Night #1 Gateway Dirt Nationals presented by MPM Marketing

Night #1 is in the books and your winners were Bobby Pierce and Drake Troutman would take the Modified win. The night started off as good as it ended for Bobby Pierce as he swept the night being the fastest overall qualifier, winning his heat race , and leading all 25 laps of the Preliminary Night feature. 65 Late Models took the track on Night #1

Photo Credit - Michael Boggs Photography

The Danville Illinois native would lead the field to green and never looked back but behind Pierce the battle for 2nd was a good one as Ryan Unzicker and Tanner English ran side by side for several laps before Unzicker would hold off the Benton Kentucky driver. Pierce thanked his family , crew , and his girlfriend Abby for all the hard work.

Photo Credit - Ryan Roberts Photography

Night #1 Feature Rundown

1) Bobby Pierce

2) Ryan Unzicker

3) Tanner English

4) Ricky Thornton Jr

5) Shannon Babb

6) Chris Simpson

7) Brandon Sheppard

8) .Jason Feger

9) Kyle Garner (Hard Charger +7 Spots)

10) Kyle Hammer

11) Rusty Schlenk

12) Ryan Montgomery

13) R. Wilson

14) Tanner Collins

15) Chris Carpenter

16) J. Zidar

17) Freddie Carpenter

18) Gordy Gundaker

Photo Credit - Michael Boggs Photograpghy

Drake Troutman from Hyndman Pennsylvania won the exciting 20 lap Modified feature after a 3 wide battle for the lead with Mike Harrison and Michael Ledford. Mike Harrison and Troutman would lead the field to green with Harrison taking the early advantage as everyone behind him would start battling it out. The race would come to a stop as Ben Harmon got upside down going into turn 2 after contact with Dean Hoffman turned the young Kentucky driver right and hit the fence causing him to roll over. Harmon was uninjured and the track crew would repair the fence before going back to green.

Photo Credit - Ryan Roberts Photography

Back to green flag action and both Troutman and Ledford would catch Harrison and go 3 wide for the lead as Troutman would take it away from Harrison as Ledford would also pass Harrison to set his sights on Troutman but Ledford himself was under fire from last year's Gateway Dirt Nationals Champion Tyler Peterson. Peterson would go pass Ledford but ran out of laps trying to catch the winner Troutman.

Photo Credit - Ryan Roberts Photography

Troutman would thank his crew for the win along with MB Customs for building an awesome car powered by LaSalle Racing Engines for his first win Gateway Arch trophy

Full Feature Rundown

1) Drake Troutman

2) Tyler Peterson

3) Michael Ledford

4) Mike Altobelli

5) Mike Harrison

6) Tyler Nicely

7) Thornton

8) Kyle Steffens

9) Clay Money

10) Dean Hoffman

11) J Thomas

12) Mitch Thomas

13) KC Burdette

14) T Anderson

15) Tim Nash

16) Rick Conoyer

17) Ben Harmon

18) Dylan Nusbaum