ODESSA, Mo. — A 45-day and 13-race winless streak was snapped on Friday night at I-70 Speedway as Corey Day won on the opening night of the Rayce Rudeen Foundation Race.
Coming from the fourth position, the Clovis, Calif., native quickly took the Jason Meyers Racing, Sander Engineering No. 14 to the second spot and trailed early leader Chase Randall for the majority of the 25-lapper at the half-mile.
With lapped traffic in play and clogging the leader’s preferred line, the deciding moment of the race came on lap 20 when Day was able to rocket out of turn two and fly around the outside of Randall’s TKS Motorsports No. 2ks to steal the lead as they came to the five-to-go signal.
From there, the 18-year-old held his own in traffic and survived to collect his first win since April 23 at Riverside Int’l Speedway. It was Day’s fourth win of the season.
Brad Sweet, who had previously never lost at I-70 — sweeping a World of Outlaws weekend in 2021 — finished second thanks to a last-corner pass aboard the Kasey Kahne Racing No. 49. The championship leader now owns a 61-point advantage following his 11th podium finish.
After leading the opening 19 laps, Randall rounded out the podium with a career-best third-place finish with Kubota High Limit Racing.
In the hunt for the Knoxville Raceway track championship, his TKS team will head to Iowa on Saturday night.
With Randall forfeiting his lock-in spot, Brian Brown is slated to assume that position as the third-highest finishing car that returns on Saturday. Meaning, Day, Sweet and Brown would lock-in to heat races.
The finish:
Feature (25 Laps): 1. 14-Corey Day[4]; 2. 49-Brad Sweet[3]; 3. 2KS-Chase Randall[2]; 4. 21-Brian Brown[1]; 5. 5-Spencer Bayston[8]; 6. 26-Zeb Wise[6]; 7. 83-James McFadden[16]; 8. 19-Brent Marks[7]; 9. 13-Justin Peck[5]; 10. 24-Rico Abreu[9]; 11. 88-Tanner Thorson[23]; 12. 8-Cory Eliason[18]; 13. 39M-Anthony Macri[17]; 14. 42-Sye Lynch[14]; 15. 1A-Jacob Allen[21]; 16. 3-Ayrton Gennetten[22]; 17. 55-Chris Windom[20]; 18. 9P-Parker Price Miller[11]; 19. 1-Brenham Crouch[13]; 20. 9-Kasey Kahne[15]; 21. 12X-Roger Crockett[10]; 22. 45X-Jace Park[24]; 23. 7BC-Tyler Courtney[12]; 24. 19H-Hunter Schuerenberg[19]
