SARVER, Pa. — It was by no means a matter of if, however when Tanner Thorson would win his first Kubota Excessive Restrict Racing function. He answered that query in a powerful trend on Friday evening at Lernerville Speedway.
In his 84th try — after 5 runner-up outcomes — the Minden, Nevada, native lastly loved his first style of Whiskey Meyers Victory Lane, and he did it with an excellent drive from Twelfth-to-first, capped with a late-race go over six-time and defending champion Brad Candy.
Coming from the surface of row six, Thorson shortly labored his Rod Gross Motorsports No. 88 into the top-five by the point the one and solely warning of the race flew on Lap 8 of 30. He quickly jumped into third by Lap 3, handed for second on Lap 20, after which ran down “The Massive Cat” for the win.
In addition to his split-field preliminary rating on the Gold Cup Race of Champions final August, it was Thorson’s first official victory on the nationwide stage of winged dash automotive racing – coming in his 107th A-Foremost between World of Outlaws and Excessive Restrict competitors.
His rating from Twelfth marks the second-farthest a winner has ever began in Kubota Excessive Restrict Racing – solely topped by Corey Day’s Fifteenth-to-1st drive at Lake Ozark Speedway in June 2024.
It was a wildly fashionable win each in-person and on-line as Thorson grew to become the sixteenth totally different workforce win this season.
Hoping to finish a two-month winless drought, however falling three laps shy, was Candy with a runner-up outcome after he led the opening 27 laps at Lernerville.
Though the agony of defeat weighed on the NAPA Auto Elements No. 49 crew, it was nonetheless a worthwhile evening for the Kasey Kahne Racing bunch as they closed to 33-points out of the all-important Kubota Excessive Restrict Racing Proprietor Championship lead.
Rounding out the rostrum with a last-lap go was Daison Pursley within the Buch Motorsports No. 13. The main contender for the Rayce Rudeen Basis Rookie of the Yr snookered Justin Peck on the ultimate circuit to nail down his second podium during the last two weeks.
Thorson, Candy and Pursley are actually locked-in for warmth races in Saturday’s $30,000-to-win, $2,000-to-start finale of the Commonwealth Conflict.
The end:
Function (30 Laps): 1. 88-Tanner Thorson[12]; 2. 49-Brad Candy[1]; 3. 13-Daison Pursley[2]; 4. 26-Justin Peck[3]; 5. 42-Sye Lynch[19]; 6. 69K-Ryan Smith[6]; 7. 24-Rico Abreu[8]; 8. 7BC-Giovanni Scelzi[4]; 9. 19-Brent Marks[9]; 10. 14-Justin Sanders[10]; 11. 39M-Anthony Macri[13]; 12. 55-Logan Wagner[7]; 13. 9-Chase Randall[21]; 14. 17GP-Tim Shaffer[18]; 15. 71-Parker Value Miller[15]; 16. 24D-Danny Sams III[22]; 17. 87-Aaron Reutzel[20]; 18. 5J-Jeremy Weaver[11]; 19. 1A-Ashton Torgerson[5]; 20. 11-Carl Bowser[14]; 21. 5-Brenham Crouch[16]; 22. 2-AJ Flick[24]; 23. 46-Michael Bauer[23]; 24. 21-Carmen Perigo Jr[17]
