SPENCER, Iowa — Picking up $5,000 at the Battle of the Blue Ribbon presented by DeBerg Concrete Tuesday night at Clay County Fair Speedway, Terry McCarl collected his 15th career victory with the American Sprint Car Series.
The 15th driver to top the American Sprint Car Series this season, McCarl’s last win with the series came 126 events ago on Oct. 31, 2019, at the Texas Motor Speedway Dirt Track.
“I had a great car right off the bat. I love the feel of these dished wings. I always give my boys crap. They think I’m old and stupid for running them, but it’s just a feel I like in the car and the track wasn’t laying rubber, but it was cleaning off,” said McCarl. “It feels great to win, and it’s hard to win anywhere, but on the national level with these ASCS guys, they’re a great group of guys, you know, and here; I’ve never really run that well here in Spencer. In fact, this is my first win here.”
Getting the lead on the opening lap, the Country Builder Construction/Justice Brothers No. 24 led from start to finish at the three-eighths-mile oval. Finding traffic late in the non-stop feature event did little to slow the wily veteran, who pulled away to a 3.719-second advantage at the checkered flag.
Matt Covington chased McCarl the full distance, while Zane DeVault marched through the field from 11th starting spot to finish third.
Blake Hahn and Brandon Anderson rounded out the top five.
Tuesday’s field had 31 drivers drawing in. Hahn was the overall quick qualifier at 14.283 seconds.
The finish:
Feature (25 Laps): 1. 24-Terry McCarl[2]; 2. 95-Matt Covington[4]; 3. 6Z-Zane DeVault[12]; 4. 52-Blake Hahn[1]; 5. 55B-Brandon Anderson[6]; 6. 19-Ayrton Gennetten[9]; 7. 44-Chris Martin[3]; 8. 3-Howard Moore[8]; 9. 24T-Christopher Thram[10]; 10. 36-Jason Martin[7]; 11. 4W-Jamie Ball[11]; 12. 45X-Kyler Johnson[20]; 13. 53-Jack Dover[13]; 14. 6-Christopher Townsend[18]; 15. 91-Michael Day[14]; 16. 22-Riley Goodno[19]; 17. 14-Jordon Mallett[15]; 18. 18-Corbin Erickson[16]; 19. 83-Sam Henderson[17]; 20. 23M-Lance Moss[22]; 21. 05-Colin Smith[21]; 22. 35-Skylar Prochaska[5]; 23. 10-Landon Britt[23]