NEVADA, Mo. — Kicking off the season with a victory, Tulsa’s Sean McClelland held off the late-race charge of Landon Britt to win Saturday’s showdown at Nevada Speedway with the American Bank of Oklahoma ASCS Sooner Region and ASCS Warrior Region presented by Impact Signs, Awnings and Wraps.
Taking his win total to 21, McClelland has overtaken Kevin Ramey to become the all-time winner in ASCS Sooner Region competition.
Battling through a pair of starts with Taylor Walton, the lead only grew for McClelland, who found traffic in a matter of laps. Finding the lowside working, the race for second saw Britt move from fifth to take the spot away from Slater Helt on lap nine.
Inching closer to McClelland as the race worked into the closing laps, time was on the side of the No. 1 at the white flag, but the caution lights would be forced on by Daryn Langford, who spun with the leaders reeling him in.
With a green-white-checkered dash to the finish, Britt pulled even with McClelland twice in the first and second turns but could not get the run needed to deny McClelland the victory.
Britt finished second, followed by Helt.
The finish:
Feature (25 Laps): 1. 1-Sean McClelland[2]; 2. 10-Landon Britt[4]; 3. 22S-Slater Helt[5]; 4. 7B-Ben Brown[3]; 5. 0-Chase Porter[6]; 6. 93-Taylor Walton[1]; 7. 55B-Brandon Anderson[8]; 8. 14-Randy Martin[7]; 9. 51-Mitchell Moore[14]; 10. 88-Terry Easum[11]; 11. 32D-Daryn Langford[13]; 12. 26M-Fred Mattox[9]; 13. 7JR-JD Black[10]; 14. 30X-Larry Bratti[12]; 15. 9M-Dale McCarty[15]