Tanner Thorson of Minden, Nevada led every lap at Route 66 Motor Speedway in Amarillo to take a wire-to-wire victory in the Interstate Batteries High Limit Racing feature on Friday night. Piloting the Rod Gross Motorsports No. 88, Thorson notched his second win of the season and the fourth High Limit Racing victory of his career — all four coming since September — which returned him to Whiskey Myers Victory Lane and pushed his championship lead to 21 points after the eighth night of the 64-race season.

Aaron Reutzel of Clute, Texas, making his first start at the West Texas oval, closed to within 0.133 seconds on Lap 22 while the leaders navigated heavy lapped traffic and finished second for Ridge & Sons Racing, a team that has logged five podiums in the first eight races.

Justin Peck posted a season-best third, Daison Pursley was fourth in the Kasey Kahne Racing w/ Mike Curb No. 9, and Tanner Holmes recorded a season-best fifth in the Buch Motorsports No. 13. Rounding out the top 10 were Brent Marks, Hank Davis, Sam Hafertepe Jr., Kerry Madsen and Giovanni Scelzi.

Sources