FARLEY, Iowa – Billy Moyer Jr. turned in a picture perfect performance from start to finish Friday night, capturing the second annual Independence Day Shootout Presented by DiscountShopTowels.com at 300 Raceway.
The win was the first of the season for Moyer and first since his win at the 2020 Lucas Oil MLRA Fall Nationals last October.
The Batesville, Ark., driver started off his night by dropping a quick lap of 15.150 seconds during qualifying and soon followed that up with a win in his respective heat race. Mason Oberkramer and Jesse Stovall also laid claim to heat race wins on the night.
Moyer took control of the 40-lap affair from the start. Moyer quickly began to put separation between himself and Oberkramer as the race went green for the first 14 laps before a pair of quick back-to-back cautions slowed the action. The second of those cautions involved a number of cars when Jason Rauen got sideways in turns three and four, collecting Jason Papich, Blair Nothdurft and Terry Phillips. Only Papich would be able to continue on.
After another caution on lap 16 for debris, the race would go back green with Moyer again holding the advantage in his Clements-powered Capital Chassis. Lapped traffic would come into play this time around, as Jesse Stovall would quickly close ground on Moyer. However, on lap 29 Stovall would make contact with Tegan Evans at the entry of turn one, resulting in Evans going around and collecting the likes of Jeremiah Hurst and others.
During the final restart Moyer was once again able to quickly separate himself from Stovall and powered to the big $5,000 MLRA pay day. Stovall would continue his MLRA hot streak, coming home in the runner-up position, while Garrett Alberson took advantage of the restart opportunities to finish in third. Oberkramer, the series leading Sunoco Race Fuel Rookie of the year candidate finished in fourth while Chris Simpson finished in fifth.
“We have been really really struggling,” said Moyer. “The track kind of rubbered there, but we had to have a pretty good car there early and kind of did what we needed to do. I was really trying to preserve my tires and I told (myself) you’ve got to get the lead and that was the hard part and then the hardest is just managing your tires. I’m just glad to get a win, it has been a long long time.”
The finish:
1. 21-Billy Moyer Jr[1]; 2. 00-Jesse Stovall[3]; 3. 59-Garrett Alberson[10]; 4. 93-Mason Oberkramer[2]; 5. 32S-Chris Simpson[4]; 6. 56JR-Tony Jackson Jr[7]; 7. 22-Daniel Hilsabeck[11]; 8. 77Y-Jordan Yaggy[8]; 9. 04-Tad Pospisil[12]; 10. 29-Spencer Diercks[22]; 11. 91P-Jason Papich[9]; 12. 91T-Tony Toste[24]; 13. 41-Jeremiah Hurst[6]; 14. 3W-Brennon Willard[14]; 15. 40C-Joel Callahan[15]; 16. (DNF) T22-Tegan Evans[19]; 17. (DNF) 98-Jason Rauen[5]; 18. (DNF) 75-Terry Phillips[16]; 19. (DNF) 51F-Matt Furman[13]; 20. (DNF) 15-Justin Duty[18]; 21. (DNF) 76-Blair Nothdurft[20]; 22. (DNF) 17-Tim Simpson[17]; 23. (DNF) 44W-David Webster[21]; 24. (DNF) 25-Chad Simpson[23]