TULSA, Okla. — Collecting his second Lucas Oil Tulsa Shootout victory, Emerson Axsom added Saturday’s Stock Non-Wing Golden Driller to his collection.
Champion of the outlaw division in 2020, Axsom set a torrid pace from the start.
With traffic slowing him little, it was late-race restarts that put Alex Bright on the back bumper of the No. 13a.
Biking off the cushion with a couple of laps to run, Bright took a shot, but could not clear the Indiana racer.
With one final run off the final turn, Bright gave it everything he had but missed the win by 0.052 seconds.
Mitchell Moles crossed third, but failure to report to post-race tech resulted in disqualification. Third was credited to Shawn Mahaffey, with Ron Dennis fourth, and Thomas Kunsman in fifth.
The finish:
Feature (30 Laps): 1. 13A-Emerson Axsom[1]; 2. 20R-Alex Bright[2]; 3. 11S-Shawn Mahaffey[3]; 4. 79-Ron Dennis[4]; 5. 21K-Thomas Kunsman[17]; 6. 195-Steven Snyder Jr[8]; 7. 570-Prestyn Brown[7]; 8. 3M-Collin Mitchell[15]; 9. 14A-Braden Chiaramonte[11]; 10. 14Y-Tyler Smith[23]; 11. 10B-Brock Berreth[21]; 12. 25A-Anton Hernandez[9]; 13. 11C-Darren Brown[22]; 14. 22R-Gage Laney[16]; 15. 51K-Caleb Martin[14]; 16. 17-Quinton Benson[20]; 17. 6W-Colin White[18]; 18. 2-Travis Sullivan[13]; 19. 2W-Austin Wood[12]; 20. 41-Logan Rumsey[19]; 21. 14R-Jake Nail[24]; 22. 4X-Tyler Courtney[6]; 23. 10X-Kole Kirkman[10]; 24. (DQ) 13J-Mitchel Moles[5] ***Moles disqualified for failing to report to tech.