Grain Valley, MO. (07/12/2020) Joe B Miller Picks up his 40th POWRi Engler Machine and Tool Micro Sprint win at Valley Speedway in Grain Valley Missouri. Alongside picking up his 40th POWRi career win, he makes it four in a row out of the last 6 races.
Joe B Miller started on the front row inside, with Jordan Howell starting to his outside, they lead the field to green. After a red on lap one for #97 of Scotty Milan, the field stacked back up for a complete restart. As the green flag waved, #3J of Jordan Howell took the lead with Miller falling in the second position. Miller tried the top, the middle, the bottom and finally capitalized on lap four to take the lead. As Miller took the lead, the caution flag came out for Millers teammate, Lane Warner.
Miller, Howell, Trevin Littleton, Harley Hollan, and Riley Goodno as your top five will lead the field to the green flag with four laps in. Miller off to a good start, started walking away with the lead. Hollan took over the second position and tried to hunt down Miller. He will lead with a 1.819 second advantage over second place Hollan with 13 laps to go. As the battle up front continued, the fight for third, fourth, and fifth was on. Goodno, Bryant Wiedeman, and Littleton all battled for the positions. Goodno fell into the third position, Wiedeman took fourth and Littleton rounding out your top five.
Joe B. Miller hit lapped traffic and extended his lead with 2.5 seconds over Hollan. As the white flag dropped a caution occurred on the backstretch for #2 Chase Porter. Going back green, coming to a green-white-checkered. Miller still in control, Hollan in the second position, Wiedeman in third, Goodno in fourth, and Littleton rounding out your top five for the second and final night at Thunder in the Valley.
“He was rolling the middle pretty good, I was just going to watch and see if it rubbered up, up there he is always really good once you get momentum in the middle.” Stated Miller about keeping the lead from Hollan with the late caution.
“We found a little with keeping the momentum through the middle and we just couldn’t get him.” Comments Harley Hollan
“It felt really good, especially with two people like this in front of me. Two veterans of the sport, just an honor to be running with them, and it was a fun track tonight.” Stated Bryant Wiedeman coming off of his career best finish tonight at Valley Speedway.
Advanced Racing Suspensions Heat 1 Winner: 11 - RILEY GOODNO
Lightning Wings Heat 2 Winner: 44 - BRANIGAN ROARK
Bell Helmet High Point: 51B - JOE B MILLER
Diversified Machine Inc. Hard Charger: 14H - HARLEY HOLLAN
Engler Machine & Tool Feature Winner: 51B - JOE B MILLER
POWRi Engler Machine & Tool 600cc Outlaw Micro League Feature Results (20 laps): 1. 51B - JOE B MILLER 2. 14H - HARLEY HOLLAN 3. 1 - BRYANT WIEDEMAN 4. 11 - RILEY GOODNO 5. 44T - TREVIN LITTLETON 6. 3J - JORDAN HOWELL 7. 35 - AUBREY SMITH 8. 74 - XAVIER DONEY 9. 18 - WYATT SIEGEL 10. 4 - MARIAH EDE 11. 5A - AVA GROPP 12. 44 - BRANIGAN ROARK 13. 6 - CHRISTOPHER TOWNSEND 14. 2 - CHASE PORTER 15. 122 - LANE WARNER 16. 97 - SCOTTY MILAN
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