Thursday night the plan was to head back closer to home and take in the races at the Clay County Fairgrounds in Spencer. However, those plans quickly changed as I received a text message stating the races there were postponed until next Thursday. That being said, it gave me the opportunity to watch the USMTS series at the famous Huset's Speedway in Brandon, South Dakota.
I arrived at the track early in the afternoon to check things out for the first time. After walking along the outside of the pit area, I glanced up at the grandstand area. First thoughts were "they look like they go on and on forever." The grandstands are raised up due to a concrete wall, so fans are looking down upon the cars as the race around the track.
Tonight's card would include USRA hobby stocks and USRA bmods along with the USMTS. Fifteen USRA hobby stocks hit the track first for their twelve lap feature. Denny Lottman would take the lead on the first lap before a caution flag quickly slowed the pace down. Chad Kuhnert worked his way inside of Craig Hanisch and Sean Taylor on the ensuing restart to take over the second spot. Hanisch would get his rthym back and set his car on the cushion to get back around Kuhnert for the runner up spot. Hanisch would use the next caution to his advantage as he dove to the inside of Lottman and slid up in front of him for the top spot. A late caution came out, but that didn't stop Craig Hanisch from taking the checkers first. Denny Lottman was second, Sean Taylor third, Chad Kuhnert fourth, and Jim Ross rounded out the top five.
Colter Deutsch grabbed the lead from his outside front row start in the twelve lap USRA bmod feature.
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