CRANDALL, Texas— For two-plus years, the hype around Corey Day’s future has continuously been building and somehow he continuously lives up to it.
On Sunday at RPM Speedway, the 18-year-old sensation earned his first Kubota High Limit Racing victory in his ninth try and he did it in simply spectacular fashion.
After starting fourth and fading to fifth, the Clovis, Calif., native used all of his experience from racing bullrings back home to propel the Jason Meyers Racing, Sander Engineering No. 14 to the front
Day drove around Brad Sweet for fourth on lap 19, then whipped around Jacob Allen for third on lap 21, then flew around Anthony Macri for second on lap 25, and finally rocketed around the outside of Kerry Madsen to take the lead on lap 29 — his fastest lap of the race at 12.948 seconds.
From there, Day set the cruise control and enjoyed a nice Sunday drive around the outside as he ran to the checkered flag to claim his first-career win with Kubota High Limit Racing. Day’s victory makes it five different winners through the opening six races.
After leading the opening 29 laps, Australian Kerry Madsen brought Brandon Ikenberry’s No. 25 home second.
Jacob Allen rallied on the final restart to put the Shark Racing No. 1a on the podium in third.
Anthony Macri and Brad Sweet rounded out the top five.
The finish:
Feature (35 Laps): 1. 14-Corey Day[4]; 2. 25-Kerry Madsen[1]; 3. 1A-Jacob Allen[3]; 4. 39M-Anthony Macri[2]; 5. 49-Brad Sweet[5]; 6. 83-James McFadden[14]; 7. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[12]; 8. 26-Zeb Wise[11]; 9. 19-Brent Marks[13]; 10. 5-Spencer Bayston[7]; 11. 5T-Ryan Timms[21]; 12. 1-Brenham Crouch[16]; 13. 42-Sye Lynch[8]; 14. 15H-Sam Hafertepe Jr[9]; 15. 8-Cory Eliason[23]; 16. 9P-Parker Price Miller[24]; 17. 88-Tanner Thorson[10]; 18. 55-Chris Windom[15]; 19. 13-Justin Peck[18]; 20. G6-Cody Gardner[20]; 21. 24-Rico Abreu[17]; 22. 9-Kasey Kahne[22]; 23. 18T-Tanner Holmes[19]; 24. 73-Hunter Schuerenberg[6]