for the 46-year-old Pleasant Hill, Ohio native who led all 30 laps in his Ray Marshall Motorsports/Buckeye Machine – Hempy Water/DRC/Gressman Chevy.
USAC Sprint Car Highlights From Texarkana 67 Speedway
Winning Quote From Matt Westfall
“It’s unbelievable, When I won my first one back in ‘06, I told my dad I could retire. We’ve been going up and down the road the last couple years with USAC and we got going really good at the end of last year. Then they came out with a new tire this year and I’ve struggled ever since. We went back to the main game plan, and it worked out tonight.”
USAC Sprint Car Results From Texarkana 67 Speedway
1. Matt Westfall (3)
2. C.J. Leary (5)
3. Chase Stockon (10)
4. Justin Grant (7)
5. Mitchel Moles (8)
6. Emerson Axsom (9)
7. Jake Swanson (6)
8. Robert Ballou (1)
9. Cody Gardner (14)
10. Kyle Cummins (16)
11. Paul White (17)
12. Daison Pursley (13)
13. Kyle Jones (21)
14. Brody Roa (2)
15. Brady Bacon (4)
16. Logan Seavey (12)
17. Jason Howell (18)
18. Jack Hoyer (11)
19. Jadon Rogers (20)
20. Eddie Tafoya Jr. (19),
21. Kevin Thomas Jr. (15)
22. Justin Zimmerman (22)
USAC National Sprint Car Point Standings
Justin Grant leads the USAC Sprint Car point standings by nine points over Brady Bacon. Emerson Axsom, Kyle Cummins and Jake Swanson complete the top five in the standings.
Full USAC Sprints Points Standings
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