For practically the entire first half of Wednesday night’s USAC Indiana Midget Week opener at Lawrenceburg Speedway, Ryan Timms wasn’t going much of anywhere.

That’s when the Oklahoma City, Okla. native took to the high side of the 3/8-mile and never wavered from it, thus propelling himself from the 12th starting position to the lead with four laps remaining en route to capturing his second consecutive USAC NOS Energy Drink Midget National Championship victory at The Burg in as many tries in as many years.

The 30-lap barnburner featured six lead changes, the most in a USAC Indiana Midget Week main event since the Kokomo Speedway round a decade ago in 2014. Wednesday’s race was just one shy of the all-time IMW record of seven lead changes turned in during the 2007 event at Kokomo.

At the wheel  of his Keith Kunz-Curb-Agajanian Motorsports/JBL Audio – IWX – Mobil 1/LynK/Speedway Toyota, Timms provided Mike Curb his milestone 200th career victory as USAC national entrant, the first to reach the double-century mark in series history.

“I had no idea that was a thing going into tonight,” Timms admitted. “But now that I know, it’s pretty awesome. Not many people get a chance to run for this amazing team. To be able to get that opportunity to win 200, it feels really good to get it done.”

For team principal Keith Kunz, he and Curb – along with Cary Agajanian – have been longtime partners on their racing activities dating back to the 2012 season. Since that point in time, 115 of Curb’s 200 victories have occurred in association with Kunz, bringing an immense amount of pride for Kunz to be a part of this monumental occasion.

“Mike’s been with us for 13 years, and we’ve won a lot of championships together,” Kunz reminisced. “Mike has supported racing from all the way back in the 1970s. Two-hundred career USAC national wins for a car owner is just phenomenal. We’re really proud to be partners with Mike Curb.”

USAC Indiana Midget Week Results at Lawrenceburg Wednesday

1. Ryan Timms (12)

2. Daison Pursley (5)

 3. Emerson Axsom (2)

4. Cannon McIntosh (7)

 5. Hayden Reinbold (4)

6. Justin Grant (18)

7. Taylor Reimer (15)

 8. Zach Wigal (6)

9. Jacob Denney (11)

10. Zach Daum (3)

11. Kale Drake (20)

12. Jade Avedisian (14)

 13. Kevin Thomas Jr. (9)

 14. Michael Pickens (17)

 15. Gavin Miller (13)

16. Lance Bennett (23)

17. Logan Seavey (1)

18. Kyle Jones (19)

19. Kaiden Manders (8)

20. Chase McDermand (10)

21. Ricky Lewis (21)

22. Jake Andreotti (16)

23. Adam Bolyard (22)

24. Ethan Mitchell (24)

25. Hank Davis (25)