LOGANSPORT, Ind. — Johnny Boland would blast to the lead on lap four to win Eibach Racing Preliminary Night Two of the third yearly installment of the Keith Kunz Motorsports Challenge presented by Start2Finish TV claiming his first career victory with the POWRi Non-Wing Outlaw Micro League at US-24 Speedway.
Going through a strong split-field of 32 entries on prelim night would find Boland set the quick qualifying time with a time of 12.107 seconds. Brian Carber, Jeffrey Newell, Cruz Dickerson and Russ Disinger would each emerge victorious in heat racing action with Brian Carber, Jake Andreotti and Cruz Dickerson all earning wins in qualifier competitions as Justis Sokol would gain the semi-feature win.
Flying onto the smooth US-24 Speedway surface for Eibach Racing Preliminary Night Two feature racing would see high-point qualifier Gavin Miller battle outside front-row contender Dickerson as the green flew with Miller holding the front of the field with Boland, Dickerson, Andreotti and Carber all staying close inside the early contending top five with a caution flag waving on lap three.
Restarting with the POWRi choose-cone coming into play, Boland would make a bold move off turn four to overtake for the lead with Miller staying closely behind in second while the top two separated from the field.
Bunching the field back together for a lap 10 restart, Boland would blaze a trail out front separating gradually from a second-running Miller as the laps began to tick away with Carber getting past Dickerson ahead of Jake Nail rounding out the top five with less than five laps remaining.
Never wavering out front would find Boland holding steady up front for his first career POWRi Non-Wing Outlaw Micro victory as leader of three laps Miller would finish in the closely contended second spot with Carber finalizing the podium placements.
“Car stuck to the bottom really well and this car was easy to drive so we were good,” said Boland. “It’s been awesome racing so far but tomorrow is a new day and we’ll go work on the car some more tonight to be ready.”
Driving from starting 10th, Nail would place fourth asDickerson rounded out the top-five finishers.
Feature Finish (25 Laps)
1. 1V-Johnny Boland[3]; 2. 71K-Gavin Miller[1]; 3. 8C-Brian Carber[5]; 4. 14R-Jake Nail[10]; 5. 33-Cruz Dickerson[2]; 6. 29A-Jake Andreotti[4]; 7. 28P-Gunnar Pio[9]; 8. 12K-Jeffrey Newell[8]; 9. 95-Parker Perry[6]; 10. 21-Mason Beinhower[15]; 11. 20Q-Brecken Reese[12]; 12. 28-Chelby Hinton[14]; 13. 2D-Cole Dewease[20]; 14. 25S-Justis Sokol[17]; 15. 71IRP-Biscuit Williams[18]; 16. 87-Mack Leopard[22]; 17. 75-Blayne Buntin[19]; 18. 29-David Camden[21]; 19. 93-Matt Carr[13]; 20. 39-Russ Disinger[7]; 21. 96-Beau Brandon[11]; 22. 00T-TJ Stark[16].