ELDON, Mo. — Adding Lake Ozark Speedway to his list of winning destinations, Blake Hahn broke into victory lane at the one-third-mile oval with flag-to-flag coverage of the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series presented by the MAVTV Motorsports Network on night one of the Fall Sprint Car and Midget Nationals.
Winning in the tour’s 19th visit to Lake Ozark Speedway, Hahn’s win is career victory No. 18 with the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series presented by the MAVTV Motorsports Network and his second National Tour score of the season.
“The car was really good tonight. It pretty much went anywhere I wanted it to go, and it just feels good to finally come here and get a win with the National Tour. We’ve had some rough nights here, so this is nice,” Hahn said. “Glad to be out here and keeping our momentum going we built during Speedweek. We came out of that, won at Lakeside a month ago, and followed that with some decent runs at Knoxville, and tonight, I feel like we were able to build on that, so I’m looking forward to tomorrow to see if we can do it again.”
Getting the lead at the start after a quick challenge from Landon Crawley, Hahn was able to run away quickly. Working through a few mid-race cautions and stoppages that positioned slower cars in the lineup, Hahn was stalked by Sam Hafertepe Jr., who shot from eighth to second by lap five.
One final caution on lap 17, the two aligned bumper to bumper with Hafertepe looking to the hub while Hahn shot to the cushion. Pulling away once again, the Hills Racing No. 15h had his hands full with Joe B. Miller in hot pursuit.
To third from 13th, Miller worked numerous lines on Hafertepe with the Texas shoe able to fend off the challenges.
Finding traffic with a pair of laps to run, the slower cars allowed Hafertepe to make up some time, but there was not enough with the Sage Fruit Co. No. 52 streaking to the win with 1.461 seconds to spare.
Hafertepe, in second, would be joined by Joe B. Miller in third for his first career podium run with the Lucas Oil American Sprint Car Series presented by the MAVTV Motorsports Network.
Derek Hagar, who ran up to third through the race’s mid-point, ended up fourth, with Matt Covington in fifth.
The finish:
Feature (25 Laps): 1. 52-Blake Hahn[1]; 2. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr[8]; 3. 51B-Joe B Miller[13]; 4. 9JR-Derek Hagar[6]; 5. 95-Matt Covington[7]; 6. 98P-Miles Paulus[14]; 7. 14-Jordon Mallett[17]; 8. 36-Jason Martin[18]; 9. 47X-Dylan Westbrook[10]; 10. 187-Landon Crawley[2]; 11. 47-Dale Howard[20]; 12. 10P-Dylan Postier[3]; 13. 45X-Kyler Johnson[19]; 14. 17B-Ryan Bickett[23]; 15. 1X-Tim Crawley[11]; 16. 10-Landon Britt[16]; 17. 55B-Brandon Anderson[5]; 18. 2C-Wayne Johnson[4]; 19. 23-Seth Bergman[9]; 20. 9-Chase Randall[15]; 21. 21-Gunner Ramey[21]; 22. 14E-Kyle Bellm[12]; 23. 86-Timothy Smith[22]